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Post 21

zendevil


Fingers crossed! I have a Kandinsky sitting quietly in my atelier begging to be framed....te he

"I didn't do it! Honest! It wasn't me; it was the colours i heard squeaking to me inside my mouth, they smell so khaki....smiley - rainbow"

zdt


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Researcher U1025853

Good luck with the paycheck.


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psychocandy-moderation team leader

Ooh, I like Kandinsky, too. Which one do you have, Terri? I've got Dali's "Musical Pempest". Very colorful, and pretty cool, but not quite as colorful as most stuff by Kandinsky.

Once I got the Dali, I wished I'd gotten it framed. It would have been cheaper, they only wanted $80 to frame it before shipping it out. It'll probably be twice that at this point. smiley - erm

Yesterday afternoon at work was a bear... we get all of Saturday's mail in on Mondays as well as Monday's mail. And, of course, it showed up about four hours late so I had to scramble to get it all sorted before the end of the day. *sigh*

But, on the brighter side, that's one day down and four left to go till the weekend again! smiley - biggrin And I'm actually only short about one week's pay from what I'm accustomed to having by now, so this should be the last uncertain month. I did send the ex-boss an email last night letting him know that he's in violation of the Labor Code and that if I don't receive the check by tomrrow noon, I'll be filing that claim. It's a criminal offense, and I've NO intention of taking it.


Slept like a baby last night, exhausted from work. K had to deejay at the Club Foot (first Monday night of each month) and didn't get home till 3:00, so I went right to bed at 9:30 to a Sun Ra CD, and that was that. Yet I'm still really sleepy! And hopefully we'll be able to get a Netflix in tonight before bedtime- by the time I get home from work, it's only three or four hours till bed. And that's if we want to go right to sleep. smiley - winkeye

OK, enough babbling. Have a great day, all!


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Post 24

Edward the Bonobo - Gone.

>>...I went right to bed at 9:30 to a Sun Ra CD

Yeeeeesh! That would give you weeeeeird dreams!


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Post 25

zendevil


I got "Colour studies", the idea being to hang it in my atelier to give me inspiration when doingsmiley - artist stuff.

http://posters.seindal.dk/p315979_Colour_Studies.html

It took ages to get here & when it arrived it was slightly damaged, so i sent a very snotty email to the poster company, who replied immediately & sent a replacement straight away, good service. So in fact now i have two! Haven't got cash to get the good one framed up so i will probably just pin the other one up for now.

Kandinsky is my all time fave, followed closely by Rothko, saw some of his stuff at the Tate Modern, smiley - wowsmiley - rainbowsmiley - wow; also managed to finally see a genuine Joseph Cornell box, but disappointed that they displayed it behind glass & you couldn't really get to see it properly. I also nearly got thrown out for daring to touch a Henry Moore sculpture!smiley - erm

smiley - goodluckwith paycheck stuff.

zdt


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Edward the Bonobo - Gone.

I like the Tate's Rothkos too - proof that even atheist fundamentalists can be moved by religios art. He fist painted them for a commission for the Four Seasons restaurant in the Seagram Building, but withdrew from the commission saying that they were too spiritual? Are they in Tate Modern now? I remember them from the old Tate, and then briefly the Liverpool Tate. Either Modern or Liverpool break the terms of Rothko's will. He wanted them housed in the same building that houses the Tate's Turner collection.

Curerntly we can vote for The Greatest Painting In Britain? http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/vote/greatestpainting/index.shtml

At first I came up with Picasso's 'Woman in a Red Armchair' or Rothko's room (if that counts). But I think it is meant to be 'best loved', and I have a soft spot for 'Mrs Mounter' by Harold Gilman (2 copies, in the Tate and Liverpool's Walker). http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/collections/20c/Gilman.asp

That or one of Blake's watercolours.


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Post 27

abbi normal "Putting on the Ritz" with Dr Frankenstein

PC you deserve to have a boss that values and respects his employer by giving back their best as much as you have given them your best no matter the conditions.

I would love to see that!smiley - smiley
I hope you have been breathing easier this week.

It would be nice to have the luxary of working at what you want by volunteeringsmiley - magic I always thought that about schooling too, forget the degree and study exactly what you want, no more or less!


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Researcher U1025853

Aside from fear issues and wishing I had more money, I am very glad I don't work. Okay I hope to start some online work this year, only for the money though, there is too much to do in life to ever be bored without work.

I would only ever work for money, now I can write websites, science columns, read, take photos, practise art, walk, research. I guess when I have had time to study everything in the world and know everything I could want to, then I guess I might be bored enough to work for reasons other than money.


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Post 29

Edward the Bonobo - Gone.

I've got a new money-making scheme. In clearing out my father-in-laws house, we've amassed a bin bag (US = garbage sack) full of his old pharmaceuticals. This includes outrageous, Shipmanesque quantities of...diamorphine!!! In the area I work, I could make a tidy sum selling it door to door.

I really must get around to visiting a pharmacist to get it all humanely disposed of. I'm not entirely comfortable that it's still in my car. I'm reminded of a line from Lenny Bruce:
'I had some car trouble on the way over here. The police found half a kilo of heroin in my trunk.'


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psychocandy-moderation team leader

Well, of course I'm working for the money, too. Certainly not for fun, or lack of anything more interesting to do overall. But I wouldn't be able to get online, rent Netflix, or get music if I didn't have money. So I guess I'll have to stick with working. It beats being broke and bored. smiley - winkeye If I suddenly had a huge windfall of zillions of dollars, while I would quit my actual job in a flash, I'd still busy myself with some kind of volunteer stuff, though, maybe the Field Museum (of Natural History) again, or the Art Institute. Maybe a day a week at a no-kill shelter helping care for the animals, if I could keep away from dogs. They bother my allergies far too much.

It would be nice to have the time and money to work at more fulfilling and entertaining stuff. But at least I have good enough work to get the bills paid and have some fun left over. Lots of people aren't so lucky. smiley - sadface

Edward, that's a lot of diamorphine! You'd better get it out of the car, quick! And there's far too much t flush down the toilet... I hope you can find a pharmacy to take and dispose of it soon. Although you're probably quite right that you could easily fix your money troubles and then some if you were to sell it off. smiley - laugh


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Oh, and Hi there, Abbi! Thanks for the kind words, you always have so many of them and they always are just what I needed. smiley - hug I am doing much better at this place- the work is harder physically because it involves a lot of standing still and walking around, but I'm getting used to it. And I'm breathing a LOT easier in the lovely, clean, climate-controlled building.

The offices I work in are on the 27th and 28th floors of a 30-story building downtown. I spend at least half the day running around all over the two floors. smiley - run We're going to get me shopping this weekend or next week sometime for some comfier shirts and maybe I'll get some of those squishy shoe insoles.


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Oh, and my favortie painting, by Bosch of course, and proving that Edward is correct that a "fundamentalist" atheist can be moved by religious art:

http://www.abcgallery.com/B/bosch/bosch62.html

My second favorite, by Salvator Rosa:

http://www.stylusart.com/noticias/renacimiento/obra2.htm

I also have a nifty bop bag (you inflate it, and punch it when you're frustrated, it wobbles on its base but always pops back upright) which bears Munch's "The Scream", it's highly appropriate, and my favorite artwork in the apartment. smiley - laugh


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Edward the Bonobo - Gone.

Ah, yes! The Garden of Earthly Delights. But not a very good reproduction on that sight. The Salvatore Rosa is pretty damn cool also. I don't recall having seen it before - although I must've: I used to live near cambridge and visited the Fitzwilliam many times. They also had Stanley Spencer's wonderful 'Portrait with Patricia Preece', which they seem to have loned to the Tate. http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/spencer/room3.htm

The first time I visited an art gallery alone, it was the Walker in Liverpool. They had a Munch exhibition. How lucky was that?!


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Post 34

zendevil


I've got a newspaper clipping of "The Scream" with the headline "Is it time to panic yet?" stuck to the wall, underneath is the smiley - dontpanicbadge that abbi sent me; i like the combination. Doesn't always stop me panicking though!

hey, quelle coincidence, just spotted this about said painting:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4741683.stm

As to w**k; i think i am going to be forced into doing something, even though "they" say i'm not really capable of doing so; simply 'cos i just cannot survive on benefits.

I emailed abbi with something earlier about the "new face of poverty" where lots of folks have stuff like mobile phones, internet access etc, yet cannot afford to buy a new pair of shoes. Yup, how true. i'll see if i can find the link.

zdt


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Post 35

psychocandy-moderation team leader

I saw the Rosa painting in an art museum in London. Can't remember the exact name or location. I've pretty much tried to block that entire trip from my memory; had the absolute worst and most petulant of hosts, an offer to have me stay for a visit and show me around London turned out to mean to have me around to sulk at and sponge money from. smiley - erm Shall have to return to London someday and actually *see* some of the city, properly. And perhaps in better company.

Anyway, K used to have a copy of the Bosch on his dining room wall at the old place. Dunno what happened to it, one of his old roommates took it down before the move and it didn't make it over. So, I must get the Dali framed and hung. We've got a copy of "The Kiss" by Gustav Klimt hanging in the hallway (runs from the dining room to the kitchen, with the master bedroom on one side and the bathroom and a closet on the other- a nice long wall for hanging things on, and hang them we have... a clown portrait, some nifty hangings K's sister sent when she and her hubby were relocated to Peru last year, etc), and a painting that JEllen did for me is going to be hung and framed in the kitchen. We'd better get some extra spending money soon. smiley - erm

Planning a nice evening after work tonight. I'm going to take a different el train (I usually take the subway to the stop nearest my home) and meet K near Wrigleyville for dinner at a Columbian restaurant down the street from the old cap and gown company, and a trip to the health food store. After that, I think I'll be ready for bed. I'm exhausted today!!


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Post 36

Number Six

I love Kandinsky... bought a poster of 'Counter Weights' when I was at University, and kind of went from there. I still know very little about him and his work, I just see his paintings whenever I can. Been meaning to buy a book about him since the year dot.

I mean, my favourite painting ever by him's hanging in the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, I've not managed to see it for five or six years (I keep turning up in Venice on Tuesdays when it's closed) and I don't even know what it's called!

smiley - mod


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Number Six

Aha! Just googled for it and found it and seen it again and it's called 'White Cross'. Very smiley - mod of course... and a little 2-Tone as well!

Thank you everyone, for nudging me towards finding it again! smiley - hug

http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/date_work_lg_71_37.html

smiley - mod


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Post 38

zendevil


Oh!! Lovely, lovely!! And heavens be praised, my screen actually stayed white for once so i could see the colours!!!

Thank you for that link, brilliant!

zdt


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psychocandy-moderation team leader

Ooh, yeah! Gorgeous! Thanks, Six! smiley - biggrin


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Post 40

psychocandy-moderation team leader

Had our dinner and made the trip to the health food store (although plenty of unhealthy bits found their way into our basket- key lime cheesecake and fudgy brownies, a tall bottle of Chimay and some of that cheap Spanish smiley - redwine I like...), and bought a pressie for Herman. Got him a cardboard scratch-box thingy, with organic catnip in the honeycomb. He's been having at it since we got home an hour ago, chewing and licking and scratching and rolling around on it. And I *think* he's walking straight now. smiley - winkeye


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