ALL THE PHOTOS!
I am not sharing any photos from my 1 month
(1 month!)
gallivanting from London to Venice,
and back again,
YET!
I have spent hours
(hours!)
just extracting obvious duds
(cruds!)
and turning them all right-side up
(up, and up, and up!)
I have so far gone through 7000 photos,
which means I am a little over half done.
I am probably going through just under 1000 photos an hour.
Click. Click. Click. Click-click.
But the memories are so bright
when seen
(again)
captured with our own mind's eye
thanks to the camera lens.
Sailor and I swapped two cameras between us,
and it is funny to see our different styles,
and what we are individually interested in.
At the British Museum,
Sailor sought metalwork
while I seek sculpture
and amusing (and misleading) signage.
At most museums we split up,
knowing we'll see each other out front
after being chased out upon closing.
We have closed SO MANY museums together!
Our combined nerditude knows no bounds.
Speaking of,
upon return on our day off together
we visited Bruce's gallery show
where we BOTH agreed we would have bought
one of his $695 4 foot by 4 foot pieces
(but someone else beat us to it)
made from bits of used carbon paper he found in the trash
It. Was. Beautiful.
I love having amazing friends.
After, Sailor was still feeling arty.
We visited the Jundt, in a local Catholic university.
I had never been.
Long Live the Flying Spaghetti Monster!
(I have a not-so-secret plan to initiate a campaign
to put up signs at all public Chihuly tentacle sculptures
as Flying Spaghetti Monster contemplation points)
After that, burning time before an Indian food feast
we went to the MAC, which is historically a bad museum
but... the only large museum we have.
Their current leading exhibit
is from their own collection and is a remix
of one I'd seen before.
Photographic ethnography
of the Native population of the Western U.S.
from the turn of the century.
It makes me nauseous,
I feel that shit should be displayed
with the gravitas of
a holocaust exhibit.
But instead, its a bunch of shitty whitesplaining
of Native cultures
to white cultures
as if Native culture were
lost, dead, or unreachable.
These pictures are only 100 years old.
We are surrounded by reservations.
Nez Perce, Chewelah, Colville, Flathead, Okanogan
The CULTURE, that HISTORY *is* ACCESSIBLE!
But,...white dudes.
It's always about the white dudes.
Like I said,... historically bad museum.
Noticing their security guard is lax,
(preferring youtube, with earbuds in
to diligent vigilance to security cameras)
I offered Sailor a chance to practice distraction techniques
while I 'fix' some of their signs.
I think he may be coming to the Dark Side with me.
DOWN WITH THE WHITE DEVIL!
Anyways.
Can anyone tell me a good photo hosting site,
that doesn't lay claim to my material,
and lets me post them to LJ?
I used to photobucket,
but we all know what happened to that...
I mean, if you want to see photos of the trip?
(1 month!)
gallivanting from London to Venice,
and back again,
YET!
I have spent hours
(hours!)
just extracting obvious duds
(cruds!)
and turning them all right-side up
(up, and up, and up!)
I have so far gone through 7000 photos,
which means I am a little over half done.
I am probably going through just under 1000 photos an hour.
Click. Click. Click. Click-click.
But the memories are so bright
when seen
(again)
captured with our own mind's eye
thanks to the camera lens.
Sailor and I swapped two cameras between us,
and it is funny to see our different styles,
and what we are individually interested in.
At the British Museum,
Sailor sought metalwork
while I seek sculpture
and amusing (and misleading) signage.
At most museums we split up,
knowing we'll see each other out front
after being chased out upon closing.
We have closed SO MANY museums together!
Our combined nerditude knows no bounds.
Speaking of,
upon return on our day off together
we visited Bruce's gallery show
where we BOTH agreed we would have bought
one of his $695 4 foot by 4 foot pieces
(but someone else beat us to it)
made from bits of used carbon paper he found in the trash
It. Was. Beautiful.
I love having amazing friends.
After, Sailor was still feeling arty.
We visited the Jundt, in a local Catholic university.
I had never been.
Long Live the Flying Spaghetti Monster!
(I have a not-so-secret plan to initiate a campaign
to put up signs at all public Chihuly tentacle sculptures
as Flying Spaghetti Monster contemplation points)
After that, burning time before an Indian food feast
we went to the MAC, which is historically a bad museum
but... the only large museum we have.
Their current leading exhibit
is from their own collection and is a remix
of one I'd seen before.
Photographic ethnography
of the Native population of the Western U.S.
from the turn of the century.
It makes me nauseous,
I feel that shit should be displayed
with the gravitas of
a holocaust exhibit.
But instead, its a bunch of shitty whitesplaining
of Native cultures
to white cultures
as if Native culture were
lost, dead, or unreachable.
These pictures are only 100 years old.
We are surrounded by reservations.
Nez Perce, Chewelah, Colville, Flathead, Okanogan
The CULTURE, that HISTORY *is* ACCESSIBLE!
But,...white dudes.
It's always about the white dudes.
Like I said,... historically bad museum.
Noticing their security guard is lax,
(preferring youtube, with earbuds in
to diligent vigilance to security cameras)
I offered Sailor a chance to practice distraction techniques
while I 'fix' some of their signs.
I think he may be coming to the Dark Side with me.
DOWN WITH THE WHITE DEVIL!
Anyways.
Can anyone tell me a good photo hosting site,
that doesn't lay claim to my material,
and lets me post them to LJ?
I used to photobucket,
but we all know what happened to that...
I mean, if you want to see photos of the trip?