7.
This weekend and the beginning of the week have been fairly busy. Sunday and Monday were mostly spent finishing up the film J. and I were working on and now its finally complete. I haven't seen the final product yet, but what I have seen looks amazing and is really funny. I'm glad we managed to get something done for once and I hope we can get some more work done in the near future. Even if its not that great, making films is still a lot of fun.
Besides working on that, not a whole lot has been going on. I saw my friend G. for the first time in a month or so. It being that long was mostly my fault, but I was still glad to see her. We didn't do a lot, just hung out at the infoshop and worked on stuff. She was making a valentine for a friend and I was doing some reading for one of my classes. It wasn't anything terribly exciting, but I enjoyed it. Hopefully we'll be able to hang out some more.
I also heard from my friend B. via email, which was a nice suprise. We went to the same high school and had a history class together and have been pretty good friends ever since, even though we don't see each other much. It sounds like we'll be going to a movie and getting some food or tea this weekend though, which will be nice. I like catching up with people I haven't seen in awhile.
News:
Frenchman fined for attacking urinal artwork
A Frenchman who attacked and damaged "Fountain, " a urinal declared a work of art by Dada pioneer Marcel Duchamp, was ordered Tuesday to pay a fine of 214, 000 euros ($262, 700).
A Paris court also gave Pierre Pinoncelli, 77, a three-month suspended sentence for taking a hammer to the absurdist artwork, the second time he has attacked it since 1993. The attack last month left the ceramic urinal slightly cracked.
Duchamp was a leader of the Dada movement, an avant garde "anti-art" school of the early 20th century that mocked conventional standards, and "Fountain, " made in 1917 -- is considered one of the most influential artworks of its kind.
"This was a wink at Dadaism, " Pinoncelli told the court in his defense. "I wanted to pay homage to the Dada spirit."
Wonderful. Long live Dada!
Man arrested for hit-and-run on ballot box
An angry man with a grudge against the government ran into a voting station in Canada on Monday, grabbed a ballot box and then drove over it with a truck before fleeing, officials said.
Police arrested the 56-year-old a few minutes later but would not confirm whether he was the same man who grabbed a ballot box and threw it in the river on election day in 2000.
The incident occurred as people were lining up in the Nova Scotia town of New Glasgow to vote in Monday's national election.
"The man ran in, grabbed the ballot box, then threw it under the wheels of his truck and took off ... the box was flat as a pancake," said Dana Doiron, a spokesman for Elections Canada in Atlantic Canada.
Despite the damage, local election officials managed to reconstruct the box and no ballots were lost, he said.
New Glasgow police chief Lorne Smith said the man would be charged with theft and damage to property.
"This is the result of an ongoing protest with the federal government over several issues," he told Reuters, declining to give further details.
At least somebody knows the whole thing is shit! Well, probably not, but its a fun story, anyway.
Besides working on that, not a whole lot has been going on. I saw my friend G. for the first time in a month or so. It being that long was mostly my fault, but I was still glad to see her. We didn't do a lot, just hung out at the infoshop and worked on stuff. She was making a valentine for a friend and I was doing some reading for one of my classes. It wasn't anything terribly exciting, but I enjoyed it. Hopefully we'll be able to hang out some more.
I also heard from my friend B. via email, which was a nice suprise. We went to the same high school and had a history class together and have been pretty good friends ever since, even though we don't see each other much. It sounds like we'll be going to a movie and getting some food or tea this weekend though, which will be nice. I like catching up with people I haven't seen in awhile.
News:
Frenchman fined for attacking urinal artwork
A Frenchman who attacked and damaged "Fountain, " a urinal declared a work of art by Dada pioneer Marcel Duchamp, was ordered Tuesday to pay a fine of 214, 000 euros ($262, 700).
A Paris court also gave Pierre Pinoncelli, 77, a three-month suspended sentence for taking a hammer to the absurdist artwork, the second time he has attacked it since 1993. The attack last month left the ceramic urinal slightly cracked.
Duchamp was a leader of the Dada movement, an avant garde "anti-art" school of the early 20th century that mocked conventional standards, and "Fountain, " made in 1917 -- is considered one of the most influential artworks of its kind.
"This was a wink at Dadaism, " Pinoncelli told the court in his defense. "I wanted to pay homage to the Dada spirit."
Wonderful. Long live Dada!
Man arrested for hit-and-run on ballot box
An angry man with a grudge against the government ran into a voting station in Canada on Monday, grabbed a ballot box and then drove over it with a truck before fleeing, officials said.
Police arrested the 56-year-old a few minutes later but would not confirm whether he was the same man who grabbed a ballot box and threw it in the river on election day in 2000.
The incident occurred as people were lining up in the Nova Scotia town of New Glasgow to vote in Monday's national election.
"The man ran in, grabbed the ballot box, then threw it under the wheels of his truck and took off ... the box was flat as a pancake," said Dana Doiron, a spokesman for Elections Canada in Atlantic Canada.
Despite the damage, local election officials managed to reconstruct the box and no ballots were lost, he said.
New Glasgow police chief Lorne Smith said the man would be charged with theft and damage to property.
"This is the result of an ongoing protest with the federal government over several issues," he told Reuters, declining to give further details.
At least somebody knows the whole thing is shit! Well, probably not, but its a fun story, anyway.