Mod squad

Peonypink candle wax just spilled over the side of my dresser and hardened in two pulpy strings. On the upside, it smells wonderful in here.

I went to the re-designed Museum of Modern Art today with Drew Abrams and Dan Nathan-Roberts. Some of the self-portraits were oohsomuch fun. In one, an attractive, 20something journalist type photographed herself dressed up as the lead actress in several staged movie stills. In another, a beautiful 17-year-old girl with brown hair poofed to one side started straight into the camera in a precocious self-portrait. Then there was this beautiful woman who looked years younger in the second of two side-by-side pictures, which were taken months apart (the nicer looking one was taken about 8 months after the first, so she was older, which boggled my mind for a minute.)

Another really interesting photographic feat was a set of prints taken with exposures that lasted up to three years. A young guy got commissioned to set up cameras around the site where the MOMA was being rebuilt, and he made some really thought-provoking pictures. The motion, light and textures were incredible. In two, you could see lines of sparks, probably from men working. You could see the sculpture garden sort-of being built. i think i saw rain and snow, too, but that might have been my imagination.

There were also crazy wacky images like a guy's series of his hairy, flabby chest, and then him pinching his nipples to try to make them look like a breasts. And then there were breath-catching shots like people pictured milliseconds before their executions.

Things I wouldn't do for my very own Canon 10D: Hmm. Can't think of any.

Bizarro stuff I saw today: three brightly colored bath sponges arranged neatly on a shelf, a chair made of white honeycombed paper that folded into a sheet about an inch thick, posters with the pictures and stories of murder victims, subway signs.

MOMA is free for Columbia students, which means I'm going to go there again and again and again. And hopefully I'll visit the "donation suggested" Met this weekend with Kathleen, who'll be staying with me Sat. to Tues. (i absolutely cannot wait!), because I haven't been there since the summer.