MoMA Live Art - Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present

This is Marina Abramović, she been an avant garde performance artist for decades.  Her current installation at the Museum of Modern Art is titled The Artist is Present.   From the MoMA flickr page:


"Abramović, best known for her durational works, has created a new work for this performance retrospective—The Artist Is Present (2010)—that she will perform daily throughout the run of the exhibition, for 77 days and a total of over 700 hours. For her longest solo piece to date, Abramović sits in silence at a table in the Museum’s Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium during public hours, passively inviting visitors to take the seat across from her for as long as they choose within the timeframe of the Museum’s hours of operation. Although she will not respond, participation by Museum visitors completes the piece and allows them to have a personal experience with the artist and the artwork."

 Pretty intense.  But what's even more intense is that quite a few people are drawn to tears at the experience...You should check out the MoMA flickr page, candid shots are taken of all the people that have participated in the installation.  Some of the people get emotional, some show up repeatedly, and even Sharon Stone and Rufus Wainwright participated, see if you can spot them!

Check it out and tell me what you think...Brilliant or bunk?

Weekend.

What are you doing this weekend?

We plan on donating to this.
Finally seeing this.
Getting rid of all of these in the house.
Singing "Happy Birthday" to this sweet girl.


And, of course, taking a snoozer with Ruby.



Source.

Ruby Tuesday

Via Shug.

Have a fun weekend!

How cute is this couple?
Hope your weekend is fun!
xo

Via Superbomba.

Rain, then snow.

“Movie created using a single shot of Polaroid Sx-70 Time Zero film. Incrementally manipulated and scanned approx 125 times. Not digitally created.”

SO lovely.

It's Friday!

We made it!
Are you doing anything fun?
I think I might go see Where the Wild Things Are with Shug!
Well, whatever you do, try to enjoy the beautiful fall colors!
xo



Photo of Ruby via Shug's Flickr.

Have a lazy Sunday...

...Ruby is!

Today I feel...

...married. It's finally sunk in after a month!
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And, I love it!

Happy Labor Day!

I hope you do something fun!

Bachelor/Bachelorette Party

From what I can remember, it was pretty fun!
Shots via Shug.

Bummer.

I still love sparklers.
NSFW source.

Spaceship Purchase

Shug is most definitely, positively, absolutely rubbing off on me. Case in point: I just purchased this behemoth. It's kinda special because I can take instant pics with it and I don't have to go sell plasma to purchase more film!

Score.

Guilty Pleasure #90: Not Going Out

You know when you get to hang out with friends...


And you don't need to have any activities planned,
or a show to see,
or other peeps to meet up with,
or a movie time to make,
or a restaurant to go to,
or a bar to sip drinks at...

You just get to chill,
and talk,
and laugh,
and tell stories,
and get to know each other...

Without having to talk over the band,
choose a cute outfit to wear,
figure out what restaurant everyone likes,
or worry where you left your purse...

Some nights I really, really love not going out!

Via flickr.

True Hot Chocolate Heart

I'm so in love with this animal it's not even funny.
Didn't Shug do a lovely job of photographing Ruby?
She's beautiful.
Her ears are slooooooowly starting to perk up, too!

Reason # 2118 I Love Shug So

He takes such great photos, artists want to use it for their monsters!
Check Shug out on flickr.
He's pretty awesome.
Mwah.