7.26.2004
TOUR DE LANCE
Well, we're STILL in Paris -- could have stayed 6 MORE days, it's such a beautiful city. The museums! The Seine!
We just came back from our perch above the Champs Elysees, watched Lance roll in to win his 6th Tour (after the parade of brands before-hand -- quite disturbing, how they try to disguise marketing as a cultural event). I love the feeling of pride and awe seeing atheletes compete at that level. I actually sang along (quietly) while they played our national anthem at the end.
Off to Chamonix, where we'll meet up with our friend Luke (from Antarctica) who runs a mountaineering hut in the Italian Alps with his wife Luci. We're really looking forward to visiting with them, and being high in the Alps.
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FROM A PLACARD @ THE PICASSO MUSEUM
"The mythic trilogy: bullfight, crucifixion, minotauromachy -- bears witness to the absolute commitment of an artist who lived his creation as a perpetual struggle against death."
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ALECHINSKY @ THE POMPIDOU (MODERN ART)
"In today's times, which zip by like electronic data, a painting is not just a silent image, but a still one, too, made by hand. Nature's hand, armed with a stick sporting hairs. You dip this brush in pigments mixed with binder and, hoping to put down maximum amounts of spontenaeity and thought, you apply it to the classic rectangle of canvas or paper. Also know as: the painting now in progress. ...a painting, in all its enigmatic materiality, vulnerability and poetry, might still encounter an eye existing 'in it's wild state'."
Well, we're STILL in Paris -- could have stayed 6 MORE days, it's such a beautiful city. The museums! The Seine!
We just came back from our perch above the Champs Elysees, watched Lance roll in to win his 6th Tour (after the parade of brands before-hand -- quite disturbing, how they try to disguise marketing as a cultural event). I love the feeling of pride and awe seeing atheletes compete at that level. I actually sang along (quietly) while they played our national anthem at the end.
Off to Chamonix, where we'll meet up with our friend Luke (from Antarctica) who runs a mountaineering hut in the Italian Alps with his wife Luci. We're really looking forward to visiting with them, and being high in the Alps.
+ + + + +
FROM A PLACARD @ THE PICASSO MUSEUM
"The mythic trilogy: bullfight, crucifixion, minotauromachy -- bears witness to the absolute commitment of an artist who lived his creation as a perpetual struggle against death."
- - - -
ALECHINSKY @ THE POMPIDOU (MODERN ART)
"In today's times, which zip by like electronic data, a painting is not just a silent image, but a still one, too, made by hand. Nature's hand, armed with a stick sporting hairs. You dip this brush in pigments mixed with binder and, hoping to put down maximum amounts of spontenaeity and thought, you apply it to the classic rectangle of canvas or paper. Also know as: the painting now in progress. ...a painting, in all its enigmatic materiality, vulnerability and poetry, might still encounter an eye existing 'in it's wild state'."
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