to start my summer curriculum of FUN today, I watched this awesome French movie with my friend at the Ritz- a film made up of shorts from various directors, it's called Paris, Je t'aime (I'll talk more about this later...). so far this summer, i noticed the influx of French and Paris-inspired movies at the Ritz...
I did some window-shopping-- looking for 'teaching' clothes- having some sort of uniform will tremendously help me psychologically when I student-teach...
then I went to Dave and Busters- ate dinner there and got the power-card combo cheese steak and $10 worth of game points for the arcade, I played the trivia game, the air hockey, the skeeball, basketball, the classic arcade games such as pac-man, 'galaxy,' won an Eagle's bear at the machine, and got a shot glass for my friend...
then i went to Philly's First Friday celebration (held every first-Friday), held around Olde City and its many small independent art galleries...it wasn't as posh as I thought it was going to be, but it was still a great experience, they had alcohol (my friend drank a cup) but they didn't have wine and or cheese. It was an art festival of some sort. I got to see the many galleries I never knew existed which were cool. Percussions, fire-breathing display, hula demonstrations, guitar music, anti-political bumper stickers, t-shirts, kisch art, you name it, they have it.
The trends I noticed at the streets are graffiti art and irregular geometric/weird-shaped anime-esque cartoons and in the galleries- exploration of space and location (setting as character)- I saw this in the pottery and the oil paintings...
this event inspired me to make art for the sake of selling them ( I know this sounds so capitalistic but I feel like I don't have enough room in my house, I'd like to share my art to others, at least those who will be willing to pay for it, will give my art a home, sometimes I like to make art to give to people and right now there's no occasion, if i start making art now, maybe by the time the second first Friday of the summer hits I'll have several to sell (I already have ideas on how to save money for getting materials)...
the great thing about being an artist, if I like an idea and I know I can do a satifying version of that idea then I don't have to buy it and I can make it for myself (of course I'm not going to claim it and sell it as if it's my original vision but I'll keep it for inspiration)... the only time that I'd buy art is if I liked the artist's vision (me copying it will lose the original artist's interpretation- why I Iiked it in the first place) with this said, I'm thinking of buying the most expensive hat I would ever purchase to date- the modifications I'd suggest are the color scheme, less psychedelic and more cool monochromatic colors and maybe add moon and eye icons- very trivial and if it's not possible it's not the end of the world...
day one of my summer curriculum of FUN is successful and motivating...
Posted by Michael Diezmos at June 1, 2007 11:23 PMPhiladelphia sounds wonderful, Mike. I hope to visit soon. :-)
Posted by: Amanda at June 2, 2007 1:33 PM