Friday, July 25, 2008

You have to leave


This is one of the images in my dream last night. I feel that it's not a bad thing to leave the place where you were born. You get your freedom. However, you will miss this place all you life.

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

One of the most important elements in Art--light

While there is still plenty of time before my fall internship begins, I visit museums every week. In most of the modern art--movies, paintings, architures, and photographs--the most extensive element they use is light. Light is the extent of human sensorium. Without light, we might have nothing to create. With light, every thing can be art.

Friday, July 4, 2008

Complains Choir of Chicago

Great song. I watched three times and cried three times. When they sing "the most creative minds work for the advertising industry...," I feel so sad, hahahah....

I watched this song in PS1 Contemporary Art Center. Complaints Choir was founded by Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen in Helsinki. After the first complaints choir took place in Birmingham--the arsehole of England--and made a surprisingly success, the idea of turning complaints into a easy to learn song has spread around the world. On YouTube you can find complaints choir of St. Petersburg, of Singapore, of Melbourne, of Jerusalem, of Hamburg, and of Helsinki, etc. The lyrics of these choirs are really funny.

New Yorker just performed their complaints choir in June this year, but the video hasn't been put on YouTube. Can't waite to see what the residents of the world's most chaotic city will sing.