got up at 4:30 this morning, yawn... and now to CGI in Duesseldorf. hopefully all will go well and I'll be back to Dublin tonight... man, am wearing suit and tie way too often these days... :-D
one thing I did today I've never done before: long term car park. Rommel brought me up to the quick park no prob. hmmm... I'd say 45 euros saved, hehe
First talking to my mom and J. this morning and then making my way down to the IMMA (Irish museum of modern art). Met S., since she hasn't been there for a while.
After a quality chat and a hearty lunch a stopover in Houston Station
I then went back to the IMMA on my own, to check out the postwar america exhibition. Didn't take me long to pick my personal favourite (Kahn, blue sea),and somehow I managed to run into Brenda Moore-McCann. She just finished her book on Patrick Ireland (Brian O´Doherty) named "between categories" and did a complementary tour of the exhibition.
During her 2 hours tour she was able to explain the mind sets of some of the artist on display. She i.e. mentioned the performance of one artist sitting at his piano, not playing at all. He seemingly wanted to make somethig unexpected. maybe even provoke the audience. what he wanted to show too was, that silence is not silence. Ordinary sounds like the audience shuffling feet, coughing, whispering can be a performance too...
That made me think of the new Coppola movie "Somewhere" I watched in the IFI last night. Acting: good, screenplay: ok, Visuals and sounds: very good. Some of the sounds were so detailed, accentuated even and played a huge role... Like Stephen taking a drag of his smoke(s). Or the car, changing from a normal sportscar to a carnivore.
anyway, back to Brenda - short storie when showing us the photos on the first floor... she mentioned that some time in the early nineties she visited Barbara and Brian/Patrick in their house in Umbria. It was really hot in the house in summer. so when they got a fan, Brenda was very happy! alas, it was for the dog :-D
Brenda, thanks again for the quality time!
update one day after: went to the Centra today in Fairview to buy a few groceries... and who do I meet? the guy who attended the tour as well (Ben iirc). Dublin is a small town...
currently listening to:
O. was teasing me for ages to get a new camera. so I did. a nice SLR. Praktica MTL5B. to say it in Facebook style: I like :-D
took a few pics today as well, when E. took me to the Aviva for the Ireland/Argentina rugby match. thanks again mate! And L., sorry Argentina lost. I did cheer for them, I swear!
watched recently: The boy with the striped pyjamas
Got lucky there with the light I guess... not sure which one of the pics is the best, but that one here I deffo like a lot...
currently listening to: Emiliana Torrini - Unemployed in Summertime
