Real Not Real

Today I went to the Brooklyn Museum to see the Takashi Murakami show. Surely, it was entertaining on a high-level for an hour or so. But the show was literally SuperFlat. Nothing had any real depth for me. After seeing the LV bags for years, the art just seemed almost bland. Oddly, almost childishly naive, yes. But not deep. Had there been some element of craft, or of the hand, it would’ve seemed more intimate. In the end, it just felt flat, superficial, plastic. There was no contrast, no conflict. I’d recommend it… it was worth the admission. But I have to say, the most entertaining part was listening to an LV employee speak French at the LV store in the middle of the exhibition.

I’ve been away from writing for quite some time. I treat this space more like a bulletin board for myself than a blog, per se, so I don’t have a dedication to posting on a regular basis. I just post when something hits me that I want to remember.

Recently I’ve taken on some design-related projects that aren’t graphic design, including a trip to Virginia where I worked on landscaping half of my parents’ yard and redoing one of the guest rooms. I heart this stuff.

The flight from SF to VA looked something like this, somewhere along the way:

I thought the circular pattern in the clouds looked like we were flying over a radar screen for a hurricane. Instead, the flight was pretty smooth sailing.

When I left VA, I took a flight back through bad weather to New York. The flight from Richmond to NYC was one of the most amazing cloud displays I’ve ever seen. Our lowly 17,000′ altitude seemed vast, as these clouds provided unbelievable depth to the sky (that tall center one must’ve been 300′ tall):