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Hey y'all, just got back from a verrrrrryyy short trip to NYC! Twas fun and very exhausting and kind of really scary at times cause we got caught in the most lovely of snowstorms on boxing day (please note this images and video)

yes, it snows in the subway :S

(please note the Van Cleef + Arpels tinkering soundtrack)

EDIT: ummm can't get the video to work for some reason.....

EDIT X2: nvmmmmm

Before the snow, I went to the MoMa and wandered around for a couple of hours. The onLINE exhibit on the 6th floor was by far my favourite but unfortunately, I couldn't be super touristy and take pictures of the artwork (or me with the artwork ahahaha) but to sum it up, all I can really say is 'just lots of linezzz' and it was amazing! There were typical examples like Sol LeWitt's cuby sculptures, Mondrian's paintings, but there were some really cool other examples:

so pretty right? She looks like a tornado most of the time.

There was this other really great video with the artist (awoman named...louie? I can't remember D: ) and she's just chilling at a table. She's playing with a long piece of string and making different patterns and it goes on for like 5 minutes. Theres another reallllly cool part where she has a silver marble, and she pushes it across the table, and I guess it isn't quite level because the marble rolls slowly all over the table and she traces the path of the marble with her hand simultaneously on the side. The final video (from what I remember) is her and 4 pieces of paper. They are all layed out side by side with gaps in between and she pushes them together slowly, so that it becomes one long sheet of paper and she continues to do this until the paper starts to move vertically upward in the center of the 4 sheets. I know, I've done a terrrible job at helping you visualize it but it's really quite amazing!

please ignore the ugly crop.

These 2 images are by Marie E. Frey, taken from her series "Real Life Dramas"

I love how mellow-dramatic it is! Each still is so mundane and the text really changes the context of the image.

"Tower Stripped Bare by Time Even, New York" by Frank Lupo and Daniel Rowen.

Basically, the artists wanted to strip away the exterior of the New York Times Tower to its skeleton and to mount 2 huge @ss jumbotron screens at the very top. They were inspired by Duchamp's "The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors" and the concept of ready-mades.

The Bride Stripped by her Bachelors.

Anyways, that's all for now! Happy New Years!

-Oz