Category: thequotidien
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Not the Turtle
I used to like Michelangelo (artist, not Mutant Turtle). Then I read “Agony and Ecstasy” in the mid 90s and now I love him. I hit the Met exhibit for MB today and I would say I am largely “unsatisfied”. I had carried my copy of “Agony” across the country and had some immersive image […]
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he who hesitates
Ugh. In less than 30 minutes I was inspired to excitment and then dashed to the rocks. Tonight I walked from the LES to Union Square for an 11p Barnes & Noble run to replace “Homo Deus” that I left in a cab earlier today (significantly raising the bar for enjoying the futurist theorem). Earlier […]
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VVG
It felt like just six of us in the 10p showing of ‘Loving Vincent’ at the Roxy on a Saturday night was exactly the right way to enjoy this unique film. Ninety minutes of oil paint based animation traversing a historically-fictionalized period after VVG’s death, which used flash back/reminiscing to touch on the major themes […]
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the reveal
Today I attended my friend’s photo exhibit opening. We are locked into a “consistently peripheral” friendship somewhere in the “three rings from center” range, and every six or seven years we find ourselves in the same city with a reason to connect. Our relationship is shallow enough to be reclaimed in a moment, but full […]
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Celebration of Fine Art
The Fellas and I hit the opening day of the Scottsdale Celebration of Fine Art – a 75 day artists-in-residence program in a tent off one of the main drags in Scottsdale. It was great. The Team wasn’t that psyched for the outing, but identified that I was unmoved by their protests. I set Hunter […]
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Opus Memoriae MMXVII
2017 was a great year. I picked 12 important events and made them into the Memory Painting for 2017. The Fellas dug on watching it go from blank canvas to complete and they painted some blocks of their own on some mini-canvasses (canvassae?). As I started each block we talked about how much fun we […]
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Rule #17: We Don’t Walk by Trouble
We continue to build our Vockell Guide with rules that set our personal standards as humans, and to a certain degree, as gentleman. As much as possible I like to present additions to the Rule Book “in context” for greater impact and not just make them seem like some theoretical set of good behaviors [I […]
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a big fuck up
I closed out the year with a major fuck up. It was a shitty coda to a great year. I’m not sure whether I’m super rusty in adult human interaction, if I lost some self-awareness in unexpected enthusiasm, or I’m just an asshole and it got revealed in cataclysmic fashion. Likely it was a combination […]
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Rule #23: cut your sandwich
Me and the Fellas are on a thread around defining “who we are” by the “things that we do”. We volunteered at the ADA Walk, we try hard at practice even if in the common vocabulary of a six and eight year old, it is “boooooring”, etc, etc. We just added a new rule, #23, […]
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the heist
I don’t know why, but I have some fascination with stolen art. There’s even a series on Netflix called “Raiders of the Lost Art”. I’ve seen the remake of “The Thomas Crown Affair” a half dozen times. My top 3 “stolen and never recovered”… #3: Charing Cross Bridge, London by Monet – stolen in 2012 […]