FTW

Spotted on New Park Avenue near Flatbush yesterday around 4:45 p.m.

Modern art noted

Tyler Green from Modern Art Notes, the Art Journal’s modern and contemporary art blog, twittered his tour of the Wadsworth Atheneum today.

Here are just a few notable entries from his Twitter feed, posted in the chronological order that I read them:

In the Ballet Russes exhib: 1926 Miro Dream Painting is mega-treat, complete with vagina? May beonline…From just before recent MoMA show.

That Miro is in Wadsworth collex btw, a 1933 purchase!

1935 Mondrian may be my new fave. There’s a false symmetry that pulls the eye through the painting and the white fights the blue

BTW, Wadsworth: you’ve so overlit the Euro-modern gallery that the paintings are hard to see. Fix in next 5 mins? K thx.

Hartley here a ‘best of’. Calder too.

The science party

I went to the party for the Connecticut Science Center last night. It was pretty fun until the live auction started, then it was just non-stop screaming and people running for their cars. Props to auctioneer Scott Haney who acknowledged his “gay for pay” status in Hartford, although no one got the porn reference except my friend Bubbles who thought it was hilarious.

Most of the exhibits are still under construction so I didn’t get to play around as much I as I would have liked. It was fun running around the building though. I was hoping more attendees would have dressed to the science-y theme (my shiny silver pants were fabulous), but everyone was uniformly wearing suburban blandness from Talbots and Ann Taylor. The food was pretty good and the free booze was great. The river views are spectacular and they should have another party on July 4 so we can all watch the fireworks from one of their outdoor terraces.

I didn’t take any photos, but got a quick video with Darth Vader. The Science Center folks were all wearing costumes and performers were stationed throughout the building.

Costumed Star Wars characters seem to be following me around these days.

Ben Franklin with the kite getting over with the key

I’m thinking about going to the pre-opening party, “Out of this World,” at the CT Science Center in Hartford tomorrow night. No idea what to wear. I hope everyone is futuristic and fabulous rather than “geek chic,” which is too played out from the babillion 80s-themed parties thrown in the last few years.

Blingee

Love Blingee.

If you want to screw around with the original and send it to me, it’s here.

I’m on “away-cation”

I’ve been in Pennsylvania since last Saturday, driving out of Hartford a few hours before all of the shooting started going down in the North End. I coincidentally checked out Courant.com right around the time that the reports of violence started, then went to WFSB to see if they had more information.

The WFSB site had the most unfortunate ads accompanying the initial news report: CT “Staycation” and Hartford Hospital. I’m not sure when I’m coming back.

Welcome to Hartford

Not my best effort, but it’s a Wednesday.

I’ve been trying to make stencils all week and will start to post some of my best efforts soon. Stencils are very hard for me, my little brain gets confused.

The Chronicles of Captain Hartford

Here’s another original episode of the series by Fatness for your afternoon viewing pleasure. I promise to start posting new strips more frequently, since Hartford seems to holding out for a hero now more than ever.

Hartford craigslist: will trade bi wife for red sox vs. yankees tickets

I saw this posted to the “barter” section of Hartford’s Craigslist yesterday afternoon, but the guy’s wife must have seen it too because it was taken down later last night.

Kenyon Street at Night

I took this spooky photo of Kenyon Street in Hartford last night. The rain had just stopped and the air was ripe with humidity and fog.

We were on our way down to Tisane for boy’s night, which turned out to be creepier than the walk there. I dunno, I wasn’t feeling the love. The music was really, really loud. The bar line was really, really long. And everyone was either 12 or 63.