New York Pix
Here are some pix from a trip back to New York. It was so good to soak in the sights, sounds, food and culture once more:
Guggenheim Museum
Whitney Museum
High Line Park at Night
Making Candy at Papabubble
Butterflies!
Archive for Travel
A Week in Recap.
Wow! It has been a crazy wondeful week.
I started off with weekend brunch at Little Skillet, a tiny little window serving incredible fried chicken and fresh waffles — just steps away from 330 Ritch in SoMA.
Then booked tickets to go see the Boredoms play in New York! Yippee!
Thurston Moore
Sonic Youth proved that they could still rock out on Monday night (see photo of Thurston Moore above, from sfdavidz).
I can’t wait for Sunn O))) to slowly drone me away in a live setting. And speaking of Sunn O))), I was reminded of their homage to Southern Lord’s mainstay group, Earth when I came across a new word: Ouroboros.
According to Wikipedia, an ouroboros is “an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon swallowing its own tail and forming a circle.” I’d heard about this symbol in a few different ways, from Jung to Norse mythology — apparently even Plato found it significant.
Ouroboros
Earth produced a song called “Ouroboros Is Broken” on the slowly unfolding album, Extra-Capsular Extraction. Find it and listen closely for the tail…
Back from Kauai.
Ahhh… can a girl ask for a more relaxing vacation? I went to Kauai knowing very little about it, but after a week on this ambrosial island I can see why people love Hawaii. I’m continuing to upload photos to Flickr, so keep checking there for more in the next few days. Here are a few highlights:
Moloa'a Beach
The beaches… ah, the North shore won for me! Lumahai, Ha’ena, and Moloa’a were sublime lozenges of sand with sparkling clear turquoise water. I could spend a long time being a beach bum, roaming from one to another…
Moloa'a Sunrise Fruit Stand
Fresh fruit was everywhere… I grew up eating lots of fruit, so the abundant pineapple, papaya, apple bananas and coconut made me very happy. Along with Angeline’s lomi massage, I was in heaven 
Walking in Allerton Garden
The gardens… Allerton Garden down in the southern National Tropical Botanical Garden, along with its more primal sister Limahuli Garden in the north, kept me enchanted for many hours.
Waimea Canyon
Waimea Canyon… the “Grand Canyon of the Pacific” was truly stellar, especially by helicopter (thank you, Mike from Blue Hawaiian)!
Na Pali Coast
The Na Pali coast was breathtaking. It had dazzingly remote beaches, towering mountain cliffs and endless miles of blue, blue water… mmm, Kauai. I’ll be back.
Tara Donovan at the ICA
Here are a few shots from my trip to the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in Boston over Thanksgiving. From the road, the museum appeared a bit small against the dramatic Boston Harbor, but once inside the layout and scale of exhibitions felt just right.
On the top floor, I fell in love with Tara Donovan’s delicate installations which were made of everyday materials like film, scotch tape, drinking straws and styrofoam cups. The repetitive patterns revealed beautifully organic forms that captured and reflected light in subtle ways, shifting as I walked around them. The photo below is of layered polyester film from Untitled (2008).
Mutek 2008 Recap
Events like Mutek remind me of the rip-roaring delight of being young, traveling to exotic locations (like Canada!), and indulging in sights and sounds from the outer fringe. Some festival highlights:
Morgan Packard and Josh Ott opened the week with ambient techno shavings, helix-like visual permutations, accordian drifts and bird whistles:
Barem and Chic Miniature warmed up the crowd on Friday evening at SAT, while artists worked on a large mural:
Half Hawaii shook the packed midnight down at Metropolis:
And Onur Özer unleashed horns onto the crowd on Sunday’s Piknic set. It started to rain, but who could stop dancing?
I also enjoyed a side visit to the Canadian Center for Architecture, where I caught an exhibition on residential case studies by SANAA partner Ryue Nishizawa:
