picking cichorium

I like street art and all good-looking things readily available for the viewer without him/her having to hunt around galleries. Art History needs to hit the streets beyond chewing on graffitti over and over. 

Some stuff around ‘burg.

"i drem of love"

P.S. Another thanks to Jesse for the Rebel. I am getting hooked on the look of the expensive-camera pictures. Why would it be, honestly?

The Hipsterland intimidates me with every girl in bright tights and every guy with long bangs.

Octopuses, on the other hand, don’t intimidate me, so I stick to those. 

The first of the puses

#2

octopuses all around

Looks like the last one for today

Emptyheadedness is responsible for these profound posts, so don’t ask me any questions, ok?

P.S. Thanks to Jesse for letting me walk around with his awesome Canon Rebel; too bad I wasted it on the octopuses.

I am very sad to leave East Village, but, mostly, I am sad about leaving St. Mark’s Market.

Ice Land

The new location has its own funk, which will be explored in great detail. Promise.

Some under-developed in the mind person has tagged me to do this. 

*Go to the 4th folder in your computer where you store your pictures
*Pick the 4th picture in that folder
*Explain the picture
*List 5 of your addictions
*Tag 4 people to do the same. 

So I went to the fourth folder and picked the fourth picture. It’s a sleeping Sikh man at Boryspil Airport in Ukraine. Unless you have been to Ukraine, you cannot fathom what a weird sight this is.

Sikh man sleeping through the horrors of Boryspil airport in Kiev, Ukraine

Five obsessions: forth comes the bitter truth – I am not a woman of fine tastes. 

1. Idiotic things that people do/say

 I am a hater of stupid people, and yet I love the display of human stupidity, including my own.  I am an active reader of the Darwin Awards and I love Paris Hilton. Maybe she will make an appearance there one day.  

2. Madness, mischief, misconduct.

Shortly, all sorts of demented behavior are attractive to me.  I also love display of madness in art, lit, music or wherever else. I gloat over things like Lolita, Doors of Perception, Der Tod in Venedig, etc etc. 

I mean, what could be more brilliant than rolling models in a speacially designed blue paint and then smearing them over large pieces of canvas? I love you, Yves Klein.

3. Barbie, Barbie looking women

Unfortunately, the only real Barbie I have ever owned was a Mattel one, given to me by my friends when I lived in Germany 2 years ago. My friends are no different from me. See point one and two for clarifications. 

Furthermore, a dedicated feminist, I have spent hours with my guy friends checking out unbelievable Barbie-looking Slavic women who you can get online and have them shipped to your doorstep within days. If you are about to accuse me of being a chauvinistic male, take that back right now!  First of all, I read Esther Boserup, have you? Secondly, see point one and two. 

P.S. it’s Mattel’s 50 year bday on March 6th. And no, I am not checking out Barbies online all day long. I just read the Economist. 

4. Kerala food: I think that is the real reason why I am so diligintly working on moving to India. This post is a vivid example of this diligence. 

That’s fish moilee. If you want a receip, give me a shout. 

5. My blackberry.

This blog is a living proof of it. 

I tag…

uhm… i have no friends. i need to dwell on this one.  

I have always been jealous of the teachers and college profs because they got to read some truly brilliant pieces.  Even though not a teacher, I get all benefits of the job.

Enjoy some excerpts from the student essays that I came across this year:

• The veterans of the Ukrainian Revolting Army
• You would think that it’s unreal that a teenager reads Shakespear’s plays, but read it because i found it in my “old things,” and there is a lot of murder, so i decided to read it.
• Americans always feel pity for those who get in trouble[,] are keen on disabled.
• Parents should take steps to prevent their teenagers from hitting the bottle.
• Lover man keeps in heart image by his love, makes him immortal, like immortal sun, Earth, wind, because just this immortality possible in our world.
• First i heard about law when i was 14.
• There is nobody who wants to be lovely on Earth.
• Ukrainian constitution was found in 1996.
• Once i tried to milk the cow but it was difficult, moreover the cow didn’t like my movements. [...] Playing with my dog pleased me a lot, too.
• Leo Tolstoy “The World and the Peace”
• What is the most important thing to make people happy? [...] First and foremost my suggestion would be to choose a landlord and make him the head of the government.
• We have first place in the world by the number of dead people.

P.S. In case you wonder what country kids are writing about, it is Ukraine.