Pier 17, MoMA, and ....Knitting??

Walking across Brooklyn Bridge ~7:15pm

Pepjin and I went salsa dancing. Every Saturday they offer free lessons and open dance on Pier 17. We met up with Dave, James's friend. 

Color :)

The lesson was fun (SUUUPER BASIC). I seem to have given the impression I was a salsa dancer, though. A few people asked me to dance, pulled hellacomplex moves outta nowhere, then promptly thanked me. For you non-dancers, a 'thank-you' is a double edged sword. It simultaneously expresses appreciation and the most polite version of "I don't want to dance with you anymore"... especially mid-dance. But what do they expect? Fred Astaire wasn't taught in a day. I'd need at least two. ;)

I genuinely enjoyed it for what it was, though I'm too much of a tanguera to switch over now. Salsa lacks the intimacy of tango. 

I wish I'd taken a similar video after 9:30 pm for contrast. It got packed. This was the calm before the Salsa Storm. So refreshing... 


Sunday - MoMa (Museum of Modern Art) 

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by Lee Bonticou

Compact Object

by Natsuyuki Nakarishi

[NoIdeaWhoDidItSorry]

Belgian Lion

by Marcel Broodthaers

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by Keith Haring 

I don't know who did this one or what it is called, 

but I can tell you my initial reaction: 

"...OH SHIT..." 

This, reaction-wise, was my favorite. It's an empty aquarium-like container that you might see at the zoo to hold a reptile or amphibian or poisonous animal of some sort. 

It is empty. 

Huggable Atomic Mushroom

from project "Design for Fragile Personalities in Anxious Times"

[insert BETTER picture here... Mine didn't do it justice. 

"Each of the sheets in Home Is a Foreign Place bears an abstract image and a word printed in Urdu, the artist's mother tongue. The terms she chose, such as "threshold," "border," "country" and "door," paired with her minimal images, create a lexicon relating to the theme of home." says MoMA website]

Home is a Foreign Place

Zarina

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Rachel Harrison

I saw this and thought of the tool bench at the lab.

 Italian 1960's Kitchen Workbench, I think I need you. 

One Hundred Lavish Months of Bushwhack

by Wangechi Mutu

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View from the 3rd story of the Museum of Modern Art

Sushi and sashimi after a painfully grueling and thoroughly exhausting day of looking at fascinating artwork.  

Nintendo World - We passed this in Midtown somewhere. I must find it again!

As for the knitting (crocheting, actually)... some of the women here are really into it. After the museum and sushi, we (Dennis -Sweden, Oskar - Sweden, Trey - Colorado, Dominik, and I) went to Shirmung (New York)'s house to knit/crochet. I admit, I originally scoffed at the idea - going all the way to NY to then sit around and knit?? - and wasn't going to participate, but even the boys were game. Peer pressure.

I enjoyed it for what it was. Not my thing, but one woman there helped explain their affinity for the craft.... "At the end of the day, after dealing with men for 8 hours, it's nice to feel feminine." 

So true.