blogging baltimore
finally!
photo blog of Charm City:
starting off with a gorgeous pic of my apartment. yes, this is where i live and i love it. small and cosy, super dusty but with three big bay windows and high ceilings. and my own bathroom (MY OWN BATHROOM I LOVE IT), albeit no kitchen. i love looking at the tree outside my window, it’s slowly turning brown now that fall’s here. i have a basil plant that is dying on me (i can’t nurture anything for the life of me, hence i do not have a pet) and a ‘rose of jericho’ - a desert plant that ‘opens up’ when watered, though no flowers bloom. oh, that book is the ‘collected writings of robert smithson’. note, ‘collected’, not ’selected’. as much respect i have for his artwork and thoughts, that guy must have been stoned for most of his very short life.
just to emphasize how baltimore can be pretty too, here’s the view from my window. that domed thing in the distance is a church. i am living in the ‘mount vernon cultural district’: theaters, concert halls, galleries, museums, indie cinema, bike co-op (filled with too-hipster-bike-hipsters), anarchist cafe, thrift stores. how’s that for accumulating cultural capital? beats cliche greenwich, eh?
perfect time for farmer’s market! so many queer-looking tomatoes. where i am going to get my fresh produce when winter rolls around?
first awesome speaker in the line of awesome speakers at MICA (that’s where i’m studying by the way): ANGELA DAVIS! AMY GOODMAN! DEMOCRACY NOW! by the way, amy goodman blew. my. mind. so powerful. so eloquent. so inspiring. everyone needs to hear her speak at least once in a lifetime
(then we had Annie Sprinkle. oh and guess who’s coming next? DJ SPOOKY aahhhh! so nice to be a student again)
what we do at art school: throw parties in our studios! nothing beats getting drunk on a dancefloor next to bansaws and tablesaws. here’s the balloon room
art student solution to stolen bike seat: build your own! and what’s even better, leave the pencil marks on the plywood for all to see! this is potentially a cool performance piece. how much do i love perpetuating the art student stereotype? sooo much.
lantini party! helping out with nana projects right now, and as a fundraiser for the annual great halloween lantern parade, we hold adult-oriented lantern building workshops + martinis! lantinis! i’m planning to learn how to stilt walk at the parade school -
quintessential american disclaimer, right there on my “small” styrofoam cup of watered-down nestea (to wash down my $1 hot dog at the Sam’s Club in-store fastfood stand. ugh). strip mall after strip mall. reminds me of time in canada, i haven’t been to a strip mall since i moved back to hong kong, not even in philly. and now im cruising the highway with my mates in a pickup truck, jumping from costco to home depot practically every other day! YES AMERICA
speaking of philly, i was there a couple weekends ago and loved it. it was wet, it was cold, it was fantastic. here’s a melancholy pic of a long stretch of highway from the bus
…
cause in my head there’s a greyhound station/
where I send my thoughts to far off destinations/
so they may have a chance of finding a place/
where they’re far more suited than here/
-Death Cab for Cutie, Soul Meets Body