An Urgent Communique to All New Yorkers
If you haven’t been yet, please drop everything you are currently doing and head to MoMA and/or PS1 to check out the last day of Take your time: Olafur Eliasson, because you will probably not have more fun at an Art Exhibit this year unless they’re handing out giant flyswatters at the upcoming Louis Bourgeouis/Giant Spiders Vs. Guggenheim exhibition.
from someone’s flickr
If you have to pick one, please go to PS1 (suggested donation: $5) and spend a few dozen minutes lying on the ground under the giant rotating mirror disk, and have an out of body experience, watch other people clown around and/or totally not feel it, or simply make funny faces into the mirror. Please also ignore any security personnel who tell you not to take photos because they are just the anti-fun patrol - i would have taken photos but my camera is a large, metal object that would drown you if you tripped and fell face first into a shallow puddle.
another flickr gank
I am thinking that I need to go to a Spy Store and pick up some micro-cameras - perhaps one with a flexible colonoscopy-esque tube with which to take pictures around corners and into the bowels of artworks that have mysterious modes of operation (like the frustrating 360 degree Room for All Colours (2002), which as opposed to most of the other Eliasson works, which had pretty prominent and simple mechanisms, was kind of voodoo). Any recommendations on such gear? I am sure it will come in useful in a non-museum setting as well, but a series of Museum Espionage photographs is, you know, probably sellable. NOTE: PLEASE DO NOT STEAL - IDEA COPYRIGHT TODD 2008 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ALL WRONGS REVERSED DO NOT STEAL MUST CREDIT TODD)
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