Moving Things Round
Jan. 3rd, 2009 10:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloAilz is studying 20th century art this year. The course actually starts in March, but she's got most of the books and wants to establish a head start. And the first thing with Ailz is always to set up a working space.
Last year's working space no longer pleases her, so we spent yesterday afternoon creating a new one. She's now in with the rabbits. We've just got to hope they don't find a way of jumping up onto her desk and eating her homework.
She wanted a big desk- and the only big desk we have (it used to be my father's) is the one on which I've been displaying my model village. Well, we solved that by moving the village downstairs- and now it's spread out over the furniture alongside my computer- so I can play with it whenever I like.
Talking about modern art, I read an article this morning which likens the boom in the art market to the boom in the market for tulips in 17th century Holland. Mad prices are being asked and paid for items whose intrinsic value is- ahem- questionable. The only difference is that the art market hasn't collapsed- yet.
Last year's working space no longer pleases her, so we spent yesterday afternoon creating a new one. She's now in with the rabbits. We've just got to hope they don't find a way of jumping up onto her desk and eating her homework.
She wanted a big desk- and the only big desk we have (it used to be my father's) is the one on which I've been displaying my model village. Well, we solved that by moving the village downstairs- and now it's spread out over the furniture alongside my computer- so I can play with it whenever I like.
Talking about modern art, I read an article this morning which likens the boom in the art market to the boom in the market for tulips in 17th century Holland. Mad prices are being asked and paid for items whose intrinsic value is- ahem- questionable. The only difference is that the art market hasn't collapsed- yet.
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Date: 2009-01-04 03:13 am (UTC)Like Ailz, I like to move things around - at present I am trying to figure out just how to do this in my one-room bed-sitter apartment. I need to plan carefully so as to be able to walk through the place without tripping myself and falling on my face.
I like your model village. Is the concept original with you, or did you have a set of instructions for making it?
"...so I can play with it..." Yes, I too like toys-for grownups. We are never too old or too "grown up" for toys of one kind or another.
Ailz, while you are studying 20th century art, I will be studying old writings in my Great Books class at Suffolk U. Happy studies!
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Date: 2009-01-04 11:40 am (UTC)The village is entirely my own work. I built it from scratch to house my collection of "wargaming" figures. i love anything miniature.
So what old writings will you be studying?
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Date: 2009-01-04 09:42 pm (UTC)D20 or old-school D+D? :-)
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Date: 2009-01-05 10:12 pm (UTC)I'm not a purist- if I like a figure I'll buy it- but a lot of my figures are chunky, lead castings from the 70s and 80s.
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Date: 2009-01-05 10:43 pm (UTC)