Manfactured Landscapes

Catch this movie when it runs through the art movie houses/movie festivals! It's called "Manufactured Landscapes" and it follows photographer Edward Burtynsky all over the world as he hunts for the industrial landscape, parts of the earth changed by humans.
This is the most COMPLETE movie about globalization, because it takes you to all sorts of places in the before and after of consumer products made in China, where e-waste goes to get recycling, to where ships go to die, and even shows the progress of the the Three river gorges dam in China.
The greatest thing about this movie is that it never makes any preachy "Gore-acle"-esque statement about the end of the workd, the documentary just shows you how the photographer, in his own lifestyle and consumption choices, searches for the beginning and the end of the resources used by the life cycle of consumer products and an American middle class lifestyle. The photos he creates are JAW DROPPING, so beautiful yet so sad. SEE IT! Those in Boston can go to the Museum of Fine Arts.

Caves

In AZ I went to these really great living caves called Kartchner Caverns, and it got me thinking about other caves I know about, namely the place where my parents got married 35 years ago! It's called The Bridal Cave and it's in Camdenton, Missouri, because they were studying at University of Missouri in the 70's. My mom said it cost them $18 to get married there, and all of the tourists at the cave attended their wedding! Now it seems like a bigger production; thanks to inflation, it's now $500!

Arizona near Tucson

At the Arizona-Sonoran Desert Museum
San Xavier del Bac Mission
(all photos taken by C., not conchens.)
This trip to AZ gave me a raging urge to eat Mexican food every single day until forever! Thank you to all Mexican restaurants that I went to that had homemade tamales! This Sunday afternoon, I spent some time reviewing some of the places that I went to on Tripadvisor and I also spent some other moments posting local Boston services on Angie's List-- have you ever heard of it? It allows you to review other people's opinions of contractors and services after services have been provided and money has been spent, so you don't waste your own dough on a bad experience. However, you have to pay for the site, and so far, postings are a little sparce-- hopefully it'll get better if/when it comes time for me to do some condo stuff!(?)

New Car Photo- Nantasket Beach

Its 1997 all over again..

New job.... new glasses...... and now, a new car. And yes, I actually bought another red Subaru Impreza Outback Sport Wagon! A reprise from 1997 all over again, yeehaa! Hmm, maybe I'll dig out the little 3x5 photo of my early 20-something self with that car, or save myself the embarrassment, and just show you where I got my new one:
  

Quirk Works Subaru- on the south shore

Please have yourself a little treat and click on tha little video link- I bought my "cahw" from him! And at the 50 second mark, I think, there's my cahw!

Student Fashion Show Weekend

This past weekend I attended two student fashion shows, for Mass Art and Mount Ida College. Fabulous work(for the most part)! There are some really hard working students out there, amazing sewing and construction feats by Mass art students, and quite a few Mt. Ida students willing to put together (or alas, deconstruct) some pretty bold and wacky color combinations. (Pictures to come later!)

Supervision no more

So the fabulous new exhibit has come to a close at the ICA, Supervision is no more! No more making tour groups walk around stainless steel objects (by Jeff Koons and Anish Kapoor), no more sticking my hands in the James Turrell (New Light) and watching people gasp, no more physicists trying to figure out the refraction index of the Josiah McElheny -- oh wait, maybe so, because it will be part of the permanent collection--- Anyways, the tour guides hosted a lovely wake at a nice restaurant named Sonsie, and here are two of our lovely guides in proper wake attire: