Go and watch David Firth’s Cream on Vimeo. You won’t be sorry, this is one of the coolest, most pointed, and terrifying things I’ve seen in a long time. Great.
Have a new pet and want something on the different side for a name? Check out Medieval Pet Names.
You can now have art texted to you from SFMOMA!
In a world oversaturated with information, we asked ourselves: how can we generate personal connections between a diverse cross section of people and the artworks in our collection? How can we provide a more comprehensive experience of our collection?
Enter Send Me SFMOMA. Send Me SFMOMA was conceived as a way to bring transparency to the collection while engendering further exploration and discussion among users. Send Me SFMOMA is an SMS service that provides an approachable, personal, and creative method of sharing the breadth of SFMOMA’s collection with the public.
Text 572-51 with the words “send me” followed by a keyword, a color, or even an emoji and you’ll receive a related artwork image and caption via text message. For example “send me the ocean” might get you Pirkle Jones’ Breaking Wave, Golden Gate; “send me something blue” could result in Éponge (SE180) by Yves Klein; and “send me 💐” might return Yasumasa Morimura’s An Inner Dialogue with Frida Kahlo (Collar of Thorns). Each text message triggers a query to the SFMOMA collection API, which then responds with an artwork matching your request.
You can read more about this here.
Portrait of Ruth Saint-Denis, a copy of which is in the BAM Archives (1920) (via Library of Congress/Wikimedia).
From an 1869 advertisement for a lecture by Frederick Douglass, to production photographs of the 2012 revival of Philip Glass and Robert Wilson’s Einstein on the Beach, the Leon Levy BAM Digital Archive contains more than 70,000 items chronicling over 150 years of theatrical history at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). The online platform for the BAM Hamm Archives was launched last month, including collections of posters, playbills, building photographs, and audio and video recordings.
Didn’t get to Cream yet, but thank you. I haven’t listened to anything ‘new’ for classical violin in ages, and I’ve only known the Counting Crows song prior to this. The next puece on the list, Pendulum, is also fantastic. Thank you.
Also the pet names were a lot of fun.
Welcome! I have to say, when it comes to names, it’s hard to deny the style of Pangur bán.
It’s the name of the cat in Secret of Kells. I love it (the movie, too).
Ah, I had no idea. The poem dates from the 9th century, and it’s rather sweet the monk in question dedicated a poem to his cat.
The Cream vid displays a bit of Cyriak influence, to my eyes. Weird and interesting.
Finally got to Cream, and to be honest, the first half creeped me out more than the second. I was expecting… different things. Then again, this is the guy who created Saladfingers; I doubt he’s capable of ‘non-creepy’. Good to see he has ideas about social justice, too.