forgotten_aria

Last night the MFA had a free exhibit of art made with "singularity black" which is supposed to be a very black pigment. I thought it was a competitor to Vanta black, but apparently no, this stuff was not nanotube derivative, and I was quite disappointed. I didn't look any blacker than you could achieve with flocking or velvet and maybe the fact it was a paint was interesting, but since you couldn't touch it, that didn't really sink in. They did have ONE tiny sample of nanotube based adVANTA black, but it was such a small sample on a flat plane, so you couldn't really get the feeling for it being special.

On the other hand, we got to walk around the MFA and see a few things. I still just don't get most of the modern arts. There were a few that were interesting, but mostly I just felt like one of those people who can't see the magic eye illusions, like I am missing something important about it. The old master's paintings, however, I totally get blown away by.

Ok, I'm now completely obsessed with image poi. Which means first I need to learn to poi dance. I know that many of you know some people who know some people who do that sort of thing and so I was wondering what the community was like? Are there any stereotypes (like you can only spin poi if you attend burning man)? How tied to it's origins is it? Will it be another hobby that is frowned upon as being culturally appropriated or is spinning LED (I will never trust myself with fire) far enough from the tradition that it never comes up. Or really anything else I should know about spinning poi community or culturally.

P.S. What is an image poi you ask? ( video answer under the cut. )

I fought some ink jet temparary tatoos. I'm not very impressed with them so far, but I haven't seen them in complete action. They'll get a full test this Sunday.

( this is what I printed )

This is my first oil painting in.... oh I don't know how long it's been!

( Yay! painting )

It's kind of stock me (hey look, it's my AP art concentration topic again!) but at least I painted SOMETHING. It's be ages.

( Disrobe )