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Jan. 22nd, 2008 08:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
javacatMy nephew the musician was commissioned by the DeYoung Museum to compose and perform music about a piece of art, as were 7 others. He wrote a three-movement jazz piece based on Cornelia Parker's sculpture/installation "Anti-Mass,"
http://www.famsf.org/deyoung/calendar/day.asp?calendarid=3622&day=1%2F15%2F2008 All the composers played all pieces last Friday (they gave individual concerts during summer.) It was great fun & wonderful music. I'm so proud of my nephew! OMG, what a SCENE the DeYoung is on Friday nights! and I don't just mean the packs of family members of composers and musicians in the VIP/mural room. The Friday night events draw a LOT of after-work revelers.
I'm seeing as many award-nominated movies as I can before the Academy Awards, which I hope will be held & not as a dismal press conference given by annoying, clueless Entertainment reporters (OMG that woman should be fired). Before the Devil Knows You're Dead; holy cow, it's dark.
which is composed entirely of the charred remnants of an arson-torched Southern Baptist church. It's an amazing piece. Various boards and chunks of wood are suspended by fishing line into this really large (like 20 feet by 20 feet) hanging installation. When you get close to it, you can smell the char. It's heartbreaking, and infuriating to think that someone would DO this. Oddly, the deYoung doesn't have an image in their art slides, although a photo doesn't give the sense of scale, presence, or smell.
http://www.famsf.org/deyoung/calendar/day.asp?calendarid=3622&day=1%2F15%2F2008 All the composers played all pieces last Friday (they gave individual concerts during summer.) It was great fun & wonderful music. I'm so proud of my nephew! OMG, what a SCENE the DeYoung is on Friday nights! and I don't just mean the packs of family members of composers and musicians in the VIP/mural room. The Friday night events draw a LOT of after-work revelers.
I'm seeing as many award-nominated movies as I can before the Academy Awards, which I hope will be held & not as a dismal press conference given by annoying, clueless Entertainment reporters (OMG that woman should be fired). Before the Devil Knows You're Dead; holy cow, it's dark.
(All performances were very good. Wonderful score. Loved the art direction on the ... whole kimono scene, if you know what I mean - does that exist in RL? It probably does. Yikes! that is worth the movie alone IMHO. Marisa Tomei is naked a lot; she looks great. P. Hoffman is also; he: not so much.)
Juno was all Yay! and sweet. All the performances were so good. Not on awards circuit, but on my radar: I Am Legend was enjoyable enough. Will Smith was good, OMG the dog! and I mostly can stop myself from picking at the inconsistencies.