George HW Bush and Aretha Franklin hat exchange following the ceremony.
49% of Americans hearing Barack Obama speak for the first time.
Rick Warren’s encoded message: ‘hingepoint’: WTF?
Special Guest Appearance by Peter Sellers as Dr. Strangelove
Elizabeth Alexander: “Somebody … is … reading …. ….. a … very … boring … poem …”
Joseph Lowery actually trying to plow a field with a tractor that began life as a tank before it was beaten into a tractor: there’s a reason tractors don’t have treads!
So, what were your New Year’s Resolutions?
I’m enjoying mine: the new studio space is working well. And I’m not sure whether it’s the segregation of living / working space, or the lack of distractions, or the aesthetic of the other artists wearing off on me–but something is clicking. I kept to my New Year’s Resolution, and made something of an attempt to push it through on New Year’s Day (although I was on a plan for New Year’s, so I had to settle for January 2nd).
Here’s the space:
On January 2nd, I concentrated on getting some canvas covered, and ended up with three micro-paintings that I hated. So, on to the macro. I was satisfied with these. But I also started working on a cityscape, whose progress is traced below. I was working on this one today, when I remembered that I had to paint the bottom of the canvas (some people paint the sides of the canvas, because it’s cheaper to paint the sides than to frame the canvas for show). I rotated it 180 degrees and when I looked at it, I had vertigo. That was a good feeling.
