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Everyone hypes Storm King, especially for first date or cuffing reveal photos. But there's a big distinction here: Storm King is a sculpture park, Opus 40 is a park that's a sculpture. This guy named Harvey Fite bought an abandoned bluestone quarry in 1938 and started stacking rocks "in the ancient Mayan method." Fuck yeah, brother, I love the ancient Mayan method. He apparently meant to work on it for 40 years, but decided after 37 that the site was complete. Fite is considered one of the innovators of the modern earthworks movement. There's a museum of rusty tools (no "please do not touch" sign, I touched a bunch of shit) and a gift shop with like crunchy crafts and dry goods.
Nov 13, 2023
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Von and I had the privilege of staying at an incredible place called Brunel Sculpture Garden in Boiceville NY for a week. The garden is a home to gigantic cement sculptures created by Emil Brunel who lived and worked on the property 100 years ago. The grounds are now lived on and meticulously maintained by a wonderful couple, Cynthia and Evgeny Nikitin. They are wonderful people and extremely generous and inspiring hosts. One day Cynthia and Evgeny took us to visit their friend Nick Della Penna. Nick is a visionary man who created a folk art site called Rock Star meadows. Him and his late partner Estelle Ross would dig up huge boulders from riverbeds by hand without the use of any tools and drag them great distances back to his property to use them in gigantic stone walls and towers. He’s 82 and he looks like he could be in his 60s. His brute strength, determination and willpower is profoundly staggering. Nick also makes amazing marble statues and mosaics that he fills the place with. He has friends and admirers that come and assist him in his work. I’m hoping to return as soon as possible to help Nick move his boulders and build his walls. Truly an extraordinary man.
Dec 11, 2023
found this on campus somewhere. unknown artist. beautiful little construction, made w love. maybe we should be expecting art in more places we go
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Nov 29, 2023
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Finally a media product honest about the psychosexual trauma and deranged generational entitlement of millennials. The Fielder-Safdie meetup bridges the confounding cinéma vérité of the former with the disconcerting aesthetic of the latter. To be sure, I'd call this a "drama;" but, as is the case with the auteurs here, the blurring of "reality" with "fiction" ends up presenting a truth larger than the sum of its parts. Well-meaning liberals gentrify the frontier, while excusing themselves from the shitty and destructive behavior that they knowingly partake in. Emma Stone is truly un-believable, an uncanny powerhouse. There's no boundary here, in the Derridian sense: you are at fault as you watch, especially when Nathan shows us his tiny, tiny, tiny little dick. "It's not a big deal and I'm not insecure about it."
Dec 11, 2023
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An astounding aside in one of the greatest filmmaker's greatest films, Nick Cave and co are accompanied by angels.
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