Apparently in this latest issue of the Superman Comic, Clark Kent aka Superman, aka long-time reporter for The Daily Planet, will be doing his impression of "Take This Job and Shove It."
“Rather than Clark be this clownish suit that Superman puts on, we’re
going to really see Clark come into his own in the next few years as far
as being a guy who takes to the Internet and to the airwaves and starts
speaking an unvarnished truth,” writer Scott Lobdell told USA Today.
This should be interesting. Or as Perry White would say, "Great Caesar's Ghost!" (I still don't get that phrase.)
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Unexpected Packages
It's always fun getting mail. I'm not talking bills, magazines, wedding invitations or the like. I'm talking honest to goodness mail. Letters or even better: package slips. I got a surprise package in the spring and it was the highlight of my spring. I received another in the mail last night. Based on the info on the slip, I thought maybe it was a gift card. I received an via email from GF and Crate and Barrel, but thought this was Crate and Barrel's official way of tell me.
I got to the post office and knew pretty quickly that I was wrong. This is what I picked up.
It was not a gift card. It was like a kid on Christmas Eve. I couldn't wait to get home to see who the package was from.
I figured it was a limited group since I haven't sent out my I've moved email (which I will do...soon). I opened the box, expecting to see the Styrofoam peanuts. Instead I got this:
I imagine people who have gift registries for when they get married or have a kid must get these a lot. Since I've done neither, it was really fun to get! But for a second, I wondered if this was Crate and Barrel's way of giving me a gift car -- the box within a box withing a box.
Luckily for me, it wasn't!
It was this beautiful bowl from my cousin's family. It really is beautiful and I've put it on my bookshelf as art for the time being. That's how much I love the salad bowl!
I got to the post office and knew pretty quickly that I was wrong. This is what I picked up.
I figured it was a limited group since I haven't sent out my I've moved email (which I will do...soon). I opened the box, expecting to see the Styrofoam peanuts. Instead I got this:
Luckily for me, it wasn't!
It was this beautiful bowl from my cousin's family. It really is beautiful and I've put it on my bookshelf as art for the time being. That's how much I love the salad bowl!
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Art: Video Games and Music Videos
When I was in Washington, DC, recently, I went to one of my favorite places - the National Portrait Gallery. It shares space with the Smithsonian American Art Museum, which was having an exhibit on Video Games. I had to go and see it.
According the the exhibit information, video games really reflect art in many different mediums - visual, story telling, musically, etc. So this exhibit explores "the forty-year evolution of video games as an artistic medium, with a focus on striking visual effects and the creative use of new technologies."
For me it was a walk down memory lane. I remember my cousins who had Ataris or Intellivision or the first Nintendo. I had the Commodore 64 (and I'm pretty sure it's in the basement of my parent's house somewhere) , but I didn't use it for video games. My Dad got it for me in the hopes that I'd become some computer programmer-type. He had good vision, too bad he was stuck with a non-techie daughter!
What made this exhibit truly enjoyable was that they had stations in the beginning where you could play the games -- from Pac-Man and Super Mario Brothers to Myst and some game I'd never heard of called Flower. I played Pac-Man and managed to get all the dots! Some skills apparently never go away.
Here are some pics from the early years of the video game art.
Created with flickr slideshow.
In another art related, memory lane exhibit, when I was in Cincinnati I visited the Contemporary Art Museum. I went in an hour before it was going to close so the guy at the front desk let me in for free. They had an exhibit titled "Spectacle: The Music Video," which was all about the art of music videos.
It was great. They had a lot of music videos you could watch, such as A-Ha's "Take On Me" to Queens' Bohemian Rhapsody.
I actually spent time at a lot of exhibits watching videos, remembering back to when MTV actually played music videos.
The exhibit explained how it was created, why it was different or cutting edge at the time. It also showed some controversial videos which represented pushing boundaries. And in a more recent art phenomenon, talked about how videos can go viral with other people doing their interpretation of songs or videos, like all the different videos of Beyonce's "All the Single Ladies."
It was pretty awesome!
According the the exhibit information, video games really reflect art in many different mediums - visual, story telling, musically, etc. So this exhibit explores "the forty-year evolution of video games as an artistic medium, with a focus on striking visual effects and the creative use of new technologies."
For me it was a walk down memory lane. I remember my cousins who had Ataris or Intellivision or the first Nintendo. I had the Commodore 64 (and I'm pretty sure it's in the basement of my parent's house somewhere) , but I didn't use it for video games. My Dad got it for me in the hopes that I'd become some computer programmer-type. He had good vision, too bad he was stuck with a non-techie daughter!
What made this exhibit truly enjoyable was that they had stations in the beginning where you could play the games -- from Pac-Man and Super Mario Brothers to Myst and some game I'd never heard of called Flower. I played Pac-Man and managed to get all the dots! Some skills apparently never go away.
Here are some pics from the early years of the video game art.
In another art related, memory lane exhibit, when I was in Cincinnati I visited the Contemporary Art Museum. I went in an hour before it was going to close so the guy at the front desk let me in for free. They had an exhibit titled "Spectacle: The Music Video," which was all about the art of music videos.
It was great. They had a lot of music videos you could watch, such as A-Ha's "Take On Me" to Queens' Bohemian Rhapsody.
I actually spent time at a lot of exhibits watching videos, remembering back to when MTV actually played music videos.
The exhibit explained how it was created, why it was different or cutting edge at the time. It also showed some controversial videos which represented pushing boundaries. And in a more recent art phenomenon, talked about how videos can go viral with other people doing their interpretation of songs or videos, like all the different videos of Beyonce's "All the Single Ladies."
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
An (Unexpected) Day Off
I need to burn some personal days before the end of the fiscal year, which is the end of June. It was pretty eventful, if I do say so myself. I started the day with a movie. It was a bad movie that I do not recommend, but matinees (or movie before noon) are actually affordable in NYC. (Translation: It's under $10!)
Then I headed to Queens to do some exploring in Astoria. I walked around. It was nice, definitely more diverse crowd there. I went to a grilled cheese place called The Queens Kickshaw. Apparently, it started off as a coffee shop, but the owners decided to serve food - hence grilled cheeses - and do craft beer. It was actually a really nice space. I sat at the counter by the cook/chef as he made the grilled cheese. (Another plus to sitting there was that it was warm.) The downside to sitting there was that everything looked good. I had a hard time deciding what grilled cheese to get. (And for a second, I thought about skipping the grilled cheese and going with their stuffing option. Yep, as a main they offer stuffing!
I didn't go for the craft beer though, I tried a vinegar cordial instead. They do a lot of their own pickling, and they add some of the liquid (in my case, the blueberry pickling juice) to seltzer water.
It gives it a nice tart, blueberry flavor. I thought it went nicely with the Gruyere grilled cheese I (eventually) decided on. While I'm not a rye fan, I thought I'd give it a go. I liked the idea of the use of mustard with the grilled cheese. I guess I should explain. The Gruyere grilled cheese was on rye bread with whole grain mustard and caramelized onion and came with a side of cabbage slaw. It was tasty and all the flavors went well together. But sometimes I just crave the grilled cheese from when I was young. American cheese on white bread. The gruyere was not that -- it was definitely a more sophisticated, upscale grilled cheese. It was worth the trek out to Queens. And I'd go back again. Kickshaw is open late! (Given my work hours, that's a plus!)
After my wanderings in Astoria I headed back to Manhattan. I was craving some dessert so I went to Columbus Circle with the thought of going to Bouchon Bakery, but instead I walked north to Levain Bakery and got one of their warm chocolate peanut butter cookies. Then I headed home through Central Park.
Earlier in the week, I had seen the line for Shakespeare in the Park tickets and thought I'd swing by the box office to see if there were any tickets left for the night's performance -- there were! So I got one.
I've always wanted to go to a Shakespeare in the Park performance. Forget the fact that it's free and it has some great actors performing, it's a play outdoors! The show I saw was As You Like It and some of the actors that were in it included Andre Braugher and Oliver Platt. It was a good performance. I liked the set and the chorus was musical. But I kind of wish it had been a bit more cutting edge. Maybe it was from all the Shakespeare Theatre Co. performances I saw, but I tend to like productions that had a different twist to them. This production seemed like the hill-billy version. Still, I'm glad I went and it was a good way to spend an evening.
Oh, and the other plus? When you order a drink (which you can take into the theatre), they really top it up!
All in all it was a great day to spend an unexpected day off. I have another day off that won't be that action packed, I'm sure. But hopefully, it won't take me two weeks to write about.
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| Blueberry Vinegar Cordial |
It gives it a nice tart, blueberry flavor. I thought it went nicely with the Gruyere grilled cheese I (eventually) decided on. While I'm not a rye fan, I thought I'd give it a go. I liked the idea of the use of mustard with the grilled cheese. I guess I should explain. The Gruyere grilled cheese was on rye bread with whole grain mustard and caramelized onion and came with a side of cabbage slaw. It was tasty and all the flavors went well together. But sometimes I just crave the grilled cheese from when I was young. American cheese on white bread. The gruyere was not that -- it was definitely a more sophisticated, upscale grilled cheese. It was worth the trek out to Queens. And I'd go back again. Kickshaw is open late! (Given my work hours, that's a plus!)
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| Gruyere Grilled Cheese |
Earlier in the week, I had seen the line for Shakespeare in the Park tickets and thought I'd swing by the box office to see if there were any tickets left for the night's performance -- there were! So I got one.I've always wanted to go to a Shakespeare in the Park performance. Forget the fact that it's free and it has some great actors performing, it's a play outdoors! The show I saw was As You Like It and some of the actors that were in it included Andre Braugher and Oliver Platt. It was a good performance. I liked the set and the chorus was musical. But I kind of wish it had been a bit more cutting edge. Maybe it was from all the Shakespeare Theatre Co. performances I saw, but I tend to like productions that had a different twist to them. This production seemed like the hill-billy version. Still, I'm glad I went and it was a good way to spend an evening.
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| My $8 champagne. |
All in all it was a great day to spend an unexpected day off. I have another day off that won't be that action packed, I'm sure. But hopefully, it won't take me two weeks to write about.
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