By bluerasberry on May 17, 2012
I cannot believe this place. The Frick Collection has to be one of the best representative collections in the United States of European art from 1500-1850. It is housed in a museum which used to be someone’s house, and it is right next to Central Park in the Upper East Side. I had never seen […]
Posted in art, museum, New York City | Tagged paintings
By bluerasberry on May 13, 2012
Richard Knipel ([[user:Pharos]]) took me to the Museum of Modern Art the night of Friday 11th May. On Wednesday 9 May I was at a conference at Consumer Reports for the Choosing Wisely program, and at this conference I met collaborators in the program and came to understand what the program would mean to them. […]
Posted in art, health, museum, New York City, research, Wikipedia, work | Tagged Brooklyn Bridge, Choosing Wisely, coffee, Consumer Reports, Museum of Modern Art
By bluerasberry on April 30, 2011
I went out the next day with Nandan and we Sarukh and Abdul and they said they would show us around Kolkata. They pointed out different things and played frisbee in a park on our way to the Victoria Memorial, which was easily the best-presented museum I have yet seen in India due to the […]
Posted in art, India, museum, tour | Tagged Kolkata
By bluerasberry on April 9, 2011
Josh had written me in 2008 asking about Nandan, and Nandan had told me about his visit then saying that he was a fun guy. Josh is a musician. He plays percussion and seems to make music everywhere he goes. He brought this dancer named Penelope with him and together one would start making some […]
Posted in art, education, presentation | Tagged dance, music
By bluerasberry on February 20, 2011
The temple complex at Khujaraho shows the best Hindu carvings I have yet seen and I would recommend the place to anyone is interested in the subject and has time to spend a day there. I had heard a lot about the erotic carvings there, and they are interesting, but there are maybe 10-20 erotic […]
Posted in art, India, tour | Tagged architecture, monument
By bluerasberry on February 17, 2011
Nandan and I took a taxi in Agra and the driver wanted me to visit some shop. I asked Nandan what he thought and he said let’s check customer service in a tourist capitol. In the front of this shop there were marble workers toiling on the floor with all kinds of complicated equipment. I […]
Posted in art, India, service industry | Tagged service industry
By bluerasberry on November 22, 2010
I participated in the Mashed-potato Munch Off at the Green Lake Gobble again this year. I ate 75 ounces of mashed potatoes (4.7 pounds, 2.1 kilograms) in four minutes. The woman to my right was second place. I was intimidated because I had expected them to leave my finished bowls in front of me, but […]
Posted in art, Seattle | Tagged competitive eating, contest
By bluerasberry on May 19, 2010
I attended part of a performance of Erik Satie’s(1866-1925) Vexations Jack Straw on May 16. Satie was a Parisian musician and dadaist who wrote minimalist repetitive music. This work, Vexations, is a song which most people would choose to play in about 3.5 minutes, but Satie wrote on the page of music the sentence, “In […]
Posted in art, presentation, Seattle | Tagged dada, music, performance
By bluerasberry on February 1, 2010
I have been interested in video production for some time now. I have no desire to be artistic, but I would like to explore the possibility of creating a protocol by means of which anyone can quickly create educational videos of a certain known quality. I am interested in making some videos, but more than […]
Posted in art, education, India, research | Tagged astrology
By bluerasberry on December 12, 2009
I do not listen to a lot of music, but I like some groups. I went with Mark and Kristina to see Melt Banana on Friday Dec 11 at Chop Suey and had a lot of fun. This video is not from this show; someone else uploaded this. It weirds me out that so many […]
Posted in art, Japan, Seattle | Tagged concert, rumpus