I decided late to go to with fellow Art students to the Art Department field trip to San Francisco, maybe two weeks after it was first announced. I didn't want to miss another Club Day or the Illustrator class. I debated those two weeks and decided to finally go. I finally paid the 20 dollars fee for the field trip and thought--oh wow. I get to go to more than one museum! Uhm... No. I guess not.
What -WAS- given was a bus ride to SF and back. They basically dropped us off in the middle of SanFran and we're let loose into the busy streets. I didn't find my Roller Derby classmate, Aly, while waiting to get in, and ended up befriending a funny, crazy gal, Victoria at the line.
We watched King Kong on the bus ride and I snickered throughout Vicky's running commentary about King Kong and his poor misadventures with the "want some chicken" "tarzan ain't got nuthin' on me" t-rex fight and the "triflin' white bitch" who left the huge ape for little ones.
It isn't so odd to me anymore that similar people just gravitate towards each other. Vicky's an African American growing up with father with a strong Martial Arts background, and a hilarious sense of humor when it comes to messing around with stereotypes. "Being dark doesn't mean I'm African!" Haha. She's got the craziness to try and scare away a persistant (ugly) brother with a Brit accent--which didn't quite work so well, put valley girl airheads to shame for assuming she was Nigerian.
So we head on down to the new Cartoon Art Gallery and oggle some Disney Sleeping beauty animation cells and sketches, and a whole bunch of other comic books. It's still pretty new, with new, ever-changing displays going on. I think I enjoyed the museum store more, just because I got myself the "After Halloween" alphabet book by Daniel M. Davis. God, it's so well done and cute. I bet Sheryll would love all of this:
Steam Crow Press
http://www.steamcrow.com/
http://www.steamcrow.com/products-page/books/after-halloween-book/
I have number 288 of 1500! Whoohoo
We had lunch after hiking our way through to the Chinatown (I'd rather call it China STREET just because it just went through several blocks). Had a good dimsum lunch of steamed pork buns, BAKED pork buns, steamed pork dumplings and some shrimp dumplings with green onion. Good thing we walked back--too much pork in the system.
We spent a good deal of time just talking and laughing about crazy stories and realized we'd better head to the MoMa before rendezvous time with the other students. She'd spent her money on purple and pink Maneki Neko (Fortune Cats) and a jade elephant from one of the souvenir stores. I opted out of buying fortune sticks and fake Chinese coins :p
The MoMa wasn't all it was cracked up to be. I recognized more names now from Prof. Mehallo's Graphic Design History class and the chapter on Modernism, and from Craig Smith's Design Fundamentals class. I saw works from Salvador Dali (surrealists), Pablo Picasso (though this was at another gallery we stumbled into, and wasn't necessarily one of his cubist works), Duchamp and his toilet seat fountain, and a Trompe L'Oiel painting of a comb, makeup brush and glass and a Henri Matisse statue, Madeline1. I can't believe I didn't go through the part with his paintings--ARGH.
I had seen these other ones before I started recognizing and photographing the artists and names, but they really impressed me when I came into the sections of the room and just headed straight for them:
I loved the colors on this one. Reminded me of the pink Sakura theme colors the Japanese would use in print design or more the brighter color scheme of origami colors.
This was the first piece I saw on the 5th floor, after making kumusta to a Pinay guard. I noticed when I looked around that most the guards were a little older, and Asian :p Well anyway, this piece made me think of our continents sinking into the sea :( Stupid Ondoy. I hope the PH can get back on its feet. I just heard about the blackouts. I guess that's why my mom hasn't left a message or contacted me today :(
This piece got me curious and I was quite happy when I walked up close. It's stippling! I love it now after our assignment/project for Typography. I should do a blog about that once we're well on our way...
I don't think you can quite see the perspective of these two pictures, but they're from two window panes from the 5th floor, I believe. Looking out these buildings remind me of the Tokyo Tower and being able to see the tall buildings out the observation deck. I also like Victorian design (not related to the photo, just a random thought)... is this a bad thing? :p
The architecture of the SF MoMa got me good, I had to take pictures of the damned staircase! And part of the stair corridor on the 5th floor :)
This one was interesting. I think I only started photographing the details of the work after this piece. By Christopher Wool, untitled... it's enamel paint on aluminum. When you get real close you can see where the paint is bubbling/aluminum is riveted. You can see how the paint gets sticky and the residue marks and all that subjective processes in making the piece. It's very--er... I don't know how else to describe it, but I like it very much. It's feminine, but not.
Okay, time to hit the hay (Miss you Daddy! I'll bring you back some California raisins when I come back, haha!) Today's been a long, interesting day.
PS: Toshi was a little too shy to come out for the trip, so he got his photo on the bus, riding on the seat top (not for very long). We'll come back again... you'll get your photo in the MoMa again, someday.
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