Ford Maddox Brown. Eglon assassinated by Ehud. 1908.
This is a great illustration of Ehud killing King Eglon from Judges 3. A great artist, a great illustration, and a great story.
Last sunday (22 apr 2012), Ian and I went to see Lambchop play at the Beachland Ballroom in Cleveland. We got to the venue with some time to kill before the show, so we went to check out the record/vintage clothing store in the basement of the place. There, we ran into Kurt Wagner himself, who was also shopping for used records. We were able to talk to him and tell him how excited we were to see him, and he was really kind and friendly and down-to-earth.
The setlist included nearly all the songs from Mr. M and every one of them sounded amazing. Overall, this was one of the quietest concerts I’ve ever experienced. We were standing at the very front of the stage and I could hear acoustic sound coming from the instruments themselves, which was a really unusual experience. All the musicians were amazing, especially the drummer. And they played “Soaky in the Pooper” as an encore! Ian and I had parked around the back of the building, and as we were leaving after the show, Kurt had just come outside to light a cigarette. He recognized us from earlier and thanked us for coming. It was all a really very nice experience.
What I did this week (26 apr 2012)
- Completed the last figure drawing session of the semester. We drew Jeremy and I did not do a very good job, prompting Boryana to say all kinds of hilarious, unintentionally-harsh things about my work.
- Went to see the “visiting artist”, Nalini Nadkarni, who seemed like a very kind but misguided person.
- Looked at a lot of post-impressionistic paintings in 19th century art history class. We are getting very near the end of the century!
- Did my “final presentation” for my History of fashion design class. It was a ten-minute talk on menswear between 1920–1940 and I think I bored the entire class to death.
- Went to the sculpture lab with Amanda and Jason and helped make stuff with tools.
- Spent the rest of wednesday in illustration working on my clay sculpture.
- Worked in the woodshop on thursday morning and had a nice conversation about accordions with Mr. Laskowski!
- Successfully used the scroll saw to cut out a bunch of things for our board game.
- Watched Hitchcock’s Vertigo in my American lit class—a colossal waste of time but also a welcome diversion.
- Had another one of those “sit at a table and crit your peers” in Burleigh’s class. It went ok.
- Conducted several team meetings and stayed up very late and talked on the phone a lot and made many trips to various printers.
- Worked hard on team stuff, all week, pretty much every waking minute of the day.
We had our last saturday morning art class this past weekend. The semester was, as always, a great time.
Clark Kent flow..via GQ..
The fit of this look sums up everything awful about #menswear, in my opinion. It is unflattering and gross-looking in almost every way possible. Ever heard of the English drape cut, you creeps?