February 23, 2005
Yep. The dog sure is happy to see me. Evan and I and Daniella got some Korean barbeque and bickered a little ( I actually enjoyed the bickering, it was like a familial sort of bickering that I don't get as often as I should, living all alone dans la belle province)
I was supposed to exit the train at Guildwood but for some reason it didn't stop long enough for me to put on my shoes and get my coat off the rack, then the two concierge's yelled at me for being a slow-poke and I watched my dad get out of the car in the parking lot and look confused, as the train picked up speed and headed into downtown TO.
We called him later from Evans and he said he arrived and pulled into his spot and the train had stopped and by the time he had killed the engine and stepped out of his car it was moving again, so I guess the engineer had a bit of a lead foot.
Toronto, it just moves to quickly for its own good.
I am doing research on leadership and on-line arts audiances.
heady stuff. phewf.
One article from the vancouver sun 2000 is about a site that was called Artstar.com
"Artstar.com, the Internets's first art mega-site, had 2.2 million hits in the first four weeks following its launch in October... here visitors can research information on art take virtual tours of famous galleries and museums, buy art and antiques, arrange to have a painting restored or an heirloom appraised, take part in a lecture series, buy a rare art book, or even learn to appraise, restore or preserve works of art for themselves, all at the same location."
Okay not only is that a run-on sentence, but artstar.com sounds like the Bad Boys (arcane toronto reference) furniture warehouse of culture.
Funnily enough the first major collection auctioned at artstar.com was 12,000 coca-cola artifacts.
I just erased a pseudo-academic sentence where I lined up some theoretical ducks and then shot them all down. You know high/low art, cultural artifacts in a post capitalist economy, the revenge of kitsch, learning from las vegas that whole thing.... blah blah. Oh look, the sentence is back again, how did that happen?
So what are the good people at Artstar doing now? Well, go check it out.
oh well. ars longa, vita brevis.
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