good times. having fun.

It was a long and productive weekend! As mentioned in the last post, my roommate, talented artist LAN TUAZON, had her show opening at Socrates Sculpture Park in a show called the "Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition" which is up and open to the public (FREE ADMISSION) until March 7, 2010. It was an absolutely beautiful day, a great turnout and the day was filled with dogs, kids, artists, and lots of ice cream. Here are some pictures of the work, the buildings which are replicas of New York City Buildings cast in Resin on 3 cement platforms. It looked SO beautiful in the sun and Lan's cute little niece thought that it was candy! The white pieces were cast in plaster and my friend Don and I were manning the booth, selling these replicas like hotcakes (limited 5 pieces per building). The most popular was the Chrysler Building, so detailed and impressive!

We also had a 2-man film crew staying with us in our apartment, from Berlin, Germany. My roommate is one of the protagonists of a documentary that this Berlin production company is working on, about 4 different artists who are participating in a 3-12 month residency in a castle in Stuttgart, Germany. That means Lan is going to be gone for 10 months, and it makes me sad because she was the best roommate I've ever had, but hopefully I will get to visit her and we can run around the castle in tutus and tiaras like princesses. 

crew getting ready for a day of shooting

it took him forever to do that

it looks like he's dancing with the equipment

Well the boys, Marcel and Daniel, were a fun pair. They were very sweet and even though it was weird to have a huge camera and boom microphone around the apartment, and sometimes on you, it was easy to forget that they were there. What was especially nice were the times when they weren't working on the documentary and we could actually talk to them and joke around with them. They were both fun and charming, and definitely left with a bang. Their last night here, we had cake, korean food and Karaoke in the East Village. And even after all of that, we came home and had a 4 person dance party in our apartment! Lan, Daniel and I picked these really great songs that we played off Youtube like classy people, but I'm sorry to say that Marcel's song selection was not so...... danceable? it's okay though. we are not holding it against him, but Lan and I were sore the next day because all we could do to his song choice was plant our feet on the floor, play the air guitar, and throw our head back and forth like rockers.

and this is what having fun looks like

the end.