This Is That Way →
My friend Dan-O has a new show on WFCM Williamstown, Wednesdays 8:00–10:00 p.m. (EST). If his debut show this week is any indicator, this is a can’t miss.
We had a great Fourth of July. Ferry Building Farmer’s Market then caught an afternoon game at AT&T Park. Here’s the view from the right field upper deck. Great view of the stadium, score board, Bay Bridge and marina. More pics are over at Flickr.
Leaving North Adams
In just under one hour I will check my baggage at the Albany airport, present a one-way ticket to the TSA, sedate Stella, and fly to San Francisco, my new home. That’s right, after spending the the first three decades of my life in New England, I’m about to begin my fourth as a West Coaster.
Back in October, Lex moved to San Francisco to take her dream job as the Executive Director of SOMArts Cultural Center. Since then we’ve been holding down a long-distance relationship, taking turns flying across the country to see each other. It sucked, especially after April, when we got engaged.
The museum is being incredibly gracious and I’ll be staying on as the design director, working remotely with the staff and flying back for installations and other high-stress events. I am excited to keep up my relationship with what I think is one of the best (and coolest) museum’s in the country.
So, to continue a tradition I’ve had every time I’ve moved (5 times in the last 5 years!), I present you with my miss/wont-miss list:
Things I’ll miss about North Adams: drinking beers at The Mohawk after our live events; the spinach wrap, the lunch bagel, and the “Brew Ha Ha Salad” at Brew Ha Ha; the Planet Fitness lunk alarm; the sight of Mount Greylock when I return to North Adams after a trip; hiking and snow showing in the Berkshires; fall foliage; have dinners with my great friends; trivia night at the PNA; karaoke at Cafe Latino; being in reasonable driving distance to my family and friends in Hartford and my friends in Brooklyn; living an apartment that is five times the size and two-thirds the cost of the studio apartment we’ll have in San Francisco; going to shows in Northampton; the day-to-day interactions with the staff and resident artists at MoCA.
Things I won’t miss about North Adams: being in a long-distance relationship; the winter—it’s nice at first, but it never ends and I felt trapped; being in a long-distance relationship; my weird and slightly overbearing landlord; being in a long-distance relationship; the lunks at Planet Fitness (who flaunt the everpresent lunk alarm); being in a long-distance relationship; the lack of good, affordable cuisine; being in a long-distance relationship; the lack of veggie burgers at Big Y; and did I mention how much it sucks being in a long-distance relationship?
Stay classy, North Adams.
Later on, North Adams.
The awesome Andrew Kuo has a few works in This Is Killing Me—a group show curated by recent Williams MFA grad and soon-to-be MCA Chicagoan Diana Nawi—which we opened last weekend. It’s a small show, but one that a graphic designer can get a lot of pleasure from since almost all of the artists deal with typography in some way. I’m also partial to the work of Shana Lutker, another artist in the show. Looking at her website just now I noticed that we went to college together at almost the same time. (I graduated a year later.) Cool.
“The Chapter In Your Life Entitled San Francisco” by The Lucksmiths (RIP).
Dinner Party Download →
My friends over at Public Radio Redux turned me onto this great new podcast. As the weather turns warmer, this podcast has been great company on my walk to work—and it has me juiced for the dinner parties Lex and I will be attending in San Francisco.
Video for Grizzly Bear’s “Two Weeks.” Directed by Patrick Daughters.
The Tallest Man on Earth - The Gardener - A Take Away Show
Anyone who has spent more than five minutes with me over the past year knows about the Sol LeWitt retrospective. I’ve finally gotten around to posting pictures of some of the collateral I created for the show, which will be in our galleries for the next twenty-five years. The base of the design is the simple, geometric letterforms of Avant Garde Gothic as well as the usage of the primary colors (plus black)—both are an homage to LeWitt’s dogmatic use of color and form (in his early and mid-career work, at least).
Advance copies of the catalogue arrived this week and when the book goes on sale to a broader audience next month I’ll post pics of that, too. I’m anxiously looking forward to the response to that!
