Vandalism or a reaction to perceived bad art?
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Friday, November 21, 2008
Thursday, November 20, 2008
That eerie building again!
I sneaked into that building again (see In a Hanoi university). Again that eerie feeling. Would that door be chained and locked behind me? And I'd be left in this deserted, dusty and dirty building? I heard some group singing but that could come from outside.
Some sculptures I had seen looked different. So they ARE work in progress! Other sculptures in the corridor were no longer there and I noticed that the floor had been swept. But of course this run down building was in use, just not on a Sunday.
Nearby, my daughter had a drawing class in a cleaner building for boarding students. On the regulations board, among the things prohibited was "psychological warfare materials from the enemy".
Elsewhere in the university, there was an exhibition of huge paintings. Streets and public places in Hanoi with busy traffic but not the vaguest hint of human beings. These were interspersed with paintings of war planes and tanks. Human beings were on separate canvases - huge expressive heads...
Having fun with a digital camera
I happened to borrow a little digital camera from a friend to play with. Somehow the menu was all in Japanese and I was happily snapping away with the default settings. This camera being so slow, with flash and all I could not know exactly what I took, unlike with an SLR camera. Well, I liked what came out - like rediscovering flash with slow speed with the added benefits of instant results and zero cost - so I kept snapping. Somehow, I captured the vivacity of our 3.5 year-old daughter Suni.
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