ah, bliss. What I needed was to go to the gym, hear some bad music, waste my negative energy on chrome steel machines and see some lily white asses in the shower room.
Who are you!?! Those are Schiele paintings you have as icons!! WHO ARE YOU and WHERE DID YOU FIND OUT ABOUT HIM!?! I have met exactly two people since I discovered Schiele accidentally who knew anything about him. You're #2.
no, no interest search. in fact, when I looked at your interests to see if he was listed, I couldn't find him. but maybe I just missed the name.
and sorry, I go a little nuts when I find someone else who knows him. I work at the Met Museum of Art as a guard and the first person who asked me about him was (luckily) my age, and obviously a painter. I grabbed his sleeve and started shaking him and said, "there are none here! why are there none here? why!?" and he kinda smiled and said he didn't know. I told him where to find some in another museum.
I'm not really sure whose journal I found you through, it might have been weetanya's, lorigami's, sifueireman's, thessalian's...I just don't remember.
C'mon, spill!
Ok, and tell me why you picked those specific paintings for your icons, eh?
AHH... i know Thess, so it must have been through her.
The icon I call "man" is on the cover of a Quebecois novel i was reading... and the icon called "Teen" was from an article in The Guardian about Schiele's life... and the icon "Woman" comes from a book my boyfriend Kevin has. My boyfriend loves Schiele (more than me I think) and actually draws similarly to him... I think I chose these three because I like their faces, their look...
I have never seen one of his paintings live, but I would love to... would you know if there are any in London?
Yeah, I think he might just be my favorite. I know of nowhere to see him in London, but you're so close to the continent that please, please, PLEASE go to the Mach (sp?) in Vienna someday and see their collection and tell me what you think.
ih... long story. I was born in South Africa to an English father and a Brazilian mom... lived there until I was 6... then moved to brazil for 10 years, then singapore for a year and a half, two years in Hong Kong, 5 years in Canada, one year back in Brazil and now 2 years in England!!
Wow! Why South Africa, of all places, with parents of those countries? You sound like my friend who was a UN doctor's daughter.
I'm boring, born and raised in Florida (although that is a bit of an oddity!), moved to Minnesota after college to go to grad school (didn't), then moved to NYC 11 months ago.
Do you speak Portuguese? oh yeah, and why Singapore?
yeah, portuguese is my first language! My dad worked for Bayer (big German multinational) and they sent him around the world to work on managing their factories... so we trailed along. We moved back to Brazil when I was a kid because my mom missed her family and hated South Africa's apartheid (i was born in the middle of it.)
After I finished highschool in Hong Kong, I went to Canada for University. There, I met my boyfriend Kevin... but then my student visa ran out and I had to move back to Brazil. But because Kevin has an Irish passport (and I have an English one, thanks to my dad) we decided to move to England and... here we are!
How's it like living in New York? It's one of my favourite cities. I was there for only a week once, but I loved it.
NYC is really neat. An ex of mine visited once while we were still dating and said that I'd probably like to visit, but not live here - well, he was certainly wrong! Now I just need to be making more money so I don't feel worried about spending "too much" money going out.
Portuguese is nearly like nothing I've ever heard before. I understand some Spanish and was lucky enough to work with a woman who spoke Brazilian Portuguese and at the same time to work at a site with someone from Portugal, so the Brazilian organized for me to hear the two of them speaking together so I could hear the difference. It was really interesting! I love languages and accents, it's an amateur hobby of mine, figuring out where people are from by their accents.
I'd love to go to England. I just bought Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman, and it has a map of the Underground at the beginning. It was neat b/c Thess frequently mentions certain stops and I located them on the map. I'm absolutely in love with accents from the UK (but that's no surprise). They're one of my favorite to do, although my Irish was tinged b/c I couldn't quite get the one down by the Irish guy I knew b/c he'd spent a lot of time in Liverpool. It kept falling into Scottish, which is really easy.
Anyway, I've talked your ear off. You're so lucky to have travelled so widely!
hehe... thanks! at the time, it didn't feel so lucky. I had to leave my friends behind in Brazil when I was 16 and move to Singapore... and I had to go to an English speaking school when I had been speaking mostly Brazilian Portuguese... it was tough.
oh, and though he painted a large amount in the roughly 12 years he was active before he died, a great many of them are in private collections, so it's difficult to view them outside of a few public institutions. Vienna has the one and there is one here in NYC, possibly two (I can't remember if someone told me about a second gallery here or not) called Neue Gallerie, that has them. But you know what I discovered? I'm not so sure I like the idea, but you can get museum quality repros for relatively cheap ($300-sev K) online. I would prefer to see the finished product before I plunk that much down, and how do they get the brushstrokes right? I dunno...it makes me a little nervous.
you are serious? That is a huge gamble... in any case, I wouldn't want a piece in my home that was Schiele done by somebody else... i'd rather buy a poster!
Yeah, but his pieces are enormously expensive and difficult to get. But I agree with you. I had contemplated it for about, oh, three seconds before I decided no way!
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on 2003-11-08 05:10 am (UTC)I'll keep the mystery for now...
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on 2003-11-08 07:30 am (UTC)and sorry, I go a little nuts when I find someone else who knows him. I work at the Met Museum of Art as a guard and the first person who asked me about him was (luckily) my age, and obviously a painter. I grabbed his sleeve and started shaking him and said, "there are none here! why are there none here? why!?" and he kinda smiled and said he didn't know. I told him where to find some in another museum.
I'm not really sure whose journal I found you through, it might have been
C'mon, spill!
Ok, and tell me why you picked those specific paintings for your icons, eh?
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on 2003-11-09 02:30 am (UTC)The icon I call "man" is on the cover of a Quebecois novel i was reading... and the icon called "Teen" was from an article in The Guardian about Schiele's life... and the icon "Woman" comes from a book my boyfriend Kevin has. My boyfriend loves Schiele (more than me I think) and actually draws similarly to him... I think I chose these three because I like their faces, their look...
I have never seen one of his paintings live, but I would love to... would you know if there are any in London?
Is he your favourite painter?
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on 2003-11-10 09:21 am (UTC)So where are you from?
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on 2003-11-10 09:27 am (UTC)what about you?
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on 2003-11-10 09:34 am (UTC)I'm boring, born and raised in Florida (although that is a bit of an oddity!), moved to Minnesota after college to go to grad school (didn't), then moved to NYC 11 months ago.
Do you speak Portuguese? oh yeah, and why Singapore?
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on 2003-11-11 01:38 am (UTC)After I finished highschool in Hong Kong, I went to Canada for University. There, I met my boyfriend Kevin... but then my student visa ran out and I had to move back to Brazil. But because Kevin has an Irish passport (and I have an English one, thanks to my dad) we decided to move to England and... here we are!
How's it like living in New York? It's one of my favourite cities. I was there for only a week once, but I loved it.
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on 2003-11-11 07:21 am (UTC)Portuguese is nearly like nothing I've ever heard before. I understand some Spanish and was lucky enough to work with a woman who spoke Brazilian Portuguese and at the same time to work at a site with someone from Portugal, so the Brazilian organized for me to hear the two of them speaking together so I could hear the difference. It was really interesting! I love languages and accents, it's an amateur hobby of mine, figuring out where people are from by their accents.
I'd love to go to England. I just bought Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman, and it has a map of the Underground at the beginning. It was neat b/c Thess frequently mentions certain stops and I located them on the map. I'm absolutely in love with accents from the UK (but that's no surprise). They're one of my favorite to do, although my Irish was tinged b/c I couldn't quite get the one down by the Irish guy I knew b/c he'd spent a lot of time in Liverpool. It kept falling into Scottish, which is really easy.
Anyway, I've talked your ear off. You're so lucky to have travelled so widely!
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on 2003-11-11 07:25 am (UTC)Can I add you to my friends list?
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on 2003-11-10 09:16 am (UTC)Camillia is prolly horrid in bed
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on 2003-11-11 01:45 am (UTC)poor bastards. They should give up the whole thing and try to be normal.
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