ethan feuer // new work
well, it’s christmas eve. i feel terrible. i started a project called liminal. you should check it out. i’ll be adding to it as i damn well please. (that is, desperately often, in a brazen attempt to defer beginning the third draft of metabolism. ) really lousy.
well, after around two months of shuffling my feet, i’ve finished anna karenina. personally, my interest dropped off dramatically after about 200,000 words (or, you know, halfway) and i found it hard to come to terms with a resolution that i felt bore little or no relation to the substantive action of the book. but then again, i’m really not in a position to criticize leo tolstoy.
anyway, speaking of shuffling your feet, if you’re planning to do that, you should do it to the song “ripe” by givers, which is the only song i can bring to mind which begins with something resembling “chopsticks” and winds up in a kind of orgiastic explosion. (truthfully, though, how many can there be?)
i’m sorry to say i don’t have a raft of pictures soaked deep in the spanish sun to share with you (i’m waiting until i get access to a computer that has a screen larger than a postage stamp), but i’ll share a few just to be sociable. hope you’re all grand!
remember that time i was back in boston to watch a chamber music performance at wellesley? yes, me too. it was last weekend. in the process, i also got to visit waltham (the aforementioned “watch city”), which was, as always, spectacularly brick and charmingly unpolished. while in the area, the fam and i also made a visit to the (relatively) new ICA museum (by diller scofidio renfro). it was a very nice building, formally speaking, if somewhat marred and marooned by a gigantic eyesore of a parking lot splat in front of any pedestrian approach from the city. like other DS+R buildings i’ve seen, it had various rounded corners, nice interiors, jagged edges, and conspicuous omissions. one particularly notable omission was detailing. almost all the exterior glass i ran into was handled more or less entirely with grout. that’s basically okay on the ground-level street facade, but it’s an odd choice for that leaning box thingy that hangs out over the water, 15 meters in the air. because when that grout cracks in five or ten years’ exposure to that salty sea air, it’s going to be really un-fun to replace those windows. there was also the strange matter of having one level of gallery for a four-level building. that seems to be a growing trend (thanks, sanaa!). but anyway, gripes aside, a very handsome and engaging building. and it really tried to give something back to the waterfront and the public space that lines it, so that’s admirable. awesome floorevator too.
in other news, i’m planning for the trip to spain. this will no doubt be epically spectacular. i also finished draft two of graphic novel two. it’s definitely made strides in the right direction, but it’s also got at least a few more drafts to go. hopefully the next one (or two, or three) won’t take two months apiece. fingers crossed! photos:
hey hey ladies n gents,
i hope you’re all spectacular-fantacular! for a few weeks now i’ve been back in the heartland of our great and greedy capitalistic sinpit: new jersey! it’s kind of funny that the things that the united states is most reviled for abroad (at least in france) is the same property that is its most successful cultural export…consumerism! people sure do love buying stuff. and it is with that in mind that i celebrate my reacclimation to the land of $48,000 per year advanced education, walmart, joanie loves chachi, and sanctioned individual rights of corporations to donate to political campaigns! at least i’m glad sometimes. despite all its problems, i do (at heart) <3 the us.
to celebrate my triumphant return, i’ve done a few sketches of real, live, imaginary american people. mostly with a view to developing a “new” style for the next graphic novel. there’s a lot of decisions to be made…! (click to enlarge thumbnails!)
