Party, Japanese art, British humor
Jun. 12th, 2026 11:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eve_primeToday was delightfully different. I accidentally slept in, then rushed out the door to go to the Psych Department’s celebration for this year’s PhD graduates. I arrived late and ended up leaving without talking to anyone, but I got a nice email later from my friend E, who was one of them.
Then I went to the university art museum to see the exhibit of strange artworks by Aoshima Chiho. Eventually I found only two of her works – quite large ones – in among the other modern Japanese artworks. So cool!
One of them was “Magma Spirit Explodes. Tsunami is Dreadful,” which, on this Sotheby page, looks like two pieces, but it’s just one long one, with the fiery part on the left and the watery part on the right. https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2019/contemporary-art-online/dd510f51-5047-4af6-9cea-4cabef644cc6
Here’s the other one. I can’t remember its name, and this link doesn’t say, but it’s got greenery and water on the left, a spirit, a cemetery, and finally a crashed noodle shop delivery girl, which you can see as you scroll to the right. https://www.instagram.com/p/DQnDwYND0mS/?img_index=1
When I got home, it was time to vote for movie night. The choices were the first Mr. Bean movie, the second National Treasure movie, and a British dark comedy called Death at a Funeral that I hadn’t heard of before. I really don’t need to see more of Mr. Bean – I’m happiest with Rowan Atkinson when he’s using his verbal wit – and I wanted to see either of the other two. I voted for the one I most wanted (National Treasure 2) and was delighted when the tie-breaker rule meant the lowest-vote movie would be the one we’d see. So we watched Death at a Funeral. And it was great! My feeling is, any movie where the premise is “Alan Tudyk inadvertently takes a strange drug” is going to be great fun, and there was so much more to it than that.
Then I went to the university art museum to see the exhibit of strange artworks by Aoshima Chiho. Eventually I found only two of her works – quite large ones – in among the other modern Japanese artworks. So cool!
One of them was “Magma Spirit Explodes. Tsunami is Dreadful,” which, on this Sotheby page, looks like two pieces, but it’s just one long one, with the fiery part on the left and the watery part on the right. https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2019/contemporary-art-online/dd510f51-5047-4af6-9cea-4cabef644cc6
Here’s the other one. I can’t remember its name, and this link doesn’t say, but it’s got greenery and water on the left, a spirit, a cemetery, and finally a crashed noodle shop delivery girl, which you can see as you scroll to the right. https://www.instagram.com/p/DQnDwYND0mS/?img_index=1
When I got home, it was time to vote for movie night. The choices were the first Mr. Bean movie, the second National Treasure movie, and a British dark comedy called Death at a Funeral that I hadn’t heard of before. I really don’t need to see more of Mr. Bean – I’m happiest with Rowan Atkinson when he’s using his verbal wit – and I wanted to see either of the other two. I voted for the one I most wanted (National Treasure 2) and was delighted when the tie-breaker rule meant the lowest-vote movie would be the one we’d see. So we watched Death at a Funeral. And it was great! My feeling is, any movie where the premise is “Alan Tudyk inadvertently takes a strange drug” is going to be great fun, and there was so much more to it than that.
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Date: 2026-06-13 09:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-06-14 12:18 am (UTC)I love your tie-breaker rule. :)