mouth full of stars...
Our morning at the San Jose Art Museum was fabulous!! When we arrived we found free weekend parking, and the museum admission was free too! woohoo! It felt like they knew we were coming and it was their gift. ha!
The Nara exhibit was magnificent!! Big huge painted discs (like teacup saucers, but we're talking 10'x10' or so) on the walls, fiberglass heads and the big dog!!! I wish I could have taken a gazillion photos of it all. They had sketches of his in one room, and even a slideshow of his studio, with a boombox playing all the music that inspires him with stacks of cd's next to it. So cool! We were psyched when we heard Seagulls Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her played twice while we were roaming around.
We were up there a long time though because we sat down and looked at quite a few zines at the tables they had set up for the Art of Zine 04 exhibit in the next room. I found some very cool zines and enjoyed looking through probably about 20 different ones out of the 200-300? that they had there on display. Very cool to bring the awareness of the underground/DIY zine scene to the mainstream. (aaww yaa, that rhymed)
p.s. Jem went later that day on her own, and commented on also loving one of my favorite parts of the museum show was some artist had done these big frosted circus animal cookies all over one wall, with a black sheep in the middle. That was great (I love those cookies!!).
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Afterwards we tried to go to what Rick claims to be the best Indian Buffet in the Silicon Valley, but sadly we got there just after their lunch time, and they were closed till dinner! So we went to downtown Mountain View and ate at Pho Hoa. I had Pho for the first time!! It was super yum!!! And perfect for the cold rainy day. I also had Vietnamese iced coffee for the first time and I LOVE IT!! Creamy delish!
We wandered around a bookstore before coming home to take a nap. It was a lovely day!!!
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We'd planned to do some of our creative work in a cafe somewhere afterwards, but we were pooped (hence the nap). However, the inspiration was still burbling inside me, so before I knew it I was cultivating canvases (hech hemm, doodling on bar napkins) at the Mile High Club all night! Here are some of those doodles:
Rick insisted on this one I try to buff up his muscles :) I told him he looks like a T-Bird (from Grease). He complained about his scrawny legs, too - but I explained that bigger ones would only make him look fat or like a meathead, and then delightfully made mine super skinny to offset his :) That's the best part about toons - it's not reality!!!
Rick gives me ideas for what to draw. This was "Draw a monkey with an 8-pack".
Colin looks great on stage.
