Random Thoughts: The Return
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What's the deal with E+Z anyway? Is it just the "plugged-in" equivalent of Kozi's unplugged shows, where he does pretty much anything from his career?
Most likely, yeah. And he might actually have written some of the music for this live (which was 3 songs in total).
TBH I am not super familiar with his discography, so I can't really tell you, especially given that he has about 10 million bands lol. But yes, it is 'plugged-in' and he ended his set with Color Me Blood Red, which I got really hyped for.
I did buy their merch (which was a flash drive with E// +Z lives etc on it... 3000+yen), so I'll report back with some sort of insight.
I know, I know, shelling out my hard-earned money for a FLASH DRIVE is fucking nuts given that it's over 3000yen, but that was the only thing they had. :p Had they had anything else like a shirt or something, I would've just bought that lol
So I had more than a bit of a scare today: got in a painting of an archangel in the Cuzco style here, and it arrived in grievous condition:
It was covered in some sort of scuffing or scraping:
But it turned out that it was actually just dirt that could be carefully wiped off using some makeup pads and distilled water:
And in fact the entire painting seems to have been covered in more of that same grime, just not as obviously. I wonder if it was cigarette smoke from a century in France or what. After cleaning it fairly thoroughly, the final result turned out quite well:
I was lucky though - nobody seems to know anything about how to clean unvarnished oil paintings, it's effectively luck of the draw. Older paintings such as this one (19th century) are fairly indestructible, but modern oils seem to be capricious and poorly understood. It's an active area of research just to figure out whether water or mineral oil is the best thing to use on contemporary paintings.
If it happens to be varnished, on the other hand, you can scrub it down with any number of commercially available salves, like so:
The moral: varnish your paintings, I guess. It was never an option on this particular piece though, due to the impasto elements.
It was covered in some sort of scuffing or scraping:
But it turned out that it was actually just dirt that could be carefully wiped off using some makeup pads and distilled water:
And in fact the entire painting seems to have been covered in more of that same grime, just not as obviously. I wonder if it was cigarette smoke from a century in France or what. After cleaning it fairly thoroughly, the final result turned out quite well:
I was lucky though - nobody seems to know anything about how to clean unvarnished oil paintings, it's effectively luck of the draw. Older paintings such as this one (19th century) are fairly indestructible, but modern oils seem to be capricious and poorly understood. It's an active area of research just to figure out whether water or mineral oil is the best thing to use on contemporary paintings.
If it happens to be varnished, on the other hand, you can scrub it down with any number of commercially available salves, like so:
The moral: varnish your paintings, I guess. It was never an option on this particular piece though, due to the impasto elements.
I actually saw an understudy get called in today - went to see Bernard Shaw's "Arms and the Man" and the lead actress just keeled over in the first act. They had to bring up the lights, call for a doctor from the audience, and so on, and the understudy performed the rest of the role.
It seemed almost like it was a known possibility - the other actor very quickly gathered her up and carried her offstage, without all the fumbling and bumbling and "Are you OK?" you'd expect after a surprise collapse. At any rate, she was supposedly fine in the end (although that was the last we saw of her) and would be resuming her role this evening.
It seemed almost like it was a known possibility - the other actor very quickly gathered her up and carried her offstage, without all the fumbling and bumbling and "Are you OK?" you'd expect after a surprise collapse. At any rate, she was supposedly fine in the end (although that was the last we saw of her) and would be resuming her role this evening.