Way back in 2018 there was a Magritte exhibit at the SFMOMA which included digital mirrors.
For its Spring 2018 special exhibition, “Rene Magritte: The Fifth Season,” SFMOMA asked frog to help them create an “Interpretive Gallery” in which museum visitors could further experience “the paradoxes at work in reality” that Magritte explored in his late-career work.
I enjoyed myself.
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Tagged 2018, art, California, mirrors, museum, SFMOMA, window
Special thanks to my trusty assistant Leah.
What exactly are they doing up there at CCRMA? Why does the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics have a cage? Is it for bad bad grad students?
I’ve been looking for a cage ever since my bestie DD gave me this shirt. Finally!
I have Photoshop and I can do five things with it. Here they are. Note: I have no idea how I did thing #3.
Special thanks to my trusty assistant Velda – who steadied the cage and promised to call an ambulance if I knocked it over while trying to get back out.
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I’ve been searching for awhile for someone who would let me try to fit in a cello case. It’s a big ask since a cello often is worth more than my car. Sonja M. offered up her case.
Here we go!
Are you mesmerized by my cello eyes?
Hmmm…. not as simple as it first appeared.
One more shot.
Perhaps delicate Emilie will fit better.
Squish! Squeeze!
Try, try again. Mischa V. has the case for me.
My neck should fit there.
This is not as comfortable as it looks.
Why is this so difficult?
Well folks, this is as good as it gets.
For now…
Thanks to my trusty assistants Sonja, Emilie, the Pokorny brothers, and the Neave Piano Trio.
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Tagged 2014, cello, cello case, cello eyes, Emilie Choi, Mikhail Veselove, Neave Trio, Sonja Myklebust
What’s behind door number one?
What’s behind door number three?
It’s a cello, it’s a Sara, it’s a Nina Lee!
Special thanks to my trusty assistants Tiffani, Drew, Nick, and Kim.
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Tagged 2014, California, cello, cello locker, instrument locker, locker, locker 337, Nina Lee
LOOK WHAT I FOUND!
I can fit in there and there and there and there and there.
THANK YOU and extra hugs to art director / photographer extraordinaire / trusty assistant Velda.
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Tagged 2013, cabinet, California, campus clean-up day, desk, filing cabinet, harp case, junk, loading dock, shelf, trash pile
The marimba is musical instrument in the percussion family. It consists of a set of wooden bars with resonators. The bars are struck with mallets to produce musical tones. The bars are arranged as those of a piano, with the accidentals raised vertically and overlapping the natural bars (similar to a piano) to aid the performer both visually and physically. This instrument is a type of xylophone, but with broader and lower tonal range and resonators.
Also, a marimba is delivered in a 500 lb. box.
Big thanks to my trusty assistant Kevin.
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Tagged 2013, bike bruise on my calf, California, loading dock, marimba, marimba box, Marimba One, Music, Musical instrument, Percussion, Stanford
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Thanks to the crew!
Jenn James – photographer
& Stella on Props & Wardrobe.
Cast: Jason, Steph, Sara, Brian, Molly, Carrie
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Tagged 2011, Honda Civic, Kristy, Minneapolis, parking garage, people bound and gagged, people in a trunk, trunk, Vicky's Secret, Victoria's Secret
The Back Story:
Late one night in the parking garage of a theater where I used to work, I saw The Angel Chair sitting in the corner near a maintenance closet. It was inexplicably weird — so bright, so green, so covered in creepy angels. In an uncontrollable fit of greed I stole the chair, smuggling it out in the back seat covered with a blanket. The next day, overcome with guilt (imagining the grief someone must be feeling due to its sudden disappearance), I returned with the abducted cathedra. I confessed what I had done to the man in the pay booth. He said they have a bunch of chairs for the valet parking attendants and that no one probably even noticed and this is not a chair of any special importance (NOT SPECIAL?!?) He said I could have it so I took it home again, this time with a clear conscience.
Who made The Angel Chair? Is the project finished? There are empty spaces that could fit a few more cherubic faces or stylized fruits. Is it intentionally ugly or is this an expression of the artist’s true aesthetic? Is the smattering of silver glitter supposed to be ironic?
There were chips in the paint and some of the stickers, excuse me appliques, were peeling off. Also whoever crafted this glorious example of Decoupage had neglected to the bottom rungs. So I painted the bottom in my favorite electric blue, re-glued the loose angels, and covered the whole thing in several coats of indestructible polyurethane so that The Angel Chair can survive a zombie &/or nuclear holocaust and beyond into eternity for the enjoyment of any remaining humans or cockroaches.
The Angel Chair really creeps out My Man. In fact he calls it The Punishment Chair, which isn’t nearly as fun as it sounds. I used to keep the chair in my little office and whenever we had to discuss finances or bills or something stressfully marital that is where he sat. Hence the punishment.
Now The Angel Chair has a prominent place in the entryway and LUCKY US we get to look at it EVERY DAY whenever we want to use the door. Yay!!!
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Tagged 2012, Angel Chair, angel stickers, angels, appliques, California, chair, craftiness, crafts, Decoupage, furniture, green chair, green socks, punishment chair, Seating, ugly
As I easily fit in the Ordway stage manager console, I thought the Guthrie console would be no problem. Sadly, I’m just not bendy enough.
Thank you Jenn for taking pictures!
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Tagged 2011, cabinet, flamingo dress, Guthrie, Minneapolis, Stage management, Stage Manager, stage manager's console
I Can Fit In There 