Saturday, March 28, 2015

Art in Life

Friends ask me, are you doing Art?  I see Art these days from the corner of my eye, as it darts, streaks, comet like. My little one:
  • I showed her a Charlie Chaplain film and she said, "Buster Keaton is better, Daddy", and settled a longstanding open question.
  • She called me once during work and said, "I saw the Girl with Pearl Earring, Daddy", meaning the puristic painting, not the book or movie. 
  • She watched a street drummer in SF and said, "He is not good Daddy, he doesnt sweat like Satchmo", because I told her, you have to sweat to do great. 
  • She recognized the Joan Miro in de Young and said, "Woman!". 

Research Days

Nisheeth Vishnoi, (whenever I see him, I am reminded that thoughts --- do and have to --- run ultra deep in research), is organizing this year's Research Day at EPFL, Lausanne, June 30, poster on the left. 

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Sunday, March 01, 2015

Few Good Lines

Over the past few weeks, people asked me for few lines on ...
  • The best line from a movie, "Boards don't hit back". 
  • On Valentines': every time I would buy coffee beans,  I would buy a  new kind and I would come downstairs in the morning, grind them, make myself a cup, make sure it tasted ok, before the rest of the family woke up. 
  • On Family: Spending 3 hrs washing, wiping, drying and transporting $100 IKEA wood tiles, doing it together as a family. 
  • On Being a Parent: When you are any fraction x into the hike, be prepared for the remaining 1-x, to carry the food, drink, jackets, and her scooter on your back, and your kid on your shoulder while she sings "Let it go". 

Weekend Update

What was my saturday like? I made myself some black coffee and pancakes. I couldnt bring myself to read the news, far too many unfolding events in the world had the potential to distract me. Instead, I washed, sanded and primed the roughly 50ft X 5 ft fence. I needed something on the sidewalk to catch the drips and decided to buy a weekend WSJ. And while I may have been Tom and the art of painting is a lustrous seductive, no neighbors volunteered to swap their treasures for my brush. And when I was done, I cleaned up with thinners, choosing to leave some white primer on my beard, which no one noticed.