Sunset Junction – Updates on the Way
Monday, August 25th, 2008
Suffice to say, it was this type of weekend
We’re working to get our house back to some semblance of the normal mess we live with as opposed to the expensive rental mess we had over the weekend. Our Sunset Junction roundup is coming, inlcuding:
- Our review of Broken Social Scene’s performance
- Other festival reviews and commentary
- Instructions for frying a turkey
- Cocktail suggestions for summer parties
- Of course, some special Junction-themed Handsome Party
Handsome Recommends: James Turrell’s Dividing the Light
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
Art: robot sky versus god sky. Fight!
As promised, a quick recap from Trainzaganza 2008. Once a year Dirty Handsome organizes a train trip to remind everyone that train travel is genteel (more on that later) and that on train trips you can drink as much as you want. Last Saturday we returned to two member’s alma mater Pomona College to view James Turrell’s skyspace “Dividing the Light.” James Turrell is a light artist, which naturally made us a little nervous because that’s a bullshit title like “design athlete” or “yoga instructor.” Also, sometimes it gets hot in Claremont, but we figured it was best to check it out befure students returned as Pretty Handsome is something of a liability around younger women.
Dividing the Light is a courtyard covered by a square canopy illuminated by a series of (environmentally friendly) LEDs. Pictures and more after the jump… (Read on …)