Cutting the card (not as) quickly

Santa Monica is both spread out and compact. Commerce is restricted to major boulevards interspersed with large of residential neighborhoods. There's an Interstate that cuts the city in half, and the expected industrial and office park districts alongside. And yet, from my house in 10 minutes, in various directions, I can walk to a park, a supermarket, a few drug stores, restaurants, beautiful streets for jogging or strolling. A little farther out on today's walk I came to Bergamot Station and the Santa Monica Museum of Art. On display in various galleries was top notch art, mostly contemporary, in a beautiful post-industrial post-railroad setting.

Having worked at the MIT Museum for the past five years I gained an appreciation for the strobe photography of Harold Edgerton. So it was a surprise and a joy to see a pastiche of his work in the Hugh Brown "Allegedly: New Chainsaw Works" exhibit alongside pastiches of Duchamp, Mapplethorpe, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Pollock, etc. Brown does a great job of mimicking the styles of 20th century artists, creating new artworks about or including a chainsaw. For the Edgerton, he took the image of a card cut in half by a bullet and cut it instead with a chainsaw, but with what appears to be excellent high speed strobe photography technique.



Doc Edgerton's Cutting the Card, Quickly, courtesy of Edgerton Digital Collections


Hugh Brown's Harold Edgerton [Cutting the Card (not as) Quickly, 1964], courtesy of Robert Berman Gallery

Yesterday's run destination: 25th and San Vincente

Yesterday's menu:
breakfast: crepes
lunch: curry leftovers
dinner: Ezra's chickpea dish, with an eminently drinkable Trader Joe's Reserve 1999 Petite Syrah