One of the things I love doing is poking around art galleries. There’s something very peaceful about wandering around a quiet room, looking at stuff and evaluating it.
As I mention in the video, I recently went to see “Intensely Dutch” at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (New South Wales is the state in which I live; Sydney is the capital. No one knows why it has such a dumb name.)
A lot of the small art galleries I’ve been to feature only one artist; he/she sets up a shop to try and sell her stuff. I’ve seen lots of art that I like, and have always wondered about buying a painting or drawing or something. But one question, the big question, has always had me stumped.
How much?
Obviously there are no price tags on any art anywhere. You’re expected to look at it, and come up with a price yourself. But what’s reasonable? I mean, if I offer an artist twenty bucks for his painting is he going to be insulted? Or is he going to take it as a compliment that I’m looking to purchase his stuff.
Seriously, I’m not trying to be funny. If someone has done a sketch that has taken him all of half an hour to do, is it at all within the realms of possibility that he’d say “yeah, you can have it for twenty, do u need a bag for it?”
I’m not looking at starting an art collection (but depending on how cheap everyone thinks I can buy art for, I might!); I’ve just wondered the answer to this question for a while.
And it’s not as if artists have a brochure with price tags on it. (Or is it? As far as I know that is the case.)
We’d planned on returning Saturday, two days ago, but there have been floods all along the coast, and we were stuck in Coffs Harbour longer than we had expected. All a lot of fun though.
Thanks to Eldert, Rose, Marci and Michelle for having us, particularly for the extra nights!
Shan’t go into too much detail, like I said, it’s late (10:57 in fact); we were on the road for the best part of 12 hours!
Here’s another podcast that I recorded at Korea. It’s in English this time, and is about motivation for learning languages.
http://www.languagecast.net/?p=758
I haven’t been online for a while; I’ve had sore wrists.
Anyone who knows me will know how much bother my wrists give me, I went to the doctor last week and it’s actually tendonitis. Caused by too much blogging/video making/musicking! So I’ve been taking it easy.
Off to Coffs Harbour to see the extended family this week, so I hope to be back to regular programming next week!
One of the things I was looking forward to was participating in Sun Hyunwoo’s LanguageCast.net podcast. Here’s the first one I recorded. It’s in Chinese. 请收听罗老师录的。
The charger for our camera is in either one of 6 boxes we sent home, or somewhere in the depths of the bag we’ve been dragging around Seoul… suffice it to say we can’t find it, and am unable to take photos of any of the interesting stuff we’ve seen or has happened…
Luckily it seems that everyone in Seoul has a really cool camera and knows how to use it, so check my facebook profile for photos that people have tagged of me and Aika!
I couldn’t work out how to download them, so I’m not able to post any here, but here’s one I took off Picasa.
It was taken in front of what a grassy area in front of what I think was the Korean parliament, on a fine sunny day.
It’s funny how the sky, which has been brown or browny-blue for so much of our stay in Shanghai has been a bright azure for most of our stay in Seoul.
We left China in such a hurry, so it’s nice to be in Korea. It’s so much quieter! Met everyone from LanguageCast.net which was great. I knew who everyone was, everyone knew who I was, so there were big heads all around.
Anyway, please look forward to more grammatically incorrect posts as the week progresses, 안녕!
Ed originally requested “This Town Ain’t Big Enough for Both of Us” by Sparks, and if you have a listen to that wacky tune, you’ll know how relieved he was that I had another suggestion. Not that it’s a bad song, it just would have taken a lot of time for me to work out all the changes… I would have needed a calculator to work out the time signature.
Don’t know much about Sparks other than what Wikipedia tells me… This track is apparently off “Kimono My House”… they were formed by some brothers…
I’m always worried when I do obscure bands that some die hard fans will be disappointed at how I’ve crucified their favourite song… if anyone finds this version insulting to the original, I can only apologise and say that I didn’t mean it!
I DID cut it down a bit, I couldn’t keep it going for as long as Sparks do in their original version.
Anyway, hope you like it.
As always, feel free to request a song in a comment!
I’d never heard of Sparks before Ed requested them, but they’re quite interesting aren’t they!
