Just For Fun
#GettyMuseumChallenge
I love the #GettyMuseumChallenge. At the heart of the pandemic lockdown, the Getty Museum invited people to recreate works of art using materials they had on hand at home. Toilet paper, an obsession at the start of the pandemic, was a common prop. Here are the entries my partner and I co-created.
Robin and Paul Revere, by John Singleton Copley, 1768, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Robin and Self Portrait by Romaine Brooks, 1923, Smithsonian American Art Museum
Robin and Alexander, by Ray Cruz, from Judith Viorst, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (Atheneum Books, 1972)
Humanistic Delights
Anita Sarkeesian's lovely video about The Bechdel Test. A film (or any other work of narrative art) passes the Bechdel test if one can answer "yes" to all of the following questions: Does the film include two women (who have names)? Do the women talk to each other? Do the women talk to each other about something other than a man? It's amazing how many films fail this simple test. When a film fails the test, it exposes the fact that the film imagines men as people and women as adjuncts to people. The Bechdel test speaks to my favorite definition of feminism: "Feminism is the radical notion that women are people."
I love Peter Brathwaite's "Rediscovering Black Portraiture," in which he photographs himself re-staging paintings--some well-known, some nearly forgotten--that include Black people.
Fredde Gredde, Wind Waker Unplugged. Soothing, beautiful.
LaWhore Vagistan with Auntie Kool Jams, Sari. When I feel blue, I watch this video, and it always makes me feel better.
Taylor Mac sings Amazing Grace on the streets of San Francisco. I watch this video when I need to feel better about the world.
Non-Jews try Jewish Food, with mixed (but understandable) results.
The Ultimate Dog Tease never fails to make me laugh.
"Dogs Don't Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving," by Allie Brosh. This story made me laugh so hard that tears literally streamed down my face.