Thing about opening a gallery is it gives me the opportunity to catch up with other artists. Last week we met with an artist and his wife/manager on their property about 1/2 an hour out of town. They have been together since they were teenagers, he’s now 79. His work spans a 5 decades and includes sales in Europe and Asia he’s also won a few awards over the years. Interesting people who live quite modestly and their small one bedroom cottage is also John’s studio but the 250 hectare property has spectacular views.
He was not exactly what I was expecting, his paintings aren’t always a success (like most of us mortals) but they’re interesting and original we’ve arrange to have a retrospective next July.
Today had the pleasure of seeing another artists studio and how her work has progressed through the years, she’s now 90 and unable to paint. Again she’s been reasonably successful and has work in North America, Europe and Asia. Her goes up on Tuesday with the opening on Wednesday evening along side year 12 high school students work.
Everyone calls a personal message an ‘app’ here. Shock horror.
An app is surely the application on one’s device and not the message one sends?!
It’s nice to have chats about these kind of items but not to get into heated disputes. It’s not worth it. Relations always more important than truth. Well is it or not?
I was working for a US company around the turn of the century and went to a meeting where everyone was talking about IT. I sat there shaking my head in agreement with my boss and colleagues for about an hour as soon as it was over I raced to phone a friend to find out what IT meant. Felt like a fool when I found out.
I sat through weeks of meetings with our Finance Director talking about some guy called Ian Why. I thought this Ian must be important he keeps getting mentioned.
A few weeks later I asked someone in his team who is this bloke called Ian Why mentioned in the meeting today.
A bit emotional today I packed up my all stuff ready for Harry to pick tomorrow morning, poor buggers got an 8 hour drive both ways and I’ve got to be somewhere else unfortunately. Thought I was doing fine until I got to the 250, sht that thing is heavy and on the bottom of course. Lots cables and bits and pieces I can see why it’s not everyone’s cup of tea. There’s all that power all those boxes that I simply don’t need, in my 6m x 4.5m studio I still don’t go much beyond 9 o’clock sitting in the sweet spot, it’ll be interesting to see what volume levels I’m comfortable with with the Nova.
I only put it back together about 5 months ago and struggled connected it and of course a lots changed since Mrs Pete took this challenge on 4 years ago, I also think I started to fall out love with my system. I haven’t play it much over past few months either for some strange reason (which helped me make my decision).
I’m not going to use the word journey (cause I hate it) but it’s as far as I’m going up the food chain for now at least who knows if circumstances changed I’d probably be at Harry’s the next day working how to get those 3 Statement amps delivered.
It is really about simplifying my life.
Tomorrow I become a 20 something lifestyle guru with my one box set up, might start a hipster thread.
Thats a shame Pete as a lot of time went into getting there. I wonder if the new room acoustics and your Speaker/ amp combo just did not gel. Hopefully Harry can sort the Nova out while you are away.
And it’s a very merry Christmas to you all from a chilly Copenhagen. If too early my apologies. Love the morris traveller with the Christmas tree tied to the roof in the daytime photo.
A couple of hours with my new Nova and while it’s hard to compare when it’s based on memory I’m pretty impressed. Just played Bowie’s Blackstar (96/24 WAV) and Neil Young’s Comes a Time (CD) but I’m not sure I know the difference blindfolded. Also played a few low res stuff that sounded pretty good too.
We have a nova in the kitchen in London and I have to say it’s performed seamlessly over quite a number of years. Very happy with it. Enjoy Pete. Must say I’m not entirely looking forward to waking up to the cricket tomorrow.
I don’t think you guys could have done any worse, I’m sure they’ll bounce back. I just hope they play shots based on the ball and not plan back in the shed. Our grounds are a lot bigger what you blokes call Bazball we call catching practice.
I’ve taught my children the difference between margarine and real butter.
One of my kids prepared a cake and my wife gave the kid margarine instead of butter. He did not notice.
Once the cake was ready the eldest kid mentioned that there was something not right with the cake and all the kids refuse to eat it now. They smell a rat.
I’m proud that they distinguish something good from something less good but I now need to manage my wife since she accuses me of bad things like that it is apparently normal to reject something and not be polite, smile and eat it.
In essence, my wife finds it more important to always behave positive and smile and I find it more important to invest time and money in something and do it really good.
There is a lot behind all this written up in a few lines, but I see it as complimentary qualities in our relation & family.
