Beauty is everywhere…

I love living in New York because so many gorgeous people are walking around, sometimes utterly unaware of their own beauty.

I got this shot on my way to poker last night, where my losses were not utterly shameful, but were still disheartening. I did manage to win what I think is the smallest pot we’ve ever had – something on the order of 80 cents, 60 of which was my own money.

We celebrate all of our achievements.

This morning while preparing for my 8am meeting, I was listening to the Bad At Sports Podcast featuring Ted Purves, which turned out to be a substantive exploration of some new ideas in thinking about art and training artists. It was really refreshing, and is leading me to try to organize some more of my own thinking on the topics. It’s also important in the thinking of what the Bay Area’s role is in American Art even though this wasn’t directly addressed in the discussion. There is a power in being perennially tangential.