Two things

1. This is the coolest thing ever ever ever.

2. it is sooo passe to carry your dog around in your purse. carry your dog as your purse! (just shove your wallet in its mouth)

your modern face scans the surprise ending

buongiorno!
i'm here at home on a saturday night recuperating from a solo voyage to turin and cinque terre. whilst in turin i stumbled upon one of my most favorite things that is oh-so-common on this (current) continent of mine: outdoor public art like this ->
but my most prized discovery was the work of a certain jenny holzer that was projected, LED-style, on an old italian castle...expressions such as "it is fun to walk carelessly in a death zone" and "bodies lie in the bright grass some are murdered some are picnicking" caught me by surprise. i was left stunned by holzer's clever semantics and the city's willingness to display such disturbing+shocking statements on such a central, historic spot. holzer uses "language and the mechanics of late 20th-century communications as an assault on established notions of where art should be shown, with what intention and for whom" (artnet.com). i think you might enjoy her work as much as i did, although the pix don't really capture the moment:

Listen to this...

I made an "Opal Radio" station!


Listen to Opal Radio



It's free to listen!! If you want to make your own radio station, it's free to sign up.

I made "Opal Radio" by saying that I liked the artists Fleetwood Mac and Badly Drawn Boy and now I'm listening to fantastic music that shares the same "musical qualities" but by artists I've never heard of before... It rocks.

Check it out, yo!

love,
-Geoff

Reality Bites

My new favorite show is 8th & Ocean. Don't judge me.

Viva Italia!

Dudes, I just got into a month-long summer program in ITALY. For the month of June, I will be living in Urbania, a rural village in the Marche region (kind of near Tuscany), taking Italian, and singing in concerts around the area. This place is also near the coast of the Adriatic Sea, so there will be beach days.
BEACH DAYS. IN ITALY. I am so jazzed.

Cheap booze is museum party's undoing

Dear Opal

Geoffrey (gscott1380@gmail.com) spotted this on the IOL website and thought you'd find it interesting.

Geoffrey says: Opal loves to party...especially if it's near art: Kathleen Christians, 39, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: "It was crazy. People were shoving people over. People were getting sick, screaming, shouting, messing with the artwork."

Cheap booze is museum party's undoing

The organisers of an event held at a American museum have been left ruing their plans after the party descended into drunken chaos.

(Click here for the full story )

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