David Balogh

August 27th, 2006

Despite the rainy weekend as I mentioned in my other post below, it was a fun one! Friday afternoon was dedicated to freelance, until later that evening, but after that and a couple hamburgers cooked on our mini burner since the stove isn’t operating currently, M and I decided to walk to the Blue Lounge in Billburg and have a drink. Then we were pretty darned tired, so back home we went!

On saturday, Margaux was meeting up with Kate in the city, but since the L train decided not to run this weekend, I drove her into Union Square, dropped her off, and went to do a bit o’ shopping. I first hit up Other Music, great place for obscure stuff. I picked up 3 new albums: Vex’d “Degenerate”, Motor “Klunk”, and Herbert “Bodily Functions.” so far so good, Vex’d play some awesome dark dub/industrial stuff. Motor is a mash-up of Kraftwerk and straight 4/4 industrial, with some vocals thrown in. Herbert is all over the place, from Massive Attack to Stereolab to St. Germain. Very exciting new stuff to listen to. I then proceeded to go to Blick’s on Bond St. That store is huge and awesome! I picked up some pads, pastels, charcoal, a black sheet of paper for a poster mat, and a piece of Arches for another design I created of M and I. Yet again very excited to get all of that, it was the final pieces needed to put up a Modest Mouse poster I bought almost a year ago (a very cool concert print sold for $20, sold here: Modest Mouse- Vancouver Tour Poster).

As I was framing and printing these posters, I was listening to Vex’d. Zack, our new neighbor, knocked on the door telling me that he listens to quite a bit of dub including Vex’d, and I’m not sure but he may be a DJ too? Anyway, he has many comps for me to check out, hooray! Nice to have a friendly neighbor!

Margaux was indeed pleased with the posters, and we celebrated (not really) with some tacos, burritos, and a movie “Inside Man,” which we enjoyed. I was saying to her at one point how funny it is that there have been so many grand bank robbery movies over the years, but the last really robberies haven’t seemed to happened in a long time! Just love em anyway I guess. This one broke the norm a bit with its witty humor, semi-surprising ending (ok, done and done, but still fun), and overall entertainment.

Today, M and I checked out the MoMA! Finally got a chance to go to a museum together, and we had a lot of fun, despite being quite tired after going to bed at like 3AM. It was M’s first opp to see the “newly renovated” MoMA, which I have a seen a couple times, but never saw it before the renovation. They had the Dada exhibit there, which wa our main reason to go today. The exhibit was wonderful, really touching upon the history and importance of the movement. As a designer I thought about how influential this movement was for design and typography, really using type as forms of expression and art on their own and often times out of context, honing in on the letterforms themselves. Funny how sexy typography is in my eyes, part of a universal communication and mini-artforms in themselves individually. I also found the Dada movement very motivating in its expression of protesting WWI, the rise of machines, and the traditions of art. Worthwhile exhibit to see. Well, that’s about it. Have to get back to some small freelance duties, and then perhaps some music-making, or video game playing

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