Pictures of Tchotckes
Robin Riskin '12 | March 10, 2009Does anyone else have any powerful or curing objects they’d like to contribute to the comfort station? Bring ’em back to the Ford after spring break!
Does anyone else have any powerful or curing objects they’d like to contribute to the comfort station? Bring ’em back to the Ford after spring break!
This is the first time since high school that I have used a glue stick or cut a bunch of things out of a piece of paper. Read the rest of this entry »
I am currently raiding my house for “curing” tchotchkes for the comfort station. My mom is sad to part with her little toy bee and her flashing disco ring from my cousin’s bat mitzvah, but my dad is thrilled to get rid of all the junk in our house. Who’s going to get the green whistle, the rosary beads from my trip to Greece in 5th grade, or my orange star-shaped glasses from kindergarten?
Wednesday, March 25th, 8 p.m.: join Harrell, Duncan and I, and freshman Larry Miller as we go swimming in Bryn Mawr’s eight-lane Olympic-size swimming pool. Haverford students, we will be taking the 7:35 Blue Bus to Bryn Mawr.
Tuesday, March 24th, 11:45 a.m.: join us in Haverford’s Admissions Office for a campus tour with tour guide Genna Cherichello. Read the rest of this entry »
Well the secret about Haverford High vs Haverford College is Sam wanted it to be a FUCS concert first but no one would let him. Part of the reason but not all of it was that high school kids, at least the ones who come to Lunt basement, are pretty obnoxious. Not any more so than we were and probably still are as people, but there’s a difference between Joe Haverford who touches you too much and Joe High School who does the same. How dare he. He smokes and smells and being at Haverford isn’t so much a privilege as it is a chance to be who he always wanted to be.
So going in I only had a half smile. It was because of that college condescension and maybe because something about us inviting them at all revealed a backwards sense of ownership we feel towards a space we can only use when someone lets us. The whole thing made me feel gross and I’ve developed this shame-induced aversion to cigarette smoke, plus it sounded like a bunch of high school bands, so overall I’d rate it an uncomfortable out of ten, even though Sam really liked it.
We activated the right things in them—I think they got what they wanted—but what went wrong was me.
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This post was originally intended for a post on another blog about my dad/music, but I think it belongs here too.
Download The Flying Lizards – Move On Up (Curtis Mayfield Cover)
In 1980, white British women sang a song written by black pioneer of funk Curtis Mayfield in 1971.
Searching for “move on up” in google also leads me here. Move-on-up is a social networking site for politically conservative African-Americans.
This “Move On Up” idea is pretty compelling because it’s a phrase that continues to circulate in different ways.
For all those curious cats out there, if you want to chase down some information on the elusive Pope.L, check out these links. They highlight some of the driving forces behind his work. His projects are also quite interesting in and of themselves.
* The Art of Public Disturbance
* William Pope.L: The Friendliest Black Artist in America
-Eli
Yesterday evening Robin and I got to talk to Nao about her comfort station while she ate her dinner and wore a Star Wars fleece hat. We spoke with her about her new innovations for the personalized comfort hearts we will be creating for the comfort station.
among friends is a series of four simultaneous, collaborative workshops that team contemporary artists with Haverford students and interested members of the community.