Slog - Comments on Trip to the Grocery Store http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/trip_to_the_grocery Here I am, at home in Southern California, where life is far too easy. I'm from the kind of rich hippie town where public art installations are well-funded, but atrocious (yes, the title of that work is "early bird shopper"), and wild teenagers carve peace signs into cactus arms. It's nice, being on a break and having free time to squander any way I want. Yesterday I went to the grocery store and, overwhelmed by all the colors and marketing schemes, wandered around gawking at different products. The same kind of confusing culture shock happens to me when I watch... Copyright 2008 Wed, 27 Dec 2006 12:43:19 -0800 Thu, 28 Dec 2006 17:09:22 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Saundra Don't you love what they did behind the arcade, near the fountain that looks like a cabbage blossom? They ripped out the other cool fountain behind Bonnie Lu's and replaced it with a bizarre sculptural homage to early-90's museum installations -- you know, the ones that were a bunch of colored pencils stacked against each other?

That may be the mark of a well-funded "artsy" community -- not taking time to meditate on what art really is.

]]> Saundra http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/trip_to_the_grocery#c578886 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/trip_to_the_grocery#c578886 Life Wed, 27 Dec 2006 13:21:12 -0800 Comment by Velaconia Love that ice cream cone toothbrush!

]]> Velaconia http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/trip_to_the_grocery#c579449 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/trip_to_the_grocery#c579449 Life Thu, 28 Dec 2006 17:09:22 -0800