Mine Olde Tweetes 2011

@thereforeijam  Jan 4, 2011
Sweet collection! via @alisonjardine the Phillips collection (art) 90th birthday... includes Rothko room :) http://n.pr/dUul0j (via npr)

@thereforeijam  Jan 16, 2011
At Slaymaker Fine Arts. Gorgeous gallery. http://twitpic.com/3qoxgy

@thereforeijam  Jan 21, 2011
Detail of the hand of David by Michaelangelo http://tinyurl.com/48bbp7e

@thereforeijam  Jan 22, 2011
If you are an artist & you want to explore some mathematics you will enjoy, (yes *enjoy*) SYMMETRY by @MarcusduSautoy --intuitive & lavish

 @thereforeijam  Mar 1, 2011
Need a jaws of life to get into this PVC tube of paintings!

@thereforeijam  Mar 2, 2011
via @pourmecoffee MT This guy makes awesome sculptures from books. http://bit.ly/gVn1iq //Gorgeous. I honestly want to own one.

@thereforeijam  Mar 19, 2011
Shuffling paintings at a show today.

@thereforeijam  Mar 20, 2011
The guide for Chicago Public Library's NEVERWHERE events is fabulous. Spectacular lineup! @neilhimself

@thereforeijam  Mar 25, 2011
Lovely photo at Artless: http://artless-artists.posterous.com/shambolic

@thereforeijam  Mar 30, 2011
I always liked this tinted series by Fludd. I'd like to hang it as a series for "above my bed."

@thereforeijam  Mar 30, 2011
http://tinyurl.com/4aj9uaa The link! "Above my bed" is a running joke because every art piece I like I say I'll put "above my bed."

@thereforeijam  Apr 6, 2011
Going to see if the neutrino lecture for the public at Fermilab lives up to its name today: http://www.fnal.gov/pub/today/

@thereforeijam  Apr 13, 2011
At the Oriental Institute looking at old beads and mummies

@thereforeijam  Apr 29, 2011
The most comprehensive list of Top 30 things THEY don't want you to know: http://bit.ly/j3DHvK by @kennethjdevries

@thereforeijam  May 3, 2011
Kari Byron from Mythbusters is a sculptor--some pix of her work: http://bit.ly/mAOSsk

@thereforeijam  May 13, 2011
.@MattPuchalski is installing a *brand new* Leroy Nieman original at Medinah C.C. right now. Worth a small fortune. He must be nervous!

@thereforeijam  May 13, 2011
Picture of the Nieman! http://dailyherald.com/article/20110512/sports/705129913/photos/AR/

@thereforeijam  May 16, 2011
You can get some hyperbolic geometries in bead weaving too (try round peyote with 6 or more starter ring). http://bit.ly/erkrI

@thereforeijam  May 26, 2011
This public art project didn't come out well. Looks terrible "Tower of Babel" http://bit.ly/mMTbsz

​@thereforeijam  May 29, 2011
Going to MSI to see the gross but educational "Body Worlds" exhibit. #pleasenoplastinatedbabies #pleasepleaseplease

@thereforeijam  Jun 2, 2011
It's 9 pm. Just been told we need more art for a 9 am art consult.

@thereforeijam  Jun 11, 2011
Business is brisk if you are a bronze sculptor who makes life sized figures of children playing. Every town around here has at least one.

@thereforeijam  Jun 11, 2011
Unthreatening, unchallenging, folksy charm is all the rage for municipal art.

@thereforeijam  Jun 11, 2011
Also popular: Bronze senior gentleman dozing on a park bench.

@thereforeijam  Jun 15, 2011
Big one = awesome abstract sculpture. RT @io9: Meet the Gömböc, one of the strangest shapes in the world http://io9.com/5810917/

​@thereforeijam  Jun 17, 2011
I'm going to climb Willis Tower. I want to do it in a King Kong costume, but that depends on how the test runs go.

@thereforeijam  Jun 23, 2011
If a stairmaster is a decent sim, you can climb the stairs of a tall skyscraper for less than 250 calories

@thereforeijam  Jun 25, 2011
.@ptak tweeted this link reminding me about vorticism. Love, luv, <3 the Ptak's Science Books blog. http://t.co/ln6lMjk #FF

@thereforeijam  Jun 25, 2011
Deep discounting bookplates so I have an excuse to see that show at the Tate and restock at Cecil Court.

@thereforeijam  Jun 29, 2011
Finally framed my Joseph Parker painting. Floated within stretcher protectors. http://twitpic.com/5ioh0d

@thereforeijam  Jun 29, 2011
*exhale* Painting that I shipped in a mailing tube that probably shouldn't have been shipped in a mailing tube arrived in perfect condition.

@thereforeijam  Jun 29, 2011
I have much better luck shipping unstretched rolled canvas over stretched. It's also cheaper.

@thereforeijam  Jul 1, 2011
Blissfully rolling lovely saris.

@thereforeijam  Jul 7, 2011
Gorgeous, gorgeous video on moonbows at Yosemite National Park via @ferrisjabr and @yosemitesteve http://youtu.be/_68ytOYnTvs

@thereforeijam  Jul 12, 2011
Moving and found a great biography on Rothko by James E. B. Breslin. Does anyone want it?

@thereforeijam  Jul 12, 2011
Also have a Michelangelo coffee table book up for grabs.

@thereforeijam  Jul 22, 2011
Found & packed E.E. Knight's notebooks of rough drafts of the Vampire Earth series, including "Way of the Wolf".

@thereforeijam  Aug 2, 2011
The Chemistry of Oil Painting http://bit.ly/pooRqP by @flyingtrilobite at @Symbiartic

@thereforeijam  Aug 2, 2011
Giving away my crappy purple car to the neighbors.

@thereforeijam  Aug 2, 2011
Poor, poor, neighbors.

@thereforeijam  Aug 3, 2011
I believe that the most effective placebo is an abundance of exercise.

@thereforeijam  Aug 4, 2011
There is an ambiguous age that causes a large gathering of extended relatives to gossip about whether someone has had work done.

@thereforeijam  Aug 4, 2011
Didn't know he did this. // RT @jessebdylan: Wondrous Salvador Dali images from Playboy Magazine back in the day. http://bit.ly/oTsKCg

@thereforeijam  Aug 6, 2011
That rough beast slouching toward Bethlehem just needed some morning joe, I'll bet.

@thereforeijam  Aug 9, 2011
Clients demand titles for abstracts. I have a dictionary. I have a dart.

@thereforeijam  Aug 11, 2011
via @Sight_Unseen et al: Inside Man Ray's studio: Hmm. Comfy and creative workspaces http://bit.ly/ofg9ws

@thereforeijam  Aug 22, 2011
Going through a hidey hole in the studio. Junking false starts. Seeing large piece I got stuck on 3 years ago w fresh eyes. Packing it.

@thereforeijam  Aug 22, 2011
<3!!! "Whee!" See the space babies, puppies & kitties go! MT @ptak: Heavenly Chinese space program posters: #space #nasa http://ow.ly/6a06a

@thereforeijam  Aug 24, 2011
I always liked the idea of books below waist level, art & windows above. MT @pourmecoffee: Celebrity libraries. http://t.co/ZJTQpin

@thereforeijam  Aug 26, 2011
Looking for a pic of art museum in a repurposed brutalist ex-Soviet admn. bldg. in one of the eastern European countries. Latvia? Estonia?

@thereforeijam  Sep 4, 2011
Everyday mushrooms: fine onions in olive oil, chopped shitake/white, little oregano, tarragon, veg stock, wh. wine, flour. Put on anything.

@thereforeijam  Sep 11, 2011
Let it be known that autocorrections of my tweets are always truer and better than the intended

@thereforeijam  Sep 12, 2011
"Learn Chinese! Beware the cookie that mocks with awkward fortune"

@thereforeijam  Sep 14, 2011
Reading Milton's "Areopagitica." Uncertain whether he intended to filibuster or persuade.

@thereforeijam  Sep 19, 2011
Presenting art to interior designers

@thereforeijam  Sep 20, 2011
Gah. 10 Digital enlargements cost too much for a personal project. So I'll be spending time in a camera obscura with projecter & a Sharpie.

@thereforeijam  Sep 25, 2011
Huh. Geeky person just handed me calculation of calories burned to climb Willis Tower. Sad that all I can see is he overestimated my weight.

@thereforeijam  Sep 28, 2011
Blog of notable letterheads. Form does not follow function in FL Wright's unless he had INCREDIBLY cramped handwriting. http://t.co/yg6rSB0f

@thereforeijam  Sep 30, 2011
Have an extra fun job today. People who like purple need art.

@thereforeijam  Oct 2, 2011
He was fabulous// RT@LGrugerHanson: I love looking at the art of Franz Marc http://t.co/r71FNVr4

@thereforeijam  Oct 2, 2011
If I was a witch I'd curse this Sunday morning breakfast meeting, but I can't think of anything worse than a Sun. Morning breakfast meeting

Checking in shipment of oil paintings and listening to music I've never heard before: http://t.co/pM9qW1To Blue Foundation--Embers

@thereforeijam  Oct 10, 2011
Newfangled bar-code thing on the back of some new biz cards for partner biz is a puzzle. Must need an app to learn who I am.

 @thereforeijam  Oct 10, 2011
Several minutes of pounding a rock on my barcode later and the web informs me this will add info to Contacts or direct to website. Oh.

@thereforeijam  Oct 11, 2011
Gorgeous! RT @BoingBoing: X-ray stained glass http://t.co/w1agAekx

@thereforeijam  Oct 14, 2011
LIFE: It mocks; it burns; but sometimes it tingles.

@thereforeijam  Oct 14, 2011
Today's sole business agenda item was "Laptop from bed in the manner of Barbara Cartland."

@thereforeijam  Oct 19, 2011
Autocorrect, you enigmatic sphinx, you.

@thereforeijam  Oct 26, 2011
For the record, I make weird art. This was a commissioned bead mosaic and weave vase http://t.co/qJZpQlri

@thereforeijam  Oct 28, 2011
We hung art that came w 4' wide heavy particle board horiz. wedge hanging system....into cinder block, with huge masonry screws today.

@thereforeijam  Oct 28, 2011
Then there was this 48x56" mirror with mirrored frame with unusual and tricky hidden hangers. Heavy, so had to go into studs.

@thereforeijam  Nov 2, 2011
Wanted to finish my latest beaded globe vases by Sagan Day. Probably only have one side ready for celebratory photo.

@thereforeijam  Nov 4, 2011
Firefighters will be climbing Willis Tower in full gear on Sunday fundraising for RIC. http://t.co/09d4mnjv ~~wimpy whimper~~

@thereforeijam  Nov 6, 2011
Having a debate about whether my skyscraper climbing outfit is "obstructive"

@thereforeijam  Nov 6, 2011
Faye and I are going up! http://t.co/Rz2NIkAX

@thereforeijam  Nov 6, 2011
We made it! http://t.co/slWhoI2D

@thereforeijam  Nov 8, 2011
My brother climbed Willis Tower in 21 mins....dick. ; )

 @thereforeijam  Nov 9, 2011
Interior shot of WIP. Beads woven over a glass globe vase. http://t.co/bKah5Bod

@thereforeijam  Nov 10, 2011
After you make the raw chicken dance, she will be tired. Massage her with olive oil rub and put her to bed with carrots, garlic, & potatoes.

@thereforeijam  Nov 16, 2011
There aren't very many pieces by Dali that I'd want to live with but this one is fun http://t.co/ArYvXrhz

 @thereforeijam  Nov 16, 2011
Best times for creative rumination for me are--bed, car(travel in general), bath/shower, exercise. Do you have any other good ones?

@thereforeijam  Nov 16, 2011
Rumi, hell yeah!! RT @MorganLibrary: Islamic manuscript of the day: Rumi and the Reflection of Sun in a Pool http://t.co/dWZK9mq0

@thereforeijam  Nov 16, 2011
Sweet. Finished my galaxy cluster globe vase. It turned out well so I'm going to make a bigger one.

@thereforeijam  Nov 16, 2011
Looking for an extra tall crystal decanter with ball stopper for another piece.

@thereforeijam  Nov 17, 2011
On the way to Chicago for a presentation to designers then a big art install and art showing.

@thereforeijam  Dec 1, 2011
Daughter's drawing from art class. Note that wine goes to the top. http://t.co/v88vjfZZ

@thereforeijam  Dec 2, 2011
Thanks, Herzog, for mocking my sense of wonder. "Cave of Forgotten Dreams" heavy with melodrama and absurd solemnity.

@thereforeijam  Dec 15, 2011
One of my pet peeves is two-dimensional sculpture.

@thereforeijam  Dec 15, 2011
Then there are the paintings, drawings, photographs of...sculptures. Sometimes great & artfully chosen, other times just studies or homages.

@thereforeijam  Dec 15, 2011
Sculpture rant prompted by sculpture: bbc.in/smUCMD I like Banksy just fine; these are formal quality, nit-picky, knee-jerk complaints.

@thereforeijam  Dec 17, 2011
Testing jinx by publicly & prematurely announcing that one of my large vases might have sold at a Xmastime pop-up gallery.

@thereforeijam  Dec 18, 2011
It's flattering that someone bothered to calculate that the galaxy cluster globe vase took 80 hours of weave time and ~5,000 beads.

@thereforeijam  Dec 24, 2011
(whisper) creatures are still stirring.

@thereforeijam  Dec 31, 2011
Wish I could root around in the Vatican museum and archives stuff w/ full access for a week. Don't want to own any of it. Just really nosy.

​@thereforeijam  Dec 31, 2011
Salvador Dali: Surrealist Party from 1941 http://t.co/oCqqOnZq via @dangermindsblog