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This website is just a video of someone "speedrunning" the Museum of Modern Art — seeing every piece in every room, taking a "bench break", and snapping a selfie with Starry Night.
This isn't at all how I go through galleries, I'm as slow as shit, but it's kind of interesting to see a visit to one reduced to a list of Completable Events.
This isn't at all how I go through galleries, I'm as slow as shit, but it's kind of interesting to see a visit to one reduced to a list of Completable Events.
Mar 9, 2025
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🖼You want to experience joy and wonder all over again while you speedrun a museum? Find a willing child (I used a nephew) and take them to a museum. Be prepared to look at everything for about 6 seconds before you move on to the next thing.
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🎨I get very tired at art museums, so once I get the lay of the land, my next visit is usually just one or two pieces, for maybe 10 minutes of absorption. Examples: the Frank Stella wall piece on the staircase at SF MOMA, the painting at the National Gallery East by some Dutch master from the perspective of inside a deep riverbed with two bridges and some city buildings above, the Iranian metalwork vessels with amazing mosaic bead work at the Sackler Gallery. In and out, tightly focused.
Jan 26, 2024
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I recently visited the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. I’ve been before and I do enjoy many artists and artworks displayed, though this time I was eyeing something else. Humans in the Isle of Manhattan are always a specific type of special, but when showing up and spending their hard-earned money on a museum ticket; theres visual magic. I spent this trip in and around the MoMA taking photos of the people/scenes I thought needed to be captured.
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Koudelka was a photographer who documented Europe from the 60s onwards, recording the lives of travelling people, Soviet invasions, struggles with poverty, and more. He later became a member of the Magnum society and continued his work into old age. If you have the time, it's really worth digging into his work as he had a real eye for striking images that provide a lot of context for the situation he was in. He used to travel with very little besides a sleeping bag and camera so he often experienced the harsher side of life while on the job. At times his photos were smuggled out of the soviet borders, and published anonymously, to keep him safe. Check the link for a good starting point on Magnum's website!
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I'm not obsessed with it but it's always sweet when the barista does something cool. This one yesterday made me smile because after seeing a few others I realised the guy was doing Pokémon! Fairly certain mine is mew or Mewtwo, I saw him do a horsea, pikachu, and squirtle too...
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Just finished up a week-long run of Shakespeare's Richard the Third and feeling so proud of everyone involved. I love acting and hope it'll become a bigger part of my life, but even with that said working on this latest production has been so inspirational. I've met and gotten to know so many fantastic people putting their all into theatre as a hobby — for a few of them this was their first time onstage and it was so fun watching them grow and shine as we neared opening night.
Personally, my role in the play as the Duchess of York wasn't a key character, but it was one I found massively challenging for a number of reasons — but once we got into live performances something clicked and I felt like with each show I learned something new about myself and the role.
I can't recommend this enough as an opportunity to meet new people, push yourself out of your comfort zone, and also guilt your friends into spending nearly three hours in a dark cramped room 😁
Personally, my role in the play as the Duchess of York wasn't a key character, but it was one I found massively challenging for a number of reasons — but once we got into live performances something clicked and I felt like with each show I learned something new about myself and the role.
I can't recommend this enough as an opportunity to meet new people, push yourself out of your comfort zone, and also guilt your friends into spending nearly three hours in a dark cramped room 😁