KMOCA & B&H & Other Capital Things
Tom has an opening at KMOCA, Kingston Museum of Contemporary Arts, in upstate New York this Saturday. It's the gallery's opening show, and Tom's first solo show. It's part of a gallery walk occurring in downtown Kingston for the weekend.
Here's the map to the gallery walk. I like the paragraph about Tom.
http://www.askforarts.org/galleryguidenew.pdf
I met Tom at B&H Photo tonight, to buy more frames for his photographs, for his show. A thousand people can say it, but there is no store in the world like B&H Photo. I marvel at the store's efficiency. My marveling is approaching pious adoration.
We had called this morning, to reserve some frames in advance, and after the clerk looked up our order he stood for a minute, tapping his keyboard, not looking at me. Tom went away and looked at other frames. I played with the bowl of Goi Goi kosher candy on the counter and waited. After five minutes I asked if something was wrong.
No, the sweet Hasidic boy told me, they just can't find the last three frames of our order in the basement. "Op!" he said, "they just found them." A moment later, a green crate carrying our twelve frames burst through a hole next to his computer, fresh from the massive B&H subterranean storehouse. It was like a birthing. Almost.
I smiled, thinking of the basement workers efficiently scurrying amongst the aisles of products - I knew without knowing that there were monstrous metal gray shelves - digging through merchandise for our last little frames, maybe irritated that they weren't in their proper place. The triumphant message up that they had been found. The swift movement to the next order.
They have free seltzer at B&H too, and cola. Today they even had straws.
Goi Goi candies:
http://www.peccin.com.br/principal.php?id_menu=inicial
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someone else's b&h receipt
Here's the map to the gallery walk. I like the paragraph about Tom.
http://www.askforarts.org/galleryguidenew.pdf
I met Tom at B&H Photo tonight, to buy more frames for his photographs, for his show. A thousand people can say it, but there is no store in the world like B&H Photo. I marvel at the store's efficiency. My marveling is approaching pious adoration.
We had called this morning, to reserve some frames in advance, and after the clerk looked up our order he stood for a minute, tapping his keyboard, not looking at me. Tom went away and looked at other frames. I played with the bowl of Goi Goi kosher candy on the counter and waited. After five minutes I asked if something was wrong.
No, the sweet Hasidic boy told me, they just can't find the last three frames of our order in the basement. "Op!" he said, "they just found them." A moment later, a green crate carrying our twelve frames burst through a hole next to his computer, fresh from the massive B&H subterranean storehouse. It was like a birthing. Almost.
I smiled, thinking of the basement workers efficiently scurrying amongst the aisles of products - I knew without knowing that there were monstrous metal gray shelves - digging through merchandise for our last little frames, maybe irritated that they weren't in their proper place. The triumphant message up that they had been found. The swift movement to the next order.
They have free seltzer at B&H too, and cola. Today they even had straws.
Goi Goi candies:
http://www.peccin.com.br/principal.php?id_menu=inicial
um
someone else's b&h receipt
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