weekend in review

avi

avi

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went to a mini-farm fallfest thing on saturday for fresh cider and a petting zoo, but opted out of the hayride and pumpkin picking. we were a bit out of place being kidless n all, but it was totally fun anyways. i love fall.

sunday: vintage/antique show in tacoma at the tacoma dome. way too much bricabrac to take in in one day, but some okay vintage kitchen items and clothes. not that we bought anything though. but tell me- why is it suddenly totally okay to sell/collect sambo art? I can understand it's place in history, but I don't like the way it seems to be passed off as kitsch from a "different" era. there was also a guy selling WWII/nazi memorabilia, but he was the only one and he obviously specialized in that stuff.
 
beyond the contempo implications of collecting art like that, isn't it just ugly?

i can see the iconography of nazism maybe somehow appealing to someone with a taste for angles, but "sambo" art is just stupidly-rendered caricature, at least in my eyes.

like, would it appeal to someone who is into windsor mckay? those collectors don't seem to be into it for anything other than disjointed kitsch and those are people i'd rather not know. i imagine they worship david letterman and early family ties snarky jokey.

do actual racists collect that stuff?

i'm envious of your weekend. very envious.
 
I read an article recently where a number of vintage collectors tried to explain themselves, but I'm still conflicted. I can understand it MAYBE if you specialize in that stuff and are preserving it for a "never forget" type of deal, but when it's just one or two pieces mixed in with other stuff, it's not at all the same. and yeah, it's just ugly anyways.
I dunno. there was just so much of it there.
 
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(but way uglier)
 
today: went to seattle to run errands + check out furniture stuff
but best of all: went to Bottleworks - the best beer store in the world
AND
Archive McPhee

yay!
 
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