Bullets from chapter 6

-"... a sign informs us that our driver's hobbies are (1) baseball, (2) fishing, and (3) driving."
*were lucky if we get cabbies that can even understand where we need to go. the experience can be so impersonal and uncomfortable, any info on the driver such as this might help to make the experience less impersonal. maybe one could even have a conversation with the cabby. this conversation of course would need to take place in between the horn honking and the profanity being screamed out the window. (and i havent been in large number of cabs, so maybe there is something like this. yet i have never seen it.... all i can do is think "are we there yet", and stare at the fascinating touch screen they have in them now, only getting it to work properly as im pulling up to my destination.)

-"... the partners sold Cuban cigars out of the back of the gallery to help make ends meet."
*partners needing to make ends meet, accomplishing this goal by selling cubans? first when i think of business partners for some reason it applies for me there is already money in the bank accounts. granted this would not always be true for every set of partners, but these are gallery partners, you need money to own a gallery right? secondly, cubans really? if they were making ends meet to sustain the ownership of a gallery off cigars, well maybe i have some thinking to do.... possibly art school is the wrong way to go about making money. i think i could be happy making the equivalent of what is needed make ends meet to run a gallery.

-no one is ever late in Japan
*come on! thats gotta be a lie. no one ever misses a train, waits for a cab, forgets to set their cell phone alarms. i hate being late yet seems the busier i become the more avoidable it is. most often its not much with my doing. "if your not 15 mins early your 15 mins late". i hate the saying but experience has shown me there is much truth to it.

- as i was reading the the beginning of the chapter about Murakami's studio, warhols warehouse came to mind... than what do you know it gets mentioned. one of the few times i felt intelligent about art. despite how much i see i rarely retain enough to remember anything about it.

-"His workstation, a sixteen-foot-long table, was situated in the center of a large room, surrounded by his team of four designers and five animators..."
*that seems like an awful of space to work when your not the only one working. with the help he has does he really need a 16ft table?

-"Murakami is an avowed Warhol fan."
*this i find interesting because in the beginning of the chapter there is mention that art in japan is not very imaginative, but more concerned with technique. so this directly relates to warhols work which that of Murakami's work is more or less based off of, in terms of technique. its not so much the content but rather the production. yet i to am a warhol fan but for my own reasons.

-Kanye West.... REALLY? that was the last name i ever expected to be mentioned in the book. Interesting though, i have a fairly deep love for music and have always hoped my artistic future will bring me closer to music. Maybe Taylor Swift will find my future art astonishing and she will commission me to do work that bashes Kanye, hey it could happen.