Woke up this morning and the weather was looking absolutely perfect. Wait, let me take it a step back for a minute.<\/p>\n
Around this time last week I decided to start planning my trip out to the Scope Hamptons<\/a> art fair out on Long Island. My friend and fellow artist Richard Zimmerman was also interested in going; he has a vehicle and we thought that we would be able to go together. Unfortunately he couldn’t get off work, and he works allllllll the time, so I had to find another route. Since very few people in NYC, and especially even fewer of my friends, have vehicles (even though my boss offered me her truck), I turned to public transport. LIRR have a train direct to the Hamptons.<\/p>\n That’s where I woke up. The weather the past few days has been inclement at best, but this morning I woke up and the sun was absolutely stunning. A trip was in order.<\/p>\n I’m on the train right now, with just under 2 hours left in the journey. I’m sitting next to a lady Lori and her daughter Phoebe whom I befriended on the first train out to Jamaica where one changes to get the Montauk-bound train.<\/p>\n Lori earlier commented on my eyeglasses, and when I showed how they were actually pretty damaged (not that I needed to point out the 4oz. of hot glue holding my frames together), she told me of a friend of hers in California who deals with vintage eyeglasses, and showed me the frames she bought for her daughter, which are pretty spectacular. So I can’t wait to find out more about acquiring some new frames from this acquaintance.<\/p>\n Oh! And the Hamptons!<\/p>\n Can’t wait to get out there. It’s only for the day, but I always love to see the ocean (if i have time, I even brought my speedo trunks with me!), and I’m looking forward to the fair, honestly. I know these fairs are often excused as a playground for the rich<\/a>, but I’m still interested in them, I still like to see crowds looking at art, no matter how consumptive the setting.<\/p>\n And the main highlight of my journey is to meet John Henry Blatter<\/a> and the folks from Daily Constitutional<\/a>, which is a pretty darned good art zine.<\/p>\n The journey itself is pretty mad: I left from Penn Station on the 11am train, I will arrive at the fair sometime between 2-3pm; the fair closes tonight at 8pm, and there’s an 11pm train back into the city. I might stay overnight if I can find the means, but either way I have to head back in to attend a wedding tomorrow night, on a boat “cruising the Hudson” for my friend and fellow artist Ashley Kesling.<\/p>\n Woke up this morning and the weather was looking absolutely perfect. Wait, let me take it a step back for a minute. Around this time last week I decided to start planning my trip out to the Scope Hamptons art fair out on Long Island. My friend and fellow artist Richard Zimmerman was also interested […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,3,9],"tags":[502,534,533],"series":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-event","category-journeys","tag-art-fair","tag-hamptons","tag-scope-art"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OfVu-g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3182,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/3182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}