bein’ a beez

So, the truth, I manage a retail store.  I’m learning a lot about management, leadership and myself. I’ve also learned how to be a bitch. It’s like, one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. I hate when people don’t like me.

I don’t mind if people I don’t like, don’t like me, but it has been hard to deal with people who don’t like me because I’m trying to get things done, don’t like me because I have some kind of authority, don’t like me because I make and enforce rules, don’t like me because I (yes, ME! it’s kind of hilarious, really) am a threat. I suppose I believe they have no basis not to like me, but I have been in their shoes too, and I didn’t like me either. 

So, I’m reading books about being a woman and being a boss. And coming into a situation where I am younger than those I am supervising, where I am “new” yet telling people what to do.

I basically feel like I’m learning how to be a good man.

that time of year… yet again

I thought I would get “May” in the archives, by having one post this month. It actually does bother me that a few months are missing from the box on the right. I guess that’s just a symptom of my techno-anxiety.

Anyway, I found this really awesome artist a few weeks ago, Chris Jordan. I became interested in the idea of “retail art.” I don’t even think that “retail art” is a thing, because, whenever I search it, I que up results that are nothing of what I am looking for. The closest thing to this idea (I have in my head) of “retail art” is “consumption” art. Even though, in my mind, retail and consumption art are not the same thing, consumption art is still super interesting. I think consumption art is pretty straight-forward – art dealing with what consumers consume, and the subsequent waste produced by consuming. It’s extremely revealing, disgusting, beautiful.

Cell Phones, Atlanta 2005

Wall of Drums, Seattle 2003 (homage to Christo)

2.3 million folded prison uniforms, equal to the number of incarcerated Americans in 2005.

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He has some really amazing work over at his Web site – pretty much all the pieces are interesting as heck!