His Similes. His Metaphors. Les Metaphors du Micheal Kors

“The Metaphors of Micheal Kors.” Catchy rap title. Anyone up for putting together a mashup video rap of Korsisms? http://korsisms.tumblr.com/

I’m not alone in noticing there is something missing in this season of Project Runway. It’s the comedic snarky metaphors of Michael Kors. Some of his comments during his critiques of the designers' work were so shockingly rude that you had to laugh. He conjured up such surreal metaphors to describe the designs that you couldn’t get that vision out of your head once he put it there! Somewhere between Don Rickles, Joan Rivers, and Steven Wright lies the unforgettable metaphoric talents of Michael Kors. 

Every artist owns their stories of how painful it is to bare our soul and put our hard work out there only to get it destroyed by someone who judges it harshly.  I saw a video of  PR contestants voicing how much it hurts to receive harsh comments. It takes so much courage, energy, hard work, focus and insane deadline stress to swim in the PR fishbowl. I can’t imagine a contestant would walk out of that experience the same level as they walked into it. 

Comedic and design talents aside, Michael Kors has a huge heart...http://fashionista.com/2012/12/fit-dropout-michael-kors-to-gift-the-school-1-million/

...and he is no stranger to being judged harshly....
 
He's paid his dues. He's paying it forward. And he walked away from Project Runway leaving us laughing with him....
 

We miss you, Michael Kors. Come visit Project Runway soon.

MOMA Moments (Everyday Life as Art)

In the 1960s my Mom would take me to "happenings" which were often dancers, poets and musicians performing a "site specific" performance piece amidst a museum or gallery exhibit. Today the more appropriate name for these type pieces is "performance art."
My artsy family members and I were fortunate enough to experience Marina Abramaovic's "The Artist is Present"at the MOMA in 2010.

We had to pass through a human "doorway" of two nudes to enter the show. That reminded me of the time I saw our nude model from drawing class in the grocery store with his clothes on. I knew I recognized him, but couldn't place from where, til later on, which made me laugh. I wonder if those doorway people get recognized out in the world in that same way. It felt like that nude entryway was preparation to know "baring our soul" was going to be explored in the exhibit.

It's easy to feel what Marina was doing in this performance piece took little art talent to execute. But Marina is a highly trained artist and performer, lecturer and teacher. To see this show in process it may look like "why is this considered art just to sit there in front of onlookers?" The intriguing thing to see in this film of the last day of her show...is how just sitting in silence and looking deeply into anothers' eyes brings out whatever is inside of the people involved. We truly do project what's going on inside via the energy we put out.  Whether aware of it or not.

 This is a clip of the first day of the show when Marina's long ago lover returned to participate in "the Artist is Present."


And here is what Lady Gaga has to say about Marina...


"The Maybe" is the current art performance piece randomly exhibited at the MOMA...


And if life as art isn't enough to get an art observer entertained...there's always the scientific perspective...


Any thoughts?