Did this 1986 painting of Lenin inspire Ai Weiwei’s 1995 artwork Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn? The painting was exhibited at the Whitney in 1987 which is when Ai was living in the nearby East Village. If you know, I hope you’ll leave a comment here.
Posts Categorized: Journal
My thoughts on The Moviegoer
This life is too much trouble, far too strange, to arrive at the end of it and then to be asked what you make of it and have to answer “Scientific humanism.” That won’t do. A poor show. Life is a mystery, love is a delight. Therefore I take it as axiomatic that one should… Read more »
April
I haven’t written anything in a while so I’ll try to sum up this past month as best I can. Back in late March I wrote a paper, which you can read online, about Buddhist themes in pop music. The essay is likely the most comprehensive look at Buddhist pop music available today, for whatever… Read more »
The Treasure Heist
Here’s a short film (~11min) that I made two years ago with some of my friends. I’m currently testing video uploading for a project I’m working on and so I’m putting this here. (By the way, youare.tv is awesome!) I, myself, do not appear in the film (as I was the camera operator and director)… Read more »
twenty
I was born twenty years ago on this day. An interesting age, being two decades, one-fifth of a century, and deserving of some contemplation. Every year people ask, “do you feel older?” Usually I don’t feel any different than the day before. And while I can’t say that I feel much different than yesterday or… Read more »
The Night Before The Night Before Christmas
Saturday is Christmas Eve, um, eve. And so, here’s this week’s double feature. In cinema one, we have Dreamworks Animation’s story of the animals of the Central Park Zoo celebrating the holidays and the adventures they get up to. In cinema two, we have an animated video from Hark!, one of Sufjan Steven’s Christmas albums…. Read more »
Who is Liam Keane?
So, now that you’re at liamkeane.com you might be wondering “who is this?” Well, I’m a nineteen year old Californian and am currently a student at UC Santa Barbara.* Every once in a while I do a search on Google for the name “Liam Keane”. This site is usually at the top but there are… Read more »
Legal status of guide dogs in training
My family raised three puppies for Guide Dogs for the Blind: Honeybear, Olga, and Glorianne. (Honeybear passed class, was not paired, and became a hearing dog; Olga made it to class but stopped cooperating; Glorianne was career changed in an early phase.) Puppy raisers take their dogs almost everywhere they go in order to provide… Read more »
Peak Two
Carlyle has a well-written essay about our summer backpacking trip to Colorado over on his blog. He talks about personal satisfaction found in mountaineering through an anecdote of the ten-hour trek on Peak Two (elevation: 13,475 ft.). We were literally 200 meters into our hike and already there were a few stragglers. One scout was… Read more »
Plastic Soldiers
While recently scanning over my blogroll, I clicked on a link to William Eubank’s production company. The recently relaunched Darkshelf site looks great (Darkshelf.com was designed by Will Etling). Darkshelf now bills itself as “An Imagination Collective” and the site displays reels from Will’s work as director and cinematographer and Matt Wessen’s work as producer…. Read more »
Kindling the Fire
American author Washington Irving once wrote “Christmas! ‘Tis the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial fire of charity in the heart.” With that in mind, I decided to do a little kindling myself. My friend Carlyle and I made a trip to Camino Real, where we picked up our… Read more »
The IMDB Top 250
The Internet Movie Database (IMDB) is a website run by Amazon.com that catalogs information about films. Users are allowed to register and rate movies, giving 1-5 stars. The 250 most popular movies are kept in a list. Although many great movies are not included, the list is a ranking of the most popular movies. Many… Read more »
Google Loves Me
As of today, I am the 128th most important “Liam” in the world (according to Google). And if you search for “Keane”, this site is #82 (out of 8.6 million+ results). Pretty good considering this site has only been around for 4 months. And of course if you search for Liam Keane (with or without… Read more »
I Voted
Yesterday I voted for the first time. It was pretty exciting to get a ballot and fill it out. My appreciation of the event was increased because a few days prior, my sociology professor had shown a documentary that illustrated the end of South African apartheid and focused on the momentous occasion it had been… Read more »
Color Like No Other
In an age when CGI is commonplace, this makes the commercial all the more extraordinary. Every single frame was shot over two days – with the main sequence involving a 23-man camera crew and only one chance to get it right. An entire block was closed off and special compressed-air cannons shot the balls into… Read more »