today nikki and joey are taking their first ever snowboarding lesson down at the canyons resort. i am sad that i am not out there with them, but hoping they are rocking it hard. results of this excursion to follow shortly.

in other news, last night we hung out into the wee hours of the night talking and watching you-tube videos. my personal favorite..."Aww shit, get your towels ready it's about to go down...":



its been quite some time since ive laughed so hard at a you-tube video... good times.

in other more culturally vibrant news...
there is this new art show opening at the Bancaja Cultural Center in Valencia that i wish i could patron. entitled, "evoking the female image," it traces artist Joan Miro's use of the female body in his works.

"Women as a theme run through all Miró’s work. It was an early allure that began during his training as an artist. It was a constant obsession that persisted into his maturity. Miró equated the female figure with the universe. Nonetheless, his portrayals tend to avoid idealization or praise. Miró observed women and his multiple visions reveal rigour, humour, tenderness, eroticism, drama, poetry or everyday life. Miró’s work features nudes, dancers, portraits, imaginary portraits, maternities, lovers, women bathed by water, the sun or the moon, women courted by birds or stars, and hybrid creatures that can be confused with men, stars, animals or plants. His fascination with the female image started out with descriptive figurative portrayals that later turned into ideograms, with elliptic poetical images evoking women through one of their identifying features, or into barely legible signs. Decade by decade, this exhibition traces his obsession from 1917 up to 1981, through paintings, drawings, sculptures, graphic work, photographs, and images and objects from his studios: the Sert Studio and Son Boter."

Not only is Miro's portrayal and encorporation of the female body tasteful and absolutely stunning, but really displays his respect for and the versatility that he believed the body had to offer. From stylized and schematic to figurative or abstract, Miro's women underwent a change so delicate and beautiful that i would love nothing more than to witness this metamorphosis in Valencia, right now.

sigh. instead, utah is what i am left with. another beauty that is altogether wonderful, but not Miro. clearly.