before you all start to scream at me for not writing... i just want to say, i was really really busy.
here is an update to end all updates.
CAREER:
my boss came into town from minessota and we got a lot done. thank you nigol-zabel for posting that picture of the botero cat because i would have never been able to do it... but i will give the update anyways.
last week we unveiled the famous cat by fernando botero. fernando botero is one of the most famous living contemporary artists alive... and probably latin america's most famous living artist. his work has a unique style which makes him very recognizable, he distorts sizes... and everyone or everything ends up really fat on his canvas. so cat, is from his line of animals and is a 2 meter bronze sculpture and it was just placed in yerevan. this is the first peice of artwork coming into yerevan from mr. cafesjian's private collection and it is stunning. i just can't believe that we have a fernando botero... that is awesome.
we also opened the escalators inside the structure cascade. these escalators had last worked in 1997 for 40 drams a ride. Now they have reopened and are better than ever and they are FREE. it was so great to see everyone riding up and down, excited. this is a major sign of hope and a definite good thing that people can actually touch (i mean ride)... needless to say i felt amazing for putting the event together and i felt great about all the work mr. cafesjian and our team have done.
for the most part people here are very undestanding about the new pison (kitty)... they understand it is a very expensive contemporary work of art and yerevan is lucky to have it. some people just don't get it and are wondering why there is a huge black cat in the middle of a city that only has statues of famous people of armenian history. it is going to take some time to get used to and meanwhile all i can do is roll my eyes and grunt at the comments.
ARTHUR:
in the past two weeks, my husband, singer, arthur ispirian (in case we have any new readers) has won 3 AWARDS. first he won the Groong Parathon award for singer of the year... which got him at least 20 interviews and then he won best newcomer at the Armenian Music Awards (since he is a relatively new name in the states, although he has been popular here for years)... and last night he won a Gold Label for his new CD, Three Candles. It has been amazing. It has been a lot of awards and a lot of interviews and a lot of concerts and a lot of maintenance... but it is all worth it. he has the impulse now to start his new album and i believe it is going to be better than ever.
anyways today is my first actual day that i have no interviews on tv, no meetings, no concerts, and no hard-core work schedule. how fitting that my throat would start to hurt... i just hope that it goes away soon.
arthur and i are getting ready for a big america trip. we will be going for a month and i am very curious to see how things will be. i have not been to the states in over a year and well... i wonder how much of a local i have become. i am very adaptive, sponge -like and have become quite accostomed to life here... so, i am curious to see how things will be.
we still do not have snow in yerevan.
here is an update to end all updates.
CAREER:
my boss came into town from minessota and we got a lot done. thank you nigol-zabel for posting that picture of the botero cat because i would have never been able to do it... but i will give the update anyways.
last week we unveiled the famous cat by fernando botero. fernando botero is one of the most famous living contemporary artists alive... and probably latin america's most famous living artist. his work has a unique style which makes him very recognizable, he distorts sizes... and everyone or everything ends up really fat on his canvas. so cat, is from his line of animals and is a 2 meter bronze sculpture and it was just placed in yerevan. this is the first peice of artwork coming into yerevan from mr. cafesjian's private collection and it is stunning. i just can't believe that we have a fernando botero... that is awesome.
we also opened the escalators inside the structure cascade. these escalators had last worked in 1997 for 40 drams a ride. Now they have reopened and are better than ever and they are FREE. it was so great to see everyone riding up and down, excited. this is a major sign of hope and a definite good thing that people can actually touch (i mean ride)... needless to say i felt amazing for putting the event together and i felt great about all the work mr. cafesjian and our team have done.
for the most part people here are very undestanding about the new pison (kitty)... they understand it is a very expensive contemporary work of art and yerevan is lucky to have it. some people just don't get it and are wondering why there is a huge black cat in the middle of a city that only has statues of famous people of armenian history. it is going to take some time to get used to and meanwhile all i can do is roll my eyes and grunt at the comments.
ARTHUR:
in the past two weeks, my husband, singer, arthur ispirian (in case we have any new readers) has won 3 AWARDS. first he won the Groong Parathon award for singer of the year... which got him at least 20 interviews and then he won best newcomer at the Armenian Music Awards (since he is a relatively new name in the states, although he has been popular here for years)... and last night he won a Gold Label for his new CD, Three Candles. It has been amazing. It has been a lot of awards and a lot of interviews and a lot of concerts and a lot of maintenance... but it is all worth it. he has the impulse now to start his new album and i believe it is going to be better than ever.
anyways today is my first actual day that i have no interviews on tv, no meetings, no concerts, and no hard-core work schedule. how fitting that my throat would start to hurt... i just hope that it goes away soon.
arthur and i are getting ready for a big america trip. we will be going for a month and i am very curious to see how things will be. i have not been to the states in over a year and well... i wonder how much of a local i have become. i am very adaptive, sponge -like and have become quite accostomed to life here... so, i am curious to see how things will be.
we still do not have snow in yerevan.
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