Mumbai Fly-By

Just got back from Bose Krishnamachari's curated group show at Bodhi art gallery in Mumbai. Been flying by the seat of my pants as usual since returning to Mumbai three days back from Thailand, coordinating to meet a million different people for lunches, dinners, rendevouz, etc. to talk about all kinds of fun opportunities for myself, etc. Also trying to organize all the delightful goodies I brought back with me from Thailand that I quickly had to shoot before shipping back to America for my store (www.vicariouscollection.com). Here's just a few samples for those who may be curious about what I got:

Taxi Driver T-Shirt
$19.99 USD + S/H

Yoda Don't Do Pop
$19.99 + S/H

C3-PO Ring
$19.99 + S/H

Van Gogh Earrings
$7.99 + S/H

Almost of of this stuff came from Chatuchat weekend market in Bangkok, one of my most favorite places in the world, and also one of the craziest and amazing places to shop on the planet. They sell everything and there is always an abundance of young exciting graphic artists and clothing designers always growing and changing there and delightfully mixed into the labyrinth of a place that it is.

I'm planning to have all the many items I picked up soon posted on my flickr account, or perhaps my website soon (again, www.vicariouscollection.com), not sure yet if I'll have them for sale right away, but by all means if you would like to reserve any item, just shoot me an email at michaelfiles@vicariouscollection.com.

Sorry, back to the art opening

But anyway, as for tonight's fun, it was actually a duel opening at both of Bodhi's spaces in Mumbai, one at the Wadibunder transformed warehouse space, and one at the Kalaghoda gallery space. Had some really nice stuff. Standouts were Charmi Gada's work, along with a few others who I couldn't catch their names because nothing was labeled. Which I kinda liked actually. This guy in particular had a very nice piece. Again, I even talked to him, and had a little conversation about the work, but didn't catch his name.

The shows must have been put up crazy fast, because the show at Kalaghoda reeked of paint fumes from the walls that I heard had just been finished an hour before the opening.
Anyway, I guess the recession has really hit because there weren't any damn waiters in little white gloves accosting me non-stop with hors d'oeuvres. Which I was really banking on for dinner actually.

Instead all there was was crappy Madera wine (which is an exceptionally crappy wine, but actually not bad for Indian-made red wines for those who don't know. Indian whites are much better) and home-brewed filtered water. There weren't even wasteful individual bottles of mineral water! They actually had a container in the ice bucket filled with water that they would unscrew and fill your glass with! Can you believe that! What is this world coming to!? How will we continue to fill the landfills and create mountains of garbage with this sort of nonsense!

There were however, and exceptionally large amount of art paparazzi even for a show in Mumbai, so that it seemed every time I went to have a conversation or meet someone there were flashbulbs going off or video spot-lights on me. Which I don't mind actually, Ha! :)

Slumdog is a slumdog

In other news, I finally saw Slumdog Millionaire last night, in Mumbai no-less, and was severely . . . dissapointed. I'm sorry, I gotta speak the truth. A decent flick. That's it - 3 stars.
What the hell is all the hype about? I'm sorry, maybe its because I live in Mumbai, but I just don't get it. Best Picture nomination? Are you f-ing kidding me?

Well, that's all for now, I think I was gonna post something else, but ah, I'll get to it later. Love, Mikey