What's my Motivation?

[mbarrick]

I am annoyed today. I'm annoyed that I am sitting here working myself out of a job when, if this craptastic company hadn't bought my previous employer, I would be in New York right now with valerian. I postponed the trip because at the point when I could have booked it I wasn't sure if I was going to have a job at this point. Now that I have my working notice and severance I was OK with having the trip postponed and simply going another time -- right up until this past Saturday when I started seeing pictures of "The Gates" in Central Park.

"The Gates" is a Christo installation of 16' high orange square arches with orange fabric hanging down to the 7' level spaced along every single one of Central Park's 23 miles of pathway. If we had travelled as planned Elaine and I could be walking under these right now. The old owner used to have a picture of "Surrounded Islands" hanging in the office, the new owner is an artless bludge from Vernon whose only comment on the art in my office was, "Classy."

I fucking hate this place.

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[mediavictim.livejournal.com]

Ahhh your boss bought

"Dogberts discount art
If its in a frame it will look like art to you.

only $6 a pound"

[http://users.livejournal.com/_disdain_/]

Old owner:


New owner:


If you take a picture of your office/workspace and post it, I will do the same... we can have a contest for spartan/artsy/just-damned-cool work environments ;-)

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Here (http://www.mbarrick.net/livejournal/2005/02/Lignum-Lobby.jpg) (1543 x 222 pixel 360° panorama) is what the lobby used to look like. The paintings are "Two Dimensional Rendering of a Large Number" by Gathie Falk, "August 1939" by Christopher Pratt and "Summer Reflections" by William Roberts. The small one just beside the receptionist is also a Christopher Pratt. It's all gone now, even the stained glass on the other side of the elevators and the logo carpert. The stained glass has been replaced with cheap decal-frosted glass and there is VAG rental art replacing the old owners paintings, although the marks from where the old art hung for 15 years have yet to be cleaned. The rental art is definitely better than nothing, but it was selected mostly by size than aesthetic reasons. There used to be an original Emily Carr in the office, three John Hughes, the owner had an orginal Warhol array and an original Roy Lichtenstein in his office. I wish I could show you the Vernon office in contrast - it's a windowless former department store filled with cubicles and "motivational" posters.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_disdain_/]

Wow, that looks really nice. We basically have no artwork in our office, other than on my desk. It's a pretty funky old heritage office in Gastown, so it definitely has character. I'll snap a few shots and post them tomorrow...