Doc Martens

I FINALLY GET IT! FINALLY! Thnx Tai.

Dream Weaving

Can't you just totally see me in this jacket? Lounging by the fireplace, reading Costco catalogs? Some day, I'ma' own that dream.


I don't know what I am doing searching terms like "Cats sweater" on ebay. Not at this time of the year anyway. It's been dead hot! I've been all sweaty tanks and shorts, working outside on the island all summer. What a treat that job has turned out to be. Yesterday I spent 5 hours doing shaving cream paper marbling with kids!


I've got a flickr set going of my projects on the island. And a million more adorable, artsy things can be seen at the CMA Blog, including loads of claymation and stop animation movies done in the media lab - Like this!

Tangrams!

Give it a spin!
Give it a spin!
Give it a spin!
Give it a spin!
Give it a spin!

LEt's talk about films!

Le Roi de coeur ! King of Hearts!

Let's !

Stumbling Uponings

One thing about big city is that sometimes you will accidentally walk by something you have seen or heard about on the internet! The good side of that is that sometimes you walk by this!

Goodness gracious and I just got to walk in and look around at all these treats for free! Lucky me, it was the last day of the exhibition.


The name to know is Michael Velliquette, the game to play is cut and glue. It's all made straight out of Commericially Colored Cardstock.


Seen left and right are his TOWERS in whole. Above back up there is a detail.


There is more of this here here here here here here here here!


I'm a sucker for obsessively detailed work, of course - check his web hole to see what I mean.

Zonker

Got new glasses again ! They make me feel really cool.


This is what happened today while nodding off for my afternoon nap:

I wish I was in a sea bed right now. Sea bed... or river bed. "Truck bed?"
Forest floors, cliff walls, and the sea bed. "Ocean shelves can go on the cliff walls"
The ceiling can be like, stars, what is the expression? Canopy of stars?
And what do you call those mountains that look like tables? "Mesas, it's Spanish for table"
"We can eat with river forks off of tectonic plates."
But what are we going to sit on? Elephant stools?

Zonk!

Power Trippin'

After a long pathetic winter of unemployment and sinus infections, I am at last sort of having a life again! I found some jobs, and have even been leaving my house occasionally for recreation!

I am a teaching artist for the Children's Museum of the Arts in Manhattan. I'm planning, managing, and then working at the Museums summer programing on a little Eden just a 5 minute ferry ride away from the city grime called Governor's Island . I'M GOING TO HAVE INTERNS! That's the best part, of course. I love power so much!

Surprise I have TWO jobs ! I'm also currently getting PAID to do the same painting I was doing months ago as an unpaid intern at the InsanityIlluminationFoundation in East Hampton. I'm still having issues with my boss lady, but it's easier to handle now that you know, I'm getting paid.

She's a real crack, right? Listen, after she dropped off the images for me to work on last Thursday she told me she was going to be at a silent retreat all weekend, "but" she said, "if you have any questions, just text me!"

Right? Where do I find these people? Plus side though, since she made it totally clear that she needs me working for her, since she just can't work her own miniatures like I can, I get to throw down little slices of attitude whenever she pisses me off the rim. I love power. Like, yesterday, I confronted her for something big and important she'd forgotten, and as she was apologizing for the twentieth time about how forgetful she is and how she just can't keep track I said straight up, girl "self analysis without self-improvement is just vanity." Jeah, Chew on that up your butt!!!


Coming out of my winter cave hasn't been easy though. Two months in bed watching netflix and spitting into tissues hasn't exactly improved my socializing skills. I can't tell if what I think is funny sounds funny, or if it just sounds psychotic. Also vice versa, if you know what I mean. I like to think that is a common problem though, so maybe, (even worse) the issue is that MAYBE I STILL CAN SOCIALIZE JUST FINE AND I WHAT I'VE LOST IS MY OFFENSIVELY HIGH SELF CONFIDENCE!!!!

Yesterday, Sassoon-Mitchell came over and sculpted my hair into some mad sexy alien helmet thing and after we'd exhausted talking about the music which I'd put on, and all music like it, and then jimmy hendrix just for good measure, all I could think to talk about was the side effects of the bad plumbing in my apartment! Sheesh.

Wish me luck!

Unemployment Collection

So, while scoping S.Blanco's latest documentation of 'playa' status on facebook, the following advertisement caught my eye.





As 'Depressing' wasn't an option, I ended up just canceling the thumbs down.

On Blogging

I live in New York now, it's very exciting! One day, Hannah and I saw someone on my street (in Brooklynnn) eating china spaghetti out of a box (that once upon a time, I remembered, jr.high maybe? could pass as a purse if you were in like, art club?) Something about the way the noodles slapped against his chest hit us both at once with an unconquerable craving for a noodle lunch to call our own, so we JMZ'd straight in to the heart of China and sat ourselves at the restaurant pictured above (it was February). They gave us a very, very strange tea. It made us very quiet, and confused. They were watching a game show with a very, very round woman in a unitard and tutu who was contorting her body to fit through a hoop that of course appeared too small for her very round body. She was so taut in that unitard, it was remarkable.

One thing I love to do here is eat really incredible food all the time. It's everywhere! It's the best! Another thing I like to do here is shop too much. I have so many matching tropical plants on my windowsills, they look so full of something when everything behind them is covered in snow, winter is a marshmallow world, you know! In addition to these plants, I have a small collection of rocks, shells, and sticks which I started bringing home from East Hampton when I knew I was soon leaving it for good!

And what good it was when I left! What an experience THAT was! Ask me about it personally, privately, for I disclaimed my right to comment negatively about the foundation. Regardless of the insanity, the whole thing looks amazing on my resume - produced limited edition hand gilded art publication, contributed to works exhibited in major NYC galleries, developed and applied non-profit fundraising and event planning strategies, participated in board meetings and led event planning meetings- by the way if you need help updating your resume, I think I have truly mastered that particular language art.

Finally, I would like to formally announce that I was accepted in to one of the two grad schools I decided to apply to just weeks before the deadlines approached, and that I will in fact be living in New York for a bit longer in order to attend NYU for my masters in Art Education. This news probably includes some kind of enviable summer studio art program in Italy, and the guarantee of eating pizza for dinner for the next few nights to celebrate! YES IT DOES! I EARNED THAT PIZZA!!

UPDATE: Just had pizza for breakfast!