Note to self:

Animals are people too

I’ve just had a breakthrough, so I’m not procrastinating. I’m taking a celebratory break. This is a really funny clip of the after-effects of ingesting rotting fruit. Don’t do it, kids.

From “Animals Are People Too” (1974)

Posted: April 3rd, 2008 under Fun.
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Artist Crush: Miranda July

Miranda July is amazing. Please watch Me and You and Everyone We Know for an idea of just how brilliant. Here’s an example of her genius on YouTube, part of the Learning to Love You More project:

Posted: March 30th, 2008 under Artist, Artwork, Collectives, Website.
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I don’t wanna work

Achieved thus far:

Clarified thesis proposal: Mother-daughter relationship umbrella topic; touch, communication, translucency, etc. The final project will be a tent (8ft diameter footprint and 5ft tall), made of translucent fabrics with free motion embroidery technique and the interior will be ruffly! Like… you know, your insides.)
Preliminary photoshoot (gallery’s on the right! Photos by Lino Ragno)
Applied to TOAE March 1
Midterm Critique (still awaiting my grade, eep!)
Shadowboxes for the MAAD Shadowbox Show (sold one already! woot)
Constructed the framework for the tent structure! Mostly, anyway…
Completed construction of framework for the tent structure
Photoshoot for catalogue (March 11 – images to come)
Applied to Harbourfront Centre Craft Studio!!! (March 14 deadline)

To do:

Change that damn header image up there^
60% completion of the tent cover
Display/Installation plan due March 11 (oops)
Thesis paper draft due March 18 (working on it tomorrow)
Technical statement due March 18 (this weekend)
Final Thesis paper due April 1
Cancel grad photoshoot session because I just found out Walmart does them for a fraction of the price! And it can wait till June or something (tomorrow)

~~Apply for Yonge-Dundas Square fair (March 15 deadline)~~

Posted: March 12th, 2008 under Miscellaneous, Progress.
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Hussein Chalayan is my homeboy

Hussein Chalayan’s work is thrilling to no end. He is a British-based Turkish Cypriot fashion designer who fuses his love of architecture, technology and fashion exquisitely.

More:
Hussein Chalayan’s Official site
Hussein Chalayan on YouTube

Posted: March 6th, 2008 under Artist, Design, Designer, Fashion, Website.
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I’m addressing you.
Are you going to let our emotional life be run by OK! Magazine?
I’m obsessed by OK! Magazine.
I read it every week.
Its cover stares at me every time I slink past the corner candystore.
I read it in the basement of the Toronto Public Library.
It’s always telling me about irresponsibility. Lily Allen** is pregnant.
Jamie Lynn Spears is pregnant. Everybody’s pregnant BUT ME!*
It occurs to me that I am America.
I am talking to myself again.

* HAIL JEBUS!
** Written 12.09.07

Posted: March 6th, 2008 under Miscellaneous.
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The liquid measure of your steps

Delicious imagery.

Love Sonnet XI
Pablo Neruda

I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets.
Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day
I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.

I hunger for your sleek laugh,
your hands the color of a savage harvest,
hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails,
I want to eat your skin like a whole almond.

I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body,
the sovereign nose of your arrogant face,
I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes,

and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight,
hunting for you, for your hot heart,
like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.

Posted: March 6th, 2008 under Miscellaneous, Uncategorized.
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My kingdom for a TARDIS

Wow, that was really nerdy.

I’m the worst at time management. I’m not even 50% complete and I’ve only got a month left of school. It’ll be done by then, of course, (becauseitsimplyMUSTbedone) but that only means that the habit of getting only 2-3 hours of sleep nightly lately will become somewhat of a habit until mid-April. OMJUDNESS!! I’MONADIE!!

So I’m gonna make lists. Partially because lists soothe me. Mostly because making lists helps me to procrastinate without feeling guilty.

Achieved thus far:

Clarified thesis proposal: Mother-daughter relationship umbrella topic; touch, communication, translucency, etc. The final project will be a tent (8ft diameter footprint and 5ft tall), made of translucent fabrics with free motion embroidery technique and the interior will be ruffly! Like… you know, your insides.)
Preliminary photoshoot (gallery’s on the right! Photos by Lino Ragno)
Applied to TOAE March 1
Midterm Critique (still awaiting my grade, eep!)
Shadowboxes for the MAAD Shadowbox Show (sold one already! woot)
Constructed the framework for the tent structure! Mostly, anyway…

To do: