HEY YOU

i've moved, this blog doesn't let me breath. its aura is TOTALLY OVER coloured.

CATCH UP FAST.

MARY KEEP ON ROLLIN

i'm entirely sick to death of everything seen here:


working retail and going to art-school have probably added to the rapid decline of these in my regards. I'M GUILTY TOO GUYS, WE ARE ALL IN THE WRONG HERE.

i'm calling for some sort of revolution, whats next!? if i see more fake ray-ban wayfarers, ironic hats, unnecessary eye-glasses, or neon, come spring i'll flip.

COME ON KIDS.

GLITTER-PUNKS

i'm astounded by the recent discovery of a performance troupe from the sixties and seventies called the cockettes. i don't know how i haven't stumbled on them somehow already. the documentary, the cockettes, is delightful and low-budget.

(FOUNDER- HIBISCUS)


i have been going through this stage where i think i need to streamline and de-clutter and modernize and grow up. but damn these guys make me want to add to my old-lady opium den wardrobe feathers and velvet and lace and fur and jewelry jewelry. and i'm mourning the lack of beautiful boys with no boundaries, drug habits, christ-complexes, and curly curly beard heads here in 2009.

INTERMINABLE

i am so racked with boredom. i am usually very content to do nothing. i actually left my house with the intention (and the shorts) to work out. someone is in the weight room so thats out.

i have watched some great movies. Pink Narcissus, and Matador. I wouldn't recommend Pink Narcissus. Its beautiful but too
aimless. Its better as a google image search than as a movie. Oh i take that back, watch it, if like me you have 100 years of nothing ahead of you.

Matador is really good, another Almodovar movie. It is somehow even more pulpy than his other movies, but i've seen them in almost reverse chronology.

I previously mentioned what a Q T PIE antonio banderas was...there is a funny part where antonio comes to turn him self in (for attempted rape) and the woman at the police station says, "some girls are too lucky." The common denominator between the two movies was a bullfighter. I have been sort of intrigued with the idea...so i think i'll take my obsessive personality for a stroll down to the library for some leisure reading on spanish bullfighting. Also i will probably dye some socks pink.



another pastime of mine has been reading jane austen. i got a volume of her collected works from savers and just started to read last night. I'm halfway through Emma. I like her writing because its perfect for my mood right now. Her stories are or seem to be about trivial things but then you get wrapped up in them and then you are clued in on character flaws and little lies and secrets and it all becomes this huge deal. society used to be so fun, i get the feeling. everyone goes on and on about things that you as a modern reader feel are none of their damn business. Talking forever about the manners of someone they've never met! So silly and fun to read. Also i have to say that Emma is a tough heroine to get behind, she is really selfish and mislead. BUT THATS HALF THE FUN.

i'm screwed with work, i have no hours at either and will have to get a third just to make one real job. jeez louieezze.

GREEN PORNO

Isabella Rossellini did these two minute videos for sundance about the mating rituals of insects. i like the bee one best i think.

ELLA DOES IT BETTER

FATHER

this is my dad.  i don't mean to display him like this, and if he knew these were "on the computer" he wouldn't like it.  but when i see him in photos i don't believe we share blood.  he is holding two carvings he did out of antler and horn.  his house is bedecked in bones and fur and taxidermy.  

i think my favourites are the tiny reindeer head and the antler chandelier in his entryway.  i didn't get a photo of that because i only see him once a year and it seemed wrong to spend the time photographing his home instead of conversing.

i think i'm becoming one of those family photo blogs where they post for the relations.  next i'm going to send out a christmas letter.

GOT ME HOPIN YOU'LL PAGE ME

                                          still fantastic.

antony/pta mom?

BELLS IN A CAVE

i recently read a book entitled, Terra Incognita; Travels in Antarctica, by Sara Wheeler. It harkens a return for me to my one-time favourite sort of literature, Travel Writing! I am years away from being able to afford any sort of travel beyond the armchair variety... Some day though. This book is wonderful because it feels like and i think was intended as an introduction to Antarctica. Wheeler quotes all the big names of Antarctic exploration heavily and those were the passages that won me over.

I quote:

"When you look upon such things there comes surging through the confusion of the mind an awareness of the dignity of the earth, of the unaccountable importance of being alive, and the thought comes out of nowhere that unhappiness rises not from lacking as from having too much...And you guess the end of the world will probably look like that, and the last men retreating from the cliffs will look out upon some such horizon, with all things at last in equilibrium, the winds quiet, the sea frozen, the sky composed, and the earth in glacial quietude."

-Richard E. Byrd, from Discovery

Doesn't that just kill you? I'm making a list of books from the bibliography to read.

BORED

HANNAH IRENE <3 <3

this is my sister hannah.

this photo's caption on myspace is:

"NEW-I got kicked outta class sooo i took pics"

and here is another, just so you can see her range.



HANNAH I LOVE YOU AND MISS YOU AND CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOU.

ANTI ROYALIST TRASH

i love these propaganda cartoons.  i can't find any images of the really dirty stuff.  A lot of the pamphlets circulating were about how she was having sex with every man, woman and animal she could find.  i know there exist really cool illustrations but i can't find them, which makes me think i should do them myself.

FUN FACT:  One euphemism for lesbianism in France was "the german vice" which is sorta funny, but wasn't so great for antoinette, who was from austria. 

PLEASE LISTEN TO THIS.

RITA MITSOUKO

 

KERAMIC

weiner werkstatte ceramic.

AITOR THROUP

art crush, big time.  he does clothing and sculpture and draws the most beautiful things.  see a fraction of that here on his website.  i have been doing sort of planar figures, messing with proportions and exaggerating, giving lines weight...i found him at a good time,  serendipitous.

JOHN FEODOROV

John Feodorov does alot of work that deals with modern societies need for spirituality, and the kitcshy treatment of the existing tribal cultures.  i was most impressed by his "Collectibles" series of altered family photos that he added text to from those mail-outs for cheesy porcelain native american statuettes.   

I liked too his altered 'see and say.'  we all had them, i loved mine (muppet and farm-friends versions.)  feodorov made his into a ritualistic implement.  i think more than anything i like his work because it establishes this current trend of putting feathers and rainbows on everything in a solid artistic tradition.  while i think some contemporaries of mine may or may not share his ideas, it sort of allows me to like their work in spite of a general feeling that it lacks content.  of course there is a history of artists working with these ideas, it never stopped from the time when it was simply what people were and did, to what people lack and long-for and try to mimic or reproduce.  

it was ignorant of me to think it sprung a year ago from nowhere as a fad.  long live animal skulls and neon geometrics!

PERSIAN LAMB

i'm obsessed with persian lamb.  it is the most disgusting beautiful texture ever.  its a brain of hair.  i am hunting for a coat of it in black.

ROSSY DE PALMA

i was google imaging the actress Rossy De Palma, for obvious reasons...when i discovered that 1.) pedro almodovar has a blog.  2.) he has a new film due for release in march 2009!

i fall more in love with his movies everytime i see them.  and every new one i see becomes a favourite.  i recently saw The Law of Desire.  incredible!  as per  usual a synopsis is impossible.  i love that he'll have a woman play a transexual man, and a transexual actress (Bibiana Fernandez) play a woman and mother.  also i always thought Antonio Banderas was just cheese, but he was a looker when he was young, pre-pony-tail, and a pretty good actor.

i could go on and on but just watch his films. 

i still need to see High Heels, Labyrinth of Passions, Pepi, Luci, Bom, What Have I done to Deserve This?, and Matador.  

LIKE A GHOST

i'm leaving minneapolis when my lease is up.  i can feel changes, they are a commin.  i generally mourn things for a really long time before realizing that my reasons for doing so are dumb or at least misguided.  i did in the end get alot from being here.  i'm gonna float on out, and up!  I WISH IT WAS ON THIS, THE MANNED CLOUD.

Passion Pit, "Sleepyhead"

Hercules and Love Affair, "Blind"

Antony and the Johnsons, "Shake That Devil"

i've been doing work again!  i'm sort of letting a comic idea bake.  also some patterns.