Keep your eyes peeled! This flyer is right near Charlie's Kitchen in Harvard Sqare. I got a bit carried away with the pins but cant wait for the show coming up July 29th!
On another note, just the other day, bright and early, I caught site of the sun rising on the Charles River in Boston. It was EPIC, for a lack of better, more fulfilling intellectually intriguing words. After the sunrise and a quick breakfast, I was floating around the city on my bike before work and arrived at Perry Park in Somerville on this spinning circular piece of playground equipment. I had been introduced to this funky playground part and wished that it had existed within my access when I was younger.
Boston Common after being stood up for lunch with a new friend I hardly know.
People are good-looking, talk-a-tive, touch and go, ugly, friendly, new, old and more other adjectives. I am getting a more empathetic arrival to people and motives and realizing that everyone is different and thinking of 50 other things before even introducing one's self. Thinking of a bazillion other things other than what's in hand seems like a paranoid based epidemic of worry we all embark on. Thinking too much complicates basic human interaction and what is actually present and okay. This is not an innuendo for anything but instead an analytical thought on interaction. I am not disappointed rather world-weary and confused at what happens when one says, "Hi my name is so and so and this is what I do," in the same skin they've been in all their life. What does one really do? What doesn't one really do?!
This Feel-Good song creeps up in my head every now and then. I am starting to grow closely fond for Seabear like a diamond [surfacing] from under my skin. The hushing mother naturey-narrative lyrics are hard to discern or google and that mystery is uniquely endearing when blended with the miscellaneous chuckles of sounds going on. The lyricist also tends to use similar phrases in some of their songs that keeps this continuous strand of Seabear musical DNA somehow. I Love, Love, Looovvve it. The lyric, "Shake the leaves" and the character "Owl Girl" tend to pop up here are there, it's both serene and sublime. Have a listen and a look-see!
Seabear "I sing I swim"
When the birds are sleeping That's when the trees sing You left your winter clothes, And your teeth marks in my skin
So shake the leaves, off the trees, Watch them float down the stream Your son, your daughter Swimming in the water
And I miss you, even when you're around I'm a black cloud, Sending lightning to the ground
So darling please, show your teeth Just one more dance to help me sleep ???, cold water eyes Fill the past with friendly nights Human skin, can be hard to live in You'll feel better in the morning Wash your hands in the lake You've got a heart, ???
Trails lost in the snow Make way for winter's eerie glow And that black rock in your bedroom I hope you'll climb it soon In your boat, tied to a tree I hope you'll find the sea
Throw me a dream please, it's been a dreamless sleep For such a long time, such a long time Sing myself awake Watch the branches break No one could ever take your place
Wash your face in the lake You've got a diamond under your skin
So today is a back-to-back potential day of craziness. Afternoon Sox Game+Brand New=GLORIOUS. I still need that Brand New ticket though. I'm working on it!
I was on my way to school where I witnessed the demolition of the carriage house at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. It was a pretty strange experience being caught off guard and seeing this a fully formed structure that I hardly ever looked at in the first place to 3/4 the way to a pile of rubble, on video.
[New Artwork from Spring 09'] Experience "X" Thinking about depending on the MBTA.[detail]
[New Artwork from Spring 09'] Experience "X" Thinking about the value of the U.S. Dollar[detail] [New Artwork from Spring 09'] Experience "X" Going to the Dollar Store to make art [detail] [New Artwork from Spring 09'] Experience "X" Contemplating what an experience is through a Zen Garden[detail] [New Works Summer 09'] Experience "X" Going to the Dollar Store to make art. [New Works in Progress Summer 09'] I found this face on this DJEEP liter I had found on the ground. I am always checking out my surroundings for faces. Not sure where this will lead but I am not forcing it, it just is more about the discovery and documentation of these finds. [New Works in Progress Summer 09'] This began in the spring when I taught self-portraiture. I was intrigued with the idea that, maybe the experience of drawing yourself from a mirror doesn't reflect entirely how you view yourself and the act of doing that process is arbitrary in a fast paced world where we can snap photos and move on and maybe it's not who you are on a daily basis. I decided to capture the process of viewing myself through my other viewed perspective and that is through my profile picture. I've grown pretty comfortable with this one and I find the act of "drawing from a picture or a computer screen" seems more relevant in its process for me to create as art. One of my teachers shunned me away from drawing from photos because they said that you loose the energy and visceral depth that drawing from a mirror would have. For someone to say, "you don't want that" might be false, maybe I am depicting a facade of what is visceral, maybe that's the idea. I love where this concept of the, non-visceral or superficial depth is going I just have to pin this down and keep working on it. [New Works in Progress Summer 09'] Not sure what is going on, these are some dollar store and REstore items mixed together. I'm not totally into it. It came too easy to do. I don't like to decorate things to things because it forces the art to be art and it reinforces how you use the items in the picture where I want to find another way to view these things (example: jewels with flat backs get glue on them and are routinely for bedazzling something/stickers are for sticking) [New Works in Progress Summer 09'] Random arrangement, playing off the face idea. Not quite a ready-made discovery like the liter but, I've got nothing on this one. I used it in a song and people find joy in its, size, flat and sharp notes & wit.
I came for a certain book and left with this one. The cover was unattractively Lichensteinian but I didn't judge. It's basically a collection of western idiomatic language that dates back to ancient times to the present. Written by Ralph Keyes, who has written 15 books before, "I LOVE IT WHEN YOU TALK RETRO," has made the book as a tool for talking like a stuck up cool cat or a tool for decoding your stuck up cool cat friends or even your political science professor that says to his class, "You guys know what I'm talking about." This is a great informative read, it's not just a dog and pony read but a three ringed circus of a read!! Dog and pony refers to circus shows that could only afford modest animals(no tigers and elephants)."-Ralph Keyes
In the midst of making new friends I've grown accustomed to the consideration of spending lightly and alternatively. I recently lost my makeshift wallet containing things like, a homemade cartoon received and lost in under 24 hours of getting it, other mementos and the big important identification stuff too. I had just made this thrifty wallet by using the empty box from a vintage 12 pack of white chalk that I got on my birthday. In the window where the chalk would be displayed was instead replaced with a pair Andrew Jackson's creepy eyes looking out at you from the opening. He had this glare like a weird mysterious painted portrait that stares at you when you walk by this image in a museum or someone's grandmother's mothy household. In terms of this makeshift wallet mindset, my wallet has been replaced with a homemade wallet made from a tropicana box (amusingly grand), hopefully I don't grow fond of this one (in which I already believe so is happening) and loose it like the other. Also too, if I loose it, I'm hoping that someone will assume that it's throw away trash and not make any attempts to steal my identity. heh heh...I'm kind of worried of that, and not...Who steals identities any who?! This would be a great opportunity for a spammer to warn me about my identity being stolen in the comment section for there is enough power in that old wallet for it to happen.
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