Lee Aulson's Blog

updates!

2011-03-22T20:18:00.001-04:00

Hello All, new website here leeaulson.com

The blog will keep going. The site "leeaulson.com" will be mainly posts of my art.

2011-02-03T01:08:00.005-05:00

new music!

Remember these words now: Streight Angular

2011-02-02T14:47:00.005-05:00

Excellent Boston based band, Streight Angular is featured on Boston Band Crush! Check it out.

Listen to: "Everyone is Syncopated"
Downloadable @: http://www.bostonbandcrush.com/

2011-01-27T13:50:00.001-05:00

2011-01-22T14:09:00.001-05:00

learning how to do animation in Pencil

2010-10-11T13:54:00.003-04:00

I made this short clip using an Open Source Program called, Pencil.

Pencil Animation

2010-10-01T18:17:00.001-04:00

KENK

2010-09-27T11:54:00.002-04:00

saw this Teaser at the Bicycle Film Festival at the Brattle Theatre this weekend about Igor Kenk.

"After the system falls to pieces, the man with bikes will be king"

KENK - Teaser from Craig Small on Vimeo.

I'm curious about this film.. I can't tell if there is more interest in adding cool effects and/or commodifying this guys radical thoughts orrrrr if this film is a thoughtful look on one mans accounts within over industrialized america. It's just super well composed. There's something amiss.

New ReStore Site!

2010-09-06T20:50:00.002-04:00

The ReStore is on the WEB!

The ReStore Project at Tumblrrrrr

Aloneish-Isn't Note #1

2010-07-26T03:06:00.003-04:00

Holding a jug of water, a book in the pit, fingertips balancing my bike and walking forward are the assigned positions. The head is mostly looking straightforward but, at night it is pointed downwards. I’m assuming this is the maximum amount of energy that my body can push forth after 8 o’clock pm. The street I live on has 2 friendly outdoor cats. They roam around from time to time and one of them has a black collar with a cross bone pattern on it. The cats tail at the end is cricked forward like a floppy dog ear. I pat her sometimes when she rolls around on my driveway.

In a matter of a paragraph and surveying what it means to be alone I’ve concluded that the closest things to me right now are my observations and that I’m really just walking on by and taking the world in. It’s a walk that is not preferable to all but necessary for others. A walk that doesn’t have to physically include anyone. It’s been strange though, I am self sufficient. It’s tenderly awkward like a weird tale.

dismal perspiration

2010-07-11T13:45:00.002-04:00

2010-07-01T00:29:00.007-04:00

What If
What if there was a place that housed artist on a hill?
What if all the roommates became very chill?
What if the decorations lasted all through the year?
What if each and every one of you lived there?
We can only fathom such a place,
to remember and to live by...
that place we called the HEAP house!
Where 'What if's' could fly.

This is a photo of the notorious HEAP house. This place housed Massart students for years and went up in flames just over a week ago. All the roommates are safe. This place was a definite memorable part of my college experience among others.

great vid.

2010-06-03T11:17:00.000-04:00

Newport Folk Festival 2010 from Mike Anderson on Vimeo.

Hot Tracks

2010-05-23T21:30:00.006-04:00

Here are some hot hits made from my peers @ Massart. There's more where that came from and coming from.

Testified by pupstar

Zayde Buti - DD (produced by Universal Tongues) - zaydebuti@gmail.com by Zayde Buti

Thank-you BikesNotBombs of JP

2010-05-23T21:22:00.000-04:00

<3 <3 <3 my new ride

☞ ART WALK + $TORE $HOW

2010-04-28T14:18:00.016-04:00

My peers as well as myself have art coming up into these two shows on MAY 8TH & 9TH:
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Fort Point ART WALK
May 8th - 9th, 12-5p
☞☞☞☞☞☞☞☞☞☞☞Reception May 8th, 4-6p
'Gallery 406'
A.Midway Studios
15 Channel Center-4th floor
Boston, MA 02210
Fort Point ART WALK
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"Carry Out" @ MEME
Group show curated by Courtney Moy
viewing May 8th 12-6
☞☞☞☞☞☞☞☞☞☞☞Reception May 8th, 7-9p
MEME Gallery
55 Norfolk St
Cambridge, MA 02139
Carry Out $tore $how!

new art [details for now]

2010-04-28T02:31:00.004-04:00

"Thursday Night Tootsie Rolls"

2010-04-16T02:00:00.001-04:00

"are we there yet?"

2010-04-11T22:06:00.001-04:00

"are we there yet?" is a collaborative art exhibition focusing on the idea of "what it means to sustain something". The exhibition features the original artwork of over twenty local Boston artists and will be available to come view three weeks in April starting on the 13th.

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"are we there yet?"
in the Arnheim Gallery, South Hall
Massachusetts College of Art & Design
632 Huntington Avenue. Boston, MA 02115
617.879.7000 / http://www.massart.edu

Exhibition Dates: April 13 - April 29, 2010
Opening: Wednesday April 21, 2010 (6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Arnheim Gallery Hours:
Monday - Saturday 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Admission: FREE

Featuring the original art of:
John Giordano
Annmarie Rebola
Toai Thach
Maxine Wolfe
Michaela Medeiros
Kira Maintanis
Alyssa Flaherty
Caitlin Mannix
Sarah Rosen
Elizabeth Kovarsky
Matthew King
Tessa Wilson
Craig Silva
Jessica Fennessey
Gina Baccari
Elizabeth Peterson
Leah Jaffe
Kirsten Cox
Lee Aulson
Melissa Evans-McKeever
Jennifer Simmonds
Katie Marshall

"Art for Airfare"

2010-04-11T21:59:00.003-04:00

"Art for Airfare"

Date: Thursday, April 15, 2010
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: North Crackatorium @ Massachusetts College of Art + Design

I did A.S.B. this semester and I'm going to be in this show coming up quiiick!

Alternative Spring Break is a Massart student run group who volunteer with Habitat for Humanity during their spring break building homes for needy families. Students involved in ASB fundraise and pay for their own airfare, food, etc. This show is a collection of works done by students involved in ASB who are donating their work to an anonymous donor who it turn will be donating money to the group to cover airfare. Come see a variety of work from the students who worked hard in El Paso and Laredo, TX representing our school while building houses this year!

Show is up from Sunday 4/11 until the following Sunday, Opening is Thursday 4/15

"The death of Print"

2010-04-09T20:00:00.000-04:00

"The death of Print"
By: Keith Caswell

This is a friend of mines' photo. I love the in-your-face irony.

A.S.S. 2010

2010-03-29T02:28:00.007-04:00

This is a shot of the Art Ed & Art History All School Show that I co-curated @ Massart! The lights are down in this image for the fact that this show doesn't open till tomorrow morning! (aka ->my birthday)

Phone Call By Lee Allstar

2010-02-09T01:04:00.000-05:00

ICA Home | Reggie Watts / Tommy Smith: Disinformation

2010-01-25T15:41:00.000-05:00

ICA Home | Reggie Watts / Tommy Smith: Disinformation

sustain? who? where?

2010-01-24T18:47:00.002-05:00

I am being prompted by a professor to collect 10
email responses on the following questions:

What does it mean to sustain something?

Sustainability is a popular word today, but what
does it actually mean to approach an issue, a
concept, a thing, or even something as large
as society, as something to be sustained?

Take a few minutes to answer these questions and
respond back to me at,

Lee.aulson@Massart.edu

:D

"nobody wanted to produce pollution" - Jorge Ortero-Pailos

2009-12-30T12:51:00.002-05:00

Gastro-Vision: The Year in Meat

2009-12-30T12:39:00.000-05:00

Gastro-Vision: The Year in Meat

Art Fall 09'

2009-12-24T16:53:00.009-05:00

I just got bored one morning and made this.

I snapped this stranger leaving the ReStore and I thought it was a great depiction of how our customers look and feel when they leave.

My Winter Coat

Generic Happiness

Short Living art

old art clippings + merry xmas

2009-12-24T07:31:00.002-05:00

2009-12-04T17:35:00.001-05:00

new song

2009-11-27T11:29:00.006-05:00

"Woman in the Sun"
http://www.myspace.com/leeallstarmusic

2009-11-15T10:32:00.004-05:00

This portrait is so cheddar cheesy for me to have but it is, a must, to take a, 'looking-laid-back-when-you-pose-with-your-art,' pose.

More photos soon.

new project

2009-11-11T23:40:00.001-05:00

This is a project I have begun. I have 11.5 more hours left before the rain comes! bahhh! :D More details coming soon!

New co-produced song in progress

2009-11-10T03:02:00.008-05:00

a lyrical work in progress:

There're words needing pages
Cause the memory's fading
like lightning,
of a night sky

Turn down the next song
the old one the best one
Evading the spring singing deeds

Collapse, perhaps, another day fasting
Collapse, perhaps, another day fasting

The wait compressed coils
Yields to two bodies
Our memories are laying to rest

The frost spans the ceilings
These cold day feelings
Awakened by chills across skin

Collapse, perhaps, another day fasting
Collapse, perhaps, forgetting what's lasting

Teaching at Massart

2009-10-28T01:49:00.002-04:00

My new class that I am co-teaching can be seen here
Elementary school students fuel my fire! :D

footage from the Black Friday H.E.A.P. Sale!

2009-10-25T15:19:00.000-04:00

H.E.A.P. HQ from Kevin Clancy on Vimeo.

IMAGERY

2009-10-18T22:02:00.018-04:00

Stuffing McStuff Stuff.

The side of my bed has become my office. A room too clean keeps me neurotically occupied in which it is in some cases good and others, excessively distracting. Being both organized and not, keeps me human and not super-human. FEW.

This installation was great seeing in real life. In the midst of over-sized chunks of snow splashing on my umbrella on my way to Fort Point Open Studios, this piece was making me breathe easier. It was definitely refreshing to stumble upon provocative street art, just happening, just living, just dangling over a corrosive bridge.

Last week I traveled to EXCL or, Extras for Creative Learning. This place was a great stop for making art on the most sustainable budget possible. $12 a visit gets you all the free recycled materials you want. It is incredible what is happening out in the world.

Submit Art!

2009-10-16T12:22:00.002-04:00

.Black Friday.

2009-10-11T20:23:00.007-04:00

This show happening at Massart is a great concept looking at consumerism. In the midst of over-excessiveness, greed and want there will always be a (invisible to some) support or safety net of things that are of relative value for free. Kind of like walking in the woods. I can't wait for Black Friday a.k.a October 16th @ 7PM in the Godine Gallery at Mass College of Art + Design

detail of HEAP sculpture

2009-10-11T10:58:00.003-04:00

Unhappily, Sterne the man seems to have been only too closely related to Sterne the writer: his squirrel-soul leaped restlessly from branch to branch; he was familiar with everything from the sublime to the rascally; he had sat everywhere, and always with the same shamelessly watering eyes and play of sensibility on his features. If language does not start back at such a juxtaposition, he possessed a hard-hearted good-naturedness; and in the enjoyment of a baroque, indeed depraved imagination he almost exhibited the bashful charm of innocence. Such an ambiguousness become flesh and soul, such a free-spiritedness in every fibre and muscle of the body, have as he possessed these qualities perhaps been possessed by no other man.

—Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human

New pair of eyes

2009-10-05T01:07:00.001-04:00

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."-Thoreau

Don't Marry the fly

2009-09-27T15:05:00.011-04:00

I recently reread a chapter from Natalie Goldberg's Writing Down the Bones; Freeing the Writer from Within, a book on what makes good writing good, and bad writing bad. The chapter was titled, Don't Marry the Fly. It describes that when in the midst of creatively writing, there is a tendency to square in on one detail ever so descriptively to the point where one looses a sense of space, plot or order. The analogy from the book explains that the writer gives the reader the setting at a dinner table and then there is a fly nestled beside the fold in the table cloth and continues to get more detailed from there. This becomes so excessive to the point where the writer, Marries the Fly.

I tend to see her book (which is more than a how to on creative writing) as guidance in art making and in general and simply, in thinking. I've often found myself walking down the street and being conditioned to look visually for an opportunity to make art. I've considered the power in words and how they reveal judgment and speculation. I will occasionally stop myself from the looking, and let all things just, "be" as they are and leave behind as they were. I've just come to the conclusion that I fall too hard and tend to Marry the Fly and I start to over analyze a situation to the point where it no long has a valid foundation. The best part is that I acknowledge this thinking and I am more patient and letting thoughts settle before getting into a big road block of thinking.

So how does this relate to the image above? Well, I've tried to be communicative both in art and in life but the lines get blurry at times and its hard to make the switch but I'm now mediating between the two.

I am also curious as to how one perceives a word. Are they taking the specific word for how they would use it or describe it or is there a common language of understanding happening? How deep are the waters of listening to what one has to say? I find communicating in life making way more sense when I find a common ground. Everyone has a slightly different perception to things and to find that meeting point is to be okay to move forward.

El Chupacabra! :D

2009-09-15T02:44:00.003-04:00

Embrace what you love & always remember to PLAY!

Fresh Cover

2009-09-07T12:49:00.004-04:00

Last night (this morning) I was tuning in to The Left End on 88.9FM that was being hosted by a new coworker of mine. This song was played and I just lost it with excitement.

Where the Sidewalk Ends inspired poem/s

2009-09-05T12:24:00.008-04:00

"Doormat"
If thee is sincere
a doormat will appear

I am the doormat
I don't talk to you about silly things
I am a rectangular bed of bristles

you drop your shoes off
and then I do your dirty work

you leave me behind
even when I welcome you in a different language

I cannot be anymore sincere
or the dumpster I will be found
seams loosening from your treading
I hate being the doormat

TAKE NO PRISONERS

2009-08-29T02:48:00.014-04:00

My widowed mother has come a long way. She is finally keeping up with what she truly wants to do and it's really just, her, enjoying life. I discovered this by making a surprise visit and seeing my childhood backyard inundated with birdhouses. Most of these feeders are small cabins or houses named after her cat, Spookey. Family friend Scott, and her seems to wish this cat great hunting pleasure and play in visits paid for by the birds.

This was found after crashing at my work friend's house one morning down a bike path in Somerville. It sparked the idea of what trash can emulate. In this scenario, the ripped tin foil reminded me similarly to the experience of coming across a dead bird.

This last work was done spontaneously upon stumbling across a pile of wooded boards left over from a collapsed bookshelf. I was reminded of the act of considering compositional arrangement of objects. The work was displayed on the street in a Mondrionesque fashion for one to aloofly discover or ponder over. This was a collaborative experience that intuitively happened.

Wheel Questions

2009-08-24T04:14:00.002-04:00

I walked past and submitted a question to this public art structure that has been ongoing since 2008. I was a little annoyed by it at first because I was unsure as to its responsibility to keeping the structure operate-able and tended to as a participatory work but from checking up on it, it is up to date and makes me more curious and less cynical when I walk past this in Harvard Square.

(RE)STORE!

2009-08-23T21:54:00.013-04:00

This gem bedazzled sign below is what happens when two best friends with a knack for humor, recycled materials and obsessive order, make art: OPEN! sign for the Massart ReStore
Laura MacCarthy and Lee Aulson

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"Re" being short for recycle, this summer, a group of students (including myself) have been collecting, networking and semi-cataloging this new place opening up in September. This is a small center located on the Upper Level of the Tower Building at Massart where one can get recycled materials for making art. Check it out!

(A URL COMING SOON)

excess of nyc

2009-08-20T10:08:00.004-04:00

So many cups.

Montana Dirty Apricot Color on my nail from the night before. The weather was smoldering.

2009-08-13T14:38:00.001-04:00

my lie, about Bottled H20

AAA

MBTA

2009-08-13T13:21:00.007-04:00

Below is a PDF of the MBTA fare hike/meetings of which, I have 2 in paper form but, have been canceled... I query ((how much)) went into designing, printing and dispersing these flyers out. Monday night I spent my time listening to speakers testify their experiences with the MBTA at the State House. I saw many familiar faces of who I typically have ridden with. Time had expired before I could speak and after I planned to put together a written statement for a later meeting date. I've been taking the T since I was 15 and I can't wait anymore for things to look better for the MBTA. Nobody wants a fare hike. My concern is how ridged will these cuts will be handled and who that involves. I mentioned to a T administrator about the service of circulation of MBTA patrons. Studying and investigating how the flow of riders vary can help figure in how one might cut a part of a service or bus line where they are not needed. There's are plenty other ideas to consider, I just have taken the bus for such a long time and tend to be invested in the moment and what is going on around me. I know I am only one person but I think that there are people that feel the same. If our technologies and experiences from the Great Depression have taught us something, we should know how to hard wire this elder system that needs the great minds of today.

http://static.cbslocal.com/station/wbz/wbz/2009/July/FareHike.pdf

Seeds!! said the little seedlings.

2009-08-11T01:03:00.002-04:00

"Performer/Audience/Mirror"

2009-08-09T20:14:00.007-04:00

In the mix of being inundated with work, I am going to NYC this Sunday to see Dan Graham's BEYOND exhibition and Claes Oldenburg's work at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The trip will also include a long awaited stop at Coney Island. I invited a few close friends and also acquaintances and I'm hoping to bring more.

whitney.org/www/graham/

About the July 29th show

2009-08-09T18:26:00.009-04:00

The July 29th All Acoustic Show was a Mom&Pop Wednesday delight! The Show raised $210, (technically $309 minus the venue cost $100, plus my added dollar to make it 10). This went to 826BOSTON. For anyone unaware, 826 is a nonprofit writing tutoring center in Roxbury, MA.

The venue's atmosphere was warm and inviting. The show included but was not limited to: acoustic guitars, guitars for your lap, cupcakes, singers, shains and seans, wild things, artwork, a deer, dogs, veggie bus, blues spittin' man, moneys, blood, brownies, swigs, surprises, sing-a-longs, Elvis songs, jams, reunions, new songs, suit-case drums, not art, new tattoos, old faces, new face, new friends, talent, recordings and big huge smiles!

The acts playing were great. Although, the PA system required a much needed new electrical something or other. The PA started to grow on a personality because the cutting out of the mic alerted anyone singing to just go with it. Towards the end of the night, people were catching midnight buses or trains home. The last band moved the mics aside to have a more personal musical interaction with the 10 or so of us taking the rest of the night in.

It was a warm experience of sharing a night of friends, family and enjoying music together. I'm glad how the show unfolded and was neatly put back together. I can't wait for the next one.

Here some links to all the grandiose people/groups contributing to/for from that night:

826Boston.org
welikeyoualot.com
myspace.com/verbtheadjectivenounn
myspace.com/coyotekolb
myspace.com/leeallstarmusic

LoL So great (part II)

2009-08-05T10:18:00.002-04:00

Lyfe and Aging

2009-08-05T09:53:00.007-04:00

“Growing up is never easy. You hold on to things that were. You wonder what's to come. But that night, I think we knew it was time to let go of what had been, and look ahead to what would be. Other days. New days. Days to come. The thing is, we didn't have to hate each other for getting older. We just had to forgive ourselves... for growing up.”
The Wonder Years

LoL so great

2009-08-04T15:06:00.000-04:00

correction

2009-07-21T01:30:00.005-04:00

There's been a typo on this for 3 weeks now. Can you find the edit?

Travels and To Dos

2009-07-17T02:54:00.008-04:00

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.

Uh, Hi, Hullllo> cool.

2009-07-15T13:25:00.028-04:00

blasé [blah-zey, blah-zey; Fr. bla-zey] Show IPA
–adjective
indifferent to or bored with life; unimpressed, as or as if from an excess of worldly pleasures.

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?!

"Human skin can be hard to live in," -Seabear

2009-07-15T12:12:00.019-04:00

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 is a quite serene sound, have a listen.

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

lyric source: http://www.songmeanings.net

2009-07-15T11:59:00.002-04:00

Taring down the carriage house @ the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

2009-07-08T12:33:00.004-04:00

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.

More Info here

it's okay.

2009-07-05T23:09:00.020-04:00

[Supporting 'Not Art' Artist, Mike M.]

clearlyineedtokeeppursuingwhatithinkofwheniammakingartorhavingconceptsbecausetherearepeoplethataresummoningsimmilarthoughts!

[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.

NEW SONG ADDED

2009-07-03T20:13:00.002-04:00

http://www.myspace.com/leeallstarmusic

NERD CHIC: Dig.

2009-07-03T11:31:00.005-04:00

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

Can you do me a big favor and not steal my identity? kthnx...

2009-06-30T00:08:00.011-04:00

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.

cultural relevance

2009-06-28T12:30:00.009-04:00

Art to me seems invested in culture and context that it's hard to assess nowadays. I have this theory that later down the road teachers will be saying to their students that in the past that art classes were supremely reliant on pencils, paint and white paper. With that said, this relates to the idea that one medium is not the basis but instead using any defined media to create our experiences, even today if that means growing up with these currently known tools of pencils, paint and white paper.

Experience "x": MMMusical JJJogging

2009-06-26T22:03:00.008-04:00

I had this experience that I had just freely put into words today where I remember walking down Huntington Ave and I was stopped by a blend of sounds. I was coming across some noise polluting (subjective rejection of a sound) jackhammering from a taped off area where construction was taking place and I had stopped on my bike to go to the ATM. I was wearing my headphones and listening to, "Fireworks" by Animal Collective. The sound of the percussive drilling from across the way was attaching itself to the music rhythmically and without a doubt, seamlessly part of natures recording process. I will have the hardest time listening to that song again without the power drill instrument in the mix, or maybe too, having that experience reoccur. Here's what doesn't even scratch the surface of the grandeur happening,

2009-06-23T12:36:00.002-04:00

All Acoustic Show @ Lily Pad July 29th 10PM

2009-06-19T11:10:00.004-04:00

RSVP VIA FACEBOOK

After putting off great ideas, it took me less than two week to get this one off the ground randomly and I'm enthused that this all worked out like it did! <3 This show is a must see. cough cough.

Can I exchange 2 creams, 2 sugars and my Life for a Steriotype please?

2009-06-19T01:49:00.011-04:00

They say don't read into it, how can you not!? What does this say about us as Americans? I know I'm going on a limb here but it's disheartening and draining. Sometimes I just get so not flattered to have a facebook account when the main wall just looks like a reflection of ones boredom. I'm not big into the Quizzes, they're fun but I just don't think I would subject myself excessively for something SO short lived and easily told to anyone. I've seen some quiz results pictures (made by facebook users) which display what seems like, overused or stigmatizing icons for what something is or isn't. They're pretty bogus when it comes to consideration of others. I know they should not be taken seriously but it is part of branding ones identity and it tends to remove the person as a human and exchanges a life for a stereotype. The only good light I can shine on taking quizzes online is that it is great when you're bored...?!.. I'm trying to make this rant as non-bias as possible. Help me!
I remember when I was younger and doing that was crucial in defining who I was but later it didn't cut it for me. The world is meant for experiences and if you are capable of thinking yourself down a path of boredom, you're brain will do all the work and the people around you will get an idea for what you're up to, doin' quizzes! There's more depth in researched topics out in the world than quizzes or surveys that make clutter and produce addicts who are then turned into domesticated lemmings on a journey to the romantic moon and back! Yes, all in good fun!

-Lost

P.S. This rant is only on facebook quizzes and surveys not stuff like blogs or polls those are different species thought one could in fact totally argue that but... save that for laterrrr......

metaphorical energy crisis on love

2009-06-15T20:23:00.030-04:00

It's very easy to get wrapped up in 'other ornamental things' so much, to the point where another person's utilitarian wealth goes unappreciated, similar to blindly owning a Hummer without caring for the long term effects even when you are in the middle of an oil shortage (there are so many examples of long term outcomes!). Once all the gas is gone, people love to say, 'Well why didn't you drive a smaller car?" or, "Why this or that?!"-into a blaming fiasco and also into a fond appreciation for the previous time with having their Hummer. Some would even joyously say, "Wow I totally didn't even care about it until I realized how much it was actually worth to me now." The fact of the matter is, the deceiving surplus of oil inside the heart of the earth was running out quick without consideration to it's warning signs and it's concept of the suppressing, "Okay-ness" was driven so far down a road to where the Hummer just, ran out of gas. At the end the weak amount of gas in the vehicle putts or pouts, i don't know which one it could be...

Side Note:
I hope when the real actual shortage comes in the physical sense, that this made up story of just driving till there's no gas, then reflecting for an hour in a mindless stupor in a hummer isn't how we are going down. I, only vouching for myself, will totally have a garden and a bike with 3 U-locks attached to it, a couple years prior. I'm okay with that! heh. back to the basics, we are so simple, it's not even funny!

a new place

2009-06-10T09:34:00.005-04:00

Having a quick break from work I decided to look around the corner of the Harvard Bookstore and I found this shop, Groiler Poetry Book Shop. I didn't have enough time to step in but ended up hanging around the small collection of poetry on an outdoor shelve. It was quite the humble place right under my nose.

John Edwards is a hottie

2009-06-05T08:42:00.006-04:00

The truth is out! Last night, aside from my focus and vision but instead, seen from a couple customers at my work, John Edwards walked into the restaurant I work at. The NC senator/previous ~~republican~~(woops, mistakes are made-sorry to mislead folks) democratic presidential candidate peeked his head into my work for a split second and then left and customers and witnesses said he was a stunningly handsome looking man.

2009-06-02T22:19:00.005-04:00

Experience "x(not numbered yet)", Going to the NE Aquarium on June 2nd, 2009 and Sharing Thoughts with my Friend made into Arcane Poetry.
By: Lee Aulson

wells, walls, wallow
water watched us
as,
we watched them

Coogan's, Knoll and time
truth tells thine of
great fruitful and excessive,

concludes: coax, survival and goal,
a glittery marine sprinkles:
the sunken space seen whole.

track 1, poll 1

2009-05-31T18:47:00.013-04:00

In addition to keeping the ephemeral online people you are apart of the entertaining and not, blog examining process, there will be a new weekly poll question on the right side of this page. Also I'm gonna try and get some dates and times pinned down for open mic and make a couple more new lo-fi downloadable tunes happening for this summer,

http://www.myspace.com/leeallstarmusic

2009-05-30T13:06:00.003-04:00

4th and 88th St.

2009-05-30T11:15:00.011-04:00

I can successfully say that I have been to the MoMa, P.S. 1, the Whitney Museum and the Guggenheim but, I can only say that I stepped foot into one of them last week because the others were closed. In lieu of urban exploring by myself for one of three days and just showing up at these empty museums, I had found myself more intrigued by what these museums had to offer in their dumpsters. Trash is beautiful, it's not even trash anymore, it's a means for visual function and investigation, maybe even a skin irritation, a friendship, an anonymous dust in your lungs and/or free food. I haven't approached the free food part head first but I took a chance on some nuts last week from someone's studio at Massart.

Safety Abounds with everything I'm doing for myself. Heck, I even have fake acrylic nails to relieve my stress formed habit of scratching my face, arms and back injuriously. It sounds horrible to say it like that but, a paper cut is an injury; put it that way. It's a baaad habit but I'm kicking the stress and anxiety with style.

conversation about art from a relatable artist-stranger

2009-05-19T11:45:00.023-04:00

I once told myself, if I could be any certain artist in the world it be, Ray Johnson and I'm sure this person who made and gave this to me could remarkably say the same. It was very relieving to be understood.

things you know but don't think beyond saying, "i know."

2009-05-16T15:09:00.007-04:00

"Failure is discouraging, it drains energy and resources, but it forces us to do things right. Failure separates those who think they want success from those who are determined to win. Failure narrows the playing field. The first people out are those that blame others, next out are those who lost interest. The weak go first. The strong learn to hang in there and keep bouncing back until they win."-Anon

Not JUST a facebook...

2009-05-14T20:42:00.003-04:00

This is the "English(pirate)" settings you can do on f'book. Qu-wOAw. Arrrrrr!!! :D I know [mateys].

work in progress

2009-05-13T01:37:00.013-04:00

This is my website with partial documentation of my work.
It's at the moment in flux of its appearance and length. This is not for everyone in sense that you may not want to read into something and that's okay. There will be other Experiences added. Some Experiences are more monumental than others, it's relative in its importance so it is what it is. That word "relative" is so easy, just rolls off the tongue. I don't even know if that's a good or bad thing. Relative seems more good and with understanding for something new or potentially bothersome that way. Note: I am pretty aware of it's life force as run-on 8th removed story, but some stories are brief and direct.
There will be more Experiences to be published soon, I think I have like 20+ of these under my belt.

My conclusion for its poor quality:
it is best seen in real life.

slow but steady

2009-05-12T18:42:00.006-04:00

I found this in my backyard.
He's happy and glowing but just aimlessly going nowhere and everywhere.

Ending!

2009-05-09T22:06:00.009-04:00

It's the end of the semester and it was a great one. This is a photo of my student, MARB and myself from Saturday Studios on our goodbye final day. It was a a good day and a sad day to see everyone go but I am hopeful that my students are leaving for bigger and better things from their experiences and artistic endeavors that I planted for them from taking my class. I, myself feel like I've become an entirely more aware learner through taking this big leap of beginning to know, understand and appreciate what it means to teach and what may come for me in the future.
Lots of Love!

Photo by MARB

Self-Portraiture becomes a Self-Portrayal

2009-05-04T18:38:00.001-04:00

Bellow is a link to the documentation of my students work that was created during a class for high school students. This documentation is a make-shift alternate to the website www.learningtoloveyoumore.com in which viewers collaborate with the creators Harrel Fletch and Miranda July of the site. Check out the website for more information. I am extremely glad to see the results and excitement for these works.

http://saturdaystudiosltlym.blogspot.com/

Whatt?!

2009-04-29T13:50:00.001-04:00

Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno is a theatrical play by play on how animals mate! Behold, the viscous cycle of life recreated in the eyes of humor and art!

http://www.sundancechannel.com/greenporno/

Found information & memory

2009-04-28T10:44:00.001-04:00

Only Theee best Place!

Party Remnants

2009-04-21T01:05:00.001-04:00

Assemblage [in Fine Arts]
"A sculptural technique of organizing or composing into a unified whole a group of unrelated and often fragmentary or discarded objects."
resource: Dictionary.com

These were left behind in my house the other night. There's no message here but a fortune; there is something odd about things without 'reason' that seem true somehow.

2009-04-16T00:37:00.002-04:00

New Work: StapleSkyline

2009-04-14T21:29:00.001-04:00

Metaphor for Emotional Self-Support

2009-04-11T02:03:00.001-04:00

2009-04-08T12:26:00.001-04:00

LTLYM

2009-03-30T01:05:00.001-04:00

LEARINGTOLOVEYOUMORE.COM
Assignment #9. Draw a constellation from someone's freckles.
"Tom McCaul's face constellation"
Becky Duyon, Tom McCaul, Lee Aulson

We took on this assignment and came to the conclusion that a person's natural oils can seep into the ball of the pen and make the ink come out a bit weak but, it looks pretty good.
Mission Accomplished!

Visual Metaphor for the value of American Money

2009-03-26T00:51:00.001-04:00

These are details of the early stages of an "Experience," that I am pursuing. These shards of printed bills will be cut smaller and smaller down to the size of a chip of glitter.

A Class on the subject of Everydayisms

2009-03-20T23:33:00.000-04:00

Miranda July, here we come!

LTLYM

tomorrow for class we will be collaborating with M.J. !

2009-03-14T15:25:00.001-04:00

It's the All School Show !

2009-03-12T10:41:00.001-04:00

Judging from the image above, it is clear that those creatures aboard the space ship are stoked about something! The All School Show will be up and running starting on March 15th! Be sure to pop in and check it out. I have many fellow Art Ed peers and myself showcasing work in the Arnheim Gallery! The Art Education opening will be on Wednesday, March 18th from 6 - 9 PM. Here's a link to other major's time slots, http://inside.massart.edu/x2494.xml

New Things

2009-03-10T20:52:00.000-04:00

SO I don't mean to do this but I mean to do this. This blog entry has a little to do with me and what's going on. I am a big fan of media as a "communicative" outlet rather than a "narcissistic or self centered" outlet but, right now, this one, yeah!

A bunch of new things have happened since the last post, one being I got to be a teacher and will continue every Saturday until May! Granted we get to teach everyday in some way wether it's yelling at someone for being a bad driver (i don't recommend) or teaching someone how to flip an egg into over-easy territory but, on this day, I got to teach before a bright gang of high school students interested in making art! I am so ducking pumped as to how the class with transform over time among other things! I would like to get into more detail about this but it's all still new and in the making. I might be putting my teaching and class related posts through my school's website.

There are a few other curious things that have been popping up in my life and one of them happens to be Open Mike (not mic) @ Front St. Coffeehouse in Salem, MA. Before I played I covered, "Tom Dooley," one song from my old high school band and Kelly Clarkson's "Since You've been gone (which turned out to be an emo-tional acoustic cover)." It was a good night which ended with a potential spot on the P.A.C. (publicaccesschannel which has now gone satellite) My buddy Steven and I were stoked for a p.a.c. collab.

The real Zeitgeist

2009-02-27T12:49:00.001-05:00

So I have heard this word may a times but thought it was a brand or last name of some sort. "Zeitgeist" has originated in Germany and it means Zeit-Time Geist-Spirit so "the spirit of the time." It describes a cultural climate in a society. I am yet to imagine it used in a sentence but it has been done. I don't think I could ever imagine using it but it's pretty Zeitgeistyish! woo. I don't know. Leave a comment using it in a sentence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitgeist

okay I found one usage I understand-Extremely CLEAR ;) !!.. It's said after the first couple of words in this music video below:

"Flash that buttery gold, jittery zeitgeist wither by the watering hole, what a patrol, what are we to heart huckabee art fuckery suddenly? Not enough young in his lung for the waterwings? "