October 2010
60 posts
Maybe I'm too judgmental and maybe this is...
…but I can’t help thinking that if you’re poly-amorous and bisexual, you might just be a skank.
September 2010
27 posts
Amazing Shadow Art by Kumi Yamashita
whatthecool:
Shadow Art by artist Kumi Yamashita. The above is titled “Fragments” and is made of colored resin plates. They are mounted on the wall and lit from the left casting a facial silhouette. Check out more shadow art by Kumi after the break.
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Note to self:
It is completely worth it to spend $400 and 5 hours of intense heat and slight pain if this is the result:
That’s from shower to blow drying for 5 minutes and out in the humid sunlight for 6 hours.
Cannot even fathom my joy.
God I miss the 90s.
“I figured, no one on their death bed ever looks back and thinks, “I should...”
– 100 Girls
Tilt-Shift Van Gogh
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Tilt-Shift Van Gogh by artist Serena Malyon. Using Photoshop she manipulated the light and the focus. Keep in mind nothing in these paintings were added or removed.
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"Oh yeah, I would hit that".
Upon this glorious, halcyon weekend, I lay my deepest regards.
Woke up bright and early yesterday to head out to the Haight for Chenoa’s girl-day. As I got off the bus, who should poke me but that fine Aussie beauty herself. Our original destination, The Pork Shop, was terrifically busy and we apparently have the same attitude towards waiting for food.
So we picked another brunch place...
Line Drawings In Real Life
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Performance artist and costumer Gwynn Galitzer turns herself and model Lyle Lodwick into “living line drawings.”
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"I'll get your heart racing in my skin-tight...
What a week.
In class Tuesday, all we talked about was Marx and economy and communism. Emily and I spent that class period doodling muffins and other sundry things. It was also the first time I went upstairs to the bakery factory. I opened the massive door, was hit with this thick miasma of pastry-smell, and a very nice lady gave me a giant banana nut muffin.
Thursday.
Pilara Foundation.
Holy...
Dear hipsterdouche,
You are not one man, but rather the idea of many men that I encounter on a daily basis. Oh, how I know you well.
I love your worn-to-softness plaid Western shirts with the sleeves bunched up at your elbows (you know I have a thing for muscular forearms). I love the hippie soap you use that makes you smell all warm, and clean, and somehow delicious at the same time. I love your mocking half-smile....
"Hey, remember when we were friends?"
I have the sickest desire to cause trouble for multiple people, and facebook is my weapon of choice. No one ever really graduates high school, do they? Maybe it isn’t such a good thing to keep excellent documentary skills and memories.
Never date a man who spends more time picking out his clothes than you.
It’s so nice when a website compliments you in a semi-meaningful way.
I...
liberalesque asked: I also learned yesterday that my high school sophomore English teacher owns an original Gorey. Now that's something to be TOTES JELLI over.
Art+Food=
Carlo McCormick, curator/culture critic/senior editor of Paste Magazine, gave the graduate lecture today. Here are some key selections:
When I was your age, I thought I’d be weekending on the moon. But I also thought Tang would be good for me.
Oppenheimer, Annual Rings
John Sloan was apparently part of a group of artists who met in a room inside the arch in Washington Square Park in...
Writing from 3LH
I love this school.
They are building an MA lounge.
In the general lounge they have super Mario.
The bakery one floor up has free bagels from the night before and one dollar giant fresh muffins.
There is a dog and a parrot hanging out in my classroom.
The gallery has a room with a floor of real grass, a blanket spread, and walls and ceiling that look like a night star. The fabric...
Well, at least I get to stay here.
Remember when I used to sleep really deeply? Not anymore. Now I wake up at the slightest sounds.
Also, is cold.
I had a difficult time keeping up in my Live Art class. That could be because it was my first day, the reading was particularly bogged down with theoretical terms, it was 9:30 at night, I had just come off of 9 hours of work, or that I woke up at 7:30 this morning after a fitful sleep...
Oh please oh please oh please oh please...
I’m not ready to leave. I’m not ready to give up.
I can’t believe the rest of my life depends on one phone call to one person to fix one mistake.
God, I hope it was a mistake.
“I coddle my heart like a sick child and give in to its every whim.”
– The Sorrows of Young Werther, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
Brainblurbs.
Going to submit a proposal for a show in the Swell Gallery if my schedule calms down a bit. Shhh…the theme is a secret.
Laura and I ducked out (actually I was already off the clock and she was on her lunch break) to get champagne at the Kenneth Cole event for faux fashion week. I’d forgotten how much I enjoy bubbly things that make me warm. Also, chocolate croissants. I meant to put...
Arttheorylulz.
From Denis Dutton’s The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, & Human Evolution:
As I explain in chapter 8, the desire to impress—and bed—a member of the opposite sex with displays of artistic creativity or the ownership of rare objects tastefully arranged is not unknown in our species (“would you like to come up and see my etchings?”).
Aesthetics today finds...
New rules for on-line dating
Eliminate if:
There are skanky girls in over 30% of his pictures.
He has taken shirtless bathroom mirror pictures. Double jeopardy for head-less ones.
(And this comes up far too often for my comfort) he is wearing a dress or make-up.
He has even one picture where he is flicking off the camera.
Neck tattoos.
He is making overly loving eyes towards his cat. Dogs are ok, usually.
He ends his...
"Once this whole world was all country side."
Did I really just write “all ‘modernists’ were really ‘post-modernists’ in denial” in a graduate paper?
Yes.
Suck it, Marshall Berman. Your views are conflicted and tunnel-visioned.
Will, is there a reason you submitted this to me?
:(
Why am I paying $22k/semester to go to school?
Because I am having the time of my life.
Let me preface by saying that I am exhausted. Bone-weary, haven’t been eating enough exhausted. I go to school all day, work at night, and have such long commutes in between that the only thing I want to do when I come home is eat, watch 30 Rock, and sleep.
That being said, I experienced a kind of satisfaction today that felt alien and wondrous. I...
CrushCrushCrushCrushCrush
I forgot this feeling and forgot how much I hate it. It isn’t painful, just irritating and makes me antsy.
I’m ridiculous. No one ever matures past 9th grade, I’m sure of it now.
My roommate brought me 3 cream puffs from Beard Papa the other night. But we left them out on the counter, and I don’t think they’re good anymore.
I work 8 hours today.
I have 5 articles...
