Drawing dump, new plans
New drawings from a recent vacation in canada in sketchbook. Here’s one of ‘em: Frankenstein’s Monster.
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Some of my friends have gotten into home-brewing. It’s pretty awesome. This batch is divided into two beers, was bottled last weekend and will be ready for tasting this coming Saturday. They are titled “The Country Gentleman” and “S.O.G. (Super Original Great)”. Here are the labels I made for them.
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So I’ve decided to go ahead and become a notary public. I feel this is the kind of responsibility I was born to shoulder. It’s pretty simple. In Michigan the only eligibility requirements are age (must be over 18) and language proficiency (The King’s Language of English). There is one caveat that I haven’t been able to get my head around though. You have to have a Surety Bond for $10,000 which, for 6 years, will run me about 60 bucks. Ad the two processing fees of 10 each and the notary seal stamp I’m going to have made this is close to a hundred bucks.
I also really want two KEY-BAKs, one fitted with a pen and the other with my stamp. I’ll be so action ready it will make passerby fall over.
In short I don’t have enough money to do this right now. At all. Rent and food are higher priority. This can be a long term goal.
[notary public application » PDF] [notary » wikipediea]
quick sketches
Two new sketches in Art.
Still trying to set up this sticky Recent Additions thing. Sculpture post by the end of the week.
Presenting The Bee Man of Orn
I’m very proud to present something that will doubtless make 0 sense to any of you. Maybe I can give you alittle info buffer, so you wont think it’s just completely random…
The name of this is, as you probably already guessed, The Bee man of Orn vs Modern Society. It’s a grand epic of massive proportion. If any of you are like me, you probably dug on the book that inspired this ridiculousness: The Bee Man of Orn (original). This is kind of a reboot, but in actuality has little to no resemblance to it’s predecessor. This story only follows (very loosely) the cannon of the book: hero is a hermit, hero meets with intellectual and is told to find himself out in the world, hero meets characters and sees sights that show him the nature of the world, hero decides he likes being a hermit. Mine’s pretty… different. Enjoy.
I’m posting it here for now, but it’s place in the site will be the Design page, as soon as I have it up.
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I’ve also started a sticky with most recent gallery additions. ?. This post will stay at the top, but change to the most recent thing up in the Art or Design sections. We’ll see how it works.
[credit goes to wp-sticky]
Content Affection
It’s been a long time in coming, but I’ve finally got some of my art posted up here. Go ahead, click on Art. Above. Next to Home.
True, its old sketches, but now I’m on my way. New sketchbook entries will be posted at the top, but you’ll have to click on the links to the left to see the actual peices. The Painting page is legitimate, drawings sculpture and ceramics will be up very soon. Viva Spring Break.
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I went to Wells Hall to see a early screen of 300 this past Thursday. Student Activities hands out more tickets than they can fit in to ensure capacity.
“O.K.” I thought. “We’ll just get there an hour early.” Tim, Eric and I showed up one hour early, at 7. The line wound around the entire lower floor, at least 600 people were there as early as us. An hour and a half later, a tiny girl with 6 hulking cops in tow presented herself before us.
“Alright! Everybody listen! Up here! Look at me!”
Oh good, I thought.
“Warner Brothers did not hold up their deal with us! We haven’t received the reel! There is no movie, everybody go home!”
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That’s what I call free interest research for Warner Brothers.
Dadaism etc.
Fighting art with art is Dada. Political in nature, Dada is at it’s base an expression of misery and sedation.
Says wikipedia:
Dada activities included public gatherings, demonstrations, and publication of art/literary journals. Passionate coverage of art, politics, and culture filled their publications. The movement was a protest against the barbarism of World War I, the bourgeois interests that Dada adherents believed inspired the war, and what they believed was an oppressive intellectual rigidity in both art and everyday society. The movement influenced later styles, movements, and groups including surrealism, Pop Art and Fluxus. Dada was an international movement, and it is difficult to classify artists as being from any one particular country, as they were constantly moving from one place to another.
Enough history. Dada for me is all about a repel/appeal dichotomy. Something you’re simultaneously attracted to and disgusted by. Maybe something beautiful has been marred, or it apeals to one sense while offending the others. In the case of furniture (my favorite example for talking about Dada.), a chair could be well apolstered and solid, however there’s a whole in the seat and when a crank is pulled a spike pokes you in a butt. Or no crank. Just a big spike on the seat, so you there’s no way to sit at all.
Of course, there is not aesthetic ’style’ of Dada. It’s more of a spirit, or atmosphere.
To think about Dada objectively, you have to grasp what it means to history and human’s path of expression. It pushed every limit and explored what an object’s cultural context could express. At the same time it involved the participant in real time. It was a movement of audience participation. You had to involve yourself or you’d walk away with nothing. It’s not easy on the audiance. Work is involved.
It’s pretty sweet.
Back after reprieve
I received disappointment from friends and family lately about the lack of art on this site. I found myself becoming as disappointed as their voices. So I got down to thinking.
I have a couple options. here are the requisites I laid out for this to work:
1. I don’t want to do a lot of work.
2. I want it to be easy to update.
3. I have all my art in iphoto, and it would be nice if I could utilize that.
if anybody has any good ideas on this i’d like to hear about it.
A Man About Town
My ankle is on the mend. I’m now posing a striking image about town, showing off my cane and exuberance. My hair floats in the breeze, and leaves swirl around my striding feet. Check me out. I’m great.
new features featuring an advanced feature set
NEW features Featuring an Advanced Feature Set:
I’m a year older than I was, as of last weekend.
Tigers [i]will[/i] win.
I broke my ankle, got some surgery last week.
I’m now a cyborg. stainless steal inserted into my ankle. Mine came especially with a tiny chipset and sensor, so apparently, if functioning correctly, my bionic ankle will hurt when bad weather is coming. This option cost me $349.99 USD extra.
I quit my job at LUX MAGAZINE. I was being paid a flat rate and was working longer and longer hours. I did the math and realized that I was working 50 hours a week for $2.50/hour.
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whew.