I spent a large chunk of Saturday staging a dress rehearsal of sorts for my show on a beach in Door County (the slightly podunk Midwestern answer to Martha’s Vineyard). Pictures and words when I have decompressed and wrapped my head around it.
I thought this was an excellent, very relevant quote from one [...]
We have a new dry box, which, for those of you who don’t work with plaster molds (most of you), is wonderful and a huge time saver. When you make a mold, sometimes it takes up to two weeks to get the thing really dry enough to work the way it’s supposed to – something [...]
I really like doing this, because it allows me to sit and stare at them all at once instead of scrolling through thumbnails in the Windows equivalent of preview. Sorry if it clogs your reader or whatever (not really).
I got a $1200 professional development grant to enable me to buy all the wood and stuff I need for my show, and I got an A on my huge beast of a paper. It’s a pretty good end to my first year. Let us not forget that exactly one year ago I was graduating [...]
The ropes course – there is something really dorky and awkward about doing “team building” challenges. They usually take place at church camp or on a company retreat, two places no one ever really wants to be, and if they do they’re that kind of person and we tend to whisper about them. They are [...]
Someone (I think it was my boss Jody, I need to keep her around) mentioned The Swing in my crit yesterday. And today I’m kind of looking at it like “well, that’s a lot of it, isn’t it?”
- 45 pages on kitsch and the american suburb!!!
- 20 pages of critical analysis of louis sullivan and a.g. rizzoli and their utopian visions!!!
- a fucking great piece that i still can’t find anything really wrong with that has launched an entirely new way of thinking about my work!!!
- applied for summer grants and the [...]
It seems like everyone in my life (not even kidding) is a runner these days, so wanting to be on the bandwagon, last night I tried it yet again, and I. LOVED. IT. I put all my crappy techno from high school on a playlist and ran/walked 3.5 miles in 35 minutes right off the [...]
These papers are killing me and I need something to look forward to:
Summer 2009
- successfully attack my perpetually-lengthening reading list
- Haystack with Ana!
- take over the performance lab (gallery), have my first real show
- happily work through my ideas for my next body of work/make more molds than i know what to do with
- practically [...]
