in which i do a series of things

This is the piece that was in the CCAC's Thunderdome show. I'm actually happy with it, which I didn't think I would be. It took me most of the summer to come to this point. Originally it was a video dealing both with deliberate performance and with returning the gaze of the viewer, but it didn't mesh the way I'd hoped. I think I'm going to make a second video dealing with gaze, and maybe they can be shown together if I ever show this again.

The quote that sums up my intent for this video better than any artist statement I could come up with so far goes, "Our bodies are occupied territories. Perhaps the ultimate goal of performance, especially if you are a woman, gay or a person “of color,” is to decolonize our bodies; and make these decolonizing mechanisms apparent to our audience in the hope that they will get inspired to do the same with their own." (Guillermo Gómez-Peña “In Defense of Performance Art” )

Also, originally I wanted to call this "I'm not Dutch," but I don't know if anyone would get the joke.

Apropos nothing, this has been my top/ most-enjoyable time-waster this week: SCP. (Hint: go to the full experiment log.)

Visual Influence

Here are some images I like to look at:

New Gifs!

Hey everybody, I made some new gifs!

I'm still working on what exactly I want from these, and how to explain them to people who ask what I'm doing with my life. But in the meantime, go look!

Also, here are some websites that I really really enjoy:

Captain Awkward- an advice site with some of the best advice I've ever read, on everything from relationships to jobs to how to tell your roommates to do the dishes once in a while.

well alright- technically this is just some dude's tumblr where he posts short observations about his daily life... but man. dude is hilarious.

Skepchick- feminism! and science!

The Pervocracy- I have probably mentioned Holly Pervocracy before, but she has some of the best relationship advice ever, as well as guides to sex-positivity, disclosure about the kink community, and a series called "Cosmocking" which is fantastic. NSFW.

Also also, here are some pictures of me as a child that I recently found and scanned. They're from a nature hike led by my math teacher circa 5-6th grade.

THESIS, UPDATES, COMICS

IN THAT ORDER.

Hi. It's been a while. How have you been? I've been better myself, but at least I have my voice back. A nasty cold seems to have been making its rounds of the entire population of Cincinnati, it seems, and I am no exception.

So, first things first: THESIS. I just turned in my draft to my professors, and had my visual critique. I'm in the second round of the Dry Run show so I have a week to think about presentation and hanging the work... but I'll leave you with some images of my favorite pieces, and a link to the google doc of the draft if you feel inclined to read it.

UPDATES: I have been working on gifs in my photography class, and I think they're turning out pretty rad if I do say so myself. They're big, so I'll post one here (EDIT: I'm not sure why this one isn't animating but just go to my tumblr and look at them, guh).

Also, Cry-Baby and The Big Lebowski are coming up soon. Here's where you'll find more information on that.

COMICS: I've been working on the Order of the Golden Bear wordpress site, and while it's not quite up and running yet, I did put up all of Third Culture Kid. So go and read, and follow, and be on the lookout for more things! Also, Alison Bechdel will have a new book out soon and I've never been so excited.

Hetero-Types: Electron Microscope Tour

I'm late with this, it happened over a week ago, but... the tour with the Hetero-Types show to the Engineering Research Center's scanning electron microscope went really well! It was David Rosenthal, Laura Fisher, a couple other photographers from DAAP, and me. Dr. Rosales and his graduate assistant Manna were very accommodating with us, they didn't even mind us yelling "TAKE THAT PICTURE" every few seconds.

The best part for me, though, was helping Dr. Rosales prepare the samples. In order to be properly viewed by a scanning electron microscope, samples must be conductive--in this case, coated with a gold-palladium alloy. Samples were cut down, affixed to carbon tape, and placed in a vacuum chamber. Electricity was run through the gold-palladium, which caused it to vaporize and settle on the samples (it also glowed purple, which was cool to see).When I was smaller I had a kid's microscope, complete with slides, and I got rather good at putting together various organic and inorganic slides. So I really enjoyed putting on gloves and cutting little finicky bits of things and using tweezers to settle them just so on the dime-sized sample holders.

Actually viewing them in the microscope was something else, though. One of the samples was a fresh leaf from my creeping charlie houseplant. The leaf was fresh enough to still retain water--which made it more vulnerable to disintegration.The higher the magnification, the more focused the beam of electrons becomes. If the sample is improperly coated, or if it retains too much water, it will start to disintegrate. Which is what happened here.

The other samples were: a housefly, a lacewing fly, the inside of a seed pod, a gingko leaf and a butterfly wing.

This is (presumably) pollen, caught on a fly's back.

Flies are hairy, hairy bugs.

Closeup of a gingko leaf.

Scales of a butterfly wing.

Broken scale on a butterfly wing.

The spongy inside of a seed pod.

All the magnifications are specified on the images. These are not all the images, just the ones I liked best. All 26 can be viewed on my Photobucket account if you want to see more.

It's been a while, hasn't it...

I was in Washington D.C. this past weekend for SPX (Small Press Expo), which was a blast. This is what I got (and I did take a couple pictures which I suppose I'll post eventually, but I really was too busy browsing comics and reading comics and COMICS COMICS COMICS okay):

Gay Kid by Katie Olmberg- the third issue. I like Katie Olmberg’s Gay Kid series, it’s relatable and engaging. Though I think out of the three (I picked up the first two at SPACE earlier this year) volume two is my favorite. There was something rushed about this latest volume. http://fancy-graphics.blogspot.com/

Steak and Cake; Wolf City by David Mack- these are so cute, asdfkjhslf;. Both the drawing and the handling of the book design are great. The first one is about a steak and a cake that are in love, and the second one is about a sheep in wolf’s clothing. www.monkeyfingers.net

Cedar St. Tavern by Seamus Heffernan- A truly minicomic about the abstract expressionists and their views on beauty. It made my mom laugh, which is always a plus. He doesn’t seem to have a website, which is sad.

Heavy Flow by Jen Vaughn- An educational comic about something called a menstrual cup, which I had never heard of but seems like a pretty good idea. I actually just picked it up because her analysis of tampon/ pad ads made me giggle. And I went to a panel she was on about the human body in comics which I also greatly enjoyed. www.mermaidhostel.com

Turtie Needs Work by Steve Wolfhard- Steve Wolfhard is famous for Cat Rackham (Don’t get me wrong, they’re great, but those comics make me laugh, and then feel like I’m about to cry) but I picked this minicomic up and immediately started to crack up. Turtie tries everything from cab driver to psychoanalyst. www.stevewolfhard.com

Stay Away From Other People by Lisa Hanawalt- I went to her panel on drawing the grotesque and it made me very happy. The first I saw of her work was her “How to Tell When Martha Stewart’s Been Drinking” strip, which is hilarious. This minicomic has a little bit of everything—doodles of animal-people, what to do while stuck in traffic, ideal wedding plans, etc. www.lisahanawalt.com

Super Baby Jesus by Adam Aylard- In the words of the artist, “witness the adventures of Super Baby Jesus as he solves the world’s problems in a way only he can.” A present for a friend. (But I read it anyway, ha!) www.superbabyjesus.com

Surviving the World’s Guide to College- A present for my sister. But pretty useful. http://survivingtheworld.net/

Swallow Me Whole by Nate Powell- I had read some of his stuff before—I met him at SPACE and bought Please Release, a shorter autobiographical comic. But dear lord. His art is just… graah. Makes me so jealous. It’s a little bit reminiscent of Jillian Tamaki’s work, except he uses only ink, no pencil. This book is joining my list of favorites next to Ghost World and Skim. Just go look at his site, I don’t have the words. http://www.seemybrotherdance.org/

And that was it. I kind of wanted to buy more (okay, I REALLY wanted to buy more) but I felt I should chill a bit. When I come back next year I’ll make sure I have a little budget set aside for comic purchases. I got a small pile of free comic pages and postcards and business cards and the like, of course.

The panels were great, generally. I was a little disappointed with the Cultural Identity panel, which I wrongly assumed would be about people like me, caught between countries and cultures and not really sure where I belong… but it turned out to be a collection of Americans who made comics about places other than America. And their attitude was a bit staggering, to be honest. They talked about perceived American arrogance and then proceeded to demonstrate it without shame. Made me a bit sad.

But! The panels on the grotesque and the body and publishing were great, and Chester Brown read some of his book Paying For It, which I really should have bought but oh well… yeah SPX! See you next year fo sho!

P.S. this is my boyfriend's list--he is a comics enthusiast and I read most of what's in this list anyway:

Johnny Wander vol. 1: http://www.johnnywander.com/ by Yuko Ota & Ananth Panagariya - yay! And with a little cute drawing of a kitty on a hat which I would post if I hadn’t lost my camera battery in the move

Schrödinger’s Cat: http://www.k-wong.com/ by Ken Wong - This dude does baller 3-D origami comics. I love this concept so much. Kinda similar to an art project I saw at a MFA show that decorated an entire room in drawings. Additionally the sheer density of references adds another dimension. (Get it? Get it?)

Incredible Change-Bots 1+2: http://www.theholyconsumption.com/ by Jeffery Brown - holy crap, I liked the Transformers as a kid. But reading this makes you realize how terrible Transformers really were and how awesome Jeffrey Brown is.

Pang, the Wandering Shaolin Monk (vol. 1): http://www.shilongpang.com/ by Ben Costa - I have such a special place in my heart for Kung Fu (due to my childhood Power Rangers/Bruce Lee/karate phase) that I don’t think I’ve ever disliked these kinda stories. The art seems simple in this work until an action scene, then you’re like “OMG YES MOR PLZ” I wanted this book to go on foreeeeeever.

Lords of Life & Death: http://www.jonathondalton.com/ by Jonathon Dalton - Set in the borderlands of the Mexica (Aztec) Empire. There, right there. Full disclosure, this kinda thing was basically my undergrad major. So I’m biased. But this is quality work, faithful to the Mesoamerican artistic tradition and surprisingly historically accurate. (Except Nahuatl was the capital’s prestige dialect, Nahua was used more widely at the time; the Mexica god of warfare was more their tribal patron Huitzilopochtli than Tlaloc; tobacco wasn’t exactly used that way on the mainland; and Chaak’s nose is far larger. Funny story about that, actually…) There’s real hunger for this kinda thing in indigenous areas of Mexico, Mr. Dalton should see about getting this translated into Spanish and/or Yucateco.

Tortoise and Hare: http://www.mikelucas.com/ by Mike Lucas - saw this guy on Tumblr before the show. Which also reveals my bias formed by reading Usagi Yojimbo.

Bikeman Issue 1: http://www.jonchad.com/ by Jon Chad - Yeah, imagine the bad guy from Afro Samurai who talks to bikes. Also, it’s a Western. Kinda wanna see these in every bike store across the land.

Any Empire: http://www.seemybrotherdance.com/ by Nate Powell - Holy crap. Sometimes I read a book and am just blown away by how good it is. Art Spiegelmans’s Maus was like that, so was Flannery O’Conner’s Wise Blood. Powell’s books are like that. The ladyfriend got Swallow Me Whole, which is even more goddamn brilliant, but I think Any Empire speaks to me more. I can’t believe I didn’t know who Nate Powell was before I met him. And I was all casual and normal. Jesus, if I’d read him before I met him, I’d be waaaaay too intimidated to speak English.

Stuff I haven’t read yet!

Azteca Ciudad Paradiso #1: http://www.azteca2012.com/ written by Enrica Jang, pencils by   - Ohio artists represent! Yeah, I got this for the same reason I got the Maya one. Mexico City supahhero!

HEALED! vol. 1 & 2: http://www.homelesscomics.com/ written by George O’Conner, illustrated by S. Griffin - Hey, I liked the concept; no disease, no illness, now what? Kinda like an opposite zombie story.

The Surrogates & The Surrogates Flesh & Bone: http://comicbookdb.com/title.php?ID=3372/ written by Robert Venditti, Illustrated by Brett Weldele - I dunno, I liked the art. There was apparently a Bruce Willis movie about it, but I just wanted a sci-fi book

Stuff that ran out!

Hark! a Vagrant: http://harkavagrant.com/ by Kate Beaton - and no goddamn wonder, the line was going down the hallway!

CMY cat T-shirt - seriously, I shoulda mugged that guy walking across from McD’s but he was bigger than me.

Storms and other impediments to my productivity

Things I am working on for the end of the quarter:

-my alternative processes photography books (hand-bound little things I'm still working on individual pages for)
-a paper on relational aesthetics, comics, and whether comics can be considered as such (I think they can) for visual arts concepts
-an ergot for comics
-a two-page color comic about a veteran I interviewed last week (also for comics)
-a statement of intent/ artist's statement for a show I might tentatively have at Semantics in the fall sometime (involving my YouTube stills that I am still slowly collecting and that can be viewed here)

It is once again pouring rain and it is distracting me from comic layouts. Mom called me earlier to tell me a big old front is moving in (again) and it's been spawning tornadoes (again).

Also I keep wanting to get up and dance to the music I'm listening to. Maybe I'm using the wrong playlist?

Here, have a tampon ad from the 70s or something. This is what my best friend Christina and I look like when we're biking around in a park. All the time. Forever.

Seth!

Found this via Dustin Harbin. Seth is one of my favorite comic artists, his work is intelligent and humorous.

Updates all round!

Here's the information on Van Dyke Brown processing: click!

And here's a comic I recently read, by Sarah Glidden. Click!

And eventually REALLY GOOD SCANS/ PHOTOS will make their way on here, I promise. It's nearing the end of the quarter now so after finals I'll have a little more time.

Helvetica

I don't usually use this font. I grew up with times new roman. And the font that I usually use on this blog just seems to fit it, somehow. (I can't quite remember the name at the moment though.)

But I just watched the documentary Helvetica (2007). It's about the birth and usage of this (some would say) all-purpose font. It features interviews with various designers, those who make type and those who work with it, and their opinions on the ubiquitous Helvetica. 

Now I'm not a designer. I doubt I will ever develop my own font (at least, on a computer). But for comics, reading up on lettering and type is incredibly helpful when it comes to writing your dialogue or narration or what have you. So I suggest that all my comics friends give this documentary a look-see (it's only 80 minutes long and available for instant play on netflix), just for your own lettering education.

Heading into the darkroom to do some van dyke brown printing soon. Hopefully I'll achieve some results worth sharing.

THIS.

This is just so brilliant. I want to make my photo project at least a quarter as brilliant as this. If I can do that, I'll be VERY pleased with myself.

Currently Reading

The Unruly Queen by Flora Fraser. A biography of Queen Caroline, wife of George IV of England. Kind of a sordid story, full of double standards for women (if she had an affair, it was treason--if he had an affair, is was merely discouraged), but a very interesting account of the era nonetheless.

Jeffrey Brown's Funny Misshapen Body. A graphic novel about becoming a cartoonist. It manages not to get too meta, and is self-deprecating and touching by turns.

Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy, Volumes 1&2. Not that the story is extremely compelling nor the art particularly astounding (especially when I compare to later work like MW), but still. It's part of the foundations of the Japanese comics scene.

...Lord of the Rings, again. I can't seem to help myself.

Shakespeare and other things

So today I went and saw the Cincyshakes' production of Julius Caesar. It was fantastic--the roles were all gender-swapped, so pronouns and suchlike all had to change... but names stayed the same. It was such an interesting study in gender roles, especially for a Shakespeare play... but even in today's day and age, it was tricky to wrap ones' head around Calpurnia being the obedient, worried husband. And I consider myself a feminist!

If you live in Cincinnati and enjoy live theater, go see Cincyshakes at some point. I've seen several of their comedies (set in different eras, like Twelfth Night in the 20s; Taming of the Shrew in the era of silent films with incarnations of the Marx brothers and the Three Stooges; and A Comedy of Errors in gaudy sci-fi) and they have all been excellent.

In other news, I am getting rolling on my photography project. I stuffed a roll of 100 TMAX into my Pentax PC-33 (my very first camera, a cheap point-and-shoot I've had since I was eight or so), so we'll see how those turn out.

Basically, this. I have misplaced the vinyl case but the thing is pretty sturdy for being all plastic and over ten years old. The only issue I have with it is it EATS batteries. Oh well.

Guess what I'm doing again

If you guessed intaglio (etching), then huzzah! You get a virtual biscuit.

For Carol Tyler's comics class, I am starting to work on a collage comic that will involve etching, sewing, and (hopefully) black-and-white photos. I'm drawing inspiration from this, amongst other things (this is only one page of it, click the link for more):

 As for photography with Janie Stevens, I am actually going to work on something very similar, but less sequential and more conceptual in nature. And I will utilize the Van Dyke process, as it is an alternative processes class. I'll be doing these, but in a more photographic form.

ART HISTORIANS AND ARTISTS

So today I went to Louisville with my art history professor Dr. Theresa Leininger-Miller and a retired DAAP professor named Lloyd (whose last name I never caught) to hear Linda Nochlin speak at the University of Louisville. Her lecture was on Misere: Courbet, Millet and the Representation of Poverty in the Nineteenth Century.

It was interesting in that I gleaned a whole trove of new artists to look at both from her lecture and from looking around the Speed Art Museum at which the lecture was held. Also I was simply impressed that she's still teaching and giving lectures. She's eighty years old.

But I did expect the lecture to be more theoretical and less... didactic? I'm not sure if that's the word I want to use. It was simpler than I expected. Not to mention that for a feminist she certainly focused on male artists more than I expected her to. I don't think I wrote down any female artists during her lecture.

I'm mostly glad I went, she had some interesting points and I felt like I could follow along quite easily, which I guess I'm not used to (maybe I've been in visual arts concepts too long).

I did get to use my brand-new Fujifilm Instax camera, which I was rather excited about. I received it as a 21st birthday gift yesterday.  

 Me looking ridiculous with my sister and my mom.

 I love that this camera makes any photo look like it was taken in the 70s.

 Laura Fisher and David Miranda-Klein.

 Linda Nochlin hiding behind the dude in the suit, and Theresa.

 

My favorite by far. The green thing is the flash that went off against the car window.

I'm heading into the darkroom tomorrow to develop some 100 speed black and white film, so we'll see how that goes. I'm also going to have to post about all the new comics and graphic novels I received for my birthday (primary amongst them were Jeffrey Brown and Shaun Tan, but there were many more excellent ones I had never heard of).

Also a comics-related side note, Carol Tyler was unable to come to class on Wednesday because her mother was ill, so she sent someone to take attendance, an older fellow with a slow deep voice and a head full of white hair. He took attendance and then took the time to tell us about how important lettering is in comics, and how we should develop several lettering styles to work with. Being a bit of a lettering geek I found it quite interesting but couldn't really think of any questions when he asked us if we had any, so he let us out of class early and we all scattered.

AFTER he left one of my classmates went, "so that's Binky Brown." And I had a minor WHATWHATWHAT moment. Justin Green just took our attendance?? He didn't introduce himself, how was I supposed to know it was Carol Tyler's husband telling us about letter-spacing? I have got to learn what all my favorite artists look like now. Man.

Duck-a$$

Jordan Tate says that everyone should have a place to put art that's not really "there" yet, or just plain bad. So I started a tumblr, just so I have to keep posting, even if it's horrendous stuff. I'm hoping it will keep me on track with the YouTube project, even while I'm working on school things this coming quarter.

P.S. This:

 (Reblogged from thisisnthappiness)

SPACE Columbus- the artists!

Well, right off the bat, I started following Katie Omberg at her blog. She does a comic called "The Very Real Story of a Real Gay Kid," an autobiographical comic following the story of her own coming out. The drawing style is cute, loose but not sloppy. Go look at her work, it's on her blog and on The New Gay.

Next up is Nate Powell, whose style really reminds me of Jillian Tamaki's. I bought his "Please Release" comic, but after reading it, I wish I had bought at least one other one. It is autobiographical, thoughtful and definitely worth a few more reads to take it all in. Look at his gallery of illustrations as well as his comics, I think they're really freakin awesome.

Ryan Dow won the SPACE prize last year for best webcomic, and I totally see why. In the spirit of Sinfest, but more personal at the same time, his Lil Buddha comics are hilarious and honest.

I got really excited when I saw Michael R. Neno's "Pictures of Benevolence" minicomics, because they are really similar to what I'm working on currently. His are more specific (and more ambiguous at the same time). I can't really describe them properly, but he can.

John Porcellino's King-Cat Comics are also autobiographical in nature, more anecdotal than some of the others in this list, but still really thoughtful. His drawings are sparse, but well executed and buoyed by his excellent writing. I got two of his and I'm thinking of getting some of the earlier issues, too. Here is his publishing blog.

I really loved one of the many free comics I received, called "FYI, IDK," by Max Ink. The drawing are lovely and the characters really well-formed.

Another free comic I received was titled "Sacred Heart" by one Liz Suburbia. I loved the character design, it kind of reminded me of Damon Albarn's Gorillaz designs, and also of Daniel Clowes' Ghost World. (Side note on two things--I bought myself a copy of Ghost World at Half-Price books while I was in Columbus, yay, and Gorillaz has some new tracks up here, holy smokes!)

There were a few people at SPACE doing hand-bound comics and one of the nicest was by Jessi Zarbarsky (and I'm not talking staples here, it was really nice paper bound in the 5-stitch method). I bought the one titled "Thursday," which has this adorable little out-of-panel character hanging out just outside the panel border on some of the pages. The drawing style is distinct and very clean, I'm definitely going to explore her work some more.

The last comic artist I bought a comic from is Nathan Kissel, who has really really nice color work. I bought his "Deserted Aisles" comic about a grocery store clerk who meets a magic genie, and it's well written and the main character is so forlorn-looking you just want to give him a hug.

I got some sweet business cards from about a kazillion people, so I'll just roll out a short list here, click at your leisure:

Evan Yeti by Mat Washburn.

Kenn Minter, comics and graphic design.

Peculiar Comics (this guy was handing out mustaches, I wore mine around until it started to itch).

E.J. Barnes had the cutest/ funniest greeting cards ever for sale. Example A.

I could go on and on and ON, but those were the highlights. Here is a picture of our table, with Carol Tyler's books there at the front.

From right to left: Allison Weyda, Amanda Ashley's coat (I have no idea where she went, she managed to avoid my camera the whole trip), Meredith Waddell.

SPE Atlanta

That's two road trips down, one to go. Thank goodness the next one is only two hours, I don't know if I could handle another all-night drive.

I don't have too many pictures from the actual conference, but I have plenty of the city of Atlanta and the St. Patrick's Day parade, and I still have some from New York I want to post, so those will be at the bottom of this, in that order.

I went to a slew of lectures, some more helpful than others (the one on color balancing was not so helpful, the keynote speaker the first night was super-interesting, etc). I got my most current work (the YouTube stills) reviewed by three separate reviewers--two professors and a practicing artist--and the feedback I got was mildly helpful. The last reviewer was the most enthusiastic, his names was Jamason Chen, he is a photojournalism professor from Loyola. He gave me a good many ideas for presentation, and we even got to talk a little about the concept behind the whole thing, which I didn't really do with the others.

As for the demos and workshops... I kind of already knew most of what was going on. The one lady demonstrating Adobe products was really entertaining though, so I didn't mind watching her tutorial on how to combine still and moving images in Adobe Premiere.

There was a portfolio walkthrough for anyone who brought a portfolio late one night and I was surprised how much of the work was commercial/ photojournalistic in nature. There was barely any conceptual work, you really had to sniff it out in the corners. Janie Stevens, my practicum professor, was also there, and she said that the nature of the work really depends on the region the conference is held in. The 2012 conference will be in San Francisco, so there will definitely be more conceptual work there.

The Midwest conference is actually being held in Cincinnati in October, so I will most likely go to that, now that I'm a member and all.

Things I learned on this trip:
-I MUST print some business cards/ postcards
-I will forever associate skrillex with gas stations and late-night driving
-I really should develop some sort of shorthand for quick note-taking in critiques (or just learn real shorthand)
-Lecturers really should be screened before being chosen as keynote speakers
-In relation to that, if I ever am to give a speech, I will not READ from a SCRIPT. I will talk like a human being
-I am slap-happy when tired, I don't need alcohol to act ridiculous
-TIP: hit up free sample tables several times
-People don't shake hands so often, it seems, but a firm one is always best if called for--no jellyfish hands
-Southerners really ARE that friendly! Holy crackers!
-Atlanta has like 100 streets all named some iteration of "Peachtree"
-Atlanta is skinny but super-long--we tried walking that first day. Baaad idea

This weeks is finals week, I have two critiques and a paper due, but other than that... I now have time to clean and organize my room, which is something that has needed doing since the beginning of the quarter. Ha.

SPE Atlanta photos:

Laura Fisher checks her email at the conference hotel (check out her iPhone photos on her blog).

Kilts are pretty much awesome.

Knights! On horses!

The flatiron building. Same name, different city.

From left to right: Janie Stevens, Danielle Koval, Jacob Riddle, Caitlin Robinson, Laura Fisher.

So I did.

Fancy-dan men's shoes.

All the free film I got: some 100 TMAX, one 120 color film, one fujichrome slide film, some VC and NC Kodak Portra... awesome.

NYC photos:

Oh, hey there, other flatiron building.

Awesome installation at the Met by Katrin Sigurdadottir.

The Armory and other circuses (NEW YORK)

I'm back from New York. I have slept very little and have yet to upload some of my photos, but I wanted to post just to confirm that I am indeed alive and kicking. I am getting together a portfolio of my YouTube work for SPE in Atlanta later this week, and I have a series of eight drawings that I did while in New York about the trip that I want to scan and put up eventually.

Unfortunately, I have work to do involving writing an essay and unpacking my bags (we got in at 6 am, I dumped everything and slept two hours so I could make it to class and not pass out), so I will leave you with some of my favorite images from the MoMA and the Armory Show (the first two days in NYC).