Bike saftey to awesome videos

So this all started with a day at the zoo, speaking of this song by the Goddamn Electric Bill called Lost in the Zoo. it has these images of these chimps. I soon realized more then this band has used this 1963 bike safety video in there music videos in different ways.

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examples continue here:
Boards of Canada

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Velociraptor

Goddamn Electric Bill

fatheads

this is interesting and a pretty creatively funny.

Jeff Goldblum and Movies

I am so into him, every movie is delish. this one looks especially awesome and intense. It takes place in Israel in 1960s at a mental institution exclusively for concentration camp survivors of the Holocaust. its called Adam Resurrected probably not coming to a theater near you but looks dank! did I just use "dank" as an adj gee.

Also I watched one hour of Bongwater and had to stop myself because I found out it was based on a book so I must read the book first, a great cast once again. Updates later on the book set in my lovely college nastalgia Portland, OR an alien is also involved and Jake Black and hippies and Weed of course.

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I have no idea what it is about, but the cast is making me weak in the knees.

	Famke Janssen
	Alan Cumming
	Terrence Howard	...	Himself
	Debra Winger
	Gale Harold
	Rosie Perez
	Shirley Manson	...	Herself
	Karen Black	...	Herself
	Marlo Thomas
	Dave Matthews
	Rufus Wainwright
	Will Oldham
	Moby
	Liya Kebede

Fortunes

Because I know my dear friend Zach Rose adores fortunes cookies as do I, and good East Coast Chinese- Swill from Fantasy Island which I have posted about before in Foodie.

"While times may seem difficult, your future forecasts a quick turnaround."

"One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interest."

"Seems people like to give advise, bu not listening to their own."

"No one grows old by living, only by losing interest in the living."

"Night people:'Anybody who goes to bed the same day they got up is a quitter.'"

We orderded $37.50 worth of food for Me and Uncle Teddy.

Order as followed:
Pork Strips
Fantasy Steak
Garlic pan fried noodles
Pork friend rice
Fried Wontons
4 ginger sauce for dipping (they said it would be expensive)
and extra duck sauce and mustard.

I had a very artsy day!!

Charcoal drawing of a ross wood branch. 18X24


"The Business of Art and Media" Mixed Media 20X26
This one is a classical still life with a twist. We were suppose to make it a somewhat of a self portrait and incorporate various symbols and items in it. My Vanatass symbol is the lima bean. It symbolizes my mother and her nickname Bean. Its suppose to make me remember how short and sweet life can be and how you can't forget to cherish moments of brief euphoria. Life is too short and so was the life of Bean.






"Waves of my heart" Mixed Media 20X26
This is a hybrid space. A self portrait if you will.



"Little Boxes" 18X24 Pencil
Classic drawing exercise on perspective and precision. I love this methodical exercise.

oh the ensemble cast...

This is my new favorite, future, obsession movie. I love ensemble casts like I love steak and potatoes. This Side of the Truth check out that cast line up and let me know if you don't get a little wet. Sounds epic, I'm there.

I'm going to say it...

I hate the Simpson's, never liked them, never will.

Hybrid Room

This is Jay Walker's library in CT. Not to be confused with Jay Walking. He is a very successful American entrepreneur and inventor of Pricline.com. Which showcases one of my favorite characters, the negotiator played by none other then William Shatner. Obviously this guy is a genius and billionaire. My drawing teacher asked us to look up this article in Wired 16.10 issue to get inspiration for our midterm assignment which is to create a hybrid room of shapes, feelings, images and even text of things that express ourselves. I'm not totally sure how this amazing library which features bejeweled books is connected to us as artists but it sure is cool to look at.

Enjoi bloggers.

Paint Art

This is what I do at work.
I also anwser the phone, but rarely.
I eat food when fed.
I fax sailing memos.
I make copies of my other art.

Celeb Sights at work

Ethan from Survivor.
I looked like 2 times at this very attractive Jewish man that just walked in.
Googled quickly as he stood in front of me.
It is in fact him.


I think I am going to ask him akwardly things maybe try to get a snap shot for some real proof.

make that two survivor-ites: not sure I want to talk to them as much now.

lots of buzz in the bar and in the kitchen about these two local celeb folk.

EDIT: Spoken to, kinda lame. Not very exciting. his GF Jenna came out of the womens bathroom and she looked like she was wearing too much makeup for the high seas.

Tears for a 12 hour work day

Saturday was a Revolution

I got up at 10am to get my supplies together to start a revolution on the Charles River Battle grounds for a Revolutionary Water Gun Battle. British vs. America. Robots from the future could only be stopped by bubbles. It was epic to say the least and by far the best way to end summer with my friend Jessica who came to Boston in search of something more and found it on the waves of surfing in NH and Battling America wearing red and fighting for the British, we weren't fighting for freedom, we went to crush it!
my point of view

Thank you for callin

I am a 12$ Yacht Club whore now, or phone anwserer whatever the difference is, shoot me in the smile, Thanks for calling the Corithian Yacht Club, How may I direct your call?

I guess the local isn't to shabby.



Location, Location, Location!
And I can ride my bike there.

Great comic material to come of these drunken sailors!

The Greatest Loss

Aunty's Dream

9 1/3 Newbury

A comic about an experience I had in a Unicorn and Gnome store in Boston.

The Funeral

overheard

"I don't like this party, I can't stand it. There are just sluts and hoes everywhere, all they want to talk about his fucking." - A fraternity boy outside his fraternity's house party.

Tuesday

Describe your favorite day of the week and why?


Well its officially tuesday and I love it! more to come, this quote: "you didn't make the cut (in my commercial) you were left on the editing room floor. but your still in my hard drive and in my heart."

New Comic

came to my attention!

So it came to my attention from a fellow classmate in top digital world, through Ichat that I should use citation for these tasks because as of a three month assignment given by blogger and designer Russel Davies. I was gonna talk about this in class though: but here is the citatation just to clear things up:

Davies, Russell. "How to be Interesting."Russell Davies: riding out on a horse in a star-spangled rodeo. November 07, 2006. http://russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/2006/11/how_to_be_inter.html.

Scrap booking again

I got a Moleskin at the bookstore and I am working on an idea book/scrap book X2

#10

Read: Understanding Comics - Scott McCloud
The Mezzanine - Nicholson Baker
The Visual Display Of Quantitative Information - Edward Tufte

All these books are good for their own reasons but they’re also good examples of people who are really interested in stuff that others think of as banal and who explain it in a way that makes you share their passion. That's good.

And that's it.



I have been getting into what comics signify and what a cartoon can say about society and the rules of the game. From ancient times when Egyptians wrote on the wall to present day street art comics tell a story. Why do we believe cartoon forms of ourselves? Why is the high intellectual property of the New Yorker only illustrated?

I'm working on a comic of my own. Hopefully it will be up by next week. More to come later.

#9

Make something

Do something with your hands. Create something from nothing. It could be knots, it could be whittling, Lego, cake or knitting. Take some time to get outside your head. Ideally, make something you have no idea how to do. Get something from Make and try it, assuming you’ll screw it up the first time. People love people who can make things. Making’s the new thinking. Share your things on the your blog, or, if you’re brilliant maybe you can share them on etsy.

here is my art, I have become a Lithographer. Click on the Jpegs to really see the litho detail, I am loving this stuff right now, it brings color and life from stone and aluminum through the powers of chemicals and a printing press.
Mechanica Naturalista

For Bean with Love and Cancer

65% Chance of Rain

#7

Once a week sit in a coffee-shop or cafe for an hour and listen to other people’s conversations. Take notes. Blog about it. (Carefully)

Take little dips in other people’s lives. Listen to their speech patterns and their concerns. Try and get them down on paper. (Don’t let them see. Try not to get beaten up.) Don’t force it, don’t hop from table to table in search of better eavesdropping, just bask in the conversations that come your way.


So I am failing pretty hard at this because I haven't found any interesting people yet. I was at Barry's on 12th and Alder for over an hour, and I ran into a friend and I think they our conversation was by far more interesting then the other patrons in the cafe. Roma seems to be study and less talk except for outside where the people discuss how to change the world while chain smoking. Milky way offer a glimpse into the Asian mafia. I have yet to go and dread to go to Starbucks/Quiznos I also think Pergino downtown might have a more intellectual ease dropping.

Update: Glenwood on Saturday was pretty priceless, I need to use my words carefully but a very afro-centric group was sitting in the booth next to us, and I could tell they were not in Kansas anymore. I can't really begin to describe their tones or topics of conversation but they sure complained a hell of a lot about the Glenwood not having french fries.

Also there was this couple who looked so unhappily married it hurt. The scrunched their faces at each other and didn't speak for the whole meal. It was a Saturday night and it was as if they didn't want to eat alone, or with each other for that matter. They sat in total silence reading the paper.

I was also at Sys pizza on Saturday night at around 12:45am. There were two largely jolly "ho-ish" looking Taylor going girls. They definitely were not on the same planet we were on. The kept bitching about AOL im's and couldn't believe they were getting an IM through their phone. They read the IMs out load, they were dirty. Someone pretty funny was playing a joke on them pretty well, because the content was nasty, especially read out loud in a pizza parlor.

#8

Every month write 50 words about one piece of visual art, one piece of writing, one piece of music and one piece of film or TV. Do other art forms if you can. Blog about it

If you want to work in a creative business (and before long most businesses will be creative businesses) you’ll have to get used to having a point of view on artistic stuff. Even if it’s not very artistic. You’ll have to be comfortable with expressing an opinion on things you don’t know how to make or do, like music or writing. You get better at that through practice. And through sharing what you’ve written.


So I wanted to talk about "Youth without Youth." A movie I recently saw at the Bijou on a rainy afternoon. I was going into with big hopes of the Coppola franchise. I have been getting into Sofia, champagne in a can made for Sofia Coppola by Frances Ford Coppola named after his daughter.



The movie was a total blur of reality. It started with a genius being hit by lightening that miraculously mutated his 70 year old self to 35 again. He also has super powers and is able to move metal and feel a book and comprehend everything in it. The whole time this epic film, all I kept thinking about was this is just a beautiful intellectual looking x-men. During his life he is searched out by Nazis to who want his power, and along the way meets another mutant girl which the same event happen to her, expect when the lightening hit her a ancient Indian god possessed her soul. As they fall in love she grows older, but apart she rejuvenates. Most of the movie was a lot of "lets see how this reverse black and white camera angle looks" or maybe some blurred vision. After 10 years Coppola came back with probably one of the most confusing and in ordain movies I have seen this year.

The reviews were hilarious because I really don't think anyone can grasp whats between the lines or what the symbols of immortality, time travel, lightening, and super powers all mean.

I picked this for a connection to the Coppola franchise that is throughout my blogs now I recently wrote about VLOGGED about Sophia's champagne in my food blog.

#6

Collect something

It could be anything. It could be pictures of things. But become an expert in something unexpected and unregarded. Develop a passion. Learn how to communicate that to other people without scaring them off. Find the other few people who share your interest. Learn how to be useful in that community.

I collect Hello Kitty everything, here is my collection, also to come my slip on shoe collection, similar to my chucks in my other blog.


I have also found fellow hello kitty liker's through flickr

My Vans: Pink ones, Checkered Ones, Pony ones...

#5

5. Once a month interview someone for 20 minutes, work out how to make them interesting. Podcast it.

Again, being interesting is about being interested. Interviewing is about making the other person the star; finding out what they know or think that’s interesting. Could be anyone, a friend, a colleague, a stranger, anyone. Find out what’s compelling about them. Interviewing stops you butting in too much and forces you to listen. Good thing to practice. (And it's worth noticing the people who are good at it.) Podcasting is sharing. Sharing is something you must get used to.


So I am not sure how savy I am being but my rough podcast was done in Imovie by recording just sound, I hope this works.

#4

Every week, read a magazine you’ve never read before

Interesting people are interested in all sorts of things. That means they explore all kinds of worlds, they go places they wouldn’t expect to like and work out what’s good and interesting there. An easy way to do this is with magazines. Specialist magazines let you explore the solar system of human activities from your armchair. Try it, it’s fantastic.

I read black book: it was all about LA which leads me to believe I was on to something with my personal story on LA in the latest issue of the Oregon Voice: OV this leads me to believe the interconnectivity of media and popular ideas through osmosis of trends coming from underground movements up into the public sphere eventually.

#3

3. Keep a scrapbook
I chose to take a cigar box and make a scrap box. These are various mementos I have picked up traveling and doing things I love like snowboarding, shopping and being with friends. Coasters are a great reminder of a restaurant you loved or a date you went on.

#2

2. Start a blog. Write at least one sentence every week.

This is pretty easy. If you just did this much I’d be disapppointed. You should write more sentences. Or you should write one true sentence. But I suspect that you won’t be able to limit yourself to just one sentence, I suspect you’ll get bitten and want to do more.

It’s easy to knock blogging as a kind of journalism of the banal but in some ways that’s its strength. Bloggers don’t go out and investigate things (mostly) they’re not in exciting or glamorous places, they’re not given a story, they have to build one out of the everyday lives they lead. And this makes them good at noticing things, things that others might not have seen. And being a blogger, feeling the need to write about stuff makes you pay attention to more things, makes you go out and see more stuff, makes you carry a notebook, keeps you tuned in to the world.

I even vlog occasionally about cooking and life in my size 61/2 shoes

#1

1. Take at least one picture everyday. Post it to flickr.

You should carry a camera with you. A phonecam will do. The act of carrying a camera, and always keeping an eye out for a picture to take changes the way you look at the world. It makes you notice more things. It keeps you tuned in.

Posting it to flickr (or other photosharing sites) means that you’re sharing it. It’s in public. This will make you think a little harder about what you shoot and it might draw you into conversation about your pictures.



heres one of my favorite conversation pieces in my flickr account.