oh honey, we're ridiculous.

This is what I have been working on for the last month, but most...

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:11:16 -0500

Superglue + cotton = NOT A FUN MIX.

This is what I have been working on for the last month, but most especially for the last three days… all day yesterday, all day the day before, and all day today in the studio. This is the most intense project I’ve had in this major yet. So much heartache, so much excitement, so much alcohol… so many injuries… so much N*SYNC… Alex, Terran, Becks and I had the back room mostly to ourselves last night, so we checked out the CD player and found Now That’s What I Call Music 6 in Alex’s CD case. You can imagine how the night progressed.

Now I just have one project left for this class and THEN I’M DOOOOOOOOONE.

Done with forming, onto fabrication… bwaaaaah

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:25:08 -0500

Done with forming, onto fabrication… bwaaaaah

"Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances..."

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:07:24 -0500

“Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.”

- Rainer Maria Rilke in a letter to W. von Hulewicz

The conversation tonight went on a tangent similar to this for a little while too. I love things coming full circle.

"I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately… I wanted to live deep and suck out all..."

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:04:20 -0500

“I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately…
I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life!
To put to rout all that was not life…
And not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived…”

- Henry David Thoreau

This was the gist of a four hour long conversation my roommate and I just had tonight. And the subject of my final project. I love fantastic conversations like this.

asshole.

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:38:24 -0500

asshole.:

chapmanclurl: uuuuala

Now waaaaaaait I don’t think he’s such an asshole at all. I can completely relate to what he’s saying. Several years ago, he had a really great idea, and he started to go with it. And he made two albums. And then he realized that he had committed to something that would literally take up the rest of his career, and no artist wants to get stuck working on a single project for their entire life. Even if he worked at the outrageous rate of an album per year, that is fifty years. And at that speed, they would be total crap. I seriously don’t think he’s saying that it was a joke on his fans or anything, but more like the fact that he thought he could really do it was absurd. The questions he’s asking are valid. It really sounds like he’s having an existential crisis, which is something I appreciate more than if he just kept making progressively shittier music because he was tired of what he was doing. At least now his fans know what’s going on.

Anyone who creates anything can’t tell me they haven’t had this exact same dilema at least once in their lives.

The Apparitions

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:25:29 -0500

The Apparitions:

To add to the plethora of good music going on right now.

predatorywaspobserver: “The Beach” by Dr. Dog My dashboard is...

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:14:08 -0500

predatorywaspobserver: “The Beach” by Dr. Dog

My dashboard is full of incredible music today.

theavant-gardeplaylist: Margot and the Nuclear So & So’s -...

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:12:05 -0500

theavant-gardeplaylist: Margot and the Nuclear So & So’s - A Children’s Crusade on Acid

I am diggin this M&tNS&S kick you’re on.
Also that acronym is all kinds of messed up.

ragbag: defrocking your books it took me until pretty late in...

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:09:57 -0500

ragbag: defrocking your books

it took me until pretty late in life to realise that book covers, by and large, are tacky and more or less useless. using them to keep dust from your books is akin to using neon plastic to preserve your furniture.

there are surprises in store for the adventurous defrocker of a hardback book…gold and silver foil stamping! linen! typography! earthtones! what’s more: since the binding of books has been more or less standardised over the last 3.2 million years, the dan brown bestseller that you bought yesterday will harmonise with your grandmother’s edition of fanny hill when they are both naked together on your bookshelf.

added bonus: you can upcycle your discarded covers into fashionable outerwear!

more unsolicited advice on how to arrange your bookshelf can be found here.

I’ve been defrocking my books since I could read. Dust jackets are annoying and unsightly and inevitably covered in rips, wrinkles, and pen marks. Don’t ask me how a book without a dust jacket manages to escape all that… it’s just one of the pleasant mysteries of the universe.

Photo

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:01:38 -0500

fivefifteen: Window Design by Karl Lagerfeld for Printemps,...

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:58:00 -0500

fivefifteen: Window Design by Karl Lagerfeld for Printemps, Winter 2008

ienjoysweets: guhhhhh future job? yes please.

HELLO this is what we’re supposed to be learning in this ridiculous exhibition design class. Instead, we are designing park benches and not even having class half the time. (Today was the seventh time he’s canceled class. SEVEN. With NO makeup dates. Tuition breaks down to about $138 per class session… that means he has thrown nearly $1000 - ONE THOUSAND - of my dollars out the window. Not to mention the fact that we’ve never met for an entire class period… we always get out at least an hour early if not more. The school policy is that if a student misses four classes, including being 15 minutes late to a class, they automatically fail the course. What happens when it’s not the student, but the professor??)

No Buildings Taller than 6 Stories

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:04:53 -0500

The Reykjavik Grapevine: A work group in cooperation with the city of Reykjavík has recommended that no buildings be constructed that are taller than six stories, in order to ensure that residents can have a view of the natural surroundings.

Behind the idea is the belief that Reykjavík’s environs, which includes Mt Esja and (on a clear day) Snæfellsjökul, should be protected by directing approval of planning projects to keep the maximum height of buildings in the downtown area between four and six stories. In this way, most city residents will be able to continue to enjoy the sight of these natural surroundings.

Halldóra Vífilsdóttir, an architect and the chairman of the group, told RÚV that while in some instances it could be permissible to allow buildings to be taller than this, that “residents should be able to enjoy the view, and see for example Esja and Snæfellsjökul. A large part of being a Reykjavíkingur and being an Icelander is having the environment that we live in, and it’s a part of the residents’ quality of life to be able to enjoy these environs, and plan construction around them.”

"This hasn’t been a year. Just one day 365 times."

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:54:19 -0500

“This hasn’t been a year. Just one day 365 times.”

- Cat & Girl

[design is mine]

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:52:19 -0500

[design is mine]

Photo

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:42:33 -0500

[wooster collective]

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:37:50 -0500

[wooster collective]

Marielle Debethune[apparat]

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:30:44 -0500

Marielle Debethune
[apparat]

Gratuitous Picture of Yourself Miðvikudagur: Work Work Work...

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:15:00 -0500

Gratuitous Picture of Yourself Miðvikudagur: Work Work Work edition.

In this photo you will notice:
+ My Drawing For Design portfolio made out of masking tape and a box
+ A Margot and the Nuclear So & Sos poster that my old roommate made in printmaking and left behind
+ My computer with an Icelandic iceberg screensaver
+ A makeshift endtable [A plastic tub, a scarf, and an old suitcase]
+ A Paul Almasy poster of an artist painting in snowy Montmartre in 1968
+ My typical hairstyle: careless ponytail with multiple pencils/pens/paintbrushes stuck through it

I keep having to transfer money from my Iceland savings into my regular account because of stupid...

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:17:00 -0500

I keep having to transfer money from my Iceland savings into my regular account because of stupid things like the $150 I had to pay to get 12 unnecessary books made for this ridiculous Exhibition class. 12 books that I spent time designing, and money getting printed, that weren’t even used.

That is the short version of why I ended up at the ocean the other day.

Dear Fryderyk Chopin,

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:32:00 -0500

Please help me get this project finished tonight. Please help me to stop wanting to curl into a little ball under my blankets and cry and cry and cry.

Yours,