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I'm in Long Beach! Yay for me and my pretty new house!
Also, I couldn't see a doctor before I left that abyss of despair, Phoenix. So, I'm still in constant horrible pain. Or, in constant super fun delightful pain. I don't want to be a downer or anything. Nonetheless, California is wonderful, and when I go outside I don't feel like the world is trying very very hard to kill me.
Also, I couldn't see a doctor before I left that abyss of despair, Phoenix. So, I'm still in constant horrible pain. Or, in constant super fun delightful pain. I don't want to be a downer or anything. Nonetheless, California is wonderful, and when I go outside I don't feel like the world is trying very very hard to kill me.
Here are some funtimes doodles that have no relation to the content of this entry:
Ha! I tricked you all into helping me pay medical bills.
This was not what I had initially intended to do. Rather, I'd hoped that I could take the proceeds from tentacle sales (still for sale, go back a journal entry to see them) and save them up for the first real tattoo I want to get when I'm in Salt Lake City in August. The only tattoo artists I know are in SLC, and I'm a little put off by the idea of having a stranger permanently ink me. I'm not trying to get a discount from them or anything, I just don't want some fellow that I don't know from Adam to be fussing about with my dermis.
Alas, such honest frivolities were not meant to be, and the money is going to the more dull and mundane purpose of having my throat slit open for the umpteenth time. And what a horrid coincidence! The last time I had to get all chopped up was just before I moved here to Phoenix, and now I'm a week and a half away from getting to Long Beach, and the ol' foetal twin rears her ugly little head.
Awesome. My genes are apparently mediocre at best, as all of this nastiness is congenital. I've a mind to call up my parents and give them a stern talking to about what nonsense they allowed their alleles to get up to. Reoccurence of this condition is so rare that doctors usually don't even bother to mention it, but I'm a particularly lucky person and beat the odds.
Really, though, I'm rather terrified.
Ha! I tricked you all into helping me pay medical bills.
This was not what I had initially intended to do. Rather, I'd hoped that I could take the proceeds from tentacle sales (still for sale, go back a journal entry to see them) and save them up for the first real tattoo I want to get when I'm in Salt Lake City in August. The only tattoo artists I know are in SLC, and I'm a little put off by the idea of having a stranger permanently ink me. I'm not trying to get a discount from them or anything, I just don't want some fellow that I don't know from Adam to be fussing about with my dermis.
Alas, such honest frivolities were not meant to be, and the money is going to the more dull and mundane purpose of having my throat slit open for the umpteenth time. And what a horrid coincidence! The last time I had to get all chopped up was just before I moved here to Phoenix, and now I'm a week and a half away from getting to Long Beach, and the ol' foetal twin rears her ugly little head.
Awesome. My genes are apparently mediocre at best, as all of this nastiness is congenital. I've a mind to call up my parents and give them a stern talking to about what nonsense they allowed their alleles to get up to. Reoccurence of this condition is so rare that doctors usually don't even bother to mention it, but I'm a particularly lucky person and beat the odds.
Really, though, I'm rather terrified.
Interest in tentacles has swelled into the masses, and so I'm going to make it easier for all of us and devote this journal entry to the sale and acquisition of tentacles. Warning, this blog is devoted to selling the highest quality of useless ephemera.
You can buy them, or you can trade me for them. In the spoiler are some things I wouldn't mind getting ahold of, but if you've got something else awesome let me know.
You can buy them, or you can trade me for them. In the spoiler are some things I wouldn't mind getting ahold of, but if you've got something else awesome let me know.
Large Tentacles:
They will vary slighty, but all of them are printed on white fabric, with black fabric backing, and weighted at the bottom. They also have wire in them to make them slightly posable. I say slightly, because basically you can just increase the curvature or decrease it slightly, you can't change the actual shape much. About 33" tall.
$35 each plus shipping
Medium Tentacles:
They will vary slighty, but all of them are printed on white fabric, with black fabric backing, and weighted at the bottom. About 22" tall.
$25 each plus shipping
Small Tentacles:
They will vary slighty, but all of them are printed on light colored fabric, with black fabric backing, and weighted at the bottom. About 15" tall.
$15 plus shipping
Oh, but you want the whole shebang, you say? I have an option especially for you:
One of each:
$65, plus shipping
I accept payment via paypal, or check (as long as you get it to me in time. If it arrives in July, I'll just mail it back to you). Message me withwhat you'd like and I'll let you know what shipping will be.
Please include in the comments section of the paypal form what exactly it is that you ordered.
These prices only apply until the end of the month when I move, and only until I sell out of the finished pieces.
A few other things I made that are also for sale:
The boy got me a copy of Dreamweaver, and since about a month ago I've been sporadically trying to understand it well enough to design a new website. The heavyhanded clunkiness of Horseflesh is so embarrassing, and I'm a little ashamed of it. So much so, that I haven't updated it since fucking January.
At any rate, I've gotten as far as making a clever index page for it:
My friend, sexy man thing Trent Call, has a website where the index is a picture of him in his studio, and you can click on various items in the picture to be taken to corresponding subpages on his site. That was my inspiration, but I knew that I couldn't manage all of the Flash his relies on, so mine will be far more simplified.
Is now a good time to mention that I'd love to trade art in exchange for some help with my website? 'Cause, if you're so inclined, I'd be ever so grateful. Sadly, I cannot offer the more traditional business transaction of trading actual money for services, and so my feelings will not be hurt nor will I be at all surprised if no one responds to the invitation.
Ah! I have so many jobs to finish before I move at the end of June. My short career in illustrative work has not been particularly lucrative so far, but I'm enjoying it. I have a logo, some album art, a poster, t-shirt art, and a couple of other things to finish up. All of this does not stop me from making this absurdity, destined to be repeated over a myriad of surfaces:
Want a closer look?
At any rate, I've gotten as far as making a clever index page for it:
My friend, sexy man thing Trent Call, has a website where the index is a picture of him in his studio, and you can click on various items in the picture to be taken to corresponding subpages on his site. That was my inspiration, but I knew that I couldn't manage all of the Flash his relies on, so mine will be far more simplified.
Is now a good time to mention that I'd love to trade art in exchange for some help with my website? 'Cause, if you're so inclined, I'd be ever so grateful. Sadly, I cannot offer the more traditional business transaction of trading actual money for services, and so my feelings will not be hurt nor will I be at all surprised if no one responds to the invitation.
Ah! I have so many jobs to finish before I move at the end of June. My short career in illustrative work has not been particularly lucrative so far, but I'm enjoying it. I have a logo, some album art, a poster, t-shirt art, and a couple of other things to finish up. All of this does not stop me from making this absurdity, destined to be repeated over a myriad of surfaces:
Want a closer look?
It's Muscid Damask! Isn't it lovely? Is an artist waxing rapturous nearly as awful as a comedian who laughs at their own jokes, or a band that wears their own shirts to a concert? Be that as it may, it is lovely. I want to try a more complex sort of repetition next. Maybe a tesselation.
Also, I made the ill-advised decision to be in another group show at Pravus.
Ill-advised simply because I have so many other things to do. Pravus always has brilliantly structured group shows, and I'm such a sucker for those. Salon style is not at all for me. I like a cohesive theme, that I can understand and not be constantly distracted by the incongruity of the art. Yes yes, repetition with deviation is what makes a group show so delicious. This particular show is about pigs. Rather, it's not so much about pigs as it is involving pigs. Each of us were given oversized porcelain piggy banks. These things are so delicate. Already, I've seen two in studios that were victims of the clumsy hip or elbow and sent into fragments against the floor. I must come up with a way to handle the (lack of) structural integrity of the pig. Suggestions?
The show which I have referred to often, in hopes that someone will praise me for the massive amount of work it required, as the show which was produced in one month. Thus far, no one has been terribly impressed, which leads me to believe that I over-estimate my own endeavours. Anyhow, the show looked lovely, a fact which was largely ignored by most of the gallery attendees.
You see, Pravus Gallery is divided into three spaces, and my show "Far Below" occupied the middle of the three spaces. The first space had a group show of custom vinyl toys (Moodys, actually), and was a great testament to horror vacui*, all tiny details and bright colors. The third space is occupied by Synthetic Compound, a vinyl toy shop and a similar description as above can be accurately applied to it. And there was my show inbetween, with big pools of space between the pieces and bereft of any colors besides the black and white of monochromatic relief printing.
Perhaps if my work cannot visually compete, then I should re-think my approach to art. I [i[should do this, but I'm not going to. Instead, I'm going to assign the smaller crowd that my show attracted as the inevitable sifting that intellectually superior art must do. See what I did there? I took a situation which illustrated my artistic shortcomings and made it into the opposite. Because I'm deluded like that.
Because of the short notice of this show, I was unable to do much in the way of publicity for it. But my friend at the local weekly wrote a short piece on it, mostly about how I was shortly to leave Phoenix. And now everyone asks when we're going to move, and we respond with the reply, disappointingly lacking in urgency, that we leave in a month and a half. It's like putting on the turn signal blocks in advance of the actual turn.
That's me with the backpack. I have to wear gloves nearly all of the time for reasons that I won't go into. Suffice it to say, they are not fashion inspired reasons. So I'm up against the inability to dress reasonably well with gloves and not looking very gothy, or not looking like a pretensious nance, wearing gloves in a Phoenix summer. Do you have any glove wearing recommendations? They must be full gloves, no thug-ish looking fingerless nonsense.
The Fish. I'm most proud of the fish. It's the first piece I've made that skipped the intermediary step of making a blank of the pattern to test it, and then to draw the image on. For the fish, I drew the original pattern and the drawing directly onto the material before cutting, and didn't know if the whole thing would work until after printing it and sewing it together.
By the by, we're now accepting submissions for Super Fun Activity Challenge 2, Activity Quest.
If you're interested in purchasing a tentacle or other piece from the show, let me know and I shall supply you with pertinent information.
*my favorite art history term
You see, Pravus Gallery is divided into three spaces, and my show "Far Below" occupied the middle of the three spaces. The first space had a group show of custom vinyl toys (Moodys, actually), and was a great testament to horror vacui*, all tiny details and bright colors. The third space is occupied by Synthetic Compound, a vinyl toy shop and a similar description as above can be accurately applied to it. And there was my show inbetween, with big pools of space between the pieces and bereft of any colors besides the black and white of monochromatic relief printing.
Perhaps if my work cannot visually compete, then I should re-think my approach to art. I [i[should do this, but I'm not going to. Instead, I'm going to assign the smaller crowd that my show attracted as the inevitable sifting that intellectually superior art must do. See what I did there? I took a situation which illustrated my artistic shortcomings and made it into the opposite. Because I'm deluded like that.
Because of the short notice of this show, I was unable to do much in the way of publicity for it. But my friend at the local weekly wrote a short piece on it, mostly about how I was shortly to leave Phoenix. And now everyone asks when we're going to move, and we respond with the reply, disappointingly lacking in urgency, that we leave in a month and a half. It's like putting on the turn signal blocks in advance of the actual turn.
That's me with the backpack. I have to wear gloves nearly all of the time for reasons that I won't go into. Suffice it to say, they are not fashion inspired reasons. So I'm up against the inability to dress reasonably well with gloves and not looking very gothy, or not looking like a pretensious nance, wearing gloves in a Phoenix summer. Do you have any glove wearing recommendations? They must be full gloves, no thug-ish looking fingerless nonsense.
The Fish. I'm most proud of the fish. It's the first piece I've made that skipped the intermediary step of making a blank of the pattern to test it, and then to draw the image on. For the fish, I drew the original pattern and the drawing directly onto the material before cutting, and didn't know if the whole thing would work until after printing it and sewing it together.
By the by, we're now accepting submissions for Super Fun Activity Challenge 2, Activity Quest.
If you're interested in purchasing a tentacle or other piece from the show, let me know and I shall supply you with pertinent information.
*my favorite art history term
Solo Show! Opening Friday!
I whipped up this handbill for it super fast. I'm rather pleased with the very subtle grey in the background.
Ah, I've never worked so hard for so little before. Come and be disappointed in me! I'll be the mousey looking character trying to blend into the wall.
Also, Super Fun Activity Challenge is having an additional reception the same night, so maybe I'll sneak away for a minute and see that. The Pravus show will be all black and white high contrast thinkiness, and the Trunk Space one will be brightly colored and all surface.
I whipped up this handbill for it super fast. I'm rather pleased with the very subtle grey in the background.
Ah, I've never worked so hard for so little before. Come and be disappointed in me! I'll be the mousey looking character trying to blend into the wall.
Also, Super Fun Activity Challenge is having an additional reception the same night, so maybe I'll sneak away for a minute and see that. The Pravus show will be all black and white high contrast thinkiness, and the Trunk Space one will be brightly colored and all surface.
My friend wrote a piece about me in the recent Phoenix New Times.
A bevy of amazing pervy emails sprung up in response to it, with some commenting on how I appear so submissive and obedient in the photo, and others meekly commenting on how aggressive and forceful I look. Frankly, I think I just look a little strained and overwrought, but maybe that's just because I know that's how I felt.
Veggie Tails, by Steve Jansen
(for some reason, the link copies inaccurately. This is the weblink: http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-04-17/news/vegan-erotica-s-camilla-taylor-wants-to-get-you-into-a-vegan-dildo-harness/
Copy and paste it to go to the page.)
So far, my currently hanging show,Super Fun Activity Challenge, has been a great success. We're already working on a call for entries for the next one, and we've now sold enough copies to cover the costs of putting it together, and will start making profit now. Yay! This is my first zine. All of the other books I've worked on have been really fancy very limited edition artist's books, so it's really fun to make something that I can sell for only $5.
My next show, Far Below, opens May 2nd at Pravus. Crap! Boobs! Crap! I'm working so fast and so much to get it all finished in time, but I'm exhausted already and I've got so much more to get done.
A bevy of amazing pervy emails sprung up in response to it, with some commenting on how I appear so submissive and obedient in the photo, and others meekly commenting on how aggressive and forceful I look. Frankly, I think I just look a little strained and overwrought, but maybe that's just because I know that's how I felt.
Veggie Tails, by Steve Jansen
(for some reason, the link copies inaccurately. This is the weblink: http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2008-04-17/news/vegan-erotica-s-camilla-taylor-wants-to-get-you-into-a-vegan-dildo-harness/
Copy and paste it to go to the page.)
So far, my currently hanging show,Super Fun Activity Challenge, has been a great success. We're already working on a call for entries for the next one, and we've now sold enough copies to cover the costs of putting it together, and will start making profit now. Yay! This is my first zine. All of the other books I've worked on have been really fancy very limited edition artist's books, so it's really fun to make something that I can sell for only $5.
My next show, Far Below, opens May 2nd at Pravus. Crap! Boobs! Crap! I'm working so fast and so much to get it all finished in time, but I'm exhausted already and I've got so much more to get done.
Last night was amazing! Not only was Super Fun Activity Challenge a great and wonderful success, but I then went home exhausted and had a sci-fi dream about terraforming Mars and inadvertently becoming immortal.
I had two entries in the book, and this is the finished product of one of them, "Make a Homeowners' Association":
Dancekitchen, obd, and Neumie have pieces in there too, along with my now super famous and successful friend Trent Call. Trent just had a two page feature in Juxtapoz, with full color and adoring interview. I was so jealous that it took me two whole days to congratulate him after seeing it. But, ever the opportunist, I invited Trent to come to APE and table with us in November, riding the wake of his success to sell comics and toys.
Do you want a Super Fun Activity Challenge? They are exceedingly easy to procure! All one need do is send me $5 for the book and $2 for the shipping, and I will send you a lovely copy, guaranteed to be chock-a-block with super fun. Message me for my paypal address. If you're in Phoenix, you can bypass the $2 shipping and stop by the Trunk Space, at 1506 NW Grand, and pick one up there for $5.
I've got another show opening on May 2nd at Pravus Gallery in Phoenix. It will be called either "The Ocean" or "The Deep." I haven't decided which, but I'd better decide soon as I'm making the cards tomorrow. All of the work for this show I'm making in the month prior to the opening. I've never done something so last minute before, so I'm both eager and terrified to see how I make out.
If you're in Super Fun Activity Challenge, you get one free copy, which I'll send along to you when I return your piece to you.
Painting the gallery walls lavender in preparation for my next show, Super Fun Activity Challenge. It will be, I promise, super fun.
Upcoming group show and anthology, edited and curated by David Bessent and I:
image by Nick Shivley
Trunk Space is located at 1506 NW Grand Avenue in Phoenix. David and I will also be taking the Super Fun Activity Challenge to APE in November.
Upcoming solo show:
City of Rooms, opening May 2nd at Pravus Gallery in Phoenix
Upcoming solo show:
From Below, opening June 6th at Deus ex Machina in Phoenix
AND!
Camilla Taylor hates Phoenix and wants to leave it forever mega sale of artwork and other stuff in June. Pictures shall be posted, along with appropriate paypal links. Most likely, I'll be selling most of this stuff for the amount of shipping.
I'd better sell loads of this stuff, because I certainly can't move it all to Long Beach at the end of June. That's right, friends. Long Beach. The decision has been made.
image by Nick Shivley
Trunk Space is located at 1506 NW Grand Avenue in Phoenix. David and I will also be taking the Super Fun Activity Challenge to APE in November.
Upcoming solo show:
City of Rooms, opening May 2nd at Pravus Gallery in Phoenix
Upcoming solo show:
From Below, opening June 6th at Deus ex Machina in Phoenix
AND!
Camilla Taylor hates Phoenix and wants to leave it forever mega sale of artwork and other stuff in June. Pictures shall be posted, along with appropriate paypal links. Most likely, I'll be selling most of this stuff for the amount of shipping.
I'd better sell loads of this stuff, because I certainly can't move it all to Long Beach at the end of June. That's right, friends. Long Beach. The decision has been made.
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