I didn't go to prom because I was studying, in case you were wondering.
My heart is broken and whole at the same time. I have been falling in love with artists. This one is by Jeremy Blake, though Beck is no small force here either. Before it was Miranda July. And by love I mean REAL love, like "I don't know what's happening to me" love.
Jeremy Blake was in a show called Meme: Romanticism, that's how I learned of him. This must be what dying is like.
My heart is broken and whole at the same time. I have been falling in love with artists. This one is by Jeremy Blake, though Beck is no small force here either. Before it was Miranda July. And by love I mean REAL love, like "I don't know what's happening to me" love.
Jeremy Blake was in a show called Meme: Romanticism, that's how I learned of him. This must be what dying is like.
I just read this article, "You're a Nobody Unless Your Name Googles Well."
Upon reading it, I was reminded how lucky I am, and simultaneously I even felt momentarily immortal. Then I realized how I have been squandering my fortune. My name is practically a built-in website. Once I even turned an acquaintance into a date with this feature. She liked my musical taste exhibited on my Amazon wish list.
Immediately afterwards I felt a twinge of responsibility. I will be judged by my Google hits, identified by them. I should use this to my advantage, and I should also exercise caution. I have made a few newbie $0.02 opinion comments, for instance, that nobody needed to hear. Also I should always be sure to check the spelling of a word before I use it. No more casualness. I will be judged.
Just now, I deleted my name from a few Suicide Girls blog posts, like this one.
I'll probably edit this page later too.
I hope Google caches don't last forever.
Delete Delete Delete Delete Delete
Upon reading it, I was reminded how lucky I am, and simultaneously I even felt momentarily immortal. Then I realized how I have been squandering my fortune. My name is practically a built-in website. Once I even turned an acquaintance into a date with this feature. She liked my musical taste exhibited on my Amazon wish list.
Immediately afterwards I felt a twinge of responsibility. I will be judged by my Google hits, identified by them. I should use this to my advantage, and I should also exercise caution. I have made a few newbie $0.02 opinion comments, for instance, that nobody needed to hear. Also I should always be sure to check the spelling of a word before I use it. No more casualness. I will be judged.
Just now, I deleted my name from a few Suicide Girls blog posts, like this one.
I'll probably edit this page later too.
I hope Google caches don't last forever.
Delete Delete Delete Delete Delete
A. I don't know french
B. I am wary and relatively uninformed about nuclear energy.
This is still a cool commercial. Credit to the ad company I spose.
And Trader Joe's added their own traffic signs..
umm what else..lemme look here...
B. I am wary and relatively uninformed about nuclear energy.
This is still a cool commercial. Credit to the ad company I spose.
And Trader Joe's added their own traffic signs..
umm what else..lemme look here...
I think I have Achilles Tendonitis which sucks because I just got a gym membership and it takes a long time heal supposedly.
I had gotten in the habit of running up and down stairs with a heavy backpack full of books, just as a way of adding a little fitness in my commute. A few weeks ago I started getting sore achilles tendons every morning.
A clear sign of my dumbness that I let it go on for so long.
I had gotten in the habit of running up and down stairs with a heavy backpack full of books, just as a way of adding a little fitness in my commute. A few weeks ago I started getting sore achilles tendons every morning.
A clear sign of my dumbness that I let it go on for so long.
This is perhaps a twisted attempt at art.
I got accepted into the Maker Faire and I will have a booth somewhere. Hundreds of geek people will come and ask me a billion questions, though hopefully I will meet a few device art enthusiasts, inventors and a few contacts to get some programming/engineering work.
The guy who made this called it overengineering. It is a web "hit counter" using a mechanical counter.
Someone else unearthed this ancient turn signal light. Again bizarre use of engineering and I like it.
I got accepted into the Maker Faire and I will have a booth somewhere. Hundreds of geek people will come and ask me a billion questions, though hopefully I will meet a few device art enthusiasts, inventors and a few contacts to get some programming/engineering work.
The guy who made this called it overengineering. It is a web "hit counter" using a mechanical counter.
Someone else unearthed this ancient turn signal light. Again bizarre use of engineering and I like it.
I've submitted a proposal last week to the Maker Faire to have an exhibit with them this May. I had an idea and while it is hackery, also has an art/design component. I think i could even pass it as art. If I get the installation off the ground, I am going to give it a try. I started a blog for this venture, here. Currently it is heavy laden with philosophy and not so much craft, or progress reporting.
However I had unconsciously been thinking of the back drop as an Urban Outfitter's like wall and partial room. I can't think of a single better way of explaining the style of it.
I've often thought Urban Outfitters was derivative, and it commoditized slackerdom. It was a bittersweet elitism but I usually turned my nose up at it in order to have stronger style standards. But I had still been a guilty fan of their interior design, and occasionally of their products. I had been thinking lately that their interior design rocked and that I wanted to meet whoever was responsible.
Now I am breaking it down a little. I think the white chandeliers idea though might have come from this designer, Harry Allen, maybe even the picture frames. The reason I think that it is derivative of is that Harry Allen's "Reality" objects is in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and they are a a different kind of institution. Harry Allen made molds of objects and that's why they are white. Urban Outfitters probably painted their chandeliers.
In a similar origination chase, the last time I was at the SF MOMA, I noticed a monograph for this artist, Ryan McGinness and felt reasonably confident about what was derivative of what.
Derivation is the business of museums. They ought to have a better idea than me.
So Urban Outfitters is derivative, so what. H&M is and IKEA is. We enjoy design knock-offs from Target too. So fancy designers aren't getting the lower budget dollars, I can live with those economics because I feel pretty certain that they do well, and the imitative flattery helps them.
This one blog made me sad though. It took the cake. I was relieved to see that at least it only had three entries for the year. Urban Counterfeiters
That's just not cool.
However I had unconsciously been thinking of the back drop as an Urban Outfitter's like wall and partial room. I can't think of a single better way of explaining the style of it.
I've often thought Urban Outfitters was derivative, and it commoditized slackerdom. It was a bittersweet elitism but I usually turned my nose up at it in order to have stronger style standards. But I had still been a guilty fan of their interior design, and occasionally of their products. I had been thinking lately that their interior design rocked and that I wanted to meet whoever was responsible.
Now I am breaking it down a little. I think the white chandeliers idea though might have come from this designer, Harry Allen, maybe even the picture frames. The reason I think that it is derivative of is that Harry Allen's "Reality" objects is in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and they are a a different kind of institution. Harry Allen made molds of objects and that's why they are white. Urban Outfitters probably painted their chandeliers.
In a similar origination chase, the last time I was at the SF MOMA, I noticed a monograph for this artist, Ryan McGinness and felt reasonably confident about what was derivative of what.
Derivation is the business of museums. They ought to have a better idea than me.
So Urban Outfitters is derivative, so what. H&M is and IKEA is. We enjoy design knock-offs from Target too. So fancy designers aren't getting the lower budget dollars, I can live with those economics because I feel pretty certain that they do well, and the imitative flattery helps them.
This one blog made me sad though. It took the cake. I was relieved to see that at least it only had three entries for the year. Urban Counterfeiters
That's just not cool.
My cousin, Roisin Isner, who is now 17, made this movie. Her only "narrative" film she says. She showed it to me last Sunday. Her mom was a video artist and was in ArtForum and all that so maybe that would explain the natural talent. I don't know, except that I am envious. She's the Gothy girl with the Dawn-like eye make up.
Dang!
Dang!
