I like fruit. I don't like Halloween!

Tonight: watching old gory movies (Street Trash, Friday the 13th), playing with the new 4-week old black Pomeranian (gothpom) and going to sleep early.

my hair is black and it's so cool!!!

"Soft black"

Every time I dye my hair dark I don't feel any different, likely because I was a Jewish baby with a head of black curls.

I was also quite an accomplished painter as a child. The above painting is acrylic on canvas and pretty large scale, a few feet in each direction. I haven't painted much since then.

Hopefully I can use the black hair to harness a bit of that today, cause I'm straight painting all day, no pencils allowed.

It's raining today but not too wet and not cold either! Between errands I went to a show of children's book illustration called The Original Art at the Society of Illustrators. If you're in New York you should really go; it's small, free, and there's so much great work. I looked up a couple of my favorites:

Giselle Potter

Gabi Swiatkowska

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Taylor will be here on Tuesday! For good! Things that have separated us before: high school, Utah, Los Angeles. Things that will no longer separate us: coasts.

The sweater we called the Jeremy Scott sweater but really it was Generra.
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Yesterday was dramatic, today is ok

I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.

Henri Matisse

(with Michelle McHale in mind)

Because why be negative, ever?

life drawing from yesterday

Her acromia were seriously out of control -- obsessed.

A door is sometimes a wall, sometimes a hole.

Today I'm working at 5 in 1 and looking at Mario Hugo and the Dossier Journal blog.

There is too much to see and too much I want to do. Can I just draw circles for awhile?

can we just print this all over a cotton jersey oversized tshirt dress and call it the "rock cluster dress" and sell it for $189. and then wear it with our ld tuttle boots and mary meyer totes. I would be wearing that tonight if it was a possibility.

P.S.

My roommate Yoon Eom just started a blog for thesis research & stuff (Parsons Communication Design '10 dude). Can we talk about this post? I'd "reblog" it tumblr style but you can see that picture 3 posts down. But listen to the song!!!!!

goldfish (with squash and gemstones)

Fuck me like fried potatoes
on the most beautifully hungry
morning of my God-damn life.


Richard Brautigan

Rocks

The playlist in our apartment includes a couple songs by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes, Empire State by Jay-Z, Run this Town by Jay-Z Riri Kanye, most of the Where the Wild Things Are soundtrack. And then put that on repeat since last Thursday and it's been the best 4-5 days since Taylor was here but now I'm tired because it's over and dreams of squash/gemstone goldfish kept me up.


Bad lighting. I live in an East Village cave.

I LOVE MY FRIENDS & I LUV BAD QUALITY DIGIPIX.

"The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things:

Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--

And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings."

from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872 by Lewis Carroll

(My Alice is entirely cut paper. Top right photo by Diwa Tamrong)

Hansel and Gretel

Scratchboard Hansel and Gretel dolls on rigid enough paper to hold and move around and play with. They're fun.