Lands collide so slowly to produce mountains. Mountains seem to just sit there. With the help of an animated gif and Photoshop, however, I can watch a mountain move, and I can skip figuring out a way to live for 1000 years in order to do so!
Just sent this out for this month’s Project Dispatch subscription!
Been feeling a ittle cray cray lately and making unhealthy choices like drinking soda! Taking Advil at night! (Are you all gasping now?) As a result, I’ve gotten sick and talk in a raspy monotone voice and hate riding the metro even more than I normally do because I am really bad at coughing nonchalantly.
“stab wound”; watercolor, pen on paper; 9″ x 12″
Isn’t it crazy how we don’t know what the insides of our bodies look like unless somehow our bodies get cut into, or we swallow tiny video cameras, etc? I would like to imagine that my insides are an assortment of geometric shapes or a cluster of stardust, but probably (probably!) I’m a bunch of guts and blood and Diet Coke. In fact, I think I one day I’ll draw an image of my insides as stacks of Diet Coke cans — I feel that is an accurate representation of what I’ve been drinking and what I must be composed of lately.
Also, I just put some postcards in the mail for the next Pretty/Much Collective mail art exhibit. Here is a little taste of what I sent — remember to swirl & sniff before you view!:
“bleary eyed mtn”; watercolor, pen, colored pencil on paper; 4″ x 6″
2 haikus about my experience drawing/painting this:
(1)
painting is stellar
but – you may not believe this –
drawing is fo’ real
(2)
cats perch on the desk
tackling pen, brush, pencil
as lines move like fish
(2) is a little too serious sounding, but YUP, I’m definitely becoming a professional haiku writer in the future (probably when I’ve retired)
Updated “biology nerd glyph” in MS Paint (wanted to give Photoshop a rest, but I did use it to make this into an animated gif). Fingers are numb. Heart is swelling in love and romance because I do love animated gifs, and I haven’t made one in several months.
Crossed fingers and toes that two-thousand-and-twelve (———- and 00/100 cents) will be the best year ever.
This post is dedicated to Spice Lee, the acclaimed director most famous for his film Do the Right Thing – a powerhouse movie about the spiracial/herbal tensions surrounding an Oregano-owned pizza shop in 1980s Brooklyn and which stars Rosemary Perez, an ice cube, and Spice Lee himself. You see, Spice Lee commented on my last post, saying…:
Waiting for your post on the KWAKMAS 2011 TV special. I heard the actual Liam Neeson showed up dressed as Liam Neeson the cat and there was a show stopping performance by Koyote in front of an audience of actual coyotes.
…so I thought I should, you know, step up to audience demand and talk to you about holiday festivities & about my TV special.
The Kwakmas 2011 TV special was livestreamed to an exclusive guest list — so exclusive, in fact, that I can’t show you any footage without angering members of the guest list. You will just have to my word for it that…
This is what the I would look like to you if we met at a bar (with, like, a really tall ceiling), and you had one too many egg nog:
Overall, I rate Kwakmas a 10 out of a 10, and I hope that you all have had/are having very nice holiday festivities, too 
“biology nerd glyph”; printer ink, brush pen, pen on watercolor paper; 9″ x 12″
Biology was one of my least favorite classes in high school, but I’m throwing biology nerd gang signals right now because word’s out on the street that it’s the cool thing to do.
I’m going to be in the Project Dispatch show, Part and Parcel, opening next week at DC’s The Fridge (^▼^). Please come and check it out!
PART AND PARCEL
OPENING: DECEMBER 10, 8-11 PM
Work by Frank Adams, Keli Anaya, Deborah Anzinger, Chris Chen, Rachel England, Jessica Ford, Elizabeth Graeber, Becca Kallem, Chandi Kelley, Regan Kireilis-Helms, Stephanie Kwak, Jon Lee, Dana Maier, and Kristoffer Tripplaar
The Fridge, 516 8th Street SE, REAR ALLEY
Here are some up close and personal shots of my work you might be able to see there. You will have to go The Fridge yourself to see what I have lurking there in their full, possibly bodacious, entireties.
AH, I’ve been gone for far too long! I kept meaning to update this but got caught up in inventing a cosmic webcam (result posted above), staring at cats, tangling out dreads from my hair, and the daily hullabaloo of just existing.
Here is a short music mix for you, a musical shout out to drowsy people everywhere who like to sleep in but can’t for whatever reason. I’ve been listening to this + kpop the past few weeks (more on the kpop later). Enjoy!
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