I haven't shot anything in over 3 months and I have no idea what else to shoot.

My lab fees run out in 2 1/2 months.

I don't know what to do.

I'm still looking for a fucking job s the idea of just dicking around and shooting and developing 2 rolls of film kills me.

my first entry of 2009 is lame

I updated slubird.org about a month ago and realized I never posted about it!

today was my last day as an undergrad

Ah yes, from Photo I over four years ago. I finally did it.

I don't want to lose this feeling of self-discipline and drive and urge to learn even more and hone my craft and do any and everything I want to do. I don't want to lose the excitement and confidence that accompanied and followed my last ever photo critique of my undergraduate college career.

and so

I usually dislike Thanksgiving (eager for Christmas to begin, food is overrated, I hate Puritans, though I do love talking in ye olde Pligrim speakke), but this year I must say...

I am thankful for my family for being so unconditionally loving and supporting. I am thankful for my friends for also being loving and supporting, helping me spend all summer trolling for booty and drinking with me, going to things with me, coming to my shows, etc. I am thankful for my boyfriend, who makes me feel more beautiful and strong than I have probably ever felt. I am thankful for Seymour the Terrible, even though he has scratched me 4 times today already. I am thankful that I have artistic talent, a sharp mind, biting wit, an empathic nature, and an overall passion for life, and that everyone I keep in my close circle shares these qualities also. I am thankful that I have not ever gone without food or a place to sleep, and that I will most likely never have to face these problems. I am thankful that, albeit it's not the best by far, I was raised in a first-world country. I am thankful.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Albert P. Weisman Award Exhibition- reception this Thursday!

Albert P Weisman Award Exhibition
September 2 - October 18, 2008
Opening Reception, Talk the Walk, October 16, 5:00-8:00pm
Best of Show Announcement: October 16, 5:30pm

The Albert P. Weisman Award was established in 1974 to encourage both undergraduate and graduate Columbia College Chicago students to complete projects in all fields of communication. With projects spanning eight disciplines and created by thirty-seven students, this year’s exhibition offers a range of artistic agendas from the importance of material reuse and the complexity of domestic hierarchy, to compulsive consumerism and our notions of privacy.

www.colum.edu/weisman


This is the last chance to see my work! I hope to see you there, a lot of talented people won this year.

For a Whale of a Dad

I was going to write a post about this summer ending and blah blah blah, and I might later, but instead I will share with you some lolfacts about ~*Tom Carvel*~ (specifically Cookie Puss).



From wikipedia:

Cookie Puss is a character created by Carvel in the 1970s as an expansion of its line of ice cream cake characters freshly made and sold only in its stores, which also includes Hug-Me Bear and Fudgie the Whale. According to Carvel lore, Cookie Puss is a space alien (his original name was "Celestial Person" and his initials, "C.P.", later came to stand for "Cookie Puss") who was born on planet Birthday. In his television commercials, Cookie Puss has the ability to fly, though he requires a saucer-shaped spacecraft for interplanetary travel.

Here is a commercial not only of Cookie Puss but also Cookie O'Puss, his Irish counterpart for St. Patrick's Day:

new show and a bit of inspiration

First things first, I have another show on Friday at Knee Deep Vintage. Check it out:



Secondly, I went to the MCA today since I didn't have work for once and Tuesdays are free. They had a large body of Bruce Nauman's work. I've always liked him but I didn't know too much about him and I'd never seen such a large collection of his various pieces before. They had quotes from him on the wall and I wrote two down:

"I think the point where language starts to break down as a useful tool for communication is the same edge where poetry or art occurs...if you only deal with what is known, you'll have redundancy; on the other hand, if you only deal with the unknown, you cannot communicate at all. There is always some combination of the two, and it is how they touch each other that makes communication interesting."

"In the end I think that most of my work...[is about] why anybody continues to make art. It's always interested me how one does any work in the studio at all, what it's supposed to be about, how you get things started or make any sense of the process, Even though the work is coming from somewhere inside, you can't put your finger on the source and it never happens twice the same way."