happy halloween & weekend bits

For my makeup class, I had to make a clown design on my face. I am not a fan of clowns, so my design was a little more on the fun side.

This weekend, Mark and I opened the Sculpey clay and let our imaginations create these lovely clay heads. My figures need a little dental work and Mark's look like they are hypnotized. I can't wait until school is over so I can really try my hand at animation, and begin Walter the Worm.

What did your weekend consist of?

a good folk (tune)

Dylan's "Buckets of Rain" will be on repeat until I have to go to work. And will continue to repeat in my mind as I work. Today is just that sort of day.

I will be spending my halloween weekend sculpting figures with my new Sculpey clay! I've began writing a screenplay/working on developing a story based on a childhood memory of

mine--Walter the Worm. It will be an animation. I will start to post my ideas and concepts here. I will probably wait to make it once I move somewhere, construct a nice little studio for myself, and "hire" a great team of artists to work with me.

My characters may not end up being clay figures, seeing as the original Walter the Worm was a brown piece of yarn...

tune in on tuesdays

There are so many girl/guy duos popping up out there, it's hard to find a really good one. Although not totally impressed by the song I do like some elements of it--her voice, for one, and the simplicity of it as a whole. I do enjoy the video directed by Simon Filip (he's a year younger than me!). I find the concept of this video to reflect my last post.

Check out Filip's website here: http://www.simonfilip.com/

And a video he made for Sufjan Stevens (plus others) here: http://vimeo.com/7820451

Uncomfortable

Sometimes you just need to leave the place that you've become so used to.

This thought is clouding my brain. I need to pack my things soon.

troubled glasgow

Last night I watched the movie "Ratcatcher" (dir. by Lynne Ramsay, 1999) which is set during Scotland's national garbage strike of the mid-1970's. The movie explores the experiences of a poor adolescent boy as he struggles to reconcile his dreams of leaving his neighborhood.

It was so well done--candid performances and beautiful imagery. There is a sequence of shots that I just can't get out of my mind which involved a boy reaching for a comb from his pocket in order to hurt someone. Next shot cuts to a close up of a deep red strawberry sauce dripping down a girl's ice cream.

Although this isn't the scene I am talking about, I'll leave you with this elusive, yet stunning, image which will hopefully make you want to see this movie!

try to see this

This movie was rather lovely. I'd like to say more about it, but I don't want to spoil it for anyone.

without feathers

I'll leave you today with a quote by one of my favorite people:

"How wrong Emily Dickinson was! Hope is not 'the thing with feathers.' The thing with features has turned out to be my nephew. I must take him to a specialist in Zurich."

- Woody Allen

tune in on tuesdays (or wednesdays..)

A great groove for you all.

Fruit Skin Textures

This may be old news in the art world, but I still find it quite exciting!



Created by Japanese industrial designer Naoto Fukasawa.

From Years Past

I miss going on mini photoshoot adventures. I need to pick up this hobby again soon, which means I need to order a bunch of 35mm film considering my digital camera is a piece (of s*%#) and I don't use it anymore.

Here are some goodies from years past.















Can you tell I like black and white?

minne-adventure

I am currently working on short films about people in their favorite spaces/environments. This past weekend, I started to make one about Mark (mi novio) and his favorite (and my favorite) places to go to in Minneapolis. Without any predetermined plans, I took the camera out into the world and recorded whatever I wanted to. Here are some video "stills" from what I've been editing so far. To be continued...

two tune tuesday?

You'd think after the 5th week of school I would start to get in the swing of things. But every semester, I end up with at least 2 classes that are a complete waste of my time, and I say that without too much pessimism.

(Click on image)

Luckily, I have mini adventures to Minneapolis (every so often) to look forward to--especially this past weekend, I saw Jamie Lidell in concert. It was a rather exciting concert, to say the least. Here are a few shots I snapped from the front row:







I'll wrap this post up with what is supposed to come on Tuesdays--some tunes! Enjoy.

tune in on tuesdays (or wednesdays..)

Love this couple, song, voice, beat, video, lifestyle, Berlin.