a change of pace

This was Old Fashioned Scrapbooking. I'm switching blogs over to mackenzieschubert.blogspot.com

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Driking and Embossing; a No No

I made this yesterday. It's up for voting on Threadless here...

Theo van den Boogaard

Stressing the Importance of a Strong Scrapbook Index

I found this at Jake's Parents house and I found what follows at their website...

Green drop shadow on a yellow. Bold move protectyourgarden.com. Also...

This I found in the trash. It is not in very good shape. The plastic seems to be falling apart. I'm holding out that it can be salvaged with a bit of spray paint. Fingers crossed.

Ten Reasons Scrapbooking is Art. A Series of Counterpoints.

http://www.sarahapplebaum.com/

A Difficult Choice.

Mis-measured? Five little ways to hide your mistake.

From Yale's photo thesis show. Their website is balls so I can't tell you who made it.

Screen Capturing Video? Scrapbooking Faux Pas?

This is potentially one of the worst ways I have found in which to show work. What is an awesome novelty at first quickly wares away into a painful forced viewing experience. Like CSI Miami.

Envious Scrapbooking: Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neigbors New Pattern Scissors

This is awesome. Really Awesome.

via Manystuff

Authentic Product

Authentic Art

Comic book on Zuda

I got the comics book I've been working on up on Zuda. I would recommend you go take a look here. And more so if you like it you can register and vote/favorite it and I could maybe win. Further you could tell other people to do the same. That would be awesome.

I'm putting this in my scrapbook

Check this out.

An image of my work represents May in a very narrow slice of the Portland art scene.

Still.

Authentic Experience

This place. Next to the Dalles.

Newer.

New.

Whoops on the last image there.

Posters

Oh. I asked Cranbrook's website for a packet and I got this...

If my application choices were based entirely on surface area this would win.

unexpected

I don't know how this happened. I'm really excited about it though. Needs to be seen big.

Furnishture

I'm going to try and keep this up.

The Worst.

Limited editions are the title of this post.

Authentic #2

What's an authentic brand...

And more importantly, look at this shoe...



It's made of one piece of leather. Holy shit. I love things made of one piece of something. And! it has a Birkenstock foot bed inside of it. This is everything I want in a shoe.

Again.

I feel silly linking to notcot things. Everyone and their grandmother know about it, but I feel once again the mark has been missed.

http://www.due3.com/

The website is awesome and the work on it is.... hard to find. The navigation is confusing as hell, but to enjoy it you just have to click on something. I even like the sound... and sound sucks.

Also the Portland Building sucks. I hate it.

Furnitures.

Notcot linked to this. Apparently the packaging is really nice, but I would much rather just have the table. Shouldn't photograph your work on such a nice table. Lesson learned.

Powell's has a how to furniture section that I have just discovered. I am debating whether or not to buy a book on upholstering.




Explosion.

Visual Response Number 1

I drew this when I was not very old.

Also it seems one of the Wolverine children has the power to step over the horizon.

final install

I've been thinking about ways to install for the final show.

For several reasons the scale falls short of realistic. Here's another angle.

The whole thing is supposed to be folded/crumpled out of a single rectangle. Get it?

again exceptionally rough

Very rough.

or

?

end of term reviews [in relative depth]

Apparently my review went on for awhile. I didn't realize this at the time, which I assume is a good thing.

Bad things seem to take longer.

But, to say that I came away with a wealth of direction from the review might be something of an exaggeration. Taking some of my more experimental uncontrolled processes from the previous screen prints (one of which was shown, albeit in a lump) and apply similar methodologies to the computer driven prints could be good. But, maybe, not.

I would like to animate the prints next I think.

And maybe project back on top of them. Though that seems silly. Why would I do that? Maybe I will anyway. Extra layers!

But first I have to simplify my thoughts, or make them more complex.

I made a book even. I wonder if it did a bad job describing why I did what I made. Again depends who I talk to. I should work on it more.

Clarification is the name of the game from here on out. Excepting of course when the name of the game is "learn after effects" or "screenprint with a wrist brace" or "draw more pictures" or "find health insurance." But, other than those things...

Clarification!

end of term reviews [in summary]

I showed this piece.



But, people like this piece better.





Except of course the people who liked the first one better.

Classier

This is a much classier blog design. I can tell because a lot of the text is unreadable.

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What we want everybody to do is to think clearly.

However, we inadvertently dip into our real, unaccountedly fabulous wealth in a very meager way only when our political leaders become scared enough by the challenge of an impressively threatening enemy. Then only do socialism and capitalism alike find that they have to afford whatever they need. -Buckminster Fuller

Did you know that "outside" it's "snowing."

Typography Tricks! Part I of things which your husband will never notice.

Princess Uncle?

Uh-Oh. Coffee spill! Whoops! Clean up methods.

After watching the inauguration this morning (which was good), I came away with only one question. What the hell happened to poetry? Didn't it used to be cool? Maybe.

According to Brueghel
when Icarus fell
it was spring

a farmer was ploughing
his field
the whole pageantry

of the year was
awake tingling
near

the edge of the sea
concerned
with itself

sweating in the sun
that melted
the wings' wax

unsignificantly
off the coast
there was

a splash quite unnoticed
this was
Icarus drowning

Cool.

Inauguration poem.

Not cool.

Reviewing our fall reviews...

Specifically my fall review. It went well. I think. The discussions centered on where I could take my work next. I think some very worthwhile directions surfaced, but most enlightening-ly? I realized that I was not particularly interested in pursuing the projects. At least in a formal school way.

I spent a large chunk of my time over winter break drawing the first part of a comic book (unfortunately I will still need to spend a good deal of my time coloring it). And as a result of this it dawned on me that the screen based abstracted comic I had shown was trying to make my desire to create a comic fit a fine art context. Which it doesn't really. At least not without taking it away from what I like about the medium. So that one is scratched.

The second project I showed the small environment sculpture. I liked making it, I think it came out okay for a first go. But, I feel like a real time investment would be needed for it to go forward.

I have no problem with investing my time. Though I am wary in this economic climate. But, I know I would rather spend it elsewhere. Somewhere that I find more exciting. And I think the work I was doing this summer, the layered super heros, got put on hold for school. I never really felt like they were done and now I think is the time to make them correctly. And make them three dimensional out of something that will not fall over into a million pieces.

So my big realization from the reviews is that I should have been making other work. Hmm.

Though I have picked up some interesting reading as a result.