Clare Rojas

Art makes me feel good.
Making art makes me feel good.
I love when other people's art makes me feel good.

I can't remember if I've talked about this before, but I really enjoy the work of Clare Rojas. I found out about her last year when I got Revisionaries at the MoMA. It's A Small World, Grandma Moses, traditional Slovak toys and decorations my grandma would bring back after her trips: things that imediatly came to mind when I first saw her work. I think that's refreshing. She implements elements of folk art that I really love (like using found materials instead of canvas, and using traditional flat pastoral images) but reflecting contemporary identities and events. There is a certain familiarity and femininity in her work that I really appreciate and gravitate to. She currently has work up at the New Image Gallery with a bunch of other really rad artists, if you're a California person, check it out!

post-modernism

I just got out of my Modernism class, and I can't stop thinking about Brancusi. We looked at a lot of his work today in class, I'd seen most of it previously but everything looked new again. We touched on the Bauhaus for a little bit, and it was really strange to hear someone speak about design that wasn't a designer. But anyway, I really really really miss sculpture class.


Also- Bronze Muse --> C3PO?

Brian Wilson

For my final project for Digital As Illustration with Jesse Turnbull first semester freshman year, I made a series of album covers for a Brian Wilson compilation that spanned the different periods of his life. These are the drawings I made as a start to those pieces. I found them and a view others at my parent's house over spring break. Ironically enough, I like them so much better as line drawings than as the finished album covers.

Max Weinberg, plz be there

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street band are playing their usual pre-tour rehersal gig at Conventional Hall in Asbury Park tonight and I think there was one last night too. Tickets went on sale the 20th, and I'm pretty sure they're impossible to get but if you can, get them, and go. If I was home and 100 dollars richer, I would have bought one.

I've got my ticket for May 23rd, and could not be any happier. As previously divulged, I love Bruce Springsteen.

My cousin Charlie has informed me that Max Weinberg might not be playing every show on the tour- which is upsetting. This Rolling Stone article tells me that his son Jay might sub (he has a metal band- HA). There's a video embedded in the article of the band + Jay Weinberg performing Born To Run, and I don't hate it.
But, I would be pretty damn disappointed if Max Weinberg did not play my first Springsteen show at Giant's Stadium -excuse me- The Izod Center.
Did I mention, Jay Weinberg, is my age?! Actually- a year younger. How crazy is that!? To be 19 years old, and play packed stadiums with hundreds of people who love the band your in, watching you and singing every word to every song- Nuts!

Practicalities

The wheels of my bike have dry-rot, and I think I should probably replace them before going for a ride, or even think about using it as a serious mode of transportation.

I know it would probably be really impractical, because you know I go to school in a city, and need to carry things other than a thumb drive BUT I really want to get a longboard. (FUN FACT I skated in middle school, poorly, but I did it none the less)

I think this one from Koastal is pretty beautiful.




There is nothing soft I can eat with a meal plan here, and my post-surgery mouth is still pretty painful. Lame.
Spring Break wisdom teeth removal. Lame.

Having your mom make you mashed potatoes and bring you orange sherbet all week. Awesome.

A Strawberry Flavor Burst would be so good right now.

Can it wait til tomorrow?

I'm opening all the windows.
It smells like spring.

FINALLY!

I'm starting to recover. I had surgery on the first day of spring break, and have either been in a ton of pain or in medicated lala land since. But today, I'm actually feeling so much better! Which is really excellent because I have so much work to do before heading back to Baltimore. Also on a positive note, I won't have to wear thick black RayBan's every day in order to see!

I'm off to write a Modernism paper, I actually like Henri Matisse a whole lot. Claire and her mom took me to see this great show at the BMA before spring break, and it was a lovely experience. (Also one of the guys from WitchHat was a guard?) It was so nice to be able to see in an almost tangible way how the art I'd been studying in class really changed the way people at the time were seeing things. I was so impressed with the prints they had in the exhibition. It only made it worse that I wasn't able to get into a printmaking class this semester. AND I AM A CONCENTRATOR!! But, that's okay. I'll just take a bunch next semester.

into the abyss

Spring Break, WOOOOOOOO!

Things still need to get done and will get done, but it's nice to take it easy for a bit.

There is something so familiar and comforting about taking Amtrak from destination to destination. The subtle rocking that accompanies the low hum of the train's rushing are almost surreal. Sitting in a soft seat and peering out the window as eastern seaboard rushes past is really wonderful. I'm so happy it doesn't make sense for me to take the bus.

There's a really great show on National Geographic Channel right now called Into The Abyss. It's about finding new species and their development in a 20,00 foot gorge in the Celebes Sea. It's so mind boggling that so many of these beautiful creatures have been living since the ice age. I think we could learn a lot from what's going on below the surface.

Here's a great video clip that was on the Nat Geo site.



How rad are those pigmy sea horses!? That shrimp that can see beyond UV Rays, so gnarly. I'm perpetually inspired and surprised by how beautiful and fascinating these things are.

Geoff McFetridge

When I grow up, can make work as rad as Geoff McFetridge?
Can I graduate MICA and make work this awesome?
Can I get hired to make work like this and get paid?

I love his patterns, drawings, and installations. So good!
















See his work HERE and HERE and HERE!

私は待つことができない!

according to free online translator that means "I can't wait!"

She looks good.

When I logged into my email this evening,
Kate Hudson was listed as a fashion fail.
I liked this outfit? She looks good.
I always liked Kate Hudson though.


Let's all get spray tans for spring break.

Where is the sun?

I'm so tired of this weather.
I need some warmth.
I need to sunbathe.
I need the ocean.

But anyway, aside from being really busy, I'm trying to get my resume all settled and continue applying for summer internships, as I really need to to get one.
My winter doldrums should be melting away by this point, but it's still cold, there is still ice everywhere, and I don't dig it.
I can't stop listening to sad, beautiful, somewhat soulfuly melodic pop songs that your mom and dad liked when they were in college.

For Your Listening Pleasure:








The real Rod Stewart video is better, but it wouldn't let me embed it.

I turned 20 yesterday

and today I can't focus at all!

I have so much on my mind, so much to do, a paper to write and no motivation to write it.
The other night I made this drawing,


which is some how going to be the basis for a toy, I'm thinking puzzle?

I got these really great enamel paints and some wood, hopefully the lazer cutter will be agreeable. I really just want to start testing these materials and get to painting, but I mean ya gotta prioritize, ya know?

But anyway yesterday was really fun, my friends are great. Thanks for everything guys!

Also, for Baltimore-ons I had the Yellowtail sashimi last night XS, in addition to Tuna Amazing rolls, and they were delicious. Beyond delicious. I would go as far as saying, Total YumYums.

I can't get this song out of my head, I've loved it since I was a little girl, and it just gets better every time I listen to it.