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Wednesday November 08, 2006 at 8:40 AM in

well the dana schutz lecture was not put on by the curators but by second rate tour guides/volunteers, it was a waste of time. but, what is not a waste of time when it comes to art.
so as usual i did not vote but i have never really been involved in politics. do not get me wrong, i have always been one with a big mouth (which happens to be the perfect size for my foot). i can go on and on and on about this or that, but the idea of who is fulfilling what role in the political structure has never really been part of the discussion. maybe that has always been a bit practical for me, a bit too down to earth. i am a head in the clouds, feet off the ground kind of guy. if it does not seem impossible, than is it really worth talking about. either way after reading andy’s page looks like everything i would have voted for passed.
also when i was walking to school yesterday some girl yelled out of her car “don’t cry emo boy” and it just happened to be that my eyes were watering because of the wind and i was wiping them with my hand, which could appear as if i was crying. would she have yelled that if i had not looked like i was crying? did she even notice me wiping my eyes? and can she not tell the differences between an emo boy and a three hundred and ninety nine year old art student and that the proper belittlement would have been “no crying over you spilled paint art fag”. kent hecklers have no skill. i give her some credit for at least yelling something; normally it is just a honk and a finger. back in lorain the hecklers were always relevant and if you were lucky they would throw something at you. not here in kent but hey, what can you expect from college students?

abra kad abra

Thursday November 02, 2006 at 7:57 AM in

i ventured to the movie house and saw the prestige. it was entertaining but a bit to explanative towards the end. leave a bit for the mystery of things. halloween has come and gone and now the next event will be my birthday. what a day, i will be turning four hundred and i am still in college but i think i have finally found my passion, paper, and most enjoyable paper engineering, i.e. pop up books and the like. my next few projects will be along these lines. as i right this my mind is twirling with the possibilities, pop ups can be the perfect combination of the four major art disciplines, sculpture, painting, print making, drawing. it is a marriage of math and art all rapped up into an ephemeral vessel of paper. it is childish and whimsical in its history yet has the possibilities of great sophistication. i hear that kara walker does some pop ups and I have a dvd that she is on showing them but i have not delved that far into its content. (don’t worry all the dramatics will pass as soon as i have lost interest).
on a different note I am in a regional show consisting of ua, cia and ksu painting students and for the opening we had amy yoes give an artist lecture, the odd thing is amy is not asian. i say this because for some reason everybody thought she was. i think it is because of her flyer/card, there was a women looking at one of her works and she seemed to be asian. i have not decided whether or not this is racist.
on a different note from the different note, i am going to a lecture presented by one of the curators for the dana schutz show at moca. i can not wait to see how convoluted, pretentious and out and out masturbatory it will be.

also another sketch my friends.