December 2009
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buffalo shirt
i like buffalo because they are a great american animal. they go in packs and cross highways. plus it’s really fun to kill them on oregon trail. if a buffalo ever charged at me, i would stand in front of a tree, and then right when it’s about to kill me, i’d jump to the side. the chinese symbols mean “hot summer,” which seemed kind of like a nice phrase for a shirt...
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self poor-trait made real
out of sheer boredom, i finished it. it took me about two hours. it has an old camel slogan, french fries, a burger, lady gaga and jennifer aniston looking really pitiable (i feel like that’s a nicer word than pitiful). i like it but i’m bummed there’s paint on it. maybe i’ll splash on more to make it seem more intentional. (i learned in Basic Media Graphics that good...
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just call me the post office
you know, because i post so much.
more throwing symbols in a weird arrangement. this one is about a lusty man in an arty hat.
i also started my self-portrait. i ended up drawing myself way too small for the paper, so i had to solve the problem of my legs just ending. naturally, a canoe could be riding in from somewhere in indeterminate space. then i drew a buffalo because buffalo are cool.
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i should go to med school cuz people are starting...
i woke up early thinking of onion headlines. i think i’m going to start writing fake news on this blog. i used to write some in high school on my old website, leckybang.com, and one sample got me an almost non-paying writing job*. so that’s something.
speaking of people getting jobs, here is my friend tom’s pitch to local media to hire him as an intern. as someone who has...
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shirt designs
So I finally got my screenprinting machine running, so I sketched out some shirt designs while bored on Christmas eve. I have these tiny watercolor trading cards, and for some reason it is much easier for me to think about the format of a design when it’s on a small scale (plus it takes less ink). These need a bit of touching up, but I might not bother because I’m lazy. Anyway, the...
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self-poor-trait
when i paint a self portrait someday i’m going to paint this. i’m thinking this because recently i tried and failed to paint a picture with me in it for a birthday friend. the whole thing made me remember mr. lefevre, my 8th grade art teacher.
“everyone makes their art look like themselves. becky you give everyone a lip like yours, and short legs.”
he also...
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can you make this more "kanye?'
I’m making mini paintings on watercolor paper trading cards I got at Dick Blick.
I also got some bright pink emulsion (it smells weirdly good) so I can get that Yudu screenprinter working. That I did! Voila
I totally tigered some of my shirts. If you’re wondering why the blue one is all messed up, that’s from the last time I tried to screen print. Now I have to make up my...
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firefight
Do these look different? I tried to take some of the yellow out. It’s not yellow at all, in person. Boo my iPhone camera.
Anyway, voila! My new thing - dripping paint all over. It is quite fun and whimsical, and in this case violent. Anyway, I was thinking about people who would be cool to paint, and I thought, how about skinny and violent Leo DiCaprio (everyone’s favorite Leo). I...
holla
I’m done with school and work for a month. At these times of little obligation to do anything other than make Christmas pie (butterscotch with meringue, this year), i get an instinct to say things like “holla.” I blame my sister/Ellen/hip-hop.
This is another teen from Colors mag, which has inspired me to paint a few portraits with their awesome photography.
Also, check out...
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ever wonder what the english language would look like if it were graphic, structured and colorful? here’s my take at it. i tried to make all of the vowels similar, and give the most common letters solid colors.
since i have associative synaesthesia, meaning that i see many alphabet letters in consistent colors, a lot of people (who actually believe me) want to know what reading looks...
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projects and projects
On Illustrator, you can create symbols, which are kind of like clip-art but not shitty. I’m mostly a writer, but I find that this symbol feature is an in-between place for me. Through creating a symbology on Illustrator, I got to figure out that my subconscious is full of skanky people, snack food, jungle animals and weapons. Or something. Anyway, they all got deleted when my hard drive...
The decade is ending - Let's reflect.
Not sure what a ritual gummy bear acupuncture has to do with the 2000s, but it just felt right. Maybe because the 2000s feel bright-colored, see-through and full of corn syrup, and are also an era of a general acceptance of Eastern medicine. See, I am so good at metaphors.
Anyway, I want to do my own “Best of the Decade,” but first I have to point out some things about moi, the...
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stupid things my textbook says + my reaction to...
From “Media Making: Mass Media and Popular Culture” by Lawrence Grossberg, Ellen Wartella, D. Charles Whitney, J. Macgregor Wise
“Consequently, this book is based on a different model of the place and power of the media in contemporary life: the model of mediamaking. This term is intentionally ambiguous. It implies that the media are themselves being made while they are...
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Sim Saga - Eekog!
This story is from a blog I share with lots of boys, but I decided to put it on my own.
Part One: So I’ve been playing the SIMS again. When I was a kid I’d play with my sister Krissy, and her Sim was called Alilabobin Robin Taubin, and she belonged to the Taubin family. I can’t remember what mine was. We mostly played to learn the language and mimic it enough to annoy our mom....
i've been busy
this is an emo boy. he cries for the world.
this is a comic that my friend aaron fletty drew and had me narrate.
here’s another. it tells tales of universes and nonsense and souls and talking bacon.
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more paintings
Charlie Day. glue is for sniffing, paint is for huffing.
a post-op transgender girl in Colors magazine, where I now want to work.
