April 2010
18 posts
Album cover of the day
Spirituals - This cover is like T.S. Eliot at Circus Pizza drinking Jamba Juice with a power shot of melted crayons. The track, “Wanderings,” is driving but slightly repetitive button-pressing hyperwave.
Albums in current rotation:
-The Black Keys - “Brothers”
-The Radio Dept. - “Clinging to a Scheme”
-Crystal Castles - “Crystal Castles”
-The...
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Insta-Artist Statement
Fill in the blanks!
I am (interested in/fascinated by) _______ the (spatial noun, like “juxtaposition”) _______ of (abstract noun) ______ and (abstract noun)______. Using only (plural noun)_____, (plural noun) _____ and (plural noun)______, coupled with a (adjective)______ interplay of structure and formalism, my work is an (adjective)______response to (art movement of the...
bret michaels is ok
i read that somewhere. apparently lots of people do this thing called “gratuitous picture of yourself wednesday.” since i have pictures of me with SPOT THE TARGET DOG, how could i not participate? that on the other side is john; he ripped that shirt himself.
here’s a scribble i made for my friend conrad’s DJ page on facebook - DJ Picnic Basket. Sometime i’ll...
Good news, cigarette juice!
Just wanted to write the weirdest thing to synch with my Twitter account, courtesy of “Tim and Eric.”
Anyway, things are really winding down for the semester. We had our last work meeting with the whole A&E staff from the MN Daily yesterday. Jay Boller was kind enough to bring a camera.
Don’t we look young and naive and full of the drunken glee characteristic of all...
hey becky, what'd you spend your paycheck on?
other than lots of food, i spent big $$ at Dick Blick today. Look at that crazy-shaped Watercolor sketchbook! i had to buy it. The Munny doll I’m going to paint for mother’s day - my mom requested either something with “skulls” or “lolita goths,” her favorite motifs. we are going to hell’s kitchen for mother’s day, as per my suggestion. you bet...
Improv tangerine white truffle pasta
Yesterday I accidentally made the best pasta I’ve ever tasted. It was one of those, “I don’t have any groceries so I’m going to throw everything together” meals. It is tangy, smokey and addictive. I usually don’t even like pasta, but this I now crave.
Here’s the recipe:
1. Chicken
Dice chicken and cook in white truffle oil. Zest a tangerine peel over...
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Image report: Indie aesthetics
Lots of the time you can tell if music is indie by its cover and song names before even hearing it. This is called “good branding.” I have been pondering this question ever since I accidentally bullied Dada Trash Collage into changing their MySpace. To explore, I decided to start with image trends, combing through Pitchfork and other music blogs. I divided what I found into good,...
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My thesis about hotness
I made up a mathematical system to explain the fundamental workings of hotness. Read it here.
I’ll apply it to these really bad-ass GIFs that MIA put on her Twitter:
I’d probably say M.I.A. is an 8 in looks and a 10 in personality, because she grew up in war torn Sri Lanka, moved to England, taught herself English on the radio, became a graphic designer and then became a...
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mars
this has been lying on my floor for a month or so and today while i was blow-drying my hair i decided that it is done.
here’s the progress of my big painting:
i think i’m going to finish it today.
now i’m going to write an essay about male-female attractiveness and the margin of error presented by personality. i will post it on my writing blog, with graphs!
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sketchbook chronicles
isn’t it fun to look inside people’s sketchbooks? or journals?
these are all drawings i made in class. the last one is rielle hunter, the chick who john edwards knocked up. i like to draw people who do bad things.
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big painting
i’m making a big painting cuz i want to enter altered esthetics’ suburbs vs. city exhibit. i like altered esthetics because they tend to favor design-style art over conceptual art. you enter and your eyes are mystified in every direction. it’s never like, “oh, what does this pile of bricks mean?”
i plan to make one person per day over the next few days.
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Comic collaboratin'
Many moons ago my friend Aaron drew a comic and said, “Becky write words on this.” It went something like that. It ended up being a beautiful flowering of weirdness. We might team up again, but for now I’m working with my friend and old co-worker at The Daily, Ian Power. He’s currently teaching English in French Guinea (prob. spelled it wrong) and will soon be back to...
here’s a piece of art i really like. it’s called “tiger mending” by amy cutler. i first heard of it because we read the story based on it by aimee bender in my high school lit class.
i was reminded of it because of this book:
i bought it awhile ago and it’s one of the best art books i’ve seen. the writing is spot on, never like reading an alien trying to...
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Chinois est arrivé lai le!
I made a MySpace for our fake band. This is how bored I am, even though I’m technically working 45 hours/week this semester. I even made some mini-songs for it. My main motifs are dog barks, heavy rain and brontosaurus wails - thanks Steve Jobs & Co for Garage Band. If I had talent, it’d get me far.
What I learned
-MySpace is confusing. Fully utilizing its power of irony took a...
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chinois
for me and kara’s fake band, chinois.
inspired by the icon of my generation:
note - this photo makes no sense to me. it could be a candid sneezing shot, but it has become this constantly reusable proof of culpability. also, i really hate hearts. but i felt like the occasion called for them.
happy easter.
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updates
i made some new art this week:
but follow my art tumblr so i don’t have to put art on the main page.
i’ve been watching copious amounts of the british show “skins”
“skins” is a fairly straightforward drama about kids who sleep with eachother out of boredom and smoke because they’re british, but parts of it are surreal in an ingenious way.
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