I took one hundred one cent stamps, put a drop of my own blood from a pin pricked finger, and stuck them all around my campus. I did it just cause. Then I took pictures. Here are a few.
May 2004 Archives
I found myself at, of all things, backstage of The Fillmmore during the performance of The Shins.
Azita, whom opened for them, emailed me out of the bloody blue, told me that she liked my shit, and if I would like to get free tickets, and oh, back stage passes.
So, Azita is now my new favorite person, for acts of unknown kindness. Check her shit out when she's in town. See you in Chicago... sometime Azita.
I had a gallery opening last Friday at the Mutiny Now! Gallery with Jack and a bunch of other people from RMCAD.
Jack sold one of his big paintings featuring Rick and himself - the second one he's sold that I know of. The first, also featuring Rick was entitled, "Rick, You're a Starbucks Drinking Nazi". This one was simply titled, "Rick and I". Rick's a good sport, but there is many a party where he's known simply as, The Nazi.
Jack also had a painting of his parents. His Father was trying to cut his Mother's hair off... with tree limb cutters.
I had a painting of Penelope, entitled, Desire. To get that correct mood, I had to seduce her and make her desire me as if I was air itself. I took some hot photos, which I won't share at this time, but I'll show you at least some supplies I bought for the occasion:
After the opening, I went back to school to work on some paintings and then went to a party on Fox. I saw a girl there that I hadn't seen since my twenty-first birthday.
The girl she was with is a good friend of mine that tried to kill herself last New Years. She did it this night at the party and I had to stop it.
We think - we hope she is only doing it for attention.
So I bought some of that, made-for-idiots pre-perfolated business card paper for the Epson.
The trouble is, it took me a good 3 hours to make some so so business cards. I'll never get these again -
for making business cards.
One thing I did find out that's really interesting is that if you print on the reverse side of the side you're supposed to, as I did for the first two hours, the ink from at least my inkjet printer can't get under the surface and just sort of stayes there, bubbling up link the oil slick it is.
Slick business cards, no; smudgy fun,
Yes!
The ink takes a really long time to dry, but this is really good, if you want, like me, to be able to move the ink around the paper rather freely with your finger, or nail, or what have you. It reminded me of some polaroid experiments I used to do.
Here's the fruits of my labor, a self portrait spanning 10 business cards:
Quite the tip of the iceberg. I can't wait to figure out what to use this for
