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You should listen:
Wunder Rocket [link]


In other news, classes start again soon. I'm ambivalent, because I'm not keen on going back to school, only having just finished on the 8th and then enduring the fun of operations and injuries, only to go back, but August has sucked, so maybe I need September. It's probably unwise to enter a semester of art feeling completely indifferent and apathetic. The only fun thing about school is buying new notebooks and pens. I'm a sucker for stationary.

Also, I just bought a tambourine and I think it's the third most wonderful instrument ever invented.

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I've also discovered that my ambition to take more photographs is great, but I don't have the bucks to get them developed. Yes, I am a slight film snob, which is probably unwarranted, but for my purposes it appears "warmer" somehow. My other ambition to make more videos (you don't know this part: recently, a large portion of my work has become video-related, which contains *shocker* other people's music, therefore not eligible to be posted here) alas, I don't actually own a camcorder, I've been borrowing other people's and the school's- big fucking pain in the arse.

I wouldn't classify this as complaints, just obstacles. Part of the fun is making things pointlessly hard, that's what a lot of art, music, literature, film and so forth is about. Without limitations, sometimes needless ones, freedom of choice can equal a limitation of imagination. You say to someone, okay you can do an EP but only in the key of B flat- well The Raveonettes did it. All poetry that isn't free verse has formal limitations. A big one is budget (mine actually) and you can look at all those cult B Movies, and they MacGyvered everything. It forces a person to find alternatives and that's part of process and in the end, hopefully, charm. Maybe I just like DIY.
Cheers, hope all is well with everyone in internet land.

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I had a revelation, I need to start over and rid myself of a weighty past. That might be a little melodramatic, but I just finished cleaning out my 'gallery' I've gone from 180-something to 100, with 2 scraps. I might further reduce the number. I felt as though, I needed to start over. I've had an account here for 2 years and some of that stuff may have seemed decent at the time, but now I feel it's not worth sharing anymore.

I've also noticed that documentation of my visual art work is sub-par and I need to improve that. I mean, it's a bit funny that I'm a student of visual art, yet I am consistently submitting literature. Where are my priorities?

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Any viable solutions?

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I've been working on a couple of stories and general prose pieces. It's hard when I have school and I have to make mundane "art." Somehow it feels as though art shouldn't be assigned, but maybe that's flakey. This is more like a practice of technique for the next however many years I have left before a degree, and then what? I'll write. I'm probably in the wrong program. I'm not an academic, but I'm not a labourer either, certainly I'm not an artist either, nor a writer. I just feel like I write character sketches and prod at being.

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Facts (humour me, I'm tired and therefore not creative)
-I love airports, mostly because of the different people from different places, completely in transit and also how it can be a sad place and a very happy place at the same time.
-I hate reading aloud, even back in school I'd stutter or mumble despite knowing exactly what the words said. My mind works faster than my mouth, I suppose, that and I just have a really bored voice.
-I love crayons
-It's rare that I ever finish anything that I start, if it takes more than one session of work. Poetry and drawing are two things I can usually do in one sitting, which is why it's what I do more of. The number of abandoned stories is kind of upsetting.
-I once learned The Cure's Greatest Hits on an 80s toy Casio keyboard over a Winter Vacation. The Keyboard is just over a foot long, monophonic and I had to write the notes in sharpie on the keys.
-I can only guess what my natural hair colour is.
-Often when I'm talking I quote something, it's kind of compulsive now, and I'm really waiting for the day when someone can pick out what I just quoted or refered to. I don't really know why I do it, other people can say what I mean to say better than I, maybe.
-Orange isn't my favourite colour, yellow is.

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In other news, I bought a Pier Pasolini book of poetry. He was brilliant; you should read it.

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Thanks.

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Everything is so expensive. Even pens are relatively pricey given that they're mass produced.

In other art related news, a collaborative effort between myself and this girl in my studio class has been made to record a space on campus. We're going to turn it into something of an airport terminal, giving everyone tickets to get to the bottom floor. If I were less tired I'd describe it better, but if I'm not sneezing on everyone it should go well. I can also hope not to stutter like an idiot, because that would be fabulous.

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i hope the plane doesn't crash, because that would happen to me just to be a pisser. i'm also convinced i'm going to forget my socks, or something really stupid, but essential like that. well, i suppose socks aren't essential if you have sandles. regardless, i want my socks and whatever else i may, or may not forget.

so, the last few days i've discovered the joys of crayons. when i was wee, i loathed them, because crayons usually went with colouring books and i hated those. but, i've now realized they're excellent for getting down colour ideas quickly and work wonders for pieces that are more shade and colour than linework. they're especially useful in my experiments with synesthesea, because, like i said they're great for getting ideas down with ease and speed. i may have to buy an enormous box of them and bombard my page with crayola creations.

sounds: sepia by manic street preachers ]]> ~bristoltheorange http://bristoltheorange.deviantart.com/journal/9247955/ http://bristoltheorange.deviantart.com/journal/9247955/ Sun, 02 Jul 2006 03:49:59 PDT sounds: goldfrapp ]]> ~bristoltheorange http://bristoltheorange.deviantart.com/journal/8952851/ http://bristoltheorange.deviantart.com/journal/8952851/ Fri, 02 Jun 2006 18:40:08 PDT in a couple of weeks when school is over i'll be bringing home the stuff i've worked on at school all year. if i find a digital camera i'll post 'em.
sounds: daft punk live at coachella ]]> ~bristoltheorange http://bristoltheorange.deviantart.com/journal/8451920/ http://bristoltheorange.deviantart.com/journal/8451920/ Wed, 12 Apr 2006 18:24:12 PDT hey i can cheat the system that they give you when you pay money look!
mood: bored like fuck
music: "she bangs the drums" by the stone roses ]]> ~bristoltheorange http://bristoltheorange.deviantart.com/journal/8159318/ http://bristoltheorange.deviantart.com/journal/8159318/ Tue, 14 Mar 2006 13:13:53 PST so how is worth the 30 bucks american? you get an asterix beside your account name, a true sign of the elite, no doubt.

artistically speaking, the highlight of the day, thus far, was taking pictures of the shit bucket in the drive. the paint on the hood is peeling in sheets and it's all over the ground too. it's rather hideous. after figuring out, approximately, the price of film development, i now understand the upside of digital cameras.

i need a job, but i don't even like standing if i don't have to and my people skills are lacking.

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anyway, i finally finished my painting today. i probably won't have it home for another week though because of spring break. then i don't know how i'm going to post it as i don't have a digital camera.

i bought some india ink and i really don't know how to use it. i just made a mess with it. can anyone tell me how this stuff works? i'm inept.

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the other option is to take something really obvious like a kandinsky and post it as my own, just to see if anyone notices. ]]> ~bristoltheorange http://bristoltheorange.deviantart.com/journal/7468350/ http://bristoltheorange.deviantart.com/journal/7468350/ Sat, 31 Dec 2005 15:13:35 PST ~bristoltheorange