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Life cycle by "Blue Noses" group (Vyacheslav Mizin, Alexander Shaburov). Video.



got a 20" samsung monitor on sunday and am borrowing Steven's keyboard for the time being. i'm going to milk the fruitfulness of this arrangement until the novelty wears off. seriously, not only has the subject of what i'm working on become more interesting, the music on my itunes is sounding nicer too. wtf? haaaaaa.

BBC Arts Editor Will Gompertz writes the following about net-based art:

"It's interesting that, as far as I am aware, no contemporary artist has yet harnessed this extraordinary technology to make a significant artwork. Of course, maybe I'm wrong and am missing something great - do you know of any net-based art works that are worth a look? Maybe you have made one (an artwork made specifically for the medium, as opposed to a film such as the one above, which uses the net only as a means of dissemination)? If you, like me, can't find any net-based art of note, why do you think that is? Why, when there's been such a boom in contemporary art around the world, has no artist made the medium of the web his or her canvas? And if someone were to use the net as a medium, as opposed to making an image, or a video, or even an interactive Flash animation, what would the resulting art look, or sound, or feel like?"

read here

singing drunkenly at a bar. did karaoke way way too many times in succession. got drunk came home at 4am did nothing the rest of the next day too many times in succession. but i felt really alive. so it was worth it.

recently I've sort of taken fancy to talking to strangers while waiting for customer service (apple store).

some outfits. yes, i know they look the same. all bat-like and dark.

Air sluts
Subterranean sluts
Ground sluts
Deep sea sluts
Don't got nuthin on me




Unrelated, from when I went to hang out at shungalives's bachelor pad last month over the holiday vacay. We got "Ethiopian" pizza, although my tongue did not recognize anything particularly Ethiopian about it, Aaron. We also went to this bar whose name I forget where there were supposed to be a bunch of Mexican dudes listening to Morrissey. Also didn't happen. But, you were right on their zygote qualities (hollering at me across the street).

Reasons why you should not work for a small design firm / a print publication / art affiliated business / a small company / any combination of the above:

1) You get paid less than at a larger counterpart
2) Work more hours on average either after the normal work day or on particular weekends without overtime because you're on salary
3) Get less holidays off
4) Have to take on more than your share of work

I think that's it for now that's presently on my mind.

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oh wait, that makes a happy face if you look at it the other way around, which is not something that I'd like not to be applied metaphorically here.

Redo portfolio site. Redo other portfolio site. Make business cards. Redo resume. Do coverletters. Figure out VISA. Figure out car. Figure out belongings and shipping. Design for Videos Collide. Design infographic slides. Practice bass. Learn scales. Practice scales. Go to practice. Learn Supercollider. Learn how to use Illustrator better. Learn Flash (dead-set on not having to though).

Received my new camera in the mail today, which puts it at real-camera #6 in my possession. Here is what I own and their costs in order ownership date- feel free to pass judgement on that statement.

I guess this also serves as a chronicle of technology and their relative prices. Really though, it's more for my own indulgement than anything else.

(These cameras I owned but they stopped working/gave them to my dad):

1) 2004-2005 / Old Olympus camera / at that time, maybe $300 from Costco? / Couldn't have been more than 4 MPX




2) 2005 / Canon Powershot S70 / $400 / 7 MPX / Need to upload


3) 2005-2007 / Some Canon Powershot, can't remember the name, but it was cheap / $200?




(These I own now):

1) 2007 / Canon Rebel XT / $550 + $200 for new lens / 8.1 MPX



(sorry mom)

2) 2007 / Minolta Automatic-G / $30 / Film




3) 2007 / Holga / 2007-Present / Film / Have negatives


4) 2007 / Polaroid / 2007-Present / Gift / Film




5) 2009 / Kodak VR35 / $3 / Film / Haven't finished a roll yet


6) 2010 Lumix LX 3 / $340 / 10.1 MPX




6.5) Several one-use cameras




6.75) 2008 / Canon HVC camcorder

1) Feeling very nostalgic and sentimental.

2) Current men in my life:

Ash(ley) Stymest

Found him in the Vogue Homme Japan Issue 1 that I own.






Joseph Gordon Levitt






dunno, kinda hot.


Arimura Ryuutaro



Plastic Tree, your past 2 (?) albums have been disappointing, and now the most recent one exceedingly so. But, Ryuutaro I still love you. What is that stuff you're wearing and how can I make it work for me?

3) I miss my mom.

4) New clothes. V for Vendetta?



Not new but this is a funny picture. Kira and I in really the only unoccupied wallspace in the apt between kitchen and dining area (?) on Thanksgiving.

Opting for just text without any visual accompaniment. Does one choose mediocrity?

Re-reading Shanghai Baby for the nth time. I remember really enjoying it in the past- the way it was translated into English made some parts of the language very wistful and beautiful, but now really looking at it, reaffirms why I would not want to move to Shanghai and that Beijing is a choice more suitable for me.

I was skimming some China Fashion Week photos just now and they all look awful. But this hair is cool



Also just called my dad and as I figured, he wouldn't be coming back for Christmas. Dude, at least write an email or something.

*********This jacket in particular!!*********



Alexander Wang
Leather Hooded Jacket W/fur $2,030.00

Not sure about some of the models for these but whatever.











I'm sick and should be sleeping, but I'm wasting time on this instead.

new hat:



new top/pants/suit:



Ben and I made love potion #9. I didn't give mine to anyone so maybe it won't work.

ingredients (not all pictured): 9 leaves of basil, 9 rose petals (Gelsons doesn't sell single roses so we just ripped the head off a bouquet- sorry), 9 slices (improvised) of ginseng, 9 slices of strawberry, 9 seconds of pouring apple juice and red wine. Again, improvised. just as long as all measurements were in 9's we were gravy. 9 candles. 9 sticks of cloves. 9 drops of vanilla extract- left this one out. 9 apple seeds.



sick candle holder:



completed love potion:



tasted pretty healthy.

An inventory of everything I'm considering & their current listing prices on Amazon:

1) Epson R2400 - $450 used
2) Canon Rebel EOS Rebel XT body only - $320 used
3) Canon 28-105mm Zoom Lens 3.5 - 4.5 - $220 used

I'm so money hungry lately. And I really want the Lumix LX3..

Les Rallizes Dénudés (裸のラリーズ, Hadaka no Rallizes) are an influential, yet reclusive Japanese psychedelic noise band. They were formed in 1967, and the band was known for their ties to avant-garde theater groups (as typified by Shuji Terayama's troupe) and leftist political groups, as well as for their feedback-drenched live shows and use of strobe lights and mirror balls onstage, which earned them comparisons to the Velvet Underground.

The band's style is typified by simple, repeated bass lines and shrieking guitar feedback.
In 1970, the original bass player Moriaki Wakabayashi was involved in the hijacking of Japan Airlines Flight 351 orchestrated by the Japanese Red Army. Singer Takashi Mizutani was allegedly offered a role in the hijacking but turned it down.

Steven following me to the laundry room. I like this shirt, don't you?

Thank you lightelation for expert model plane flying in the last video!

Now you can get famous as a blogger. And looking at all these fashion blogs wants me to spend spend spend. The Urban Outfitters blog looks so cute but they're so evil and owned by this huge conglomerate of a company that panders poorly made products to unsuspecting (or, maybe even worse? suspecting and ignorant buyers). In any case, let me document some of my material desires. It just happens to be that I "chose" the womb I was to be born from and it was a womb of the poor.

1) Dolce Vita ankle boots. The site uses flash so I can't fucking put the image in here. But look how soft that leather is...and those nice fleshy black laces...

2) Victoria's Secret Lace Stirrup leggings. Also flash. But...stirrups and lace??

3)
From Forever21

4) And a $400 poncho from somewhere. I forget where.

Don't think this is the official video, not too much of it is interesting, sorry whoever made it, but this song is incredible. I'm just really getting into them again.