Tuesday, June 30, 2009

why, hipsters, why?

because i'm playing hooky from work today...
because i'm having a hard time focusing...
because free-range hipsters have overtaken the city...
just because...

shoe...

...after a hiatus for insanity. i gave myself the weekend off for an art show and a lease signing, amongst other madness. i sold a piece! The Bang Fish will be moving on to a new home. Point for me in the ongoing art-quest, no matter how small...

shoe!



Bang!
I'm getting all choked up letting this one go now. Can you tell I'm new to this "selling" thing?


Thursday, June 25, 2009

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

daily shoe.

Today's mental exercise has been: let it be ugly. Let yourself not like it. Who cares if it's shit? Just keep your hands moving and stop trying to make everything so polished and beautiful. I have a feeling this will be tomorrow's exercise, too...

shoe:

...the city

...just a few shots from a wonderfully misty-fog night...


this was the corner I turned on to get the house I was staying in recently... funny how not really having a home makes you find the solace of home in other things... in a 2 week span I got very attached to this corner; this corner meant home.


walking "home"... you can't really see in the photo, sadly, but there's a SNES and a Sega Genesis controller tied together and thrown over those power lines. Awesome.

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

love love love...


I love, revel in, and adore the music of Gregory Alan Isakov. He's a lovely, soft-spoken gentleman too, and everytime I've had the opportunity to talk to him I babble and act a fool. How do you talk to someone that you know intimately in art but in reality not at all? How do you convey the immense waves of feeling and inspiration that they've summoned from your every pore without sounding like an awkward, unfortunate groupie? If anyone knows, please share your wisdom. SIIIIGHHHHHHH...

shoes!

In the spirit of keeping myself moving and making, I'm starting a series of shoes... just glorified sketches, really, but I want to be creating SOMETHING everyday, and, oh my god! SHOES!

today's shoe:


and if anyone is into this "music" stuff, Gregory Alan Isakov's new album, like all of them, is amazing and makes my toes curl with sad-bastard glee. Love.

Saturday, June 13, 2009

oh, and...

...and Occupation, as it finally got named, is done. I sort of lost it on posting in a timely fashion on this one, so here's a couple weeks of progress in one go. But it's done. Cheers.

buildin' some buildings, fillin' in some stuff...


outlining.


more of the same, plus DOTS!

detail.

Friday, June 12, 2009

still alive...

i'm not dead, i swear. My nearly-four-year-relationship ended (to be frankly personal) and everything sort of went kaboom. Moved from the red room to no room to a room in a red house (which is also, sadly, temporary and will be vacated in a month or 2. Pity. It was so appropriate.) Oh, and there was a wedding (not mine, clearly) and a lot of coffee to be made for the corporate beasts and a million other excuses. Been keeping my head above the proverbial water, just full of hope and anxiety and bad-dog-mom-guilt and all sorts. Not having a room and a home was adventurous and character-building and all, but, well... sort of sucked. I have a lot of sympathy for the real homeless; regardless of their various charming character attributes, etc...damn, not having a space of your own does a number on you really fast. In any case, work has been a bit suspended, but morale is high and there are pictures to be retrieved from a few really gorgeous city days, just as soon as I get the camera back.

Until then, I give you the consolation prize of me and my new housemate and pal Nikki at Bay to Breakers. Aaaand the Vagina Lady. Because, well, it's San Francisco.
What else can you say, really?
She hearts them.