on the road again again.

goodbye cheese, goodbye friends. goodbye cows and dick bacon. goodbye lakes, geese, and ice-too-thin-to-step-on (learned the wet way). goodbye breweries and fat factories...goodbye wisconsin!


WiscPhotos: digital
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"marvel at the art museum expansion"....

"It's like the inside of a whale" - L.Dubs


oh santiago calatrava. be my lover and mechanise my heart.

photos of the milwaukee museum expansion: digital
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Steak&Shake :: ingested for my mother.

While speaking on the phone with my mother about the things I plan to do in Wisconsin ("yes mom, dick bacon. it's his name.") she interrupted me with a request so filled with enthusiasm that it rocked my little brain from thousands of miles away...
"Wait. Do they have a steak and shake?"
"Yeah, I think we drove past one today."
"OH MY GOD! You have to get a burger. Oh my, just listen. Ok. Listen...They've got these BURGERS...and these SHAKES...oh my god you just, just go. Ok? go for me?!"
"Um. ok mom."
"Great. wow. STEAK and Shake. wow."


My mother informed me with glee that the patties can be served on toast. oh joy of joys. L.Dubs took one for the team and finished my half as I continued to inspect the tropical orange hue of the "special sauce."

Gross Stk&Shk photos: digital
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"ham it up with the monkeys at the zoo" ::check.

The zoo was deserted...

(L.dubs took this photo, and the ones of me chasing a peacock. duh. they're pretty sweet.)





.lone wolf.

photos: sweet digital
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Heyo. I be a traveller of states.

I, along with my trusty new phone/sidekick 'Gay Panda' have made it to the fine state of Wisconsin all in one piece. It's been a pretty intense journey to say the least. I got home from a weekend in Mammoth and packed all of my belongings into a suitcase the size of an affordable Tokyo flat. "Sally the Mustang" took me to Denver where I boarded "Max the Lion cub" and flew to Milwaukee...the beautiful land of baby-leashes and Steak&Shakes.

L.Wolf and I have put together a pretty fabulous list of things to do/see/attempt while I'm here:

(Title of this trip...To Be Decided)
*tour the city's longest street, 27th street
*buy vitamins at outpost natural foods
*see if the security guard at the midwest express center is real
*get a shake at lixx
*go to the domes
*ham it up with the monkeys at the zoo
*ice skate at the pettit center
*eat a butter burger at kopp's
*shop on brady street
*milk cows at a farm
*stroll the streets of old Milwaukee at the museum
*ride the mechanical pepper at la perla
*cruise lake drive
*get a tan in memory of dick bacon
*shop for a vintage lp at flipville records
*marvel at the art museum expansion
*rollerblade at veteran's park
*meet david hasselhoff (and dustin diamond)
*sunday night game shows at the times cinema
*buy toothbrushes for H. & L.
*tour a brewery
*B-I-N-G-O !
*the Ldubs house tour
*Get Naked with Of Montreal

yes. fabulous to say the least. gorgeousosity to come.

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fruition..not exactly reached. sigh.

So the ideas that I alluded to previously haven't really been fleshed out. I'll have to wait until I get back to school and have the necessary materials. In other news, I've been sketching. Fabulous.

sketches: ink&colors&prettiness
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.InspirationNation...

a minor obsession:



This song has been giving me some great ideas...hopefully a few of them will reach fruition this weekend.
(hehee...I said fruition.)

youtube: The Maccabees, First Love
dirtymind: appleworks
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.LoW TiDEs sneeze texture.

photos: swamiis, digital
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.frosty. IS BACK

I just got back from mammoth.
check out my brother's sweet-ass snowman.
Now that is ART.


n: "ba ba... I was the man who nailed jesus to the cross"
h: "what does that mean"
n: "dunno but it's crazy deep. yeah."

.StORY TiME.:i've been watching too many westerns

So in my recent lack of inpsiration I've been doodling...here are noparentswoo. charaters in the wild west. wow. sad? yes.

a renegade and a gunslinger...TEAM UP...
...to create the next best duo since butch cassidy and the sundance kid.
"seeing as the only manifest destiny they believed in was their own, the two had nothing to fear."

my up and coming western storybook: appleworks
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The Creative Process: eat books, shower in music, shit art : A work in progress

no really. shit art. crappy art.
I've been wrassling with this painting forever and I have to finish it because...I just do. To be completely truthful, this painting is a terrible pain in the ass. I'll paint for two days and then throw it in the garage for a week or two and tell it that it has been a very very bad painting and can only come out when it has some direction. This damn painting is a smart ass.

But, to be completely truthful, I'm learning alot by slopping around some colors with my crappy old brushes and crappy old paints. And that's all I can really ask for having never really been formally "taught" how to paint.

search for a home:WORK iN PROGRESS acrylics
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'Amazing. Wasn't it incredible?' said Claire, looking to Warren with an intensity that fulfilled Kiki's hazy idea of how an artist should be: passionate, attentive, bringing her native enthusiasm to the smallest matters. - zadie smith on beauty

sibs.

me&natty before life got messy: digital photos of projected images
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sibs2.

I'm working on a few small things right now and should be done soon(ish).
fun photos in the meantime

mimi&me@stonesteps: fisheye camera
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you know...

...I have terrible love-karma.

I've got some catching up to do. That's why I think it should be valentines day on any day that I (or you, or anybody!) feel like spreading the love and improving my chances for sweetheart-redemption...

...and a Brilliant community art project called OwlLoveYouAllYear is making this possible. look. look!

"Owl Love You All Year is about sharing your heart and art season-wide! This is basically an opportunity to send something you've always wanted to see in a valentine, wanted to receive in a valentine, or always wanted to say to someone in a valentine-- and you get to say it ALL YEAR long without the limitation of a holiday"

So go visit owlloveyouallyear.com and send them a valentine! Spread the love before cupid gets even. [And thanks to Callie for letting me know about the owl-lovin!]

mepainting: digital photo
the owl in howl: appleworks

oh. hulloo sweetart.

tv on the radio lurves you.



.happy day lovers.

.photos of us.

mama&me: digital photos of projected images
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my mind goes 'round in circles

Being in Newport amidst young people and broken glass, got me thinking about the idea of family. I said it better before in an e-mail to Rachel...but I accidentally deleted it, so I'll try to recreate my sentiment.

I find it interesting that we, as children who have left home, create families wherever we find ourselves. In the stead of blood relatives, we are supported by the other young people around us. We play house everyday as a surrogate sister, mother, brother etc ... And in this mishmosh of leaning and heaping and loving and supporting, people develop real relationships and grow from these play families into real families. It's just a muse to amuse me, but I like thinking about it.


are you my mother?: best book ever
caitlin&ashleyasleep: digital photo
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the kids are...alright.

my brother and i . we are our family within our family . thicker than blood thicker than .

photos: polaroid
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.self centered.

self portraits are difficult. you'd think it'd be easy...

...i mean, i see myself everyday.

david hockney and paul gauguin pretty much had it down though.

self1: pencil
self2: pastel, colored pencil
hockney: self portrait study 1954
gauguin: les miserables 1888
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g'bye dirty33rd

this is my newport. my newport is dirty feet and broken windows. my newport is skateboarding 20 blocks at night. my newport is a family of lost children. here. paradise was lost and what have we found? something so imperfectly brilliant that it is almost unbearable. this newport is a seagull taking shit from that swatch of immaculate cloudless sky.

mynewport: polaroid photos

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.InspirationNation.

newport is better than you

yeah, pretty sunset pics are easy.

but...

...they're still pretty.

captured in an orange sky breathing in magenta air toes in cold wet sand

newport pier: digital photos
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