M.A.D.

When spending a very rainy day in New York City this past fall, me and my fellow VC students were trying to make it to every next museum as soon as we could in order to save our soaking shoes and drenched jeans. We found ourselves at the Museum of Arts and Design in Columbus Circle, where there was a fantastic exhibit on cut paper. The work was extremely meticulous and in unfathomable proportions for what the labor required. Many of the cutouts were floral designs, scenes or intricut patterns. I believe everything in the exhibit had been cut with an Xacto knife. (Being an experienced Xacto knife user, the detail and cleanliness that these artists exhibited was astonishing).

Me, as well as several of my friends, bought this same exact card in the book store downstairs, because of it's adorable message, as well as beautiful cuts.

Can we

Shall we?

One day very soon

Let us go away...

Together just you and me. Call in sick and go

to the sea, and hold hands

all day. Eat our sandwiches

on the train. Get drunk on

fresh air and come home

tired and never tell

anyone...Ever.

-Roger la Borde

Collecting Work

I really like how these two etchings look together. I have them overlapping one another on a shelf in my room and the way the geometric shapes of the building and the direction of the tree, compliment the delicate creepiness of the hands is great.

The etching of the hands was one I created in my Intro to Printmaking last semester. I traced a photograph 3 separate times to emphasize different wrinkles and highlights on the hands. I struggled slightly with the acid biting the plate too much because it took out more zinc than the seconds I planned for it to stay in the acid.

This other etching is from another student in my class. She asked me for a copy of my print, and I thought it would be great for us to exchange. No matter who we turn out to be in the future, we will have something that we created on our own from the past.

DogFish

From the same Uncle who brought me my lomo camera.....I present, DogFish

Lomography Camera

I just got a Lomo camera from my uncle for Christmas, and I have to say that it is one of the top favorite objects I own right now. I carry it almost everywhere with an extra canister of film. It takes 4 separate shots within roughly two seconds. There is an amazing 1970's glow to every shot and they're really unpredictable in themselves. These two photos were my favorites from the first role that I took. The one of my dad driving reminds me of the photographs where light is maniupulated by leaving the shutter open; the line of light that shines along his arm and the wheel seems to make that sort of a shape.

One of my friends commented how the bottom right photo would be so creepy on it's own, but in the set it comes off just as a sillohuette. The top photo is a flock of seagulls on the Hudson after they all got startled.

I also got a BandW roll developed which came out with really great contrast, but I think I prefer to work with color in this camera because the '70's style is emphasized. Tomorrow I pick up 3 more sets of prints! Matte vs. glossy??

This is why I want to take Sculpture.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzBs3PM2W_4&feature=player_embedded

Oh Phillippe Faraut....

New font site!

http://fontso.com/

I've never come upon this one before!

No Tresspassing

This fall me and Brittany decided to go exploring in dear ol' Del. We found an old abandoned farmhouse with broken windows and peeling wall paper. Having explored many old houses in NY, I wasn't expecting to be as creeped out by this one. We took lots and lots of photos and ended the day by getting shooed out by a very large man in a very large pick-up truck, who thought that we were creepy art students. Which is not something I can totally deny.

(Favorite photo of the day).

German "Shelves"

Now that I'm in working in the Raven Press (the antique letterpress at UD), it's hard not to be constantly fixated on type. After spending hours setting type or trying to lock it up, I get enter the "type zone." So basically, when I saw this piece of "furniture," I knew immediately what it was, where almost every letter sits, how about 20 of these could bring new life to the Raven Press, and so on. A modern spin on an antique method.