a very hopeless journal

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:18:55 GMT

Oh, oh, oh! John Green, you are a cutie.

This was posted a while ago (almost 2 years ago, really), but still relevant in many ways:

The things he said that were not about book banning also made me happy.

Omg, these guys are such nerds! It is wonderful.

I am a bit stuck in Paper Towns right now. Only due to time constraints though.

(says the girl who is procrastinating on her citation and bibliography for her presentation paper)

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:27:43 GMT

I know I am dying to go buying dresses when I don't like anything that I put on.

I am imagining pretty lace dresses all in black and dreamy cream dresses that are as light as meringue.

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:50:59 GMT

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:30:05 GMT

I'm having a 24 hour show at Thunder & Lightening :)

I am excited.

I also want to make little boxes of wonders like Joseph Cornell.

People are right. I need to stop fretting.

If I get the Crake Foundation Internship, look forward to a finished comic book sometime in the near future!

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:29:27 GMT

I find that I sometimes read whole paragraphs backwards in order to simply get the gist of it without reading each individual word.

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:33:51 GMT

Does anyone else ever find it disappointing to see posters for an art show/reception that is poorly designed and, frankly, somewhat ugly?

I think it is especially important to have a well-designed poster for something like this if you are going into visual arts. I am turned off by poor designs in this case moreso simply because I will assume that the artwork that will be presented will not be very well thought out either. As an artist, I would want to have a beautifully polished-looking poster. I do not want tacky fonts or ill-placed images. Everything should either be crisp and clear, of wonderfully interesting, with text well-integrated into the image. I don't want things to look slapped together. This does not send across a message of "My art will be good".

It just confuses me when I know there are very good artists who make really poorly designed posters :\

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:23:42 GMT

Samples from my colouring book zine entitled "Vignettes from the Lives of Girls with Pretty Knees":

Included is also a paperdoll set, a mini zine within the zine, instructions on how to make a pocket universes and 5 stickers. Everything is colourable except for the mini zine ♥

I have been fascinated by the concept of home and the fragility of interpersonal relationships these days.

At the moment, I am writing a proposal for an 'internship' (although it is more like a student grant?) to get some money to produce an installation revolving around these themes as well as a book to go along with it.

Today, I watched Trick 'R Treat and it was pretty good. I like black humour and this movie was certainly original in its concept and interesting. It was more of a meditation on traditions and the concept of Halloween rather than a straight out horror. Anyway, I enjoyed it, although, there were some gory bits. There are funny twists.

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:51:12 GMT

Christine Comeau asked me to send her zines so that she could sell them for me in Halifax at the Zine Fair.

Hurrah!

I also need to mail a zine to Elliot.

Elliot.

Can you even read this, you livejournal-illiterate fool :P

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:11:16 GMT

Seriously though,

I am so going to try and write a tragi-drama comic based on the fictionalized love lives of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (and Ruskin and Turner and omg, ahahaha)

Seriously, Ruskin.

SERIOUSLY.

(sorry, I just find him extremely amusing? There is something I find a bit odd about his passion about this and that. I suppose he is just eccentric and most likely gay, but I just... find him amusing)

Okay, I only have 3 pages of my essay left to write. OKAY.

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:58:08 GMT

Yes!

I am doing something for the Art Symposium Cabaret!

Hurrah!

It is not Orange Crush related at all. I hope that is okay?

D:

Anyway, it will be like a precursor to this video project I need to do soon.

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:32:58 GMT

I keep forgetting how young Keats was when he died.

Same with Aubrey Beardsley. They both achieved so much by the time they were 25. It's kind of amazing.

(Well, I suppose it would be more correct to say that they did so much by the time they were 25 and now they live on in history and are very celebrated. Or at least in my mind they are)

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:50:54 GMT

Maybe I'm just a purist, but I get a bit irked when people sign and number reproductions.

They are not prints, they are not prints, they are not prints.

I don't care if it is a limited run, I don't care if you just 'print' them. It's all fine with me, but there is something strange about numbering them and signing them when it is just a copy and not a print?

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:30:29 GMT

I can't get over how adorable this song is. And it's just so simple and yet so wonderful.

"It's like we've never touched", ah!

I met him the other day and I think I made a very poor impression. I was tired and awkward and did not know the geography of my hometown.

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 03:42:20 GMT

Lady Gaga in a Kermit outfit.

Yes.

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 05:37:15 GMT

I'm too sad to tell you.

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 05:27:29 GMT

Sometimes I get scared that I can't enjoy fantasy novels anymore. I think that's why I keep putting it off and off and off... I don't know. I just don't like change, I suppose.

I have a strange addiction to looking at YA novel book blogs and I keep wanting to read some YA fantasy novels, but I am unsure where to start because either the book sounds too cliche or it just sounds uninteresting.

So instead of my usual fantasy book request, I am wondering if anyone has any YA fantasy suggestions? Specifically YA simply because I don't want anything too serious, but hopefully well-written anyway.

*looks at you, eluneth*

I don't know.

I feel all in the middle of everything.

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 22:24:43 GMT

I just made Turkish Delights with mint and blue food colouring instead of rosewater :)

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:11:37 GMT

I love surreal films from the 70s.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:14:38 GMT

I always knew there were more galaxies and planets out there, but I never quite thought about it long enough for it to have really blown my mind. But today, it happened.

I can't stop wondering what it's like on those other planets in a totally different galaxy.

Another galaxy.

Let's go watch Barbarella.

--

A suicidal planet.

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 02:55:32 GMT

I love the part where she smothers his face. The flesh is just so strange.

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 02:33:46 GMT

This disturbed me.

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:16:59 GMT

I just thought I would post of lovely pictures by Peter Doig. He's a British painter and everything he paints is dripping with magic.

I have this as my wallpaper right now.

I am also fascinated by the work of Thomas Nozkowski after a recent NAGC exhibit.

I can't find the ones I really like from the exhibit online anywhere. Or perhaps the ones I like just look better in person.

And here are a few Foujitas

This always reminds me of that Degas painting... Only serene and less I am drowning in alcohol.

I love, love, love this.

Oh, that second Foujita reminds me of this Picasso painting. I am not a huge Cubist enthusiast, but I love this pre-cubism Picasso called The Bathers:

I wish I could find better pictures. Especially Peter Doig's Grand Riviere (the last Doig with the horse and the boat in the night scene - it is at the NAGC and it is beautiful), but alas.

(on a totally unrelated note: I am so tired of seeing the Vonnegut quote "Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt". It is simply everywhere and is getting annoying seeing so many tumblr posts with that...)

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:49:49 GMT

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 08:57:39 GMT

In addition:

It is always good to open your mind to another person's perspective even if you do not fully agree with them or even agree with them at all. This lets you appreciate different things in life and kind of have a rebirth, finding a whole new fascination in something.

In this case, I am speaking more about art, fashion and the like, but you know, I definitely believe in being open-minded and respecting another person's opinion as long as it's not a hateful one.

Oh, I am rather cheesy.

I don't know why I'm not asleep yet. I think it's because I slept almost the whole day.

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 08:22:20 GMT

Late night realizations:

+ Fashion should be fun. We should play dress-up every day.

+ We don't always have to dress up as the same thing.

+ The library has Barbarella. I love my library.

+ Also, on the note of fashion being fun, I am totally lusting after 60s style fringed and poofy (fake) fur vests.

+ I usually do not want to buy shoes at all, but I just wish I owned a billion pairs of low heel/flat oxford style shoes! And perhaps some spats.