playing at the amazing magical funshine public access hour premier last friday. it’s events like this that make me so grateful to be surrounded by such creative, hilarious, and truly talented people who i can also call my friends. so much love!
foto friday (on saturday)
i made this frame for my collage yesterday with the help from a friend! that’s right, i used power tools and all. no big deal.
i usually don’t experience my extreme cases of wanderlust until summertime, but for whatever reason, it’s arrived early and all i want to do is fly south for the winter. or north. or any direction really, ha. it’s really quite unruly when this said wanderlust hits because all i can think about is how great it would be to be climbing trees or building forts or bombing down hills on long boards. or playing music barefooted out of the back of old pick up trucks or laying in open fields with no where to go. or laughing in the middle of empty forests or eating watermelons picked right from the watermelon patch or just lying in a foreign room in a foreign place doing nothing at all but just existing, which sometimes can be foreign in and of itself. and i love every second of it. all of this extra energy makes me want to create everything and do everything and i always end up surprising myself in the end with what i had no idea i could even do. wanderlust in full effect.
word catcher. a work in progress.. more on this later.
i seriously love, as brother so wonderfully stated, doing this every week. it’s my favorite.
holy FREE FOR ALL! we got some fantastic submissions this week peoples! lets not waste any time here, let the free for alling begin..
the lonely indian//audrey monroe
steffaloo//cry me a heartless river my love
and now onto our…
a ‘rem fish’ i drew/painted for the latest artsignals challenge :: dreams.
nobody tells this to people who are beginners, i wish someone told me. all of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. but there is this gap. for the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. it’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. but your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. and your taste is why your work disappoints you. a lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. most people i know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. we know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. we all go through this. and if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. it is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. and i took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone i’ve ever met. it’s gonna take awhile. it’s normal to take awhile. you’ve just gotta fight your way through.
-ira glass-

another one for the sketchbook project sketchbook.

another collage for my sketchbook project sketchbook.. which is due tomorrow but definitely not done. fail. for the win however, is the fact that yes, i DO have that very same headdress.