One more day!

Tomorrow at 3:30pm I will be on a train going north.
But for now, it's down to the grind.

More places to see me.

My site is up!
Go to there!

Canadian Jean-Chairs.

Ikea was awesome except my camera died after the second photograph.
The bus ride to Redhook is an hour + from Greenpoint, but mildly enjoyable on a Saturday afternoon.
I got the duvet cover of my dreams and other super cheap things. The cats feel as if they were dealt a bargain as well. They will not get out of the big blue ikea bag, naturally.
I ended the evening making use of my new duvet cover and the Royal Tenenbaums.
I don't have any pictures of Lorraine and I having fun this weekend, but it happened.

Last year it was no-chicken potpie...This Thanksgiving, I think it will be
Vegan Shepherd's Pie!

All things considered.

My peaceful morning with coffee-cats turned into a hectic studio session, followed by a fire in the spray room in the fine arts department.
I ran through the hall looking for Alfie, but fled because the black smoke made it hard to breathe..not to mention it was scary?
We met on the stairs, went outside and smoked cigarettes.

Finished my paper.
Turned in my Indesign project.
That's not the half of it.

Wants Thanksgiving NOW.

All Chairs Everything

I can not stop gawking at this photo from one of DesignSponge's recent sneak peaks.
The Eames rocker, that painting above the mantle, the most remarkable yellow chair I have ever seen. Seriously that chair is nothing I could ever imagine.
Not to mention the library in the background.. these people made all the right decisions in life.

You can click here to gawk with me. You don't want to miss out on the mirror collage and the window treatments.

Resin party

Almost done!

It took a lot of patience and the help of others, but the cast came out just fine.
I just spent 4 hours sanding it down..which led to an outbreak of hives. Awesome.
Totally worth it.
Once this baby is painted, shellacked, and has a tail and mane.. I will sleep easy.

The finished product should be somewhat like this painting:



I need so much sleep.

Shoe fetish Catepillar

Before and After.

VINTAGE INTERNET

I had to post these. They're inspiring and a bit daunting at the same time.
via: squareamerica

Dito Diddi Didtum Ecclesia

Pictures from Dito Diddi Didtum Ecclesia, a silent auction/performance/installation in Bushwick a few weeks ago.

All Cats Everything

[via Adam McCauley]

SCANTY VINTAGE -ONLY HEARTS SINCE 78

Please come tonight!
Helena Stuart releases her one of a kind vintage pieces from the 70's, 80's, and 90's!
Free gin, a DJ, and underwear galore!

11.4.09
230 Mott Street
NYC
7pm

Dying of CUTE

You know when you're fixing yourself a cup of coffee and you think you hear the cat in the other room causing a ruckus..but then are fortunately mistaken and find this instead?

GUH. She just burrowed in my un-made bed and I obviously disturbed her because look how groggy she is.


SOME people have to work around here. Get a job, Holly.

Oh, Nostalgia

I saw the Get Up Kids on Halloween. Amazing. They played Something to Write Home About from start to finish AND mass pike (my all time favorite). Such a great show if not the best EVER.

Cruelty - Free Jacolanterns

Why didn't I think of that?
I paint everything else white, for crying out loud.


[via:designcrush]

Does too much Stuff.

The Grey Gallery has an great exhibition on Aboriginal art:

That's what I did today, then I wrote another research paper.
My Professor lost my thesis proposal on gender roles in the Dogon community.
So, the feedback is going to be delayed, which gives me less time to write.

I did some collographs this morning..white on white.
Pictures will be up sometime..
I also applied to a fancy internship today!


I have to move!
Moving day is Friday!
..and Saturday...and Saturday is Halloween and Get Up Kids!

I don't know where I'm going to find the time to write this Bauhaus paper.
[see fig. 1.1]



[fig.1.1] Bauhaus

Scientist Stuff.

If you have a question about trophic levels I can answer them, mildly.
Apparently Jerry can too.

Too much stuff.

I'm at work making lists (like the incomplete one shown above) and budgeting for next year.
I hate that I'm at work when I could be tackling a lot of these things at home or in the studio.
I can hardly celebrate Jerry's birthday this weekend because I'm drowning in responsibilities and deadlines.

I feel terribly anxious about 2010.

More Free Stuff

The Guggenheim was free today...and I feel like I got what I didn't pay for:



[Kandinsky post Bauhaus]


[Anish Kapoor]

Dangerous? Stuff

I suppose this entry is a tad belated, but should not be cast aside.
Zizek's lecture was excellent yet short lived.
(apparently due to a bomb threat?)
I am having trouble finding video footage to share.
I implore you to obtain his latest book.

Stuff for Sittin'

[Kartell]

I just discovered a new blog to waste my life over.
Thank You, Chairwhore.

Two Weeks of Stuff

Cat Fancy Stuff

I don't know when this blog became less about my daily events or current art projects and more about cats, but it just got 100 times more serious.
Apparently United Bamboo may be taking the LOLCATZ bonanza a little too far but how could I resist posting Miho Aoki and Thuy Pham's plans for the new collection?:


I'm not joking.




via: Style.com

Stuff that must be done.

Beware New York. I'm getting my license this winter.
Yes, I will muster up the courage to drive a vehicle once again.

In other news, I need an apartment. Will you find one for me?
Preferably in Greenpoint that will accept two well behaved animals, as well as our cats?

Pictures from this past weekend will be posted very soon.
The highlight of the time I spent upstate was obviously getting matching sterling silver cat rings with my sister.

A million midterms, papers, and projects to be completed in the next couple of weeks.
Also, I am attending The information session for Pratt's Industrial Design MFA program very soon. DECISIONS. If all else fails and I don't find a job or a suitable graduate program, I will move back to Portland and kick and scream until Laika hires me to make things. Time is flying by.

Irresponsible Stuff.

This is the last day I skip class to go upstate and enjoy life. I PROMISE.
I'm just too excited for this:


and this:

and APPLEFEST!

ADORABLE stuff.

I've Got You and You've Got Me - New Buffalo Remixed by Broken Social Scene from Karen Abad ♥s Dinosaurs.

12 Baby Heads Made of Stuff.

These were resin casts I did last semester.
There's a dozen total and half of them now reside in the New Museum under guerrilla installation conditions.

The stuff early on.

I swear it's not a cat!

I built the armature on Friday and threw on about a brick of oil clay.
It is the very very early stages of the resin repeats that will be completed by December (hopefully).
The figures will look a lot like the paintings I was doing in the spring.
I am feeling a little overwhelmed yet really motivated. This is good.

Our Weekend Stuff.

Upstate!
Country fried tempeh steak with rosemary lemon potatoes!
Hoodie weather!
A bon fire, some friends, and pum-king ale!
Came back and celebrated Melissa's birthday at our favorite getaway..which is less like a getaway and more like our unfortunate habitat.
Yeah, I can't wait to go back up this weekend for another tiny vacation.
Applefest happens on Sunday in Warwick. I will be there with bells on..like a cat with an annoying collar with bells. kind of.

Hairy Stuff.

After class I am going upstate to R-E-L-A-X with friends.
I love going up when it's starting to cool down.


My dear friend Tashina, who works for Bumble and Bumble, cut mine and my friend's hair last night!
There's definitely about 6 inches GONE.
I love it!




Ok, off to class to make things..then to Warwick!

Printmaking Stuff.

Gunna ink it up, place paper over it, and print it out.
My prof says I need to get a boyfriend with a car to roll over it.
Genius.

Mixed Stuff.

Fall NOT Fail pour vous.

The Other's Stuff.

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In phenomenology, empathy refers to the experience of another human body as another subjectivity: In one sense, you see another body, but what you immediately perceive or experience is another subject. In Husserl's original account, this was done by a sort of apperception built on the experiences of your own lived-body. The lived-body is your own body as experienced by yourself, as yourself. Your own body manifests itself to you mainly as your possibilities of acting in the world. It is what lets you reach out and grab something, for instance, but it also, and more importantly, allows for the possibility of changing your point of view. This helps you differentiate one thing from another by the experience of moving around it, seeing new aspects of it (often referred to as making the absent present and the present absent), and still retaining the notion that this is the same thing that you saw other aspects of just a moment ago (it is identical). Your body is also experienced as a duality, both as object (you can touch your own hand) and as your own subjectivity (you are being touched).

The experience of your own body as your own subjectivity is then applied to the experience of another's body, which, through apperception, is constituted as another subjectivity. You can thus recognise the Other's intentions, emotions, etc. This experience of empathy is important in the phenomenological account of intersubjectivity. In phenomenology, intersubjectivity is what constitutes objectivity (i.e., what you experience as objective is experienced as being intersubjectively available - available to all other subjects. This does not imply that objectivity is reduced to subjectivity nor does it imply a relativist position, cf. for instance intersubjective verifiability).

In the experience of intersubjectivity, one also experiences oneself as being a subject among other subjects, and one experiences oneself as existing objectively for these Others; one experiences oneself as the noema of Others' noeses, or as a subject in another's empathic experience. As such, one experiences oneself as objectively existing subjectivity. Intersubjectivity is also a part in the constitution of one's lifeworld, especially as "homeworld."
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Annie's stuff.

My mother bought me a pair of vintage riding boots at a flea market for $5 a few weeks ago.
I haven't seen them yet so I humored her with a text asking her to send me a picture of the boots and Heidi (our family dog) and (humorous because she knows I have a slight distaste for the hyperactive spoiled mongrel) But alas I received this in my text inbox from my newly technologically savvy mother:


...and oddly enough, while writing this entry (hours after the original text) I received this:



How do mom's know?
Thanks Annie.

ANIMALS..stuff

Stu Stu Studio Stuff.

The Studio has been built!

Plans for Winter Stuff

Confession: I'm domesticated.
I mean, if you haven't noticed, I'm kinda into cooking, home made cleaning products, cleaning in general, organizing, cats and craft. These pleasures all branch from my obsession with making things and growing up with (and being properly fed by) a compulsive cleanly Italian mother.
Well, Melissa and I have been squawking on and on about crafty winter projects that involve her talents (she's quite the seamstress!) and mine..(doing what I'm told? haha) and have come up with some quilting ideas and now perhaps some aprons!! I have some cute ideas that involve incorporating some hand dyed crepe de chine patches and felt appliques!
Let's hope that the project sees it's way through.
We are very busy women you know... ;)

Oops Stuff

I couldn't help it!
Ruche is so cheap and all their clothing is so lovely! I am going to wear the dress to a wedding reception...so I NEEDED it it.
OK, I am officially banned from shopping for anything that is not school related.
...starting now.

YAY stuff.

The hardest part of the week is over.

Greenpoint Love Stuff

SWOONING over this Design-Sponge Sneak Peak featured in Greenpoint (my current home<3). You have to check it out!


In other news, my lower back hurts BADLY from building, stretching, and gesso-ing a canvas that measures about 7'x 7'. That might not sound so huge, but when you're 5'4", 120lbs (give or take..) it's a hefty job!

Congratulatory Stuff!

Melissa Bock was married on a mountain top! Congrats to her and Brandon!
How romantic is this picture? guh! <3

The week ends and stuff.

Dear weekends,
Please stick around longer, I like your company.



















I re-merchandised the store for fall! It's all spruced up with mums and such.
Friday was a miserable day outside, luckily I was in the studio chatting it up with my professor and lurking around with my new camera...
I spent a lot of time indoors by my lonesome as well as with the company of some good folk (and cats).
Holly is very unappreciative of the new fancy scarf I bought her for her new fall look.
Jesus, Holly. Give me a break.

Post-Summer Stuff.

Summer has finally come to an end..and I don't want to leave the apartment!
I need to do many things today, so even late start is better than being tucked in bed all day (kind of?)

Eager Stuff

The first photos were of the kitties, naturally.

Did that stuff.

Yup, I bought that camera today..
Ok, I am officially grounding myself from spending ANY more money until Melissa and I move..
I can't wait to go home and play with it!!
I am considering missing my illustrator class..ugh I can't..gotta get that 4.0..again.

I am also considering going upstate 2 weekends from now...depending on the weather.
Peak season, trellis gawking, pumpkin beers, and apple picking (in my parents backyard)!

Stuffing the bookshelf.

It seems like this blog may or may not be dedicated to literature for the next week or two. If you're viral and take note of my "online shopping" tweets, don't fret. I am hardly stocking up the apartment with novelty items or black cardigans. Amazon and half.com have me spending all my "riches" on scandalous paperback affairs. ..and adding to the collection has me picking up old habits along the way.

Currently re-reading:

..To brush up a snobbish dialect as well as giving myself a good reason to sleep at night.
While I spent the summer jotting pages of scattered synopsizes for my current thesis, I failed to rely on what I already knew and had been working with for the past 3 years. Note to self: never try to re-invent the wheel. It's just embarrassing. So, here I am, again, with Sartre, at the beginning, with the comfort of his familiarity easing me into my own tapered bits of jargon. I am in dire need of fluidity.

And as for my internet shopping..
I am currently swooning over Agnes Martin's Writings
If there was ever a way to my heart, it might be just as simple as buying me these $200 pieces of bound paper.



ugh, should I just buy it!????
I'll sleep on this one.

Comforting and Contemptuous stuff.

Can't sleep, online shopping instead.
New pulp for the imaginary bookshelf I was gushing over in my prior post:





I would also like to express my great contempt for the kindle.
There's nothing like the Sunday paper and a room full of books for reference, leisure, and nostalgia.
My father is a lithographer and has been in the business for 30 years and has recently been laid off without any real prospects in the printing business.
I'm the first one to yell about littering. On a daily basis I recycle and reuse plastic and paper, at home, at work, and at school, but I just can't stomach the electronic book.
Can't we do without a few coffee cup sleeves and the fist full of napkins from starbucks before we stop printing history?

The worst at updating stuff.

If you don't already know, I am taking on a heavy semester and have cease to keep up with the things i love most i.e. leisure reading, drawing, socializing with cats, and updating this blog. It's labor day, and you would think that I would take this free time to do some serious crafting or drafting, yet instead I slept A LOT, ate sushi, had a drink and am now looking forward to sleeping MORE. I don't have any drawings that I care to post just yet..I do however want to post about thoughts of a new apartment. Melissa and I will be relocating (within greenpoint of course) in November and I am already lost in thought over innovative decorating ideas. I've been daydreaming about bookshelves with books placed inward:

in my white room with a window, covered with muslin hand-made curtains, accented with (also hand-made) cream-colored felt flower garlands and a fluffy bed with a new white duvet cover. I'm such a dork but there's is nothing more comforting than a bright simple room made for sleeping and reading.

This week I have to buy a million books, spend millions on a new camera and supplies, start a million projects, and not lose my mind.

Back to that Stuff.

[Gordon Matta Clark]

Back in the studio for my last undergrad hoorah.
Currently drafting plans for a space inside of a space inside of a space for a wall space.
Photos and more details will follow once I get that sexy loan money and have myself a new fancy slr. Perhaps..this one?



Still shopping around though. Suggestions are implored.
Oh, I also moved into the new apartment..which I like to refer to as "cat town"
Once again, photos will be posted.
Someone just tried to steal a book from the library. I remember those days.

Ok, smokes, graphite, drafting paper. bye.

Viral Networking Stuff.

whatever, I kinda like it. http://twitter.com/megangalante