Category: the faith

Border crossings

I drove to Montréal last week to show some of my stickers to Elise Luong at Fresh Paint Gallery.  They’ll be shown there in December along with some of Oli’s stickers from Hatch Kingdom – everything Oli, Nada, and I (and my students!) presented at SLU in the fall of 2010, plus some new framed stickers that I’m putting together on oil consumption (see previous post), the economy, as well as stickers from the 2008 Presidential election that I haven’t shown before and other miscellaneous stickers from 2010-2011 to bring the exhibition up to date.  Crossing the border into Canada…

B2B x 2

B2B = back to blogging! It’s been over a month since my last blog post.  I’ve been a little overwhelmed lately with the flood of information that is available online to the point where I can’t write.  I leave tabs open in Firefox to remember all the cool stuff out there: a new online anarchist archive at the University of Victoria in BC, Canada; a book called OurSpace: Resisting the Corporate Control of Culture; Death and Taxes’s Occupy Wall Street Systematically Ignored by Mainstream Media; AP’s Wall Street protester’s dress as zombies in NYC; Occupy Boston at Dewey Street’s downloadable…

Dear diary. August 8, 2011.

The Los Angeles MOCA exhibition Art in the Streets closed today.  If I were rich, I’d have flown over to see it before now.  The show was supposed to travel east to the Brooklyn Museum of Art, but the BMA cancelled it due to “budget reductions.”  [Side note: their current exhibition on Vishnu looks pretty interesting, tho.]  Not sure if Art in the Streets will travel at all after LA, but I sure hope so. The director emeritus (not sure what you call it) of Traditional Arts of Upstate New York, Varick Chittendon, is good friends with Martha Cooper, or…

Summer 2011

Summer tasks (or accomplishments, depending on how you look at it) Configure new laptop (check) Install InDesign CS4 (check) Deinstall CS4 and install CS5 (ergh) Learn inDesign (in progress) Test Blurb print-on-demand (soon) Import 3,000+ image files into iPhoto on new laptop (in progress) Get admin rights for new laptop in order to download Dropbox (check) Organize image files into an official archive on SLU server (in progress) Scan earliest stickers in black notebook from NYC, 2005-2007 (need to find a student now that Joe Pomainville is gone= NTFAS) Scan stickers in red notebook, 2008-2009 (NTFAS) Put most recent 2010…

The Book of Threes, Part III

New ones, post-trip. [Earth, Wind, and Fire – the band]; [Buddha, dharma; sangha]; [33 1/3, 45, 78]; [home phone, work phone, cell phone]; [Tupper, Viggo, Frankie (haha another inside joke)]; [black, white, and gray]; [uptown, downtown, midtown]; [bacon, lettuce, and tomato]; [Word, Excel, Powerpoint]; [rock, paper, scissors]; [Caesar, Crassus, Pompey]; [boiled, fried, scrambled]; [red light, green light, yellow light]; [Moe, Larry, Curly]; [phone, Internet, cable TV]; [RGB Roy G. Biv]; and two from Bob Natowitz = [shake, rattle, and roll] and [going, going, gone].  Thanks, bud!

The Book of Threes, Part II

[Atkinson, Topeka, and the Santa Fe]; [apprentice, journeyman, master]; [greater than, less than, equal]; [igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary]; [A, B, C]; [X, Y, Z]; [ear, nose, and throat]; [citius, altius, fortius]; [NBC, ABC, CBS]; [Guy, Roger, Mike (haha inside joke)]; [Winkin, Blinkin, and Nod]; [lather, rinse, repeat]; [me, myself, and I]; [red, blue, yellow]; [orange, green, purple]; [walk, trot, and canter]; [hop, skip, and a jump]; [gold, silver, bronze]; [veni, vedi, veci, or I came, I saw, I conquered]; [small, medium, large]; [1st, 2nd, and 3rd]; [Huey, Dewey, and Louie]; [1st person, 2nd person, 3rd person]; [sun, earth, moon]; [red, white,…

The Book of Threes, Part I

Years back, en route to the Arctic of all places, two colleagues and I came up with The Book of Threes, and I’ve wanted to put it to pen ever since (shout out to Carole and Todd).  Here is Part I. [proton, neutron, electron]; [ready, set, go]; [lock, stock, and barrel]; [flat head, Phillip’s head, spanner head]; [positive, negative, neutral]; [north pole, south pole, equator]; [guitar, drums, and bass]; [breakfast, lunch, and dinner]; [coffee, tea, or me]; [bell, book, and candle]; [Peter, Paul, and Mary]; [woman, dog, and tent]; [stop, drop, and roll]; [stop, look, and listen]; [the good, the…

Writing-to-think

I’ve spent several days this past month organizing the some-odd 2,000 stickers I’ve collected in Berlin since 2004 and coming up with an outline of sorts with which to begin writing.  The organizing process itself was extremely illuminating, esp. as I begin to do the same with another few thousand stickers from NYC.  For one thing, I’m finding far fewer similarities than I expected – far fewer.  The next phase is what I call writing-to-think.  Not all that original, yadda yadda, but it’ll do.  I’ve team-taught writing to first-year students on-and-off, and with the work I do as a gallery…

“What is a cat?”

Today is my sister Jean’s 47th birthday, and with love and my dear Dad’s sense of humor, I share this poem that she wrote as a young girl.  It’s called, “What is a cat?” “What is a cat? I will tell you. A cat is a funny thing (like a big fur ball). Find a playful kitten and get under your covers and move your feet back and forth.  (See what happens.) If a cat is pregnant it will roll back and forth, that is called heat. The cat will go away for a couple of days then when it…