old things are much better than new things
i've been to about a million antique shops in the past two days.it's very sad to think about how decorative and lasting things used to be compared to how they are now. "back in the day" even potato...
View Articlerobert rauschenberg & joseph cornell
first, just spreading my love for one of my favorite artists, robert rauschenberg.i learned all about him in phil larson's art history 2 class last semester.he collected trash, antiques, and things...
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i forgot i had a blog. mostly because it was ugly. /fixed!here're some pictures i took recently at Anthropologie, where i will never be able to afford to buy anything ever ever ever but at least i can...
View Articleideation&&&process: go!
so for my ideation* & process class, we're supposed to keep a sketchbook or some other type of visual log to help us investigate a chosen topic.i'm making a real sketchbook, but i also don't want...
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an image i found today:an image i found a while ago:something that makes me happy:people who cover their mouths when they yawn even if there's no one else around; and people who don't.a quote i found a...
View Articlei&p 1/21: quote day
i think my topic is going to be (to put it as vaguely as possible): humans & animals.to be more specific: the way human life effects animal life and vice versa, the way humans view and respond to...
View Articlei&p 1/24: taxidermy
when i'm in chicago, i sometimes spend hours in the "nature walk" exhibit at the field museum, which features hundreds upon hundreds of glass cases filled with taxidermy animals in simulated natural...
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i just realized that i still have photos on my phone that i took at the field museum in chicago over break.taxidermy, insects, native american things, and other stuff i love.dead owl dead batfake...
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since my last post, i've been reconsidering my choice of topic. i'm finding myself as interested in history and culture and antiquated objects as i am in animals.i'm still definitely interested in...
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this post is relevant to all of my kind-of-topics: humans/animals, historic cultures (in this case early 1800s, europe), and my major (illustration).one of my favorite illustrators, J J Grandville.
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i have this beautiful book that i got from anthropologie called 'etcetera,' by stylist and shop-owner sibella court. every page is hugely inspiring.i was too lazy to scan the pages myself, but google...
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took a couple of trips to the minneapolis institute of art to see their collection of native american art. it was a bit sparse, but there were a few things i liked a lot:
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indian colors & patterns. scans from books, screengrabs from websites, self-assembled color palettes.!!!!!seizure warning!!!!!
View Articlekanevsky
for the past two weeks i've been unhealthily obsessed with alex kanevsky's paintings.i'm desperate to see his work in person, since websites never do a painting justice. i'm hoping to get out to new...
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I'm reading The Birth of Tragedy. It's alright so far, though supposedly not Nietzsche's best.The edition I've got starts with his Attempt At A Self-Criticism, published sixteen years later, in which...
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