Working on my piece for The Love Show

I'm re-editing it and I'm going to add some new drawings. It might be weird to have an inkjet print of a drawing, but too bad. I like that this one also incorporates real images and I'm not good enough at drawing to make something look good (relatively, heh heh) without being able to edit it on the computer.

Cookin

I didn't have any tomatoes so I put salsa in this rice. I hope it's good!

Found Photo Friday

Photographer Unknown.

Catherine Opie at the Portland Art Museum

I went to see Catherine Opie speak at the Portland Art Museum. She takes socially-loaded portraits like this one:


But also takes picture of houses, strip malls, and highways like this:


I wrote about her series of high school football photos in my thesis paper:




Afterward I got dinner with Petra. She met her wife while they were both in bible college - that's a pretty good story.

A trip to Ikea for a frame

I went to Ikea today for a frame. I actually hate Ikea because walking around in there just makes me feel lost and confused. Sort of like a sneak preview of every day of my life in 40 years. But that have nice looking cheap frames, so whatever.

Soon this frame will hold a print of this blog post and will be up at this show.

I'm a TA at PNCA now!

But it doesn't pay, so I still need a job. And actually this makes finding a job harder because now I'll have to give this up if I find a something that's 9-5. But whatever, I really like being on the other side of the classroom and I'm TA'ing for Stephen Slappe, who is totally rad.

Found Photo Friday

Photographer Unknown

I went to an artist talk by Holly Andres today

Holly Andres is a Portland photographer who makes constructed photos exploring identity; therefore I like them. She also teaches at PNCA. I went to hear her speak today at the Portland Art Museum. As per usual lately, I took my camera but didn't take a single picture because pulling out a humongous SLR is so awkward. I need a point-and-shoot and/or smartphone! But I need a job first. Whatever, here are some of her pictures an here's her website.

Extreme Makeover: Turtle Tank Edition

Kelly, the girl from school who watched Cherbs while I was gone, was an overachieving turtle-sitter. She got some advice from a friend who worked at a zoo. She bought new bedding, taped up the sides of the tank so Cherbs can't see out, bought light, and made a new tent. I had heard about turtles getting stressed about having glass walls, but I just let Cherbs run around the apartment to solve that. I guess the new tank is working, Cherbs seems calmer. Maybe she wasn't a hateful and bitter turtle this whole time, maybe I wasn't taking care of her properly. Oh no, I'm a terrible turtle dad.

Found Photo Friday

Photographer unknown.

Job Hunt Day 1

I'm freaking out already.

Hey Portland

Ok... there's gotta be a job in this town somewhere, right?

R. Kelly: Great musician, or THE GREATEST MUSICIAN?!?!

Snow Day!

Hamletts

Leo's father just wants a good woman for his son

When I was in DC a few weeks ago, Kendall and I found this torn-up note on the ground. I finally put it back together.

BananaGrams

Anderson Gallery

Anne and Dave watching the ceiling-projected Pipilotti Rist installation.

Michael Lease showed us around.

Richmond does not update its signage very often

About 10 years ago, this sign in Richmond had a sticker of a gun next to the pedestrian icon's hand. Since my group of friends are good citizens, we thought that was not a positive image. So we ripped a 311 sticker off of Lin's car and covered up the gun. It's still there on Three Chopt Road.

Baltimore New Years