kollektief

it’s been a while since i’ve gotten good poetic spam but here’s one:

swoon facies apophysis beauty

papeermaking steadiest bramley abacterial

more knitting… 2 sided/colored, labeled and way denser. now to make a computer model of the general form and load it up with a museum program – clearly.  i like how in the third shot it resembles a conch shell. i think it’s quite pretty and look forward to making some trippy hats, cuffs and dresses over the summer using these techniques.

i’m becoming vaguely installed in sf, i have a place to move into for march and april, and i have been eating burritos! i feel a burst of sanity coming up in my future, maybe in may! i also got my first parking ticket today, whooops.

i’m inputting evaluations and the strangeness of time and tense in colloquial speech keeps striking me, like:

“No, in the end, this is what I had hoped for”

well, i am off to san francisco, i just need to finish repacking my car and have lunch with my parents/sister. i think i will be taking this route. if anybody has any suggestions, let me know i should be receiving mail just fine. and irene, i’ll be heading close to salinas, i may email you about the chance of dropping in on your parents. hope everyone is doing well! i’ll be around the internet on saturday hopefully. ttfn!

About two and a half weeks ago I sold some clownfish to Sea Creatures. I ended up coming home with a ceramic tile covered in Tomato Clownfish eggs. Those eggs have since turned into I think 38 baby Tomato Clowns.

Most of them have taken to hanging out in the back of the tank near the heater, also they are very small, less than a centimeter from head to the tip of their tails, so the ten gallon tank they are in is pretty big to them, and only filled half way to increase prey density.

Here are some cute AVI’s:

Baby Tomato Clownfish

Baby Tomato Clownfish 2

Or you can watch them on the you tubes here and here.

They loose the middle and tail stripes when they get bigger.  Adult tomato clowns look like this.

so i went to Fruitlands the other weekend, where we saw these amazing tree people:

the guy who makes these lives up in the woods in Vermont and digs them out by the roots with a back hoe, then shapes them + adds bark for features.

on sunday grace and i got together to make art.  it was a good way to spend a sunday afternoon and we’re hoping to do it again.

i got inspired by the test tube chandelier that grace and irene made,

so i decided to make some of my own:

I love copper wire

we’ve started the semester with material studies about lines and binary oppositions and stuff so it seemed like as good a time as any to figure out how to use my knitting machine. here’s some shots of my first concept model which is knitted out of “a line” through production to sexy interior shot.

Leslie and I both participated in Hourly Comic Day this year, which is a day when people around the world commit themselves to writting a comic every hour for the entire day, midnight to midnight, minus any time spent sleeping.  These comics are collected in a forum on the Internet where you can read them all.

Here is a link to my comic:  http://www.tencentticker.com/msgbrd/viewtopic.php?t=874

Here is Leslie’s:  http://www.tencentticker.com/msgbrd/viewtopic.php?t=855

And the forum in general, where you can see hundereds of other people’s comics:

http://www.tencentticker.com/msgbrd/viewforum.php?f=25

If you want to comment on the comics it would be great if you commented in the forums, as each new comment bumps the message up to the top of the list, increasing overal viewership.