So in order to continue [peeking my head from the toils of school semesters, I should announce that the leaves in front of my house are busy making baby cells and growing. I predict that they will become larger than the last two years combined. Yes, the leaves on my trees will grow so huge that the only time they see 90210 is when they step on the scale.

Well, vermilion is my playground this summer and it has begun. I played very well last night as well as this morning. I feel like I am reverting back to my childhood mind. The mischievous one. Smashing cellphones with cinder blocks and burning lilacs and balloons. playing with snakes and skateboarding. road trips around town in hot, beautifully sticky cars and breakfast at noon. cigarettes on stoops with friends who, much like myself, have nothing to do but create something to do.

I got the photos I took with my instamatic camera back the other day. I was super stoked to get them back and super bummed when I did. the photos were in terrible quality and the workmanship of the lab was definitely not worth my money. I am just going to do them myself from now on. the photos on the other hand turned out alright. i have to brush-up on my distances as there is no in-lens focusing tool. It also loves the color red and chooses to make the picture red whenever it feels like it.






This past week i finally made it back to the national music museum. Its amazing I'm not there more than once a year considering its free for students and is no more than a few minute walk from my house. I love the Asia/Africa exhibit. you could/should fill a whole floor with the music from these two distinct and musically rich areas. Instead, they opted to squish then together. Still very beautiful though. I bought this postcard of the room for 50 cents. I love these gamelan instruments. I believe they are one of only two complete sets in the nation. I had the chance to play them a few semesters back and it was inspiring. Viva Indonesia.

new experiments

"Found" this under the bridge today. I have been experimenting with wheatpasting as of yesterday. I couldn't wait to start putting something down on to random objects. Below, the first one is on a big piece of steel. the second is on a cinder block. the third is also on a big piece of steel. so much awesome fun. Shitty quality pictures due to my shitty phone.

New times in the same town

I finished my last final yesterday and mowed my lawn to get that amazing summertime feeling back in my mind. I slept for a well deserved 13 hours last night and now all I want is some McDonald's Breakfast!!!!!!!! *&^$^$^%#&

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To Do...

- ride my bicycle everywhere
- layer the streets with beautiful spray paint
- have a blast
- acquire a beach towel
- swim in the river at least once a week
- dance in the summer rain in underwear
- find enough change to buy one PBR 24oz can per day
- read when not doing items mentioned above
- make lots of art
- practice my german skills
- find more food (flies, spiders, gnats) for my pet spider, Cherry Nut. this spider knows how to eat.
- climb to the roof of as many buildings in Vermilion as possible.
- live cheaply and freely
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Richard Selesnick and Nicholas Kahn

The photos these two create are ridiculously imaginative and on a ridiculous scale. They can go from earth to space and back to earth and the viewer doesn't even have to blink. I was turned on to these guys thanks to Dave who was telling me about Henry Darger.



This guy has the most depressing and awe inspiring back story ever. A custodian that no one ever really knew in the early part of the 20th century. lived in an extremely small space. wrote over 15,000 pages of imaginative story, which made him posthumously famous. drew these watercolor images to go along with the story (about seven sisters, the Vivian girls).

Summer is for lovers

I am totally getting myself hyped right now on this summer's tours. I want to make this country bleed piss and love me at the same time. I want to draw on the statue of liberty and hang with my hobobros. Colt 45 R'US. I love you and miss you so much already Minneapolis. We sure had a great time, didn't we. When ever I go to the cities it is a completely different experience. All of them great, of course. Its strange and very much a beating heart in the middle of the plains. I don't think I could ever live there, though. I love residing in a town where I can be in the middle of nowhere cornfield lane in no more than 3 minutes.

Next language to tackle = Afrikaans. If I know German I can easily handle Afrikaans, they're practically the same language.

Hours of wakefulness - 28.

Sleep is weap(k)

Im currently at the 'cool stage' of being awake for way too long. its that time, when you do not go to sleep the previous night, that you feel totally laid back and suave as hell. I could totally be on the fresh prince right now, but only if the fresh prince were comparable to 007 in badassness and MC Hammer in being 'too legit to quit.' yes that would perfectly sum up my attitude right now. but what did i get out of it? i wrote the most enthralling 10 page paper on German poetry in the early Age of Enlightenment. Core to the hard all the way to the max.

For some reason I need to post some pictures of both dragonflies and kids birthday parties. its summer you know...

oh fuck yeah, im totally tearing it up top-side morning style with DAVID LEFT. dudes sew kewl.

I thought I would forget

After the years its been since I was screaming my lungs out in my underwear, I am beginning to miss it so much. those days were so incredibly carefree and volatile. I guess its youth that places an extreme filter on everything. Stuff actually feels like its shaking when you're young. Still does I suppose.

P.S. Happy May Day

Who knew?

I should be doing many other things right now (writing papers, contemplating life in the next year, killing time in the real world) but i wanted to start making something that doesn't exist in the real world. im writing on the air right now. fuck yeah. who knew? i want to throw a lot more shit onto this internet thing, like dogs and other complete randomness, for that is the status it holds in my life right now. its completely random. i love you random love-net.

paint pens plus the world gives birth to my love child.