uppity dates

I DID get hired to run the carousel! Hooray! It's so much fun, and half of the people who ride it are tiny children who get incredibly excited. Plus it's super cheap so I don't even feel like I'm ripping anyone off.

Also, someone bought my collage at the Southern Exposure auction! Hooray! I was really excited because I'm pretty sure no one there knew who I was. The theme for the event was "optic illusion" so of course there was a 3d Sigfried and Roy movie playing in the back room along with some other more mechanical optical illusion machines. Awesome! See:



Channing and I started a band. It's called Craig Party USA, and it's really more musical theatrey than bandy since neither of us really play instruments and the one song we've been slavishly rehearsing is very story and costume-based. We might be playing a show soon. Maybe.

We have lots of visitors coming in the next few weeks! It's nice living in a place that people want to visit. Hopefully they will still want to visit again after being asked what drugs they want to buy 18 times every time they exit our apartment and seeing approximately 2 dudes peeing in the street per day. In case you didn't know, our neighborhood isn't the best.


Also coming soon: Special Edition Dreamboat DVDs with amazing special features and behind the scenes footage! Hooray!
Dreamboat is going to play at an owl-themed extravaganza in Kansas City. I don't know any facts about this, but if you're in KC you should ask me to find out about it and I probably can. Maybe it already happened? I don't know.

Cabinet just came in the mail!!! I ordered my subscription like 3 months ago, and this is the first issue I've gotten because it's totally quarterly. Best magazine ever! Now I get to read it! Bye!

Etsy!!!

I totally forgot to mention on here that my etsy shop is now fully functional. Please buy things. I don't think I'm going to get hired to be the carousel operator in Golden Gate Park, so I have to find some other summer job which will obviously be lamer. Does anyone know how to answer the question "How do you like for people to know you?" in a job interview for a job where you will not be interacting with any coworkers? I definitely didn't. I also accidentally said I was an introvert instead of an extrovert, which is the truth, but the kind of truth you're probably not supposed to admit to during a job interview. I guess there's a chance that all the other applicants were totally awful, but it's not that good of a chance. So here are examples of things you can buy from me so that I will not have to work quite so many hours at a potentially terrible job:







And there's more if you follow this link. And, as always, if you tell me what colors and measurements you want, I can make a special bag just for you!

Thanks!

My Mom

This is my family tree:



It's made from a real tree, because my mom made it and she's really cool. And now you can look at her new website which features other really cool calligraphy stuff that my mom has done.

But she doesn't just do calligraphy! Of course not! My mom can pretty much do anything. She stopped running marathons because they weren't long enough. Now she enters super-marathons or something. She recently carved an enormous memorial stone for a horse. And she's currently painting a jungle mural in what will be the baby's room (after it is born) in my sister's new house. It features Aztec Pyramids and I assume a variety of animals, although I can't remember specifically which ones. Jungle animals. She used to paint murals in people's houses all the time, but she got tired of carrying ladders around so she switched to a mostly-calligraphy business. It was more fun for me when she did murals, as my sister and I were at the age where we were often brought along to be watched while she worked. Which a lot of the time meant hanging out in really fancy houses with bathrooms twice the size of my bedroom or backyards with crazy swimming pools.

You can hire her to make stuff for you, but she probably won't paint a mural in your room unless you're her grandchild.

bears and worms

Click to watch We are at a really fun party, true or false?

I hope my webpage will be updated soon, but I'm not really sure when that's actually going to happen.

Last night I found my notepad from a few years ago that I used to carry everywhere I went. My to do list is still pretty much the same. Please note the fangs on the evil butterbeast.

I've been rethinking my huge multi-faceted video project. I'm officially putting it on hold until I figure out some technical details. In the meantime, if anyone knows of a cheap source for gummy bears and worms, I would be most appreciative. I need a lot of them, and not just because I'm addicted to sugar.

I just got my box of art supplies sent to me from my parents, so now I have paints and markers and all sorts of wonderful things. But before it arrived, I was supposed to be making a piece for Southern Exposure's annual fundraising auction. I finally finished something I liked after about 17 nervous breakdowns. It's collagey, but also mixed media because it involves a print that I made in my first ever attempt at printmaking. The event itself looks like it's going to be really cool, and I'm pretty excited about being a part of it. I'm hoping my piece fits in with the surrounding things being auctioned, but I've never even been to an art auction before, much less one for this gallery, so I don't really know what to expect. Here is some more information, and a link you can click if you want to know even more:

OPTIC ILLUSION
Southern Exposure Annual Spring Fundraiser and Art Auction
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Location: SomArts, Main Gallery 934 Brannan Street
MAIN EVENT: 7:30 pm - 11:00 pm
VIP RECEPTION: 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
LIVE AUCTION: 8:30 - 9:00 PM
SILENT AUCTION: 7:30 - 10:30 PM, lots begin to close at 9:45 pm
Tickets: $30 advance purchase, $40 at the door
$65 tickets includes a one-year membership to SoEx
Tickets for the VIP Reception start at $150
Buy tickets online at www.soex.org or over the phone at 415-83-2141.

Video Under Volcano

I'm so excited! Snowfakes got accepted to a screening at a museum in Italy! It's the Casoria Museum of Contemporary Art in Naples, and the screening is next Friday. So I guess if you're in Naples you should stop by. I might be doing a brief interview at the screening via Skype, which is also exciting/scary.

After the screening my video (and the 30 others that were selected from almost 300 entries) becomes part of the museum's permanent collection. So maybe someday I can go to Italy and maybe my video will be on display there. I'm so excited, as I haven't ever been involved in anything so fancy. And, as a person who is constantly visiting museums, I have always wanted my own work to one day be in one. So now my dream has come true, but luckily it is easily replaced by other dreams.

Sneaky Preview

For some reason, I decided to start this blog while I was also looking for an apartment and a job. I actually do intend to update this, but I’ve been busy with moving, going to New Mexico and driving back with my sweet boyfriend and all of his stuff, and setting up our new apartment. But luckily I don’t think I actually told anyone that I started a blog, so no one should be upset that I haven’t updated it.

I finally finished my much-anticipated joke book entitled “Funny Jokes about Sea Creatures.” It was met with wild critical acclaim. Or, at least one person said they laughed. I have many more copies, so let me know if you want one. Here is a funny example page:



I also managed to complete my video project for the True/False Film Festival (the party part of the festival, not the documentary part) and the i^3 festival, thanks to Channing’s cat-distracting abilities and his possession/knowledge of final cut pro for doing the bluescreen parts. Originally I was making a video to be played at a True/False party, but then I realized, after looking up the definition of interstitial, that my concept also fit quite well into i^3’s interstitial theme. The two fests are happening on the same weekend, so there’s a slight chance that my video will be played at the exact same time in Columbia, MO and Chicago. And then something magical might happen, especially if I manage to psychically play the video here in San Francisco at the same time. It is leap weekend after all. Actually I don’t remember what day the T/F party is on, so there’s a good chance that it will be totally non-magically misaligned.

So my video is called “We are at a really fun party. True or false?” I will post it on youtube after it premieres in the living world, which will be February 29th approximately. Here is a non-moving picture preview:















In other news, I have decided to start an Etsy shop so I can continue to make/sell E.A.T. Bags even though I am far, far away from Maude V. I haven’t done it yet because I haven’t had time to make anything. But soon!

Cats and Crafts: A Bad Idea

We all know they shouldn't be working with yarn, because of the terrible tangles they can get themselves into, but did you know that other craft supplies are also very dangerous for cats? Here are a few examples:




No concept of sharpness!




Love of licking!




Maybe I'm making a zine about this. For the safety of cats everywhere, I think this will be an important tome.

You're welcome.