these days,

i havent been up to very much lately. or maybe i just havent brought a camera with me. ive been working alot, and im trying to learn how to make music. im going to start crocheting a blanket for miles and i very soon, im excited! also, ive been taking hella disposable camera photos...i will post some as soon as i get them developed.

do you know my favorite song?

do i know yours?

Tonight!

Miles is in this art show. I am stoked. If you are in the area, you should come by!

girl crush.

kind of obsessed with debbie harry lately.
her style, her music, her hair...she's kind of a dream girl.

boom.

molotovs last night.
my head hurts.
i need a better polaroid camera. i think ive broken a total of four in like, 8 months.
whatever.
these still make me smile.

broken hearts.

i am feeling so bittersweet about everything right now. i miss my friends, i miss my old homes, i miss my old town, but i dont want to go back. i want to grow and move forward, but i get so sappy and nostalgic for times ago- times when things were not so serious. when we all had more time, less money, less commitment, and more fun. i miss these people, these summers, backyard bbq's, face painting, drinking on rooftops, epic house parties, and living with your best friends. i need to move forward and make new memories, but its hard, and its winter, and im just plain woeful right now. things will get better, things are good, i need to be where i am, and im grateful for the change, but its hard sometimes.
i think i would feel alot better if i had a backyard, and if more of you sonoma county folk would just move to san francisco already. i need you guys here. i love you too much!

bathwater.

The Sutro Baths.
I imagine that the rich kids of yesteryear enjoyed the baths in the middle of summer while snacking on cocktails and ciggarettes, wearing pretty swimming caps and high swim trunks. Today at the baths was much different, we were greeted with clouds and crabs, tankers from China and suns disguised as moons. I will go back to the baths for a picnic come summer, I will bring two dollar wine and vegan sandwiches. I will sit in a shallow pool and chain smoke. It will be perfect.

guess who.

HERE IT IS. This project probably took WAYY to long to complete, but we finally did it! I drew the faces on photoshop, and Miles colored them in on photoshop. We had the images printed onto thick cardstock, and then fit them into the Guess Who slots. Its so good, and so much fun to play. We get to ask questions like "do you have a crush on this person?", "is your person a musician, an alcoholic, do we party with them much?" "Does your person live in Sonoma County..." and etc.
I am posting two photos of the assembled board, but I am also posting a photo of all the people I drew! As you can see, I got better towards the end, and for especially difficult people, (Cam's HAIR) I did a little tracing.
Anyways. I am proud of it. Its fun to play. Have a look.

a man, a foot, a cloud, a googley eye.

left over portraits and hazardous debris.
beware of the googley eyes, they will turn toes into martians and your cat might try and eat them. p.s. isnt miles a total babe?

neverending projects.

Miles and I completed the largest portion of a project we are working on together, last night. It is a good feeling! We worked for about 3 solid hours last night, and today we will do more of the technical assembly portions of this anticipated project. Here is a little glimpse of what we are doing, but I can tell you no more! It looks like we can unveil this project in just a few days...maybe today if the printing goes well! So, stay tuned, and be stoked, because this is gonna be so fun.

The Real Show.

I wanted to make a world where you come face to face with the lady from your dreams. She's the one there, taking you deep sea diving, flying around Jupiter leaving trails of rainbows and cotton balls. She is the lady of the universe, and she looks sort of like an American Apparel ad, apparently, ha ha. Lana was my number one choice for a dreamland fairy godmother. We made cotton ball clouds and decorated balloons to be planets. The images captured what I wanted them too, though there are some definite lighting issues seeing that one of our umbrella flashes was not working. Also, I need to learn some serious editing skills, but, hey, I am trying!
Overall, I am happy with these photos, and I had alot of fun taking them. I was really inspired by The Knife's "Like a Pen" video. All the deep colors, shadows, urgency and closet like spaces. Also, I was sort of trying to recreate a little part of my dreams where the universe swirls around you leaving pretty dusts and little fairy godmothers to help you wake up.

sweets and veggies

this is my favourite thing on youtube:

cotton ball clouds and googly eye planets

lana helps you when you are dreaming.

galactic

Here is a sneaky little preview of our photo shoot today. Lana is in the galaxies.

listen up!

I came across Meryl Smith's blog tonight. Check it out here. Its pretty amazing and very strange, I really like how she uses basic materials, (like gauze, above) and creates these fanciful and bizzare objects.

When Miles and I were in Portland we went to Pistil, a nursery which was recommended to us by Jessie-Mae. It was a cozy little place and we got many new plants for home. These were the three I picked out.

Lana and I had an exhausting photo shoot today. Look for the photos tomorrow. We made clouds for the set!

there is still good to be found on the internet!

What if Space Jam, Shaun of the Dead, and Mean Girls were all sci-fi books in the 60's? What would their book covers look like? I found an amazing collection of these book covers from the series "I Can Read Movies" here, complete with worn edges and watermarks.

i am feeling sick and i miss my friend karin.

these are old. not very old, but you've seen photos from this little group before. so why do i post these again? i was thinking that it is easy to think a certain photo is the best one when really it isnt. sometimes you need a few days or weeks to figure out which ones are good. i never have enough patience to thoroughly examine anything, and i dont take enough time to take a step back and think about which photos came out the way i was feeling. i sometimes get caught up in wanting things to look "cool". whatever that means. these two photos were not even in my top ten when i first saw the photos from that night, but now, looking at them again, i see that they do a fine job of expressing how i felt when i took those self portraits, and what i wanted to convey in them: boredom, apathy, laziness and want.
i am still not happy with these photos, but i am happy wish the way they are making me think. so i thought i would share.
miles and i are working on a project now, you will see more of that in a later day.

two.

Just two polaroids from portland. Drew playing guitar and me being a big head.

Portland, Oregon.

The last five days were spent in pure vacation mode up in Portland. I went with my best friend and my boyfriend and it was amazing. We learned to shoot bow and arrows, we hiked up to a waterfall, we ate huge amounts of vegan food! We drank our weight in PBR and even went to a strip club. I took some photos along the way, nothing too epic, but it was a good trip and these photos make me laugh. Dan took us to some rad little galleries and such, including the Museum of Contemporary Craft which was housing a Mandy Greer exbibit that blew my mind!
I bought alot of good books and zines while we ar eup there, and a rad little dress. Anyways, my polaroid camera is completely broken so the polaroids i took were mostly wasted...but there were a couple that survived. Everything else was taken with the Rebel. I hear Dan has some good photos from our jouneys on his facebook, but I dont have one of those...if you do, you should check them out!