There must be a devil between us

omgomg GUYS totally check out this hott vid I made

DON'T EVEN READ MORE DO IT RIGHT NOW
So what did you guys think plz?


Okay cool. WELCOME TO KATHLEEN:

On Saturday me and Kathleen went to the South Street Diner where I had waffles FOR BREAKFAST (because that's when you normally eat them I know sHoCkEr!) And outside of the diner there were these fake tatts machines (which we 100% utilized LET ME TELL YOU) and a mustache machine?!?! pictured above. 

duh.

AND THEN we want on this amazing thrifting bonanza through which we found this store that was going out of business and everything was $1 or less! I got a bunch of art prints and a stamp AND a floral tank top for basically no money at all!

AFTER THAT we went to AIDs thrift, the love of my life and Kathleen found the dress she's going to get married in!

The first picture is when I told her to pretend like she was wearing this ridiculously amazing dress. The second picture was after some random woman was like "Do you want to know this trick?" And manhandled Kathleen into wearing the hanger over her head so it would look like "you're really wearing it" needless to say that woman is a crazy bitch and Kathleen practically was choked to death!

....

freaking silver jacket guys!

This was at Retrospect, an amazing EXPENSIVE consignment shop which when I become a famous art/internet sensation I'm going to buy!! It makes me sad to even be there because I totally can't afford any of it. But I found this sick (retarded) for when me and Kathleen's punk grrrl band War Birdz takes flight (GET IT). I'm going to be the squealer/growler and Kathleen's going to play the drums (allegedly). Justine was going to be in our band BUT I DON'T THINK SHE'S THAT INTO IT.

Watch out some balloons!

Makes me feel like a madman on the run

what does? THIS DOES

Hello? Hello? Is this thing on?

Me and Justine being minorly retarded but MAJORLY cool

Good thing I don't have allergies!

Creepy? Cute? Neither? THE JURY'S STILL OUT ON THAT ONE.

Irregardless, that happened this past weekend and I thought they were funny (so laugh about it!)

IN ADDITIONAL NEWS on monday I had this 2D project due that was supposed to be a series of 6 images following 6 different harmonious color schemes contained inside a folio (which is basically like a cardboard envelope with a cover and a lining). And so I was like HOW ABOUT A BOX INSTEAD. Because I'm comfortable with bookmaking and I think folios are lame. So subsequently, during crit people were like WHY and HOW and WHAT. It's that independant thinking bullshoy that always comes back to bite me in 2d because that class is all about rules and you know what? I'M A RULE BREAKER. It's true it's true. This is my box of secrets, don't look at it! (no it's fine you can)

It's 10" high and 8" wide (just for the encyclopedias) and it opens all the way up (like a regular folio EXCEPT BETTER)

My concept was about an old woman's memory box and her "photos" that she kept inside. I wanted the emptiness of the box to signify the lonliness and dependance of singular memory. But people were still like BUT IT'S SO BIG and I was like BECAUSE IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE EXPERIENTIAL. But I threw a few old lady things in there for good measure when I turn it in, like gloves and a hankie and weird brooches I have.

America's largest ball of twine!

The Himalayas!

Russia?

The Empire State Building

.... I think you got it.

Freakin pyramids guys.

Any questions? Suggestions? GOOD. For this project my friend Kyle did a series of images with childhood book type illustrations of dinosaurs having sex (I KNOW) with two Puerto Rican guys sitting on a couch collaged into each one. It was great and funny and considering how much he hates bookmaking, his folio turned out really well. p.s. I suggested that he use some of the imitation scale paper I saw at Blick and he was like YEAH = I'm inspiring.

Okayokay something else I'm really excited about BESIDES VAMPIRE WEEKEND WITH RYAN NEXT FRIDAY aaaand GIRL TALK AND N.E.R.D. AT SPRING FLING is I'm making a "music vid" for my computers class. Kate? Excited about her dumb computers class? Not possible!!!! But it is. Music vid is in quotes because it doesn't even have to be a music vid but I'm just excited to make some kick butt video arrrrrt! I'm going to use the song One Beat by Sleater Kinney for sure and it's going to be a combination between still images sequences together to create the illusion of a "motion picture" and some actual video footage. I want to start out with abstract drawings into illustration INTO pictures of Justine (that I will take and then print out and draw on and take again) AND then Justine interacting WITH the drawn on pictures of herself WHATTTTTTT. I'm so psyched!

So that's something for you to think about.

If I had to pick a favorite bone, it would be the radius. You can have favorites right?

Welcome to my drawing teacher, Sarah Roche. Her funny cute lingo is complete amazement and she is tres adorable! She likes to say check it out as in: "Check out that s-curve!" "Hey guys, use your straight edge to see where the weight of the pose is check it out!"  OH MY GOD I THINK I'M IN LOVE
SO you guys want to see some pics from my burka/veil woodshop project from when I installed it for the crit? TOO BAD

Here's some biddy in my class who made an incredible "spine extension" out of zillions of little wood pieces and wire ISN'T IT PRETTY

p.s. I helped her sand like 4 of them!

Alright guys, get your vomit buckets out for this next photo!

This dumb-idiot who we call either Mr. Daniel Boon (because he won the Daniel Boon themed male pageant at his high school WTF) or Captain America (just because) made his project a series of "thought bubbles" that would "show what he was thinking" (AS IF anyone wants to know-Am I right girls?) the reason why everything is in quotes is #1 to unnerve you my reader and #2 to subtley hint that only was the dumb thing stupid but it DIDN'T WORK. Hence, Alexei helping him in the above hilar picture funny RIGHT. That's all the time and internet famousness that this deserves.

This is the amazing noisemaking Lexi! His project extended his movement to noise = all of those things strapped to him. When he moved, the things swung around and the wood made sounds AND WHAT SOUNDS THEY WERE.

Are you ready for this?

Giant mouth KYLE.

Our hilarious TA Maya (otherwise known as crazy) said that the piece was clearly about his gentalia because everytime the mouth opened, it was exposing his crotch. WHAT. Irregardless, it's a great mouth!

Heeeeeeere's Grace:

She made giant ears or something. 

Kyle wore them.

Okay so this Wednesday, my humor sketchbook was due and somewhere between me doing a lot of it in one night and PMSing and spring fever THIS HAPPENED

It's the queen of england duh. The words around her are from the end of an Amy Poehler ( <3 ) monologue in which she convinces a park ranger that she accidentally shot someone in a hunting accident by using his sexism to trick him. IT'S FUNNY OKAY.

And the cherry on the ice cream, the icing on the cake, the mayo on will (inside 3D joke, our TA Will had a series of performance art pieces where he poured mayo on his naked body... I KNOW)

It's Colleen guys!

I'm about to meet her in the studio so I thought I would slap this bad boy up here p.s. the girl on the left caught in an embarassing moment of sushi eating is Erin and the weirdly concerned looking girl on the right is Bissie. Welcome to my blog GUYS.

Driving Ms. Crazie

I drove back to Temple today with Katherine and her dad and let me tell you IT WAS A LAUGH RIOT

No but her dad IS really funny and it was a lot of fun EXAMPLE: When describing how he was going to maneauver his way around this one building by saying something like "I need to come up around this beotch"   major traffic pattern lolz!
I finished this Mexican drug war photo edit for my computer class where I edited presents in the place of DRUG PACKAGES. I hate photoshop, so it's real bad, it's on my computer class blog if you want to look at it but I don't want to torture you with any more bad art so look at your own risk!
Remember when I said I didn't want to show you any more bad art? TOO BAD.

Alright, I know how this looks, but I built a "replica" of my body out of wooden discs that are in shapes to give the veil VOLUME and SHAPE. The veil looks more sheer in person JUST SO YA KNOW. It's for my 3D woodshop class and the assignment was to create a body extension. I did... literally extend my body to this other form and I wanted to create a sense of personal space/ thought interfacing with the outer dimension OR WHATEVER. To answer all of your questions, YES it's life size, which means AS BIG AS I AM (5' 6' give or take... mostly take). The more I look at it and think about it, the more pleased with it I am I think... but I'm not sure. But I'm never sure. I have until Tuesday so I might change it up BUT NOT NOW IT'S BEDTIME DUH.

What was you sniggering at?

That's from My Fair Lady, as in Audrey Hepburn blahblahblah, and I'm here today to tell you that it's a really weird movie. More to come later.

This is Sabrina eating a tortilla chip. LET ME EXPLAIN.
Okay so two nights ago we when to Tinga's, a mexican place in town, and we were both v hungry so we spent the first 10 minutes attacking the chips. PLEASE NOTE the vaguely concerned looking man drinking out of a red cup in the table behind her. This is because this was the fifth picture I had taken because my camera was f-ing up and maybe he thought I was a paparazi FOR HIM.

Regardless, we were ridiculously full afterwards and went to her house AND THIS HAPPENED

DOLLHOUSES ARE FOR CHILDREN.

Yes, but not Playmobile PALACES with DRAGONS in them. Sabrina found this in her attic and everything is so small and when I saw it I JUST KNEW I HAD TO BLOGST ABOUT IT (like true love, remember that guys?) Anyway do you like the action shot of the dragon destroying the palace with it's fire breath?! (Vote yes or yes)

THEN we watched My Fair Lady, and let me tell you, between the shrieking cartoonish Audrey and Rex Harrison or whatever being a complete a-hole, it's just an incredibly strange movie. AND THE ENDING, isn't actually there. So she comes back to his house, but are they together (I really hope not) or what? INCONCLUSIVE. Because I can, I decided to make up a new ending and here it is:

Eliza comes back to the house and says "I'm back to live here but you've been really mean the whole time and you should apologize because I'm really pretty and great now" and he says "Yes, you're right. But I don't think we should get together because I'm old and horrible, friends?" And then Eliza marries the prince of Translyvania and becomes a REAL PRINCESS. 

and there would be like songs in it too.

SO ANYWAY yesterday I went into the city with my dad to see our friend Ken Parris. We visited him at his tiny studio/apartment (it's actually one room) AND THIS WAS IN FRONT OF IT.

Get it? It's a moving truck and they're MOVERS not SHAKERS. You gotta love that! I mean reallly, you have to.  So we hung out there for a while with him and his fiance Melissa Toogood (yes that's really her name) who's an Australian dancer and they're so adorable and cute together. And I got to see the paintings that Ken's working on AND THEY'RE FANTASTIC (needless to say). Then we went to got to lunch at Buttermilk, but they were closed and since it was the APOCALYPSE outside we went to this place down the street called Prime Meats (I know: problem= I'm a vegetarian) I was really hungry too, but ALL I GOT WAS THIS STINKING CHEESE PLATE.

Oh, and here's my quilt for the Art Exchange. I based it off of this photo I took in New York like a year ago (WITH A PINHOLE CAM... artsy right?) and MAYBE IT DOES SUCK, but I'm fine with it. It was a weird little experiment that I was kind of forced to do because I don't have any art supplies with me except cloth and sewing stuff. But I sort of like it in a funny way. HERE'S THE BACK

I didn't have any black fabric so I just used the reverse of this one, CLEVER RIGHT? I thought so. 

I'm sending it off to Adrienne from Providence SO I HOPE SHE LIKES QUILTS.

Alrightalright

Oh, here's a picture I told my zany sister I would put on my "hair blog" (whatever that means) I don't have one, so this regular blog will have to do:

I'M GOING BACK TO TEMPLE IN LYKE AN HOUR. see you there!

I'll set you I'll set it off I'll set you I'll set it off!

CAN WE JUST SAY CONGRATS

To me of course for cultivating such a devoted following of readers... or something

It's small (5 is not that small, if there were FIVE elephants in your backyard, would you say that was a small amount of elephants?) because I'm very intelligent and exclusive DUH.

So spring break yadda yadda WELCOME TO MY HOME...

This is it (just like Michael Jackson or whatever) do you like the flowers my dad got for my mom for her birthday? I do. They're really nice, v colorful and pungent, everything a person could need or want in a bouquet! I mean they're alright but wait till you see the MUFFINS my mom got me for like a coming home (?) present!

Well, you don't have to wait because here they are! Isn't it funny with the different muffin types all on top of each other? I think that they are Blueberry Lemon Whole Grain muffins BUT IT JUST LOOKS LIKE A MUFFIN IDENTITY CRISIS TO ME. (would a muffin go all crazy and get icing or something for a mid-muffin-life crisis? or maybe go all out and become a cupcake? OH THE INTRICACIES)

Alright already! Pastries don't have separate, special lives... allegedly.

My roommate and myself went to American Apparel to get her bud a serious/joke gift of a fanny pack. I used to think (not like recently, when i was little) that it was named after a woman named Fanny... but it's not. But it was great and purple and we did some cracked out browsing while we were there, as evidenced below...

SCRUNCHIES DON'T GO ON YOUR EYES KATHERINE. Oh wow, what a card! Well anyway, we walked around the mall (mistake #1) and went into H&M which was actually kind of awesome except for the fact that I can never get anything for myself at real stores because I have a thrifting problem. I got some killer sunglasses there though for only $6, which isn't necessarily real shopping, BUT IT'S A SLIPPERY SLOPE OKAY. Alright so that was fine BUT THEN WE WENT TO JC PENNY'S (mistake #2). Please let me explain. As I'm Owl Team Leading over the summer, I'm going to be a PROFESSIONAL WOMAN and those need KHAKIS. And since it's over the summer, khaki shorts. I know, I know, this vision is getting uglier and uglier. So JC Penny's is a very large and confusing place, with a lot of loud and ugly clothes (NOT in a good way) and we found these hilarious weird let's golf khaki mom shorts (needless to say, DID NOT buy) and left exhausted and perturbed to go to Ikea. We were all strung out from our brief but terrifying mall experience and so we went to the Ikea cafeteria (which exists ?!?) and had french fries and LINGONBERRY (no lie) juice. When in Rome, go to Ikea and drink the weird pink juice guys.

We were browsing for furniture and stuff for our apartment and pretended to be in our homes AS SEEN BELOW:

Katherine, thinking deeply about the mysteries of life (undoubtedly) or about leaf patterns and inexpensive couches. I think it needs to be noted that I told her to look like it was her home... moving past that.

OH YOU WILL, trust me, I'm a doctor. For real, Ikea vocab is hilarious, just as all Eastern European things are. In every display bookcase, there were a million Swedish books AND THEY WERE ALL THE SAME. Swedish people must live really creepy, organized lives.

NOTE better comfortable posing. HOWEVER this is after we had reached the point of complete delirium after we already had pretend drinks at this fake dining room with fake exposed brick! Tres chic in pretendland no doubt!

Katherine trying to decide what to wear out of her fake wardrobe with a ridiculous amount of the same blouse and same skirt. OH SHE WON'T HAVE ANY TROUBLE GETTING READY.

Okay, needless to say, complete insanity has ensued out of intense and endless browsing and Katherine has become fascinated with fake technology which turns out to be hollow EVEN THOUGH it has like a type name and everything on it.

Alright so here's where it gets weird, not really but this happened 2 days ago and because I couldn't find my camera cord there was delay BUT TO UPDATE. Yesterday I drew a picture of Kathy Griffin running around in a bra and of the queen mum for my 2D humor sketchbook (all none of you vote for pictures? GOOD) and went on like a 45 minute bike ride I KNOW. It was really nice out and it was in the early afternoon and nobody was around it was amazing!

So today I went to Red, White, & Blue with Katherine and this is what happened to her:

Not really, but she was debating getting this little boy's fishie Hawaiian shirt and decided to try it on over her big girl flannel SUCH DRAMA. Regardless she did get it and may or may not be wearing it right now to help out your visual imagination. On this trip both Katherine and I found ourselves trying on dresses which WE THOUGHT were dresses but turned out to be ROMPERS.... so sneaky right? Mine was extra embarrassing because it totally didn't even look like a romper at all and I put it over my head BUT IT WAS ONE OF THE LEGS. All of the elderly Mexicans sure were entertained (or so I assume... I didn't ask them or anything).

Alright, wrapping this baby up with a weird wink from my sister. She said she was posing for a movie poster. Really Sarah? A ROM COM MOVIE POSTER! Additionally, she was labeling her folders for class, and somehow SOMEBODY (me) got the idea into her head that instead of the actual names of the classes (so pase) that she should write words that RHYMED with them. So she is now taking Path (math), Silence (science), Mystery (History) and Hamre. Okay so we couldn't find a rhyme for English and she wouldn't use MY suggestion Penguin Farts (as in Language Arts duh) and so she decided to use Grammar and I put it into the online rhyming dictionary and Hamre came up (it's like one of the most uncommon surnames in the US).

SO THAT'S MY LIFE you can go now.

I'll love you with all the madness in my soul

I LOVE BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN (This is one of the many signs of the ever-spreading disorder called being from New Jersey AND LOVING EVERY MINUTE OF IT)

Title= lyric from Born to Run and you better believe it!

p.s. I think my v key is busted because if I don't press it hard enough it's an e

EX: I wanna die with you wendy in the streets tonight in an eeerlasting kiss.... weird

So okay, right now I'm cleaning my kitchen (allegedly), drinking tea, and blogsting (I know right now I'm doing so many things that I invented a new word for blog posting... I AM AWARE THAT BLOGGING WAS ALREADY A WORD) and besides that I'm listening to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, which is practically another activity all together.

I realize that I've been a day behind in blogSTing all my activities and I stay up nights with concern for ALL none of your collective confusion so I will strive to clarify... by posting what I did yesterday, today. (Just go with it)

So my sister and I went to CVS yesterday morning because every time I take a shower in my dorm I'm jealous of my roommate's loofahs (they all have one... Emily's is white, Cat's is pink, and Nina's is orange I KNOW RIGHT? I don't actually know who's is who's but those are the irl colors). So I finally got one, but it's yellow, and I'm going to keep it isolated so the others don't immorally influence it OR WHO KNOWS WHAT COULD HAPPEN WHEN I LEAVE IT ALONE ALL DAY.

So this is a product I found in the Made for TV section in the back. It's a bottle top FOR YOUR CANS. So if you didn't want to drink your canned soda or something out of a can INSTEAD OF POURING IT INTO A CUP or something else intelligent, you could put this on it and zippadedodah it's a bottle! I think that's all of the time that thing deserves.

THIS thing is my sister with some great brown and curly false hair ponytails to accentuate her own straight blond hair. CAN YOU FIND IT? I bet you can't!

really it's right there I can't believe you can't see it.

This disfunctional woman is my sister's friend and my sworn enemy, Hannah Roe. I guess you can see why. None of my grown-up friends are home from school so my sister and I visited Justine for a Gilmore Girls marathon. Yes, lonely people are sad but not when they're together! (actually a joke because I have an illogically powerful love for GG... no NOT gossip girl. learn how to read sometime "Illiteracy? What does that mean anyway?" -Charlie, It's Always Sunny )

This is my sister who may or may not be having a powerful philosophical discussion with somebody... but probably not.

This is Becca Firkser (I don't know how to spell her name... or something) who THOUGHT I was taking a picture of the jacket she was holding but SURPRISE it's of her ugly (beautiful) mug (face.) I HOPE I DON'T MAKE HER MAD.

Don't worry it's probably fine. So that was fun and then I came home and I blogsted (???) some more and then I fell asleep while watching the Oscars, which is a problem because my dad kept waking me up to say things like "Hurt Locker is winning a lot of things! That's so great I hate James Cameron blahblahsomethingelse" The only really great thing about Hurt Locker winning best picture is that the director, Kathryn Bigelow, spells her name the same way as mine (R-Y-N btchs) and maybe people will finally realize that that is a legit spelling and stop throwing things at me when I go out into the street. MAYBE, but probably not.