Favourite photographs of...

You!

I would really appreciate it if you could g-mail me 1-3 pictures of yourself or other clubhousers that you really like (the pictures, not necessarily the clubhousers). 3 megapixels or higher please--they are being printed professionally and added to a collage.

deadline: Friday February 9 Saturday February 10

Friend of some Clubhousers on CBC

Bob mentioned this months bag on his website, but I thought I would let you guys know about it here now that it appears to have gone legit:

Heart of the World campaign.

More art is better.

Naked Tree Party

Hey Everybody!

So, I finally have a place big enough to support a "real" Christmas tree & I'm all jazzed on getting one. Thing is, I don't have any decorations to go on my cool new properly sized Christmas tree. This is where you guys come in. I'll provide the food & some drinks, you make/bring the ornaments. I'll have lots of craft stuff available for making paper chains & I'll pop some popcorn to make garlands. Vince Guaraldi Trio optional. Low key, no stress. Come for a little or a long time, any time after 7pm on Friday, December 15th.

Hope to see you there,

~meeko

craft fair!

i'm selling hats and cat ears at the Riley Park craft fair this weekend. it goes from 11am to 3pm thought i'd invite everyone out to keep me company. hope to see you there

Decemberween IV: THE REVENGE!

HEY GUYS! WANT TO COME TO A SWANK PARTY!?

Alright then!

Let's have a party at the Clubhouse on December 10th! At around 8pm!

This is the party where you are to bring 1 (one) item that you have had a hand in creating (either a CD where you're the musician, a craft you've thrown together with some glue, or any other form of expressed creativity). If you have any doubts about what is or is not acceptable, you can reach me via the normal lines of communication.

Hooray for holidays!

Christmas Exchange

I was thinking of having a Clubhouse Winter Fest on the weekend before Christmas (Saturday December 17), but would like to have a gift exchange with the stipulation that you had to have made it (scarves, videogame themed cell phone cozies, music, artwork, craft projects, etc.).  The only rule is that you had to have made it (for example, a mixed CD, while you may have compiled it, does not illustrate your creative side; a mixed CD with cover art or music made by you would qualify).  Try to be creative and unique as you have a month and a half to get the ball rolling.  I probably will not do the Greedy Santa thing, but rather a reverse, where when your name is drawn you get to give your gift to someone; if the person you want to give the gift to already has a gift they must give their gift to someone else in order to open yours.

We’re all capable of making something, and it will be a great way to showcase our talents (or lack!).

Oh, this looks FUN!

Art project.

ART WOW

I'm going to this:

Electra Exhibition Opening Reception
Thursday, October 21, 6-8 PM (that's today!)

at Electra (970 Burrard Street).

"Please join us for a wine and
cheese reception, celebrating the work of artists in
three diverse exhibits as part of the 2004 New Forms
Festival: Digitalis: Ethno Techno: An Exhibition of
Digital Print, First Nations Exhibit, and New Forms
Festival Media Installation. Local and international
artists will be in attendance. Admission is by
donation. For more information and a description of
the artists and their work, please visit
www.newformsfestival.com."

Anyone else interested? Did you hear that there will be local and international artists? In Attendance!!! Fuck yeah!

My Art

If you go here you can look at what I do during class.

A Word Now From Our Sponsors

Our Friend Christine writes:

greetings and solicitations. i would like to invite you all to an art fete on Monday, Mar. 8 (aka IWD). the venue is a laundromat on Davie called, "The Clothesline". it's located at 1070 Davie and the fete will be from 6-9pm. there will be live music and dead art. i hope this entices people to come. feel free to bring a load of laundry to wash.
thank you for your attention. sincerely, christine gibson.
ps. if you have any questions or requests feel free to give me a call (604) 683-1364. or email me: meta_moment@yahoo.com

Dropping a Line on My Peeps.

Hey Kids,

Just hought I share a couple links and an abservation or two.

Jewschool: Look for the article about France banning religious articles in the classroom. I'm not sure I agree on this; I don't mind freedom of religion and this is definately an infringement on freedom of expression (based on religious beliefs).

Tokidoki: Art. I used it for avatars over Halloween, but it's just come back into style. Style, I say.

Observations:

I overheard a girl talking about Average Joe in the hallways here. She was happy that some guy got kicked off because he had some sort of facial hair that was ugly. Perhaps she didn't understand the "subtleties" of this program, but all the guys are supposed to be unattractive, nerdy, flawed, etc.. You are supposed to like them as people from the inside. Shouldn't we be hoping the schemeing jerk gets voted off? Or that the total sullen, no-confidence, weenie got kicked off? Bah.


When MrEff burns a CD over its load level my discman can't read past a certain track without selecting and playing each track individually. So, that's been frustrating.

K

This weekend Kat took me out to "K" because Adam worked on it and, quite frankly, I like theatre despite my inability to get out to many shows.

In "K", we view a very stylized view of Kafka's last days/memories. A Danish production, brought over here by the same company using local actors, stage hands, etc.

First and foremost, this play reminded me heavily of a piece I wrote in Directing/Scriptwriting 12 years ago. I wrote this pretentious art-fuck piece about a girl having a dream about her father climbing a ladder, falling off of it into a black hole and eventually finding the devil and having some interaction there. I thought it was the most contrived piece of writing I've put to paper. Somehow, it was praised by my then theatre instructor. ...?...

The acting was by and large impressive. James Long is on stage performing the whole time in a monologue that is interupted by "visions" or reality. A 90 minute presentation is not an easy feat and on closing night he had his part down pat. I think one of my favourite aspects of theatre is that they can fuck up and that would be super cool. There were moments where I questioned the pacing of the dialogue (too great of a gap, punchline delivered a little off) but there were no sightly errors in the acting. The blocking wasn't all the way there. Several times actors were turned away while speaking their dialogue and often moments where expressions/physical responses were lost from actors looking away from the audience. One Ensemble member wandered off out of context at one point.

Aesthetically, it was awesome. The audience walked in to an open stage with only a huge wall of silver filing cabinet drawers. That's it. The wall is designed with a closet, a set of double doors, four windows, and a row of drawer handles sturdy enough to carry Long up the wall. The double doors release Kafka's hospital bed which provides the focus of the show. With the use of projectors, lighting and dry ice I had missed a few moments of stage transformation through distraction.

And now onto the plot of "K". While a storyline was there, I definately felt as though it was a poetic play with symbolisms that I couldn't get for the life of me (such as "Why are they walking backwards? All the time?"). I'll admit ignorance and stupidity when it came to understanding the intent of many of the overt symbolisms. I take great pride in my bullshiting skills with analyzing print materials, but on stage I've got no clue. I recognized Lilith's importance early on, why everyone was walking around "aimlessly", and some of the other small symbolic charcters. Perhaps I needed to read the stage directions. Anyone who had seen it care to explain a few things? Why was the assistant doctor repeating/echoing the words of everyone else? Why were they walking backwards? Why was the doctor acting like a broken record?

Arbitrary score of 864. Thanks for taking me Kat, and I still owe you for the ticket.

10 nine 8 seven 6 five 4 three

Have you seen YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES? This completely blew my mind. (found via metafilter)

What I love about this is that Y-H Chang strips away all pretense of interactivity, which, on the web, means clicking on stuff with your mouse (lame). This is just text set to music. No graphics and no 'interacting' or sweeping for hot spots. Most importantly, it caters to my incredibly short attention span.

Here are some highlights, with bonus chat-log commentary!


scortt: http://www.yhchang.com/PERFECT_ARTISTIC_WEB_SITE.html
montyc: WOW
montyc: he's right:
montyc: web art is dumb
montyc: and also lame.
montyc: but this is good
scortt: I liked the ending
scortt: MMM.
scortt: http://www.yhchang.com/SAMSUNG_MEANS_TO_COME.html
montyc: HOT
scortt: http://www.yhchang.com/THE_STRUGGLE_CONTINUES.html
scortt: i'm getting the impression that marxism turns her on
montyc: i agree
montyc: samsung is clearly a representation of the empty promises of the bourgeois capitalist system
scortt: clearly.
montyc: by which pleasure and desire are commodified
montyc: and divorced from daily life
montyc: e.g., she couldn't do the dishes while having multiple orgasms.
scortt: unfair :(
montyc: in North Korea,
montyc: sexual equality is sexy.
scortt: also: starvation

* * *

scortt: http://www.yhchang.com/ALL_FALL_DOWN.html
hokie: wtf is going on here?
hokie: my eyes are exploding :(
scortt: sit back from the monitor
hokie: am i being programmed?

* * *

scortt: http://www.yhchang.com/CUNNILINGUS_IN_NORTH_KOREA.html
unclefreddy: i think i just crapped by pants
scortt: Me too!

Art

Thursday Link Day

Web Gallery: Carvaggio is my new favourite artist ever. I used the picture of Judith Beheading Holfornes as my work desktop image.

Blog Critics: Here is a review site done entirely by blog writers. Grae: try this link.

Metacritic’s Award List: Reads like a rental guide.

Mainichi News: News straight out of Japan. Hilarious news.

Zug’s Credit Card Scam: This one has been around for a while, but I thought I would share with those who hadn’t seen it.

The Cheque Republic: They spell cheque in Canadian form, but the cheque designs are distinctly US. Anyway, these are super cool cheques. I am thinking of getting my next cheques as either the “Wage Slave” or “Warning”. Not that I use cheques at all.

Party Generator: Next party you are required to bring the following items.

Googlism: More of what you’ve probably seen already.

Panaramics: A weblog devoted to huge (but very cool) photographs based out of Australia.

Kozyndan: An art site that is awesome. The artist(s) was featured on the cover of this month's Giant Robot.

Celebrity Blogs: Everyone’s doing it now. Even Avril Lavigne.

A Casket: It’s signed by all the members and only $4,700US.

I've got the images going now. I finally dropped my procrastination in uploading/ftping/etc. when it came to my personal webspace. I don't expect this blog to go above a certain level of visits, but you never know how excited the masses get about posting nothing.

Did you know it would cost less for me to ship myself UPS overnight than to fly myself out to New York for a weekend. I wonder how I could package myself appropriately.

I made an Exploding Dog screensaver, only because I couldn't find a slideshow screensaver for Win98. I suppose I could lift it off of another computer on this network (I'm looking at you, Grae)

I've got a mid-term Tuesday, and I register Monday.

For a waitlist.

Sucks massively to register after registration ends. It's called getting the shaft as far as I am concerned. I'm going to try to set up meetings with teachers before school starts up again. If not, I may just have a summer semster off. Which I don't want at all. I really want my college life to end soon. The sooner I am at SFU the happier I'll be. The sooner I am in university, without distractions of the social and psychological nature, the happier I'll be.

Truth be told, I haven't told anyone this, (including Grae) but I am practicing the art of utmost forgiveness. And it's an art, I tell you. Everyday I focus on what angers me, bothers me or otherwise frustrates me and let it go. Or I guess, it would make more sense if I said I attempt to let it go. I'm making progress, I think. Baby steps mind you. The annoying screaming child still instills homicidal rage, and the twit teens make me wish that post-partum abortions were available until age 20 (and I don't choose 20 as an age lightly) and slow old women who cut in front of me while I am walking make me want to kick their cane from underneath them. Bitches.

I mentioned the other day (not here) that I hate kids. I seriously hate kids. But it dawned on me that I hate parents more. Anyone who has the audacity to pressume they can raise a child well screams stupid in my books. Sure, there are parents that have kids by accident or vow to do the best they can, but most parents have kids so that they can parent or have children to raise. This lack of forethought horrifies me. I respect the parent who says "I'd like to parent to the best of my ability. Sure it won't be perfect, and I can't expect my offspring to turn out ideal but--holy crap. Why am I having a kid?!" Yes, forethought, the brain's first action of birth control.

But then I could argue about that all day. So instead of attacking everyone's parents for birthing them (I am. I truly am; despite my affections for you guys, the truth is--if you haven't learned it yet, is that our parents are dumb) I'll hit atheism. Woo! Atheism! Arthur C. Clarke (you know, this guy) said in the Winter 02-03 Free Inquiry magazine: "Perhaps we should thank the Taliban for finishing the task the Crusades began nine hundred years ago--proving beyond further dispute that Religion is incompatible with Civilization." Discuss!