Nonstop to Mississippi

I just finished the 2005 show application for the Soap Factory in Minneapolis. It has to be postmarked by tomorrow and of course I procrastinated until today to start and finish it. I don't even know why I am making a post about it since all I really want to do is get out of this chair that I have been sitting in for the past seven hours. ugh.

So tomorrow all I need to do is priority mail this envelope. I just feel good that I actually got something done. Now I have an updated CV and slide list and a show proposal that I can send to other galleries as well. YESSSSS.

While I was getting this all together:
I listened to (I wear headphones plugged into the tv...I just like background noise) three law and orders, a real world/road rules battle of the sexes and a pimp my ride. Then I listened to Patton Oswalt stand-up (thanks garth!), Some Talking Heads boxed set, Fiery Furnaces, Joanna Newsom and a couple UMASS drum line tracks (again, thanks garth!)

and now I am going to bed.
I am going to leave you with a photo of the one dollar thrift store hulk hand that cliff and I got at the Palmer House thrift store. I painted his nails pink.

Our friend Garth visited us from Atlanta this weekend.
We have lots of stories.
Here are some pictures for now.








Paul Macleod: Founder of Graceland too

Here are a couple shots of the walls of my office at school.


Friends and bits of ephemera on walls...One of my favorite photos of Ian W.acting like he is going to punch me while Nick N. looks on...lots of me and Clifton, Kristen, Ian A, Ray, Meredith, Deb, Jenni...represent!


Old photo of me, mom and dad at an art fair...


Green couch, a Jessica Mills' print that really deserves a frame, wooly anders, and more posters, postcards, photo of David Byrne, a photo of Will Manning from an undergrad photo shoot...I think he is holding a red cabbage.


More ephemera and a Denny Schmickle Black Keys poster!

Cliff is working on a website for the next 30 minutes and then we are going to start watching the movies that we just rented for the MSU library. The library informed me tonight that I had exceeded my check out allowance...I really have no idea how many books faculty can check out, but I am sure that I did abuse whatever amount that it might have been. We have been checking books out on a pretty frequent basis and I am pretty sure that we have never returned one.

I just have to state I love being able to check books out for four months at a time.

I was in the architecture library this week when I was reunited with a book that I had checked out from UNL library the entire time I was in grad school.

Deep Storage: Collecting, Storing and Archiving Art

It is my favorite book of all time and out of print. It was one of those books that I wanted to just pay the $75.00 library fine for losing a book just so I could keep it myself. I remember zachusing the library as a bookstore when we were in undergrad and he found a limited editioned (and I think signed) Bukowski book. The fine was only $7.50 though. Anyway... when we first got here in June I checked to see if the Campus Library had it and was ever so sad to see that it didn't and for some reason it didn't show the Architecture Library as having it. BUT I HAVE IT NOW! I HAVE BEEN REUNITED WITH MY GOOD LUCK LIBRARY BOOK. and you can bet that I will have it in my possession until we leave Mississippi.

anyway, DVDs from the library that we checked out: Tootsie, Gosford Park, Tomb Raider and The Sweet Hereafter.

I stole the new Print Regional Annual from school along with the fall Eye Magazine for some more weekend reading. I am also re-reading Diane Arbus by Patricia Bosworth before I go to sleep at night and am at the point where I am sad that it is going to end soon. I feel like Arbus has always been one of my favorites, but I am really getting a lot out of re-reading her biography. This may sound corny, but I am getting over my fear of taking photos in Mississippi. I felt very comfortable in Lincoln shooting everywhere: stores, parking lots, neighborhoods etc, but here I have just felt incredibly intimidated.

I need to get over that.

I had some of my credit card drawings accepted to blank-magazine. They want to publish my thesis abstract as well.

Using Thanksgiving Break to work on site and to send my application to The Soap Factory in Minneapolis for the 2005 show season. I am making myself do this. I must get this done.

In case you haven't realized this is the post where Kate gets used to creating reference tags in her entries.
The End

ian anderson ceramics art politics clay design

This is Ian Anderson's website. He has new christmas ornaments for sale.
For those of you who don't know Ian...I had my MFA show with him. He is more manic than me (but in a good way, I swear) and one of my best friends. I miss him a ton. Thank God for instant messaging or I would go crazy from not being able to talk with him on a semi-weekly basis.

Kari kicks ass
Kari and Ian are getting married. I LOVE HER WORK and I LOVE HER! I don't know if Kari knows this, but the first piece of ceramics that I had ever bought was one of her ice cream bowls. and I have bought many more since.

File this entry under superradfriends.

Episode of Law and Order: SVU is coming on in a couple of minutes. Drinking Peach Snapple Iced Tea and eating Generic Christmas Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups. This is what I have planned for my dinner tonight. Cliff is at his web class and I am getting ready to resize a ton of photos for obsessiveconsumption.com

Money magazine article isn't coming out until January. So all of you who were checking your local newstand EVERY SINGLE DAY in FURIOUS ANTICIPATION will have to wait a couple weeks. I am actually pretty happy about the delay. They are including a photo from the photo shoot (see an earlier blog entry) and also an image of one of my credit card drawings. I don't know how the content of the article will be. I am rather nervous about that. The article is more photo based than text based, so the actual text is about 10 sentences. Everything is pretty condensed...it will probably come out like "LOOK! SHE SPENDS A LOT OF MONEY! SHE IS IN DEBT! SHE IS CRAZY AND HAS A WEBSITE AND MAKES WORK ABOUT IT! LET'S MAKE HER FEEL LIKE HER WORK IS WEIRD AND THAT SHE IS WASTING HER TIME AND THAT WE SEE HER AS MORE OF A FREAK THAN AN ARTIST! Money called four times today to fact check info and to ask a couple more questions. I felt like I was being steered into answers. I am glad they fact checked though. They had the web site as www.obsessiveconsumer.com. That would not have been cool. They also had a couple of other errors that got corrected.

I am excited that in the photo from the shoot a print from Kristen is visible on the wall...so a little bit of Kristen is in the photo with me as well! There is a Micki ceramic piece on a shelf and a Sandra W. plate visible as well. So more Nebraska sneaking into Mississippi makes me feel good. I wish that I had the foresight so arrange work from more of my everso talented friends, but at the time I had NO FREAKING IDEA of what was going on and it was just good luck that Kristen happens to be featured.

Tomorrow is my last day of classes and then I have a week off for Thanksgiving Break. We are making handmade books/zines in my Typography class and it has been a huge production. Each student has to make an edition of 16 and the majority of them love it! Totally understand the excitement of self publishing and are really taking pride in creating a quality product. Tomorrow is our book exchange (everyone gets a copy of everybody's book). But I have a couple students who just really don't care and have been whining about it since day one. For example, I had one student tell me that he was just going to throw away all of the books that he gets tomorrow because he doesn't know what he is going to do with them and why should he want to keep them. Oh and then he complained about how much it was costing and how he was going to have to stay up all night to finish it. This was also the same kid who argued with me last week that Flappers were from the 1940's not the 1920's, called F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ella Fitzgerald and that World War Two happened in the 1950's...so I shouldn't be surprised that 16 handmade books were going to go straight into the garbage.

God, I sound old and cranky.
sorry.
I really am not.

I just want to state that I have been really happy with the resurgence of blogs from my college of the ozarks friends. Will, Tony, Zach and Riley...it has been super fun reading your entries and commenting on crap that I haven't even thought of in many many years. It has also been fun having you guys back on my radar on a daily basis and reading about your "now" life too. cheese.

I can't believe I have written this much.
I promise it won't happen again.
I swear that I will return to posting pictures and making sarcastic, emotionally detached comments asap.

This is one of my three classes.



They had just given presentations and proposals for a local organization's new logo. We were photo of the day on the Mississippi State Website.

I thought this was pretty cool.
First photo documentation that I have a "class".

Oh, and they all did a super good job.
very proud.

Clifton told me that my bangs looked like Lloyd Christmas' from Dumb and Dumber...and then I started thinking about what a great movie it is...not about how maybe I should change my hair, because personally, I think that Lloyd Christmas is STYLING!!!

anyway. We are listening to Dumb and Dumber right now courtesy of listentoamovie.com

I became hooked on this site when I was in grad school.
Although action movies are kind of hard to listen to.
Kristen and I tried listening to X-men and couple times. and Indiana Jones. and Star Wars. no good, really. But comedies that you know really really well and documentaries are perfect for this type of thing.

The Oldest Man in Oktibbiha County took our voting ballots today.
I swear.
After we finished filling in our paper ballots with dull pencils in our wooden shanty voting booths, we handed over our ballots to the Oldest Man in Oktibbiha County.

It was odd.
and funny.

but I got a sticker, so that made all bad things good.
I then put my sticker on a Martini.



You can see on the TV screen that Bush won Mississippi. HOW SHOCKING!!! I had no idea that would happen.
I think Mississippi also decided that all gays should be banned from the state as well.
It was an ammendment that we voted on. The All Gays Must Leave Mississippi Bill.

I also voted on a couple of items that I didn't know too much about. So I either voted Democratic or for women or for names that were not Pervis, Sessums or other odd old man southern names.

This is an example of one of my credit card statement drawings.
I am working on Obsessive Consumption v.2 that will show a bunch of these.
This one is my Target Bill from October.



I don't have a Target anymore. The closest one is 80 miles away in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
The closest one is Mississippi is two hours away in Jackson.

This upsets me more than it really should.