the lotus eaters

shameless plug

2009-08-28T19:38:22Z

my art album at Museum Of Unfine Art

go check it out

$35-worth it???

funkyfreshdude @ 2009-01-12T11:17:00

2009-01-12T19:20:23Z

does anybody have access/tipoffs to a photocopy machine i could abuse?

like printing full color 11"x14"s - hundreds of em (i dont wanna pay $1.78 each=kinkos price)

btw drunk

2008-12-29T10:02:25Z

damnit i typed out something really neat and then hit the wrong button and it was gone.

hopefully the computer digesed it and is a tiny bit wiser.

umm it was about conceptual rift between the material world and our internal processes. thats what i'm groovin on nowadays. like, how can one reconcile the two, and not give precedence to either? cause sucess-oriented depressed businessmen give precendence to materiality, and crazy people give precendence to internal processes. i guess sanity is finding the balance... i sometimes feel that i can't express myself wholly with words. i guess this is why being an artist is important to me- a societally accepted way of expressing oneself without words. (like sometimes nonsense expresses more meaningfully than comprehensible symbols, WTF???)

i'm pretty sure everyone struggles with this rift between the two worlds- real and personal (mental/interior/emotional/whateveryouwannacallit). i am urious as to how people concieve of and (if possible) resolve it.

like i can only relate to you by mentioning something that we both share. something material or societal, like christmas. i got socks, underwear and chocolate.

(idea incompleted, see you later)

funkyfreshdude @ 2008-10-27T17:32:00

2008-10-28T00:33:48Z

wikipedia on shrooms

ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%95%E1%83%98%E1%83%99%E1%83%98%E1%83%9E%E1%83%94%E1%83%93%E1%83%98%E1%83%90:%E1%83%A1%E1%83%90%E1%83%96%E1%83%9D%E1%83%92%E1%83%90%E1%83%93%E1%83%9D%E1%83%94%E1%83%91%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1_%E1%83%92%E1%83%95%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%93%E1%83%94%E1%83%91%E1%83%98

funkyfreshdude @ 2008-10-17T13:41:00

2008-10-17T20:43:57Z

www.youtube.com/watch

may cause seizures

colorful seizuregasms

funkyfreshdude @ 2008-10-04T12:56:00

2008-10-04T19:57:51Z

birthday today

pizza ritual next weekend

surrender NEVER!!!!

funkyfreshdude @ 2008-08-20T13:32:00

2008-08-20T20:44:02Z

family came home.

rant warning.

dad is bombarding me with so many of his ideas whenever i work in the studio. he comes in and starts talkin, i have to stop what i'm doing and listen/give feedback/shut him up. endless goddamn stream of ideas. keep it inside your head when i'm in the middle of doing something! filter your fuckin ideas! i don't wanna hear anything about the things he thinks up for me to do, thats for me to figure out! i've got my own ideas thanks! he talks about getting his 'copies' (imaginary duplicates of him, presumably to do his bidding) to carry out his ideas. this notion used to be amusing. now it is annoying / pathetic. they do not exist! you can either give the idea away (no takers=let it die), or do it yourself. i am sick of his habit of delegating my/my brother's labor/time/energy into his ideas. no fucking more of this general manager/overseeing production/taskmaster-type attitude shit!

can you relate?

funkyfreshdude @ 2008-08-10T15:46:00

2008-08-10T22:48:37Z

pizza

i: make dough
u: bring toppings
y: cause we all gotta eat

7pm wed 13th

my house:
1510 Lincoln (SW corner 15th lincoln)

be there or be

somewhere else

Writer's Block: In the Event of a Zombie Emergency

2008-07-31T21:29:37Z

Are you prepared for a zombie outbreak, or are you just going to wing it?

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fuck no, i'll be one of billions to die. probly crushed by hysterical crowds.

cuntry fair

2008-07-15T17:38:51Z

ok thats done where to now?
asked dad and he started talkin about new waxing methods, dripping dye
no, what about a totally new media? we'll make a movie
okay. i've got 1 week.
so it might just be a movie featuring paul otte testing fabric experiments

didn't sell any batik but nic sold a bunch of the silkpainting kits i made, and i sold some of dad's stuff and made 2 signs trade for food. lost sandals, barefoot.

got abducted/rescued by the 'mothership'

last years words 'plausable deniability'
this year 'vehicle of legitimacy'

booth next door was haunted.

security assholing friend. police forces great and small overstep bounds, terrorize innocents

marketing myself?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!??!??!??!??!!!

'Archaeology unearths bones' rumor mine.

funkyfreshdude @ 2008-06-30T13:14:00

2008-06-30T20:22:48Z

I'm gonna do a '$5 art show' in the studio sometime soon. the idea is to get as many people as possible contributing their artwork, and buying artwork. 2-day thing: first day, open studio & art supplies to make things, next day the show. d'you think its a good idea, ie, are we people actually willing to spend $5 on a peice of art??

maybe weekend after fair.

funkyfreshdude @ 2008-05-31T12:55:00

2008-05-31T20:20:29Z

really satisfied with the arts i made for the last two critiques of the term. they were the only interactive ones in both classes (cept for a girl who drew icing on cupcakes). for design class i silkscreened a bunch of construction paper poster/flyers with circular designs centered on the corners, so each one could connect on each corner with 3 others sharing that design. i threw them up in the air and everybody tried to make them all connect. colorgasm. that one started out as a way to avoid doing schoolwork.
for drawing i photocopied parallel lines of varying widths onto transparencies, and layered them... hard to describe but you get a trippy effect when you move them around on top of eachother- some look like water rippling, some have moving/streching diamonds.
gonna go camping, probly three-mile lake near coast as soon as skool ends completely. mom asks, "how big is that lake?" uhhh, i'd say about... three miles.
I want to organize a game of capture the flag in that huge meadow by the river that's bounded by bike paths, and on east end I-5. (kinda near autzen) It's got so many trees, tall grass, hills & gullys, open flat spaces and dense brush. and lotsa bike paths so you could have bike scouts, and maybe a rubber raft or canoe in the canal on the north side. well, i don't want to organize it cause i have no organizational skills, i just want to play. walkie talkies & binoculars.
i also want people to do collaborative art of all media with.

funkyfreshdude @ 2008-04-17T18:47:00

2008-04-18T01:51:59Z

funkyfreshdude @ 2008-03-30T10:35:00

2008-03-30T17:35:35Z

what's more important: freedom or happiness?

funkyfreshdude @ 2008-03-19T11:15:00

2008-03-19T18:16:22Z

thanks for giving me untransferable (play-money/zimbabwean dollar) crap credits, OCAC

funkyfreshdude @ 2008-02-20T15:07:00

2008-02-20T23:29:33Z

ATTN: CASSETTE TAPE PLAYERS NEEDED old/crappy/broken/dirty ok. trades?

The sun a big mound of polenta with sun dried tomato? or a naked pineapple. or a huge squash.
Mercury could be a cheese ball.
Earth is tricky. it has to be the pièce de résistance.
Luna could be a coconut with the shell taken off. (is that possible?)
Jupiter a watermelon?
So Saturn would be a layer cake, with like carrot cake, lemon cake and chocolate cake with different kinds/colors of frosting in between.
Uranus or Neptune could be jello. the other could be a honey dew melon.
Pluto could be a stuffed eggplant.

what about:
Mars??
the Asteroid Belt?
Comets?
the 10th planet?
Jupiter and Saturn's numerous moons?
Saturn's Rings?

poesia!- rhymes in chronological order

2008-02-12T20:17:33Z

had to flee the scene
to where the aqua is green
tortilla and bean
-
soon bees had discovered the cups
and the stuff
we spooned in (more, more, ok thats) enuf
and drank not quite totally up.

where liquid remained,
they buzzed in vain,
exhausted they drowned

where all had been drunk
they got stuck.
-
stash passed fast to ash
-
a lagoon
no moon to make dad a loon
with its pull it did play with the bay,
full, soon again drained

funkyfreshdude @ 2007-12-30T13:23:00

2007-12-30T21:30:47Z

goin to mexico- who wants to come?
i would like a companion-

leave soon- jan 4th
return- late feb

me, my dad, nic, nic's ladyfriend.

there are many options for returning earlier- bus, etc.

gas for round trip $100 or so

interested call cooper 485-5513

funkyfreshdude @ 2007-12-05T20:36:00

2007-12-06T04:37:33Z

i bought a Frank Zappa bootleg record that was recorded in Eugene!
entitled " Joe's Garage Acts IV & V live?"

bootleg vinyl (snappier: hot wax) new obsession. i've got a killer Traffic (second gig ever), a quite drunk Janis Joplin & Full Tilt Boogie, and Jimi Hendrix jammin' with Jim Morrison (also quite drunk), one song where the entire lyrics is Morrison repeatedly screaming "Fuck your baby in the ass" really loud.

funkyfreshdude @ 2007-11-28T15:43:00

2007-11-28T23:43:30Z

here in the lab
I, sole soul with severd cord
hum abounds
tictac sounds

funkyfreshdude @ 2007-11-09T14:43:00

2007-11-09T22:44:26Z

http://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/godTaoist.html

funkyfreshdude @ 2007-11-09T12:34:00

2007-11-09T20:34:23Z

"I've only got one wrinkle, and I'm sitting on it."

funkyfreshdude @ 2007-11-06T10:59:00

2007-11-06T19:00:57Z

how to get rubber cement out of cotton?

funkyfreshdude @ 2007-10-26T12:19:00

2007-10-26T19:30:54Z

So I may not stay here after this term is over. I don't think this is the right place for me- i'd have to slog through the rest of this year (all general education and introductory art classes) and only be able to take classes I want next fall. Coming home to eugene and teaching myself all the new processes i thought i'd learn here seems like a pretty good idea. i'm just not happy at this school and i'm not willing to wait almost a year (and go into debt) to start feeling creative and productive. Earning a degree is not a concern right now. i want to spend time making batik. so that's caused me a lot of anguish.

nic got susended for the term, portland got lonelier. no social or artistic fulfillment. Looking forward brightly to thanksgiving break, winter break, and beyond!

funkyfreshdude @ 2007-10-10T18:24:00

2007-10-11T01:35:04Z

my roommate is a spaz and he stays up really late, but we complement eachother well. he's a doer (i am so very tired of boring teenagers that don't take initiative) and he thinks i'm cool. he's from albany and talks to his girlfriend several times a day on the phone (i've only called casey once). he's ADHD which means that if we're talkin about something i think is stupid or boring, the conversation will change itself soon enough. he's kinda selfish, but so am I so it works. he's a year older than me but i still feel big brotherly. i calm him down when he's frustrated, i'm the voice of reason. he cleans too.

he's not exactly a beacon of originality, but i'm so glad he's not a stupid faceless poser