Hello friends,
Yesterday Ben and I moved into Max and Sarah's apartment. (Max and Sarah = RuffeoHeartsLil'Snotty, in case you forgot.) And then we moved Ben's studio into mine. We were moving from 10AM until midnight.
Highlights of yesterday include:
1. Tripping on the stairs and having my dresser fall on my wrist. (There's now a huge lump on my wrist and it's very tender/sore.)
2. Dropping the (heavy) metal base for my mannequin on my foot. (My foot is now tender/sore, and I'm walking with a limp.)
3. Taking the best shower at the end of it all, washing away all the dirt and sweat and crawling into bed.
Here are the features I liked best about my old room:
This was a random bell in my old room. It was on a strange part of the wall---and it did nothing.
But I loved it.
It was a definite selling point for me.
Especially vintage illustrations of them.
Don't ask why.
Someone's initials from 3/10(?)/75.
That was in a concrete section of my floor.
In other news, Ben was featured on the v. popular fashion blog The Coveted yesterday:
http://the-coveted.com/blog/2009/07/30/take-off-your-clothes/
Check it out.
ALSO, he and I are selling at the Artists & Fleas Outdoor Market in McCarren Park tomorrow in Williamsburg.
10AM to 6PM. If you live in NYC, come out and be our friend. =)
I want to make a new t-shirt design inspired by the Staten Island boat graveyard because it inspires me.
(If you ever get the chance to see this boat graveyard in person, please take it! It's unreal.)
I made some very quick sketches the other day, but I haven't gotten anywhere with it at all yet.
(Sorry about the scanning quality. I was in a rush.)
I have to be in a zone (where it's just my thoughts and a pencil and paper, nothing else) when I am designing. And I have to be very happy and proud of a new design once finished.
I feel like I'm constantly distracted these days, so it's hard for me to really concentrate.
I would want a design based on the Staten Island boat graveyard to be very awesome. I'd want to feel very proud of myself after I put down my pencil and said, "There! I'm done. That's my new design."
Just had a thought (which could lead to a rant)...
If I see ONE more t-shirt with a bicycle silkscreened on it...
Jeez, people. C'mon!
I feel like that's so uninspired. Totally not brave at all.
I'll stop there.
Was that tacky of me?
Sozard.
Sometimes I am lame and will google myself---well, not Craig Hunter but Cubist Literature.
But this time I just came across something funny I said a long time ago.
Und I quote:
My psychiatrists kisses me goodbye at the end of our sessions. I let him do that so that I can get extra meds 4 free.
This is the song in my head right now:
But I'm telling you, it's a total top 40 up there.
(I totally just recycled that line. There I came clean. I used that line earlier today while out and about with some friends.)
A friend flaked out on me tonight, so I'm off to go see LITTLE CLAW by myself.
(What else is new? Whenever I go to see a band I really want to see, it's usually by myself.)
Hope the rest of your Sunday is delicious!
xo
craig
I'm very relieved that I finally finished the redesigned Cubist Literature site. I've been working on it the past week.
Please check it out.
It's actually beginning to look like a proper site, don't you think?
There are some kinks I still need to work out.
And some minor design details I'll add.
But I just wanted to get it all uploaded and figure out the smaller details later.
Yesterday I was having a weird dream that involved a lot of social obligation. It bothered me greatly.
I made myself wake up and write (scrawl) down the main points that stuck out to me the most:
The handwriting is very bad, I know, but it's because I was barely awake.
My eyes were very heavy, and my body wanted me to go back to sleep.
But I've been having problems sleeping lately. Can't fall asleep and can't stay asleep.
"Jerry Orbach, boxing coach, benefit party, Jon Schumann, I chicken out, big penis and dildo up someone's ass, Nirvana reunion show, depressing"
Btw, the Nirvana reunion show was pretty depressing.
I left early on.
Here is video proof that sometimes Gordon isn't as polite or subtle about what he wants:
Other things to say.
On Sunday I learned how to bounce the flash on my digital camera from the ceiling using foil and a notecard.
I took these photos of random things I have on a shelf in my room:
I paced all around the room taking photos, bouncing light off the ceiling. Eventually I had to stop looking at the flash because it was so bright and it was giving me a headache, especially since it was being reflected from the foil.
My eyeballs hurt just thinking about it.
Last night I watched that Romero horror film called "The Crazies".
I didn't like it that much, but, in the spirit of knitting and yarn and grandmas and such, I DID enjoy this death scene:
So, here is what I have been working on and just finished knitting the other day:
Knit in the round, so it's seamless. My own pattern. =)
I used up old yarn I had leftover from other projects, so it was nice to see those go to use. (As a result, the color combination here is random/arbitrary. Not really thought out.)
I don't know why I didn't tell you---or did I? (My memory is inconsistent and very selective.)
It was fun to photograph.
It's made of wool and was meant to be a prototype for a cotton version I planned on making/wearing for my birthday when at the beach. Of course the beach plans were scrapped (even though the day would've been perfect for it) and my knitting was sporadic, so I didn't have it finished in time.
I just like the idea of a wool body suit, really.
Big fan of wool.
I'm unhappy about the back of the suit, however.
It's too short because I didn't take into account how your back is longer than your front.
When I remake this, I'll fix that.
It's really bugging me, though.
Let's end on a good note.
I hope this is the way to go.
If I wore dresses, I'd wear light, comfortable ones like this:
This can be made in different sizes, too. There are also different color combinations available in his shop.
It's very creative and very awesome.
Just like him.
SELF PORTRAIT THURSDAY!
7.16.09
