in addition to tiny icon designer, graphics monkey, and Spanish language billing correspondent, my role at work has expanded to lending my voice to a series of snippets for a radio show my coworkers tape twice a week in a makeshift recording studio — a large closet equipped with a jumble of boxes and wires, soundproofed by old blankets tacked to the walls.
some things I’ve learned:
- voice inflections can sound off-key, like bad singing
- basin rhymes with Jason, not raisin; aurora is really hard to say twice in a row with a straight face
- the soothing public radio voice is simply the easiest one with which to smother giggles
all of my impulse buys involve grey canvas and cute endangered animals
“fatmobiles”: Bimbo snack truck, work cruisers with cheeseburger bike bell
if you are in San Francisco tomorrow afternoon and without plans, you should check out Reply / a catalog of circles and incomplete cities, a visual arts performance at The Garage:
From falling, floating, disappearing, and appearing… Pieced together from an international collaborative, the performance work constructs a series of tableaux negotiating the edge space of landscape and circularity in the shared quotidian spaces of a city. Extracting for movement and image from Milan Kundera’s “The Book of Laughter and Forgetting”, and what he terms the “magic of the circle dance”, the mixed ensemble cast and a roaming camera move in and out of architectural patterns, place, and placelessness, exploring the nuances between memory, response, replication, and transformation. Compositions for music box, songs of Joni Mitchell, and disparate frames of silence create a score. Video shifts amidst the mixed topographies of Los Angeles, San Francisco, Volos, Genoa, and Berlin.
Isak Immanuel is one of my favorite figure models at the studio where I’ve been studying, who also happens to be an extremely talented butoh dancer and is always a treat to watch.
works in progress
one morning bun fresh from the oven, coming right up
The Knife, in collaboration with Mt. Sims and Planningtorock, have released an opera based on Charles Darwin’s On The Origin of Species. how (r)evolutionary! chortle, knee slap.
decadent and miraculously vegan desserts from the five-course tasting menu at Millennium
if I were to be relegated to the consumption of only one dessert for the rest of my life, I’d want it to be the chocolate almond midnight — that two-toned, nut-encrusted slice of creamy heaven to the right.
for those of you who missed the Lopped Off show last week, here’s my little phallus monster of cute.
London designer Tithi Kutchamuch has created a necklace with charms modelled on the skull and entrails of a parrot.
GPOYW: embracing the conspicuous irony of an iPhone app that simulates the analog interface and effects of plastic toy cameras.
Otter Pops and Polaroids? it’s like I hopped into a time machine back to grade school! taken by the ultra-talented Preet Shihn, at a fiesta last November.
The Cost of an Artificial Man, from Harmsworth Magazine circa 1892
Full Table refers to this as ‘Bodily Damage’, so presumably these are settlement costs for personal injury? If so, apparently just shaving your head entitles you to £85. Been in a freak moustache incident? £10 for you.
last night, I dislocated my elbow at the funny bone after a nasty fall at the rock gym. it’s a good thing I have brain damage!