Slipping time

Well, interesting week. It started off with a meeting at Urban Spirit Coffee House to discuss the Columbus International Film+ Video Festival. I'm one of the judges this year for the 'The Arts' category. I'll say more about this when the actual festival happens later this year (August). But yeah! Should be fun!

I got to test out the film as you can see on the left (that's my nephew, who is in fact, awesome). Definitely glitchy, but fun to work with. I kept having a problem with spots appearing on the film which I removed with photoshop. I can see some applications for this, next time I go to one of my events I'll bring some along.

... and the rest is just details.



So anyway, here's a fun bit I stumbled upon.
Check out LaLa Ladyfag & her impeccable fashion sense!

LADYFAG in ANASTASIA & SNEGUROCHKA from Stylelikeu on Vimeo.

Polaroid test

So here's more of a footnote.
A friend of mine was getting rid of a bunch of stuff that his parents had lying around, and one of them was a (you guessed it) Polaroid camera, specifically a Polaroid One Step Express Instant 600 Camera in hunter green. So I snagged it. Odds would have it that I heard on NPR a few months ago a bit about the Impossible Project, and it sounded interesting.

The film is now available, and so I bought some. The image on the left is me testing it out. Yeah I know it's not that great... I know now not to get so close. By the way it's a small statue I made in college hanging on the wall that was brazed, mostly composed of iron nails. I like the colors, it's black and white film, the copper tint means the film has been a little warmer than it should be, and it's been hot lately so... that's ok. I think I can do interesting stuff with it. I like photography as a hobby, it's not something I indulge in enough of.

Tonight is a friend's birthday party. I'll bring the camera, and we shall see what happens! Should be interesting.

below is Devendra Banhart, Carmensita. Funnest thing I've seen all morning.

Randomness!

So, I'm really tired today. For the last five days I have not been sleeping well because of a combination of allergies and anxiety dreams. After talking to a friend online and just saying whatever was coursing through my head... I thought to myself 'self, this should be shared with the world!'. So yeah, don't take anything in this post seriously, or personally, because it isn't. Today I am stupid, and terribly random.

BTW this isn't properly edited either, so most of this will be straight crap.

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When I die, render my fat into candles and burn them in the memory of some forgotten saint.

For some reason your mother is a bitch slap of a whore.

I cover myself with meat and spit rabbits. Your tree limbs have nothing, and you can't hold me with your roots. It's like you've forgotten everything, you wear no clothes and stand in the street waiting for someone to love you. Unbound, arms wide and the wind whipping, you welcome the sun in the early morning. The air is moist and cool against your body. You may feel like singing, and you do as if there is no one to hear. If you could take flight, you would. But grounded against the pavement it's all you can do to start running into the wide open street. Traffic could come at any moment. You could die, you could be discovered with all your faults and people will expect you to be shamed. Crawl into a hole, die with the guilt of being open. But don't you dare give in to them. You run. You fly. You take everything that you can and give more. You can do this. I know you have in in you. Fear is nothing but the small voices holding you back, bringing you down, making you regret you're not the person you want to be, that you wish you were. Your depression, your loss, your sorrow, is really anger at allowing all the small voices within and without to stop you from running.
So defy them. Stand naked in the street, unbound.

Man I could use a Reuben.

I keep thinking it's later than it is. Ham is falling all over me, my horns are covered in pig.

So um... hey, I saw you over there and I thought you were rather attractive. Would you like to go back to my apartment and I'll show you my etchings?

I want a skirt made of earthworms, living worms... but sitting would be a problem.

I'm not as vulgar as you think you are.

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Ok that's enough. You have a good Friday. Oh btw the image below is a digital print titled 'Welder' a kind of modern take off of the Goddess Brigit. Have a good weekend!

Mayday!

Hey Folks! Just have some quick announcements. The Pagan Newswire Collective has launched two group blogs, one for the military called Warriors & Kin, and the other for art and culture called The Juggler. I'll be contributing to the second, making observations about the arts as related to Paganism. So yeah if such topics interest you go check that out! Here of course it'll be more about me... because it's my personal blog and that's how I roll.

So yeah, today is Beltaine. Even if you don't count this as a holiday, I'd suggest getting out for a walk in the woods. Here in Ohio especially things are really starting to come in. I'll be planting herbs as soon as the danger of frost is over with. One of the things I try to do if I'm able is go take photos, and here's a few that I took down at Highbanks. Right away when I got to the Olentangy River (Ol-en-tan-gy, not Old-en-tang-y) I heard splashing, and I think I came across some type of fish spawning. There were quite a few of them, swimming in pairs and splashing, & I got a few photos of the ones closest to me. I thought they may have been catfish but they don't compare to the photos I pulled up online. I'd say they were on average 12 inches, give or take a few. If you know what kind they are let me know.

So yeah! I hope your day is most festive :)