my mom sent me an email of this website where you can upload your own images and create beautiful textiles. today was free swatch day and i ordered these swatches. cant wait to see how they turn out.
Showing posts with label inspiring. Show all posts
Showing posts with label inspiring. Show all posts
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
1959
Rented a history of Barbie book from the library. Filled with barbies doing stereotypical average jobs. But! I do believe I have the most average job of all the barbies!, for now.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
www.myspace.com/babybear
I received this in the mail the other day! He's even sportin a sneary signature. And- what a wise color choice, good one Erik!
I'm working on the cd design for Stiletto, their release is June 26th at Musica in Akron, Ohio! Grab 'em while they're hot! and while yer at it support the other artists who created teeshirts!
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Friday, January 30, 2009
Monday, December 15, 2008
Napoleon Tshirt
My cousin Connor put my Napolean drawing on a tshirt for me and for him. I'm wearing mine today. Thanks a lot, Connor and the rest of the Becks!Tonight- finishing two paintings, a winter 'zine for friends, and packing for New Jersey.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Feeling free.
"Death don't matter, it's a part of process and art is life. So long as I'm painting, I'm alive. When I stop drawing, then I'll be considered like I'm dying. I try to draw as much as possible. I'm drawing right now. I'm drawing all the time. It's the only time I'm free."-Tracy 168
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Monday, August 18, 2008
My friend Natalie D
This is a post dedicated to my friend Natalie. When we were young girls we painted and created together and once made a plan to start the "And" Band. Today I've been listening to her song "Cement Heart" all day. She has always inspired me so listen to her music, read her blog, look at her art. I'm sure you will find something you love. If you do send her a letter and let her know!http://ohhai.tumblr.com/
http://www.myspace.com/nataliedechiara
http://natattacks.com/
Friday, August 15, 2008
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
I Met The Walrus
In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. 38 years later, Jerry has produced a film about it. Using the original interview recording as the soundtrack, director Josh Raskin has woven a visual narrative which tenderly romances Lennon's every word in a cascading flood of multipronged animation. Raskin marries the terrifyingly genius pen work of James Braithwaite with masterful digital illustration by Alex Kurina, resulting in a spell-binding vessel for Lennon's boundless wit, and timeless message.
You can visit the official I Met The Walrus website here: http://www.imetthewalrus.com/
Some things you do for money and some you do for, love love love
Today I won a wonderful award at my college. Today I won best of show in the annual student art show. I received a cash prize and my drawing will be in the Children's Museum right here in Pittsburgh, PA! The exhibition my drawing will be in is called "Toonseum". I am unsure of the complete details now but will soon find out where my little drawing is headed.
I will update more on my unbelievable excitement soon. But before I end this I would like to thank every single person who has ever believed in me and who has not believed in me. I did this all for you, I won this prize for everyone who does things they want, in the artist world and all the other worlds there are out there. Thank you so much, from the very bottom on my heart to the tips of my toes, I love you all.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Barry McGee is the man
I placed a rock outside the museum I instantly wished I had brought a rock in with me while the show was going on in the courtyard. I could be in the museum without all the hassle of trying to get a show. Better luck next time.
Monday, July 14, 2008
10 Things I Have Learned by Milton Glaser
Number 7
HOW YOU LIVE CHANGES YOUR BRAIN.
The brain is the most responsive organ of the body. Actually it is the organ that is most susceptible to change and regeneration of all the organs in the body. I have a friend named Gerald Edelman who was a great scholar of brain studies and says that the analogy of the brain to a computer is pathetic. The brain is actually more like an overgrown garden that is constantly growing and throwing off seeds, regenerating and so on. And he believes that the brain is susceptible, in a way that we are not fully conscious of, to almost every experience of our life and every encounter we have. I was fascinated by a story in a newspaper a few years ago about the search for perfect pitch. A group of scientists decided that they were going to find out why certain people have perfect pitch. You know certain people hear a note precisely and are able to replicate it at exactly the right pitch. Some people have relative pitch; perfect pitch is rare even among musicians. The scientists discovered – I don’t know how - that among people with perfect pitch the brain was different. Certain lobes of the brain had undergone some change or deformation that was always present with those who had perfect pitch. This was interesting enough in itself. But then they discovered something even more fascinating. If you took a bunch of kids and taught them to play the violin at the age of 4 or 5 after a couple of years some of them developed perfect pitch, and in all of those cases their brain structure had changed. Well what could that mean for the rest of us? We tend to believe that the mind affects the body and the body affects the mind, although we do not generally believe that everything we do affects the brain. I am convinced that if someone was to yell at me from across the street my brain could be affected and my life might changed. That is why your mother always said, ‘Don’t hang out with those bad kids.’ Mama was right. Thought changes our life and our behaviour. I also believe that drawing works in the same way. I am a great advocate of drawing, not in order to become an illustrator, but because I believe drawing changes the brain in the same way as the search to create the right note changes the brain of a violinist. Drawing also makes you attentive. It makes you pay attention to what you are looking at, which is not so easy.
From the AIGA Voice Conference, 2002
HOW YOU LIVE CHANGES YOUR BRAIN.
The brain is the most responsive organ of the body. Actually it is the organ that is most susceptible to change and regeneration of all the organs in the body. I have a friend named Gerald Edelman who was a great scholar of brain studies and says that the analogy of the brain to a computer is pathetic. The brain is actually more like an overgrown garden that is constantly growing and throwing off seeds, regenerating and so on. And he believes that the brain is susceptible, in a way that we are not fully conscious of, to almost every experience of our life and every encounter we have. I was fascinated by a story in a newspaper a few years ago about the search for perfect pitch. A group of scientists decided that they were going to find out why certain people have perfect pitch. You know certain people hear a note precisely and are able to replicate it at exactly the right pitch. Some people have relative pitch; perfect pitch is rare even among musicians. The scientists discovered – I don’t know how - that among people with perfect pitch the brain was different. Certain lobes of the brain had undergone some change or deformation that was always present with those who had perfect pitch. This was interesting enough in itself. But then they discovered something even more fascinating. If you took a bunch of kids and taught them to play the violin at the age of 4 or 5 after a couple of years some of them developed perfect pitch, and in all of those cases their brain structure had changed. Well what could that mean for the rest of us? We tend to believe that the mind affects the body and the body affects the mind, although we do not generally believe that everything we do affects the brain. I am convinced that if someone was to yell at me from across the street my brain could be affected and my life might changed. That is why your mother always said, ‘Don’t hang out with those bad kids.’ Mama was right. Thought changes our life and our behaviour. I also believe that drawing works in the same way. I am a great advocate of drawing, not in order to become an illustrator, but because I believe drawing changes the brain in the same way as the search to create the right note changes the brain of a violinist. Drawing also makes you attentive. It makes you pay attention to what you are looking at, which is not so easy.
From the AIGA Voice Conference, 2002
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Monday, June 30, 2008
Quotes !
"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."
Dale Carnegie
"There are two types of people: Those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!', and those who say, 'Ah, there you are'."
Frederick L. Collins
Dale Carnegie
"There are two types of people: Those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!', and those who say, 'Ah, there you are'."
Frederick L. Collins
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
The Octopus Project
Viva La Wadsworth!
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Wonderful! Awesum!
Allen Ginsberg Skateboard designed by Mike Mills. If only I was a sk8r chickie, then I could ride Ginsberg all over town. Today a young man sitting next to me in a computer lab asked me if I put up the "Allen Ginsberg Is Your Friend" drawing. Then he asked me for his very own shitty black and white copy. I gave it to him, I wonder what journey my drawing is on..Mike Mills Page: http://www.mikemillsweb.com
My mock Allen Ginsberg website: http://smn152.aisites.com (up for a short time)
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