ideas

Unemployed

2009-09-16T18:25:00.005-04:00

I just watched a film called Pratidwandi (The Adversary) directed by Satyajit Ray.

Drawings on my desk.

2009-05-10T22:28:00.002-04:00

The farm

2007-06-01T18:16:00.001-04:00

I recently went back to the farm I grew up on. The first image is what is left of the house my parents where in the process of building. I never lived in this house but in a trailer next to it.

I am going to go back here in about a month and work on some projects. I am thinking about building a series of rooms/movable houses that join to each other and to other structures. This may be so private that only I can be inside them.

I am not sure though. I basically want to tell the story of what happened to my family, but I don't want to tell it through words. I want it to be experienced.

Depressed

2007-04-15T22:13:00.000-04:00

I have been depressed lately, but that is coming to an end.

my friend Brynna

2006-11-06T01:11:00.000-05:00

I miss her. this was on her blog and I thought that I would re-print it here...I especially like #12. :

What do you like?

While cleaning today, I found a list of things I like that I wrote one day when I was feeling stressed and overwhelmed. I like a lot of things. It's kind of cute so I'll share some of it with you:
1. Making dried glue skin on the back of my hand.
2. Looking out of airplane windows.
3. The way people look when they wake up in the morning. (this is possibly number one)
4. Gardenias (in Chinese they're called zizi hua)
5. Waking up early when I don't have to.
6. Taking pictures without the flash.
7. The way one really long colored pencil shaving looks.
8. Standing in line for funnel cake.
9. Watching people dance.
10. Using pottery made by my mom.
11. Sitting in the closet.
12. Feeling things with my cheek.
13. Fireflies
14. Hearing people tell stories.
15. Seeing roadrunners.
16. Sleeping with the windows open.
17. Horchata (a delicious rice milk drink with cinnamon from Mexico)
18. New Mexican accents
19. When the soundof bees and/or cicadas is deafening
20. The surprising places rain will collect.

Boredoms

2006-07-19T18:13:00.000-04:00

Site Seeing

2006-07-19T17:08:00.000-04:00

Here is a little me on the bridge.

Here is a little face drawn on the bridge.

Happy Birthday!

2006-07-19T16:49:00.000-04:00

It is my sisters birthday, so here are some pictures of the two of us in Portland, OR. I went to visit her this past spring. Notice that I am not sweating and I am wearing a sweater.

Polish Food

2006-07-19T16:38:00.000-04:00

I Love it.

Heat Market

2006-07-19T16:22:00.000-04:00

It is hot in this city! Damn! yesterday it was 101 degrees F.

Aleise and I do some of our shopping at this out door market on Saturdays in Grand Army plaza. In the background of this picture is the main branch of the Brooklyn public library.

what will I cook?

2006-06-22T16:00:00.000-04:00

I went to the Kitchen yesterday to look at "New Video, New Europe," a collection of videos from eastern Europe. The still above is from a video by Kristina Leko called "In Her 25, 802nd Day," where the artist documents local female flower sellers by purchasing their flowers and using them to get a discount on a locally made dress. I also enjoyed "Double-Headed Matches,"a video by Mircea Cantor, and "Survived 'N' Lived Another Day" a video about discovering land mines in B 'n' H by Alma Becirovic´.

On a side note I did not get into the Kitchen's summer institute. I am not happy about it, but I will survive form-letter-rejections.

momaDaDa

2006-06-22T15:35:00.000-04:00

I went to see the Dada exhibit at the moma with my friend Christina. She is a member at the museum so we went on opening night, drank grapefruit juice, ate roasted campfire nuts, and laughed at this Hans Richter film, "Ghosts before Breakfast." The exhibit, although toothless, shows some amazing artifacts of some damn productive people.

A Place

2006-06-14T12:00:00.000-04:00

This is Brooklyn on the West side of Prospect Park. I am living in this neighborhood(Prospect Lefferts Gardens) for the summer of 2006. This blog is a place to record my thoughts, experiences, and time in New York City.

I am reading:

"The Practice of Everyday Life" by Michel de Certeau

Poems by Basho Matsuo

I am listening:

Stones Throw Records

The Pop Group

Family Fodder- if you find a good website for them let me know

Today I took a walk in Prospect Park. I was looking for a good picnic place.

It is hard to belive that this lake is just a ten minute walk from my apartment.

Behind this picnic bench is the stage being setup for Celebrate Brooklyn!, a free festival that takes place in ProspectPark through out the summer. This festival includes Yo La Tengo with Samara Lubelski performing Sound of Science, a live score to eight short films by Jean Painlevé, on July 13th.

Prospect Park was the location of the Battle of Brooklyn in the Revolutionary War in which the Continental Army lead by George Washington was defeated by the British and Hessian Soldiers. Washington managed to escape to New Jersey. At the time of the war this area of Brooklyn was mostly farmland.

This lake and all of the water ways in Prospect Park are man-made, constucted in the 1860's by Olmstead and Vaux.

2006-06-08T13:03:00.000-04:00

The title of this blog is taken from a collage made by Joëlle de la Casiniére.