FUR

So this last weekend I watched the full intensity of Fur: an imaginary portrait of Diane Arbus.

It so so so interesting and odd and wonderful and I would really recommend it.

It's basically about this house wife- Diane Arbus- who falls in love with her neighbor who has that condition where his hair grows really fast all over his body.

Diane Arbus was a photographer, or is, I don't really know much about her, but anyways I really enjoyed the movie!

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So I was listening to some songs by the decemberists and started listening really close attention to the lyrics and realized how they use such simple words. I really like that, they kind of play everything out in a really slow fashion, and with really nice imagery.

Then i was thinking about what to do for that book the whistling season. I found the one paragraph that i for some raeson really liked, even though i don't see what could be done with it, and i don't really see what's nice about it. but for some reason i just like the way it sounds when read.

--Cupping the black arrowhead in his hand again, he looked off appraisingly at the prairie bluffs around us. "With all the crisscross possible, this may have been a Mediterranean of a kind." As if Father had invisibly put in his two cents' worth, he gave a slight smile of concession. "Dryland, of course."

I really don't know why i like it

sketchbooks

This year I feel like I haven't been taking enough on my sketchbooks. I do once and a while, but I feel like I should focus more when I do them. Last year I always had tons of ideas and could never choose what to do for my sketchbooks, now I can never think of anything aka I'm really stuck this year compared to last year, which is REALLY annoying me. So Monet and I had a background making party and played with water color pencils to make some backgrounds to help us. I don't know if they really will, but hopefully they make some of my sketchbooks more interesting, or inspire me. Either way, I'm proud of us to have actually done something about it, because we usually don't. yaaaaaayyyy

song & thoughts

SONG: The Crane Wife part 3 by the Decemberists

And under the boughs unbowed
All clothed in a snowy shroud
She had no heart so hardened
All under the boughs unbowed

Each feather, it fell from skin
Until threadbare, she grew thin
How were my eyes so blinded?
Each feather, it fell from skin

And I will hang my head, hang my head low
And I will hang my head, hang my head low

A gray sky, a bitter sting
A rain cloud, a crane on the wing
All out beyond horizon
A gray sky, a bitter sting

And I will hang my head, hang my head low
And I will hang my head, hang my head low

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I think for the sketchbook that is due tomorrow I will do thumbnails on either "Since I only see inside of me/ What brain imagines outside me," from the poem i chose or "Until threadbare, she grew thin" from the song i chose, i don't really know yet, and should probably get on that.

Poem

So last winter my family and I went to a play at Portland Center Stage called R. Buckminster Fuller: The HISTORY (and MYSTERY) of the Universe, and I LOVED IT. It wasn't necessarily a play, more like a one man show and he just went into all this stuff about this dude. Just as a child he was so interesting and just everything he thought about blows me away, so I chose a poem that he wrote...

Cosmic Plurality

by R. Buckminster Fuller

Environment to each must be

All there is, that isn't me.

Universe in turn must be

All that isn't me AND ME.

Since I only see inside of me

What brain imagines outside me,

It seems to be you may be me.

If that is so, there's only we.

Me and we, too

Which love makes three,

Universe

Perme-embracing

It-Them-You-and-We.

What I Found

I started looking at some of Gustave Caillebotte's pieces today and this one jumped out at me.

I really like the values and the shine on the floor and the movement of the people. Its called "The Floor Strippers". In general, most of his pieces have really good light and dark values in my opinion. Anyways I just really like his work, especially this one

Alphabet Project

Follow--

I think I will try and paint this, but not as detailed as I usually would, so it will be a stretch, but I'm really excited about it because I like the picture.

Alone

Gallant

left behind

Prominent