A Complementary Duo of Dinky Notebooks

I made a couple of little notebooks using my wizard bookbinding skills. Although I don't suppose you would call this a binding in the traditional sense.


I used redundant catalog cards from the college library for the pages (they weren't going to be used again, damn you computers and your library databases!). The covers are backed with some handprinted fabric offcuts I got from a woodblock artist in Eugene, with purple fancy paper for the end pages. The pages are held together with those little keyring things, making use of the holes punched in the cards when they go in those fancy old card catalog cabinets. You ought to be able to remove or rearrange the pages.


The brown notebook has the category cards, the very slightly smaller green notebook has the individual entries and dewey numbers. I gave them to my friends Jen and Lucy, I hope they will make teacherly notes in them, for they are teacherly types. Or they could write down shopping lists, ideas, inspirations, or the inappropriate things that people say.

PDX Houses

While I was visiting home during the summer I came across all the prints I made during my awesome, amazing, inspirational, huggable Reed intaglio printmaking class. I also found a lot of other artistic rubbish (mostly in the junk section of the attic) that I have produced in my student art career, but I thought this lot was better fit for public exposure. Here's a series of three etchings I made of buildings in Portland. My obsession with this kind of American architecture pretty much starts here, and rabidly continues today.

Likes: Lakes, Lighting, Ladies

Came across a stack of postcards and pictures I had up in my room year before last. I like to have pictures up around my room to have something inspiring to look at, optimistically hoping this will lead to creation of great works, masterpieces etc. More than that it's just nice to collect images that resonate with you, know what I mean? I guess this here assortment of disparate pictures must represent a cross-section of my aesthetic taste, but I don't know what you'd say about that.

Wolfgang Tillmans, Hallenbad, (Detail), 1995

Cristy Road, Excerpt from Indestructible, 2005

Eva Bodonhoff, 20th October 1998, From the Series Go-Sees, 1998

View From Kinder Scout, "looking west over Kinder Reservoir from this wild Peak District Plateau"

Leonid Pasternak, (1862-1942), The Painter's Sons, Boris and Alexander

Mike Nelson, Untitled No.22 (High Plains Drifter)

Alan Majchrowicz, Lac de montagne, Alpine Tarn, 2003

Annie Liebovitz, Karen Finley, Nyack, New York

Follower of Rembrandt, A Man seated reading at a Table in a Lofty Room, Oil on oak

William Eggleston, Memphis, Tennessee, 1965

The cat was dressed like a samurai.

We have been playing an awesome drawing game lately which is a combination of Pictionary, Chines Whispers and Consequences. We like to call it "Picsequences". In any case, you start out with a statement, someone else draws it, covers up the sentence, passes it on, next person writes what they see in the picture, passes it on, next person draws that sentence, and so on. So you end up with an entirely different sentence than the one you started with. The following may only be funny if you were there, but never mind. You all can suck it. (JK!)


The drunk students scared the old woman while trampolining naked on a windy day.
BECOMES
Edward Scissorhands threatened to cut up the naked people while God blackened the penis man.

Nick cried when Jen flashed him.
BECOMES
The scary ugly girl with big boobs laughed when she flashed the boy who burst out crying.

The squirrel drank from the growler.
BECOMES
The woman lost her tampon and then it was stolen by a squirrel but it was not what the squirrel wanted.

A smelly cow mooed at its cow wife because it wanted to munch the grass that she was eating.
BECOMES
Two cows slept standing up. One had no control and pooped in his sleep.

The Queen liked to secretly look at Playgirl during the official opening of Parliament.
BECOMES
The king dinosaur/moomin had good time laughing about sex while the two men were unhappy next to the Connect 4 boards that were yelling at them.

Aliens came and took away the State of Liberty.
BECOMES
Happy aliens attacked a city but luckily black Jesus is there to save us.

The woman was mightily surprised to wake up to see she'd grown a rather magnificent penis.
BECOMES
The woman woke up, very surprised to see she was a foot shorter than when she went to bed.

The cat tried really hard to use the typewriter.
BECOMES
The cat was mildly struck with writer's block when penning its great novel. It was dressed like a samurai.

The girl was blown away by the awesome that was the 5ive reunion concert.
BECOMES
The dog peered out from the woman's cloak as she sang along to the X-factor on tv.

The lonely zookeeper felt that the animals were his only friends.
BECOMES
The cool lesbian and her girlfriend watched the sad man who was in a cage with other sad animals.

A couple went to the cinema but had to change seats because there was a worrying stain on the seat!
BECOMES
Two lesbians were blown away by a storm. Afterwards, one was still happy, but one was dead.

We partied in the Freeze. Tim tried to make out with everyone. It was awesome.
BECOMES
The lesbians were happy in love. The boys had a fight.

The woman made a cake which was bigger than her house.
BECOMES
A magician sold a cake from his garage.

The nursery worker had his photo taken whilst covered in jelly. (Ed. Nick tells me this is a true story.)
BECOMES
The photographer took photos of the man who seemed quite happy to be covered in wee. The babies looked on - "job done!"

She decided to celebrate after graduation with a party on a boat.
BECOMES
The inappropriate teacher led the dance party on a boat and gave all the children alcohol. The teacher had big boobs.


P.S. It is amazing how often a happy lesbian couple turns up in these out of nowhere.