typical: woke, ran out without bathing, got coffee, stopped at TBM to get paper. headed to screwball.
at screwball, steve was deep in preparing for a highschool class who was coming by today. i stayed out of his way and cut my films. class came, followed by judge, who sat quietly working on her films next to me. when steve seeme to be lagging in his talk a bit, we jumped in and talked about hand-cut films while steve set up a screen. once the kids started printing, all was easy-going.
john arrived just after noon with hot doug's for me, steve, judge and himself. awesome. john racked for steve while i finished cutting films and burning screens. eventually we got started on the austerity program / nonagon prints.
by the time the sun went down, we were finished. i signed enough prints for john to hang around town and sent him home, and did some cleaning up before judge helped me carry stuff down to the car. i stopped at wild oats for $57 worth of groceries, and came home to give di some frozen yogurt.
email, blog, dog in our bed, sleep.
remember to turn the clocks back.
Saturday, November 3, 2007
Friday, November 2, 2007
friday, okay
took a long time to wake up this morning, but eventually dragged my ass into the tub, to lay there a while, before walking up to central for coffee. home again, i collected some downed branches out of the alley, cut them up, stacked them in the wood pile, and cleaned the garage so di can start parking her car back in there again.
spent a good amount of time planning out lighting for the dining room, living room, and den. ordered lights. i ran to the hardware store to get 24 guage wire for moving the thermostat, and some threaded rod and turnbuckles to fix the drying racks at screwball. pete madler came by for a visit, to drop off a gift he had found for us in arizona. beautiful zuni ravens, carved.
greg and i fished the new thermostat line throught he walls.
di dropped me at the el, and i headed down to river north to see audrey niffenegger's show at printworks. ran into bert menco. audrey's been prolific recently, and the work is quite good. the gallery was packed, with much of the work sold.
i wandered over to ispace, where i have a show coming up in december, and talked to mary antonakas for a while about the space and the catalog. she mentioned that when ispace closed tonight, she'd be heading over to see barbara kendrick's opening at the museum of surgical science. awesome museum, awesome show. delicate work based on barbara's near-death coma and the subsequent pain she endured. kendrick was one of my (and diana's, robert's, carla's, wika's) professors in college. i was impressed: right off the bat, she knew who i was, and told stories about me giving her a bag of hair. she spent a good amount of time staring at my (unwashed, standing on end, cut funny) hair, i noticed.
two college professors in two weeks. i'm on a roll. who's next? tim? jerry? roz?
mary drove me up to irving park, where i hopped out to grab the red line. mary continued on her way to a party.
red line to howard, transferred trains, then got off at south blvd, and walked across most of evanston to our house. stopped at the main street starbucks to indulge in a frappucinno, looked at some subarus in the lot on chicago ave., noticed some new restaurants, visited the cats and rabbits in the window at 'thee fishbowl' on dempster, and saw lots of 'crazy' high school kids out, acting like kids. walked down wesley to see the house jason and hilary are looking at on sunday. it all made me really happy that we live where we live.
home now, and i think we're going to watch 'babel'.
spent a good amount of time planning out lighting for the dining room, living room, and den. ordered lights. i ran to the hardware store to get 24 guage wire for moving the thermostat, and some threaded rod and turnbuckles to fix the drying racks at screwball. pete madler came by for a visit, to drop off a gift he had found for us in arizona. beautiful zuni ravens, carved.
greg and i fished the new thermostat line throught he walls.
di dropped me at the el, and i headed down to river north to see audrey niffenegger's show at printworks. ran into bert menco. audrey's been prolific recently, and the work is quite good. the gallery was packed, with much of the work sold.
i wandered over to ispace, where i have a show coming up in december, and talked to mary antonakas for a while about the space and the catalog. she mentioned that when ispace closed tonight, she'd be heading over to see barbara kendrick's opening at the museum of surgical science. awesome museum, awesome show. delicate work based on barbara's near-death coma and the subsequent pain she endured. kendrick was one of my (and diana's, robert's, carla's, wika's) professors in college. i was impressed: right off the bat, she knew who i was, and told stories about me giving her a bag of hair. she spent a good amount of time staring at my (unwashed, standing on end, cut funny) hair, i noticed.
two college professors in two weeks. i'm on a roll. who's next? tim? jerry? roz?
mary drove me up to irving park, where i hopped out to grab the red line. mary continued on her way to a party.
red line to howard, transferred trains, then got off at south blvd, and walked across most of evanston to our house. stopped at the main street starbucks to indulge in a frappucinno, looked at some subarus in the lot on chicago ave., noticed some new restaurants, visited the cats and rabbits in the window at 'thee fishbowl' on dempster, and saw lots of 'crazy' high school kids out, acting like kids. walked down wesley to see the house jason and hilary are looking at on sunday. it all made me really happy that we live where we live.
home now, and i think we're going to watch 'babel'.
the thursday
coffee and a run to screwball, where i finished editioning the alamo prints, cleaned up my ink and tuff, and scheduled new printing time with steve. left screwball and went to microcenter to (finally) return the second 'bad' headset and get a new, working, complete headset for my phone. i'm a nerd.
north on the highway to TBM, where i saw my dad doing mailorder. i swept the back lot, dropped off the alamo prints, made some plans. headed home.
at home i did a bit of work with greg who was sanding the new drywall areas. some emails.
around 3, di and i went out to summit IL, near midway, to the wake for carla's dad, bill, who died last week. it was not a very somber occasion. saw yelina, who we pretty much haven't seen since college.
the kids of the family were upstairs at the funeral home watching 'peter pan', which neither di nor i have seen since we were kids. interestingly, we both had a completely different take on the film based on the ten minutes we saw. we totally sympathized with the captain, thinking pan is just a little shit. the bold asswipery of post-war mid-century america, dragging the europeans into modernity. staggeringly racist depiction of the 'injuns'. ooof.
at 6:30 we left the funeral home and headed to the vic, to see the 'comedians of comedy' tour. walked in as patton oswalt was introducing the show. the whole evening was pretty damn funny. great group. i love brian posehn. funny huge-guy comedy i identify with.
as the show ends i realise that the people sitting directly in front of us are actually james and melissa of 'little friends of printmaking'. we all go looking for henry owings together, but run into carrie weston and mary nisi instead. THEN we find henry. and josh modell, kyle ryan, etc.
di and i bow out and head home. it's cold, i sleep like the rock.
north on the highway to TBM, where i saw my dad doing mailorder. i swept the back lot, dropped off the alamo prints, made some plans. headed home.
at home i did a bit of work with greg who was sanding the new drywall areas. some emails.
around 3, di and i went out to summit IL, near midway, to the wake for carla's dad, bill, who died last week. it was not a very somber occasion. saw yelina, who we pretty much haven't seen since college.
the kids of the family were upstairs at the funeral home watching 'peter pan', which neither di nor i have seen since we were kids. interestingly, we both had a completely different take on the film based on the ten minutes we saw. we totally sympathized with the captain, thinking pan is just a little shit. the bold asswipery of post-war mid-century america, dragging the europeans into modernity. staggeringly racist depiction of the 'injuns'. ooof.
at 6:30 we left the funeral home and headed to the vic, to see the 'comedians of comedy' tour. walked in as patton oswalt was introducing the show. the whole evening was pretty damn funny. great group. i love brian posehn. funny huge-guy comedy i identify with.
as the show ends i realise that the people sitting directly in front of us are actually james and melissa of 'little friends of printmaking'. we all go looking for henry owings together, but run into carrie weston and mary nisi instead. THEN we find henry. and josh modell, kyle ryan, etc.
di and i bow out and head home. it's cold, i sleep like the rock.
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
wednesday
di woke up really early to go to the museum. i followed out of bed as soon as i could muster.
coffee, screwball press. coat screens, stack last night's 'alamo' prints. start signing and numbering.
mat arrives. i pack up alamo prints to fedex to austin. mat sets up the press.
we printed 1250 posters, the third color. at one point a nut and washer fell off the press, we weren't sure from where.
alana, kirsten, judge, jason delicious, ben, john sampson, steve w, and everyone was at screwball today. it was fun.
finished printing at 3:30. ran to fedex to send the alamo prints out, then home in time for trick-or-treaters. beautiful cool fall weather.
after everyone was gone home, or being chase by cops, we sat and watched 'casino royale', which was really good, and made both of us want to go back to venice.
coffee, screwball press. coat screens, stack last night's 'alamo' prints. start signing and numbering.
mat arrives. i pack up alamo prints to fedex to austin. mat sets up the press.
we printed 1250 posters, the third color. at one point a nut and washer fell off the press, we weren't sure from where.
alana, kirsten, judge, jason delicious, ben, john sampson, steve w, and everyone was at screwball today. it was fun.
finished printing at 3:30. ran to fedex to send the alamo prints out, then home in time for trick-or-treaters. beautiful cool fall weather.
after everyone was gone home, or being chase by cops, we sat and watched 'casino royale', which was really good, and made both of us want to go back to venice.
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
tuesday
wake up, coffee, kinkos to make films, TBM to get paper and ink, then down to screwball.
burn screens, set up press, mat arrives at 10:30, print one color on 1275 pieces of the sound opinions 2 poster. print one color of the new alamo poster with mat, then two more colors alone after he leaves. get home at 11:45 at night, tired and sore.
burn screens, set up press, mat arrives at 10:30, print one color on 1275 pieces of the sound opinions 2 poster. print one color of the new alamo poster with mat, then two more colors alone after he leaves. get home at 11:45 at night, tired and sore.
Monday, October 29, 2007
sunday, as i recall
walked to coffee, then back a different rout which took us through the triangular park on pioneer st, west of hartrey.
at home, i did some amount of smashing the old cement pad out from in front of the fireplace, gashing my knuckles pretty well in the process. i also tried to take apart and fix my digital camera, which i dropped the other day.
di and i went out:
we went to home depot to get cementboard, tile adhesive, primer, and to look at nail guns.
we stopped by TBM to get films and ink.
we went to kinkos to make films for di's art print.
we stopped at walgreens for halloween candy.
we bought two pumpkins.
di finished cutting her films while i laid three layers of cement board in the new hole in the living room floor in front of the fireplace. we put the tile in (though didn't use adhesive yet), and we're really excited to finish this.
around 5 we drove down to screwball to print di's art prints. saw john sampson and david r head jr., both working on their prints. di and i finished up at midnight, and drove home.
at home, i did some amount of smashing the old cement pad out from in front of the fireplace, gashing my knuckles pretty well in the process. i also tried to take apart and fix my digital camera, which i dropped the other day.
di and i went out:
we went to home depot to get cementboard, tile adhesive, primer, and to look at nail guns.
we stopped by TBM to get films and ink.
we went to kinkos to make films for di's art print.
we stopped at walgreens for halloween candy.
we bought two pumpkins.
di finished cutting her films while i laid three layers of cement board in the new hole in the living room floor in front of the fireplace. we put the tile in (though didn't use adhesive yet), and we're really excited to finish this.
around 5 we drove down to screwball to print di's art prints. saw john sampson and david r head jr., both working on their prints. di and i finished up at midnight, and drove home.
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