things I did this weekend

1. Watched the film version of the amazing Diving Bell and the Butterfly, which I read for the first time three years ago when I was down and out in Paris and London and also reading Down and Out in Paris and London.

2. Watched the Elevator Repair Service perform Gatz, a six hour unabridged and verbatim reading of The Great Gatsby. The play redeemed the book for me after the Robert Redford film ruined my interest in high school English class.

3. Met James Duvall at a horror convention in Minneapolis, naked.

Sort of.

Self-portait of me as a 13 year old girl, meet James Duvall. James Duvall, meet self-portrait of me as a 13-year old girl.

Oh, and tomorrow I start my first (very temporary) freelance gig in Chicago.

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creeping round your back stairs part two

and

I should probably start shading more with paint and outlining less. Or just keep going for this. It’s cute and cartoony.

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Wherein I paint livejournal (2 of we'll see)

In an effort to further practise my paintings, I've decided to paint the people whose journals I read. As practise, I offer no guarantees as to the qualities of the paintings.

More forthcoming.

Be forewarned.

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Beauty in the absurd

Okay, maybe not beauty. Absurdity in the minimal?


Chainsaw Suit

I have long been a webcomic nerd, and I’ve been noticing somewhat of a trend in where my taste for webcomics is leaning. Stick figures. Either in the realm of the philosophical, as is the case of pictures for sad children, or else the absurd, as is the case of Chainsaw Suit above. Maybe with less focus on drawing there’s a greater time to focus on the writing? There are lots of very beautifully drawn comics out there with terrible writing.


Some other comics in the stick vein are xkcd and Cyanide and Happiness. I’m consistently impressed with these comics. Are my expectations just lower?

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an idea for a zine

Subtitle: “And who have touched me”

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