a ridic long post of pictures i like

this is how i feel about my blog sometimes.

dogs never win in a cat fight

i miss ny soooooooo mucho.

i want this sooooooooooo bad *le sigh*

im getting a neck face tattoo. 

and a skateboard. thats final!

this should be my halloween costume

but instead im making this

WITH THIS.

i'm actually almost done with the head.

so hot

DIANA +

SOOOO... I've had my eye on this pretty thing for the past few weeks.

I can even get an instant back for it! = instant photo/film= squealing borraheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!

Having some spending $$$ now means that I can support my own artistic hobbies! Like illustrations (scanner, lightbox, here I come!! <3) and a camera, since I didn't have the opportunity to take photography at Otis: it came down to either taking photography or silkscreening/letterpress, and I opted to take the latter because I really wanted to learn how to burn a screen, and print, etc, which I don't have any regrets doing because I loooove it! *just glanced over my left shoulder to see my 2 giantic screens in my room*
Also, my friend Jasmine who is a photog buff, will help me out when I need to load and unload film into the canister. Vouyeurism, here I come!!! ALSO, the lomography store in Santa Monica is the largest in ze world! So that's where I'm headed to next weekend! They have free classes on how to use cameras and such too :) can you say LOVE?

Make something from nothing

Beautiful Losers was such an amazing film...it really reminded me what I love to do, and why I went to art school, and why I was up in studio til 4am, designing, creating, making, learning, loving, dying, living, losing, failing, gaining, EVERYTHING. At times I would feel selfish, losing myself to me, and never had time for loved ones. But this film made me remember that I was there to be inspired, and inspired others, not matter how modest or insignificant the hardships of art school made me feel, especially being around tons of other talented people. It just reminded me about the labor of love I endured so much, and re-evaluate where it's all going in these tough times.

Beautiful Losers is a documentary about the 1990's DIY contemporary art movement, including street art, skateboarding, illustrations, punk, underground music, etc. It features Ed Templeton, Harmony Korine, Geoff McFetridge, Steven Powers,and Margaret Kilgallen just to name a few.

My only question is Where was David Choe?

COLAB. type + film aka Best Thing I Have Ever Written. Durrr

oh big fat DUH.

One of my favorite artists did the lettering for the Where The Wild Things Are promo posters.

Geoff McFetridge and Spike Jonze probably get together on the weekends at Intelligensia, and discuss vintage frame glasses, crewneck sweaters, and their hairlines, in their same pitch voice. If one of them called me on the phone, because they do that from time to time, I'd have to be like "IS THIS SPIKE OR GEOFF, CUZ YOU BOTH HAVE THE SAME VOICE."

And then they'd be like "Borrah, get over yourself and the other hipsters talking shit about this film, and go watch the movie we worked on cuz we know you kinda have a boner for us both." Cuz I have totally not done that yet..watch the movie, not the boner. Possible Where The Wild Things Are Movie Review post, since my friend Frank gave me his Netflix account. Hmmmm....

But yes, I kinda do thing Geoff is pretty dreamy. I think it's the nerdyness plus CalArt vibes he's totally throwing at me. lOLZ. I went to a gallery opening once, and saw him there! Can you say SWOON? I was all "OMG Vanessa, that's one of my favorite artists...right there. So close, I can smell the Tide from his cords." But you know, I felt so intimidated I couldn't talk to him. I was also really distracted by this super awesome Ed Templeton (Total Skater Tag in the works) photo of Fugazi, with Ian Curtis, so my inner Hardcore Kid was screaming. 

Here's the photo I was eyeballfucking.

I don't know who these fools are, but they were all up on this shiz, hUH. YEAH. RIGHT. THATS RIGHT. IM RIGHT.hUHHH.

Also, WTF is Geoffy's race? Being a halfie asian, 1/2 n 1/2, or the Hapa, as some Hawaiians like to call 'em, I'm getting a little half breeding in the EYES. It's always in the eyes. Or maybe his rotund frames, and combination of farsighted-ness make those peepers look a lot more asian. Is it just me?! 

Geoff McFetridge from Iconoclast Editions on Vimeo.

SEEE! WTF, THEY EVEN HAVE SKATE DECKS. Another tag! The circle is complete!!!