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[aeroport_art]

So uh, I don't know about you guys but I was pretty excited about the icons I made over the weekend D: Am I the only one? And I spent so long on them!!

Tagged by affectingly:


A. List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
B. Tag seven people to do the same.
C. Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag "whoever wants to do it."

1. I bought a torch to solder jewelry with, but I'm too broke to buy metals, so yesterday I used the torch to candy random shit, like pastries. I am thinking about dousing my next grapefruit in sugar and seeing if torching it will make a candy-shell or not.

2. On Obama: He is freaking me out. I've long considered myself a cynic, an atheist, and a bit of a nihilist, so when this guy comes along and gives a speech and I start CRYING because I'm so moved, it scares me. I feel like I'm being brainwashed, and I kind of like it. This is kind of my dirty secret.

3. I am convinced these five female figureheads, on a second-story building on the corner of 38th St and 8th Ave, are evil.

4. I love beer. It's DELICIOUS.

5. I HATE that clothing is disposable. I think the worst thing to happen to fashion is the ready-to-wear industry. Forever 21 makes me cry into my cereal (and not because I'm a fashion snob, but b/c of the fact the store can even exist). Clothing and textiles used to mean something to people.

6. I love architecture. I love everything the Gothic period stands for. Bauhaus exiles make me hard and really, they're just the new Gothics anyway. Swiss architecture makes me happy inside. Please someone, anyone, talk shop with me!!

7. I'm a really nice person. I also kind of hate people. No correlation.

I tag: mooyoo, jewels667, halfshellvenus, fleshflutter, rose_janice, smidgy06, and deadbeat_nymph.

Now, if you can stomach it, this Obama music video makes me weepy. Kate Walsh, Scarlett Johanssen, et al:

I'm 15k words into bigbang! Halfway there...

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[tabularassa.livejournal.com]

I love that vid, uh huh:)

[aeroport_art.livejournal.com]

Wheee I'm glad!

[deadbeat-nymph.livejournal.com]

I am thinking about dousing my next grapefruit in sugar and seeing if torching it will make a candy-shell or not.

Awesome! I've been meaning to make candy art for, like, 10 years... I love the idea of candy art. Please let us know how it goes. And provide pictures. (Yes, that's an order.)

I HATE that clothing is disposable. I think the worst thing to happen to fashion is the ready-to-wear industry... Clothing and textiles used to mean something to people.

I agree with you so very much. There are several issues: overall lack of quality (duh); forced conformity (not just in the sense of 'trend' but in the sense of forcing one body type onto the millions of people who have another); environmental issues (not just in terms of actual clothing waste, but the manufacturing of both the materials and then the products themselves); labour issues (underpaid [and worse] workers on both the selling and manufacturing side, as opposed to tailors/seamstresses who own and run their own shops). I'm sure ther are others that I'm forgetting, too.

I've said this for years, and it's kind of a moot point because I doubt it will ever happen, but if I ever have money - even just a mediocre amount - I will have all of my clothes custom made by local dressmakers/tailors. Custom fit clothing that I actually like and political goodness? Would be awesome.

I love architecture. I love everything the Gothic period stands for. Bauhaus exiles make me hard and really, they're just the new Gothics anyway. Swiss architecture makes me happy inside. Please someone, anyone, talk shop with me!!

Okay, I am so behind on my LJing and writing and betaing - eep! - so I can't really offer to talk much shop right now but we can definitely go to town at some point if you like. I warn you in advance: I fucking hate Corbu and everything he stood for and all of his stupid low-end followers. *grumbles for ten minutes* I don't mind Mies van der Rohe so much, although my favourite thing of his was the Barcelona Chair.

Oh, and I forget 95% of what I learned in school, but I'll give 'her a go. And, um - how terribly unfashionable of me -
I tend towards the pre-modern. I'm not one of those 'everything made after x date is awful' or a huge traditionalist or anything, but old is where my heart lies.

[aeroport_art.livejournal.com]

HAhaha, it's not so much candy art as me throwing sugar on stuff and setting it on fire.

On the clothing, you totally got what I was talking about! The quality of clothing has plummeted and gone scuba-diving over the past half century. The environmental stuff totally concerns me too.

I will have all of my clothes custom made by local dressmakers/tailors.
YES. Local designers and manufacturers FTW.

You hate Le Corbusier?? Oh man, I think it's great. I mean by now, modernist architecture is so been there done that but it's still the classic standard, and was such an upheaval of norms for the time. I guess I just like all those contemporaries.

Old architecture is amazing too though :D Like I mentioned, I really adore Gothic cathedrals, especially the fancypants ones from the Late Gothic era. Hmm...I suppose when I really stop to think about it though, that's as early as I get--I find the Romanesque kinda boring and everything before it even more so. Ancient monuments like Greek temples or ziggurats are kinda cool, but more in a technological-feat kinda way than visually.

Warning: Long Ramble Ahead

[deadbeat-nymph.livejournal.com]

I think it's a matter where it's interesting intellectually, but having to live with it is another matter. Plus, its low-end legacy drives me nuts - so many two bit architects going with the trends who didn't actually have a significant aesthetic sensibility or awareness reproducing the worst of modernist architecture. It uglifies so much of the North American urban landscape. I think especially the stuff to come out of it in the 60s and 70s, especially the brutalist trend. (Particularly the legacy of buildings like Villa Savoye and Unité d'Habitation of Corbu's, and the Lafayette Towers in Detroit and villas of Mies van der Rohe. *shudders* )

While I can appreciate a lot of dramatic proportions, I do have to say that I require a verticality to architecture in order to feel comfortable near/in it. Some modernists took that to an extreme in terms of overall structure, but, especially with domestic architecture, a lot of it was oppressively horizontal. And I do have to concede to classicists this: classical proportions really are the most pleasing and comfortable to be in/around. Of course, exciting is, well, exciting, but sometimes I just want to feel relaxed.

Oh, did I mention that I'm extremely sensitive to my environment. My first priority when I was looking for my apartment was, and I'm not kidding, 'vertical windows'. Everyone I said that to looked at me like I was nuts. LOL!

Anyway, some of the stuff that I love the most could be considered very early precursors of modernist aesthetic, except its opposite as well. *has a priapism for ambivalence* One of my faves is Borromini. I can make arguments for why his work is both modernist and postmodernist, even though he was a 17th century baroque architect. LOL. But I love how his work is both so luxuriously baroque and yet also streamlined - like he took the essential of the baroque and refined it to its primary form. I can get all jizzed just looking at his floor plans! And his work has this wondrous feminine quality, but a quiet bravado. Um, yeah. If that makes any sense.

I should state, too, that I come from a place where the oldest buildings are turn of the century industrial ones - which I've actually developed a liking for, to an extent - and, I think because of an early sense of cultural alienation, I reached out towards things that had a greater sense of history and more aesthetic consideration. When I went to Italy when I was 16, it was like the clouds parted and angels sang at me. Hardly an original experience, but there you go. :P

I also love Gothic architecture, although the High Gothic stuff as opposed to the late International Gothic, which feels too fussy to me (but I'm not sure which of those you mean). I can find something to love in almost every period, really. Overall, I am a medievalist, it's true. But within that, there's so much diversity of meaning and form. Well, duh. Of course.

Okay, I'mma stop here because, whoa! Rambly!

[mooyoo.livejournal.com]

I bought a torch to solder jewelry with, but I'm too broke to buy metals, so yesterday I used the torch to candy random shit, like pastries.

Awesome! And, hee!! Do you make jewelry (when you can buy materials, I mean)? I didn't know that, cool.

I love beer. It's DELICIOUS.

Word. The first sip of a Heiniken after a while of ot having any (I go through periods where I drink only beer or only wine or only cocktails) is oh so satisfying (which totally makes me feel like an alcoholic :p)

Speaking of which, I may do something next week for my birthday (and by do something, I mean something really low key. I'm not really that interested in doing it up, but people are pressuring me to at least go out or something), in which case, you should come up, especially 'cause we haven't drank together yet :)

Please someone, anyone, talk shop with me!!

Ack, I love architecture too, but I know exactly nothing about it, so our talking shop would probably consist of you saying intelligent stuff about the history of such-and-such building and me going "it's so pretty!"

I'm a really nice person. I also kind of hate people. No correlation.

Ahahahaha, me too. I think for me it has to do with work - waitressing has broken my soul. I find myself way too often getting pissed off at people for the smallest stupid stuff and going "gah!! Why are you so freaking dumb?! ...Man, I'm such an asshole." I used to be nicer, I think.

I think I missed your icon post, will go check it out now... (were they SPN? 'Cause I'm not really in the market for any new SPN icons, but I am looking to change some of my icons...)

[aeroport_art.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my last internship was with a jewelry-maker over in BK (she has a store in Soho as well) so I learned a little bit about the process. I can't do anything crazy, especially without the right tools, but I have fun assembling necklaces and bracelets :D If you've ever noticed the necklaces I wear, I probably made those :O

Dude, getting orgasmic over beer totally does not an alcoholic make. Personally I just love beverages *__* A cold beer after a long day of work makes me as euphoric as, say, a strong cappuccino with dessert. It's all about the little things in life <3 And besides, you saw me with the red wine last week >.> I promise I'm not a lush!!

Your birthday's coming up?? Dude, totally invite me out! I even got buttons for your haaat :D:D:D What a perfect excuse to give it to you.

The icons were mostly SPN save for a couple Milo Ventimiglia ones. Of course, there are only like, ten icons total :0 I have no clue how people churn these things out by the hundreds. It took me hours to even make this batch. *shrugs*

[mooyoo.livejournal.com]

Ahh, cool about the jewelry, I didn't know that!

And besides, you saw me with the red wine last week >.> I promise I'm not a lush!!

Hee, that's right. I actually haven't been drinking as much lately, but during the summer, yeah, a lot more :p

And yeah, my birthday's on Saturday but I'm going to be out of town this weekend, so I've been convinced to do something tomorrow (Friday) night - I know this is hort notice, but if you're around in the evening and want to come get barbeque, we're probably going to go to the place down by you on 125th st (across from the Fairway) around 5:30 or 6ish. Not sure how big of a thing it'll be, since it's pretty short notice, but might go out for drinks later too, and might do something next week too... So yeah, I'll call or text you tomorrow to check in, it'll probably be sometime in the early evening, otherwise drinks later...

The icons were mostly SPN save for a couple Milo Ventimiglia ones.

I went and looked and I do remember seeing that post the other day - the Dean one with the coat flying out behind him is particularly cool, I've been thinking about taking that one...

[aeroport_art.livejournal.com]

I'm actually going to Boston this weekend D:D:D: RACHEL~ why did you pick this weekend to have a birthday?? You know me, chances usually are I'm sitting on my ass on a Friday night.

You said something might happen next weekend? Keep me posted.

Oh and PS the coat one is actually Milo :0 I wish it were Dean! How hot would that be?

[mooyoo.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry!! I'll try to be born on a more convenient day next time :p But yeah, I hadn't really planned on doing it up, which is why this is such short notice and probably not going to be a big thing (and also why we might do something later next week, because I'm going to be away this weekend too, and ah! I'm so bad at planning these things. This is why I don't do big plans for my birthday :p). And one of my coworkers' birthday is at the end of the month, so I might just piggy-back on his plans :p Will let you know... Have fun in Boston!

And hee, it totally looks like Dena, and I was wondering what episode that was from :p It's a really cool shot.

[agt-league.livejournal.com]

I already did this meme a while ago, bebe. Thanks for tagging me though! :) *smish*

YAY for being halfway into bigbang. You can do it!

[aeroport_art.livejournal.com]

Whee! *smishes back*

[kilynn16.livejournal.com]

I feel like I'm being brainwashed, and I kind of like it. This is kind of my dirty secret.

I feel exactly the same way. I'm kind of ashamed of how hard I am fangirling this man. Especially since I'm usually so cynical about politicos of any kind.

[aeroport_art.livejournal.com]

Omg me too!! That's it exactly.