Glamour Shots in honor of Jackie and a little Christmas thrown in

Our dear friend Jack Randol is heading to Barcelona for next semester. We met up to say bon voyage and as we arrived Jack dressed us up to his liking.










Natalie got this coat for her parent's dog Coco, and before giving it to them we thought it'd be fun to put it on Smokey.

Christmas time and I was back in Illinois for a whirlwind Christmas marathon. Here is my grandfather and oldest sister Johannah talking about Blagojevich.


Unabashed family shot.

A Pegasus Christmas

Here are some images from the last Pegasus. It was Christmas themed which I'm not sure if it was a positive addition or not. But non the less my good friend Eric did a great job performing, and Jack made an adorable Christmas tree!

Breakin it Up

My darling sister Jocelyn came back to Minneapolis for a visit, and then Monday we'll drive back to Illinois for all that holiday fun.

Wednesday night Jocelyn and I set out for The Vegetarian, which is a delicious indian restaurant with amazing decor.

After dinner with the sis, I headed to Joey Heinen's house for his release of his holiday christmas cd. This year he made a found footage video to correspond with the cd. Finally, I felt like it was the holiday season. 30+ people stuffed into a tiny living room making jokes. This is what the holidays are all about.


Here is a song list if you feel like making a copy for yourself.
1. Crosby, Stills & Nash "Our house"
2. Francoise Hardy "Le maison ou j'ai grandi"
3. Erykah Badu "Twinkle"
4. Sparks "Amateur Hour"
5. Vince Gauraldi Trio "Skating"
6. The Astors "Candy"
7. Vampire Weekend "A-Punk"
8. Yoko One "I felt like smashing my face in a clear glass window"
9. Bonnie "Prince" Billy "Knockturne"
10. The Free Design "Proper ornaments"
11. Arthur Russell "Hiding your present from you"
12. Grandaddy "Stray dog and the chocolate shake"
13. KMD "Peachfuzz"
14. The Dirty Projectors "Winter is here"
15. MFSB "Poinciana"
16. Wax Stag "Descant"
17. Magazine "Sweetheart contract"
18. The Vaselines "Jesus wants me for a sunbeam"
19. Jon Brion (featuring Deanne Storey) "Little person"
20. Swan Lake "City calls"
21. The Crystals "Christmas (Please come home)"
22. Serge Gainsbourg "Cargo culte"

Thursday night some friends came over for some records and wine. Toni Coca-cola was being very social and managed to get in nearly every photo.


One of my friends, Evan Cook is in the middle of a year long project that entails him carrying an umbrella with him everywhere he goes for an entire year. His friend, Jeff, is photographing the experiment. Evan made sure to give me grief about taking a digital photo of his umbrella, but honestly. I think his project would fit perfectly into blog form!

This is not him. This is Basil. But the two are sort of inseparable.


Every year for presents, I get some big idea about making something and never anticipate how much work it will actually take. This year, I decided to make boxes. I screen printed the paper to cover the boxes,(FINALLY GLITTER SCREENPRINT WORKED!)and then after a week of construction they're done. This was a much better choice than the year I thought I could knit everyone scarves, although it still took around 40 hours to complete.

Now I finally get to stuff them for people!

Finally Final and Thankful

Thanksgiving.. A little quite late.





Natalie's mom has a totally amazing ceramic pottery collection.



Spending Thanksgiving with the Mazorol children was lovely. Check out those steins!



And here are a few pages from my Publication final book of a collection of Aphorisms.
















And my final Critical Studies/books project: A series of 4 books on post-consumer living.

















After printing and binding around 600 pages total, I am finished for the semester. YAY! Next stop: Senior Project

For Terese

Because I can't post an image as a comment.

Life Photo Archive

VERY EXCITING!!
I was reading the Jezebel blog (see right on the good blog list) and found this most excellent addition to the internet! Life magazine has archived their entire photo collection on google. Over 10 million, relatively high res photographs.
Here's a screen grab of the opening google page.
You have to type in the url to get to this page. AMAZING!!! The following photos are a few Jezebel posted that are quite lovely hairstyles as well as lady truck drivers from the 40s!













Just think of the possibilities!

Pegasus was born out of Medusa

Last night I went to a drag show/dance party to watch some good friends perform.
And what an adorable, glittery, and heartwarming night.
Here are some photos of the festivities.