my journal upcycle project- rewrite the whole book

. . .

todays endeavor… PR for Jenn

pretty

found a yellow blob unfinished painting in the garbage of my college

so being the garbage picker i am, I took it home to make it pretty again

the career of conciousness is where the stress falls

and disturbs the privelege of knowing more rather than less

the vehicle of self transendence.

I find most people will turn away from this whispering

” Maybe it’s just a phase.  Be a forgotten phase.”

I watch him. 23 at a squared table.

acrross from a middle aged woman artifically tamed yellow.

dense bags hang below her eyes and table

exentuating her decay as she diligently munches.

I watch him watch her infatuated with the abstract.

i watch him eat with percision and imagine bandaging his eyes with a black bandana.

In a corner there’s frames.

frames, count the passing frames.

Every commercial is ladden.

it’s become so typical to drill us.

“Toasts to the ritzy condos where money drops like frosted flakes.

toddlers and tiaras.”  drills us.

American justice is proclaiming, ” I’ll arrest innocent people to keep my job.”

And there’s good time music accompaining the violence.

The police are cheering the Patriot Act.

A strange realm of its own terms to be witneessed.

All about money and ego.

Money platters that blonde women hold around coke cans.

Cementing the definition of American as a hot commodity.

I watch him and am scared for masculinity in the 21st century.

!!!

The HomeAide Stand is my new home.

1626 21 St is storefront supporting local Chicago artists with the focus on recycled art.

July 31, 2009 3pm – 8pm will be our opening fundraiser for an Illinois Arts Council grant to support a local disabled artist.

Check out her site, she is one amazing lady who  I really admire.

http://www.chicagostudioworks.com/

We will also be featuring many local talented artists.

Come and enjoy a bronze sculpture, fiber art, recycled notebooks, photography, paintings and live sitar.

And of course support a new organization and a wonderful cause.

My meaning obsessive tendencies seem to really slow me down

What do I need?

 

0.  To strive to be as honest with myself and others as I am capable of.

1.  Somewhere to sleep+eat+create safely and comfortably 

2.  Way to pay for above

3.  Way to pay for that in a way that is healthy and contributing to something greater than myself with positive affects

4.  To eat healthy and include body movement everyday

5.  Maintaining a healthy self image supported by positive relationships.

we’re in the money

I make the stuffed animals out of 100% garbage

and he makes the music videos first thing in the morning.

We’re in business.

My Fellow Planeteers

Somedays, I feel like I can come across a bit neurotic when talking to people outside my social circle.  Explaining my theory of balancing my input and output (consumption and creation), is hard to line up with my overconsumptive suburban roots.  Not only does my mother look back at me with widen eyes when I explain that I actually would prefer to shop at the thrift store even if money wasn’t an issue, she actually treats me like I should be pitied.  I recently was at a job interview and I was asked how I became so against consumer culture.  A question that seemed so obvious to me, I had never considered exactly where I got the idea from.  Was it really something I decided all on my own?  Is it just a coincidence that my generation has produced a large DIY movement, whether all those participating see it as a political stance?  Couldn’t be.  I, nor any other individual are really that original. 

 

I want to look you straight in the eyes and whole heartedly say to you that, I single handedly and consciously became so involved in the re-use movement because I decided to consciously construct actions in opposition to the consumer culture I was brought up in.  And that, the parade of participants that join my cause are just “right” and on the same path as I.  That however  would be ignoring our historical context.  And the DIY culture is but one reaction to that historical context.  Cartoons and children’s programming hold a special place in individuals memories.  How many countless parties have you attended where you pause and bond over the shows of your youth.  Ninja Turtles, Captain Planet, Fern Gully, Free Willy, The Giving Tree, Where the Wild Things Are, touched our hearts.  For most of us eighties babies we were surrounded by Eco-trendy and Eco-entertainment products.  How did these influence how our generation is shaping today?

< A work in progress, more soon>

The body, the embarrassing noise factory.  To cover the embarrassment of night time digestive noises my partner and I have named our tummies after Harold and Maude after the nineteen seventies romance between a teenage boy and a 79 year old woman with the complete soundtrack done by Cat Stevens.  When the stomach noises begin, they are now explained as a product of our alter ego, one of which is derived from a sick and simeloutaneously adorable narrative from the media.  It somehow soothes the humiliations of these inevitable biological interruptions, during cuddling time.   And provide some relief to the closed door topic.