Posts Tagged ‘hooray’

admittedly

Friday, January 21st, 2011

I have not kept on the schedule of one-posting-each-day.  while I’ve had a post *for* every day, it hasn’t exactly been on that day…  in any case, yesterday, on the 21st, I updated my hooray map and brainstormed.  I generally have more ideas than I can do anything with, and I reckon that if I can get a quarter of what I want to accomplish done, I’m doing pretty good…. however, this means I end up running off with a new train of thought before I can often finalize the last.

Part of the reason I’m keeping this blog is to remind myself to better tie up my ideas; to fully flesh them out; to document and present them to the best of my abilities…before another idea runs away with me.   I’ve got a lot of ideas coming now and in the future and I want to do them right!  any suggestions for this organization would be helpful.

as is, my to-do list stands the same:

-document and finish up my hooray project (I did get to the end of the green line on tuesday, in any case!);  this is mostly what I’m working on now, as it’s the closest to completion and what I have the most thoughts on at the moment.

but in the future:

-document and expand on my gifting project (which is a lot more tangled up in my current and ongoing work and isn’t yet reaching a year old on its starting point)

-which will move into my couchsurfing roadtrip community art center visiting extravaganza…

-keeping track of stray ideas and typing up things for potential thesis-project tie-ins (sounds cheesy but goes much farther outside of academia, with any luck)

I realize generally that those coming to this blog are currently getting the messiest bits; hopefully, by the time I send this out to those who can be of most assistance in the future (like for visiting arts centers this summer), I will be done with back-explaining everything and can just move on to what might be the most relevant for you folks.

thanks for sticking around this far though.  :)

my goodness

Thursday, January 20th, 2011

I haven’t written much about the experience of presenting, though, admittedly, it was really very simple and easy, especially for a first time — my excerpt was only a 3-minute statement out of a 30 minute presentation, and I did not, in fact, break the computer.  What we were presenting was our experiences with a survey of artist books at the Joan Flasch Collection at SAIC and how it influenced our work.  In particular, I wrote about my experience with my Hooray project and the zine I made for it, partially inspired by the Flasch collection.  I think overall our presentation was a good survey of how people take in influences in a setting, and the class itself was a wonderful experience–I’m excited about visiting and taking in more resources in the future.

The text of my presentation is below; it varies from my general Hooray! zine description in that I am pointing out specific influences in the Flasch collection.

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why hello, internet!

Wednesday, January 12th, 2011

I know it has been a long time since you’ve heard from me, but now I finally have things to write about! Things, in fact, that I wanted to start writing about on New Year’s Day, but it’s less of a resolution and more of a potential project to relate to my thesis, motivate myself to document and update more, and a (hopefully) interesting way to pass on word about my ongoing projects…. so getting started late is better than not…

in any case, I’m going to try to write everyday (!) and make it into a 365 project, which will carry me into the spring of my thesis year.  maybe by then I’ll have developed good enough habits to continue writing!

so what are these things, you ask?  (this kinda also serves as a good to-do list!)

1) The Hooray project — a public art/gifts projects of sorts, more about finding and discovering home in Chicago, still currently ongoing from Fall 2009!

2) The Gifting project — another gifted art project, making connections with my colleagues through art making…started in spring 2010, and ongoing in various forms.

3) The CBAA conference (which we are leaving for tomorrow!)  — it should be awesome and I’m presenting something on the Hooray project.  which is kinda terrifying.  but a good motivation to write about it!

4) My upcoming roadtrip couchsurfing community art visiting extravaganza that I’m planning for this summer and would like your feedback/assistance/ideas/etc for.

5) Quotes, excerpts, and other things to be possibly used for art makings and writings.

6)  Whatever else I damn well feel like.  :D  (it had to be added.  hehe.)

so, internets, I intend for you to atleast attempt to hold me responsible to posting every day!  (even if it is just a quote or photo).  I can do it, right?

right?

:D