e - Art(ish)

Pimpin' ain't easy, 'yo.

I've recently gotten into creating art, not painting because I am not very good at it. More creative things, fun things. Things like I used to do in my grade 11 Material Art class with the best teacher ever, Sue.
I like taking things, putting them together and making it work, not crazy things, or hard things. Nice things, things that are special.
I like working with tissue paper on canvass even though every time I use it I regret it and end up tearing it and having to start over, but it always turns out. It works!
I'm no good at pimping out my own stuff, Krista usually does that. But I'll give it a shot.
If you, all 4 of our readers, like what you see and want me to work something up for you, I'll give it a shot!
....I'm just really bored and want something to do, knitting isn't faring too well but that's another thing all together.

If nothing else, just let me know what you think!

#1
'Untitled', pogded tissue paper, blue and white with printed out fish and kayaks floating together brushed with acrylic paints, green, blue and white. This was done for my good friend Jason's birthday, we go on Kayaking trips each year, I thought it was fitting.

#2
'Loki': Podged on tea stained paper strips in various directions with giant sparkling jewel tea stained stars with a printed paper Loki looking off wearing an Aero chocolate bar wrapper crown with jewels brushed with blue acrylic paint. This was done for Krista for her birthday this year, she is building an erica art gallery.

'Hera': Podged tissue paper, light and dark pink with Hera the kitten poking into the frame wearing a pearl necklace and standing in front of a jingly cat ball (that still jingles!) splattered with acrylic paints, purple, pink and white with wrapping paper hearts about. (again) Done for Krista for her birthday.

...if you are a friend, chances are you are getting art for your birthday, ha.

LOVE. ox.

b - nin!

just checked the lights in the sky tour page to double-check the date of the ottawa stop, and thank the gods, it's on the 11th of november, not on the 13th, which is erica's birthday. which as she pointed out, would be a really horrible and selfish thing to do to drag her to a show she doesn't necessarily want to go see. on her birthday.

i, of course, agreed. and hoped that for the love of fuck it wasn't on the 13th.

the setlists i've been checking out have been pretty stellar, and i'm afraid that after this tour, he might go on to do another double album of instrumental quazi-lullabies, which would put all the asskicking on hold.

and because i missed the chance to see them in toronto, there is very little to stop me on my quest of seeing mr. reznor live, and it looks like the only way i can do so in the near future is in ottawa.

unless of course, the show sells out before i get a chance to pick up tickets.

... again.

b - jason's black and white birthday

... that happened a week and a half ago.

this week's been busy with the move and all that blogging has taken a back seat.
as you no doubt saw first in krista's blog, our friend jason decided to celebrate his 23rd in style.

the original plan was to rent a boat for a summer cruise, but that didn't pan out when they double booked the boat for some touristy shit.






so instead, he rented a suite at the four points by sheraton (not the ambassador, krista. :P) here in downtown k-town. it was nice, it had four hide-a-beds that you pulled down from the walls, a lounge with comfy couch and HDTV, basically it was a hot tub short of a hip hop video.

the TV went unused for the most part, if it were my birthday, i'm thinking some Rock Band would've definitely been in good measure.









but we had fun. it was fun to dress up (even if it was half-a-costume) and look all classy with classy friends while acting decidedly un-classy.

after a bit, it was decided that we head out to the bars to take the party elsewhere, as it was creeping up to midnight, and the rest of the hotel guests were probably getting tired. let's just say that paying 5 bucks cover and the privilege of paying 5 bucks for a beer -- shitty beer, no less (budweiser) and listen to DJ Rip-Off spin his Girl Talk plagiarism. 

i guess the equation is [80's vocals] * [90's beats] = [00's profit] ? 

but i digress. we all had fun. we'll have pictures up of the new apartment once we get our cable hooked up.