Camera

I have a beautiful Canon Rebel XT 35 mm SLR, and I barely use it ever. I really want to start taking more photos. I want to do portraits and self portraits, I think I'm going to open a flickr account. I'd like to do the 365 day sp challenge, I think. Jake and I once went to the photo gallery in Buffalo (that I'm completely blanking on the name for at the moment) and saw this woman's self-portraits for a full year. It was awesome. She didn't just do one every day, I think she did three every day and they were almost all in the same place - her bed. It was bizarre but beautiful and reminded me a lot of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's bed protest "bed peace" "hair peace" I love that, I love the photos from that too. Yoko Ono did a lot of performance art, which I'm not sure if a lot of people know about, I only know because I took an art class at Denison and these two performance artists joined our class for a week to teach us and collaborate with us on a performance piece. The woman performance artist did this piece once where she laid completely naked on a table, covered with tiny little plastic babies, like the ones found in "kings cakes" for Mardi Gras? She said she had little plastic babies everywhere for a couple years and just had them in her purse because she had purchased so many. Well, back to Yoko, she did this performance where she sat on stage and invited people to come up to the stage and cut a piece off of her clothing. Apparently at first people were conservative and then started taking larger and larger pieces. I guess it was to see how far people would take it, and which gender would take it the farthest and what that would mean for women and sexuality and whatnot.

I have completely forgotten the purpose of this post.

Oh right, I want to start a Flicker.

I'm starting a lot of projects lately so I think a Flickr would be a good addition. I've moved on from painting to more textile art. I have two old pairs of Jake's jeans that he said I could draw/paint/sew on whatever I want. So I'm going to draw on a bunch of designs and then sew over them - I just need a sewing kit now and a bunch of cool colored threads and some buttons and beads. He said he'll wear them when I'm done, I hope so, that would be cool - like walking art. Other than that, I'm trying to create a book, like an artist's book, but I'm going to turn it into a cook book/story book. We'll see where that goes. Life just seems so much more apparently important than school work at the moment.