Wow I’m smart
Burnt myself with soup. Worst injury yet after six years.
About to go see Abigail Newbold’s Crafting Settlement show.
Currier Museum of Art.
http://journalofmoderncraft.com/articles/abigail-newbold-speaks-about-crafting-settlement
A series of three jaw pieces in sterling silver with real coyote teeth, molded from my mouth.
My mouth is full of teeth that aren’t mine. They are uncomfortable, they hang from my mouth, they disrupt my chewing. I chose to represent my mouth as something malleable, silver, and white as bone while the coyote teeth are real since to me they often feel very real even if they are were they don’t belong or make sense anatomically. Phantom sensations for me are not often the same, and don’t map to my body in logical ways.
I have worn these. More photos to come!
My friends Armin, George and I are hosting the first Beaver Brook School on Aug 25th through Sep 2nd, an intensive 8-day course to learn how to design and construct a building.
Ten applicants will be invited to stay in bunkhouse, spend long days in workshops and at the job site, and walk away with construction know-how. You will also have built a building.
If I wasn’t graduating, I would totally apply to this. I hope this happens again/next year!
Anyone here written a Fine Art dissertation on photography?
I’m looking at immortalisation through photography and taxidermy, and the links between the two.
Just wondered if anyone could recommend some useful reading material?
Not a dissertation, but have you seen this blog? http://muybridgeshorse.com/
It was started by a photo grad who is collecting an archive of animals in art, a lot of which is photography and there is some taxidermy in there.
Your-deer: If I am allowed to generalize
Hello there people. I tumblr, but this is not my main account. I’m trans*. I’m not otherkin. I’m here because I hate asshats.
Species dysphoria is the most used expression for describing the intense discontent…
I am said FTM partner and am a canine therian. While I do not feel species dysphoria, I have been having a long relationship with my doctors about my canine-ness and while my doctors have been wonderful, loving, and critical, they certainly don’t have time or money to just independently study whatever they so please. I feel lucky that I have doctors trained and knowledgeable about trans matters! Education takes lots of time and money, but it is all anyone can do but speculate and do independent layperson research until more work can be done. For now, I’m sending and spending resources on what community efforts exist to study being therian.
I also have made it my artistic duty to try to express my own experiences through body art and sculpture and slowly attempt to investigate making prosthetics that challenge our bodies. I seek academic guidance from my professors and when I have the money/place in my life for grad school, I will likely be doing the same thing. I use the language of “species dysphoria” and related body dysmorphia terms literally all the time, daily, and it is very useful to explain why someone would want to be able to run digitigrade or have the ability to more comfortably run on all fours, etc. This isn’t appropriative, it is being clear. While I don’t think that serious mental health problems define being therian or otherkin (I don’t see why, without stats, to say we are different from the rest of the world population) but unless someone is deliberately trying to use trans-culture language and the useage is wrong (as in, we are not describing similar feelings) then have at.
Cheers.
(Source: susitar)
Armchair Armory: Manhunt for the Marathon Bomber
At present, all four of us are sitting in our living room listening to a police scanner. (We’re Boston locals.) We’re not in Watertown or the immediately adjacent towns, so we’re all plenty safe at the moment, but we’re nonetheless “sheltering indoors.” (It’s been ordered for Boston, Watertown,…
Bin's Beloved Blog: ATTENTION!!! TO ANYONE WHO LIVES IN OR AROUND THE BOSTON...
ATTENTION!!! TO ANYONE WHO LIVES IN OR AROUND THE BOSTON AREA!!!!
Police have identified two of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing event. One has been shot dead, but the other is still on the run. Police have told everyone in Boston and its suburbs to STAY INSIDE, WITH THEIR DOORS…
Never been more proud of the BPD. Never been more glad for the police.
Gold
Leah Medin’s installation today was hopeful, inspiring, and perfectly timed. I have little words for the events of the past 24 hours, but, I am proud of my town and my humble massart community.
