To Suffer

To Suffer
Ballpoint pen on paper
Approx. 8.5 in. x 11 in.
(2011)

To suffer

Stolen from a friend's Facebook post:

To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer. To suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy then is to suffer. But suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down.

- Woody Allen

Blót

Blót (Blood/Sacrifice)
Ballpoint pen on paper
Approx. 8.5 in. x 11 in.
(2011)

Sometimes, you have to chew off a limb to save yourself.

Purge

http://www.etsy.com/listing/75724170/i-am-the-blood-for-k-one-of-a-kind?ref=pr_shop

I need to sell this not only to help raise money for a car, but also to purge the emotions behind it from my life. Any takers?

I don't give a fuck

Some days

Some days, I sort of have shit figured out. Some days, I am fucking clueless and lost. Not sure what today is yet, but here I am. Getting up, getting out, getting going. Clear a path.

Sunglasses Cult

Artist Dekka Raymaker

Sunglasses Cult

Rules: Take a black & white close-up photo of yourself wearing sunglasses. You are now part of the Sunglasses Cult.

(Thx K.)

Join the group here!
www.flickr.com/groups/1752052@N22/pool/with/5881331783/

New drawing

Empower
Ballpoint pen on paper
Approx. 5.5 in. x 8.5 in.
(2011)

New drawing

Anastomosis
Ballpoint pen on paper
Approx. 11 in. x 8.5 in.
(2011)

ArthOle reforms for Odyssey

ArthOle (Arahan Claveau and Nebulosus Severine) is reforming for The 2011 Odyssey Performance Art Festival (July 7-16th)

More details soon...

Yay NY!

I made this. Pass it on!

New drawing

Untitled
Ballpoint pen on paper
Approx. 11 in. x 8.5 in.
(2011)

Work stress

It's only 20 hours of work a week at my job, but the amount of stress I've been having there lately has been reaching unbearable levels.

Today is just one example. I was in an upbeat mood, planned a bit of the video I'm going to do for my Kickstarter project (stay tuned for details), went for an amazing walk in the beautiful weather, and came back happy and energetic. Within minutes of being at work, I became annoyed, impatient, easily upset, frustrated, and in physical pain. Everything hurts, every little thing is causing every emotional & mental nerve ending to shriek out in pain. As I sit here typing this, I'm acutely annoyed at my difficulty with even putting this into words. Every little distraction, interruption, hindrance to what I'm trying to focus on is just irritating the fuck out of me; I want to fucking throw things and slam doors and scream obscenities so violent and vulgar that they crack the fucking earth in two.
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Everything

From here on out, I need to just pour everything I have into my art, as if my life depended on it, because it kind of does.

XXX PRIVATE SHOW to be part of the MaMachinima International Festival

XXX PRIVATE SHOW, a machinima that I helped to create with Arahan Claveau as a part of an installation of the same name for ArthOle Season 2, is being shown at the Ma Machinima International Festival, an event that is held both in Second Life and in Amsterdam. I will be in attendance in Second Life for the event, at around 11:30 am PST/2:30 EST, to answer questions and speak about the film.

I've copied & pasted some relevant information, from both the ArthOle blog (courtesy of Arahan Claveau) and from the MMIF press release:

This weekend sees the return of the annual Ma Machinima International Festival (MMIF), and a machinima entitled XXX PRIVATE SHOW I shot for an installation at the ArthOle gallery in 2008, is showing as part of the festival's schedule. MMIF 2011 runs from Friday June 17 through Saturday June 18, and the ArthOle machinima will play on Saturday in block 3, starting at 11.30am (SLT/PDT).

MMIF is a mixed-reality event, taking place simultaneously at the LEA Theatre in Second Life and Club Karlsson in Amsterdam.

(read the entire article on the ArthOle blog page here)

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Avatars starring at Global Film Festival MMIF 2011

MaMachinima International Festival
June 17 / 18, 2011
Web live + LEA Theatre (SL™) + Club Karlsson, Amsterdam (NL)

‘MMIF 2011′ is the third edition of an annual film festival in 3D cyberspace with an interactive cinema screening in physical space (‘RL’). Audiences can follow some of the MMIF happenings live via the web.

The MMIF is a celebration of Machinima: films created in virtual worlds and video games. On 3D Internet platforms like Second Life® for instance, any kind of movie set can be built at very low cost. The MMIF aims to bring Machinima, a new cinematic art form, to a wider audience. Films by professional machinima producers and by those who are just starting out will be screened at MMIF 2011. Machinima directors and avatar actors from all over the world are present in real time at the virtual theatre in SL. These ’Machinimatographers’ will present over fifty short films and discuss their work in front of a live global audience of viewers.

(read the rest of the press release here)

Another new drawing

Seven
Ballpoint pen on paper
Approx. 5.5 in. x 8.5 in.
(2011)

New drawing

Kill Everybody
Ballpoint pen on paper
Approx. 5.5 in. x 8.5 in.
(2011)

Folio

I bought a folio to contain all of my loose pen drawings. It's getting pretty full already, but there's still room for more. I can fit about 19 more full-page drawings, or about 39 half-page ones. My goal is to fill up the folio by August 31st of this year.

Two new drawings

Untitled
Ballpoint pen on paper
Approx. 8.5 in. x 5.5 in.
(2011)

Shatter
Ballpoint pen on paper
Approx. 8.5 in. x 5.5 in.
(2011)