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Cross-posted at Happy Bodies.
Aimee Fleck, a fantastic student at the Maryland Instutute College of Art, made a little zine called The Fat Femme’s Guide to Loving Summer. Inside there are interviews with some really foxy ladies, instructions on how to make friendship bracelets, a recipe for beignets, new hairstyles to try, a playlist, and lots of suggestions for great summer fashion. It’s all beautifully, colorfully drawn and very well designed, plus sassy and fun. The zine is also getting plenty of tumblr love, which makes me really happy.
You can view it for free (here) or for a mere $6 you can own your very own copy (order here). You’ll not only be supporting a young artist but also a fat-acceptance advocate!
My friend Sara recently shared a post with some excellent photos of Flannery O’Connor from the 50’s. She’s hanging around at her house in Georgia, complete with her beautiful crutches and peafowl, like a total badass. I liked the photo so much that I did a little drawing of it, and I liked the drawing so I turned it into stationery. I can always use good writing paper, and I like the idea of using stationery I made myself.
You can download the stationery template here!
Mornings are a really difficult time for me.
August 09, 2010 8:33:35
There have been quite a few people who have taken a picture of themselves every day of the year and put them together into a time lapse video. Those are interesting to me, but frankly how I look during the day and how that changes over a year isn’t really that interesting to me. What I am really interested in is how people look when they wake up. A few years ago when I was in advanced painting and drawing I did a book project where I drew pictures of my friends waking up in the morning. The assignment was to use some kind of system (maps, playing cards, something like that) and do a project based on that. I chose tally marks and drew images sort of emerging from a field of lines.
August 10, 2010 9:23:44
That project was really fun but it was difficult to get source material. I had to ask my friends to take photos of themselves, and being busy college students, even if they really wanted to participate, it’s something that can pretty easily slip your mind. So when I bought a new computer (shitty though it may be) one of the features I opted for was a built in camera. Every morning (or as many mornings as I can) I take a photo of myself. So far I have almost 150, starting in August 2010 to the present (some days I miss, other days when I look really funny I take more than one photo). The photos are time and date stamped, so I can also track what time I got up (or at least what time I took the photo) throughout the year.
I am posting these drawings as I do them to my tumblr. To see all the drawings in this series posted so far, you can go to allieschwartz.tumblr.com/tagged/morning.
A few weeks ago the band Coyote Grace was in town! They played at UWM and did a workshop the day after through the LGBT resource center (my favorite campus hang!). They came to Carleton every year that I was there, and each time they did some really interesting workshops (Trans 101, Back Door Basics — cool stuff like that). This workshop was about womanhood and definitely reminded me of this post at Nourishing the Soul. We basically made collages about ourselves as women using magazines, glitter, feathers, buttons, and anything else we could find. The workshop was held at the Studio Arts and Crafts Center (my other favorite spot!), and I was just intending to stop by on my way to class when I saw some friends making their collages! I asked Ingrid (the singer + double-bassist) what her favorite workshop is and she said this one. They spend so much time touring that it was nice to relax and make some art. I totally agree. Making time for art is crucial to my sanity. I arrived to the workshop late, but I caught up in no time. I think my collage (below) accurately represents me/how I’m feeling/things I like. Things of note: pink microscope, leopard print coat, buttons, antlers, the Mutter Museum/conjoined twin skeleton, a bird made of chocolate cookies, a cat, and someone freaking out.
It is no secret that I love science fiction. I also love music, and I also love paper. This video, animated by Eric Power, is a summary (ish) of the three original star wars movies set to the tune of “Tatooine” by Jeremy Messersmith. I like it for several reasons:
- Messersmith is a Minneapolis-based musician, and while I am no longer in Minnesota I still have a terrible fondness for the place.
- It’s so nerdy. The song is nerdy, the video is nerdy, it’s all nerdy. But it’s the really sweet earnest kind of nerdy that I am such a sucker for.
- I love cut paper.
I hope you like it as much as I do. (Which is a lot)
I’ve recently been posting a lot about publications. Well I just uploaded the GSC’s latest, Bodies, to the internet!
Cover of Bodies, published by the GSC. Photo: Megan Hafner.
From the GSC website:
Our bodies are sites of pleasure, pain, gender, sexuality, joy, shame, and celebration. Our new publication wants to navigate our relationships with our bodies. We want to explore subjects like body positivity, health and illness, fat acceptance, sex, ability, sexual violence, modification, and any other way society shapes the way we view bodies.
It is a really beautiful book made entirely of contributions from the Carleton community. People contributed poetry, written pieces, drawings and prints (including my print, which I posted about earlier), and their editing and design talents to create a wonderfully cohesive book about so many facets of our human bodies.
You can read more about Bodies and all of the GSC’s other publications here on the website: https://apps.carleton.edu/campus/gsc/publications/
Read it here:
Bodies (Online Book) | Bodies (PDF)
My last post was about a little zine I made to go with my comps. Recently I also helped make another zine called “How We Survive” through the GSC. We made it for the SpeakUp! Against Sexual Violence, which was held here at Carleton last Thursday. There was a really lovely article about it in the Carletonian that came out today. The event involved students submitting written pieces about their experiences with sexual violence (with the option of submitting anonymously) and the pieces being read by students (some people read their own piece, some read anonymous submissions, some read submissions by students who didn’t feel comfortable reading their own piece). It was extremely moving. We had a much larger turn out this year than last, which really gives me hope about the number of Carleton students committed to ending sexual violence on our campus.
The zine we made to go along with the SpeakUp! is a book about the continuing process of survival at Carleton, made entirely by Carleton students/survivors. We put a call out to all of our friends asking for tips about their process of survival, especially relating to being at Carleton. The submissions we got back were really stellar and I think the finished product is really beautiful and powerful. You can check out the publications page on the GSC website for more information about all of the office’s publications, including information about BODIES which comes out next week.
View or download How We Survive:
How We Survive (Online Book) | How We Survive (PDF)
I don’t think I’ve written about the 2010 senior art show, DIMENSIONAL VISION
, yet. The experience of hanging the show and getting all of my work ready for presentation was exhausting, but entirely worth it. As part of my presentation I made a small zine to go with the ceramic work. It was my little way of combining the things I love most (books and ceramics) into one adorable little package.
I uploaded said adorable little package, and you can view the online book (link below). I have also uploaded many images of my comps project to the Gallery section of this site! It’s the most brand-spankin-new part of this site and I’m pretty jazzed about its potential.
Since the website for DIMENSIONAL VISION is hosted by Carleton, it will be up until the end of time. If you want to see images of my project later or see the work of my peers, you can just mosey on over there any time you please.
View the zine here:
Sexual Dimorphism (Online Book)
This is only my second post about paper. I plan to post mostly about printmaking, drawing, and so such the like, but instead I am going to post about Manuel Munoz. He is an author of two collections of short stories (Zigzagger and The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue) and he recently spoke at Carleton for our Pride month. He writes about the intersecting experiences of LGBT communities and latino communities.
I love short stories so much. There is something about a good short story that cuts right through me. I love reading them, but even more I love hearing author’s read their work. Last summer I listened to a podcast where Miranda July
read an excerpt from “Mon Plaisir” (part of her book No One Belongs Here More Than You). I did some scouting and I think the podcast is part of the iTunes Meet the Author series. The story is so beautiful, but hearing the author read, hearing her say the words like she hears them when she wrote them, it makes the experience magical. And that was even listening to a podcast. When Munoz read part of his story (he didn’t want to read all of it, for fear that we’d get bored), I cried. It was so beautiful and moving. His stories have such earnest portrayals of characters, especially ones that are split between the LGBT community and the latino community. When he was trying to get his first book published, he had a lot of trouble because publishers couldn’t put it into one category or another. Gay publishers weren’t sure if it would sell, latino publishers weren’t sure if it would sell, despite the fact that many of his stories had been published individually in big name periodicals. When he spoke to us he talked about the period where he wanted to give up, but thank god he didn’t because he is so talented and his work is remarkable. I highly recommend picking up Zigzagger of the Faith Healer of Olive Avenue.
Paper // Clay 