PortRhombus / Orca Team / GlitterPie / Jacob Cooper
Pictures and Words Magazine
Issue #1
Quickest Flipest Issue No. 1
www.quickestflip.com
CONTRIBUTORS editor in chief & layout designer
Jamie Walsh co-editors & interviewers
Mary Duke Katrina Ketchum Maya Mu帽oz-Tob贸n Tara Wibrew Quickest Flipest logo
David Jaberi cover image
SWAMPY quickest flip logo
Jason Arsaga
CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS: Ashley Hudson Ginger Chen William Cody Watson SWAMPY Andrew Hampton John Collins McCormick Justin Clifford Rhody Lisa Schonberg Honor Dunn Jeff Headrick Reuben Sorensen Ian Pyper Maya Mu帽oz-Tob贸n Ted Lee Julian Watts Sam Smith Katie Inman ABH Jessica Seamans Seth Fitzpatrick Arthaya Nootecharas Nina Coloso Lily Leach Leslie Perrine Gina Barnes Megan Mirro John Bensch Elliott C Nathan
FEATURES
Interview with Mary Morgan facilitator of GlitterPie by Tara Widrow
Interview with Matt Kennedy of PortRhombus Design by Katrina Ketchum
Interview with Leif Anders of Portland band ORCA TEAM by Maya Mu帽oz-Tob贸n
Interview with Jacob Cooper web designer by Mary Duke
Ashley Hudson
zigzag teepee
print and watercolors on paper 7” x 7”
Ginger Chen
Untitled
pen on paper 4� x 5�
UNTITLED if I were Bukowski’s ghost I’d put crumbs in your bed on nights I knew your boyfriend was staying over.
William Cody Watson
My Life In The 2000s
SWAMPY
Lost Dog
red ink on moleskin
blow your own float Andrew Hampton let me excuse myself, clear my throat and start again -it’s kind of strange that anything connects at all: -it’s kind of strange that anything connects at all a starfish floats out with the tide city lights wink off
gentle sounds: everything soft sounds, soft salt waves, then it turns gentle sounds: everything soft sounds, soft sodium orange, then it turns the starfish drifts back to its rock the sun rises on three towers three stories -it’s kind of strange that anything connects at all (another dreamy day, another living way) -it’s kind of strange that anything connects at all -and if the mind isn’t exactly what you want it to be -maybe the body will be
-forgiven for these floating rivers and -for these gently floating, gently inconsequential afternoons -no that’s not what I want to say, what I want to say is that
-shivering fingers paint shivering pictures and -it’s kind of strange that anything connects at all (if they paint anything at all) -it’s kind of strange that anything connects at all princes and princes lines to lines thin, cowboyed pretzels layered to layered lines
now layer a castle and sing, sling these layering, layered lines -it’s kind of strange that anything connects at all (where do things go? things that don’t connect) here there are things that connect three pieces three looks three looks that don’t, that won’t enclose a space look ... and then look again three looks don’t, won’t enclose a space something escapes and something is refigured
GLITTERPIE Collaborative Internet archiving & GlitterPie radio goodness with Mary Morgan
Interview by Tara Wibrew
http://glitterpie.tumblr.com/ Tara: How did you start doing glitterpie? When? Why? Mary: Glitterpie started with two best friends since 4th grade farting around on a green couch in freezing cold Brookings, South Dakota. My friend was finishing up her art degree and I had just moved in with her to see her again and try something else in life. I think the very first post was in November of 2007. At the time, tumblr.com was only about 6 months old and it was a new and fun experimental community of its kind. It was also very easy to use! Now, it has a character and reputation of its own as a “microblogging” platform.
Kristin Jade Dalton and myself have always cherished our long and often hilarious friendship, and at the beginning of Glitterpie’s life it was just a place where we would share things that we liked. I think the first post is a photograph of the two of us in my room, probably 4th or 5th grade, playing dress up in front of a Little Mermaid and fuzzy ballerina color-it-yourself poster [http://25.media.tumblr.com/NC5SNScqc1qrcb25GvOIFUHl_500.jpg]. I had always had an online “collector” spirit, using things in passing like RSS feeds, aggregators, social journaling, and tagging sites that allowed me to enjoy and keep a cluster of stuff I thought was cool. (Like Digg, StumbleUpon, MetaFilter, LiveJournal, delicious, and the like). Joining Tumblr was just sort of a continuation of that type of sharing. Tara: Glitter? Pie? A pie made of shiny stuff, or just two great tastes that taste great together? (Where did the name come from?)
Mary: I think the process was just us trying to make each other laugh. I think at one point around 1997 or 1998 we had created an Angelfire page together, so it was funny for us to be up to something like that again. I wish we could find that old page. It had a bunch of ugly .gifs and yin yangs and probably talked about cute boys or pogs or something. The name “glitterpie” was just sort of something that was blurted out, I don’t even know by which one of us. We tend to sort of blather and giggle enough to make peeing our pants a true threat, so who knows what was going on there.
The second-ever posting is an intro that may shed some light onto its beginning aesthetic as a “friend celebration” page: (sic) “once in the fair city of l.a. gear there was a magical jazzy jeweled merkin”…Ok that probably doesn’t make much sense to anybody else. Here’s a brief biography of Mary and Kristin: Mary and Kristin met in
4th grade, they shared the same creepy sense of humor and love for “strange” music. They watched lots of Siffle and Olly whilst listening to Beck and Rick James. They grew up,went to seperate colleges and are back together again living in Brookings, SD. Our love is deeper than Lou Reed lyrics, so if you want to step get ready for a beat down. BOot Strap Holla! Best Friends Forever. L.A. Gears for life. Activities we enjoy: Hip hop dance parties, Urination induced by laughter, telling Bailey to get outta here (RIP brown dawg), Jokes suitable for 8-year olds, saying we’re too tired, go-getters, gold lycra, not pooping anywhere but our own home, recording time capsules on an old karaoke machine, writing about boy crushes in our diary, talking on AIM while in the same room, YOUTUBE VIDEOS!!!”
“I love staring at it and fantasizing about one day getting to print everything out and paste it like a shrine all over the walls. For me, It is a fascinating and inspiring chunk of eye candy and color and sounds.”
All I know now is that now I am totally stuck with that goofy name. I don’t think I could ever get rid of it at this point both for sentimental value and because I have put a lot of thought and work into it at this point. In fact, viewing it in this way is probably much better than the regular site itself [http://glitterpie.tumblr.com/archive]. I love staring at it and fantasizing about one day getting to print everything out and paste it like a shrine all over the walls. For me, it is a fascinating and inspiring chunk of eye candy and color and sounds. It just makes me feel good. At one point, (June, 2008) Kristin wanted to move on and preferred having her own personal page so she stopped contributing to Glitterpie. She would occasionally post though until well into 2009. She started “Alas, Pink Pigeon” which ended up being a lot more fashion and high art photography [http://wickedwink.blogspot.com/].
Later, she changed her blog to Wicked Wink [http://wickedwink.wordpress.com/] which is what remains today. We’ve done a few shares, mentions, and references back and forth since then, including making downloadable mixtapes. Now, she is an editor for a very large arts and culture lifestyle website called “The World’s Best Ever”, where her weekly editorial is vintage photographs of hot ladies called Babes of Yore. I think “a pie made of shiny stuff” works just fine, except for the fact that it was often construed as an anatomical reference that sparkled. Not sure about that part. Tara: What do you want people to get out of glitterpie?
Mary: Glitterpie has gone through many stages throughout its 5 years. Sometimes it was a parody-machine, short fiction platform, a place to highlight our friends who
were often up to something artsy, a diary that told stories of what was going on, messages to our friends, a submission-based community for bizarre internet flotsam and jetsam, and a couple times a fake advice column. There was a period of time in which I made a lot of posts by cellphone recording, which were often very hard to make out once they were uploaded. We used to answer to an email called sparklebabies where we went by the name “Goodwill Panties”, which was a quote from a fake song we wrote for a fake band where we called ourselves the Denim Lunchbags as well as Love Rhombus. At this point, Glitterpie is just continuing to be a place of handpicked images, videos, and snippets of things whose collective theme is hard to define. Sometimes it had some heavy usage of its “ask” feature and even a formspring. The disqus commenting system goes through ebbs and flows of usage.
What tickles me most about people going to the site is if they see something they like or have a different experience. Honestly, sometimes it feels a little vulnerable; choosing things like what a person finds most beautiful can be very personal. A lot of times I go for interesting or funny, though. It’s the joy of sharing that I really enjoy the most.
“ The radio show has been a new little addition
to the glitterpie stuff. I had just always wanted to learn how to host a radio show and I love music. Happily, I got my chance recently with KWVA 88.1 in Eugene.” Tara: Promote! How do people find you online, and details on your radio show? Mary: Besides the actual site, we have a public Facebook group “I Follow Gliterpie” that has some pretty fun interactions: [http://www.facebook.com/ groups/17698828140/]. It was created before the age of Facebook “pages” to “like”, so it kind of straddles some eras of use and function. (At one point all officers with officer names were wiped out when it turned over).
The radio show has been a new little addition to the glitterpie stuff. I always wanted to learn how to host a radio show and I love music. Happily, I got my chance recently with KWVA 88.1 in Eugene. It streams online during my time slot, and has become a really special time of friends being able to hang out from coast to coast! Radio Glitterpie: [http://www.facebook.com/events/332789396769788/]. Tara: What’s the thing you love most about putting glitterpie together?
Mary: I like that it’s a relaxing and engaging hobby for me. I love that people, mostly my personal friends, have been going there for years even though it’s so silly. It has also helped me make new friends and connect to people that share affinities for what I like. It’s just a wonderful repository of things and, to me, almost a recording of history.
Tara: Anything else you want people to know about you and/or glitterpie? Mary: Almost anything goes. It’s fairly eclectic. Lots of people get confused when they first visit. It’s more fun when others get involved and contribute. But even if they don’t, I’ll try to be around for as long as it makes sense. Also, one time our two friends made a replica of our website to make fun of us and our style of posts. They used the same theme we had at the time and trolled us hardcore. It was pretty hysterical but led to some pretty awkward, butthurt moments because they ragged on our interests and even my recently deceased dog. Still, it’s a good memory for me now. I think they still feel bad about a couple of the jokes [http://sparklepuss.tumblr. com/]. Another story: a former partner donated his time and talents to create the current website layout. I have no html/css skills whatsoever. I think the image hosting site he used to house some of the letters for the title banner are forever gone or something and I’m too dumb to fix it. In a funny tidbit, he started a tumblr in which he complains about stuff that pisses him off. At one point I heard that had landed him a book deal! I have analytics, and the weirdest part is that the #1 reason people go to my site is because they are searching for the lyrics to a song we sang about dinosaurs in 1st grade. I guess that is in a lot of other people’s heads. I feel pretty bad for an art studio/craft center that goes by Glitterpie as well. Their site and activities are way more professional. But I still come up first in search results. Sorry, guys! I often get in trouble for posting pictures that are regarded as unflattering. Tara: Your favorite glitterpie radio moment of the last year?
Mary: I love it when people call the station to tell me that I helped them have a better day. Hearing that also helps me have a brighter time. I’m always just pleasantly happy when anyone at all is listening, especially when having a great morning because of the songs I choose! Feels good, man.
Lisa Schonberg
east coast summer times, august 2011 120 mm film photos
Honor Dunn
graphite, paper with computer color addition
Total Request Live Jeff Headrick
I would like one hamburger please. Could you make it a goat cheese cheeseburger? A chess burger with chess pieces on it? Extrabishops, please! Could I please have a Christmas stocking filled with fondue cheese, and a two liter of coke for only four ninety nine? Could I have a limousine take me down Prairie Avenue in 1881? Could I have a dinner party with Oscar Wilde, Orson Welles, Henry David Thoureau, Bobby Seale, Marcel Duchamp, Jane Jacobs, and Dorothy Parker? Could I have a fat lip? I want to preach on the corner and be noticed and followed and praised until I have my own congregation busting the seams of an old hallowed church, and I want a ballistic choir leader with an electric guitar, stomping her heel on the rock wood floor and I want everyone to be swayed and to go out and give away their money with no fear. I want to direct a movie on location in St. Louis, MO that is about a guerrilla war that nobody wants or understands, and it is about dogs and neighborhoods and baseball and people dying for reasons we can anticipate but not stop. I want to be able to think more efficiently and faster on a wider variety of topics. I want to work harder on things that need work, and I want to quit trifling. I want more bikes, like a pink bike, a little bike for people to borrow, a titanium bike, an aluminium bike, bikes with interesting pedals, a winter bike with disc brakes and toothy tires, a bike with a rifle strapped to the top tube, an Eddie Merckx bike, and a bike with very large but smooth tires and a coaster brake. The frames of all these bikes must be cut and welded to fit me ideally. I want to walk from Chicago to St. Louis and talk to people along the way. I want to throw a phone into a body of water. I would like for a tunnel to be built between the Sears Tower and the Hancock Center. I wish it were possible for me to run or swim for perhaps one hundred miles without stopping.
Reuben Sorensen
Writes Red
mixed media on canvas 32” x 26”
An Interview with designer Matt Kennedy by Katrina Laura Ketchum
lived all over the place and have studied all “I’vekinds of different things in part. Finally, I
discovered an area of study that embraced my preference for a broad spectrum in Industrial Design. I have an amazing cat Charlie and as of April 2012 I now have a cell phone that can accept pictures. I’m of the designer/craftsman genre and producing my objects myself is as valuable to my experience as designing. I want to operate at the intersection of art, craft, design and manufacturing.
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Katrina: Can you tell us about your Port Rhombus and the idea behind it? Matt: Hmmmmm what am I all about? My studio is constructed of a few key points – Sustainable Practice, Harnessing Digital and Analog Craft Appropriately and Cottage Industry Production. Practical art would some it up nicely in two words, and so would simple and smart. Localized production is important; I always try to make the most of materials available nearby from smaller suppliers. I’m interested in nostalgia and emotional object interactions. I have a lot of clearly defined interests but now that I’m graduating I’m looking forward to developing them a lot further. Katrina: What advice would you give someone considering a similar artistic path? Matt: Work your pants off, if you’re not content with what you’re doing you’re in the right mindset and while you need to develop your brand/ideology be sure to keep pushing onto new ground. That’s what I tell myself. Oh yeah, and be smarter. Katrina: What steps have you taken to market yourself? Matt: My marketing has been pretty limited as I’ve been operating while in school. There are tons of guerilla marketing articles on the web though that I look at. I avoid taking any crazy plunges; just try to turn a nickel into a dime. Once you have found things that work at a small scale expanding slowly is the way to go. Learn everything you can from other people before investing any capital or time of your own.
Katrina: Can you tell us about your process? Matt: I just try to pay attention to any little thing for inspiration, a fixture on a park bench, the way a plant is growing, something I misinterpret. I find answers quickest by building asap. I’ll work things out on paper but the sooner I build a prototype the sooner I feel like I know what needs to happen. Getting products into the hands of a variety of people is essential, even far outside of your market for different responses.
SPHERES TRAY APPROX. 6” SQUARE
HEX TRAY
APPROX. 6” DIA.
Katrina: What inspires you to create? Matt: That people can afford an object that really means something to them. We’re all susceptible to throw away culture as it’s made so easy for us; I want to make it easier to buy unique, quality items. I want to make things that will inspire people. Sure a generic desk lamp is $30 at the department store but it’s devoid of personal meaning. What’s doubling that when a product becomes an extension of yourself and reinforces your ideology or challenges your perceptions every time you are at your desk? Katrina: What are some exciting projects are you currently working on? What are you up to right now?
Matt: My shop is my biggest project right now. I’m organizing and tooling for better production potential to launch a new business model to be fully self-employed. I’m looking forward to having the time to develop more complex projects and deal with packaging/retail presentation more as an extension of my studio ideology. Katrina: What are your future plans?
Matt: Working hard, learning new stuff and building an epic cat tree/fortress/mecca for Charlie. Katrina: Any words of wisdom?
Matt: It’s going to take a really, really long time before you do anything that’s any good so don’t expect great results immediately. The more ok you are with that, the more productive you’ll be in the meantime. Ira Glass says it simply and perfectly in his short commentary on striving for “Being Wrong”.
portrhombusdesign.com
Ian Pyper
Appendix
sharpie marker pen on paperback book page 9.25” x 6.5”, 2012
Maya Mu帽oz-Tob贸n
Puertas de Pueblo digitally modified photographs
Ted Lee
Untitled Enter #1
wine, coffee, ink on paper
Julian Watts
Skin No. 2, 2012
archival digital print 30� x 20�
Sam Smith C For Yourself Ohhh! Now I see Yes indeed Well, all be!
This is what all the fuss is about this is why wars are fought It’s what makes the world go round It makes grown men break down
It’s everybody’s wildest dreams Everything you want for free It’s what keeps you on the edge of your seat But you’ve got to see to believe You’ve got to C for yourself C what you’re getting into C for yourself C if you can find your way out C for yourself C who comes through for you C for yourself C who you can do without
It’s not something I can teach you to do But I can tell you a thing or two It’s all the things your mother forbade It’s the way that babies are made It’s just what the doctor ordered Your happiness and health assured No more nights spent lonely and bored You’ll fall asleep feeling adored But you’ve got to C for yourself Go and C, C what you find C for yourself C if it’s what you had in mind C for yourself C what gets handed your way C for yourself C what you can learn today!
TEAM An interview with
Leif Anders
of the Portland, Oregon band Orca Team by Maya Muñoz-Tobón
Maya: What bands have influenced your style?
Leif: Young Marble Giants. Marine Girls. The Ronettes. Quix*o*tic. Deep Time. Roy Orbison. Pylon. Jan & Dean.
Maya: How did Orca Team become a band? How long have you been playing together?
Leif: It started when Jessica and I were introducted to one another in Portland, circa 2008. We started a romantic relationship and thought it would be fun to play music together. It turned out to be very fun so we continued playing music. After numerous drummer changes, Jessica and I ended our romantic involvements. We migrated up to Seattle in 2011 to secure ourselves in a stable position for writing music and performing. Currently, Orca Team is: Leif Anders, Jessica B., and Dwayne Cullen.
Maya: What is your inspiration for creating a look or feel of the band?
Leif: Orca Whales: All of the instruments are black and white. Post-Punk: The bass guitar carries the melody rather than the guitar most of the time. Black: We mostly wear black clothing to help get a unified sense of belonging between the three of us. Minimalism: Rather than constantly adding things to the music or look of the band, we are always willing to leave things out. The space in the music and feel is our secret. Maya: Do you have any bands (local or not) that you like and follow?
Leif: In L.A.- Deep Time, Pony Time, and Timecopz. Also- Psychic Feline, Unnatural Helpers, Night Beats, Craft Spells, Dead Ghosts, Fungi Girls, The Mallard, Swearin’, Magic Milk, K Holes, X Ray Eyeballs, and White Mystery.
Maya: What are some future plans for the band? Leif: We are going on a pretty big tour this summer to the East Coast and UK. In fall we are going to tour around the US again. I would hope we could tour Europe in 2013 but we will have to wait and see.
Maya: Is there something in the Pacific NW music scene that keeps feeding your band’s spirit? Leif: The lack of sun. It inspires you to keep working and creating. It keeps you very busy without distraction. Also, I don’t know if it helps to feed the spirit, but when you are single in the NW and it’s rainy and cold, you seriously feel like the loneliest person in the world. You start to imagine yourself somewhere else or doing something else. You’re pretty much creating a fantasy world without trying half the time while living here. Music seems pretty easy to focus on after that.
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I DON’T KNOW IF IT HELPS TO FEED THE SPIRIT, BUT WHEN YOU ARE SINGLE IN THE NW AND IT’S RAINY AND COLD, YOU SERIOUSLY FEEL LIKE THE LONELIEST PERSON IN THE WORLD.
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Maya: What is the story from one of your tours that you remember the most? Leif: There were plenty of fights and laughable moments on lots of tours but right now the tours that stick with me the most were in New York City and Panama Beach during our US Summer Tour in 2011.
Jessica and I had never been to NYC and before our show that day, we just went all over Manhattan. I can’t really explain how things happened that day but they did. We had brunch and then went shopping for belts. I was tired and somewhat surly. Jessica was polite and jovial. She spent some time at MOMA while I found shelter from the rain in FAO Schwartz. We met up in Central Park and took the subway back to our car and drove to The Cake Shop. The show went over well and when it was over we met up with our friends Cheryl and Tynan. We rode the subway and rode the Staten Island Ferry to get a view of the entire city. We barely slept and had to leave the city in a rush because of flood warnings and because we had to drive to Cleveland. It was a treasured day and night. It usually is when Jessica and I team up together. Another more somber story took place in Panama City, FL. We were supposed to play two shows in one day; one at a record store in Santa Rosa, FL in the early evening and one at a house in Panama City at night. While at the early evening
show, we were told that the house show was canceled. We didn’t mind either way and made our way to Panama City to have pizza and ride go-carts. After we ate, Dwayne and I were really excited about racing go-carts but Jessica only wanted to play arcade games. We parked at one amusement center, but the outdoor activities were closed. Dwayne, Joanna (Dwayne’s girlfriend at the time) and I just decided to walk down the street to the next place because it was open later. Jessica stayed behind to play video games at the first spot.
Once Dwayne and I were finished racing, we walked back to the car to find Jessica looking very frantic and sad. Apparently as soon as Jessica had walked into the video game room, a rude clerk had told her that the space was closed and she needed to leave. By the time she got outside, we were gone and she was alone. We assured her that it was a coincidence and we would have never ditched her on purpose. She cried a little bit but we did our best to cheer her up. We spent the next hour on the white sands of the Panama City Beach. The moon was full and as bright as the sun. Dwayne took off all his clothes and went swimming. Jessica and I just buried one another in the sand and took pictures of it. I’m sure she would kill me if she knew I wrote about this story.
ORCA TEAM’S new LP, “Restraint,” will be out June 14th, 2012.
http://www.facebook.com/ORCATEAM http://orcateam.bandcamp.com/
Katie Inman
Hello
b&w digital print
Beyond the Window ABH
I am different but that’s O.K. You open the door and it leads to another world. Actually, how many people do you know that are disabled? People like me are usually pushed to the side of the stage. The smell of anger. I would like to have a bob done to my hair. I would like to change the way I usually look at myself. The top part of my lips really confuse me. My lips make me angry because whenever I smile my lips turn away. Did you know that raindrops are little specks of dead water? I am happy with the rest of myself. My cat licks my hair. She bats at me and claws at my ankle. She jumps on your lap and takes over your life. Basically, it’s another 16-year-old day. Your hormones are burning and your pants don’t fit. Catch my drift here. My silver medal means success. Basically, it’s my life.
Jessica Seamans
Bedroom, 3119 watercolor, 2011
Seth Fitzpatrick
Friends of the Night lithography, 2011 30” x 22”
Arthaya Nootecharas
Be Here II
cardboard, gold leaf 16’ x 13’
Jacob Cooper is a Los Angeles based web developer and graphic designer. He is also a musician in the band Wavves.
Interview by Mary Duke
Mary: How did you get into this line of work? Jacob: There was a really big blog craze in the late 90’s for some reason when I was in middle school. Everyone had one and everyone wanted theirs to look cool. So I sort of taught myself how to code and do dumb shit to my homepage or livejournal. I would also work on my friends’ blog designs and just basically taught myself as I went. Mary: Describe a typical day on the job for you.
Jacob: It varies. Sometimes I’ll be on the road and work in the van or hotel. Sometimes I’ll be really hungover. Sometimes I’ll be home and work in my underwear all day. Sometimes I have to get up early and work from clients’ offices or houses. At this rate I probably spend a couple hours a day maintaining a lot of work for clients and projects. Mary: What types of clients have you built websites for? Are there any experiences that stand out as being most memorable, challenging, rewarding, etc.?
Jacob: I’d like to think every website or project I work on allows me to learn more about easier ways of developing sites. Coding and Internet technology changes constantly. My clients range anywhere from major labels to authors to actors. I want to be able to turn work around as fast as possible.
Right now I’m working with the city of LA and UCLA to develop a site for climate change reports on Los Angeles county and neighboring communities. This is actually pretty interesting to me because I get to go to meetings and talk to scientists and other people that are doing pretty awesome things. It’s more involved than most projects.
Mary: What do you love most about being a web designer? Jacob: Making my own hours and being my own boss. I can also make shit look like gold. That’s the best part of web design. You can be in the worst sounding band or have a bad idea but you can have an amazing website or branding. Web design to me is so unbiased because of that. Mary: Do you remember the first website you built for a client? What was it?
Jacob: I’m pretty sure one of the first non-personal things I did was for my middle school. Not actually a real job but it was fun. My 7th grade teacher shot herself in the arm one morning and blamed it on someone that wasn’t there. I got really excited to update the front page that day.
That summer I got a job doing a site for my district’s school bus department. I got to hang out with a lot of bus drivers and listen to them bitch about kids and gossip in the coffee room. We became friends.
“Talking about coding with someone is like watching King of the Hill with your friends”
Mary: Where do you find creative inspiration? For example, is there a designer that you admire or are there design sites that you follow religiously? Jacob: I’m on tumblr and fffffound.com. Both sites are just posts of images people find all over the web. It’s definitely influenced my work. I’m not much of a coding bluff or anything. I think that stuff is pretty nerdy. I rarely talk to other designers or developers about this stuff for fear of having to dork out. Talking about web coding with someone is like watching King Of The Hill with your friends to me.
Mary: What advice would you give to someone hoping to pursue a career in web design? Jacob: Copy other sites and ripoff their ideas. Learn how they do certain things by looking at their coding. Try to stay away from message boards unless you feel like getting tech raped by dudes who live in their mom’s basement and get mad if you don’t word your questions the right way. Seriously it’s how I learned and how I still learn. I google everything. Everything I have learned in the last 10 years of life has been googled. Yesterday I googled “national dog day” I don’t know why. Mary: What, in your opinion, is a design choice/approach NO web designer should ever make when building a site?
Jacob: Don’t ever argue with the client unless you really think something will save time or help them. Be thorough with whatever information on design and functions you need. And get a deposit before doing anything! Mary: Anything else you’d like to share. Jacob: Jessica alba is very nice.
Nina Coloso
Untitled
graphite and paint pen
Lily Leach
But All I Saw Was Skin Watercolor, ink, collage 11” X 9”
Leslie Perrine
Defense Mechanisms
Gina Barnes
Party Bear
Handmade wall hanging on embroidery hoop
Two and a Half Men Jeff Headrick
The two and a half men waltz all night with their two and a half women. Everyone knows that the two men and the two women add up to four people. But what about the half-man and the half-woman, adding up to a single entity? They dance the finest, like the music is coming out of their shoes. The ballroom is empty now, and the sun came up hours ago. The half people can still hear the music, and they continue to dance. Yes, they are both very short, but with lovely proportions. Their clothes were obviously made with great skill and care, probably by the same tailor. The man’s belt is rough wool, and the woman wears a matching sash. They take a break, look out the window and smoke, and the man takes a call on his phone, pacing and smiling back at the woman, rolling his eyes. She opens the window, and cardinals fly in, half of them red and half brown. They fly near the ceiling, and mass on the chandeliers. The man and woman dance again, in silence with the birds.
Megan Mirro
360 Flips
digital photo collage 11” X 8.5”
John Bensch
Clockhead Comic
Elliott C Nathan
Totem
acrylic on found wood 7’ x 3’ x 1’
Justin C Rhody
UNTITLED (San Pedro la Laguna Guatemala) 2011
John Collins McCormick
Report india ink on paper, 2011
Dunn Family Corpse
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