SNIPPETS NO.9

1. This week I was introduced to the wonderful photography of Caroline Petters. She's based here in Atlanta, so I'm proud to share another one of this city's gifted creatives. She has some great work, and a stellar tumblr blog!

2. Like many of you, I'm deeply in love with this wedding invitation by Lisa Hedge. It is simple and also simply gorgeous.

3. On of my friends, Duncan Shirah, is a very talented sculptor. He is having a gallery show next week to showcase some of his more amazing wood and metal sculptures. But calling them sculptures doesn't quite give them enough credit - inventions is a better word for them. He created that beautiful flyer for the show which depicts one of his inventions. It is a terrarium that squirts water into the terrarium section when the trigger is pulled. Genius, right?

4. In love again with Parker Fitzgerald's photography. This is one of the images for the latest issue of Kinfolk Magazine. I love the dark setting of the photo even though it is used for summer. You can still sense the outside warmth even though it's not bright and sunny in the photo.

tonight is the night.

So just as a heads up, I'm working on a new header for the blog, as well as some other design elements. I really do love the one I have, and it has a deep place in my heart, but I've come a long way from there now. Moving on up! I can't tell you when it'll be live, but I am working on it!

In other news, tonight is the opening night of the art show I helped curate and showing a piece in. This is the first time I have shown a piece in Atlanta, so I'm nervous and excited about it. I spent last night hanging some of the art pieces. It was so exciting seeing it all come together and see my piece hanging there.

After the show we're seeing Youth Lagoon. Please, I'm begging you, if you haven't heard Youth Lagoon yet, please do it. Go on Spotify or Grooveshark or whatever you have, just listen. He will romance your ears.

Have a great weekend, lovelies. I hope it is relaxing and pleasant and full of memory making.

chloe aftel.

Beautiful polaroid photography by Chloe Aftel. Some of her work will be at the Jennifer Schwartz Gallery here in Atlanta this weekend. I think I might stop by! There will be some other really great stuff too, and I'll post it tomorrow.

weekend: cottage & artwork.

Vocabulary | Gem Club


Over the weekend my good friend, Emily Hogan, music blogger of Wholly Roller, hosted her first show at a place called The Cottage. It was the first time Tim and I had ever been there, and it was magical. The Cottage is the garage apartment of a beautiful house where the upstairs is the recording studio and the downstairs is the venue. They have all these little cafe lights that make the most incredible mood and a huge tree swing out in the yard. The bands we save were perfect and dreamy: Vocabulary, Holy Spirits, Gem Club, and Places. Tim took the pictures above and you can see the rest of the series on his flickr.


In other news, my best friend from back home came up to Atlanta for a music festival. It was wonderful being able to spend some time with her! I was able to get a new handbag and it is exactly what I have been looking for. Also pictured is the media console I mentioned in a previous post and I had been meaning to show you! That front panel slides back and forth - perfect for the records and all their glory!

I'm sure most of you don't know that I am an officer for the art history club at my university. The club is hosting an art exhibition at Mint Gallery next month and I'm very excited! This weekend I finished it up, yay! I used a discarded landscape print and illustrator markers. Here's the piece, "Better Him Than You" :

weekend: busy! (& wedding!)

Oh goodness, it's practically Wednesday and I'm closer to this coming weekend than I am to the one I am posting about. Nevertheless, here's some tid bits on some of the adventures I partook in. I've started looking at apartments in Atlanta. That first image is of my dream apartment. I put a security deposit on it and now I'm just waiting to be approved. yay! So excited. Then I went to a gallery opening at Kiang Gallery called Small Pieces Loosely Joined. It was a good experience, and I'll touch on it tomorrow. Wendy Stetson is in town right now from Boston, so it's been nice to gather around her with our friends. Sunday another friend of mine, Daniel Seidner, got married to a lovely lady named Jenni. It was a really beautiful wedding. I wish I had a picture of her, but I only realized I didn't when I got home.

I originally thought I wasn't going to move out of my current (temporary) living situation until August, but my roommates are apparently jumping ship next week and told me yesterday. I'm only off of work one day between now and then, so this Saturday is going to be a whirlwind of last minute moving. Talk about stresscity. "We don't want you to feel like we're just kicking you out on the street..." but they sure aren't giving me a whole lot of options. Wishin I was on that lease now. haha

Wish me luck!

artist: cristina couceiro.

Cristina Couceiro sure has some beautiful work. Beginning with paper collages, she eventually switched over to digital. Her work is even used for The New York Times and Washington Post. The splashes of color are what get me. I have been hesitant to bold colors in the past - as far as my own work goes - but she sure knows how to apply it perfectly. Great inspiration, hands down.


Her work is definitely going to help me in the next week or so. MINT gallery here in Atlanta is having an annual fundraiser show and I am already piecing some ideas on a piece I'm going to send it. Super stoked! I don't know why it's taken me so long, but this will be the first piece I've ever submitted here in Georgia. Good lordy! Well, I'll have photos up, of course, throughout the process. Cross your fingers!

fly buzz. buzz fly.

Clip from "Eyeblink" (1966) - Yoko Ono

Last night I was fortunate to be at The Contemporary for a film screening night. Andy Ditzler screened several short films by Yoko Ono and collaborations with several artists from the 1960's avant-garde group, FLUXUS. We watched a small handful of incredibly interesting and sometimes terribly enduring films, including Ono's well known "Fly". It is in this 25 minute short film that a fly is seen walk across the landscape of a very drugged, naked woman. Voiced over in the background is Yoko Ono creating startling creature sounds.

Before the film viewing even began, Ditzler gave a brief overview of Ono and her transition from a Japanese classical pianist to the avant-garde artist we know her as. He talked about the change from standard musical compositions to compositions that told the musician to "do" things, instead of notes to play. Take for example "Voice Piece for Soprano":

Scream.
1. against the wind.
2. against the wall.
3. against the sky.


Some of these compositions would have by the score one word, such as "touch". Soon this transitioned to film scripts. Ono wrote several film scripts, with one consisting of Yoko simply lighting a match.

After the film screening, we took part in a film that Yoko Ono wrote, using the "Film Scrip #3" to advise us. The instructions are are for the audience members to cut away a piece of the image projected on the screen. The Contemporary set up a nice white sheet where a short film was projected. By the end, there was hardly any material left and the image was gracefully cast against the industrial support beams of the ceiling. So what part of the image did I cut? An open window.

The neat thing about the film script that we did is that Yoko Ono had been contacted to request permission for the project. Not only did she know, but it was uncertain whether this specific piece had ever been done before. Ono advised the audience to keep forever the piece that we cut off the screen. And so I shall.

This was a truly great experience. It brought forth many interesting reactions from the audience, including myself. I laughed, I yawned, I even thought about my mother's face at one point. I'm sure Yoko Ono would have been happy with the imagination that we used while experiencing her work.


If you would like to see the main feature, "Fly", please go here to see it. Enjoy!

burnin' down the house.

I'm pretty sure most of you do not know that I am the marketing intern over at burnaway.org... well that I am! And this past Saturday they had their inaugural fundraiser slash exhibition called Burnin' Down the House. There were 18 local artists that each did a piece based on an Atlanta neighborhood. The whole thing was at the GoatFarm, which is an old warehouse. Super nifty place to have it! There was a huge turnout, free food, tasty drinks, popsicles, and music! I had a blast. You should have been there.





Photo credits to Jason Travis.