cold ones

im not even going to try to explain how damn bitter it has been here lately.
we went to the shanty today in -30 windchills to fix our precious bubblewrap!
thanks for the fresh ice, MINNESOTA!

early last week, the moon looked like this. such a beauty!
made me feel like i am in the right place.
its good to know that the world is still mystical, sometimes.
: )

features

lumberjack lore!


lumberjack love!

i really miss these guys, the friends, the fam, the farm....(to be continued)

RESPECT

making my bed is always the right thing to do, especially now.
my dear grandmother compiled (salvaged, sewed, refined) this quilt for me last year!
i watched my 100 year old auntie marie stitch the perimeter for 6 hours straight one day. (i made her lunch, of course)
although she didnt inherit the seamstress skills of her mother, who sewed judy garland's childhood waredrobe, my grandma jackie is amazing!

*watch auntie marie and my grandma play cribbage in the videos to the right

NEVER LAND

watched this today for maybe the 150th time.
made me cry x3 ?! ... mainly because im extremely hungry for colored cream pies!

www.my world is especially flat.mcad

i have been thinking so much about how to define my relationship with skateboarding and snowboard to my art world (i.e. mcad) without seeming superficial, and now that i have existed here for a year, it just doesnt matter that i adjust myself! i am not superficial, and my relationships are nothing but genuine, okay.
also, i am the best friend to networking opportunities that you will ever meet, and thankfully i havent been taken advantage of by some business-type conflict. much more thankfully, i am in touch with loads of very amazing people.
these snowboarders, for instance; THINK THANK.
i love their unique approach to everything in snowboarding. down to the motion graphics, their soundtracks (customized drums set riffs to narrate last years' Patchwork Patterns vid), and mostly the raw craft of their filmaking and riding. all the dudes involved are sincerely nice/badass. niceass? THANKS!


Scott Stevens in THANKS BRAIN! 2007
(watch all the other parts, too. Producer/Direcotr Jesse Burtner and Gus Engle for sure)

dreamings

ive been wishing, hard, on an escape to an isolated mountain town in utah, wyoming, or montana. yknow, real cowboy terrain. mean muggin me as i walk into their dark, musty bar. where giant hills protect the tiny, glistening town with a tangible history. where i could sit cozy up in the shadow. i would stay there long enough to dodge a few bar fights and avalanches. real mountains. a few days (years) just for me.
where i would really love to be is jackson hole, wyoming. that snowboarding trip from a few years back claimed the best trip of my life, aside from my first family trip to montana where i had my first mountain high.
this is maybe the only media i have that remains of that wyoming trip
. (im pretty sure i loved it more than she remembers it.)
and im about to give away a secret, im surely jinxing my dreams here when i show you where ive really wanted to be in my adult life (mostly because it yolks my professional life in design and my greatest love, snowboarding)

the first part of this video (made in 2005) features all the greats; motion graphics by Nemo Designs, the snowboarding-oriented house/workspace with gorgeous huskies!, a utah mountain with snow, travis parker, hula hoops, day glo, big black gettin worked, and a minnesota local (bjorn leines).
for a much less selfish approach to snowboarding, ive unofficially decided to hang it up for a few years until i finish school. just wishin all my chronies the beast out there. just know that my tears are amidst the wintery mix.

SNOW!

the post of my studio space is pretty weak, but if you're wondering, the source of the SILF image is BustedTees.com who is run by Connected Ventures who made this epic music video

Lip Dub - Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger from amandalynferri on Vimeo.

on a similar note, i am going to work at MCAD DesignWorks next semester.
i havent seen their music videos quite as choreographed as this. its going to be interesting, but i will work on that.

first of all, my desktop should be choreographed because it is whooping me and my laptop in the ass.

no big.
my new 500gb hardrive should take care of some things.


im so proud of my dear friend maddy, she got a job at HOLDEN OUTERWEAR yesterday in portland! it is her first semester in the communications design program at PNCA. she's siked!!
she's going to learn enough there to launch our snowfashion line MAD.E
later on. until then, i will be working on my bedazzling skillz.
and sadly, selling my board. let me know if you have a need, ladies.

being clever

must be a pain...
Jay Howell in SLAP

scare me

realising my work should be emphasizing rhythm.



high places cycling ever so eerily in the dark.

i listened to the radio from a circa 1980s pink alarm clock/radio during dinner tonight.

right now i am at work in the studio to the hum of an industrial air vent.

how transitional.



THERES A F*N BADASS IN TOWN. MARK GONZALES.

a look at THE LIFE

(QUICK I ONLY HAVE 10 MINUTES TO DO THIS)
my worksoon this should be very expressive of...the more is less aesthetic.

while working in class today, my friend and i were very hungry and i told her "im so hungry, that i think i am going to eat mayonnaise (on my sandwich)"
so i came home and i maybe took a little more than the "10 minute meal" theme that i had thought to have perfected. i tried to neglect the mayonnaise because i thought it contained partially hydrogenated oils, but alas it features eggs. almost worse. but a good start to the miniature, travel sized jar of it. 2" tall maybe. it tasted SO good with the sirracha and kale.
most definately a
i browsed my online world a good one.

JOSH KEYES INTERVIEW on FECALFACE.COM
i admire the jankery in his studio
you should see mine


though its even better now.

got me some crailtap.com viewing in as well.


sometimes i appreciate the format. but not when the boxes are stale. at least i am always reminded to buy the DISPOSABLE skate history book. santa?
im there mostly for the top fives with jake phelps.
what is all this Fully Flared hype?

im up and out......

STOP!

stop animation wonders



stephen malkmus and a bunch of jicks, baby.

twenty-third installment 10/12

a life of piles:

Jeffrey was HEREwith voodoo doughnuts from portland!

MAKING AGELESS

ACTION! in and out of folds; a rodeo.

lookit i repaired my grandma's bible

better bust'd II

simone was bust'd! climbing on scultpures is for the birds

$DOLLAR

see the illest shit ever? vintage zip zinger necklace.
(peace is some rare ill shit, too. priceless indeed.)

the skate is scarce

the early skate day turned in to a soggy skate night!
but watch CREATURE rip it right!

only skated once (yesterday) since. why not?

HOLES

"the magic is in the hole"
VooDoo doughnuts crave right now

let's go skateboard

YES!

{mound, minn} rise'n'shine trip there tomorrow

master

"i had come from a long ways off and a long ways down. but now destiny was about to manifest itself. i felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else." Bob Dylan

b/w ball

YES this was my school MCAD a few weekends ago. a raging danceparty that you are gonna have to see to believe! thank god, DIPLO!

LOVELY LIMBS

DIPLO rilin' up limbs at Too Much Love at first ave. (be sure to watch for the middle aged man in the white suit.)

now

by tucker nichols

opalholic

PEACE IDEAL

today at my gallery job at JOAN OF ART, i picked up a wonderful PEACE necklace, as well as an antique, aqua blue IDEAL Ball mason jar with original lid and wire bail!



this PEACE neckpiece is by a minneapolis artist named Heinz Brummel.
he is a sculpture and jewelry designer with an amazing collection referencing the work of Alexander Calder (whose mobile at the MIA inspired my own mobile pictured a few posts below)!
Brummel even fashions mobile necklaces!





these PEACE necklaces are most stunning, though my version is silver.

original feelings

i encourage every artist i know to visit the site of one of my most admired artists, Harrell Fletcher.
okay, this is truly a coincidence (and also very significant) that he is from portland.
i was introduced to him last year as he was a guest in my experimental video course at the U of M.
he has participated in whitney biennials for his work with LEARNING TO LOVE YOU MORE where he engages an expansive community to participate with assignments. An endearing collection of folk art! real grassroots. his process feels very genuine and the community he creates through LTLYM is almost visceral -- it is now a book, indeed!

entirely charming and mysterious. makes me cry, still.
I LOVE HIS VIDEOS. please view them for yourselves

PLAY

i've noticed a unique sensibility portland filmakers are using. i believe it to be raw and honest, exactly what is appealing to me.
they are fun and accessible! touring my favorite city of portland. a giant playground!

seriously! this is YACHT

towards portland

this is one of my favorite videos ever! starring my friend thor, taking place in portland

KINETIC

by SARAH SZE...mobile nouveu...my plan to start utilizing loads of important ephemera!

the last few ideas i have been working with involves motion and cycle.


i prefer creating installations and especially video!




(i have been thinking long and hard about the ways in which my blog will benefit the greater good of humankind.
most importantly, starting with mine own hardships with structuring ideas into finished work.
in basic terms, and of utmost importance, my blog will be in motion.
to contain collections, become public, and inspire further collections of resources, and so on)