Second Thoughts About Pork

I'm no jew, so I wouldn't eschew a-chewing a fat slab of bacon because of RELIGIOUS OBLIGATION ($$$) or because I really believe that swine are exceptionally dirty animals, but it becomes apparent to me the amount of dead human beings that are regularly disposed of (cleanly and completely) at pig farms across the nation.

Dead hookers and molested kid corpses.
Perhaps it doesn't affect the meat we eat, but it's still a bit unsettling...

unless you view it somehow as revenge,
where you'd be more mad at the pigs
for eating dead humans than you would
be at the unscrupulous caterers.

Photos de France (un)

god damn good, giacometti, woman with her throat cut, pompadour

giacometti, disagreeable object and matt fricano, pompadour

mason loves balls

louvre, true

aisha's head, defense threat

Found Object

...my first

wood, 2005

(signed M. Fricano, my R. Mutt)

getting all the posts out of the way while the internet's around

I met this little guy a few months into 2007 --
here's a label, perchance that it may look like art:

adam brown
Implement for Owl Safety, 2007
camphor
12"x12"x18"

currently in the collection of
Mr. and Mrs. Collin and Lindsey Palmer-Mcleod

the ones I end up taking/these that stand out

stump


congregation


signifier


untitled (the one I love most)

A Quite Convincing Alfred Stieglitz...

...but I'm no Sugimoto

Figurative Bronze Sculpture In Norway

Gustav Vigeland -- Birhmann Yaenosh, Conqueror of Babies
In memory, the man who freed the great forested north from the scourge of diminuative humans.

Brute force.

To this day, there are no babies on the vast ice-primed scandanavian peninsula.

choker

all my hearts are broken.
all I have missspoken,
miscarried secrets and meek admissions
left my self less than alone.
It is a cold forge that tempers my eyes,
avails me means to suffocate this sigh.

In my silence
I must have been
telling myself things
I don't believe.

'the end is nigh'

the walls are leaning in.

it's almost go-time.
crunchaway

picture your face!

bearput

I attached the shoulder/body with the arm/claws to the face/head.
There are some difficulties with balance and moving parts.
It is pretty cumbersome and hard to work within.

but it'll work.

I think I'll have to repaint the face, it's taken quite a beating

update reuptake

bear is looking good. need to go get fabrics.

need to start on fingers and fish.

pics will be posted.

holy fish!..t

the bear is coming together nicely. I need to buy fabric for to make its clothes with and a bit of fauxfur. And the arms are a-swinging. I need some small hardware to attach the claws to the wrists.

A new fish design. Need tiny springs, and perhaps little hooks.

HOOK!


...dustin hoffman is a-mazing

progress report: progression of progress

added modeling epoxy to the bear mask helped define it much better. The plaster gauze and the paper-mache hid much deatil in the mask. The paint and gesso are drying shiny. I detached the jaw, I still need to resolve that problem. A second, longer latex tongue was also made.

The fingers are the next step.

I must remember to pick up those springs.

color-ed bear-head

the face is painted, bear colors. It was just like that time I painted faces at the carnival. A child requested to resemble a bear, and it was beautiful... which, even still, I regret. He was shot by hunters later that evening. Therein lies an invaluable lesson: don't go pretending to be something you're not, because someone will shoot you.

The torso is next, and then a costume.

Considering alternate fish designs.

Got springs for the fingers.

Made a sandwich.

Ate it.

alarmed!

I'm sorry if my absence today disrupted the progress of anyone else. If not, then everything's all right. I got a new cell phone, and cell phone guy said to charge it with the phone off, overnight; seeing how cell phone guy knows about cell phones I did it. I use my cell phone's alarm to wake up though, so I used this internet alarm clock page (which evidently does not work when the window is minimized.

So I woke up (naturally) at 11:38. When I oversleep, it usually happens so that I sleep just enough to miss the entirety of class. Damn my unconscious subconscience...

I don't remember... but I was probably dreaming about puppets.

so, that works.

meelee du papier-machee

bear head is all a-skinned with flour paste and bits of a poorly-edited newspaper. It will look splendid in color. With teeth and a tongue. Glassy-eyed, I've decided. The next task is to design the bear mechanism that will allow the puppet to do a bear-like activity; specifically, the swatting motion utilized to stun prized, disguised, upstreaming, spawning-salmon.

I'm excited to get started on the music, too. I'm confident it will be a funtime.

oh yeah... and five people were in class today. my entire group, and elliott (1/4 of puppet-making being known as curvankarilliot).

bear head

plastered up the old bear head today... or, rather, the bear face. I'm very pleased with the results, and think that when it is finally papiermacheed and painted, it will be quite nice.

The bear is skeptical.

The teeth and tongue really add a lot of character and presence to the face, but they are small details and will have to be added later.

phase two: phase two

began initial steps of the fish-making process, but I admit I need to get crackin' on those digits. I'm getting excited about the possibilities, with the music and lighting... should be an adventure.

I also learned that the secret ingredient of flour paste is love... and that you must cook it (stirring continuously as to avoid burning)--but isn't that all love really is?

I also must remember to look up those types of puppets for that types of puppets business we're supposed to do. Don't forget.