The other side

Well, how 'bout this.
Matthew Stars,
graffiti artist extraordinaire,
friend of
Sandy Morrison,
clean-up graffiti artist extraordinaire.

Sandy was a little bummed the other day. She just started her job with the city, and had a long discussion with her boss about the crime of tagging, which is part of the job. She gets to report it and take care of it. I asked how she felt about it, but she was still in a state of shock, saying she was murdering me. I think she feels pretty bad.
And it's not just the spray painting, it's everything, even the guerrilla gardening.
I find it terribly ironic. Sandy now destroys the beauty I created for her happiness. I wonder, if I keep making stuff, if she'll be sad from cleaning it up. Like a machine that is turning happiness into sadness.

I'm making a come-back baby

I had a hard time accessing my studio this month. A swarm of killer honey bees took it over. But they've been contained. I think I'll make an art piece of their dead bodies. Maybe glue then to canvas with honey, and mail it to PETA.
I have much much much to do, and imagine I will have to write it here nightly to keep you informed of all my adventures.
This town is not safe.

very very hard

It's very very hard here without other artists. I want to go back. I want to be bored of art talk. I want to swim in other people's projects.
Today, I walked through a student art gallery. It was soooo good. I need I need I need.
Even the online community was adequate, when it was there.
There's going to be mutiny on this ship... against Sandy. I feel like she snubbed me. In Pullman, she needed my help. Then she just ditched me for what? Reputation? Peace? Morals?
No more! I can't take it much longer.

New things

Triple Thick: a paint coating that is a glossy glaze, kind of a resin. (but beware, it doesn't work on receipts)

Yudu : a $299 home screen printer. (available at Michaels)
now too, you can walk into any michael's framing shop and just check out prices. Like this week's 50% off, you can view what it'll roughly be without even having to talk to anyone.

Podrunner podcasts: music to help train for marathons, kind of techno remixes.

One Foot

So, here's the 2nd row of milk jugs. There's the opening for the door in back.
That makes it 1 foot tall now!

Plastic moulds for everyone!

Here is the instructional website

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-Your-Own-Prototypes-%3a-How-to-make-your/?&sort=NEWEST&limit=50&offset=50

And here's what I made!



And here's the vacuum





Here's some other stuff I looked at:

Rubber Moulds (using tape as shim line)
http://www.instructables.com/id/Moldmaking-With-Clear-Silicone-Rubber/

Lost Foam Casting
http://www.theworkshop.ca/casting/foamcasting/foamcasting.htm

Milk Jugs

Oh I was serious about making a greenhouse from milk jugs. Here's the pics from the other day, working on them. Tonight, I laid down the 1st row, but will have to wait till daylight to get good pics.

Being tested

Hmmm, there's so much more I wish was on the net... Like how long it takes to grow moss (and how to tell if your cat got lyme disease).
I just started growing moss, seeing how it does. I just learned how, by putting moss and dirt and buttermilk in a blender. We'll see... If it all works out, it'll further my guerrilla gardening plans.

Other than that, I haven't been up to much. Really trying to get this milkjug greenhouse underway.
And working on final projects for classes.
And learning French. I'm watch "Amelie", it's a good movie. Very artistic.

Work

Yesterday at work, I framed this cool piece of 10 by 10 art. It was like scribbles and splashes. But you couldn't tell which way it should hang. It made me so so very happy. I put a hanger on it. I wonder what she'll think. I wonder if it was upsidedown.

Sometime, when I'm wandering the store, I think of this I would take if I were isolated, just doing art. Like if you only have 5 things that you bought, and everything else was found objects. Hmm, maybe a glue gun, some scissors, needle nose pliers, a label maker, and a pack of colored sharpies. But you really can't underestimate a good punch, or safey pins, or cardstock.

Photoshop replaces art

I wonder now if my street art will be replaced by photoshop.
See, now instead of making art in public, I can sit on my computer and merge 2 photos together to make it look like I did a piece already. And no one but me would really know. Am I wrong?
I mean, 90% of my work leaves no trace anyway. And "no pic, no proof".
I feel that I shouldn't even dare to think such thoughts,
but I consider it a lot lately.
All I really want is a picture, right? That's all I have left. Why not skip the steps in between? Why not just make a picture without making the work. It's way more efficient, safer, makes people happy that I didn't ruin anything, yet I still get to keep my audience.

Now, I need a good rebuttal.

Lost and found

Lost: guts. When: these past 3 days.
I don't know if it was salmonella, but it could've been. Other than mono, that was the sickest I've ever been. When I am sick, when I stop puking my guts out, I always want candy. And fried donuts. So I had some chocolate ice cream and gummy bears. Then I started puking again. I tried to get mom to take a picture of it, but she wouldn't. It looked like paintings I've seen. (:

Lost: cell phone. When: about a week ago.
I guess I haven't really looked for it. But tonight, I really tried. I didn't find it, but I found a lot of other good stuff! Like my stamps, and a zip-lock bag of stuff (aka, yes stuff. memorabilia, little scraps).

Which makes me wonder how I do my art. Which comes first, the stuff, or the idea? And why does it never seemed to get more narrowed down?

Here's the thing

I'm out of it. Really. I know I'm always complaining about it, but I have little motivation to do art. I think it's getting better since I can Stumble again, that gives me some input. But no output.
Every time I try to give myself something like "everyday this week", I just end up forgetting. And I really don't have the habit of carrying my camera with me when I do make something.
And when I don't make stuff, I've come to realize, that I'm wasting time. I have to do to learn.
So there, I wrote it all out again.

linking

http://www.mattstars.blogspot.com

One giant step for guerrilla art...

I'm learning PhotoShop. It should make life SO much easier, no? I'll be able to take the picture, and adjust it nicely.
Only... Photoshop is expensive. So... I might only have access to it in school, until I become rich and famous. And I can't get there until I have better pictures... so the cycle goes.