some ideas i had recently

Ahem!:



1. a matroyshka doll of willy wonka characters. The biggest matroyshka would be Violet Beauregard, after she has eaten the candy and blown up like a giant balloon (naturally). The smallest matroyshka would be the cowboy kid, who shrinks himself. charlie, the oompa loompas, and willy would also be featured. maybe a big chocolate bar too.

2. make a blog graveyard...a blog-yard if you will. It would be a website whose interface looked like a graveyard, with headstones, and on the headstones would be the name, and active dates of the website, and a link to it. to start out, it would be blogs (even websites) that I (and you?) have made and abandoned. if i found a master coder, it could be made so the public could openly add headstones and their own dead websites. (does this make sense? i had a cup of coffee the other day and came up with this--the coffee has delusory effects on me i've noticed)

3. collect the names of the animals on missing cat/dog posters (since it's hard to carry your camera everywhere--and who wants to manage 100s of missing kitty photos anyways). call it "digital prayer: a moment of silence for the lost and the missing". Look, I've already started:

El Duderino
Evee (aka Monster)
Blue
King Otis
Mr. Binky

4. get a twitter account

5. a small artist's books with drawings of soldiers that were in the civil war. why do all of the soldiers sort of look the same in these 19th c. photos? furthermore: why do i find them all so vaguely attractive?

6. catalogue the toys i had as a child. call it a "taxonomy of toys." i think it may reveal some telling things about (my) child psychology. the chart would be shaped like a pyramid, with the most desirable playmates at the top, and the more boring, less-played-with toys at the bottom.

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I've been thinking about what you said when i was visiting you back in january, how you said you would go for walks in boston, and watch people and do quick sketches, working on getting quick impressions of people, and pushing away from representational work. i was sitting in a cafe the other day, working on my typography (i'm teaching a class on handlettering/typography in march...eep!), and i sketched this guy:



and then i did this woman later, who i saw at the john cage event, and have seen at other art shows. she's always by herself; i really like her.