&siennaprimrose ([info]pagezero) wrote,
@ 2008-05-26 23:41:00
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i know i've been hibernating lately. i feel like i'm under watchful eyes. but it's paying off &my 'significant progress' is being noticed by those who decide the grades. i'm missing important fancy dress parties, bailing on dates &feel slack with even my closest of friends (i'm sorry). but i'm painting again &just squeezing out new paint &the smell of turpentine makes me breathe a little easier.



not long to go now though. i think i'll go straight to the bookstore to celebrate the completion of folio deadline hell. pretty please, recommend me some reading material! a little description would be nice too, i need to stock up on novels before italy so i can read outside our apartment by the lake. (amazing. also, a big thank you if you commented on that entry, sorry i didn't get back to you my excitement got ridiculous).



ongoing collaborative work with lauren no jugs.
these are some (unedited) from today.










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[info]ghettoluxury
2008-05-26 02:08 pm UTC (link)
no jugs!

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[info]hillstuck
2008-05-26 02:56 pm UTC (link)
lovely pictures as always.
i'd recommend "the corrections" by jonathan franzen. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Corrections
OR "special topics in calamity physics" by marisha pessl http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_topics_in_calamity_physics
OR voluptuous panic: the erotic world of weimar, berlin http://feralhouse.com/titles/sex/voluptuous_panic.php
yep.

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[info]_brokenbracelet
2008-05-26 10:42 pm UTC (link)
i'm excited to see what you'll be doing with those photos after editing!

also, reading recommendations (b/c yesterday morning i lost myself in borders, and doing that always reminds me of a never-ending slew of books i need in my life:

The Best of McSweeny's (Vol. 2) edited by Dave Eggers (it's a collection of really great stories from one of the best literary journals in America; i just finished the first story called The Ceiling and i think you'd really like it)

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers (the title says it all, for real)

The History of Love by Nicole Krauss (Johnathan Safran Foer's wife; she has an amazing way with prose and the story is so much more amazing and so not cheesy than the title suggests. this is one of my all-time faves)

If nobody speaks of remarkable things by jon mggreggor (i probably screwed up his last name, but he writes prose in a really interesting way and makes even the most mundane things about suburban life in london seem magical/extraordinary)

i have lots more to recommend, but that's what i'd definitely urge you to read at the moment. good luck with handing in your folio and getting closer on your way to a well-deserved end of semester break!

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[info]breaklights
2008-05-26 11:16 pm UTC (link)
I have been hibernating too. Detox. I haven't been out in almost two weeks! As for books I'm sorry to say that I haven't read anything spectacular lately but the last book I really enjoyed was written by the ultimate groupie of the sixties, Pamela DeBarres and is called "I'm with the Band".

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[info]___nick___
2008-05-27 04:50 am UTC (link)
I know Franny and I would recommend...

title or description

Franny loves Zadie Smith's novels, she can't put them down.

A painted house is kind of like "Of Mice and Men" meets "To Kill a Mockingbird" grips you from about half way.

Michael Palin is always light hearted travel adventures + lots of laughs.

Generation slut is overall... shocking, informative and extremely thought provoking.

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[info]littleheartbeat
2008-05-28 02:25 am UTC (link)
i really like charles bukowski, so anything by him. it's so dark and twisted and sad (and entirely autobiographical) but its fascinating and interesting to observe pretty much the lowest form of american living.
also interesting are:
'please kill me' by legs mcneil (its about where punk came from, starting out in newyork and then goes over the oceans to london with vivienne westwood and malcolm maclaren, etc - it's interesting not only for music or fashion but politics and society).
'life of pi' by yann martel is one of the best books i have ever read. ever. you definately need to get this one! its won a lot of awards and shit but its soooo inspiring and life-changing.
'high fidelity' by nick hornby - great movie better book!

you're looking great sie, good luck with all your folio work. mine is due on friday so ive been flat out too, never spent so much time running around as i have this last week.
you'll be super though, im absolutely 100% sure of it.

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[info]winecurrency
2008-05-28 03:14 am UTC (link)
I'm halfway through The Geography of Nowhere (The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape) by James Howard Kunstler, and i'm really loving the tone of his writing. This is an author/book I have never heard of before seeing a quote from one of it's chapters, and it was enough to compel me to read the entire thing. it's very interesting. The quote gives you a good idea of what the book is about too:
"The spread of slums, the hypergrowth and congestion of manufacturing cities, the noise and stench of the industrial process, debased urban life all over the western world and led to a great yearning for escape … in America, with its superabundance of cheap land, simple property laws, social mobility, mania for profit, zest for practical invention, and bible drunk sense of history, the yearning to escape industrialism expressed itself as a renewed search for Eden. America reinvented that paradise, described so briefly and vaguely in the book of Genesis, called it suburbia, and put it up for sale."

I also second "Please Kill Me"!

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lovely.
[info]littlebitinlove
2008-11-17 11:12 am UTC (link)
what sort of camera was used in the first two?

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[info]pagezero
2008-11-17 11:31 am UTC (link)
it's a lomography camera (http://www.lomography.com/). very cool cameras indeed.

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