MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! HA… ha ha… heh. Wait, what? Okay.
Now that I’ve got that out of my system, I’ve got some news to share. And maybe it’s a little redundant, because if you’re at this site, that means you’re looking RIGHT AT what I’m about to tell you, but… I got a new banner! And funnily enough, I got it almost a year after I made the original. I know that because this picture (which was used in my old banner) …
… was taken at last year’s Riverfest while we were watching The Nobility. Shannon had just gotten a new 50mm lens and was going insane with it. That was a good time because I paid about $6 for a Miller Lite (in a can), and Shannon and I were really dead set on getting some airbrushed tattoos until we found out how expensive they were, and after making the trek to North Little Rock via the Big Dam Bridge in the blazing heat while wearing really uncomfortable shoes, I thought I was going to die. It was a little sad because James had just started driving to California, and about halfway through the Silverton set, Matthew, Shannon and I got a text from him that said, “I’m standing at the Grand Canyon.” Matthew and I were still riding the high of our band’s one (and only) show with James, and it was a little depressing that someone we had spent countless hours playing music, drinking Heineken (LIGHT!!!) and watching Deadliest Catch with (and in my case, occasionally bawling with) was gone for the summer. It was like losing a limb. Que triste.
Anyway, that was a year ago. 2009 Riverfest begins today, but I think one Riverfest’s enough for me, thanks. Besides, I’m going to the beach!
I finished Go Ask Alice last night. I’ve had a copy of it forever and decided to read it this week, partially out of curiosity, partially out of “hey, I’ve owned this for about four years, maybe I should finally read it” and partially out of knowing that it would be a quick, easy read and thus an easy addition to my list of books I’ve never read. I’ve really had a thing for young adult literature recently; I need to do my obligatory bi-annual Harriet the Spy reading and then upgrade to something a little more sophisticated, I think.
EDIT: I’m an idiot. I didn’t even take a chance to explain where I got the new banner! AND THAT WAS THE WHOLE REASON FOR THIS POST! YIKERS!
This new banner is brought to you courtesy of one Miss Mary Virginia Carmack. I’ve known Mary through Livejournal for a little more than two years and have always been impressed with her kindness, her affinity for finding beauty in the unusual and her ability to basically turn everything she touches — whether it’s a collage she’s making or a photograph she’s taking with that damn Mamiya C220 (SO JEALOUS!) — into gold.
She’s the only person I know that has truly mastered the art of collage and overcome the stigma attached to the artform; namely, not making something that looks like that Mason jar your best friend covered with magazine clippings from Seventeen and gave you for your 12th birthday.
CHECK IT.
Here’s the original photograph.
And here are some of my favorite collages.
Check out more of her stuff at this here link.
Tags: art, books, collage, music, photography
