my first show in New York is coming up next month!
titled 'Hajimari. a prelude'.
December 12th through January 9th.
opening reception Dec. 12th 7~9pm
@ the Jonathan Levine Gallery.

will feature 20 new works.
im still at work but should wrap things up within the week.
excited and nervous all together. eeep! (@_@)

Sketch Theatre just uploaded the time lapse video of the Baby Tattooville Art Jam,
where about a dozen artists collaborated on a single 4x5foot canvas for 24 hours.
its pretty fun to see the whole process!
check it HERE.

the Sketch Theatre site also features many notable artists,
where you can watch videos of them drawing. its all very inspiring!
check it out HERE!

Okay, so, bear with me for a bit of an explanation, but I want to know what you all think!

I love animals all around, but dogs and cats are really special to me. Unfortunately, my cat Beezer passed away about a month ago while I was at school. He was very special to me, and he always used to lay on my feet in the position of the image I'm planning on. To sort of "balance it out in a way, I decided to plan on one of Kurt's dogs on my left foot. I'm a dog person and I always will be. The dog I'm planning on is sort of a 'collective' of my dogs. They're all very close to me and I love them very much. Two of them have passed and one is still quite young. I figured it'd be a nice way to honor the animals that have touched my life in so many ways.

So this isn't totally boring, here are the images that I'm planning on.

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What do you guys think?

On Saturday the 14th at 4AM UTC/GMT we will be upgrading the operating system of our network load balancers to a newer version, one that will allow us to use both CPUs! Nifty, because multiprocessing is nice.

Since we have 2 load balancers, the plan is to upgrade 1 at a time, and there really should be very little impact to our website. Hopefully you won't notice a thing and I'll get to go back to the hotel and watch some wonderful late night infomercials.

We've got a lot of exciting projects coming up for 2010 and we're hoping that we'll be able to deliver them all to you, that you will find it useful/cool/lovely and then you will use the site even more. Behind-the-scenes work like this will give us the capacity to handle the anticipated traffic, so expect a few more maintenance windows especially in the beginning of next year as we've got some neat ideas to improve performance around here! We had the recent 30-45 minute outage yesterday due to one of our logging databases filling up disk space -- not so great design coupled with my human error in handling the initial problem -- and it looks like we're going to finally have some resources to eliminate stuff like that. I can't wait!

As usual, I will be updating status.livejournal.org before and after, just in case you are not able to reach our main website during the work.

*squee!* Just received my package from Food Fight! today, and the shirts are beautiful!




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I've done a bit of printing with the black ink recently, which I am dubbing "licorice". I'm trying to go with a food theme for all of the color names, which sound so nice when they are put together (like "dark chocolate" on "biscotti"). I've been pretty successful at naming them, though I wasn't able to come up with anything for the turquoise ink and dyed-gray fabric I used before.



I worked with some gray fabric for this last batch, but this time I decided to call it "smoke". Licorice & smoke sounds pretty nice, but now I'm wondering how that will sound with some of the future food names. Cherry & smoke? Chocolate & smoke? Perhaps I should have stuck with "slate gray"....

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Im trying to come up with some good idea's on what to make/use for the kurt halsey sublime stitching kit. I was wondering if anyone else has made anything? and would like to share

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It's an edition of 12.

1) 2 New Ink Drawings
( Pictures Here... )

2) Food Fight T-Shirt for Sale
$15 @ http://store.foodfightgrocery.com/lafofish.html
Also Kurt posted a blog stating that when you buy the shirt to forward the receipt and your address to him and he'll send a special package

3) Tiny edition of framed prints coming soon FOR SALE of "Years"
http://www.kurthalsey.com/store/years-limited-edition/


That's all for now :P

This is the kind of package I like to see!



I was already placing an order with J-box.com, so I figured I might as well throw in a few bags of chips & such! Chips are one of my favorite foods, but I get so tired of all the same-ol' flavors. Why do they never come out with new ones? I am seriously tempted to move to Japan for the chips and ramen shops alone. (Of course, there are many other reasons)

I quickly snapped these shots when I opened the box, so forgive the quality. I was eager to rip open a few of those packages! First we have some labels you might recognize...



Most of the text you see on the Doritos bag is spelling out the words in katakana, the alphabet they use for foreign words. At the top you see ドリトス - "Doritosu" (the "u"s can be dropped) and テリヤキ　味 - "Teriyaki" and the kanji for "flavor". (If things are looking weird, you might not have Asian text capability on your computer)

On the Cheetos bag we have チェスター　チーター　の　チートス　ミックス - "Chesuta- Chi-ta- の Chi-tosu Mikkusu", or "Chester Cheetah's Cheetos Mix". At the bottom is ワイルド　ペッパー　ベーコン　味 - "Wailudo Peppa- Be-kon 味" - Wild Pepper Bacon flavor.

But not all of the labels are katakana versions of English...



The first bag reads にんにく, "Garlic" in hiragana (the main alphabet), and マニア - "Mania", which I assume you can figure out on your own! Mmmmm.... Garlic Mania!

Then the second bag reads 牛肉 - Beef, どまん中 - right in the center, 味 - flavor. コーンスナック - "Ko-n Sunakku" - Corn Snack. This one was labeled online as "Beef Bento Box" flavor, and bento (弁当) is mentioned in the line underneath the cows. These are also the only chips I've eaten so far, and man.... they were so good!



Kit Kats - チョコ & ローズ - "Choko & Ro-zu", chocolate & rose flavored (using an abbreviation of チョコレート - "chokore-to", for chocolate) There are soooo many flavors of Kit Kats in Japan.

And we have いかめし - Squid flavored (corn rings).



Now this stack of purple candies are Grape Mochi (a chewy marshmallow-like snack made with sticky rice), and are the real reason I made the order in the first place. These, the Kit Kats above, and a bag of candies I bought earlier from the Asian market, will be my stocking stuffers this year (to give to Justin's family). I don't think anyone reads the blog, so I should be safe to post these. If not, oh well! The candies feel very hard inside the packaging, unlike the soft mochi I'm used to, but I'll have to wait with everyone else to sample them. See the little toothpick inside?



I also grabbed some egg molds (star & heart shaped), Cotton Candy flavored Hi Chew (ハイチュウ - like a chewier Starburst), and some furikake in assorted flavors (seasoning to sprinkle on rice). I think the egg molds were the thing labeled as "toy" on the front of the package. I think kids would disagree, but I'm fine with it!

Feel free to let me know if you enjoy seeing these Japanese products as much as I do, or if you could do without. I realize I'm a bit obsessed and am not a good judge of how interesting they are! (parasitegirl, I apologize! I know you probably get your fill of this stuff already) ;)

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"Years"

Here is the pumpkin I carved and painted this year. I got the idea from a photo in a magazine, but I'm not sure which one (glanced at it in the grocery store). I'm also not sure how close it is to the pumpkin in the magazine, but when I saw those colors together I knew what I wanted to do.



It was a troublesome project though, as the rain kept the first coat of (acrylic) paint from drying until I finally had to bring it inside. Then I could not find a small saw, so those rounded corners were a pain to do, and a pain for my wrist. But I think it was worth it in the end!

Chelsea quickly carved an old-school pumpkin so that we could have something to set out on the porch before the trick-or-treaters came. She is so photogenic!



There really were pumpkins and gourds all over the house. Out on the porch a little pepper plant tried to blend in with all of the orange.



But this was my favorite, the prettiest pumpkin of all!



A few people dressed up in costumes, though most were thrown together from things around the house.





Even the lamp got into the action! (Or else someone is wearing a very convincing lamp costume?)



Justin's dad dressed up as a birthday-boy. Oh wait, .... no, that wasn't a costume!

Just wanted to share with you guys...i got my 2010 Calendar, its gorgeous, as all previous ones. I can never have enough of Kurt's drawings.

does anyone have a bigger picture of the octopus sketch? the one in the photobucket is only like 400 pixels.. and i can't seem to find a bigger one, i'm hoping to get a tattoo of it and i'd like to get a bigger version to bring in to my artist! 

thanks in advance!

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