watching tv

Melanie watching tv. Rhode Island, 2001/2.

Melanie turns 30 on Friday.

Which means, pictures of her all week! Old to new...this one is from 2000.

kate's poems.

Today is my sister's birthday; happy birthday Kate! The real reason I am posting this is to link her poetry blog: Kateboarding. The name came from a cutout from a Skateboarding Magazine cover that I had removed the 'S' from, leaving Kateboarding.

Here is a poem I like of hers:

Movie Star Eggplant
I peeled the eggplant
wondering at its plump curvaceous form
yet firm in its voluptuousness,
confident in its curve,
unlike a woman in 21st century America.
This was no Kate Moss
of eggplants.
This was a Marilyn Monroe
with a decidedly purpliness
that was glamorous and old school.
I peeled the
purple skin as neatly, as tenderly
as one peels wet clothes
from a lover's body
when returning home
after caught in a thunderstorm.

Ali screenprint

This is a screenprint I finished Friday in my Printmaking for Digital Media class. The first one was actually an error; the blue was supposed to uniformly cover the background, but it worked out pretty well that it didn't. The image is based off a photograph from a postcard I bought while at an exhibition of Black British photographers at the Museum of London a few years ago.

Cash.

This Johnny Cash print from Print Mafia is pretty damn dope.