no shit

news:

1. listen to your heart: an islands fold exhibition
mohs-islandsfold
flickr.com/photos/mohs


2. group show called teratoid territory @ frontroomgallery in cleveland...on oct. 31
frontroomcleveland

3. tomorrow i'll be showing about 35 drawings at a newish gallery called churchofcrystallight in richmond, va...run by brian (pom kiki) and friends...
myspace.com/brian(pomkiki)
myspace.com/pomkikicrew
churchofcrystallight

4. some of my drawings...every once in awhile...will be put on the frederic magazine online site...there are a few up there today...
fredericmagazine

there are too many images below...but it's been awhile since i last posted here...and this is slowly becoming another flickr for me...

I haven't drawn anything with a fore/background in ???? ...i remember being a lot more comfortable doing it...

...the same old story...the same old shit...

the book i did with kaugummi has been printed...40 pages - black and white - 14 x 21 cm - 6 euro...
http://editionskaugummi.free.fr
http://editionskaugummi.free.fr/fuguestate.html



over the past few weeks i've been reading a lot...every once in awhile this happens...

Watt - is a book about watt...i liked it...my girlfriend didn't...
Tales of Ordinary Madness - this is ok...just ok...
Briefing for a Descent - the first 150 pages are really spacey...lots of sci-fi imagery...and tangentiality...but after that it's pretty horrible...
Neuromancer - this had the feel of a Ryu Murakami book...a lot of really amazing scenes...especially the holograph performance..
Chicago Poems - wasn't for me...
Journal of a Solitude - this was like watching 3 Women...
Nadja - wasn't anything like i thought it would be...i didn't even finish reading it...
The Story of O - really really overrated...lots of ad hoc shit about feminism tacked onto it...pretty graphic though...
Artaud Anthology - good writing...shitty anthology...
Hell - ehhhhhh...
Almost Transparent Blue - ___________________________________
REsearch: William Burrough, Throbbing Gristle, and Brion Gysin - i'm reading through this for the second time...i've had a lot of trouble finding anything printed by Gysin...REsearch printed an illustrated version of the atrocity exhibition...???


Aug. 20th - The Joyful Bewilderment - have no idea what i'm going to make for this...really surprised that i was asked to participate...
Nazi Knife

I'm out of a job from the 31 to the 25...not really sure what i'm going to do...i can work a bit more at my other job...but i'll still have at least 3 days a week off...

i'm steadily working on the islands fold covers...i have about half of them done...the time off from work means that i'll be finished with them before the end of august...

here are some older drawings...i made the last one about two months ago...and i'm still unsure about it...




really horrible scan...it was done on this square shaped paper that's too big for my scanner





old

my girlfriend left for sweden today to visit friends...i work two jobs and still couldn't even come close to affording a plane ticket...it's pretty depressing to think about...





i've been trying to force myself to use color...it used to be a pretty natural thing but stopped being so about a year ago...i think i get too nervous about ruining the drawing...but i've been feeling like what i've been making is half-finished...

i ended up naming the kaugummi book 'fugue state'...it should be printed within the next week or two...

this is going to be a 20pg. zine...b/w on grey paper...untitled...kaugummi is printing it...
http://kaugummimagazine.free.fr/



other stuff

so i got a job finally...i'm an english/writing tutor at the local college...it's by far the best i've ever had...there's no heavy-handed supervision and tons of free time...so i just draw for 6 hours...




i went home for mother's day and looked through all of my drawings from my childhood...they will be uploaded eventually...






emotional/psychological stability has led to my feeling empty...a void...
i don't know what i've i gotten myself into...and i don't think i'm ever going to escape depression...i'm tired and confused...

things are getting worse

a drawing of mine is in the newest issue of ruis magazine

http://www.kraak.net/en/ruis.php

Hand drawn covers
44 pages b/w copy paper (A5)
Edition of 50
€8 + postage
R We Alone? Dean Sullivan, Ignace Wouters, N'Roll and Tvrbo.
R We Alone? 2008 ©
Info:
itspointlesszine(at)gmail(dotcum)
Order via Paypal: fallossymbol(at)gmail(dotsandcum)

this was put together by R We Alone? - erik tangerud and chris magnusson

chris - http://flickr.com/photos/chrismagnusson/
erik - http://flickr.com/photos/14239009@N08/
rwa - http://www.myspace.com/rwa

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check email
draw
read
watch movies
eat and sleep

DRAWINGS

if you don't feel like downloading aparagus....

i broke my right thumb or something like that...i can't bend it and every time i do i get a horrible pain in my hand...i can't draw because of that...so its been a weird week...the only thing i can do is read and watch movies...i downloaded this massive collection of animations so i've been watching those...its gotten me really into the idea of making one...its just a ton of fucking work and lots of drawings and i don't even know what to do...i saw persepolis and it was much better than i thought it would be...i'm really into this animation called asparagus by suzan pitt...here's a download link if you have the patience...it's pretty large...

http://www.2shared.com/file/2937930/65f355e3/asparagus_-_suzan_pitt.html

i'm goinng to start school again in the fall...not really sure what i'm going to take...a fine art degree would be nice...i might learn a bunch of stuff i don't know...but the idea of being self taugh or whatever doesn't bother me...



sometimes i get really down on what i'm making and it usually ruins my day...



i've gotten to this point over the past week or so that i don't need to feel rushed about anything...nothing needs to happen this instant...

sometimes i go onto my flickr account and see the most amazing shit...it's really crazy...i'm starting to really admire people who can paint...because of that i'm committing to making a painting this week...of course i'm not sure how it will turn out but i'm going to take my time and figure out exactly how i want to do it...painting is another world for me...and it's been out of my grasp...

the 'death and shit' show happened this past weekend...everyone's art looked great...as expected...here's a link to their flickr with photos of the show and art to buy: http://flickr.com/photos/domybooks/

my favorites

kerozen


irana


f.f.


yar


ola


matt

so i got this idea from matt lock's journal
stupidest things done while i was young:
1. olllied off a roof because of jamie thomas' leap of faith ollie leap of faith
2. took acid during school...i don't know why i did this and it was my first time...i think i ended up leaving after a few classes but i don't really remember
3. went to one of those teenager clubs for some girl...first and last time i've been to a club...i don't remember what happened to the girl
4. shaved my head bald on a dare...
5. actually played that game suck and blow...
6. stole a shirt that i really wanted from a fucking thrift store...i could have just gone back the next day with money and it was a fucking thrift store and the shirt was $2 so i'm not sure why i did this
7. shouted out 'i cunt hear you' in front of my mom when i was 7 without knowing what it meant...
9. on my tenth birthday a friend punched me and i ran off crying...this is more embarrassing than stupid when i think about it


i've been wanting to draw in pencil for a long time now but i can never make a good drawing...i think this is the best one i've done so far...hopefully i can make more...

so i guess that painting i submitted for supertrash got accepted...but everything submitted got accepted so i doesn't really mean anything...i posted it below...
1. i don't really know why i picked this movie...i guess that when i saw it it got me thinking about animal cruelty...i'm a vegan and this movie had a lot to with me becoming one...it's an ethical thing for me...i'm not trying to say that people who eat meat are bad or unethical or whatever because they aren't ...i hate when people are preachy about this...
2. i've always liked the covers...the worst thing about this is that i think it's too close to the original...sorry
3. i like the way it turned out though and i learned a lot about painting from this...
4. that the type of shit in this movie happens amazes me...quote i like..."remind yourself daily of the suffering from which you spare yourself the site"...
i feel pretty dumb for choosing this movie though and am going to do something else for the book



older drawn shirt




more drawings

it's raining right now which is usually a good thing for me because i like the overcast...it makes me forget that i live in a swamp...i had the flu for a week which stopped everything i had going on with drawing...i can't function when i'm that sick just thinking or concentrating is incredibly difficult...it set me back a bit with some stuff i needed to do but hopefully i can make it up since i don't have a job
i finished this big drawing and it's probably the last of this type of drawing i'm going to do...i really like the way it looks but i think i've used up the idea...it's a really bad photo which is why i uploaded it so big...



i'm coming up towards the end of all the stuff i had due...i have to focus on the islands fold thing now...i'm making drawings but still unsure if i'm going to have a theme or whatever...
right now it's really difficult to come up with good ideas...for awhile there i had a lot of stuff going on in my head but it just sort of stopped...i don't know why this happens because nothing's changed...





this was a package a put together for dynasty zine



i'm drawing two things in pencil which i haven't done in over a year...i love the way other people draw with pencil but so far i hate what i'm doing

shirt i made for tshirtmonthlymagazine




i have no friends right now...i know people and occassianlly talk to them...but i haven't gone or hung out with anybody in probably 4 months now...i might as well move into a cabin in the woods somewhere because it would essentially be the same thing...