Sideview Mirror Plan B

I really need to get on this new car search.

How Many Lives Does a Polkie Have?

So I was driving to the grocery store. Actually, let's back up a bit. I was exiting the driveway in reverse. I think I haven't fully recovered from the big apartment move and maybe I shouldn't have left the house today but well, I did...and I knocked off my side-view mirror. Dang it!

So before I walk into the grocery store, I walk into the Target on Howard street and get some duct tape. I went back to my car in the parking lot to tape my side-view mirror back on. Now I realize that these car parts are fairly easy to replace but, well, I'm probably getting rid of Polkie very soon.
GASP! The village weeps.
There was a family of four in their mini-van next to me looking out their windows. I could just picture them thinking, "White girl, what are you doing to your car?"
For the record, I have never noticed more people staring and pointing at the polka-dot car than today. Evanston, I think much more highly of you. You are a tolerant bunch, no? Maybe people are always like this and I just started noticing people's reactions while duct taping my mirror back on a polka-dot car...I mean, what were people staring at?
Anyway...
The duct tape worked for a minute but it's not perfect and I'm afraid of going over 30 mph.
I've been saying this for the past two years but I really mean it this time: Polkie is on her last legs. I'm not going to put any more money into her. This means June is look for a car month! I'm now taking suggestions.

Change of address...LAKESIDE

I've been a little out of touch this past week or so because I've
moved to Rogers Park. It's just a few miles from where I was living for the past four years. As you might imagine, I have SO MANY new windows and doorways to make paintings of over and over.
I hope to see many of you in person if not, at least, in cyberspace a lot more this summer. So with that... Let's go to the beach! I think I see a shady spot.

My Summer Gig

I keep getting commissions to paint Illinois wildlife! Is this a
sign of something?
If you're in Orland Park this month, stop by the public library to
view nature in a temperature controlled space. The mural painting
will be in progress through June.

Mural inside an animoto!

My cyberpedagogy class would be proud. This DIY video template gets a little too fancy , but hey, the internets are so easy these days!

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

Does anyone know how to simplify animoto without paying for the upgrade? I want my mural to actually "animate"!

Fashion Alert!

Nude-colored hosiery spotting on the brown line on May 13, 2010 at
7:21pm.

Great Teaching Video!

I HAVE to share this amazing video made by my colleague, Ms. Alex B. Franke. This is totally cyberdundant. I know. But it's so worth it.

My Day in Court

You may remember my story about how I was ticketed on the CTA for not dipping my "umlimited fare card" back in March. (See it here)
This just in...upon showing my student CTA pass to the city at my
hearing today, they dismissed my citation for trespassing. Contesting
tickets can work! Take THAT, undercover cop!

video!

The documentation continues...

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My Teaching Philosophy

My first video ever. One possible topic for this assignment was to describe my teaching philosophy. This is definitely a loose interpretation. I learned the quality of your video editing doesn't improve when you are simultaneously trying to improve the quality of your thesis paper. Sheesh! What a week!
I literally put the footage (all taken from my iPhone!) together in less than an hour. This is definitely a work in progress. I plan on releasing the full video about the polka dot car at the end of this summer. So yes, there is still time to share your polka dot memories with me. Enjoy what we have so far:
If the embedded video doesn't work, go to this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeTOWpAM8AA

Exploiting the Nude Female

I'm going to exploit one of my thesis readings here- a reading chosen for an entirely different topic- to blog about something else. (Notice my complete disregard for proper citation here. Screw it.) But what I will tell you is that this is a picture of a life drawing class at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1905. A hundred years later, the nude female wouldn't be the model; she'd be the performance artist. Art school now and then. Wow.

You've come a long way, baby.

I'm learning how to email blog posts through my iPhone in my
cyberpedagogy class. Laptops are so 2007.

Maybe this works via iPhone?

Nerd Alert

Okay, here's a quick blurb of images to sum up the week. "Must. Make. Things. Connect." -said the little thesis voice in my head. Here's a book work from an undergrad at SAIC's BFA show. Book artists. We just keep doing the same thing over and over! And I fully admit I love it. This genre just keeps repeating itself!
Now watch how I connect this book image above to the view from my Thesis class below. (My thesis is related to books.) This is also what a thesis binder looks like, boys and girls.
Now I will connect my thesis class to this image of a lecture I attended. I was late for my thesis class that day actually because I was sitting in on an art history lecture about the human body through history...or something. The professor claims it is the first lecture ever given in history via an iPad. I have no proof of this but I felt cutting edge.
Now I will connect this nerdiness above to a whole different nerdiness below. Soul Asylum. Yes. Soul Asylum. I saw them Saturday. There, I said it.
This image is just for emphasis. (You know, this blog post is sounding remarkably like my annotated image list from my Curriculum and Instructions class- inside joke: FMT.)
And this image is connected because I thought this, too, was a riot. As it turns out "Latino fiesta" tastes remarkably like my favorite cookie that I dearly miss from my days in Australia. The amazing Tim Tam. I actually left some clothes out of my suitcase in Sydney so I could pack more Tim Tams.
And now I will connect that image to this image of the aforementioned excellent Australian cookie...or bisquit as they say.
I miss you, Tim Tam. But, alas, I found a new lover: the Latino fiesta.

If you've made it this far down the blog post (congrats), please leave a comment for me answering this:
What is your definition of a nerd?

Do You Still Hold Books?

Look, it's a kindle! Look it's a newspaper!
Which is more exciting to see on the CTA brown line? You know you're working on a thesis when everything starts connecting...to your thesis. My thesis will be related to books. That's all I'm saying right now. But here's a new revelation I had at art group critique this weekend. (Their blog will be linked here shortly as soon as I know it...) I learned that my "books" come to life only when they are held. Deep.


This is a book works in progress. I'll report back soon. In the meantime, I'll probably be holding more academic texts in my hands. My dear blog readers, answer me this: In the loosest of terms,
what have you been reading...and do you hold it in your hands?