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Jan. 31st, 2007

HELP!

I need volunteers to help install an art show. It is a traveling show that I was involved in at Oakland, ProArts Gallery. The show is called "Still Present Pasts: Korean Americans and the Forgotten War"...look it up. The show opens on 2/11 so I will need some volunteers to help build these installations. No prior experience needed. I just need bodies, two legs, two arms, and two hands with fingers (head optional). They will need people starting 2/6. I will be in San Diego because it is midterm time and I have to give exams and stuff but I will be there on 2/9 and on. The show is at the LA Art Core/Union Center for the Arts at 120 Judge John Aiso Street, in LA.
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Mar. 31st, 2006

Viva La France!

You Belong in Paris

You enjoy all that life has to offer, and you can appreciate the fine tastes and sites of Paris.
You're the perfect person to wander the streets of Paris aimlessly, enjoying architecture and a crepe.


if i didn't worry about money...i would live there for five years. los angeles will always be my hometown. i like the weather, culture, but most of all my roots....i like them. i like them alot...i don't want to uproot. it is a place where i thrive. it is a place where i feel switched on. that is why i think that i will always return to los angeles.

Mar. 22nd, 2006

What type of writer are you?

You Should Be a Science Fiction Writer

Your ideas are very strange, and people often wonder what planet you're from.
And while you may have some problems being "normal," you'll have no problems writing sci-fi.
Whether it's epic films, important novels, or vivid comics...
Your own little universe could leave an important mark on the world!

Aug. 26th, 2005

eunionation

Halloback Girl

After taking Song Coyote and the lovey Evil Mo to the airport, I sat down and turned on MTV as lately I have been every intrigued by some of the videos that are being produced. For example, has anyone seen Gwen Stefani's music video for "Halloback Girl?" There are many Asian-Americans in the video within the backgroup of what appears to be Alaheim High School (which is where she went to high school). The video had many references to "BANANA"... Fascinating, I thought. Is Gwen stating some subversive statement about the various social evocations of that word within the Asian-American community? I thought that perhaps there is some information on her website regarding the connection, but there wasn't. Surely, she would know what a banana is? Is this song her anthem of some sort that she is a banana? The word on the art scene is that the medium of video has become the new "in" media. Rich people are actually buying videos and setting up their LCDs with posh frames and putting them over mantles over fire places. For example, the owners of the Gap have a large collection of video art displayed in such a manner in their luxurious multi-million dollar home. After the envelops of history have closed, who will be remembered? The small time artists (like Rachel Jablo) who are only known to a small number of society at large (mostly intellectuals and artsy/fartsy types) or someone like Gwen Stefani. Hundred years from now, will Gwen be grouped with Barbara Kruger and Judy Chicago as one of the foremost postmodern artists? Her video fulfills all of the criteria especially with the social commentary to boot. Will it be as debated as Demoiselles D'Avignon? Will her video be the subject of a class? Two semesters ago, I had to endure two weeks of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video in my graduate seminar. I can make a short paper topic out of this and submit it somewhere but who would publish such a thing?

Anyway, thanks to ZQ for the uplifting and downright delightful talk this afternoon.

There ain't no halloback girl! Love, the egg

Jan. 1st, 2005

the new year?

i didn't party last night...i just spent a quiet evening playing chess with my new love interest. i just didn't feel right to celebrate when so many people have lost loved ones (brothers, sisters, friends, parents...) in the tsunami and this war (especially when i think about all of the civilian deaths that are not reported), it just doesn't settle my conscious to celebrate. so twas a quiet evening.

it was wonderful to see you all during my break.

Oct. 14th, 2004

but what about me

it seems that i've full of bright ideas for other people and they actually follow up on it and have great success. i've already give out two ideas for thesis for people in the art history department for which their proposal has already been approved by their advising professor; and gave job advance to my work-husband that lead to success but i sit here alone with NOTHING...i got nothing. just a zillion articles, papers, sources, books, and nothing in my head, nothing of my own. why don't people give me suggestions? am i that unapproachable? granted that in my seminars people go dead silent and have their pens in ready when i'm about to make a comment but i'm as clueless as they are (okay, maybe that's pushing it) but still,...i feel that the reciprocity of decorum should be addressed, don't you? okay, so here is what i have so far...i'm a-gonna start with a poststructuralist model of analyze the binary relationship between art and society during the Min Joong era then break it down via by own model which is a mix of neo-marxist and simulacra. sigh....yeah, i know it's rather hopeless. ... i'm gonna go bug the cat - my favorite sport is playing soccer with the cat. the cat is very responsive and always tosses the ball back to me so that i can toss it back to him. i think i should ask him about my thesis.

Sep. 2nd, 2004

fish out of water

i feel like a fish out of water
the new place, the new schedule, new way of life...it has really been a long time since the college experience and it feels weird. i feel old - and not in a good way. i find the graduate lounge where the serious people go, aparently and that has become my new station. i found a new cafe where i can read and stuff but the chairs are all steel and makes my bones ache, plus there no friend that lives down the street from the cafe, so less warmth and more militant liberals and many signs for various waste. i still can't wake up my brain and i still have no job. i met a few people but they are all blah...as in blah blah blah.

Aug. 8th, 2004

i'm here

the drive itself was good.
i returned the uhaul today.
unpacked most of my stuff.
went to church.
went to ameoba.
played catch with my new favorite dog.
tomorrow...i dunno...
thank you ZQ and Mr. T for your messages...it made me feel warm and fuzzy inside...and kind of weepy too. i brought the compass that Mr. T gave me...it is in my purse. thank you Mr. T!

Aug. 4th, 2004

2 and a half

2 and a half more days until...bye bye

Jul. 30th, 2004

it just doesn't get any better

i just found out last night that i've been had.
i secured a place in san francisco and have been paying rent since mid-may.
i found out that someone else is living there and this lady has been collecting two rent checks.
this also means that i will have no place to live...i find this out a week before the move...two weeks before orientation. uhaul is reserved, boxes packed...and i have no where to go. i'm really worried.

Jul. 15th, 2004

Agua

Sexual Water
Pablo Neruda
Rolling down in big and distinct drops,
in drops like teeth,
in heavy drops like marmalade and blood.
rolling down in big drops, the water
is falling,
like a sword made of drops,
like a river of glass that tears things,
it is falling, biting,
beating on the axle of symmetry, knocking on the seams of the soul,
breaking abandoned things, soaking the darkness.
It is nothing but a breath, more full of moisture than crying,
a liquid, a sweat, an oil that has no name,
a sharp motion,
taking shape, making itself thick,
the water is falling
in slow drops
toward the sea, toward its dry ocean,
toward its wave without water.
I look at the wide summer, and a loud noise coming from a barn,
wineshops, cicadas,
towns, excitements,
houses, girls
sleeping with hands over their hearts.
dreaming of pirates, of conflagarations,
I look at ships,
I look at trees of bone marrow
bristling like mad cats,
I look at blood, daggers and women's stockings,
and men's hair,
I look at beds, I look at corridors where a virgin is sobbing,
I look at blankets and organs and hotels.
I look at secretive dreams,
I let the straggling days come in,
and the beginnings also, and memories also,
like an eyelid held open hideously
I am watching.
And then this sound comes:
a red noise of bones,
a sticking together of flesh
and legs yellow as wheatheads meeting.
I am listening among the explosions of the kisses,
I am listening, shaken among breathings and sobs.
I am here, watching, listening,
with half of my soul at sea and half of my soul on land,
and with both halves of my soul I watch the world.
And even if I close my eyes and cover my heart over entirely,
I see the monotonous water falling
in big monotonous drops.
It is like a hurricane of gelatin,
like a waterfall of sperm and sea anenomes.
I see a clouded rainbow hurrying.
I see its water moving over my bones.

below is the original...if you know spanish, it is a great read in terms of the rhythm of words...
AGUA SEXUAL
RODANDO a goterones solos,
a gotas como dientes,
a espesos goterones de mermelada y sangre,
rodando a goterones
cae el agua,
como una espada en gotas,
como un desgarrador río de vidrio,
cae mordiendo,
golpeando el eje de la simetría, pegando en las costuras del alma,
rompiendo cosas abandonadas, empapando lo oscuro.
Solamente es un soplo, más húmedo que el llanto,
un líquido, un sudor, un aceite sin nombre,
un movimiento agudo,
haciéndose, espesándose,
cae el agua,
a goterones lentos,
hacia su mar, hacia su seco océano,
hacia su ola sin agua.
Veo el verano extenso, y un estertor saliendo de un granero,
bodegas, cigarras,
poblaciones, estímulos,
habitaciones, niñas
durmiendo con las manos en el corazón,
soñando con bandidos, con incendios,
veo barcos,
veo árboles de médula
erizados como gatos rabiosos,
veo sangre, puñales y medias de mujer,
y pelos de hombre,
veo camas, veo corredores donde grita una virgen,
veo frazadas y órganos y hoteles.
Veo los sueños sigilosos,
admito los postreros días,
y también los orígenes, y también los recuerdos,
como un párpado atrozmente levantado a la fuerza
estoy mirando.
Y entonces hay este sonido:
un ruido ro¡o de huesos,
un pegarse de carne,
y piernas amarillas como espigas juntándose.
Yo escucho entre el disparo de los besos,
escucho, sacudido entre respiraciones y sollozos.
Estoy mirando, oyendo,
con la mitad del alma en el mar y la mitad del alma en la tierra,
y con las dos mitades del alma miro el mundo.
Y aunque cierre los ojos y me cubra el corazón enteramente,
veo caer agua sorda,
a goterones sordos.
Es como un huracán de gelatina,
como una catarata de espermas y medusas.
Veo correr un arco iris turbio.
Veo pasar sus aguas a través de los huesos.

Jul. 14th, 2004

my dinner

I ate a raven for dinner. A raven that keep saying “nevermore.” It mocked my state of oscillation, torn between the desire to forget and the desire to remember. So I ate it. I ate the memory and the raven haunted me no more. *burp*

Jun. 29th, 2004

eunionation

i'm 30 today

i wanna make an effigy, put it on a boat down the LA river and shoot a flaming arrow at it to signify the death of my twenties. ...ah ...good times.

Jun. 28th, 2004

eunionation

apparently, i'm cute when i'm dizzy???

i got a number today ... i was getting in my car that was parked on tamarid and this handsome gentleman stops his car behind me and i let him know that i was leaving so that he can park there. parking as you know is scarce in that area. but he said no...he just wanted to give me his card b/c he thought that i was just so cute (i hate that word by the way...). he got out of his car and gave it to me and drove off. i looked at the car and it said ben coltrane....which made me wonder if he was related to the fameous john coltrane...hmm....should i call him? i think i'll hang on to the card for a while.
eunionation

has anyone seen my compass?

gosh darn it!

i woke up this morning and the first thought was...why is my room spining and not me?
second thought...gosh darn it, i've got vertigo again! argh. the world is spining and i can't catch up with it. so i called in my doc and got a Rx...got the Rx and on the drive back...i got a speeding ticket...and a misdemeanor-siting for driving with an invalid license....sigh... stuck in labyrinthitis

Jun. 27th, 2004

eunionation

Art Review

Aaron Kraten: Art Review
Date: June 27, 2004

Minimalism, abstract expressionism, non-objective art prevalent since the end of WWII is about counter culture devoid of sociological elements within the artifice proper. Whereas street art is all about culture within subcultural structures layered with journalistic endeavors of observation. Robotic interface between matters of the human existence. Art as experience from one’s fleeting thought to another’s convictions are impressions of observations. Compositional breakdown is as intelligent as mondrian with the pathos of a hopeless romantic. Personal, rather than the endeavor for the primordial which is the nebuluous depth that is conjecture at best. Sterile robotic elements or detached human beings on top of layers of thoughts fleeting like the world we live in. there is always this human/emotional element. The loneliness in a crowd among a barrage of information, devoid of facial expression yet full of emotional tenderness in the way in which the figures are placed, posed in pensive thought of internal matters of the heart.

Jun. 26th, 2004

Zzzzzzz.....

Gazing out of my window pane on a lazy Saturday afternoon.

Body and mind still tired as I just woke up at noon.

Demon, lycanthrope, rusalka, banshee, vamp energized by the moon

Light shunned and hell-bound in gloom

Sleep's returning as the sun’s still burning

Heart earning for the rest of my soul ravaged by night and darkness

Come.

Jun. 25th, 2004

it's just one of those days

where everybody sucks!

Jun. 23rd, 2004

Thank you Mr. Taters

for your encouraging words.

Some of us are runners.
We live for the race.
Those who don't understand consider it a disgrace.
We seek something more from this fancy chace.
 
Somtimes disguised as fear of the past.
It's that nagging fear that makes us feel we won't last.
You are running yes this is true.
Don't forget you are running to find you.
 
Don't think so much on what you run from.
Think more on where you'll be when the race is done.

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