gone

land speed...

did i say i miss the mountains? this was actually pretty cool, very desolate.

who knew...

went for a walk yesterday in the beautiful spring weather and to my surprise this is what i saw...about three blocks from my place.
Interesting...

new house

here's my new home...not so sunny today but usually the light is awesome!

mmm philly cheesesteak

when in philly.........

history....

perhaps i should learn a little american history.....

R.I.P

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**i'm taking a short haitus but will return, new + improved once settled further south**

could i have done something...

another good-bye...

so many branches...

death is the road to awe....


(click on the photo for the artist)

pavlov's drool.....

in honour of my 100th post, i give you halloween cupcakes!!!!!!!!!!!

(photo courtesy of the cupcake queen)

time

I’m afraid of dying

Published on Saturday, April 22nd, 2006

My whole life, as long as I can remember, I’ve been afraid of dying. The fear seems to hit me in waves, but it’s always there, constantly reminding me of my mortality.

read the rest of the article here....


i find it interesting that really it's not so much about the act of dying but the fact that you are scared of time.....time running out before you can experience all that you ever wanted....the things that you will miss...the events and people but really it just comes back to time.

brought to you by the letter "G"...

one of the comments made during my final presentation was that my drawings looked a little goreyish (i was very happy, i love his illustrations) so i stumbled on this quiz...what horrible death will you die ala edward gorey?????

What horrible Edward Gorey Death will you die?

You will be smothered under a rug. You're a little anti-social, and may want to start gaining new social skills by making prank phone calls. Take this quiz!

stiff + spook

currently reading Spook by Mary Roach....same author as Stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers.....both excellent reads!

afraid of the dark...

there seems to be some interest in both my mind and the mind of others so i think i will continue posting once a week or so... (whenever i stumble across something interesting)
Death is all around us so i'm sure there will always be something to intrigue.
Thanks for the continued interest. Drop me a line if there are any suggestions you may have.

Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
--Francis Bacon

the same ending....

there is an ending to every story....

we all fall down.

When I Die, Scatter My Ashes...

many different people, many different requests....

It may seem odd to some that, at only 32 years of age, I have already prepared for my eventual passing. However, I feel strongly that there's no time like the present when it comes to planning one's final resting place, particularly when one is still of sound mind and body. Therefore, I would like to be cremated, placed in a black lacquer vase, and then scattered on the body of a completely naked lady.

read original article...

more stones.....

throwing stones...

st.boniface cemetery

does it ever change?

The dead are no longer lonely.
--Virgil Incanto


i guess it can....

culmination of efforts...

after running around getting signatures for graduate studies forms the book has been handed off.......

this is the final chapter!

at the printers...

so i dropped my hefty book off at the printers today and am having a little bit of anxiety about it. (what if there's spelling mistakes, like i didn't check it 5 times and had someone else check it twice, but still)
3 copies, 11x17 full colour, double sided ready for pick-up tomorrow at 11am and then off to bind them and finishing touches and after all of this to be dropped on the desk of the graduate student advisor just waiting for the required signatures and then.... OMG i'm done!!!!!





then what?




(i'll post a photo of the final product tomorrow and then there will be a short haitus on this site while i re-stablish my path)
thanks for all the support and kind comments on this journey...

book...

i am in the process of trying to layout a final portfolio and program book for the past 7 months, i will post periodically the progress and in the end i will try and figure out how to put the pdf document here to view... (any outside input would be greatly appreciated!)
and now i hear the tv calling my name... (oh how easily i am swayed!)

one more document...

only a little book stands between myself and my little piece of significant paper!!!!!!!
here's some photos from this morning...

calm before the storm...


the proof that i was conscious for it...

yay!!!

this is a prototype of the urn that would be within the rusted crates...

wall with the crates installed (also retrieval interface)

just another shot of the wall...

tomorrow at 10:30 this will all come to an end! I will post a photo tomorrow once everything is wrapped up. I hung all the boards today and i think that i am quite happy with the way they turned out...

less than 48 hrs...

these are the final boards for presentation on wednesday, i will be making a book of all the presentations to hand in at the end. It will be great to see everything in one document.(blows my mind at how much you can produce in 7 months, half of it i don't really even remember doing)

and so it is...

morla, my friend i will miss you...

sticks are done....

only a little bit of glue trama (as in gluing myself to myself and to my desk and to my clothes etc, crazy glue and i don't really mix!!!)
Now i have to put in the posts and beams and crazy detail stuff, hopefully by the end of tomorrow it will be done (but i have my doubts, always multiply by 2.5x isn't that the rule?)

ashes to ashes...

i borrowed a camera and here's some shots of my cube/urn and the start of the section model with all the sticks that were responsible for bob the blister...

pilfered...

something stolen, nothing new but all i have to say is
FUCK YOU!!!

**my camera from my drawer will no longer be my eyes to the world**

section finished

here's the one section that i'm doing, i have decided that i don't want to do another one and really with the models and perspectives there should be enough information to fill up a booklet...(oh yeah and i'm LAZY MWAHHHHAAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!)

364 pieces + one blister = ?

FUN I TELL YOU!!!!!

better on screen

i have come to the crappy realization that these images look much better on a computer screen than they do printed out (but i guess that was bound to happen) Here's another view from inside the little follies looking out toward the wall. They are pretty much open air enclosures (so no real walls, just shade from the beating desert sun)

so close

well i'm coming to the end of this journey. It's so close i can taste it, but it also makes my stomach flip flop and my brain say. HOLY CRAP!!! Who da thunk that after spending so much time you start to think if you really can pull it off? (i mean i will finish but it's like pulling teeth, i just want to do other stuff like surf the interweb or read a book and i know that if i don't put the time in now i will regret it and kick myself for being the excellent procrastinator i am)
Anyway 19 days to go and i actually have some plans and sections to show for my grief (oh yeah and one hell of a sexy cough too NOT!)
anyway enjoy and i will continue to post sporadically in the next couple of weeks.
thanks for reading :)

even more

i know that perhaps you may be bored of seeing the same things over again but there are in fact subtle differences in them.