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Post by halibutholysoap on Mar 28, 2013 18:43:48 GMT -5
~Appended FAQ for Zineth~ 600 dpi?75-300dpi. If you don't know what I mean, post here. jpg? tif? png?TIFF and PNG. If you don't know what I mean, post here. is the 13x13 square going to have staples in the middle? Or is the square one page?it will have spread pages, so 26x13 with a fold in the center. You can play around with that as you like. It's just a matter of laying it out appropriately in the page planning. See here:
zineth: What influenced you early on to not worry about being disliked?
gavin: Multi-part answer. I remember long ago during my childhood I decided that being famous was not a goal of mine. It just seemed annoying, all those people knowing you. Since I’m not worried about being liked. Being disliked also has always seemed like a given. Like the way that people will always talk shit behind your back, someone is going to dislike what you do. This is actually freeing. If you can accept these things as inevitable you can simply ignore them or view them without much emotional involvement. Also worth noting is that I’ve been financially secure for my whole life. If I needed to make my work pay, I’d have to make it to be liked. Good question.
zineth: If you could be steadman or thompson, who would you be?
gavin: I’d be steadman I think.
zineth: Stanley Kubrick, who worked on the book and screenplay for 2001: A Space Odyssey with Arthur C Clarke once said of acid, “It’s very dangerous to be zonked out by everything that you see and think of, and to believe all your ideas are of cosmic proportions, [pg 313 of Vincent Lobrutto’s bio of Stanley Kubrick]” (Neither Clarke nor Kubrick have ever admitted to using it) I do not think you’re guilty of this, but how do you manage to keep a healthy self-criticism and to align that s-c with your feelings about taking LSD?
gavin: Meanwhile, acid frequently show me how miniscule my ideas and me are. It’s fairly easy to catch myself when I’m feeling too profound. A part of my anchor lies in the fact that I’m frequently drawing when I’m in acid-land. This keeps my frame of reference small and my focus limited. Meanwhile, I’ve always been a good guesser
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Post by halibutholysoap on Mar 31, 2013 20:13:28 GMT -5
abstract poetry based on concrete influences of family, friends, sayings or ideas that were common for you, social realities at school or in town, your reasons for choosing IT and for choosing music, film, your attitude about things.
dan wants me to ask more questions about your childhood life and what you were like when you were young.
can you explain fractals and why they are important to you? fractals are a type of geometry. if you see a shape that is self-similar and infinitely scaleable or infinitely detailed. each part looks like the whole thing when zoomed in. It's a way to understand standard shapes in the world. how do you make a tree out of squares and circles. if you use fractals, you can generate an equation that will generate tree-like structures. it helps you look at the world, a new way of looking at it. for me, personally i like it because they're aesthetically pleasing. I can take visual cues from them and incorporate them into my drawing. They take a lot of time but they don't take deep thought or planning, you just split it once and again, don't have to think about the end result. you can just work minute by minute but still end up with something complex and interesting to look at.
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Post by thorper on Apr 17, 2013 10:10:20 GMT -5
reach out and twitch your fleshy extensions until something makes your neurotransmitters give you a smack hit
live weird, do whatever
oh, and fuck the administration
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Post by thorper on Apr 17, 2013 10:10:56 GMT -5
on green hill down to dark clay gouges clear, beautiful signs of years past lovingly carved by rain by people
white house white walls maple steel decades
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Post by thorper on Apr 17, 2013 10:11:16 GMT -5
boring school bored friends in Vermont, so weed, obviously
drink, puke, smoke, stone
meet the acid fairy and her fungus friends attach self to pen for hours, wiggle fingers, hey! that looks cool!
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Post by halibutholysoap on May 16, 2013 13:57:28 GMT -5
Okay, cool. You get to interview BILLY. ASk me some questions (up to 6, my favorite #).
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Post by Basic Qs on May 17, 2013 16:44:15 GMT -5
Age
21
Location
Troy NY / Shoreham VT
Tools of choice?
bass guitar, bic ballpoint, language (occasionally).
What do you do?
try not to be bored
Goals and Aspirations?
my current dream is to find a drummer and maybe a guitarist and slum around as an improvisational stoner metal group
What inspires you?
boredom, but also the mighty Al Cisneros - bassist of Sleep and Om. meanwhile webcomics such as Gunshow make me want to draw stupid faces.
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Questions for Billy
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Post by Questions for Billy on May 17, 2013 16:49:24 GMT -5
Why are you doing this?
What makes you happy?
Would you rather be temporarily happy or permanently content?
If you had to kill someone, what method would you use?
If you could raze any building, which would it be?
Have you ever been overwhelmed by the utterly chaotic pointlessness of your own life?
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Post by halibutholysoap on May 18, 2013 4:23:19 GMT -5
Why are you doing this? www.kylelaidig.tumblr.com abunchofimages.tumblr.comMy friend/Charlie Affel's friend Kyle Laidig asked me and my associate, Wendall Carefree, to design up a section for his journal on contemporary artists. He began applying to RISD and I really loved the idea. But I changed the idea to include many disciplines. But I still want to execute his idea soon/next time. What makes you happy? Candy. Birthdays, presents, cake. Making/doing cool things with others: little projects, whatever they need to get done, mini road trips with seemingly innocuous goals. Hanging out with people all day and managing not to feel like any time was "wasted". Reading cool books and teaching them to others. Film, really good film that makes me feel stuff, especially with other people who like films for their own sake. Being annoying and finding people's buttons and then pushing those buttons and enjoying their anger and hoping they are enjoying being angry. Hanging out with old people that aren't scared of life, especially old women--they're the most hilarious and accommodating, and they are always doing an activity. Learning with people that like what we're learning. Skill sharing groups. Pokemon...video games with moral dilemmas and cool ideas about how to interact with the world--like job classes that mix such as bard and knight! Role playing. Learning about people's inner secrets and passions--when I stumble across a website where a guy has poured his entire brain out...people that want to share useful knowledge, functional ideas and cool experiential suggestions, etc in that vein. Animals I can play with. Good food + beverage! Soccer! Trolling! Try me! Would you rather be temporarily happy (multiple times?) or permanently content? I wonder if it's possible to be permanently content. Time frames have to be defined here. Okay, abstract answer: permanently content. If you had to kill someone, what method would you use? According to my Viking roots, the axe would be the most fun and the most punishing, especially with an unknowable adversary. According to my preference, I would just kill parts of people. I would like to do that by annoying them until they become angry, and then the part that I had to kill would die. If I couldn't do it exactly to my preference, I would choose the huge flashlight and the decorated nail. If you could raze any building, which would it be? White House. It's time for a symbol which actually represents who controls our culture: Chase bank's logo. Have you ever been overwhelmed by the utterly chaotic pointlessness of your own life? What? Definitely. I have delusions of grandeur, so these bouts hurt extra!
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Post by thorper on May 19, 2013 20:09:40 GMT -5
"Being annoying and finding people's buttons and then pushing those buttons and enjoying their anger and hoping they are enjoying being angry. "
I'm glad that you've articulated this so I don't have to.
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Post by halibutholysoap on May 22, 2013 12:45:06 GMT -5
"Being annoying and finding people's buttons and then pushing those buttons and enjoying their anger and hoping they are enjoying being angry. " I'm glad that you've articulated this so I don't have to. But I don't always enjoy it. It's a lot more fun when the person actually enjoys being angry. You're a good example and that's why I answered the way I did. I like to do it because the world is boring unless it's shook up. And people don't tend to deal with problems, so if you're erratic and annoying, sometimes it can bring it out. I get bored easily too. The message I'd like the world to hear? "Pay me for my services. Annoying people need to eat too."
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