Directions to my house.

Hi,

I hope everyone can find a way to be in my living room at noon on sunday. Because I like you all, and you can meet Yoko (the man of the house, meow), and because we need to plan this secret cafe.

From downtown:
Heading east on fourth or fifth, take a right on Adams.
Adams turns into Jefferson near the post office, stay on Jefferson.
You will go through a few lights, two I think.
Take a left onto 13th ave. and go through two stop signs.
My house is blue, on the left side, surrounded by apartments, and has two really awesome trees in front.
It is almost at the end of the street, but not quite.

It isn't hard.
See you soon.

Sincerely,
Natalie

die happy

need some inspiration?

Monday Notes!

Hello!

Today we BLAZED THROUGH all sorts of interesting topics, and I think we're all better people for it.

A Recap:

CRITIQUE:

We decided that it would be much nicer if the artist being critiqued keeps track of time, so they may redirect conversation towards the end of their critique as they see fit. Also I will sass Matt Hamon into more active facilitation during critique (a la Sweet).
Pre-critique peer edits are the way of the future. Come a half hour or so early to get feedback on artist statements, essays, work descriptions, vaguely threatening letters to celebrities, etc.
Oh, and Lisa Sweet may not be available for critique next week, so a rescheduling is recommended. Someone should do that.

HOW ARE WE FEELING?

Guys, everything is going to be fine. Natalie is getting a cut of the profits from today's bake sale to buy doll hair, Vanessa found her bike, and Alicia makes ceramic ladies to keep creative. I say follow Alicia's example: chase those artistic doldrums away with little projects, aesthetic busy work, or just anything that gets your brain-wheels turning. Selected suggestions: read, listen to NPR or Bruce Springsteen, smoke some grass.

INAUGURAL MENTAL HEALTH ASSIGNMENT: Make a map. Due Monday

BAKES SALES:

1) Find your pastry vessels in the contract studio in the Arts Annexxx.
2) The Chem Club is just a bunch of jealous losers.
3) ASSIGNMENT: Make a dozen Valentines for the next bake sale!

SECRET CAFE:

We are meeting Sunday Evening at Natalie's house (714 13th Ave) for a TV-FREE SUPERBOWL FIESTA and Official Secret Cafe Meeting. Be there if you're interested (you should be).

Lastly, tomorrow Chris Jordan is giving an artist's talk at 3:45 in Lecture Hall 1.

"Believe in yourself."

-Kate Winslet

best hug ever

this is a video kate mentioned seeing and it warms my heart.

Monday Readings

Next Monday's readings have been xeroxed and distributed. Nick, Ryan, Ceradwen-your copies on your studio desks. Jake-I don't know where your studio space is. I will be on campus Friday, you should call me if you are too.
This selcction is an essay by Saussure (like heir of sauce) found in From Modernism to Postmoderism: An Anthology. It will link up nicely with our chapters in On Longing. Also, for those interested, Andrew and I are going to type up a short introduction to Postmodernism.

Also, keep next Saturday (the 2) open. I'm having a party, party, gathering.

p.s.

reception at the OFS for Rachael Lang's photos, Saturday 4-6
last post about the OFS, i promise.

on longing, please

if i recall correctly, Kim and Natilie said they had a copy of on long i could borrow, and if you could bring it in on the Monday meeting that would be great. also the capitol is showing a funny documentary called "my kid could paint that" about a 4 year old art star. could be awesome.
here's a like to the trailer http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/381466/My-Kid-Could-Paint-That/trailers
last showing at the ofs is friday, 9pm.

For Sale on Craigslist

go to http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/fur/541735212.html for full details

bakesale week 4!

that time again! Wheee!

I'm making rice crispys again and also some muffins (not sure what kind yet)

I'm pumped about the frosting, Kate can we use your frosting stuff to do some rose demos?

hose

oh, we are actually called Those Bottom Feeders, not hose. you's a hose.

Come and see music

Hi friends,

my band, hose Bottom Feeders, is playing this weekend at the westside arts walk....

Chez Cascadia, which is 323 Milroy

should be fun... and possibly embarrassing.

the darker side of betty crocker

bibliooddyssey

http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/

Kim says look at this blog, it has a section on history of the Wundderkrammerneerner

The Government IS good for something

The Library of Congress just posted its own Flickr set, which is kind of funny to me. Myspace page for the CAI comming soon?

But the 3,000+ images are really really great and I have been looking at them all day while I copy CD's at work. They seem to go backward from WW2 and cover a lot of great stuff. Check it!

Bakesale...

I'm just curious if anyone else is baking for tomorrow. So far only Natalie and I have left bake posts, and if we are the only ones baking I need to know so I will bake more tonight.
see you all tomorrow

Readings

hello all,
The reading list and schedule has been completed. A few articles have been removed, some new ones added, and half of Poetics of Space has been removed on the advise of Kim and Natalie, who previously read it. The new additions are mostly support for some of the theory discussed in On Longing. So the list is:

Poetics of Space - the first half
Art and Artifact - read in full
Art Objects by Jeanette Winterson - read in full
On Longing by Susan Stewart - excerpts
Air Guitar by Dave Hickey - four essays (can be xeroxed by the group)
"Art and Politics" - short essay by Virginia Wolf, will be xeroxed
"Devils Work" - a short essay, will be xeroxed
A short chapter on post modern theories of linguistics, will be xeroxed
Rhetoric of the Image by Roland Barthes, which is a chapter out of Image, Music, Text
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin, Which is a chapter out of his book Illuminations. Will be xeroxed.
One Radio Lab story. Link will be provided.

The break down is as follows:
Week one
Ch. 1 Poetics of space
Intro Art and Artifact

Week two
Ch. 2 Poetics of Space
Ch. 1 Art and Artifact

Week three
Ch. 3 Poetics of space
Ch, 2 art and artifact
Air guitar: "A Life in the Arts" and "Romancing the Looky-Loos"

Week four
Ch. 4 Poetics of Space
Ch. 3 Art and Artifact
Postmodernist Linguistics chapter

Week five
Art Objects parts one and two
Ch. 4 Art and Artifact
"Art and Politics" by Virginia Wolf

Week six
Art Objects part three
Ch. 5 Art and Artifact
"The System of Objects"

Week seven
Ch. 6 Art and Artifact
On Longing section 1
"Devils Work"

Week 8
Epilogue Art and Artifact
On Longing section 5

Week 9
Rhetoric of the Image
Air guitar: " A Home in the Neon" and "The Birth of the Big Beautiful Art Market"

Week 10
Making Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Radio Lab - Detective stories

As the "readings commitee" we decided that we will be in charge of getting things copied. We thought it would be easier if we just made a disc with every article on it, which will be kept in the library on closed reserve, and we can just print off articles as needed. We will shortly email the link of those articles that are on line. There will also be a hard copy of the articles in closed reserve in the library. I would suggest that everyone buy or check out a copy of On Longing, as we will be reading a lot out of it.

I hope you like it.

movie

so, i talked to a projectionist at the capitol theater, Brian, and he agreed to show a film the night of Thursday, the 17th. i realized that the film i mentioned, "Edvard munch" is almost 4 hours, that could get painful. I was thinking of showing "The enigma of Kasper Hauser" by Hertzog.
Sound good? thoughts? movie ideas? beer?

Quick Notez

Just a few things, in case y'all forgot!

Wednesday Critique Schedule (semi-set-in-stone):

Savories (Hamon's Group):

4-6:30pm even weeks

Sweets (Sweet's Group):

9:30-12pm odd weeks.

Natalie proposed the ABC House basement as a potential space. It would probably cost in the neighborhood of $100 for a weekend. Take note!

And lastly, don't forget to comment on Kate's post listing your contribution to the Monday bakesale (which is from 11-1 and 3-4).

"Never let go of being fucking serious."

-Kate Winslet

Fresh Link

Large photos of the skulls of basically any animal you can think of, anyone?

Group A critique (Matt's crew)

(jubilant expression) I have spoken with Matt, and Vanessa, and here is how it goes.
Wednesday afternoons we will have group A critique from 4 - 6:30pm. I don't yet know where... but that is the deal. Vanessa kindly rescheduled her shift in printmaking to accommodate us. Now we will always have critique on Wednesdays just at different times. (again jubilant expression)

Also I updated Ryan's Post with as much info as I currently possess.
Topics updated - critique schedules / times, bake sale dates to reflect kates post, meeting times, and the possibility of an av room secured by Manly Matt Ham-on (just heard back from him looks like a sem 2 room is a no-go but we can get a lecture hall in the rotunda - for thursday night screenings/cronk juice parties -pretty nice eh?)

Holy Cow... Baking Already!!

I'll make Brownies... I will also post this under comments in Kate's bake sale post.

Bakesales

So. I went to go pick up an extra bake sale form and the lady told me the dates that we are scheduled to sell: Jan. 14th, 28th, February 11th, 25th, and March 10th. You can sell from 8am-6pm
She said that you can also call and if no one is scheduled for a day you can perhaps do more than 5 days a quarter.
That means, next week, Week 2 instead of 3, is our first day.
Who wants to bake? Also, perhaps we should change the hours around a bit for our monday meeting/seminar to accomodate for this.
If you do make any purchases for the baking, give Dalton receipts. (just so we know someone isn't spending all of their money on stuff)
sorry Dalton to steal your thunder on this post, from now on I will step back.

lurve
kate

Notes From Monday Meeting

Hey guys! Here's all the info I could gather from Kate's and my notes. Sorry if there are holes, I will take more robust notes in the future.

Firstly, WFS officially stands for whatever we want it to at the time.

Meetings This Week:

Wednesday at Noon: Meeting with Judy Bauman about studio space in Arts Annex.

Friday at 10:00: All-WFS meeting with Powerpoint presentations and seminar on Art and Artifact's introduction, and Chapter 1 of Poetics of Space.

Weekly Meetings are as follows:
meeting+seminar Mondays 10 - 1
critique Group A Wednesdays 4 - 6:30 pm
critique Group B Wednesdays mournings?
events-see below Thursday nights

Groups:

Group A = the savories (with faculty critique on even weeks): starting week 2

Ryan

Dalton

Kim

Vanessa

Natalie

Group B = the sweets (with faculty critique on odd weeks): starting week 3

Kate

Ceradwen

Alicia

Nick

Jake

Responsibilities:

Show space researchers: Jake and Natalie

Treasurer: Dalton

Secretary: Ryan

Communications: Ceradwen

Events:

Last Friday in Portland's Pearl District on January 29th: likely.

First Thursday the following week in Seattle: ?

Vanessa is looking into Thursday night screenings at the Capital at 11pm.
(update dalton - we might get a space in sem2 - one of the theater rooms- matt is working on it- because vanessa said this week is definitely no good @ ofs)

Fundraising:

Bake Sales:

Most likely every other Monday starting Week 2 (so, weeks 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10) we definitely have space reserved in the cab to hold our bake sales. I'm pretty sure Kim and Alicia agreed to head week 2, correct me if I'm wrong. The bake sales would most likely occur in two waves: 11am-1pm, then 3pm on. Crafts and reproductions/prints also on the menu.

Secret Cafe:

Natalie thinks her house would be good for one, possibly around Valentine's Day!

Also, consider Etsy.com.

Remember, everyone should aim to raise $100 dollars each over the course of the quarter.

That's all she wrote.

And of course by "she" I mean:

Kate Winslet.

Monday meeting

Hello everyone,
At the last meeting, if I recall, we didn't decide on a place and time because we were waiting to find out when we could get a room. As of tonight, we still don't know when or where we will be, but I think we should meet anyway. So, I am suggesting that we meet on Monday at 1:00 in the Library next to the stained glass windows, where we met last time. If we want to move from there, we can. If someone has a better place to meet, lets hear it.
Okay, happy new year everyone,
Alicia

kate article for you

http://www.saintjones.com/writings/poe.htm
didn't read much of this but it did have to do with tooth decay and Edgar Allen Poe

Monday Monday Monday!!!!

So When and Where are we meeting Monday. If we decide on a time I could try to find us an AV room