I've been a bad, bad blogger

I got tagged by squish awhile ago, and never fulfilled my duty. So, here it is: the four things meme.

Four (other) jobs I've had:

* Singing Telegram Performer
* Stall Mucker
* Telemarketer
* House of Toast Manager

Four little-known facts about me:

* I have a tiny hole in the roof of my mouth, and when I take sinus medications I can sometimes suck air through it, making a high-pitched guinea pig sound.
* I barrell raced in minor rodeos & gymkhanas when I was a kid.
* When I was in 6th grade I wanted to be a trucker. This is about the same time that I was put into some torturous classes at school to teach me to be "girlier".
* I had a 12 inch mohawk at one time. Unfortunately, I lost the one picture I had of it. I wish I could find someone who has one.

Four movies I can watch over and over (okay, maybe more than 4 for this one):

* Hedwig & the Angry Inch
* Pulp Fiction
* Happiness
* Breakfast at Tiffanys
* Tod Browning's Freaks
* Santa Sangre
* Blue Velvet
* Basquiat
* Princess Mononoke
* City of Lost Children
* Delicatessan
* Repo Man


Four city airports I have been to:

* La Guardia (NYC)
* Rome
* London Gatwick
* O'Hare (Chicago)

Four favorite male actors:

* Phillip Seymour Hoffman
* Steve Buscemi
* James Gandolfini
* William H. Macy

Four TV shows I like to watch

* The Sopranos
* Project Runway
* Real Time With Bill Maher
* Arrested Development

Four foods that I hate to love:

* Salt & Pepper Potato Chips
* Chocolate & Sweets
* Cheese, cheese, cheese
* butter. on anything.

Four web sites (not blogs) I visit daily:

* craigslist.org
* truthout.org
* ebay.com
* g-g-g-google

Four things I want to do before I die:

* Travel. Everywhere. Anywhere.
* Have a major museum show.
* Make it into an art magazine, or better, a book.
* Change the world.

Four places I would rather be right now

* Paris, eating crepes & picking through the flea market postcards.
* New York, always.
* In my studio, painting.
* Soaking in a hot springs with R.

Four people I'm tagging:

I can't. I just can't. All the people I would tag have already been tagged, so I'll just say, if you're reading this, and feel like doing it, then go for it. Let me know if you do, so I can change this pathetic ending & make it look like I actually have friends that read this drivel!

We are the Champions, my friends...

After a grueling 2 weeks, $100 in adhesive products, and about 27 paper cuts, I am very proud to announce that my team, the Capsule Art Thugs, won the 2006 ADCD Paper Fashion Show! Yay!

The ADCD puts on this paper fashion show every year, and it's a pretty cool event. It's an amazing challenge to try to get paper to move like fabric, and to engineer it in such a way that it fits your model, rather than just being a stiff cylinder.

The last couple of weeks were incredibly frustrating, and there are things the organizers could do better next time, but overall it was worth it. I had a blast working with Dave & Katie & Brandon, Amie was the most fantastic model and muse we could have ever wished for, and the fact that the event was the night after the Project Runway Finale helped us get pumped up. (Santino was robbed! Sorry Chloe, still love you too, but that pink dress!)

Here's some photos, and a link to last year's video. (My dress was the last, sort of NAKED one!)