I just posted my first entry on Treehugger! Check it, check it out!

Cast painted by Plasticgod.

Check out my first online article for Future Classic.

It’s about the Keep-A-Breast Foundation and their coming auction/exhibit of which I’m both a castee & participating artist.

+ I did this one! (Thanks Steven for taking this photo!)

Ugh. I’m not sure how I feel about having my face ripped off & put on someone else once I’m gone. Though, they say it would look different on another person. Perhaps like a long lost relative? (Oh, and if you’re into the sinister, you can get a poster of the images from here.)

This is just too good to pass up.

When a good time turns around
You must whip it
You will never live it down
Unless you whip it
No one gets their way
Until they whip it

I say whip it
Whip it good

SF Chronicle article on the Air Force’s report of the “Teleportation Physics Study”. via Boing Boing

How Stuff Works on Teleportation

India moving in quantum leaps and bounds.

Teleportation Physics Study via Google

Something that I’m continuously being reminded of, something that makes life that much better, something that I’m always learning not to do…

take for granted:
To consider as true, real, or forthcoming

To underestimate the value of: a publisher who took the editors for granted.
(from dictionary.com)

In deference to your frame of reference
Decision maintains your vision
The essence of true wonder
Tucked under the stance

– KC

Then it might as well be in this:

Me turning into a tree!

(click on image for a super close-up)

While on my retreat, a poem I wrote 12 years ago played a bit in my head.

19 May 1993

reason is murdered

i’m a wanderer of life,
my soul caught up
in the night and day of
hectic confusion.
my mind brings forth the illusion
that my eyes feign to believe.
i cannot conceive
the truth
that i have established for myself.
i repeat what i receive.
mere tautology of thoughts
to confuse the self further.
i try reason, but i hear a scream and
a voice cries out,
murder!
reason is murdered
and only its spirit is left.
still, i dig for its remains.

©

I will be participating in the Vipassana Meditation Retreat starting mid next week.

Leo Horoscope for week of May 19, 2005

Andrea Levy never read a book until she was 23 and didn’t start writing until her mid-30s. Now 49, she’s the author of four books, including Small Island, which in 2004 won three major awards in her native Britain. She’s your role model for the next four weeks, Leo. What natural talent have you failed to develop so far? Let Levy inspire you to shed your regret about it and dive in to a new era of full engagement.

That’s what Rob Brezsny has to say.

Interestingly, it seems like I’ve been immersed in a series of reminders lately. Instead of hazy memories, some things are coming back full force. I had forgotten how creative I used to be, what it’s like to make something that you can actually hold in your hand and look at without the aid of a computer. All the writing, the collage, the books, the drawings, etc. that I made so steadily years ago, all the crazy, but creative ideas that constantly infiltrated and overwhelmed me…I wonder what that Karla who kept it up is doing now. She’s been leaving me a trail of breadcrumbs. Anyone who’s around me notices sooner or later my unusually-large-for-a-small-girl appetite. Even the crumbs can’t escape. It seems like we’re bound to finally meet face to face any day now.

So my random – green monochromatic vision thing (refer to an earlier post) became more strangely focused. Last week as I lay down to sleep the green lines started to stir up against the black again. 2 specific moving images looped. Both were the result of earlier encounters that day.

The first image was of

Pushing Hands – as in Tai Chi. It was a close up of 2 pairs of hands acting & counteracting over and over. I checked out a Yang style Tai Chi school after work. Real chi in action is subtle, but interesting to watch. The Sifu told me he’s schooling himself on some physics. The energy definitely flows through him. After 25 years of practice, he’s still trying to understand what it is.

The other moving image was of a particular wood puzzle created by a retired physicist. The puzzle is the Platonic solids – the tetrahedron, the cube, the octahedron, the dodecahedron and the icosahedron nested inside of each other. Apparently it’s considered a phenomenal achievement – to get them to fit perfectly inside one another. The result of more than 40 years of mathematical puzzle making. In any case, in my imagery – each form would replace the other (same size though) – 1-5, then loop again.

Even when I opened my eyes for a few seconds and closed them again – the two moving images would reappear, repeat and interchange. This went on until I fell asleep. Totally weird.

A number of years ago I had the pleasure of meeting Jamel Shabazz while working on a shoot for Honey Magazine. I was assisting a stylist – and he was the photographer. We shot on location at Skate Key in the Bronx. I had a chance to play a little and roll around the rink in old school skates. It was kinda funny and not very easy. I was so used to inline skates and those things are like trucks for your feet. Anyay, I remember Jamel as a chill, mild mannered guy whose main gig at the time was working as a corrections officer (don’t know if he still is). He wasn’t too enthused to be doing a fashion spread. I guess it was just way too much fuss for him considering his usual photo work. Since then, his highly popular collection of 1980s NYC street portraits has been published as
and no doubt continues to find its way into the hands of retro 1980s enthusiasts & nostalgists, hip-hop fans and many other urbanites across the globe.

Mr. Shabazz along with Joe Conzo and Ernie Paniccioli are having an exhibit together at the Xpo @ Gallerie in Dumbo this Friday. The show will be a collection of their individual photo documentations of hip-hop culture from its inception. I DJ’ed an opening at the Xpo about a month or so ago. Along with the usual wine & cheese gallery opening fare, the Xpo also serves up some yummy microbrews AND coffee. Guess they really wanna keep you hoppin’.

The info:
3 THE HARD WAY
Jamel Shabazz, Joe Conzo & Ernie Paniccioli
Opens Friday May 13th at 7pm

the Xpo @ Gallerie
63 Pearl Street
Brooklyn
F train to York, AC to Brooklyn Bridge,
under Manhattan Bridge

Arianna Huffington’s assemblage of celebrity concern, criticism and commentary debuted with her Huffington Post launch yesterday. “The Blog” is putting the likes of Walter Cronkite (hey that kinda rhymes!), Bill Maher, John Cusack and Ellen Degeneres together in one room. Even though the posts do not seem open to public remarks – it would be great if the celebs posted commentary on each other. That would make for a more interesting conversation and possible worthwhile gossip. Here are some silly fabricated outtakes from The Guardian.
(add 5/11 – This is even better.)

*5/19 Another update: a quick search and it seems everyone (including me) & their mother unwittingly thought to use “Huffing and Puffing” as their title reference to Arianna’s HP.

Am I the only one that immediately thinks of afuches/cabasas and shekeres when I look at a nanogear? I guess not too many people get to see an illustration of a nanogear, much less an actual one. But yo, check it out. And I even found some matching colors! (note: the colors were already as is. I didn’t alter any of them to correspond)

OK – the formatting of this template is acting funky. Figuring out how to get it back.Got it back.