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a line, a loop, a tangle of threads
Aug. 16th, 2014 11:59 pmOR
the second day of Greenfest in 24 minutes or less
But first, I drew three people, we had to take the shuttle bus, I think they took a different one, but they caught up to me at JFK/UMass just so they could see it.
And then there was a woman at Downtown Crossing with hair in fine golden braids and then a tangle of black and gold and indigo.
I was hoping to arrive when the Chinese orchestra (yueqin, pipas, yangqin, erhu) but arrived during Jo-Me's dance. Something delayed everything and I don't know why. What I do know is that I'm running on fumes, cherry tomatoes, and free samples of Tasty Bite Indian and Asian meals. Tomorrow, I'm ready for you.
It's a celebration of everything Vox Day hates, and keep in mind Vox Day is so reactionary he's racist against Swedish people, and keep in mind that Swedish people are like "Whitey McWhitington," and keep in mind that he wrote a really shitty poem with a really basic AABBCCDDEE rhyme scheme about it too and keep in mind that he rhymed "fact" and "back," and also "shores" and "wars" which wasn't that offensive but "understand" and "Englishman" was.
As the Sparrow has a song called Emily and a music video of that song in which they dress up as Clue (Cluedo, for you British people who read this… assuming you guys exist…) characters. It's like… if Cheryl Tunt added some ska and swing to her band and maybe made it more folksy and less outlaw country, or maybe I just tried too hard too late at night to come up with an analogy and it can be described simply as Americana folk rock with a bit of swing. Look it up. It's worth it. Oh, look, they have a Bandcamp. So I'm really grateful that they screwed up, because I'd probably never listen to something like them otherwise.
A woman who is a melange of everything Asian had a Back to the Future style holographic hat that she says looks better on her when her eyes are purple and her hair is silver-blue. She had the Hunab Ku, the Mayan butterfly/void at the center of the universe on one wrist so I thought she was Guatemalan or from that area, but she's not. She has Shiva's trident, which I thought was Neptune's trident, so she's got a theme going: creation in one hand and destruction in the other.
she also has a mantra in Pali and the tail of something, maybe a seahorse, maybe a dragon, I don't know.
She was writing a handwritten journal.
She says I'm really good with color.
She says it's fun to think about just why you like the things you like.
It's hard too. If you're reading this, I moved so I could better hear the Chinese orchestra.
one of the pieces played by the Chinese orchestra mimicked a horse galloping. Another one mimics a snake but snakes don't really make noise so it's just a lot of percussion.
There was a fashion show and one woman wore a dress made out of photonegatives and a necklace made out of old film canisters.
Women of the World played a song in Esperanto, a song in what I think is Japanese, and a song in some Kenyan language. Esperanto's supposed to be a universal language but I think we have math for that.
Olate Dogs aren't a band, they're actual dogs, which did tricks.
There's an installation called The Forest Of Sound, which has pillars with colored lights on top and you can move your hand around sensors and they make sounds. It's by Janney Sound, and autocorrect thankfully refrained from fucking me over.
Johnny Fireseed and the Junkyard Dogs played blues rock on makeshift guitars.
Grupo Fantasia played Latin American music. That means dancing.
Stone Giant is just rock. It's pretty great and all but trying to say everything that needs to be said before I go to sleep is hard.
Tiz Kompa didn't happen. Again, I don't know what happened.
I had to get home before Alissia and the Funketeers played. I drew two people on the way home, one was an artist (I think she was Veronica), the other only painted a few things with watercolors. There was a guy who was fishing out of the trash for ice cubes and she told Veronica that he must have been just diagnosed HIV positive thirty times in the last month.
Still, there are worse things to con out of people than ice cubes.
Sarah, who painted a waterfront scene and two silhouettes under an umbrella that she wasn't satisfied with but I love the concept, thought Emma's drawing looked rather melancholy.
burning question: what if you had a time machine that could go anywhere in space and time but only worked once?
the second day of Greenfest in 24 minutes or less
But first, I drew three people, we had to take the shuttle bus, I think they took a different one, but they caught up to me at JFK/UMass just so they could see it.
And then there was a woman at Downtown Crossing with hair in fine golden braids and then a tangle of black and gold and indigo.
I was hoping to arrive when the Chinese orchestra (yueqin, pipas, yangqin, erhu) but arrived during Jo-Me's dance. Something delayed everything and I don't know why. What I do know is that I'm running on fumes, cherry tomatoes, and free samples of Tasty Bite Indian and Asian meals. Tomorrow, I'm ready for you.
It's a celebration of everything Vox Day hates, and keep in mind Vox Day is so reactionary he's racist against Swedish people, and keep in mind that Swedish people are like "Whitey McWhitington," and keep in mind that he wrote a really shitty poem with a really basic AABBCCDDEE rhyme scheme about it too and keep in mind that he rhymed "fact" and "back," and also "shores" and "wars" which wasn't that offensive but "understand" and "Englishman" was.
As the Sparrow has a song called Emily and a music video of that song in which they dress up as Clue (Cluedo, for you British people who read this… assuming you guys exist…) characters. It's like… if Cheryl Tunt added some ska and swing to her band and maybe made it more folksy and less outlaw country, or maybe I just tried too hard too late at night to come up with an analogy and it can be described simply as Americana folk rock with a bit of swing. Look it up. It's worth it. Oh, look, they have a Bandcamp. So I'm really grateful that they screwed up, because I'd probably never listen to something like them otherwise.
A woman who is a melange of everything Asian had a Back to the Future style holographic hat that she says looks better on her when her eyes are purple and her hair is silver-blue. She had the Hunab Ku, the Mayan butterfly/void at the center of the universe on one wrist so I thought she was Guatemalan or from that area, but she's not. She has Shiva's trident, which I thought was Neptune's trident, so she's got a theme going: creation in one hand and destruction in the other.
she also has a mantra in Pali and the tail of something, maybe a seahorse, maybe a dragon, I don't know.
She was writing a handwritten journal.
She says I'm really good with color.
She says it's fun to think about just why you like the things you like.
It's hard too. If you're reading this, I moved so I could better hear the Chinese orchestra.
one of the pieces played by the Chinese orchestra mimicked a horse galloping. Another one mimics a snake but snakes don't really make noise so it's just a lot of percussion.
There was a fashion show and one woman wore a dress made out of photonegatives and a necklace made out of old film canisters.
Women of the World played a song in Esperanto, a song in what I think is Japanese, and a song in some Kenyan language. Esperanto's supposed to be a universal language but I think we have math for that.
Olate Dogs aren't a band, they're actual dogs, which did tricks.
There's an installation called The Forest Of Sound, which has pillars with colored lights on top and you can move your hand around sensors and they make sounds. It's by Janney Sound, and autocorrect thankfully refrained from fucking me over.
Johnny Fireseed and the Junkyard Dogs played blues rock on makeshift guitars.
Grupo Fantasia played Latin American music. That means dancing.
Stone Giant is just rock. It's pretty great and all but trying to say everything that needs to be said before I go to sleep is hard.
Tiz Kompa didn't happen. Again, I don't know what happened.
I had to get home before Alissia and the Funketeers played. I drew two people on the way home, one was an artist (I think she was Veronica), the other only painted a few things with watercolors. There was a guy who was fishing out of the trash for ice cubes and she told Veronica that he must have been just diagnosed HIV positive thirty times in the last month.
Still, there are worse things to con out of people than ice cubes.
Sarah, who painted a waterfront scene and two silhouettes under an umbrella that she wasn't satisfied with but I love the concept, thought Emma's drawing looked rather melancholy.
burning question: what if you had a time machine that could go anywhere in space and time but only worked once?
