Money
Oh man you guys. I’m sorry to keep harping on this subject. It’s just been on my mind quite a lot lately. But I’m being productive about it. I’ve been talking with the lovely people at CCS, and a lovely lady at CORC, and…I have begun to settle on a solution. But I’m not gonna talk about that online just yet.
HEY HAMPSHIRE: Please stop punishing me for being 1) interdisciplinary and 2) nontraditional in the way I’ve gone about my studies here. It does not mean that I am stupid or lazy or unfocused. It actually means that I’ve been doing KINDA EXACTLY what you say you want your students to do.
Blugh. Money for grad school, and frustration with academia. These are my two big issues right now. Fortunately, the solution I’ve alluded to should help with both of ‘em.
For now, please check out the Hottie Chapati Ken Doll I made for my sister (for Christmas…two years ago?):
February 15th, 2010 at 11:05 am
yessssssss HOTTIE C
February 15th, 2010 at 2:11 pm
Mom was NOT supposed to take him out of his box!
February 15th, 2010 at 2:42 pm
Hey Athena -
Yeah, I’m kinda pissed at Hampshire for not finding you some gallery space. I was really looking forward to seeing four years’ of your comics.
February 15th, 2010 at 4:53 pm
Clearly you will be spending the next year making Barbies of local celebrities for fast cash. Also, I’ve been tallying alternative gallery spaces in my head, so if you get stuck, let’s talk more. Right now I’m even looking out at the Linda Mollison Pavillion and thinking huge sheets of oil cloth and pins.
February 15th, 2010 at 9:10 pm
Screw Bristol! Get 11×17 80# Lazer paper. $30 for 250 sheets!
February 15th, 2010 at 10:45 pm
Why wasn’t I supposed to take him out of the box? You couldn’t see his buff physique or his guitar.
Gallery space…hmmm…it seems like not having the traditional gallery could just spur you onto having a cooler space. Giant graffiti panels of your comic on a wall? Multitudes or your tiny comic books dropped from building tops onto unsuspecting gallery-goers? Copies of your comics on Hampshire dining hall trays? Or Smith trays? My brain is spinning.
I LOVE the doll.
February 16th, 2010 at 8:10 pm
Don’t be too hard on the dipping ink…it takes a lot of practice, I know. In the end you get some nice line variations that a lot of tech pens won’t give you. Hang in there and best of luck in sorting out your financial situation!
February 19th, 2010 at 10:37 pm
looking for galery space!?!?!? holla at me!! storefrontART is still in action (in noho) and you could potentially show somewhere there!!
drop me a line sometime? missed you in MN.
aliya
February 23rd, 2010 at 3:30 am
HOTTIE CHAPATI!!!!!
(Also, Phoebe: chill. It is a doll.)
Dad, Mom, Tabitha, and Aliya: Thanks for your support about the gallery space. I’m definitely interested in brainstorming alternative spaces. Then again, I could just say fuck it and hide all of my comics from the stupid eyes of Hampshire. I’m feeling a little burnt out on fighting stupid people/stupid bureaucracy/stupid Hampshire. Especially about my comics. They’ll let me graduate show or now show. So…we’ll see.
Aliya, I am so sorry I never saw you in Minnesota. I keep meaning to write to you, but it hasn’t happened yet. But it will.
Danno and Jon: Thanks for the art supply advice! Danno, I’m totally gonna check out that paper. I hope it’s not too shiny.
March 8th, 2010 at 10:49 am
I AM JUST NOW SEEING THIS DOLL FOR THE FIRST TIME
March 10th, 2010 at 12:25 am
Ha HA! The Hottie Chapati doll is gaining a (much deserved) fan base! If Vita.MN ever does a “hottest dolls in Minnesota” contest, you know who to nominate.
March 16th, 2010 at 11:47 pm
OH MY GOSH i remember this doll! it’s out in the world now. justin has seen it. shit’s hit the fan
April 3rd, 2010 at 4:41 pm
Marie, omg! I saw him in the grocery store when I was home for spring break. But I didn’t say anything. Because I have actually NEVER spoken to him in person, I’m just a creeper who makes dolls of people. Like the year in YPT when I made sculpey figures of our whole cast. Dang. This is becoming some kind of voodoo doll theme for me.
IN ANY CASE, I hope Gospel Gossip knows I’m prepared to make awesome/creepy things for their merch table whenever they want.