happy new years!
Click to viewthese dudes need to find themselves some GIRLS.
seriously though, i could watch soulja boy-related youtube all day. search "crank dat," you won't regret it.
2008 went better than expected. it was certainly the most broke-a$$ year of my adult life, but otherwise i could have done worse. i got my work on a few gallery walls (and i'll ring in the new year with a solo show at rebekah templeton gallery in philly opening january 8th... expect an official post later), found some decent teaching work towards the end of the year, went on a few nice trips (milwaukee, chicago, various nature-ish things), and met some cool people (including a nice young lady). some resolutions:
* shake it up a bit in the studio. i've got a few ideas about this, and most of them revolve around scaling up, working more quickly, and being less fussy about technique and materials. i'd like to finish 8 large scale works in 2009, and i think i can do it.
* start paying off some debt! yikes!
* write more often - here as well as semi-professionally. i find that i'm happiest when i've got art and writing practices going simultaneously, and i've fallen off the wagon a bit with both. expect more posting. oh, and did i ever link to murdermystery's film site, where i reviewed harmony korine's mister lonely? might be fun to do more stuff like this, etc.
* read more. i only read 30-31 books this year, which i've chronicled on goodreads - complete with mini-reviews - if anyone is curious. i'd like to be more in the 50-60 zone, honestly. or read a book a week, which i always say i will do (and don't). i got a LOT of books for x-mas, which should get me started. oh and maybe i'll get back to marx's capital one of these days too... sigh...
otherwise, things are on a decent track for me. i hope your new year's celebration is fun. mine involves an attempt at a vegetarian soup from morocco; we'll see how that goes. i'll leave you with more crank dat youtube, so you can party like it's 2007:
this one is clearly my favorite.