another one

Last week was surprisingly awesome and shitty.  Lots of awesome things happened, but I was feeling quite dark and moody. 

I went to my first pole dancing class.  Kristin installed a pole in her studio a while back, and she's shown me a few things, but this was my first class.  At Crunch gym in Park Slope.  The top half of my torso and my abs were really unbearable sore for many days.  And I had bruises in my inner thighs, inner knees, calves, and tops of my feet.  It's HARD!  However, I like the idea of using fitness to train myself for a back-up, lucrative side job, AND I get to buy a new pair of shoes. 

Paw (my dad, it's an old joke) finally agreed to accompany/assist me on my continuing journey to Burning Man.  I mean, he is really the ideal candidate.  He's a survival high desert mountain man, just one state away from the Burn, and he has all the gear.  And he's my dad, and since I'm an asshole who never goes home, and he's an asshole who won't go to New York or LA, we might as well go someplace wild and psychedelic together. 

I got glasses for the first time in eight years last week.  Above is my first sunset with said glasses.  Dr. Harris said my eyes are not that bad, but that obviously I am a perfectionist and vision is important to me....

Oh, AND Kristin got invited to do this museum-style couture show during Paris Fashion Week, and wasn't sure if she should do it, and I was  like "Duh!  Go!"  She:  "Oh, right."  Me:  "With whom shall you go?"  She:  "Wanna come?"  Me:  "Yay!"

I'm not sure how I'm going to pay for these new adventures, since no one is buying any LedThread these days.  But I'm using these opportunities to revamp.  I'm going to have a sick photoshoot at Burning Man (with actual LED thread, of course--actual name, El Wire), and then make the couture fancy perfect versions for Paris. 

Oui!

a gift from pascal

WHY WON'T IT STOP RAINING?!?!?!?  I'm so bored of rain!!!!  I don't live in Seattle for a REASON.

Ok, that's out of my system now.  I sure am craving a nice sunny day with sunglasses, tank tops, and booty shorts, though.

Pascal made my day to day by surprising me with an old dressform.  I've been looking for another one; the one I have is too big for LedThread medium, so I can't photograph samples on it.  But now, my new dressform dream has come true.  Yay.

The last time the scrap heap got out of control, I made a dog bed for Daisy out of it.  But she outsmarted me and saved me some work.  (She's so beautiful.)

bunny

pensive

phat

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Well, hello there.

Do you know that I am officially dayjobless?  Oh yes.  I'm not quite adjusted yet, but it's coming.  I've been working on LedThread infrastructure, so she can have all her bones and highways and plumbing in place. 

And then I'll be able to GROW GROW GROW.

And speaking of growing, I'm turning into a crazy plant lady.  Kinda like a crazy cat lady, only with plants. 

Which brings me to a fun aside.  When my granddad was a little boy in Nebraska, he and his father went to check on his aunt (or maybe great-aunt), an elderly lady who lived alone on the prairie.  Alone, but with many cats.  It was winter.  She had been deceased for a while, and ...

So, my family has always been a bit prejudiced against cats.  Because they ate my aunt.  But, you see, perhaps I have the gene that inspires us to collect lots of alive things.  Like plants.  I just counted 16 at the studio.  And a few more at home....

I really want a giant crop of these ones:

CobraNest

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Tonight the Mister and I are riding bikes to this:

A Novel in the Form of a Car Bomb
An experimental radio-play with vehicular orchestra and live chorus

Writer and Director: Mary Walling Blackburn
Composer and Conductor: Christopher Marianetti

Date: May 23rd, 8:00 pm
Location: Industry City's long-term parking lot at 36th & 2nd Avenue
Limited Seating. RSVP at vehicular.orchestra@gmail.com

This modern tragedy/live radio play is performed outdoors at dusk and is accompanied by a live chorus and an octophonic vehicular orchestra (the cars are the instruments). Sounds arise from three concentric rings consisting of 12 singers, eight cars with eight boom boxes and one FM radio transmitter. Together, these sonic elements and their conflicting narrators, re-imagine the car as something other than bomb or vehicle.

Furthermore: Previous Vehicular Orchestra
Text: http://twitter.com/howmuchumean2me

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I got hit by a bus today.   Again.  (I was also hit by a bus in Los Angeles.  Both times in a car, both times at small speeds.)  Unfortunately, Rob and Daisy were in the car too, me driving.  Bus driver (one of those big private coach buses) rolled through stop sign, I thought he was stopping.  And instead of slamming on the brakes or accelerating, I yelled.  Which is very very useful when the bus driver hasn't even bothered to look in the direction your car is coming from.  I also veered right; he hit the driver back wheel.  Poor Matilda.  I'm building her a pyre, lighting her on fire, and pushing her into the sea.  Watch out, Water Taxi.

In other news, we organized the belt factory junk the other night, with a very kind wonderful gentleman building hangingrolling rods for the reels.  Rob and Jen were up high and I was passing them the reels, but they have to be a certain weight, a certain size hole, etc etc and I wanted to wait to do this project until the rest of the gang was there, knitting my eyebrows and stamping my feet a little.

R said, "Why don't you go up there and let people pass you stuff?  That suits you much better."

Ah, it's so nice to be understood.

Coachella, mainstage, TVOTR, Saturday

Ledthread/TVotR/Coachella

Ledthread/TVotR/Coachella

Ledthread/TVotR/Coachella

i wished hard enough, and my fairy godmother called yesterday to tell me that i'm shooting from monday-thursday, so i can go to Coachella today.

i've never gone to coachella for a single day (i've always gone for the whole sh'bang), but i've also never gone when my friends were playing, having backstage access and/or while someone was going to be on the mainstage completely decked out in Ledthread!  i'm so excited.

i've been wanting to put clothes on Katrina of Celebration for a long time (definitely check them out), and she's out here singing back-up for TV on the Radio, and since I've been stalking them since I've been in LA (Pomona Tuesday, Ventura Thursday, Jay Leno yesterday), I managed to hook her up with an awesome ensemble.  A bright white crew tunic with a pile of wooden bead necklaces.  She's gonna look HaUUUUGGGGGHT!!!

Wish me a quick jump from sunburn to gorgeous tan.

XO
L

yay!!

i was mad at myself because i thought i didn't get enough done.  but then i realized i made

3 dresses
an element
3 shirts (still a bit of topstitching to do, but that'll just take a minute)
a vest
a really new awesome top design.  y'all are gonna lufffit
(all of it was cut already, accept the element)

answered a zillion convos
cut a bunch of bags for apartment 3
had a very important business lunch with pesta

and, this is on hangover day.

patpatpat.  (that's me patting myself on the back)

way to go, ledthread.