hot town, summer in the city

...back of my neck feeling dirty and gritty.






going to the city for the weekend! talking and crashing into strangers will be stimulation overload.


today in washington park was stimulation overload.
I laid in green grass and felt bugs on my fingers.
I climbed a tree and cut up my arms.
I kissed a cute girl.
I forgot I existed.

I do exist!

poetry morning

it's a little early for miles' bitches brew but when it's put to a poem by frank o'hara I can't help but feel like a happy drunk slipping, and then catching himself, saving my tender knees for another cut-up night.

take it or leave it

I think when I made this I liked the way it looked and what it meant. And I still like the way it looks and what it means but in every new context it means something else. Thinking about time, I imagine things been less complex in the past but really they were just as complex and intricate and I wavered in the wind then too. This stencil got washed away by the UvA maintenance crew; it's bittersweet. I would love for it to have lasted forever but being washed away is the nature of the medium. Impermanence seems to fit the words I sprayed, in them things feel complete and incomplete at the exact same time.

A Force Field of Art

Rem Koolhaas, I love you and loathe you at the exact same time.

[via Life Without Buildings]

"Koolhaas will transform an industrial complex in the Italian city for the Prada Foundation, whose director says the project’s goal is “to create a force field in which all artistic languages might converge and radiate energies that reach beyond the walls containing them into the urban context.”

This seems like a cool idea but how exactly will the structure 'radiate...into the urban context?' The reality of the architecture is that the building looks more like a military complex than an open and public space. I just wish that Koolhaas would take the people living around and outside the building into account as much as he takes into account those who will actually be using it.

Two Characters in Search of a Country Song

buying veggies

kisses across america
an afro in merriam-webster, of course
the cutest picture. ever.

real emotional trash

for once in my life, written and verbal communication are not getting the job done. is there another way that I don't know about?

(I think I know another way and I have not been succeeding)

GM Takes Huge Hit, Sale of SUVs Plummeted

It was reported today that GM suffered $15.5 billion losses over the past quarter.


"It...included $1.3 billion worth of write-offs because of a decline in the value of GMAC Financial Services' portfolio of trucks and sport utility vehicles. GM owns 49 percent of GMAC, which has suffered big losses when leases end and it tries to sell the now-unpopular vehicles at depressed prices."


GM is the U.S.' biggest car supplier and with these recent failings, Toyota has the possibility of leading the market. Considering the huge amount of money that GM had to write-off for their SUVs and trucks losing value, Toyota and other fuel-efficient car markers have a chance to use the falling GM stock as leverage to gain ground.

Even though gas prices have recently(over the past two weeks) maintained stability, bicycle use is still increasing. From a Reuters Report, per Laurence O'Sullivan: "Giant, the Taipei-based maker of international bicycle brands such as Boulder, Yukon and Iguana, is reaping the profits. The company, which produced 5.5 million bikes in 2007, is expected to pull in $1 billion in sales this year, up 10 percent.”


These different pressures being put on companies like GM makes one wonder long it will takethe American car manufacturer to start designing and manufacturing cars like these for Americans:


(Ford Fiesta, 63.6 MPG, Euro Release Only)