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notes from visa exile to bangkok

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

Lil Wayne – Lollipop (Nasty Ways Remix)

I’m currently attempting to organize the ridiculous number of sketchbooks and notebooks I got floating all over the place; came across this stuff I wrote down in Bangkok last year, when I was sorting out a new china visa during the whole olympic visa shitshow.

Notes from the Side of the Soi

looks like johnny depp
looks like johnny depp

There is a massage parlor opposite my hostel. (Of course there’s a massage parlor.) The sign reads “Come get yourself beautiful!!! Special promotion!!!” 7/11’s everywhere. Yesterday I bought a pack of smokes at the “Amazing Minimart.”

As I’m writing this there’s a chubby adolescent boy shuffling by sipping from a straw stuck in a transparent plastic bag filled with ice and what looks like coca-cola. Like a very small grocery bag. He’s wearing a headset with large oval earphones and a bent microphone jutting out one side. I really want to reach out and grab him and demand to know what he’s listening to.

There are large yellow dogs sleeping everywhere. They are huge and most of them female, big saggy nipples hang from massive bellies. The dogs are similar to the dogs in India, although those were more animated and angry, generally much thinner. Fat Bangkok bitches. (more…)

sketches, thoughts

Monday, July 27th, 2009

I have a new fixation – ballet dancers. I suppose it’s more of a resurgent fixation. This is something that hits a lot of artists at some point, like Russian poets’ obsession with the sea. The body that needs to be chiseled into perfection like a block of marble, it’s so resistant to change and unyielding, like a thick fibrous canvas – cliche of me to make that comparison, but that’s really it, the recognition of the dancer’s constant siege of their body, like the artist’s struggle with his materials, to materialize the idea. Some might find this to be a negative outlook on the creative process, but I think it’s mostly the truth. The years and constant sacrifice to look like that, move like that. It’s obsession and insanity, but thank god for these people.

lopatkina and kozlov in "trois gnossiennes"

a few recent pages from my sketchbook:

drawing while intoxicated

Friday, June 26th, 2009

M83 – Graveyard Girl (Yuksek Remix)

A couple sketches from my DWI session last night.

This one amused me endlessly.. at the time. Oh lord.

downskiskismall

This one was fun to draw. I felt like I was just understanding perspective SO MUCH ohmygod.

madperspectivesmall

I suppose the trick is not to get in the habit of drawing ONLY while intoxicated.. OR it could be really awesome and you could be like the drunken kungfu master except it’d be the drunken artist. OR NOT.