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Okay, so here is my whole current sketchbook so far. I am also slowly working on setting up a wordpress thing which will hopefully be like a more organized version of this thing with explanations and cross-references, but not having any patience with the internet is sort of making that difficult. But I will keep you updated or something.
So yes, here it is, please comment or ask questions or whatever.





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SO in case you have not heard or have not already seen these on the facebook, I was in an art matters show about recycled things a few weeks ago. I made a bunch of jellyfish out of grocery bags and something like two hundred people showed up for the opening. There were two other shows attached with a total of something like 40 artists. Really good times. A few more pictures from the opening after the cut, or you can see the whole set on flickr.

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I've been drawing and painting and printing and so on a bunch too, and I really do mean to post things one of these days. Will it ever actually happen? We'll see!

I have just realized that ctv's weeknight lineup starting at 11 goes like:
national news, local news, sports news, fake news, fake pundit news, celebrity news.
There is something to this, I'm pretty sure.

I've been sick for what feels like the better part of a month now, through really it's probably only been about two weeks. My nose is stuffed up, dryed out, and generally painful. Also my brain is working pretty slow.

The new Andrew Bird album is awesome. You can listen to a bunch of songs on his myspace (oh no and anonanimal are my favourites, I think) and probably there are things on his website, too.

I really mean to post some more art things soon. Hopefully I actually will?

TIME TO VOTE

Halloween was awesome.
I think that the Broken Social Scene show changed my life,
I feel like I can die happy and without regrets now.
After about nine hours of traveling I'm in New Hampshire,
drinking one of dad's beers, excited about voting, thinking about the world.

In case you are wondering what is going on with the economy,
the fine folks at This American Life are here to break it down for you:
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=365

And now, on a more pointless note... ( comic, cut for man nipples )

So it has been exactly a month since my last update (yay coincidence!) and I still do not feel terribly interested in talking about things on the internet, but here is a short list of what is new in my life.
+ classes started, they are generally pretty good
+ I met a girl in my drawing class who is essentially the same person as me,
which was weird for a bit but we're pretty good friends already
+ I nearly died trying to work 25 hours, attend four classes (3 being 4 hour long studios),
write an essay, draw ten things, make twenty hand sculptures out of tape and plastic wrap,
and apply for a gallery show last week
but I got my hours reduced a bit so hopefully that'll be okay
+ I got really sick after all that, but I think I am finally getting better
+ I've been really obsessed with david bowie lately

now, here is a drawing thing:


more later (maybe, if I feel like it, etc.)

So, I have gotten my computer back, which is arguably exciting (though I was getting along alright without it). They did replace the battery and headphone thing, and I got a cute little usb mouse so now it is not even a big deal that they broke my trackpad. I would update you all (that is to say, both of you) about what is going on in my life, but as nothing terribly exciting has happened I am thinking maybe I will try to make another comic thing out of my life.

Here are some drawing things:



pencil, pastel, conté, marker, watercolour crayon,
and a bit of powdered graphite, I think.


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a drawing of francesca from tuesday,
which I intend to work on a bit more while sober.

Okay that is about all for now I guess. Offline for a week and a half and now I have 100 friends page livejournal entires and about 400 items on my google reader. Oh boy.

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Lalala, so I'm bringing my computer in for repairs and I am not sure when they will give it back to me. Which means is that I will (hopefully) be spending a bit less time on the internet.
Haircut tomorrow! I am sure no one will notice a difference but this is still very exciting for me.

Painting class is overrrrrr, it went well, I think.
Just got to get all my junk home now.
Is it weird that I kind of freak out when I try to
stare at my eyes in the bathroom mirror for more than minute?

I kind of want to make a dolce & guevara one now, too.
I bet I could turn this into a whole series.

Hello there, The Internet. So clearly I have not been doing many journal comics lately, which is sort of a bummer because they are a thing that I enjoyed doing. So, since we last spoke a bunch of things (mostly one group of things) happened, and, unfortunately for everyone you pretty much need to have heard my whole life story for any of them to make any sense.
And so, I have decided that I am going to try and post my whole life story.
This first bit, which anyone can read, is pretty much just gonna be catchup in sketchbook page form, no comics and I won't be rambling on too too much (this part doesn't count). The rest, however, will be quite a bit more personal (and boring, probably) and since it involves other people (no one any of you know, I think) I will feel better about it if it is friends-locked. If by any chance you are reading this and not on my list thing, feel free to comment and I will almost definitely add you, mostly I like the idea of knowing who is reading.

All the images are clickable for double size..
ANYWAYS, here is what happened:


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Alright, that is all for now, but part 2 should be up either much later today or some time tomorrow.

Port O'Brien - I Woke Up Today from Christian Stavros on Vimeo.


These guys are playing in Montreal on the 10th!

More journal comics and sketchbook things should happen soon,
but I have been New Hampshire-ing it up without a decent scanner.

I think I might still be hungover from monday (comic pending)..
also I should really shave, people are going to start thinking
that I am a hobo. A hobo that wears dockers shorts.

Didn't feel like going downtown yesterday so no internet,
but I totally did another comic thing.



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In the interest of full disclosure I should probably say that
I didn't actually do either of the things pictured in this comic
until well after I'd started drawing it (about 1am thursday night).

Another journal comic? what?

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Maybe there ought to be a disclaimer like
'the creator of this comic-thing claims no responsibility for
any meanings or morals extracted from said comic.'

Oh, and I realized that I wrote the date wrong on the last one
so I'ma fix that but otherwise it'll be the same as it was.

You should all download this (edit- link has just been fixed!)
and then give it a listen when you have 54 minutes to kill
and feel that maybe the world is not surreal enough.

Another journal comic thing! But first; some obsolete medical history!


'Physiological processes also accounted for emotions, just as they had for Galen and Hippocrates. Al-Majusi took from the Hippocratic Epidemics II the idea that a hot and dry heart combined with a moist brain resulted in the production of black bile from the burning of yellow bile, which was then expidited to the brain. The whole operation induced an onslaught of melancholy. Melancholy was in a class of its own, and a matter of some complexity. It presented a large variety of symptoms, and it could be caused either by internal organs or by external factors. External causes included grief, which led the vital heat to die down; the lovesickness diagnosed as a real disease by Hippocrates, Erasistratus, and others; and passionate love itself, in fact a version of this syndrome. Perscriptions for externally caused melancholy included exercise, moist foods, massages, baths, music, poetry, exemplary tales from the lives of sages, and sexual distraction. All sufferers of melancholy, regardless of its source, should seek out light and gardens, calm and rest, purges and laxitives; inhilations and warm baths with moistening plants, such as nenuphar, violets, and lettuce leaves; and a diet of lamb, lettuce, eggs, fish, and ripe fruit. They should avoid acidic foods like vinegar and mustard, as well as garlic, onion, cabbage, lentils, and red meat. Bleedings helped too, but their duration and intensity should be modulated according to the colour, and so the health, of the drawn blood. The use of the root of hellebore had been encouraged since the days of Hippocrates, and it appears in all recipes from that era for the cure of melancholic diseases, among others. (Erlier, Pliny had described black hellebore as "a cure for paralysis, madness, dropsy without fever, chronic gout and diseases of the joints; it draws from the belly bile, phlegms and morbid fluids.")'
-from 'Passions and tempers : a history of the humours' by Noga Arikha

That was fun, wasn't it?

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Whether or not all of this has depressed you,
you should probably go listen to this.
The bit about negotiation is especially fantastic
but really it is all good.

Oh man, I just realized that I forgot to post the rest of my old sketchbook here.
In case you missed it, the first 38 pages are over here.

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