was my little sister. That one sure does clean up nice! I'd like to thank Facebook for making these pictures available to me. Unfortunately Mark deleted his page, so he'll be harder to track down.
Monday, April 20, 2009
The prettiest girl at prom:
was my little sister. That one sure does clean up nice! I'd like to thank Facebook for making these pictures available to me. Unfortunately Mark deleted his page, so he'll be harder to track down.
And again, i lag far behind.
Petersburg is starting to bud into spring. We've had several days over 50 degrees F and the rollerbladers are out in full form. I've switched from my long coat to my short jacket (even though i've had a couple of chilly walks home, i refuse to wear the winter coat anymore!) I've even been able to ditch my boots most days and walk around in my sneaks. Yuri said he has an old soviet bike in his apartment that he'll let me borrow for the next two months so that i can really enjoy spring/early summer in this city.
I finished binding together my Boy With the Red Balloon book. I'll send you all gorgeous pictures soon! Syd just got in to Petersburg this morning after a rough trip on the overnight train from Moscow. She's recovering by sleeping in past noon, and i'm in the kitchen enjoying sampling the selections of coffees she brought me from the US (Stumptown thanks to my old housemates in portland, and a giant bag of Metropolis coffee from Chi-town) and dipping apple slices into a fresh jar of peanut butter for the first time in months. Hopefully i'll take it easy and let the stuff last a while. I recently found Hummus in this city and I've been gorging myself on it whenever I'm back in my apartment.
Syd and I met here in Petersburg- she was a Bard student studying at Smolny for the summer program and for the second semester. We traveled all through Europe together at the end of the year. After so many adventures together we hadn't seen each other in two years, having failed to meet up in states in the meantime, until she got here early (6 AM!) this morning. Syd, Kostya and I sat in the kitchen drinking tea and eating fig newtons (syd didn't have any, fruit disgusts her) just like no time had passed. I'll keep all you anxious readers up to date on our excursions over the next two weeks. Knowing Syd they'll be far beyond the Russian "normal."
Abbie and her friend Jessie came through two weeks ago and stayed for a week. We all shared my bed and were lulled to sleep by Abbie's orchestrated snoring lullabies. These fine ladies got to come with me to see the printmaking studio and meet Yuri. We also saw a ballet at the Marinskii, saw the peacock clock go off at the Hermitage, heard a great funk band play and other things I failed to keep track of. Most memorable were the delicious dinners we put together- curry, italian style veggie bake w/ meat sauce, and a whole dinner of party finger foods Mermaid's style (you know, the movie with Cher winona ryder and a young Christina Ricci). All in all, a wonderful week!
Petersburg is starting to bud into spring. We've had several days over 50 degrees F and the rollerbladers are out in full form. I've switched from my long coat to my short jacket (even though i've had a couple of chilly walks home, i refuse to wear the winter coat anymore!) I've even been able to ditch my boots most days and walk around in my sneaks. Yuri said he has an old soviet bike in his apartment that he'll let me borrow for the next two months so that i can really enjoy spring/early summer in this city.
I finished binding together my Boy With the Red Balloon book. I'll send you all gorgeous pictures soon! Syd just got in to Petersburg this morning after a rough trip on the overnight train from Moscow. She's recovering by sleeping in past noon, and i'm in the kitchen enjoying sampling the selections of coffees she brought me from the US (Stumptown thanks to my old housemates in portland, and a giant bag of Metropolis coffee from Chi-town) and dipping apple slices into a fresh jar of peanut butter for the first time in months. Hopefully i'll take it easy and let the stuff last a while. I recently found Hummus in this city and I've been gorging myself on it whenever I'm back in my apartment.
Syd and I met here in Petersburg- she was a Bard student studying at Smolny for the summer program and for the second semester. We traveled all through Europe together at the end of the year. After so many adventures together we hadn't seen each other in two years, having failed to meet up in states in the meantime, until she got here early (6 AM!) this morning. Syd, Kostya and I sat in the kitchen drinking tea and eating fig newtons (syd didn't have any, fruit disgusts her) just like no time had passed. I'll keep all you anxious readers up to date on our excursions over the next two weeks. Knowing Syd they'll be far beyond the Russian "normal."
Abbie and her friend Jessie came through two weeks ago and stayed for a week. We all shared my bed and were lulled to sleep by Abbie's orchestrated snoring lullabies. These fine ladies got to come with me to see the printmaking studio and meet Yuri. We also saw a ballet at the Marinskii, saw the peacock clock go off at the Hermitage, heard a great funk band play and other things I failed to keep track of. Most memorable were the delicious dinners we put together- curry, italian style veggie bake w/ meat sauce, and a whole dinner of party finger foods Mermaid's style (you know, the movie with Cher winona ryder and a young Christina Ricci). All in all, a wonderful week!
Sunday, April 5, 2009
arting around in petersburg
Now that there's little time left in Russia everything has sped up- I can hardly believe that it's been nearly 3 weeks since that last post. Sorry folks.
I've finished printing all the pages for my book, I've made a cover, now all I have to do is sew the whole thing together.
This last week was lots of printmaking and art openings.
First up: Pyotr Bely- the artist that shares the St. Petersburg Printmaking studio with Yuri had an opening at the Comic Art Gallery. He constructed spaces out of rubber, lights and color. i remember one day he walked into the studio playing with a big slice of rubber declaring that he'd fallen in love with the stuff. The gallery was super crowded so it was hard to get a good view of any of hte pieces in the front room:
but i really liked these spaces set up in the back. Still, they reminded me of renn fayre projects.
The Hermitage just opened a show about books in their collection- a mixture of artist books, rare antique books, and book objects. Yuri got me an invitation to the opening because one of his books is featured in the exhibition:
clock books:
I'm looking forward to going back again and actually getting a good look at the works- when i was there it was full of camera crews and photo journalists:
Everyone went off to drink champaigne and toast the event but I wandered around some of the hermitage interiors and found this hilarious wax bust of peter the great!
I've finished printing all the pages for my book, I've made a cover, now all I have to do is sew the whole thing together.
This last week was lots of printmaking and art openings.
First up: Pyotr Bely- the artist that shares the St. Petersburg Printmaking studio with Yuri had an opening at the Comic Art Gallery. He constructed spaces out of rubber, lights and color. i remember one day he walked into the studio playing with a big slice of rubber declaring that he'd fallen in love with the stuff. The gallery was super crowded so it was hard to get a good view of any of hte pieces in the front room:
but i really liked these spaces set up in the back. Still, they reminded me of renn fayre projects.
The Hermitage just opened a show about books in their collection- a mixture of artist books, rare antique books, and book objects. Yuri got me an invitation to the opening because one of his books is featured in the exhibition:
clock books:
I'm looking forward to going back again and actually getting a good look at the works- when i was there it was full of camera crews and photo journalists:
Everyone went off to drink champaigne and toast the event but I wandered around some of the hermitage interiors and found this hilarious wax bust of peter the great!
Saturday, March 14, 2009
The Printmaking Studio
Here are some shots of the St. Petersburg Printmaking Studio:
The door (the sign to the left of the doorbell says "sportclub")
This is Yuri:
Here's Yuri pulling a print (didn't quite turn out, but a neat photo!)
Here's a photo Yuri snapped of me working away:
Here are some pictures of the illustrations I'm doing for my book based on The Boy with the Red Balloon:
(this second one is my favorite so far):
The balloons in this print look so great!
I'm using a technique called "dry point" to make all of these- etching, scratching and gluing on old linoleum floor tiles. I'll take some pictures of the plates soon too.
The door (the sign to the left of the doorbell says "sportclub")
This is Yuri:
Here's Yuri pulling a print (didn't quite turn out, but a neat photo!)
Here's a photo Yuri snapped of me working away:
Here are some pictures of the illustrations I'm doing for my book based on The Boy with the Red Balloon:
(this second one is my favorite so far):
The balloons in this print look so great!
I'm using a technique called "dry point" to make all of these- etching, scratching and gluing on old linoleum floor tiles. I'll take some pictures of the plates soon too.
Sunday, March 8, 2009
i dentity (theft) crisis.
Honestly, anyone who knows me should know that i don't need anyone else to try and help me spend my money. I'm good enough at doing that myself. Now, if someone wanted to help me make some....
It's happened again- all of my bank information was stolen. I'm a poor poor girl for another week and a half. Luckily, USbank caught the perps before they got off with any of my fulbright bucks. Zhenya (my Reed prof) will be out here the week of the 14th and will be bringing me and EB new cards (her identity was thefted as well). I'm suspicious our wireless network has something to do with all this mess. Looks like it's back to the ol' ethernet cable.
I found out about all of this on Friday, but managed to borrow 1000 rubles (and spend nearly all of it in a night) so that i could go see Stereo Total play at A2. After having an emotional time on the phone with the bank and then with Ryan, i was more than ready to dance out all of my anger. Fueled by my frustration, and gin and tonic in a can, I danced so fiercly, that i got to go up on stage, dance with the group, cracking up the girl from Stereo Total and earning 3 kisses on the cheek.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
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