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Jan 11 / sad admin

straiGHT ouTTA deviantART ; midOctober

click for the flickr set!

On October 14th, straiGHT ouTTA deviantART opened @ Carnegie Mellon’s The Frame Gallery – a foray into the world of internet persona, obsession, fetish, history, worship, performance and absurdity.


You can find the flickr gallery here -Tara Helfer, Tim Sherman, Honor Randall, Meagan Trott and myself put together a low-fi gallery show in the middle of October that was meant to let us get in touch with our nerdy, nerdy roots. Riffing on pop/internet/fan/furry/sub-cultures, each artist delivered work that emulated and exaggerated boiled-down versions of their  pre-Carnegie Mellon selves.

Artists wandered the crowd costumed to match their work, encouraging visitors to comment on the make-shift messageboards that hung next to every piece, and to join them in MIDI karaoke at the front of the space.

Footage of the performers was livestreamed and linked to 4chan, who actively ignored our (somewhat) musical love letter to the internet.

Meagan wailed into the mic and photoshopped herself into oblivion.

Tim VJed the event, splicing youtube videos and internet cats on the fly into unholy super cat videos the likes of which cannot be unseen.

Honor tapped into her inner cam-whore, enshrining pictures of herself, friends, and absolute strangers into an ode to the cell phone self- portrait.

Tara painted a series of Internt-Famous Cats and ran around terrifying people in a horse mask.

My contributions to the show were a print of Let Slip the Sparkledogs of War

and Andy Warhoof, a 44″ x 44″ print

An Internet Artist  Pseudo-Manifesto

Prior to beginning our higher education on the finer points of art, many of us studied
under the hive mind of the Internet. We were fortunate enough to have access to documentation of artistic activity
in a huge variety forms- and we soaked up everything we could find. We adopted the Internet’s culture as our own,
participated in it’s communities, and developed our own creative practices. Then we became students; we were taught
conceptual thinking, we were schooled on the avant-garde, and pressured to worship at the
Altar of Warhol. The Internet became an archive, a dictionary, and a distraction from “real
work”… but rarely a gallery space. We are entering the final stages of undergraduate education,
and have accepted the mantle of “fine artist;” and yet, we cannot bring ourselves to discount our

initial foray into unchecked and self-published creativity. We are informed by our culture – the culture of the Internet -
and have decided that “deviantart” doesn’t necessarily have to be a dirty word.
We all come from somewhere; in the process of preparing to leave the CMU bubble and return to society at large,

we are rediscovering our roots. We are the Internet. “We are the Media.” It is time to stop
pretending otherwise.

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Nov 7 / sad admin

senior project assets :: whale

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Nov 7 / sad admin

senior project assets :: earth

Filed under Animation, Digital, Illustration, Work In Progress
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Nov 7 / sad admin

senior project assets :: flowers

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Oct 16 / sad admin

my other car’s an astralhound

think about it. summoning the astral hound

my other car's an astralhoundnever with a goat

I have plenty of things I should be doing, but twitterdoodles & the second season of Mad Men are taking precedence tonight- gotta unwind somehow, yeah?

I want to draw happy, toothy things now and forever.

<3

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