If it seems a bit slow on here, it’s because I’m in my last semester of my undergraduate career and things are so super busy.
Updates on here will begin trickling in after this week; until then, you can follow me at sadsadkiddie.tumblr.com or @rattusRose , for a more up-to-date look at what I’ve been up to.
In the meantime, here’s something I just finished; I did this month’s banner over at 72 demons, a kickstarter book project I’m participating in.
Pulled from my 72demons blurb:
I decided to pull heavily from the natural world for my banner demons. Using animal imagery that typically evokes thoughts of pestilence or horror, I wanted to use expression and color to saturate the characters with a kind of unrestrained and manic glee. Do they want to hug you or eat you?
aww yeah. <3
I also participated in Hourly Comics Day, but they exist in a hodgepodge of scans and cell phone pictures on twitpic right now. I need to reformat a few of them before I stick ‘em on here.
Not dead, I promise. more soon.
-c
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
