October 2006

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kiss kiss for me♥

color pencils on construction paper

i think i drew this in 2005 winter, but i’m not sure.

(sold)

i went to see “swan lake” by the national ballet of canada last year in saskatoon. it was so beautiful that i almost forgot to blink. there’s no ballet coming to saskatoon until next year, so i’ve been watching this instead.

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a couple weeks ago, i was interviewed by felicia chen, a writer for the sheaf, the university of saskatchewan student newspaper. she came over to my apartment. this was only my second time being interviewed so i was still nervous, but she was very friendly.

the interview lasted for three hours. even though it was a long interview, surprisingly it wasn’t long enough to cover everything i wanted to say, partly because my answers tend to be meandering. it’s hard for me to talk about what i do, and especially hard in english if i’m a bit nervous. i get really excited and i can’t put my thoughts together. when that happens, people who know me can understand what i mean but for someone i just met i’m probably confusing. :D

after the interview, i felt i hadn’t explained my thoughts clearly enough. so i wrote my answers to her questions and some additional information and sent her an email. it was a good exercise for me. a lot of the questions were about my artwork. i don’t like to talk about “ART” in general and i have a hard time explaining what i’m doing. so i thought about it for a long time and wrote a really long email. felicia was very nice and read the whole thing and some of my ideas showed up in this article.

i’m very happy with this article in the end. it’s really good at showing my floating thoughts. like i keep saying, my mind is everywhere.

you can read the article about me and see the whole newspaper (PDF) at the sheaf website. there’s no way to link directly to the article yet, so i’ve uploaded the two pages here. you can open them in PDF and read the small newspaper text. there are 2 files to open, one per page.

page:1 page:2

see also: the first newspaper article about me, from the saskatoon star-phoenix (july 1st)

my blog used to look like this.

over the last couple of days, my blog has been getting make-over. paul has been working to make it look prettier and easier for people to browse through.

i just love+love this design. baby blue is my favorite color, and i like the hints of orange and green. there’s more white space and the whole thing just looks so much brighter and more fun.

this new design is going to be the theme for some new features that are going to be added to this site in the next week or so: an online shop and a new gallery. the tabs at the top left will take you to the different zones of this website once the new areas are ready.

here are some of the new features on the blog:

• archives page: this is a live archives page that organizes blog posts by date and by category. the post titles are shown in a list so it’s easier to find one post or get an overview of the contents.
• tag cloud: along with the category list, we added tags. i’ll be adding more tags to my old posts so the tag cloud will get bigger. you’ll be able to find more specific contents that are associated with each other by a tag.
• comments: as you type your comment in the comment box, you’ll see the preview of your comment as you type. that’s useful especially when you’re using HTML. also, we’ll be adding gravatars eventually. and you can now subscribe to the comments for a post you leave a comment on. that way you know when there’s a reply.
• sidebar: recent comments will be linked in the sidebar. that makes it easier to see what posts have recently been active.

we’re still playing with the design, so you may notice some changes still to come. please let me know if you have any comments.

welcome to the new plastique monkey blog!

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obviously i’m tastier than duck food…

i drew this for my show in regina. it’ll be included for sale in my online shop, opening very soon (plan is next monday).

since the ducks are so hungry, they also ate this post! so i’ve reposted it…

UPDATE: you can buy this drawing from my SHOP.