hazel llanes
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This blog turns 4 today !!
Thanks goes to the Tumblr Staff for sending me this digital cupcake and to you for visiting, liking, reblogging, and following all these years. I still don’t know why you guys stick around, but thank you !
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“If you want love, you have to be and give love; if you want attention, you have to pay attention; if you want money, you have to help other people make money. This was my stumbling block from ages 40 to 50 because I was just looking to get paid. Then I let go of that and said my work is no longer about me.” -
My sister and I attended a screenprinting workshop at Kid Icarus a few weeks back. It turned out to be a great learning experience! Not to mention we got to hang out at their awesome shop in Kensington Market and met Lourdes who bought us sweet Mexican bread for lunch.
We also liked that there was an emphasis on learning how to do everything at home. It’s only a matter of time before we set up our own mini screen printing operation at our place ;)
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Decided to join in on Tiffany’s neat daily color block project except I broke the rules and didn’t actually do any color blocking… I just thought it would be more fun to look at the textiles I wear everyday.
Be sure to check out the other participants at the #daily color block tag !
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The only thing different about me is I’m not afraid to die on a treadmill. You might be more talented than me, you might be smarter, but if we get on a treadmill together, there’s two things: you’re either getting off first or I’m gonna die. It’s really that simple.
One of my professors showed us this video on the last day of class. Long story short, the secret to succes is to have an insane work ethic.
Somewhat related: The Campaign for the Accurate Measurement of Creativity
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LINE Brush has the best brushes I’ve seen in a drawing app.
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Just a couple of unedited snapshots from some shows I visited within the past few months.
First row: Do you want to hear a story? Yes, I want to hear a story @ OCADU Student Gallery
Second row: Lost in the Memory Palace: Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller @ Art Gallery of Ontario
Third row: The Mr Pickles Fan Club Gemma Correll Solo Exhibition @ Magic Pony - see more coverage at Amanda’s blog
Fourth row: OCAD University Grad Ex 2013
Other events not pictured: The Game of Thrones exhibit @ DX and The Mass Exodus fashion show @ Ryerson. Didn’t go to TCAF this year, sadly…
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A fun personal project I started a few months back to practice some lettering. Right now it’s on hold due to school, but I’m hoping to write all the names of my Facebook friends by the end of summer.
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Here are my illustrations in action at the Umbra trade show back in January.
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“I don’t know what the hell is going on. Neither do you, and neither does any one else. We’re all lost and improvising, making things before we know what they do, and breaking stuff before we know what replaces it. We’re all tinkering and speculating, listening to see if our shovels hit something hard while we’re digging. I suppose that’s what world-building is, though, so let’s get used to it. We need to learn to tolerate ambiguity.” —Frank Chimero, telling it like it is. I suggest you read the whole thing. Here’s another nugget of wisdom:
Increasingly, our way is to fake it and assume that others are doing the same. We fein interest in work, speak sarcastically, buy things that are new reproductions of old things, and often presume someone is selling us something. Skepticism as a default state is a hell of a thing. We’re a hungry culture starved for sincerity, authenticity, and honesty. What does fixing it look like? It doesn’t look cool. In fact, it probably involves being so passionately enthusiastic about something that it is the exact opposite of cool. By caring intensely, we can connect to one another in more meaningful ways.
