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Voy a Chile hoy

Hola muchachos. Voy a ir a Santiago este manana por dos semanas para visitar con mi amigo especial Sebastian, y tambien voy a tomar clases de espanol casi cada dia (oy). Tratare a tomar muchas fotos, pero no podre ponerlos en mi blog durante del viaje. Entonces, no habre un post aqui por 2 semanas. Despues del 25th del Julio, pienso que habra muchos. Tambien, si alguin tiene amigos (o amigos de amigos) en Santiago, dame la informacion de contacto por email!

Gracias. Hasta dos semanas.

Survivorman

Survivorman: newyorker.com
by Sherman Alexi

Here’s a fact: Some people want to live more

Than others do. Some can withstand any horror

While others will easily surrender

To thirst, hunger, and extremes of weather.

In Utah, one man carried another

Man on his back like a conjoined brother

And crossed twenty-five miles of desert

To safety. Can you imagine the hurt?

Do you think you could be that good and strong?

Yes, yes, you think, but you’re probably wrong.

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A Wild Wind Blew Right Through

Family Pictures opening

Hey SFers,

If you are in the city (I won't be):

Saturday July 11th, 7-10pm, go to an opening that I am in:

@ Root Division in the Mission

(ps, this possum family photo not from the show. It is from here.)

Johanna and Geoff, Married Alas

In an unorthodox turn for this blog: my sister and her hubby! Two poets in love. I adore them both. Pictures by Rachel Been. I adore her too.

Wired Italia

My photos run in Wired Italia...

The Light Wraps You

The light wraps you in its mortal flame.
Abstracted pale mourner, standing that way
against the old propellers of the twighlight
that revolves around you.

Speechless, my friend,
alone in the loneliness of this hour of the dead
and filled with the lives of fire,
pure heir of the ruined day.

A bough of fruit falls from the sun on your dark garment.
The great roots of night
grow suddenly from your soul,
and the things that hide in you come out again
so that a blue and palled people
your newly born, takes nourishment.

Oh magnificent and fecund and magnetic slave
of the circle that moves in turn through black and gold:
rise, lead and possess a creation
so rich in life that its flowers perish
and it is full of sadness.

-Pablo Neruda

O Breath

Beneath that loved and celebrated breast,
silent, bored really blindly veined,
grieves, maybe lives and lets
live, passes bets,
something moving but invisibly,
and with what clamor why restrained
I cannot fathom even a ripple.
(See the thin flying of nine black hairs
four around one five the other nipple,
flying almost intolerably on your own breath.)
Equivocal, but what we have in common's bound to be there,
whatever we must own equivalents for,
something that maybe I could bargain with
and make a separate peace beneath
within if never with.

-Elizabeth Bishop

Remembrance of Things Past

Mobile uploads. I know.

INVISIBLE CITY

My drawings have been featured by Marlaina Read in her online art periodical Invisible City.

It is Issue 04 and the theme is Dangerous Bodies.

This is a tremendous honor!

I hope you guys will check it out HERE (in pdf format).

Blood and Guts and Insides Out

I think we can all agree that my legs have had a pretty rough year.

Fortify Anew

For some reading I suppose

try Cathedral by Raymond Carver

Green Pink Caviar

by Marilyn Minter.

The Aftermath

Monica Seles

I have been kind of bored with my own work recently, and am more interested in this other stuff. Sorry if I am not keeping it Kosher here these days. These weird images from a 1993 Sports Illustrated.

Ultaviolet Beauties

by Cara Phillips

If Molly and I were dirty matchbooks

right?

Lost City Radio

Just finished this book. I recommend it highly.

And These (of place and time)

Lina Scheynius book

She is pretty radical.

Order her book/see her website here

See her book on youtube here

If you are looking for something short and massively interesting to read

David Foster Wallace: CONSIDER THE LOBSTER Thanks gabe

Action

Wanna play a game?

This is a super fun game called: help Carmen edit her proofs! Woot.

I don't normally futz around so much, but the light was so nice in that room I took a series of very similar photos and now am stuck. So, blog-readers, if you do exist, now is the time to make your voice heard! (The color is a bit shitty here due to blogspot, so do your best...) Thoughts on the edit?

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I Met the Walrus.

Geoff introduced me to THIS short video. It is pretty amazing. You need sound.

My brother, again

On the current status of Iran on Salon.com

See his blog here

Liz Chernett

It is hard to make nice double exposures like these. Some of Liz's other work here.

New Studio!

Christened with a new shiny graphite drawing.

My Childhood in Plastic 2

Watercolor MVP tropies, 1998, 1999

Relief

Hotel picture

LA picture

sometimes, the good pictures are the bad pictures, you know what I mean

Um, yes.

Grace Kim

Noel Rodo

Matt Connors

Sam Falls

Grant Ernhart

TJ Poechel

Emmet Gowen (of course)

If you are bored at work on Monday morning.

Wish there were more women on this list, though.

All work found through the exposure project blog.

My Childhood in Plastic

Watercolors! Also, if you haven't voted yet, please see a post or two below...voting is open until the 17th. Thanks guys.

VOTE FOR ME I BEG YOU

Google photo competition...I am the feet! 2nd down on the right.
PLZ vote for me and tell your peeps. I will win big bucks if so :) And I need em.

Odd Book For Sale

I have decided to try something a bit weird, as you can see. This is my first little book, entitled There Can Be No Me Without You and Other Tales of Longing. I have made 10 editions of the 80 page image and text book, and signed the inside of each. I am selling them for $15 each. Also, Please disregard the mirror-imaging effect of this video. Email me at carmen.winant@gmail.com if interested! Song by TV on the Radio. PS- notice how my phone rings during this video about a minute in. Classic piece.

Read between the lines.

More Molly. Can't get enough.

My sister is married!

I am happy.

Sebastian Mejia

Sebastian, man. My hero.

Rachel Been's Pictures

from Guatamala. Beautiful. Rachel Been info

My brother makes me proud

See his writing for Salon.com, particularly his newest piece, regarding Bill O'Reily's sensationalist smear campaign against the now tragically  slain Dr. Tiller. See his blog here.

Pictures posted from a warm night in LA

Wall Street Journal Picture

See the photo credit

Old Elan Pictures

from the shoot that just won't die.

Sequence

Things that float in shallow water

Things

Savage love podcast

Summer Heights High

omg

The Reveal

Morning

How to Lose Control of Your Body 2

How to Lose Control of Your Body

The Strangeness

Mirage

Magic Hour

A New Season

Santa Cruz

The Secret of Art Is

I teach a homeschool art class for 9-13 year olds, and this assignment was to create a postcard addressing the secret of art; the results were too good not to share.

Grappling

More Than She Knows, I Do

Things of Mysteriousness

My Body Inside

Book

So, I am working on a little book. Actually, all I have so far is the title. And the cover. It is kind of a summer project: mostly photos, some writing. Stay posted I hope.

New Pictures 2

New Pictures

SERIOUSLY?!

http://darkigloo.com/

YOU GUYS. Wait for Dave's site to load. It is soooo worth it.

holy shit.

Jason Hanasik

is the bomb.com

If I Could Look Like Her

Old Pictures

So, I found these old prints. Kind of a smattering. They are all squares, but the formatting is fixed due to my scanner. I also didn't de-dust. Anyway, funny to see these images. They remind me of a lot. Of Everything.

Paintings

Bill Sullivan

Busted Knees, 2008 & 2009

wtf. my body: always so rough around the edges.

Paul, of infinite Muse

It's funny

After I "quit" this blog, my hits have been steadily going up. I used to get 20-30 a day, and now the I get 40-60. Funny is all. Also, I love my friends and I thank goodness for them all over again.

Trying to be someone else

Cal Jam Too -- this Friday

blankspacegallery.com

Think what you want and you'll know who you are

Contusions

What We're Worth

Katie's new work is nice

Katie Shapiro, y'all

May it please the court

New Maira Kalman of course

Mega Post

Rachel and Billy

Grid

Reluctant Sitters

Annie, of infinite Muse

I am not making  a bunch of new work at the moment, but I have tons of backlog

Insomnia

Inspired by my sometimes collaboration with Geoff, I decided to try something. Poem and image by me, in this case.

And this

I am pretty bad at taking a break from this. 

Found this

Well, hot damn

Tim Gardner, man.

Explain this to me. No seriously. Explain this.

Sike!

I'm addicted. Matt Lipps rules the world.

**THE END** (sorta)

It has arrived. The one year anniversary of what is intended to be a definitively pre-determined project.

This blog began because I needed an outlet for my work, and ended up being an impetus to make more. I started out more rigid in only posting 6x6 color images, and branched out as I decided to include drawings and videos (thanks grad school!). On this blog, I have posted large format images of my cousins and disposable pictures of me peeing and personal journal sketches to drawings based on media sources. I have become (thankfully) less concerned with consistency and more with experimentation. The result of the experiment is thereby pretty schizophrenic. My only goal has really become to not to rely on text to tell a story.

Since beginning this blog, I have travelled to Berlin with Paul and moved to San Francisco from LA. I have cut my hair and dyed the tips. I have had my heart broken. I have made wonderful new friends and started a band. I have had my car towed twice. I have started my MFA and seen my work change dramatically (more drawings, less photos).

Mostly, I wanted to take this opportunity to thank thank thank you guys for being so masterfully supportive of my rambling efforts. Seriously. Though it embarrasses me to think that people actually look at this blog, it would be hard for me to post while believing that it disappeared totally into the vast ether of the world wide inter-tubes.

Fun facts (courtesy of google analytics):

This blog has had almost 2,000 visits (from 376 unique visitors).

23 people visited over 200 times (likely me, Paul, Mom, Molly, Rachel, Jo, Matt, Artemis, Joe and Jessie? Ha. Thanks guys.)

684 only stayed on the blog for 10 seconds or under. Bastards!

953 of my visits came from 35 countries outside of the US, including 3 from Malaysia, 2 from Sweden, and 1 from Papua New Guinea.

My highest hits in one day were on March 31st, were I got 116 visitors (thanks Le Love).

My lowest hits were January 11th, were I got 3 visitors. Sad.

I will continue posting sporadically, so please continue to check back! Just not daily. Instead, just Afterthought I guess (though I'll keep the original name of course).

Love,

Carmen

Plaid Review

Check out this new CCA student-based poetry review

The Thingness of Things 2

Family Picture

So not the point of this blog, but since I have been taking liberties anyway: I am at home this week and going through lots of old photos. I like this picture of us because it is Philly in fall, my dad is so young, and my Dad's dad was still around to be pictured at all. I wish he still was; he would make a great and willing subject. I have been thinking about him a lot recently. Ps: Cheeks!

Open Studio shots

Things, Considered

Raise a Laugh

Open Studio dance, btw

CCA Open studios 2009 a smash success! Molly, Sofia and I created this ritual dance to celebrate the gods of art school and studio #85 (try not be be intimidated by our fierce skills), with pictures by ms. Rachel.Yes we all have blogs - we are art students, okay! Duh. Thanks to everyone for coming through, esp. Liz and Molly for helping me install on Friday. You guys make my heart go pitter patter. I will post images of my fresh to death studio soon. xo Carm

Grain, Dust, and Other Things That Remind Me of Love