The Start of a Studio Set-up

Last Tuesday, the 12th, I got a steal of a deal.  

It started with a used flat file I had seen on eBay for local pickup.  It was 46" x 35", a good size, around my area, and only $190 - which I thought was a good price.  Those things are not cheap new.  I was so ready to buy it, as long as my father was willing to drive his truck to go pick it up, load it, drive it home, unload it, and set it up in the basement.  Of course he didn't really want to make a nice 45-60 minute drive if he didn't have to and suggested I look more locally at a used office furniture store he knew of.

That lead to finding a few more used office furniture stores that I didn't even know existed where I live.  I know everything in a store like that can't be photographed and cataloged and posted up on a website, because there is just too much and it would take a ton of time.  However, the site for one of the stores I was checking out happened to have photos of flat files.  I called to inquire about price, size, and availability.  I was in luck.  Six Mayline C-Files were available, all brought in from an architecture firm.  All were the largest size, 53" x 41", priced at $250 each.  I've had trouble finding smaller files for that price.

After a short discussion and review of my finances, my father and I went to check them out.  The place was literally an old factory being used to store and resell loads of used office furniture.  There were chairs, desks, bookcases, filing cabinets, shelving systems, and more items everywhere.  We found the man I had spoken with on the phone, and he took us to the flat files.  I almost wanted to take them all home.  I took two, got them home, cleaned up, and set up in the best available space.

I am definitely happy with what I got, and actually getting the flat files is the start of my studio set up.  I've been cleaning my basement, little by little, going through everything down there in order to get a space for myself.  More about that another post.   

For now here are a few photos from the flat file set up, not the best quality (photos are from my phone).

The space.  All cleared out and ready to go.

First file body in place.

Drawers are in.

Second file stacked on top.

Done!

A Small Post

Yes, it's been a while I know.  But I wanted to make a small post.

Someone once told me to figure out a plan.  Get something going and figure out what I want to do, and figure out where I want to be.  That I have nothing tying me down, keeping me where I currently am.  I can go anywhere I want to go.  That there's no shame in truly admitting what I want to do in life.  There is nothing holding me back but myself.

I have time still, and I'm going to think on what that person told me.  Figure my plan out and start making moves on it.

Lust

I'm totally lusting after these shoes from Sam Edelman.  See them at Zappos.

your Fire Island against my Sonoma

I like this.  It kind of reminds me of myself a little bit.

Topography

Sharon Olds

 

After we flew across the country we

got in bed, laid our bodies

delicately together, like maps laid

face to face, East to West, my

San Francisco against your New York, your

Fire Island against my Sonoma, my

New Orleans deep in your Texas, your Idaho

bright on my Great Lakes, my Kansas

burning against your Kansas your Kansas

burning against my Kansas, your Eastern

Standard Time pressing into my

Pacific Time, my Mountain Time

beating against your Central Time, your

sun rising swiftly from the right my

sun rising swiftly from the left your

moon rising slowly from the left my

moon rising slowly from the right until

all four bodies of the sky

burn above us, sealing us together,

all our cities twin cities,

all our states united, one

nation, indivisble, with liberty and justice for all.

27 of 154

After a trip to the library yesterday I came home with Shakespeare's Sonnets.  I've never really read any of them, and I'm curious to see what all the hype is about.  They're supposedly these great passionate writings.  I really just wanted to see and know for myself.  After a brief look through last night, I read one that holds truth in it and wanted to post it here.

27

Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,

The dear repose for limbs with travel tired,

But then begins a journey in my head

To work my mind when body's work's expired;

For then my thoughts, from far where I abide,

Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee,

And keep my drooping eyelids open wide,

Looking on darkness which the blind do see;

Save that my soul's imaginary sight

Presents thy shadow to my sightless view,

Which like a jewel hung in ghastly night,

Makes black night beauteous and her old face new.

   Lo, thus, by day my limbs, by night my mind,

   For thee, and for myself, no quiet find.

I kind of really love this

So Kanye West was at the 2010 Singapore Singfest earlier this week wearing what may be the brightest suit I've ever seen.  I saw a photo over at Go Fug Yourself and wanted to post it here because like the title says, I kind of really love this.  It's so bright and just awesome to me.

I do zombies too: Part 2

Back in June I posted images of my costume that I had wrecked for my dance recital.  Over the last week in July I was in Ocean City with the rest of the team for the StarPower Nationals competition.  We took a few dances including Ramalama, in which we're all dead/zombie ballerinas.  So thanks to Universal Event Photography I was able to purchase a few photos of myself from the day, and I'm posting them up here to show the completed costume in action.