circumlocution

2011-12-20T12:52:00.000-05:00

This blog is essentially closed.

2011-04-01T10:01:00.002-04:00

I started it way back in 2004 but I haven't been devoting to it the time it deserves. I've moved on to different blogs, all of which I will link to here, and some other exciting things. But from now on, this will remain an archive. Thank you so much for your time and attention over the last 6 years.

I opened an etsy store where my photos can be purchased.

I have been updating patternclash.com a bit more lately, too.

I am the featured photographer in the first issue of Films & Grains, an amazing magazine devoted to film and analog photography. You can purchase it at Magcloud.

I am also in the book Still Developing - A Story Of Instant Gratification, a book documenting the Polaroid photography project by ism- a community project.

So here are my various blogs:

patternclash.tumblr.com - personal tumblr

photographic-narcolepsy.tumblr.com - drawing and illustration gallery

ohophelia.tumblr.com - images of people in water

ohtreachery.tumblr.com - curated according to sporadic whims and displayed as a grid

home-envy.tumblr.com - amazing domiciles

confoundery.tumblr.com - really just a general repository for pictures i like

xof

I guess I will be on a roll with the blankets.

2010-05-17T22:35:00.007-04:00

Despite it getting much, much warmer out, I am still totally fawning over blankets and quilts. I guess that's silly but seriously, get a load of these:

This is the Bethesda Fountain in Central Park

This is Halifax!

These ridiculously amazing things are made by Emily Fischer at Haptic Lab. I WANT ONE.

Welsh Quilts

2010-05-10T23:44:00.005-04:00

I have suddenly and pretty much unequivocally become completely obsessed with these Welsh quilts and blankets. Like, there isn't a single one I do not want. It's almost traumatizing.

EXPOSURE

2010-04-30T10:27:00.000-04:00

Check Out This Art Portfolio

I submitted some pictures to a new competition by Artists Wanted called EXPOSURE. Please take a moment and vote for me!

Level & Tap

2010-01-27T13:08:00.003-05:00

I was recently approached by my friend Ryan Essmaker to contribute photography to the awesome new print site, Level & Tap, and the first series just became available to purchase! So far Giving up the Ghost is there, and soon will be The New Angular.

http://levelandtap.com/browse/patternclashhh/

The Ancientest

2010-01-26T10:33:00.005-05:00

Ancient trees, look how pretty

3 New Newses

2010-01-20T22:22:00.005-05:00

Hey guys, whoa, I have new bits of news for you.

I am in 2 gallery shows in the next few weeks! One is right here in our own friendly neighborhood, Brooklyn. The other is in Raleigh, North Carolina, so if any of you live down around there, you should check it out. Here let me give you all the infors:

NO HANDS - 29 January 2010

The title NO HANDS is subject to definition by the risks surrounding us, the risks we take and

everyday encounters. Using the format and medium of photography,

NO HANDS is open for a broad range of interpretation.

We want to see anything you have involving risks.

Stupidity, triumph, life, death, long nights, or taboo behavior.

Whatever you think people should see as risk or you just want to be a bad influence, we want to share it.

We have a great list for the opening of NO HANDS
SO FAR here is the line up for the photo show (in no particular order)

Matthew Baum
Elizabeth Weinberg
Alan Hamill
Roger Kisby
Sybil Jason
Francesca Tallone
Laura Finlay
Nina Palucci / Joe Jagos
Erin Barry
Kalissa Cherish

For more info on HIDING GALLERY visit:

www.HIDINGGALLERY.com

www.HIDINGGALLERYNEWS.blogspot.com

You can also find us on Facebook

just search hidding gallery

cool times

-Joey

HIDING GALLERY

292 Ellery St APT 4

FAT ALBERT BLOCK

BROOKLYN, NY 11206

This is what's in the NO HANDS show:

AND THEN

The show in Raleigh is called Plastic Cameraworks and it's at Rebus Works gallery. Here's what's in that one:

and guess what, that photo was posted on ffffound!

OK FINALLY

I entered the self-portrait competition "The Power of Self" and I need your votes!

http://www.artistswanted.org/francesca

I hope you can go/come to the shows!

All things all at once.

2009-11-17T17:06:00.007-05:00

I'm sorry I've been out of touch. You know how there are some friends that you'll have for life but you sometimes don't talk for years? I don't mean to take you for granted. I have lots of things to tell you.

ANTLER Magazine shoot came out today!

And here they are on flickr.

And another thing: my art gallery blog, photographic narcolepsy, was featured on Tumblr Tuesday today. Have a look, and tell me your favorite illustrators and draw-ers and I'll post about them.

Happy autumn.

There is also this:

2009-01-06T16:55:00.003-05:00

dblplrd

Circumlocution...?

2009-01-06T13:58:00.005-05:00

Brevity is the soul of this blog, that much is clear from the last year's worth of posts. Perhaps in 2009 I shall talk your ear off.

First of all, on 4 January 2009 I quietly celebrated my 1-year anniversary of living in New York. 2008 was totally cray cray, but we needn't go into it. So here are some images from my flight to California for the holiday.

Similarly,

2008-09-01T15:05:00.002-04:00

This amazing installation by Anders Nilsen (I wrote about his book a few posts down) is blowing my mind, and looks a lot like the plate walls but TINIER.

Tectonic

2008-08-26T11:42:00.005-04:00

Sadly, my collecting of old mugs and plates has slowed down a bit in recent months, so I have been reviewing some old flickr favorites.

From the top:
1. lenacorwin
2. Bird In The Hand
3. Ugly Is Pretty
4. Head In The Clouds...
5. briface

This last wall would match my quilt quite nicely, if I could ever manage to finish it.

You say goodbye, I say hello

2008-07-29T03:02:00.004-04:00

It has been months since my last post. There are many things I vowed to do in 2008, one of which I've already failed at (I guess I will not have 366). Notwithstanding I still reminisce often and fondly on my time here at circumlocution and am determined to bring it back to its full and deserving splendor.

First things first: these 3 books are incredible.

1. The Ticking, by Renee French
2. Red Colored Elegy, by Seiichi Hayashi
3. Dogs and Water, by Anders Nilsen

Please note: these are in no way in order by awesomeness. It's all just totally random.

Historically speaking

2008-04-04T03:29:00.003-04:00

Back in the early days of Circumlocution I managed to write about vastly interesting things, like Corey Hart's sunglasses (which is often searched in Google, strangely enough) and Rockstar: INXS (do you people remember that?) but these days it's tapered off a bit, hm? I should really be rambling on and on about half-price eclairs and temporal-lobe epilepsy. Instead, this is what I've got for now:

RECENT and RAD:

Brooklyn Flea
I couldn't be more excited about this. It's just not possible.

Muxtape
This site is the best thing that ever happened to me, after actually making mixtapes with really rad artwork that I cut out of magazines for boys I thought were cute. Mine is currently covers.

Fred Flare
It's a tiny lego and it's an ipod speaker and it looks just like my external, I have to have it.

Send a Message
I will do this. Thanks David.

More soon. This is what one corner of my room looks like:

from flickr.

Almost ready.

2008-03-14T00:14:00.003-04:00

224#16. Almost.

Sea Legs

2008-02-21T12:45:00.003-05:00

My dream this morning was a long bike ride. Down hills and through trees and then, amazingly, over a lake. The flattest, smoothest lake you've ever seen. My friends were swimming and I rode over the water, barely making a ripple. Willow mentioned my sea legs IRL the other day. I never wanted to find the shore.

Meteorology

2008-02-18T18:30:00.006-05:00

Lunar eclipse 2008: best seen from the East Village whilst eating at Atlas.

Also, what am I going to do about polaroid film?

Boots by Kate O'Connor.

I invite you to help keep the dream alive.

Tomorrow, it won't happen.

2008-02-02T01:15:00.000-05:00

It rained all day and cleared up at 10pm. There was no snow in January.

6 of one, 1/2 dozen of the other.

2008-01-31T16:39:00.000-05:00

You know how when things are the same, but different?

This is not like that.

I understand you like science.

2008-01-30T22:50:00.000-05:00

As a result of thinking, and then talking, about my prolific, enigmatic and romantic writing career, I've finally decided to embark on one. I already have titles for many of my soon-to-be-cult-followed stories. I'm co-writing several of them. They should be done at some point during my soon-to-be-cult-followed life.

Current statistics.
Today is:
Day 95 of the photography series 28
Day 63 without my cat
Day 59 of no longer being an ex-pat
Day 26 of my habitation of the borough of New York City known as Brooklyn

I have the cartographic triangulation of 3 distinct places burnt into my brain like lights behind eyelids, if looked at for too long.

The week never starts around here.

2008-01-25T16:44:00.000-05:00

3 weeks in Brooklyn, and counting.

NewNew

2008-01-22T01:05:00.001-05:00

Oh dear. Joe Biel.

notcot.org is my new fav

2008-01-13T11:52:00.000-05:00

It yielded this amazingness:

aze designs

here's notcot.org.

ALSO: I'm in Brooklyn now. Still homeless/jobless but happier than I've been in months.

Have I got news for you!

2007-12-01T22:11:00.000-05:00

Did I tell you people I'm moving to New York?

WELL I AM.

I am going to be living in Brooklyn.

I do not have a place to live.

I do not have a job.

If you know of anything please do not hesitate to bequeath the information unto me.

In the meantime, here is a VERY pretty picture:

from Desire to Inspire.

28 - a photo a day

2007-11-08T17:57:00.000-05:00

I decided on my 28th birthday that I will take a picture of myself every day for a year. It's been done before, but I've never done anything like it. It's on my flickr.

28

Today.

OK guys, this is serious now.

2007-11-06T07:15:00.000-05:00

I entered this photo contest, and I'm in second place behind this weird naked rope stuff. HELP ME BE FIRST!

WIN WIN WIN

Hey guys, my website is DONE DONE DONE

2007-11-02T23:42:00.000-04:00

YAY!

My friend Naz was building my website this Summer and it finally launched on Halloween. So here t'is:

www.patternclash.com

and here's a little bit in Weightshift memo:

Clashing Patterns

Thank you Naz!!!

Mina Perhonen kills me

2007-10-15T10:02:00.000-04:00

In the best way!

New a/w 07/08

My new happy place:

2007-10-08T23:28:00.000-04:00

the shiny squirrel

i want all of it.

2007-08-01T21:55:00.000-04:00

little paper planes.

uh oh.

especially this one:

7 things about me, and a new start

2007-08-01T11:12:00.001-04:00

one of my favorite bloggers, cheap opulence, tagged me on her blog to post 7 things about myself. since this is my first post since march (yeah nicole i know! how dumb) i'm going to try and make it interesting:

1. i would rather be taking pictures

2. i am the proud owner of a massive inferiority complex

3. i like things that are old better than things that are new like houses, furniture, etc

4. i like cleaning, like, a lot

5. i have a habit of watching the tv guide channel

6. i'm pretty bored with my life right now and need a change

7. i make a damn good cappuccino

i don't think anyone reads this blog anymore and i hardly blame them but if you happen to find yourself reading this and want to post 7 things about yourself on your blog or facebook or myspace or whatever, feel free. tell me in my comments so i can go spy on it.

Canadian Heritage

2007-03-24T18:50:00.000-04:00

In honor of my impending residence to Canada, I went through my bookmarks looking for this: a Canadian specialty, Heritage Moments.

Oh Canada!

For some reason I can't remember; has America televised its best moments?

the ground is brown and the sky is grey

2007-03-18T22:41:00.000-04:00

so i just finished my photo class that i was taking for a couple months, and i have a lot of new prints, so if you happen to see something you like, you can probably get one. i'm having www.patternclash.com updated, so that should be done in the next few weeks, i hope. in the meantime i have put a little bit of newish work here patternclash.carbonmade.com

i'm going to new york in april to meet with some art/photo directors, and i really hope it's a fruitful trip.

but anyway here is a new picture, from the crinoline studies:

vote for my picture!

2007-03-05T09:25:00.000-05:00

remember the showdown competition i was telling you about before? voting is now open and you should all vote for my picture!

because you love me.

and i love you!

a fairly* lucrative year, so far

2007-03-01T19:50:00.000-05:00

*meaning, not really, but better than normal.

thank you to everyone who went to see my show at the mudroom, and thank you especially to those of you who bought some of it. i displayed 8 images, and 5 from the show sold as well as a couple independent of the show. i really appreciate your support, now my phone won't get shut off. maybe by next month i can buy a pretty new spring dress!

in other news, a few months back i registered for your gallery, which is an extension of the saatchi gallery in london, england, for artists all over the world to upload their portfolios. as you can see from the homepage for saatchi, that site gets about 10 million hits a DAY. which means that your gallery artists get a ton of exposure. anyway, from my portfolio on your gallery i've managed to sell some work to the creative director of the saatchi, which is pretty unfathomable! as well they have started a new feature called showdown, in which viewers to the site rate each artwork and then the top 2 go head-to-head in a final showdown. long story short - the winner wins money and prestige and is basically an art star. when my round comes up (should be in a few days) you should vote for me. i'll be sure to post the link.

this is the photo i have in showdown right now:

this blog is boring, right?

2007-02-15T10:47:00.000-05:00

here's some pretty artwork by rachell sumpter, from motel gallery in portland, oregon.

some press. this post is 100% about me.

2007-02-03T18:24:00.000-05:00

this arty/fashiony/cultury blog/magazine from minneapolis did a feature on me this week!

l'etoile magazine feature on ME

l'etoile magazine is just rad in general

speaking of press, here is some more:

the avant guardians as reviewed by susie bubble

from the CBC:
Tuesday November 14, 2006: Pushing the boundaries of fashion photography... in Halifax
You may not think of Halifax as the centre of fashion. But if Franscesca [sic] Tallone gets her way, Halifax just may gain a little more recognition on the fashionesta [sic] map. That's because Francesca Tallone has recently been named one of the top rising star fashion photographers by the prestigious design publication - "Surface Magazine". Her work is featured in the November 2006 edition of Surface... and it's also on display in Halifax at a store called Lost and Found. now listen to me blather on and on!

one love media

hey, i'm showing more photos in halifax.

2007-01-30T20:21:00.000-05:00

i'm having a show of some of my recentish photos at the mud room on barrington.

this show is (super) rad blog.

2007-01-24T09:25:00.000-05:00

i made a blog for my radio show over at CKDU, this show is (super) rad. i will post the playlist after my show airs and maybe also talk about other stuff. i set up an email address so that you can request songs too if you want.

http://thisshowissuperrad.blogspot.com

you know when i said i'd tell you about new year's?

2007-01-13T20:43:00.000-05:00

well i wasn't lying.

so we went to see blonde redhead on new year's eve, at a club off mission called mezzanine, which usually has clubby shows. but anyway, we had dinner at that amazing vegetarian japanese restaurant, and then went back to ava's to kill some time - we'd found out that blonde redhead weren't supposed to go on until around 12.30. so we went over there and watched arrested development until around 10, then went by the bar gestalt where she and all the other nerdy bike people were hanging out. we, or at least i, stood around awkwardly until around 11.30 when we started to head over to mezzanine. we got there just before 12, so we were able to celebrate with all these people we did not know. but anyway, it took blonde redhead an inordinately long time to come onstage, but when they did it was awesome. kazu was as usual wearing something totally ridiculous but which she pulled off flawlessly - in this case, what looked like an oversized, ripped-up t-shirt which barely covered her bum and some awesome boots. they played 2 new songs which were rad and then a lot of stuff from their newest record and everyone's favourite, in particular. but you know what? i don't love that song. but anyway, the highlight of the entire evening, in fact possibly all of 2007 up to that point, was this knackered-off-her-rocker girl who kept rushing the stage, in front of which was a security gate that photographers were behind. she kept squishing them! anyway, she started jumping up and down and screaming, and managed to JUMP ONSTAGE while blonde redhead were playing, and she was on her back, kicking her legs up in the air, like doing bicycle kicks you know? and then she rolled over, onto her hands, and did kicks into the air that way, all the time her saggy bum hanging out, she was totally raucous. the band were just kind of looking at each other, stupefied. then she stage-dove into the crowd, which miraculously caught her. so they keep playing, and then they have an encore break. during this break, she manages to get onstage again and was like, jumping up and down, doing jumping jacks, and then grabbed the mic! and started slurring into it something about new year's and blonde redhead. finally she jumped back into the crowd which miraculously caught her again. then the band came out again, and this girl started getting into fights with this other girl who was standing next to us. but that's not as exciting as when she did somersaults onstage! while the band was playing! wtf!

so after that we left and went back to ava's. in san francisco on new year's eve all the buses and trains and bart are free, does halifax or other places do that too? it's pretty rad. so we went home and went to bed, because we were leaving very early the next morning to go back to my parent's. we got back around 2 in the afternoon and had some lunch at this amazing thai restaurant, thai classic, which is one of my favorite thai places ever, if not for nostalgic reasons, then for their amazing lunch specials (which weren't being served because it was a holiday). we got back to my parent's around 3 and managed not to do anything else for the rest of the day, or week for that matter. we watched a ridiculous amount of america's next top model, because VH1 was having a marathon of all 7 cycles! wednesday the 3rd was my brother's 25th birthday, which i celebrated in part by going to visit an old friend of mine from highschool who has a gorgeous little son named joshua. he will be 1 on the first of february! we talked about all the other girls from highschool who have babies and i basically had my mind totally blown. my 10 year reunion is coming up, july i think it is, and i guess i have to decide if i care enough to see these old people. when i got home i found michael, my brother and my dad elbow deep in homemade butternut squash and ricotta ravioli - even the pasta was homemade. it was amazing. my dad made a peach schnapps and onion reduction sauce - which sounds weird, but was actually amazing. they were really light, and the sauce wasn't too peachy flavored, i thought. it was really good. and my mom made ricotta cheesecake for dessert. i basically grew up with gourmet chefs for parents and it's a wonder i managed to maintain a reasonable weight. REASONABLE. we were there until the 5th, when we drove back up to san francisco. we were flying out early the next morning so it made good sense! we stayed with my friend jamie and hung out with her for the day. we went to the mission to get one last burrito from taqueria cancun, and hung around there for a bit until dinner at golden era with avi and his girlfriend karen, and ava and sean. then we went back to jamie's and pretty much just went to bed so we wouldn't be too tired to wake up at 5.30am to go to the airport to come home.

and that brings us to the end of my holiday posting extravaganza! i do have a new camera which i have yet to really take out for a spin and many rolls of instamatic film that i have to get processed. which i will obviously show you when i do.

i remember, i remember!

2007-01-03T00:36:00.000-05:00

well i do not entirely remember, but i did think of something we did on tuesday the 19th: we went to the receiver gallery to see the show "i think we'd better split up." it is a group show featuring some artists i really like as well as someone i went to university with (hannah stouffer). anyway other than that we really just wandered around and came back to los osos on wednesday. we were here until friday the 29th, when we went back up to san francisco for new year's eve. we got into the city late that night, but woke up early-ish on the 30th and i bought my christmas present, the new pentax K10D digital SLR. behold:

(so all you people better hire me for photo jobs.)

before going out for breakfast with ava (whom we stayed with again. bless her heart, she was out pretty much the whole time so we got to sleep in her ridiculously comfortable bed) and some of her friends at the st. francis fountain on 24th street. while there we spied on trans am eating their breakfast. afterwards we all split off and michael and i resumed our perpetual wandering of san francisco. sometime by mid-afternoon we met up with our friend kira and some of her friends to brave the throngs of post-holiday shoppers, which to our utter lack of surprise were completely unreasonable and we hightailed it out of there pronto. we went up to hayes valley to look at expensive shops and while i accompanied kira and her friends for dinner at frjtz, michael went up to a bike shop near haight street. for dessert we went to citizen cake, where michael met up with us later on. kira and her posse wanted to go drink at noc noc, a bar on lower haight, so michael and i yet again split off and michael needed to get some dinner before going to slim's to see chavez. which i didn't go to with him. i had had plans to hang out with jamie at her place and watch movies but i wasn't able to get ahold of her, so i justwent back to ava's and watched a thoroughly harrowing film called "children of men" after which i want to die but by that time michael came back and saved me and all was well.

on sunday we again awoke early and i had wandering plans. i wanted to go to dogpatch, a neighborhood near potrero hill where there are supposedly the oldest buildings in the city. for some reason they withstood the earthquake in 1906, so many of them date back to the 1860s. we walked there from ava's, which wasn't far, and found some really amazing old buildings. i took pictures, but not with the digital, so i hope to have them processed when i get back to halifax. we also found a hell's angels clubhouse! after that we went to glen park because i had read in dwell magazine about a street in glen park called laidley that was SUPER CUTE. so we went, and gosh darn was it ever cute. i also took pictures there which i will definitely post because it was so unbelievably cute. here is an example of how cute it was: the end of noe street crosses laidley, and some members of the neighborhood had attached an "L" to the end of "noe" on the streetsign and also threw some holiday decorations onto it. CUTE! after that we went back to hayes because michael wanted to get some shoes, and we went to a cafe nearby and got the best soy chai ever. we went back up to haight afterwards and went to giant robot, where michael bought a ron rege print. from there we wanted to go to dinner at this vegetarian japanese restaurant we found in the mission called cha-ya and it was actually the best meal i've had other than homecooked in a really long time. that was around 7 and the blonde redhead show we were going to for new year's wasn't supposed to start until around 12.30, so we went back to ava's and watched arrested developement in the meantime. i'll do another long and boring post about the blonde redhead show laterrrr.

a continuation of sorts.

2006-12-26T01:17:00.000-05:00

well, it turns out i totally can't remember what we did on monday, or tuesday for that matter. suffice it to say that san francisco was rad regardless and we saw (or at least, michael saw) joanna newsom at the great american music hall on tuesday night. i was there alright, but couldn't see a damn thing based on the fact that i'm about 5 feet tall and we got there late. late in sf means 9.30pm. isn't that nice? home by 1pm. fucking sweet man.

anyway, we got a ride back to los osos on wednesday with my friend ally, who lives in a nearby town. being at my parent's house is so weird, but so nice. here are a few views from their place:

you're looking at morro bay in the distance, and its claim to fame, morro rock. morro rock is one of 9 mountains in a range through san luis obispo, all dormant volcanoes. morro rock is actually the cap of either the 7th or 8th, the rest of which is buried deep beneath the pacific ocean. it's a bird sanctuary and a disgusting tourist trap.

yesterday michael and i went to montana de oro, which is an absolutely beautiful state park and beach area a few miles from my house. we went to a tiny pebble beach called spooner's cove and waded in some really freezing but refreshing water. seriously, if you ever find yourself lost on the california coast, and you happen to be in a totally random town called los osos, make a point of going there. it's probably one of the prettiest places i've ever been in my life.

today is/was christmas day, and my family broke a tradition of going to the cinema on christmas day in favour of staying home curled up on the couch watching the world's fastest indian. it's an awesome movie about a really cool old motorcycle. which, supposedly, is in my hometown right now!

so i hope i do something exciting enough to warrant an interesting post in the next few days. happy holidays to you!

the golden state.

2006-12-21T19:17:00.000-05:00

well here i am, sunny california. we flew into san francisco on friday and spent the weekend there. here's what we did (boring, but with lots of linxxx!):

friday: get into sf at around 7pm california time. drop off our stuff at our friend ava's house, and then immediately go get a burrito from taqueria cancun. THE BEST BURRITOS EVER. wander around the mission district a bit and then go back to ava's. fall asleep by 10pm.

satur(art)day: out of the house by 9am. get breakfast at this place around the corner, and then go to the big farmer's market on the embarcadero. eat a lot of samples. then we decide to go to some museums. we start at the cartoon art museum, which is showing a really beautiful collection of old children's book illustrations. then we go around the corner to the museum of modern art, which is showing an amazing body of work by anselm kiefer, as well as a hysterical art film of kids in istanbul doing karaoke to smiths songs by british artist phil collins (NOT FROM GENESIS). after the moma we make plans to meet up with my friend kim and go to the new de young museum in golden gate park. we see 2 amazing shows: the ruth asawa exhibit, a retrospective of the bay area artist's crocheted wire sculptures as well as works on paper. check this out:

totally mindblowing. the other great show was the quilts of gee's bend exhibit, which features more than 60 quilts made by the women who live/d in gee's bend, alabama, over the past 4 generations. technically the quilts serve the purpose of keeping people warm, but they were totally works of art. see here:

also totally mindblowing. after the de young, we walk through the park to the giant robot store for the printed matter opening. after being arty farty for an entire day we decide to head up to crepes on cole for dinner, where we meet up with kim's paramour dana. after dinner, we take the train downtown to catch the bus up to my friend jamie's apartment, near the crooked part of lombard street, in russian hill. i've been friends with jamie for over 10 years. she's totally crazy, in the fun way, and an amazing artist. she just graduated from san francisco art institute and needs to become famous soon. we spend some time up there for a bit and then head home and pass out from art-exhaustion.

sunday: we wake up relatively early and go have some breakfast at the pork store cafe in the mission with ava. michael and ava decide to have a big bike ride down to ocean beach (isn't that the best name for a beach?) that afternoon, so i make plans to spend the day with jamie. michael and i sadly part ways and i head up to jamie's. we take the bus down to fillmore street where our friend ryan works at a really awesome pet store called george. then we wander in and out of shops we can't afford before getting some food at la mediterranee, a great greek restaurant. from there we head back to the mission to go to this amazing shop paxton gate which is basically a gardening/oddities/taxidermy shop. it's right next to 826 valencia, which is the san francisco contingent for mcsweeney's. after spending about 2 hours in paxton gate, we head over to artsf, which is (sadly out of date) having a show of artwork for less than $100, organised by an old highschool friend of mine. i know that there are going to be a ton of people i know there from both university and my hometown, but i don't expect to see half of my roommates from 2001 there! it was totally crazy. they all live in sf now and are in a band called the dedications. i also get to see my friend ally, who is from my hometown and went to the same university i did, but only after i graduated. and do you want to know something awesome? ally was a semi-finalist for this past season of america's next top model! i bet she has some great stories. anyway i spend some time at the art show with her and jamie and ryan, and then jamie and ryan take off and i head over to meet michael at a bar on 16th called gestalt haus, where a bunch of bike nerds are drinking litres of beer, eating vegetarian kielbasa and swaping bike parts. i get there just in time to meet up with michael and his friends erik and ben, and we all head over to golden era in the tenderloin for some vegan chinese. so we're all totally stuffed, but michael and i think it's a good idea to go to mel's diner for pie. we each get a slice of pie and pick up a slice for ava and head back to her place to eat pie and watch a shitty movie called pulse.

monday and tuesday coming up shortly.

just in time for holiday gift-giving.

2006-12-14T08:02:00.000-05:00

the postcard sets are ready and available at lost and found, as well as fred.

we'll teach you tricks that will blow your mind,

2006-12-13T07:59:00.000-05:00

like a moon without a tide.

2 of my favorite songs/videos from 2006.

tough crowd.

2006-12-12T11:15:00.000-05:00

show of hands; who reads this shit?

now some cool trees:

the tree circus.

query.

2006-12-10T22:15:00.000-05:00

i like cameras. old ones, like really old, that take film. before your time, you know.

if anyone hears of anyone giving any away, tell me about it. i like collecting things, especially old cameras. you know?

here are some pretty camera sites.

instamatics
dianas and dianas
leica swoon
subminis:
17.5s
110s
some good linxxx
junk
polaroids
some lucky person's collection

look how cute *squeal!*

quoth my distraction, evermore.

2006-12-06T17:44:00.000-05:00

i done got myself a brand new blog.

the long horse!

2006-12-04T23:21:00.000-05:00

tinselman brings it all back.

long live

long horse!!

the long horse?

2006-12-03T08:19:00.000-05:00

i posted this on my favourite messageboard, halifaxlocals, after reading about it on boing boing:

the long horse! it's REAL. just like the cows whose legs on one side were shorter so they could stand on the side of the mountain without falling off, like in pecos bill's day.

the long horse.

as well,

tinselman's original post.

if you click the wiki link in that post, you'll be brought to a page that states that the long horse is a blog-derived hoax and that it's actually not real. there are links to pictures that show that there has been some manipulation to create long horses.

(that wiki article isn't the same one in the extinct breeds post, so click the one in the extinct breeds post.)

tinselman rebuts...

and has a witness.

who knows if they were real? whatever, they're neat.

here are some pictures of long horses:

j'aime des cartes postales.

2006-12-01T18:03:00.000-05:00

quite right; i do love postcards. so much so that i made a postcard set of the giving up the ghost images. there are 12 images in the series, plus i made this super rad index card so that you can see what you're getting.

the set comes in a clear plastic sleeve so you can see how downright purty it is.

$12 is a steal. i'll send it to you in the post for $14!

make your special someone happy this holiday season.

the lost weekend in the woods.

2006-11-24T19:54:00.000-05:00

last weekend i went to visit my friend nicole at her family's house in the woods/on the ocean in grand barachois, new brunswick. like really her back yard was about 20 feet from the water. here are some wacky pictures.

on our way to shediac nicole said that there was a creepy old
house, so we stopped to snoop around. this is a weird old door that was even shorter than me. don't i look kind of like a giant!

then we went exploring by bicycle around her neighborhood. it wasn't so much a neighborhood as it was a few houses scattered in a forest next to the ocean. we found this A-frame called tranquilizer next to an igloo-shaped hut thing called pumpkin.

this is inside pumpkin. there were mirrors all over the walls/ceiling and furniture piled on top of itself. we looked in all the windows we could and it didn't look anyone lived in pumpkin but someone for sure lived in tranquilizer - there was candy and food and unmade beds.

then we start wandering around the yardy thing where tranquilizer and pumpkin were and we came upon an old naufrage, or shipwreck.

and then my desperate desire to look in windows of buildings got me in trouble: there was a newish looking shack across the yard from tranquilizer that we passed by on our way down the lane. nicole has gone to lean her bike against a tree, and i go up to the door and you'll never EVER guess what i saw!

i start laughing hysterically out of nervous anxiety and nicole says "what! what is it!" and i say "a body! a BODY!" and she doesn't believe me for a second, but refuses to come over. so i say "you have to see this, i've never seen anything like it before in my life!" and she finally comes over.

VENISON!

PHEW!

now that we were super duper freaked out we hop back on our bikes and go exploring more.

this is me definitely exploring.

this is the idyllic little storybook lane that we rode down on our way to the little private beach that all of these closed-up summer homes get to take advantage of when the weather isn't -2.

we hide our bikes in some dead bushes just in case there is anyone around who gets mad that we're on their private beach and head to the water. along the trail there are wooden walks that are rolled up for the winter, and we decide to play dress up.

nicole totally loses it and falls out of the rolled up boardwalk, and then tries to climb through it. i'm doubled over with laughter in the dead beachgrass.

then we find this wicked little forest in someone's backyard, between the house and the beach.

i try to climb a tree.

finally nicole says we have to go to this amazing beach with the weirdest rock formations you've ever seen on a beach in new brunswick and not in a desert in arizona.

here i'm trying to make a run for it.

we continue exploring the weird rock formations and come upon evidence of bored truands acadiens.

it was getting bitterly chilly by this time, so we head to her warm home for dinner and then a soak in the hot tub. i'm sorry i don't have any pictures of that.

most images: nicole legault. some by me.

FIN.

oh, the genius.

2006-11-15T12:08:00.000-05:00

su blackwell makes me want to cry.

it's been 2 years. 2 WHOLE YEARS.

2006-11-11T15:42:00.000-05:00

i haven't been home for the holidays in 2 years, but this year is the year. i'll be in california from 15 december to 5 january. i'd like to spend some time in san francisco and maybe los angeles, though don't ask me a good reason why. ok i have one: the watts towers. and maybe the la brea tar pits, because dinosaurs in los angeles is pretty awesome. much better than san diego.

otherwise i'm very excited to be in california for the holidays. i'm looking forward to seeing friends in san francisco. are there any good shows happening?

here is a picture of a chair that i like.

the wassily, from 1925. if you like chairs, you should look at the vitra design museum.

thar she be.

2006-10-30T19:00:00.000-05:00

here is the pretty new avant guardian page.

here is a picture of the pretty magazine, which comes out tomorrow.

if any of you people are going to be in los angeles mid-november, drop me an email. i might have an exciting proposition for you.

oh, and i had nothing to do with the colours of this magazine matching perfectly the colours in my blog. pure serendipity.

parties aplenty in the nyc.

2006-10-03T21:24:00.000-04:00

so it's official: i've booked my ticket for the nyc surface avant guardian party happening on the 26th. i'm so excited i'm practically jumping out my skin. and my birthday is that weekend too - i don't even know where to begin having a birthday party in nyc.

i can't remember if i mentioned it or not - the avant guardian issue comes out on the 31st - halloween. TREAT, WHAT!

first things first.

2006-09-15T23:11:00.000-04:00

it's a good thing that other place didn't work out, because our new-new place is even radder. needs a paint job and we are currently operating as a storage spot for the former tenant, but those 2 things pale in comparison to the trainwreck of the other place. i'm super happy and maybe we'll have some pictures soon too!

email me if you'd like my new contact information and don't have it yet.

in other news: i thought my beautiful bike got stolen today, but it was a ridiculous false alarm. my friend norwood is here giving a super 8 workshop for the film festival, a workshop which i am taking and had to ditch halfway through (see first other news point), so sorry about that norwood! i'm still making my film, promise. and we will get together before you go back to los angeles! also i recently found out that the avant guardian issue is coming out on halloween (31 october, just for clarification) so please be sure to check your local newsstand for that. also there will be exhibits of the avant guardian portfolios in new york, chicago, los angeles and miami so if you are in either of those cities, you should try and check it out. i'm dying to go to the new york one, but it's 2 days before my birthday + i don't have the money for a ticket (interested in donating to the send-francesca-to-nyc fund? email me). i would love for you guys to check it out on my behalf. it'll be a schmooz-fest, for sure.

i should unpack.

homeless is the new homeful.

2006-09-03T14:45:00.000-04:00

our beautiful amazing place didn't work out. long story short, we're homeless.

in other news, i'm officially an avant guardian! look for the avant guardian issue of surface magazine (it comes out on halloween) to see my images.

sign up for this.

2006-08-28T14:38:00.000-04:00

www.aeolian-ride.info

other people's trash

2006-08-06T21:12:00.000-04:00

today, on a walk, michael and i saw a book that someone was throwing away:

who would want to throw this book away?

heatstroke of genius

2006-08-03T22:15:00.000-04:00

chicago was hot and awesome. not necessarily in that order. the pitchfork festival fucking ruled. here is the lowdown from pitchfork since i'm not as good as them at talking about music:

pitchfork day 1

pitchfork day 2

i can attest to this: i love liars even more, now.

chicago has wicked good food. and the chris ware and wolfgang tillmans exhibits at the contemporary were awesome. i love the way the tillmans show was curated. and the el train is amazing - i loved tutting around through the tops of the old brick buildings. so much more interesting than the subway!

we stayed with michael's awesome friend naz and his lovely girlfriend jen. we did not have enough time in 4 days. i needed longer.

i am having a bit of a freak-out at the moment. the most amazing thing: i'm a finalist in the surface magazine 9th annual avant guardian emerging fashion photographer competition, which has basically been my photographic dream for as long as i can remember. what this means is that i get to reshoot my ghost episodes using designer clothes (MIU FUCKING MIU) and the best part is i get to use my friend, robin, who was in the orginal episodes, and do it all in halifax. and then have a 90% chance of getting published in the avant guardian portfolio issue in november. look for it. SURFACE MAGAZINE. FUCK.

other things:

- got a pretty pink sweater with buttons on it from rachael alice parsons
- moving into a pretty little house with michael and pocket in september
- bringing a pretty little bike ride to halifax
- showing some pretty artwork by my lovely friend estella mare in gallery deluxe gallery next month
- some other things.

it's after midnight, and it's still like 80 degrees out.

the windy city

2006-07-26T21:59:00.000-04:00

we're going to chicago this weekend to see the pitchfork festival (the liars!) and eat good food and see amazing art (wolfgang tillmans and chris ware!) and drink amazing american things (power c!).

the cutest thing you ever did see

2006-07-17T08:41:00.000-04:00

m and i got the apartment we wanted, and it's actually a little house!

some unfortunate things.

2006-06-26T17:53:00.000-04:00

today, i found out that i didn't get the residency in norway that i desperately wanted, and also that my parents oldest friends are getting divorced, and that my aunt isn't moving to california after all, and that my sister is having personal troubles of her own, and also, well, didn't really find out, but am assuming that, i didn't get the job at the school. so, if i want to be a cliche and spend money i don't have on clothes, i'm going to fucking do it.

exhibitionist.

2006-05-27T21:02:00.000-04:00

here are a couple more, because i don't feel like talking.

early and fleeting signs of summer

2006-05-16T12:46:00.000-04:00

yesterday was the first day that seemed like summer - the smells and quality of the light. but alas, now it's gone. it's cloudy, again.

speaking of trips, very excited about the pitchfork music festival in chicago in july.

sorry this post is boring. i'll make it fun again with a new picture.

don't hold your breath.

2006-04-23T22:48:00.000-04:00

i know i haven't posted in a long while. i'm working on several very profound phrases and sentences. i will post them soon.

it came to me in a dream.

2006-04-06T19:44:00.000-04:00

or at least, as i was just about to get to sleep. the ever elusive pillowcase skirt, i didn't want a normal-shaped one, i wanted a more interesting one. so i made it look like a little sparrow-egg.

i've pressed it, no more square folds.

printemps

2006-03-28T09:55:00.000-05:00

pietari posti courtesy of flavorpill.

the clock is always wrong.

2006-03-24T23:36:00.000-05:00

sometimes things come in.

olofsdotter + nando costa.

i never come home late.

2006-03-24T23:02:00.000-05:00

i used to go out a lot, why don't i go out anymore?

olofsdotter.

perspective, by chloe.

2006-03-21T12:33:00.000-05:00

do you reckon these would make me look taller?

a periodic table i can really get into:

2006-03-20T13:44:00.000-05:00

if you're like me and food spoiling freaks you out to the point that you'll throw away perfectly fine things just to possibly avoid a "situation," you need to see this. learn it and you'll be ok.

the table of condiments that periodically go bad.

thanks, catano

to tears, but exactly.

2006-03-18T23:06:00.000-05:00

lately i find the internet exhaustingly boring.

tell me things you think i'll like.

i'd be ever appreciative.

like, this much:

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the translucent text

2006-03-08T21:50:00.000-05:00

reading other people's profound blogs always makes me feel all literary, but this is all i got. or i could talk about how my bedroom exploded with clothes after i returned home from california and they're in piles (not even color-coordinated - i should do that) all over the place; how i'm on this organic detox diet which allows that i eat whatever i want as long as it's not dairy, wheat- or gluten-based, filled with preservatives, or yummy; how i always kind of feel like running away, even if i like where i am.

here's another picture i took of willow street out my window.

my new plan is italy. this summer, italy, or else.

common common

2006-03-03T22:15:00.000-05:00

california kills me.

2006-02-28T23:38:00.000-05:00

in a motel in montreal last night, i dreamt i met a friend's baby and i wept and wept. my friend had black and white hair and her baby was the most beautiful baby i'd ever seen. she had her son the day i got to california but i never got to meet him. a headwind followed us out of california and we arrived home late. i have 6 rolls of film to process. please keep up with me.

the city is a patchwork quilt.

2006-02-22T02:09:00.000-05:00

there is something oddly disconcerting about your own reminiscences. my life is vastly different from what i would have expected of myself, and it's uncomfortable for me to be in the limbo of living, at least materialistically, half in one country and half in another. that material life is strewn haphazardly in boxes piled higher than i am tall in my parents' already-bloated garage, and i don't have an answer for their requisite "what are you doing with your life" queries. that's a loaded but cliche question for anyone in their mid-20s with no career prospects in sight, but it seems almost a joke for me since it's more than just a question of when i'm going to get a 'real' job. life was so much easier when i wasn't trying to immigrate.

now that my life has been compartmentalised into banker's boxes, it's quite clear to me what i'm petrified to lose in a fire. the morbid thought occured to me whilst trying to avoid dead old daddy long-legses. did you ever pack a fire bag? in mine, when i was 12, was my teddy bear, probably some pictures of friends i have long since figured i was better off without, and a few letters. how realistic is this? now i have an accidental fire bag in the form of my parents' sugarcube-shaped home, and i can't prioritise it when i need to.

the threats are killing me.

2006-02-06T02:18:00.000-05:00

halifax threatened not to let me leave by having a blizzard the night before my 6am flight, and pushing all my subsequent flights back by 9 hours. by the time i got to san francisco, it was 12am sf time (4am hfx time), raining at a balmy 15c, and as i was crossing polk street, legally, to get to my friend's apartment literally right in front of me, the 19 polk bus threatened my life by mere inches. the driver never saw me. for a split second, i opted to let the bus hit me and collect the millions upon millions of dollars that sf muni would owe me due to my enormous medical bills, emotional and mental trauma, etc, but knowing my luck, i'd be a bazillionaire quadrapalegic. probably not worth it. after successfully ringing my aforementioned friend's apartment, the threat of sleep never quite took hold and we stayed up until nearly 5am talking about how fucking rad her apartment is and how horrible the following day would be for me, since i had to be up at 7.30am to go catch a bus that would take a grueling 8 hours to get somewhere that should only be a 4 hour drive. my ipod stopped working halfway through the 4th episode of "lost: season 1" so the threat of extreme boredom was very, very real. a tip for the california roadtripper: the drive to and from los angeles from my hometown is far more beautiful though the destination could be the most repulsive place on earth, and the drive to and from san francisco from my hometown is downright ugly though the destination is pure heaven. the drive is even worse when you're stuck on a greyhound bus and you can't even watch pixelated ipod tv. i get home to 25 degree weather and boxes upon boxes of my material possessions threatening to collapse in the garage. i went shopping on sunday. california might threaten to kidnap me.

just to better illustrate that i live almost exactly halfway between los angeles and san francisco (we just got an urban outfitters. my mind is blown.):

february is the cruelest month.

2006-01-31T22:05:00.000-05:00

i will be sent off by a wave of snow, flowing from east to west, to the iceless climes of the pacific. and lo shall i return by the time dear february is over to settle, once again, into a snowdrift.

it can move mountains.

2006-01-18T22:21:00.000-05:00

reckon anyone would believe me if i said the wind knocked me over?

just kidding, i like italy.

2006-01-17T00:14:00.000-05:00

everyone i know is going to italy. stupid italy!

but to make me feel cool, i bought this cool thing:

<--- this cool weird white drawstring jacket coat thing. it's a toy-clothing. clothing you can play with!

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halifax, paris, paris, halifax.

2006-01-10T23:46:00.000-05:00

you know what they say about vacations.

2006-01-04T22:54:00.000-05:00

new york is amazing. being there for a week only solidified my desire to be there forever. until someone reputable gives me a job, i can but hope.

i got to see my grandma tallone which is always an experience. she's almost 90, deaf and half blind, and she's got all these old pieces of wisdom and sayings and she's just so earnest about things. and she liked michael a lot, probably partly because he's italian, and i took this to be a good sign since she had a bit of a problem with my mom for a while because she thought she was puerto rican, when in fact she, too, is italian.

so i took pictures with my prehistoric instamatic, so the kodak moments will have to wait. don't hold your breath.

love me or leave me

2005-12-26T20:08:00.000-05:00

m. and i are going to nyc for a week. but maybe i won't come back? have a good new year. we'll be getting knackered, for fucking sure.

i see dead people.

2005-12-18T18:23:00.000-05:00

there are ghosts all over this goddamn town, and i'm sure i'm the only one who can see them, because i'm the only one who knows who they are. and i'm not scared of them, i'm envious.

this is me and my dad circa 1981. my dad looks exactly the same. i do not.

sorry, you missed out.

bicyclomo

2005-12-15T23:18:00.000-05:00

it's probably old hat for you, but snow is still super surreal to me. only the super clean, fresh stuff. not the dirty month old slush. that's not romantic at all.

last winter.

2005-12-14T20:08:00.000-05:00

contest for how long this lasts.

2005-12-13T23:29:00.000-05:00

a few taco stands i'm ditching in a couple weeks:

01) sugar and
02) other miscellaneous junk foods
03) hours and hours of internet. lowering to hours
04) compulsive lying
05) saving money. fuck that noise

speaking of madonna, i think i want to mainline 'hung up' into my blood, it's so fucking catchy.

edited for content.

2005-12-08T10:00:00.000-05:00

i like lists.

2005-12-07T15:05:00.000-05:00

here is a partial, work-in-progress list of lists i like.

01. lists of things i like.
02. lists of things i don't like.
03. to-do lists.
04. wish lists.
05. "holiday" lists.
06. shopping lists.
07. buddy lists (actually, no)
08. inventory lists.
09. outventory lists.
10. mailing lists.

flicker halifax inaugural screening

2005-11-21T23:01:00.000-05:00

see our super awesome coast article here.

i always loved little pocket.

2005-11-14T23:08:00.000-05:00

(the title is loosely based on a kool keith song).

fucking check her out!!

some kitties need some homes

2005-11-08T17:45:00.000-05:00

my friend stephanie has become a temporary mother to 3 of the most adorablest kittens ever! there are 2 available, a white one with a cute grey head i lovingly refer to as thomperclork, and a grey and brown tabby as yet unnamed (the black one's mine, don't even think about it). they are both desperately in need of a good home(s). please see www.halicatslocals.com for more information + pictures. they hope you will want to love them.

*update* thomperclork has a new home! yay! good on raunch ranch for taking in a new boy.

*second update* the tabby is also being taken to a good home. thank you all for adopting these ridiculously cute kittens! as soon as we can take our black kitten, lovingly named pocket, home with us, you'll see pictures both here and at halicatslocals.

clothing swap

2005-11-05T17:05:00.000-05:00

what do you think? anyone wanna?

lifeline

2005-11-02T22:08:00.000-05:00

this branch has been hanging on one of the wires outside our house for over a month, probably close to 2. it moves around the wire from against our house to right in front of my window. it's withstood each and every "hurricane" we've had this summer. it's my lifeline.

speaking of art,

2005-11-01T20:42:00.000-05:00

tomorrow (wednesday 2 november 2005) there will be a segment deluxe segment on gallerydeluxegallery on cbc radio 1 sometime between 4 and 6 pm, atlantic time. i think it will be on this show http://www.cbc.ca/mainstreetns.

i'm changing this.

2005-10-31T21:55:00.002-05:00

i've pretty much had it with clothes that do not fit. if i spend another year unemployed, i WILL learn how to sew good enough to make shit for myself. this is ridiculous.

yo shorty, it's your birthday.

2005-10-28T21:57:00.000-04:00

pardon me while i get a bit emo.

yesterday's tomorrow turned out ok. i'm still super bummed out, as some might think californians are wont to say, but i'm sure as soon as i get over myself i'll be alright. i miss my family, i'm getting old, i want to move again, same old angsty shit. but m and i had a really awesome dinner and our dessert was a work of fucking art. got to find beauty somewheres.