Say Please Barnuby!

DEAR BLOG READERS, HOWEVER FEW YOU MAY BE. CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF I AM STILL ALIVE. I feel rather awful for not posting and keeping you posted and other post-related words that have to do with the fact that I HAVEN'T POSTED. I have been busy busy and also rather lazy and uninspired to post about anything. But now that I have finished reading the first 1/3 of Trevor's screenplay, Mindhackers, (which bee tee dubs has been horribly fun to critique) and have practically failed a geometry test I am posting! Rejoice, swell readers! Rejoice!

Now I would like to let you all know that I have finished the program covers for Joseph. And just because I like you and fancy the fact that you actually read this, I will let you see them. But don't get any ideas on leaking them to the interwebs or else the Feds will be on my tracks for months! You understand? Good.

The idea I was going for was a titch conceptual. I wanted to have the coat be partially made up of all the words of all the words of the colors in a certain song in the show. For not having photo editing software or Adobe Illustrator (P.S: If you want to be the best person in the world, you can buy me that software for my birthday....), I think it turned out fairly well. I like doing things like this. I like graphic design. By golly! I just like art!

Speaking of art and all things lovely, I am going to an art gallery stroll with my Young Women's leader, Corrinne Simmonds, next Friday. I am sooooo excited. I love art galleries. I love standing there, soaking in the atmosphere of the person's work, and figuring out the emotions they were feeling when they created it. Art is so beautiful, so simple, yet so complex. Good art makes you feel or yearn or even hate. It stirs something up in you. Something that helps you determine if you like it or don't like it, something that moves you and changes your opinions or your thoughts. Good art inspires you and makes you want to experiment, to improve. Good art fascinates you, makes you want to notice every single detail, and remember it. Remember the way it made you feel when you first looked at it, beheld it, saw it, imagined it. There is no feeling I have ever had like the feeling I got the first time I saw a painting by Brian Kershisnik, or a watercolor by Marcel Dzama. As old and weathered I may become, I will always be able to dig those memories out of the recesses of my mind.

Wow. Now that I have bored you to death, I would like to bring up the matter of Marcel Dzama. I fell in love with his work when I was nine. End of story.

And to all female readers: He's cute! And Canadian! AND he does the cover art for Guero!!!!

{Now I will introduce the song of the day:}

SPEAKING OF GUERO, guess what Beck song has been stuck in my head for the.entire.week?

Why yes! Post-nineties-secret-grunge-enthusiast! How correct you are! It IS the title track from Beck's 2005 Gold album {And best-selling Beck album since his debut, Odelay} How smart you are! Yes, post-nineties-secret-grunge-enthusiast, I'm glad you decided to throw away your Nirvana T-shirts and over-sized madras and wash your hair too. Even Cobain would have thought it best.

Anyways, here's the song, and even better, here's the cover art.

Marcel's signature monotone color scheme MAKES ME MELT.

Adieu for now,

x-Lexi