"drunk."

"gemini."

26may2010

words association.

zippy.

alert: quick and energetic.

pow pow.

gunshot.

fplshhh.

fish jumping

a sad day for the history of books.

today was a sad day for the history of books. the great northwest bookstore of portland, oregon, housed in a one-hundred-fifty year old church burned to the ground. thousands of books were lost, some dating back as far as the fourteenth century. the fire, caused by an electrical short-circuit, was contained to store and did not spread to the neighboring houses. no one was injured except, of course, the books.

verbiage.

astrasat code du satellite.

diverticulitus.

efficacy. (capacity or power to produce a desired effect.)

collicky.

akimbo.

proteonome.

genographer.

transgenic.

compartmentalized.

attain v. obtain. (like acclaimed.)

conversant.

tantamount.

intellectual.

systematically.

virtuosi.

amorphous. (lacking definite form.)

amoebic.

cretinous.

priapism.

rarified.

drudge.

antithetical. (sharply contrasted in character or purpose.)

mesozoic.

atrophy.

cistern. (a receptacle for holding water, especially a tank for catching rainwater.)

cisterna. (a sac or cavity containing fluid, especially lymph or cerebrospinal fluid.)

prehensile.

lassitude.

ether.

impetuous.

dapple.

(dapper.)

euphonious. (having a pleasant sound.)

pretentious/pretentiousness.

genalteration.

superfluity.

insinuating. (calculated to please or gain favor.)

incarnadine.

liturgy.

zippy.

amateurism.

entailed.

talisman.

premise.

pretension. (making a claim to or creating an appearance of [often undeserved] importance or distinction.)

exemplar. (something to be imitated; a model/example.)

televangelist. (an evangelist who conducts services on the television.)

moloko vellocet. (milk laced with a drug.)

adulation.

deviate.

orthodoxy.

dogma.

progeny.

assimilation.

allegory. (a short moral story, often with animal characters--fable; a visible symbol representing an abstract idea--emblem; an extended metaphor.)

allusion. (passing reference, an indirect mention.)

recur.

carboniferous.

math-talk.

patronizing.

jargon.

juxtapose. (place side by side.)

tectonics.

cantilevered.

matronly.

dolorous. (causing, marked by, or exhibiting sorrow, grief, or pain.)

diaphanous. (so thin as to transmit light.)

decollate. (to behead.)

phantasmagoria. (a constantly changing medley of real or imagined images, such as in a dream.)

demiurge.

rampart.

geopolitical.

mouldering broadloom.

helot.

cudgel.

altruistic.

verbiage. (overabundance of words.)

innocuous.

impromptu.

neologism.

snaffles.

reconnoitre. (to explore, often with the hope of finding something or someone.)

psuedospeciation.

arboreal/arborical. (of, relating to, or formed by trees.)

sycophantically.

supernumerary digits.

australopithecine.

lodestone.

adamant.

saturnine.

heliotrope.

fictionalized.

xeric. (deficient in moisture.)

wheel-wright.

faculty.

axiom.

dialect. (a regional or social variety of a language distinguished by pronunciation, grammar or vocabulary, especially a variety of speech.)

dialectic. (any formal system of reasoning that arrives at the truth by the exchange of logical arguments.)

lingual.

bibulous. (marked by the consumption of alcohol.)

felicitous.

teetotalism.

simp-twister.

dreamlets.

enthalpy.

pith.

temperate.

deciduous.

history of books: second.

"unbearable."

4"x6"

december2008

"unbearable," with all three of its names ("unbearable" "a love letter to no one or i don't know you but i love you," "time samples from my life.") was the second books i made, also for abra ancliffe's 2D design class.

this collage style book was meant to be a piece of mail art we sent to an artist we respected. i chose the artist storm tharp, a local fellow who'd recently shown at the PDX contemporary gallery.

i never mailed it, but i still think i will sometimes.

history of books: seventh.

"welcome home: an entirely inaccurate map of things i have lost in portland, or."

9 1/2"x9 1/2"

spring2009.

my final assignment for kurt hollomon's class, a map.

a few more errors in this book--mostly due to rushed time, but you probably wouldn't know better if i didn't tell you.

this one remains a favorite, page-wise. among the list of things lost--a bike, a pair of gloves, my ipod shuffle, and on page 6, my dignity.

that was meant to be a joke, but either no one got it, or it wasn't funny.

metamorphosis.

"as gregor samsa awoke from unsettling dreams one morning, he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin."

[vermin: animal species regarded as pests or nuisances, especially those associated with the carrying of disease.]

i woke up in samsa's shoes.