A busy season

Ok, I know I haven't written much in a while. There is good reason for this. I've spent quite a lot of last semester writing about humor and working on a Barchael video about unicorns. Here is a rough draft of the poster for it:



The video has gotten quite a bit of positive feedback, but I still need to make a few adjustments, so it won't be posted for a bit. I will also post a final version of the poster (eventually).

Since then, I've been working on my upcoming semester in Brittany at the Pont-Aven School for Contemporary Art. I've been enjoying my time with forms, photocopies, FedEx, priority mail, changing addresses, storage, etc…. As you can imagine, this does not leave much room for creativity. I have been photographing as an exercise. These images are on my Flickr account which I need to add to my links page.

Once I return from France, I will be in Mexico for 5 weeks at the beginning of the summer on a Fullbright funded group trip. It starts in the Yucatan and goes all the way up to Monterrey. As in the previous trip, my focus will continue to be on humor, food, and mythologies.

Beyond that, I'm still searching for some valuable theoretical writings to take with me. Any suggestions are appreciated. As if I don't have enough to read right now, I seem to want more. I think a good indication of this would be the grocery bag filled with books I returned to the library yesterday. Luckily I ran into another grad who helped me carry the ones that wouldn't fit in the bag. My brain runneth over.

In conclusion, I would like to offer a photo of me with a cat on my head (taken by my fabulous friend Janice):