Eilis McDonald- Welcome to my Modern Fantasy 2009
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Thursday, January 29, 2009
flarf poetry
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Monday, January 26, 2009
Steve is 40 under 40
Steve (my husband) has been recognized as a person who is under 40 years old and making NH a better place to live. Yay Steve!
Friday, January 23, 2009
Dicehouses
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DiceHouses
From this year's Ice Shanty Projects in Minnesota
More Images here
Dicehouses blog
We really need to get a NH version of this going!!! It looks like great fun.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Progress
1/17/09 Berlin Girls Hockey Beats Hanover 6-5.
In our first season as a team, we lost to Hanover by at least 10 goals. I can't remember the actual score and it is impossible for me to look it up here. But it was bad.
11/09/08 Holy Cross Women's Hockey Beats Manhattanville 5-3
11/19/00 Holy Cross 0 Manhattanville 13
Great to see these girls beat the perennial powerhouse teams.
In our first season as a team, we lost to Hanover by at least 10 goals. I can't remember the actual score and it is impossible for me to look it up here. But it was bad.
11/09/08 Holy Cross Women's Hockey Beats Manhattanville 5-3
11/19/00 Holy Cross 0 Manhattanville 13
Great to see these girls beat the perennial powerhouse teams.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
nh claims jon favreau & jon favreau links
NH always tries to claim "natives" or connections to important events/places/people even if the connections don't really exist or are minute. Did you know that Jingle Bells was written here? Well, actually it wasn't. But it was written by someone who went to school here for a semester. Thanks Fritz. Anyway, NH is now claiming ties to Obama's speechwriter Jon Favreau. Not sure what the connection is--maybe a grandparent lives here or something.
Anyway, Holy Cross can claim him because he actually went there. Since it is a small school, he is actually a friend of a friend. See how I made that connection.
Here are some links to stories about him. PS I actually saw the facebook faux pas during the two hours it was up due to my compulsive Internet habits and increased number of photos in my newsfeed.
The Guardian UK
Older NY Times Article
Newsweek
Anyway, Holy Cross can claim him because he actually went there. Since it is a small school, he is actually a friend of a friend. See how I made that connection.
Here are some links to stories about him. PS I actually saw the facebook faux pas during the two hours it was up due to my compulsive Internet habits and increased number of photos in my newsfeed.
The Guardian UK
Older NY Times Article
Newsweek
Monday, January 19, 2009
couch mountain pics
Here are a few pics from our couch mountain adventure/trial run.
We worked in an old hockey rink with a strange sandy surface.
We spent the first day blowing up the inflatables with one bike pump and one battery-powered camping pump.
The next day went outside to test stacking them and tying them.
We made a few friends at the Unisphere.
Finally, a glorious tied stack of inflatable furniture as USA island.
More pictures here.
frozen fire
Another fire in Berlin, this one on Main St. Still smoldering but frozen the day after if began.
Images by Paul Tardiff
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Embroidered Chastity Belt on Craft
My project "That Obscure Object of Desire" aka Shocking shorts, got blogged on Craft today. Thanks Jeanne!
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Monday, January 12, 2009
olympic-style lifting
Today is my first day of Olympic-style lifting practice with my coach Bud Johnson. This is not a project per se but it has already been rather cinematic.
Last week, I set up a meeting with Bud. He told him his gym was modest and as I drove up to his house it became clear he was right. He has converted his two car garage into a gym with a bench, two platforms and a homemade squat rack. He welcomed me in and again told me that the place wasn't much but that it got the job done. Bud is an older man built like a former football player with white hair, a hearing aide and a barrel chest. He asked me about my job and said he used to paint watercolors and had some artistic skill but went on to be an engineer. The gym is decorated with old trophies (there are more out back he informs me) and pictures of kids at meets in the nineties. He usually coaches more women than men. I mention the last time I lifted like this--clean and jerk, snatch--was at hockey training. He goes into a longish story about playing hockey in the Boston area growing up. VB qualities abound. Later a woman over 55 comes in and begins her workout. Bud points out an article on the wall that describes a meet in which she and her entire family--her husband and all of her children--competed at the same time. This was a first in USA weightlifting. I mention I am originally from Berlin and they both exclaim, "Mutt Allain." I don't know him but it sounds like a Berlin name. I leave with handouts written by Bud for various camps and other events and am excited to begin training for the competition in July. Hoping this has more of a Rocky outcome than a Million Dollar Baby one. I'll clear the area of chairs and stools before I lift just to be safe.
This might seem somewhat random but lots of people just start training for marathons one day and hoof their way through one after a few months. I don't like running. I actually think this has something to do with setting an achievable goal. Many of my current goals are sort of nebulous or long-term. Getting a full-time teaching job, being "successful"* in art are reliant on many factors that are not completely in my control. In this case, I have Bud telling me what to do and I just need to do it. It mostly involves lifting heavy things over my head.
*I have a more detailed Wendy Walters 5-year plan but you know what I mean in this case.
Last week, I set up a meeting with Bud. He told him his gym was modest and as I drove up to his house it became clear he was right. He has converted his two car garage into a gym with a bench, two platforms and a homemade squat rack. He welcomed me in and again told me that the place wasn't much but that it got the job done. Bud is an older man built like a former football player with white hair, a hearing aide and a barrel chest. He asked me about my job and said he used to paint watercolors and had some artistic skill but went on to be an engineer. The gym is decorated with old trophies (there are more out back he informs me) and pictures of kids at meets in the nineties. He usually coaches more women than men. I mention the last time I lifted like this--clean and jerk, snatch--was at hockey training. He goes into a longish story about playing hockey in the Boston area growing up. VB qualities abound. Later a woman over 55 comes in and begins her workout. Bud points out an article on the wall that describes a meet in which she and her entire family--her husband and all of her children--competed at the same time. This was a first in USA weightlifting. I mention I am originally from Berlin and they both exclaim, "Mutt Allain." I don't know him but it sounds like a Berlin name. I leave with handouts written by Bud for various camps and other events and am excited to begin training for the competition in July. Hoping this has more of a Rocky outcome than a Million Dollar Baby one. I'll clear the area of chairs and stools before I lift just to be safe.
This might seem somewhat random but lots of people just start training for marathons one day and hoof their way through one after a few months. I don't like running. I actually think this has something to do with setting an achievable goal. Many of my current goals are sort of nebulous or long-term. Getting a full-time teaching job, being "successful"* in art are reliant on many factors that are not completely in my control. In this case, I have Bud telling me what to do and I just need to do it. It mostly involves lifting heavy things over my head.
*I have a more detailed Wendy Walters 5-year plan but you know what I mean in this case.
Saturday, January 10, 2009
my friend is a mom!
After beginning the adoption process several years ago, she and her husband are going to travel to get their baby! This feels particularly amazing since things had seemed to come to a stand still recently. I had written a recommendation letter for them and believe they are going to be amazing parents. Yay! 
Friday, January 09, 2009
Analog Interactivity
Jeanne and I will have our "Top Friends Sweater" and "Back-to-Back Massager" in Visual Communications Quarterly's upcoming issue--Analog Interactivity.
Saturday, January 03, 2009
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