I did production design for a short film my friend and colleague Ben Hosking wrote with actor Josh Grey. Part of that involved formulating some fake blood to stain some bandages. I came up with some pretty convincing stuff. The recipe, if you’re interested, is red food coloring with just a touch of blue, glycerin, and corn starch. It coagulates a lot like real blood, so it’s great for scabs and clots.
My senior honors thesis class, for a reason neither the students nor the professor can fathom, is in the building that houses the Tufts Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development — in the same room my sports videography internship with the IARYD held trainings in summer 2016. Very weird.
My friend Eliza and I went to Nahant Beach. Since it’s New England, the sun was way too hot and the water way too cold. We had a fun time anyway and left with beachy waves in our hair!
Here’s something different: costumes. Last semester, the Tufts Drama and Dance Department offered a class called “Sew-cial Activism,” where students studied costuming as a form of political statement and made their own political costumes. See if you can guess what all these costumes are about. You can mouse over the images to see the answers….
I’d never had real (read: not instant) ramen before, so my old friend Ellie and I went to Santouka Ramen in Harvard Square so I could try it. 10/10, would recommend.
And now for something completely different: I got into my first ever art show with my gory little chronic illness relief painting “The Wound Will Not Heal”! The painting, pictured above, is made from with paper clay, spackle, acrylic paint, PVA glue, varnish, expired medication, and Unicorn Milk pearlescent topcoat on canvas. It won an…
New post on Icons of Arlington! This one’s about the Plarning Brigade, a group of Arlingtonians who are making an installation out of repurposed plastic bags under the guidance of ACAC artist-in-residence Michelle Lougee. The project is ongoing and has regular workshops, so if you’re local and you like crochet and finding novel uses for…