A coney adventure with josh.

Today Josh and I ventured our way to see the ocean. i figured that it was a perfect opportunity to take my pants off, and REALLY feel the breze. Coney island always feels out of place for me, a sandy beach in NY it doesnt make any sense. Look at Josh, what a tourist! and HE'S WEARING MY PANTS!!!
then we enjoyed some sushi, we wanted to draw it first, but we were too hungry. so we took photos of it to draw it later.

Short and sweet, thats the way i like it.

coming to a close.

Well there are only a few short nights left in New York, and this makes me both sad and happy. Mostly happy, I miss my bed, my roomates, my home, my friends, my broken city, and the mountains. I have been here for 20 odd some days, and have been on a rollercoaster of emotions, both bad and great! I plan on not doing anything like work for the next few days, well maybe tomorrow to get some footage of Coney Island, but other than that it is just chillin, coffee, and sketchin, and possibly a little more bloggin.

I recently patched things up with the H Bomb, I am no longer in her bad books anymore. She came to visit me in New York, and we had a lot of fun. A partner in crime is always much more fun than being a lonely criminal, if you catch my drift. If you’re wondering who took a picture of me without my pants on in Times Square, that wasn’t H-bomb, it was a random tourist. And as you can see from the Photo after that, she had a great time in New York. To bad she hates stupid touristy photos.

Things are well, and I am trying to make fun with what I have left. Then come back to Calgary and bust my balls over this project. And also go work at the mall changing light bulbs, the most rewarding job I have ever had.

Mr. Mischievous is Born.

Well woke up with a hang over, check out the insayne Jermayne blog for the 40 minute video of them hanging out in my room, and you can REALLY see how she is like for your own eyes, instead of the words from my mouth.

Started my day by ripping a hole in the ass of my jeans, realized this on the ferry when I thought I sat on something wet, but turns out it was just my bare ass on the seat. How embarrassing. So now I have a brand new pair of undies from the gap, check it out!

Now im in some park on Broadway and 33rd street. I am to figure out what im going to do. I think I will have another me day, making drawrings.

What is next on the mischievous adventures with Mr…. I need to think of another name to call myself. Perhaps… Mr. Mischievous. Yeah that has a nice ring to it. stay tuned for more adventures with Mr. Mischievous. Tune in next time, same impish time, same impish chanal.

Purely Picks

just for fun!

Sleep??? And waste all that time.

Well I have not slept in 25 hours, and I am feelin just beat. The past three nights I have been staying up until 3 or 4 am, so I figured that has got to stop! Pull an all nighter and resset your clock. I think I am staying up that late because no one is yelling and fighting, so subconsciously I must miss the dysfunction. Well I caught the sunrise this morning, it made me think of the all nighters I pulled with peter, but with less video games, and more obsessive compulsive (downloading album art for my music, WHAT I had to do something to keep me up for 2 hours – when Dunkin’ Donuts opened/sunrise). I sat down in the bay, and totally just missed the hell out of peter. I did this by reliving the good old days of THUG MANSION.

So I began my day going to Brooklyn to catch the light the way I wanted, and to view the Manhattan skyline in the background of the animations. So I found this promenade by fluke, check it!

Promenade In Brooklyn
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Anyways, its 1:32 and I have already captured 915 photographs. I must say, the sunrise is so much more… magical than the sunset. Sunrise=optimistic, sunset=pessimistic. Anywho. When I was coming back from Brooklyn, I stopped by a park to have a smoke, and there was a park with children playing soccer and football. I was more entertained by the football players. So I think I am going to go to the illustration museum and check out what’s going on there. Then, maybe some drawing, then a nap, but who knows what the future holds for me! It will be an adventure, that’s for sure. I have a feeling the walls are going to start changing perspective on me. :S due to exhaustion.

Missyas

the big apple store!

Well shit! i just wrote a large post for today, but somehow lost it. Gosh darnit! well Its late and im tired. ill upload the images, and try to make a nice post tomorrow.

i was in awe, they had so many comptuers in the store, im talking like 50-100 computers, and like 50 ipods all on display. not to mention that every computer was occupied by someone checking their email, or just playing with the photobooth program.

scafolding is so cool! especially on the gugg.




if you would like to see the footage i have collected (september 5-17) please send a request for it via my lemermeyer at the gmail account, and i will email the link to you.

I miss home, and friends, and broken city karaokee. how about bc october1 for welcome back karaoke with tyler???

To make a Long day short.

Today i sat in a class in NYU, which i was invided by someone that jermayne knows in the building. Darryl. It was the moment i was waiting for, a good experience. it was a show and tell day, show the work and tell the class about what you are going to do. i think it was a third year class. advance experimental film production. I also had the opportunity to show my work, and the class was pretty stoked about it. SO, i am very happy.

Jermayne is very sick, no laughing matter, she "coughed up blood" the other day, and now she is going to stay with her monther for the next 2 weeks, so i might have the place to myself for the remainder of the month. I know i have had a hell of a time, but i hope that she will be ok. This experience has made me a more cultured individual, and like Kristine said so elegantly "you have to go through shit before you can see happyness." Its true, i have seen it in the past month!

So i was up and out of here by 815 today, my earliest day yet! i hope to keep it up, i can get more work done, and enjoy my time in new york. and if jermayne leaves to live at her parents apt, it will be an awesome end to a horrible trip in new york.

This blog is terrible with grammer, and spelling errors. forgive me i was to tired to put it into word first, and read over it. i figure i would keep you posted regardless, cause thats the giving individual i want to be.

its time for a movie.

love yall!

Grand Central Post

Here it is folks; my New York trips are cyclical. Today I think I had the best and the worst day of my life in New York. First we start off with a rainy day, and another day off from shooting. But today was the day I met with Astrisk, for an informational session, the first on my list of 10. It went really well, and I defiantly learned something. -> Make a film to gain experience. Show it to introduce yourself into the social network.

After this I had a chat with Kristine, in regards to my living situation. She suggested that I get out of here without giving Jermayne a cent, but I could not do that, it was not a possibility. So, after about 4 hours of stressing out about this, which was the most stress I have been under in a LONG time. I came home to make the money exchange with Jermayne and it went well. I have talked to Ryan’s, girlfriend’s friend, and requested to leave the option of sleeping there for the next couple weeks, and she sounded ok with that, so I have the option of getting out of here, if another worst case scenario happens.

So after I delt with business, I went to go meet with my new friend Darryl - the filmmaker who went to Paris. I showed him my work, and he enjoyed it. He is a teacher at NYU, so his opinion really held value for me. He is teaching a class in experimental film production, which is right up my alley. Here is the best part; he INVITED ME to show and tell for his class tomorrow, which I felt was a very generous offer. I am so excited to see the work in this class, who knows maybe it, will inspire GREAT things. So excited!!!

I talked to Kraftnation on the telephone, great convo, very positive. Mainly catching up. Made me feel happy again! As much as my situation sucks right now, I am in a state of bliss in this very moment.

Sure, I Know it is not as a great of story with a highlight of sitting in piss,(if you know me im sure I told you about my best and worst day in New York last year). This day was twice as good, and twice as bad as the day in New York last year. If you haven’t heard the story please request.

Cheers to New York, I am FINALLY seeing the land of opportunity!

Lazy day of laundry and overcast. Catching up on drawing and tyler time. Just on another note, I love subway preformers, scroll down to see what im talking about.

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last nights post

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this is josh and I at Webster Hall drinking our 6 dollar BUDS. effin' pricey!

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here is a fun animation staring my favorite art star goofball.

Here is a drawing and a video impression of the dude i saw on the train today. it was pretty messed up. it was like staring at a car crash.

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and a beer to end a hard days work. too bad i cant get something like this at home for TWO DOLLARS. well i guess that would be 3cad.

This was the last of manhattan that i saw today. Ill supply a sneak peak of what im doing some other day.

New york night
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One Thousand words are communicated via Photograph

Brooklyn Bridge
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Poetics at its not so finest.

4pm
I sit here in Union Square on the scarce grass to check my email, as the ground trembles beneath me. The smell of the park is fresh, unlike the scent of the subway stop, and wafting stench passes into my olfactory. I enjoy my late start, after a night of binge drinking and smoking, which leaves my senses and thoughts dampened. I arrive and sit down for a cigarette in battery park, and become irritated by the tourists, but this is unfair because I am one myself. I imagine if I moved I would plan a date with my (native to NY) girlfriend to go downtown and watch tourists. I find this to be quite entertaining, how they stick out in a crowd as tourists, and they are totally oblivious to the fact.

Today is going to be a short day, I would like to head back to the island, and draw for a good portion of the evening, in my bland bedroom, ignoring my annoying roommate. However, I am not bitter about my situation, and this is because I have realized how much I take for granted in life. When I come back to Calgary I will have a new outlook on a lot of things. One must suffer in order to experience bliss.

8pm. I have now found my way to the Bowrey Poetry Café. This place is pretty awesome for the crowd that comes here. Its like the Roasterie, but with a positive and more energetic twist. An energetic place that inspires creativity.

Here are some artsy things I have been working on. I started drawing on my cigarette cases. So you know, you all have to wait to see my sketchbook when I get back to town. I have to create anticipation somehow.

Times Squared O'clock

I arrived in Manhattan at around 12pm today. I have to get into bed much earlier, so I can start earlier and get more done, and have more time to relax and enjoy my stay in New York. First stop was Columbus Circle, then times square, then back to staten to get my charger. Tomorrow is a new day. Time to make quota and many more. Man I have been having a heck of a time trying to accomplish my animations. TWO days in a row this has happened, and then I loose 2 hours going to get my charger. I am getting exhausted so easily, this animation thing is beginging to feel a little too much like work.

View from my roof.

Times Square

I saw this a couple days ago, i took a picture so i could share one of the many obscure things i witness here in New York. Hey that reminds me. Check out this "Naked Cowboy."

Hey Morgan, looks like you have someone to one up!
Hey, Jess, Thought of you when i saw this?"

wireless in the big apple.

I love how there is free wireless internet everywhere. I am now sitting on the grass in Union Square Plaza. The quota keeps getting easier to do everyday. soon i will be able to get up at 9 am, do my quota and go to galleries and such. But anyway, i will post another detailed blog latter this afternoon. Miss Everyon, and home. Lots of love.

The angel who steals surrealist's dreams.

That was an experimental movie title I found online, super weird, razors cutting eyeballs weird. I’m beginning to have a good time. In order to stay productive I made up a schedule for myself. It makes me feel like an artist who works 9-5. However, it really only takes me about 4-5 hours to make my quota of photographs for the day(600-700). I got into Manhattan (@11.30am) today and felt this great urge, something I haven’t felt in a long time. It is extremely frustrating trying to shoot my animations while dodging 50 people at once. I did not bring a map today to encourage discovering new places. I found out that travel time is where I lose most of my time, but I think in the next two weeks I will be able to incorporate that into my concept.


I found a protest asking for health care instead of polluted air right by the 9/11 sight. I haven’t seen any protests before, but this was the one you see in the movies. “WHAT DO WE WANT,” the leader shouts in a megaphone, which the protesters reply, “HEALTH CARE.” - “When do we want it?” - “NOW!!!”
They were also chanting in a different language, and I’m going to go out on a limb and say it was Spanish.


Union Square
When I finished walking around Wall Street, I caught a train to Union Square. By that time I was so tired of walking around, so I sat down and wrote in my journal/sketched.

Things are finally going good for the struggling artist who can never seem to have things go right for him. Its not that they are going good, I am finally seeing life optomisticly. I think that this will build my personality. Make me a better person who can easily problem solve and deal with life as it comes at me.

I am predicting that there are a very select few reading this, and if there is anything you want me to get for you, email me as soon as you can.