megnetix

incredible toys you got there matey

2012-01-18T00:06:00.001-05:00

lazy beetle finds a toy

2012-01-15T22:32:00.002-05:00

2012-01-15T12:17:00.001-05:00

he asked, "why do you always have to be making something?"

and i realized i've never really thought about that question so directly.

"because it's the reason that i exist"

and i don't know what to make of this. well, maybe i do.

in a way creation is the driving force of existence
i enjoy amplifying this force into my everyday life

and i'm just so curious about what would happen
if i draw something without looking,

or write a long sequence of unrelated words into
a mass of word constellations: ready to excavate for raw idea material.

it's more than mental construction of a "purpose-driven life" --
it's instinct. i swear it is. i'm being alive and interested.

if i stopped...i would get bored out of my mind. this is why i never get bored. and it's impossible to just halt a creative process that's constantly purring. why would anyone want to stop that??

2012-01-14T11:49:00.000-05:00

[pu-erh tea = yummm]

biscuits:

1 c white flour

1 c whole wheat flour

4 tsp baking powder

1 tsp salt

mix dry then add:

1 c milk

stir in but not too much, keep the dough fluffy.

drop on pan and back 10 min at 450degrees

[ennnnnnnnnnnnnjoy]

another baby book full

2012-01-13T13:26:00.001-05:00

snow finally

2012-01-12T10:50:00.002-05:00

suspicious of stories??

2012-01-11T20:23:00.001-05:00

Found this TEDx by Tyler Cowen interesting, yet disheveled and limited in focus. But it is worth listening to, got the mental juices flowin, especially toward the end when he finished rambling about kinds of stories and why he is suspicious of them:

Tyler Cowen, you are putting a lot of unnecessary semantic constraints on the word story; as if the definitions of story are limited to linear narratives. This is not true, stories are more than words or history. stories have the power to engage and fuse all the senses at once, and convey knowledge, information, ideas, and inspiration. If you read Leslie Marmon Silko (Ceremony is a good place to start) or several other Native American authors you will learn a lot about this concept.

sunrise phone photos

2012-01-10T18:53:00.004-05:00

<3 solar flare

fly

2012-01-03T10:47:00.000-05:00

new d.i.y. tab on website

hmmm

2012-01-02T17:21:00.000-05:00

i find that if i am not meditating mystically in my life, i begin to feel listless and a bit depressed. and how do i fix this? first, i go for a run. then, i do some freakin research. watching stargate at 5 this morning also helped, i can't believe i've never seen it before.

as a sidenote, check out these major chemtrails from the other day:

and that's just a little square of the vast iowan sky, full of jet trails that were not going away anytime soon.

+

2012-01-01T12:00:00.001-05:00

purrrr-blam-blam

2011-12-31T12:09:00.000-05:00

tests

2011-12-20T12:57:00.001-05:00

brainstorm salad

2011-12-03T00:03:00.001-05:00

hypergalactic fairy warrior

2011-12-01T00:40:00.000-05:00

2011-11-27T21:57:00.001-05:00

(click to enlarge

also: our.windowfarms.org

knowing?

2011-11-27T11:32:00.001-05:00

“People think that when they turn their eyes from the earth to the sky they see the heavens. They set the orange fruit apart from the green leaves and say the know the green of the leaves and the orange of the fruit. But from the instant one makes a distinction between green and orange, the true colors vanish.

People think they understand things because they become familiar with them. This is only superficial knowledge. It is the knowledge of the astronomer who knows the names of the stars, the botanist who knows the classification of the leaves and flowers, the artist who knows the aesthetics of green and red. Astronomer, botanist, and artist have dne no more than grasp impressions and interpret them, each within the vault of his own mind. The more involved they become with the activity of the intellect, the more they set themselves apart and the more difficult it becomes to live naturally.

The tragedy is that in their unfounded arrogance, people attempt to bend nature to their will. Human beings can destroy natural forms, but they cannot create them. Discrimination, a fragmented and incomplete understanding, always forms the starting point of human knowledge. Unable to know the whole of nature, people can do no better than to construct an incomplete model of it and then delude themselves into thinking that they have created something natural.

All someone has to do to know nature is to realized that he does not really know anything, that he is unable to know anything. It can then be expected that he will lose interest in discriminating knowledge. When he abandons discriminating knowledge, non-discriminating knowledge of itself arises within him. If he does not try to think about knowing, if he does not care about understanding, the time will come when he will understand. There is no other way than through the destruction of the ego, casting aside the though that humans exist apart from heaven and earth.”

Masanobu Fukuoka, One Straw Revolution, 154-155

earth as an electron
we are so worried about extraterrestrial life -- what about intraterrestrial???!

this lady is interesting...i don't agree with everything but love the info

dream

2011-11-21T17:07:00.001-05:00

drawnbits

2011-11-15T00:38:00.001-05:00

acorn squash bread YUUM

2011-10-24T23:06:00.001-05:00

yesterday i made my own acorn squash bread and it turned out to be

INCREDIBLE

you can find the recipe here

esq

2011-10-23T00:53:00.002-05:00

BARAKA(watch)

sharp perspectives

2011-10-17T16:45:00.000-05:00

[click to enlarge, then esc]

2011-10-10T00:02:00.002-05:00

2011-10-08T23:58:00.004-05:00

danza

writin blind [while drivin]

iwptrip effigy mounds

library basement danza

birdpoop ballerinaa

2011-10-07T00:01:00.000-05:00

what i saw when i turned into a spinning octagon

what i wrote to keep myself going

2011-09-17T15:57:00.000-05:00

(click to enlarge)

multitasking addiction

2011-09-12T10:09:00.000-05:00

i rigged up a book holder on rhe cabinet so i can read for class (kind of) while i cook

2011-09-10T03:05:00.000-05:00

we went to the lake

made my own gloves

they cut down our tree

2011-09-07T00:17:00.001-05:00

we named her Ojalá (i hope to God)

where we always used to chill, in her arms

where i fell in love with my man

where my foot would vibrate, hanging down in the wind

i feel like i have lost a grandmother

2011-09-03T23:02:00.001-05:00

river meditation and my cat

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meow

brainsplosion

2011-08-27T18:38:00.002-05:00

end of the summer projects

2011-08-23T23:04:00.000-05:00

made 2 fresh loaves with poolish

grew my own sprouts!

delicious sandwiches

.oO0Oo.

2011-08-20T02:40:00.000-05:00

the egg speaks through cracks

2011-08-20T02:36:00.005-05:00

upsidedown sunset

switch your poles and levitate!

2011-08-15T23:04:00.001-05:00

notes from "secrets in the fields" by freddy silva

also visit my updated store page

new books 3$ each:

priZm drops

2011-08-09T21:40:00.003-05:00

(notes from crystal medicine by marguerite elsbeth)

prizms exfoliating lightning-flavored symphonies

2011-08-06T19:38:00.000-05:00

gat

2011-08-06T19:37:00.002-05:00

on top of a mountain surrounded by sage, we pause at the edge

2011-08-04T21:25:00.002-05:00

megnetic poetry

2011-07-05T19:10:00.001-05:00

let me know if you want me to make you a set. i can make custom orders to put on etsy for you. comment or email me at
megnetix (at) gmail (dot) com

2011-07-05T19:07:00.002-05:00

new listings on my etsy site (click here)

http://www.megnetix.etsy.com/shop/

door

2011-06-30T21:14:00.000-05:00

sturdy shelf outta cardboard &yarn

2011-06-23T21:12:00.001-05:00

with my two warrior bears

HYALOPHORA CECROPIA moth

2011-06-23T21:11:00.002-05:00

(click on photos to enlarge)

wings wet from the rain she was trying to dry off on the porch of john's grocery glass house. i took her home for hours til she tried to fly and i guided her back outside but she still couldnt fly well i hope she didnt just end up eaten

water

2011-06-23T21:06:00.001-05:00

illustration from 2010

2011-06-01T23:49:00.000-05:00

for school newspaper, the daily iowan

opinions, wed nov 18, 2010: fda possible ban on pre-caffeinated alcoholic drinks ("alcopop")

and another about protesters breaking into a UIowa lab and freeing test animals

visual drugs

2011-05-17T18:36:00.005-05:00

2010-11-09T00:33:00.004-05:00

im flying!

2010-10-22T20:22:00.003-05:00

jewel view

"i brought you a present"

2010-10-13T02:59:00.002-05:00

retina bulb explode

2010-10-10T22:10:00.001-05:00

birds as my wings

i infiltrate their flight with my thoughts

2010-10-09T20:06:00.011-05:00

found a dead wasp face down floating in the bark of a tree

bubble vision

swallowed the sun

egg world

everything looks and tastes different

tlingit in the northeast coast design inspiration

water the earth

meowsis the cat goddess

slightly burnt breakfast

2010-09-19T20:14:00.000-05:00

her uncle would swallow pictures of God to be sure that God was inside of him
they institutionalized his stomach lining 'til he choked on his own belief system
the truth was in his vomit

---saul williams: , said the shotgun to the head

dance hallway

2010-09-09T23:18:00.003-05:00

SMILE

2009-12-28T17:40:00.002-05:00

los sonidos de las sombras

2009-10-06T00:46:00.006-05:00

2009-08-15T16:20:00.001-05:00

beaudelaine pierre, writing excerpt

i met her 2 years ago, and just recalled her piece that moved me so much. i wish i could read the entire work, but the complete work is in haitian-creole.

2009-06-17T21:54:00.002-05:00

there were three birds who kept passing a seed around from mouth to mouth
the seed filled their beaks so it was like they had to pop it back and forth

2009-06-15T23:34:00.002-05:00

they were abandoned

2009-06-14T19:39:00.000-05:00

sky vibes
absorption

2009-06-13T15:28:00.004-05:00

big bird is growin up

2009-06-13T15:27:00.000-05:00

staying calm
feels like
floating

the listening project

2009-06-06T21:50:00.010-05:00

i bought a typewriter to write it out :) im hoping to have a rough manuscript put together by the end of summer

[novel in progress]
the story of sound, someone who feels the frequencies of everything. colors sing, water whispers, thoughts whine.

morning

2009-06-05T00:03:00.008-05:00

dreams still wet with dew

2009-06-04T22:49:00.004-05:00

fragile paradises

2009-06-04T20:53:00.002-05:00

a butterfly just dove around me
like a plane between skyscrapers

2009-05-30T19:37:00.004-05:00

static energy transmission//absorb

2009-05-29T01:33:00.002-05:00

fingers full of music
eyes full of love

2009-05-20T01:25:00.001-05:00

sittin on the roof

2009-05-19T22:45:00.001-05:00

photography
is just being there
and lettin things
speak to you

2009-05-16T00:57:00.004-05:00

this is how HUMAN feels like

2009-05-15T23:46:00.002-05:00

words

these

2009-05-13T23:24:00.003-05:00

2009-05-10T18:37:00.002-05:00

tangling auras

2009-05-08T20:02:00.000-05:00

sqwak

2009-05-07T15:28:00.000-05:00

today a pigeon dived right at me before i could get out my camera. i did the limbo to avoid getting a birdbeak puncture in my head.

2009-05-04T22:48:00.003-05:00

i want to drink all the yellow from the street lamps
taste the electric calm of the air

radio mind
teleporting thoughts
everywhere like spores

will you sneeze?

2009-05-04T22:30:00.003-05:00

your eyes are mouthing words

liquid ember iris

branding my lips

2009-05-03T19:27:00.001-05:00

did you tell them how many bones you have broken?

2009-05-03T18:53:00.000-05:00

rings loose on my fingers

2009-04-30T18:04:00.003-05:00

T E L E P O R T A T I O N
R O D

2009-04-29T21:44:00.008-05:00

interchangeably breathing

2009-04-29T21:39:00.006-05:00

virtual teleportation

2009-04-29T21:32:00.006-05:00

lurking around myself

2009-04-26T18:30:00.003-05:00

artshow pics

field notes

2009-04-26T17:51:00.009-05:00

new project.

poetry? drawing?
both

wrote this last night walkin home

2009-04-23T19:49:00.003-05:00

walking down the alley pure of paranoia, i dont know why. and feeling all the voices and musics from the buildings on either side filtering through my own mumbling thoughts like radio crossfire

i can only see one star when i look up but i feel all that noise is part of the star, or coming from its song weaving through the warping of spacetime.

and here comes a man walking down the middle of the alley, a silhouette with his arms loose at his sides yet tense as though ready to grip of punch something...but maybe i am just getting paranoid now.

and it looks like hes walkin right toward me and i weave my path a little -- maybe its my subconscious instinct of what you supposed to do when u gettin shot at, or just an action that would lead me to avoid him without bein obvious about it.

and i want to amplify our heartbeats. so we can feel each others' presence loud.

but he joins his friends beside the dumpster, shaggy men asking if someone was "there" or if its just them or something like that. and he said "its just us". (i think). and i did a twirl to coax away any lingering fear and dunked the shimmery plastic wrap from my littledebbie snack in the dumpster one of the men was leaning against with his fluffy orange blond hair and prickly blonde mustache.

and i walked away, trippin on the final dissolving of cream sugar on my lips;
and the dumpsters breathed on me their farewell just as i hit a crossroad and left the alley.

the voices were also carried by the quiet webbing of the sewer, rushing beneath my feet like a physical voice you can feel and hold in your hands. maybe thats what water is -- the most physical yet abstract voice we have ever felt and tasted. next is fire, next, human existence. or maybe im just bullshitting ideas sitting on this toilet and i forgot toilet paper and dont wanna get up.

what i wrote in my sleep

2009-04-22T09:46:00.001-05:00

something
bumblebee
something
of dried
flight

2009-04-22T00:47:00.000-05:00

cloud rotation

im makin as many drawings as possible

2009-04-21T23:20:00.003-05:00

so someday it will be a sea of layers all over the walls like a pop-up-book room

2009-04-21T22:08:00.000-05:00

in
chantment

2009-04-21T14:24:00.002-05:00

2009-04-20T13:47:00.001-05:00

sonshine

2009-04-20T13:41:00.002-05:00

queen

2009-04-20T13:39:00.000-05:00

i drew the pictures for my art history paper to make it more fun

2009-04-20T13:30:00.000-05:00

driving notes

a 3 year old's self-portrait

2009-04-16T20:26:00.000-05:00

i am addicted to giving kids my camera

re/draw, re/feel, re/live

2009-04-16T20:25:00.000-05:00

easter

2009-04-16T20:21:00.002-05:00

we went to this lutheran church

and played in the playroom

the quaint old toys kept inspiring us

there was no paper to write our ideas, but the chalkboard was perfect.

evidence

2009-04-13T17:05:00.011-05:00