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rainbow hot dogs were p inevitable

1/21/2023

 
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It was only a matter of time before I figured out a way to make my hot dogs more gay than they already are. This was my first experiment with my new foiling station, which includes a laminator, an array of colorful holographic & rainbow foils and the pièce de résistance - a hefty laser printer!! That's right, I can finally print my own zines and business cards without having to depend a printshop! I feel so liberated, it's beyond glorious. I've wanted one since I published my first chapbook in 2012 and it feels really great to be in a place where I can justify the investment.

​I'll be setting up an online shop next month where you can buy my zines, limited runs of foil prints and House of Egregious merch! Should I also sell hot dog stickers?
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ps: shoutout to all the fellow emo scumbags out here in these streetz,
doing the absolute most at doing the absolute least

happy to ghost

1/15/2023

 
Recently I was commissioned to create some ghost art, and I challenged myself to use my new POSCA paint markers, which I've only used for street art and never for canvases. I'm actually shocked by how easy they are to blend and remove contrasting colors from the tips of their neon markers, especially sherberty orange/pink from my yellow marker when I used it to blend out the sunset. As long as you quickly brush off the blended color onto a clean paper towel and pump new paint once finished with the blend, the blended color comes almost completely off the marker tip! Also POSCA paint markers are much more inexpensive than their competitors, I'm scowling at you Krink, and still have a great color density to them.

I'm excited to hopefully do more of these. Feel free to reach out if you'd like a mini ghost painting of your own! I have three 5.5" x 5.5" canvases left.
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Tis the season

1/13/2023

 
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new year, new ep

1/7/2023

 
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Happy new year gang! Hope y'all had a safe and healthy holiday. I decided to go full tilt slivington and pick up this incredible collab between Smeg & Veuve to celebrate. The packaging doubles as an actual fridge, keeping champagne cold for up to 2 hours - the apex of aesthetics and utility. 

Does anyone else not count the new year starting until the first full work week? As far as I'm concerned, I'm enjoying the last sips of the holiday void that occurs between December 23rd - the first Monday of the first full work week. It's a cherished time of year, except for all the emotional raking that Auld Lang Syne puts you through. Ugh, glad that's over.

The first project I kicked off this year is FINALLY working on House of Egregious's first EP, fully written and played by me. My first unofficial EP, So Dusty It's Foggy, is so fun to listen to, but I don't feel like I can really promote it because I'm mixing music that isn't mine. The new joint has five tracks and it's the first time I'm writing lyrical songs that I enjoy singing and get stuck in my head. I'm torn between names, I've narrowed it down to either Gmail Drafts or Sad Brown Music for Sad Brown Girls. It made me bust out my ukulele, which makes me want a bass guitar reeeally bad. Unfortunately, that would be best saved for when I own a house, which *hopefully* is just months away.

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