A bit of personal bragging: DAVID BYRNE CONCERT LAST NIGHT. Those of you who know me in the analog world know my love of the former Talking Heads frontman, so it's no surprise that I would cough up however much I did to sit in the dark and listen to him do his thing. I saw him in '04 in Rome (I think it was the Grown Backwards tour?) and swore I would see him whenever I could. This show was promoting the Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, which I linked to because you can stream the whole album digitally. It's a collaboration with Brian Eno, which meant that they played a selection of old Talking Heads songs which were also a collaboration with Eno. Which means awesomeness. Fantasy-goal of dancing to live performances of Life During Wartime, Houses In Motion, The Great Curve and Once In A Lifetime fulfilled.

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I think I have mentioned my lack of funds on this blog. I've decided to use this time to make a short animation along the lines of the squid animation I did in college (which I perennially lose every time a computer dies and therefor cannot link to). I am going to animate the man in a ditch drawings into a short piece.

I decided this when I woke up this morning. I have my best ideas before noon.

I heard on NPR this morning, while washing a mountain of dishes, that the type of TV people watch influences their dreams. I kid you not, last night I dreamt an entirely original, full-color-animation episode of Futurama. I remember waking up afterwords, in the middle of the night, thinking that I had to remember that I dreamt that. But I didn't remember what 'the episode' was about.

It's a shame, because I could have sold it to Matt Groening for some money, which is exactly what I need right now. I've got 22 paintings hanging on my walls and three more unfinished in the studio, but I'm out of the supplies I need to continue. I've got a few oddly sized stretcher bars left, but no canvas. Work is slowing down, a combination of seasons and economic hoodoo, and I lack the funds to go out and buy more at the moment. [Next week?]

I'm trying to continue the visual presentation of information idea, but the paintings still feel a bit empty. The conflict I'm having is that that's kind of the point- they are intended to not convey any information. Ideally, they point to the fact that the 'informational' images I am using don't actually convey any information themselves. I'm just having a hard time getting them to convey THAT and not just look like failed nature studies or something. I'm hoping that as a group it will start to make more sense. That the connections between the individual pieces will lead the viewer a bit. For now, I'll be trying to work it out further in drawings I guess. Which could be a good thing in the end, I always let my drawing practice die.

In other news, there is a website now! If you got to this blog through a link on the site (Hi, Mom!), you already know. But if not, here's a link to stephanierohlfs.com. You can see a decent (and hopefully quickly expanding) selection of paintings and photos there. No drawings up yet.