Filed under: Art, Ramblings | Tags: Alone, AloneOne, Analog, Art, Digital, Drawings, Future Shock, Ludite, Ramblings, Writings
Pictures won’t.. open.
Movie won’t…..… load.
Music. Won’t. Do. Anything.
Pinwheel.
Dvd won’t load.
Remote won’t…. Mute that fuckin noise!
Smart phone. …“Smart” phone?
Cam won’t focus.
Map won’t load.
Text no send.
Wait.. No… “data”?
15 minutes to (re)start computer..
Pinwheel. Pinwheel.
Email lost in spam. Spam lost in email.
Click. Click. C’MON!.. CLICK!!
No. ..I don’t need iTunes update.
Pinwheel. Pinwheel. Pinwheeeeel.
Phone battery low.
No.. don’t upload those photos.
C’Mon… LOAD!
Memory.. full. Memory Full. Memories Full?
Dvd skip-skip-skipping.
Phone dead. Won’t charge.
Couldn’t receive text that you were outside.
File won’t save work.
“Ooh Baby!” …porn. won’t. mute.
Wrong password.
File corrupted. Goodbye time.
Pinwheeel.
Can’t read file.
Data corrupted.
Can’t read metrocard.
C’mon battery!… CHARGE!
100 photos. 1 awesome. 10 good.
“Exif data”?
Send. Send! SEND!!… No, wait!… Not to HER!!
1-0-1-1-0-0-1-0-1-0-0-1-1-0-1-1-0-1-1-1-1-1-0-1-1-0-1-0…
Sooooooo…
Interweb abandoned.
Smart phone kept ignant.
No apps. No data.
Separate camera.
Maybe iPod. nano. Maybe.
Sketchy polaroids kept at ———.
Catch me at ———. Or just write a letter.
Fuck it. I’m Analog.
“Yelling At The Future”
ink on paper
6 1/2″ x 9″
2017
Filed under: Art, Back In The Days, Ramblings, Uncategorized | Tags: 1980's, 2012, 2013, Alone, Alone 1, Alone One, Alone1, AloneOne, Boston, Drawings, Elementary School, Free Drawing Paper, Graph Paper, Not Guilty, NYC, Penmanship, Punishments, The ways I punish myself, The Ways I Torture Myself, Writings
So a while back someone gave me a blank book filled with graph paper. Seemed like some interesting paper to draw on. Hopefully it would get me over the “hang up” I have with that paper.. it is what my 4th grade teacher, Ms. Casey, made us use for our “Punishments”.
Do something wrong, and have to write your punishment.. on graph paper. One letter, per square… over and over… until the page was done.
Mess up once?… Start over.
Hand cramping?.. Massage it for 30 seconds, then keep going.
Not learn the lesson?.. Do 5 sheets.
Still not learn?.. The whole class had to do em.
And after they were all done and got a quick check for accuracy?… Ripped in pieces and thrown away.
I usually got good grades in elementary school, except for… conduct, effort and… penmanship. So I OFTEN had this one…
“Write Neater”
This was another common one…
“I Will Not Talk”
Decades later I realized that some of these punishments had really stuck. And not always in a good way. So maybe the same techniques could be used to “unpunish” myself or or for things that I would consider more positive uses.
“Fuck That. Go Talk To Her.”
“A Skateboard Is Not A Battle Ax”
“Be Nice To Her”
Oh, and how can I forget? For next level shit we would have to write ONE WORD PER SQUARE…
“Sorry”
I spent a lot of time almost filling that book. But eventually decided to stop punishing myself…
“Not Guilty”
Filed under: Art, Ramblings | Tags: 2013, Alone, Alone 1, Alone One, Alone1, AloneOne, Android, Art, Cell Phone, Emoji, Emojis, iPhone, Writings
Sometimes the creative urge can strike when least prepared. Like when on the subway.. but don’t even have a pen. So gotta use what’s available. Here’s some text message art/writings/stories I’ve been putting together on those rides…
“Me and My Demons”
“I Kill Myself”
“Crash And Burn”
“Me vs. The World”
“Thinking About You”
“We’re So Productive Together”
“Without You, Everything Is Shit”
“Puff Puff Pass”
“Constant HeartAche”
“Faded”
“Fuck That, I’m Out”
“See You In Hell”
“I’ll Haunt You”
“Finally Got Home and Found ___ Shitting In Our Front Yard”
