Post #86

The Nine of Cups, 2011

I'm heading on over to Tumblr, folks, sorry to say. Find me there as shakeylegs. ShakeyLegs, SL, Stephanie Leibowitz, get it? HawHaw. I felt like it was time for a change. It's been grand but honestly I like the layout better. Please continue to look at my work! Thanks for all the good times.

189 Hillside Avenue

We don't live here anymore, it's the end of an era. This was my home for 17 years, and a few days ago my brother, my mom and I packed up all of her stuff, put most of it in a storage space, and unpacked the rest into a small house a few towns away in New Jersey. There may be photos taken there, wait with bated breath!

In the meantime, I'm working on transitioning into Fall, compiling work for grants, and looking for jobs. SPX is in a few weeks, but I don't really have anything to show for it so I don't think I'll be going....but everyone else (who can find a place to stay in Bethesda) should totes go.

Self Portrait # 18

Inspiration this week brought to you by: these guys.

Lately I've been super into Jim Jarmusch, which is nothing new. His work has been some of my favorite for the last few years, but I really appreciate his style and his dedication to finding idiosyncrasies in people's mannerisms, and the comparison of routines and everyday things. It's been a big influence and if anyone's not seen his films (Night on Earth, Coffee & Cigarettes, Dead Man, Down By Law, Mystery Train) I recommend shooting on over to Netflix or perhaps your local library and viewing these immediately.

I've also been watching a lot of David Lynch lately; it's what we do on friday nights at my new house. Spellbound, my roommates and I staring at the screen.

"Are you a detective or a pervert?"

"Both, I think."

ALSO, some former classmates & I will be having a critique session at my house in a few weeks, showing any new work and chatting about post-college life. Snacks and drinks will (most likely) be provided. If anyone who reads this has work they'd like to show and is in the NYC area, feel free to come and show work! Comment for more deets, I suppose, if you don't have my email.

New Work

Bury Me With It, 2010

same as it ever was

I'm kind of tired today...going home to nap, take more photos, work on presents for people's birthdays.

The New Summer

"Her eyes were so wide, they must have been the size of the city."

Here's to hoping the heat breaks today and it starts raining. In other news, there's this great internet radio station called Jango. Check it out, it kicks Pandora's ass. My station's playing a mix of The Kills, Gang of Four, and The Heartless Bastards.

I'm T.A.-ing for a pre-college program at SVA for the next two weeks, everyone hold their breath with anticipation to see if any blood vessels will burst out of my eyeballs.

Wrong attitude....I know it'll be fun!

HAGS

Self Portrait #13

Down At the Hop, 2009.

something sweet:

" I knew it used to be your favorite shiny thing but you lost it in between

moves, had your mind on the cold and how you had no electricity and an

expired license and another pregnancy which your boyfriend giggled about

like embarrassed, like it was a cum stain on a friend's mattress.

I know this used to be your favorite bus stop, you used to tell the

dog who rummaged through the garbage cans you'd never be like them,

and every stab they aimed at what you loved or believed in only

reinforced what you told the mongrel as you tossed him the leftover

croissants from work and wrote long letters, hoping you wouldn't get

raped, like the bus driver said.

But shiny things make everything so heavy, and there aren't enough

boxes or pockets and after all they're only rocks or marbles anyway, and

love is sex, love is accomplishment and mental health, and nobody stabs,

you can't see the difference between defense and offense, and Jesus,

you're always so tired these days, you're almost old."

via Anna Joy via COMETBUS

Self Portrait #12

It's All I Think About, May 2009

I've been listening to a lot of Magnetic Fields lately, reading lots of Robert Crumb comics, and am redesigning my website. I'm making christmas cards based on the large amount of decorations that I see around Bushwick that I love. In Livingston (NJ) there were decorations but they were extremely modest and WASPy, boring even. Or incredibly suburban, blow up cartoonish depictions of Santa Claus and the omnipresent Snowman. But Brooklyn does it up right and goes all out, with tons of blinking, multicolored lights, or a two toned pattern, as well as the blow up floatie doll things and those signs in the windows that shriek HAPPY HOLDAYS!!! FELIZ NAVIDAD! HEY LOOK, A MENORAH TOO! So yeah, those pictures combined with some funny anecdote will be a lovely makeshift Holiday gift. Have a good week! And, more work soon.

Self Portrait #11

Every Girl in Brooklyn, November 2009

Self Portraits #9 &10

Like A Child/Early Morning, November 2009

a word to the wise:

this time, next week, there will be www.stephanieleibowitz.com...get pumped! i know i am.

now i have to go work on it.