February 2012
This night is a mix of making a mummer costume (similar to these) for photoshoots and watching A Game of Thrones, and being excited to spend a week in Milwaukee with Seosai this summer to teach Irish, meet with some amazing musicians and people from Inis Oirr, and hang out and spake oirish before heading to the island in October. Yep.
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+ Tis blizzarding outside and it’s beautiful and ephemeral and all good things.
- ‘Tis blizzarding outside and I have to drive home in a bit and that bit is very scary. I couldn’t see more than 20 feet in front of the car on the way here. Dreading it.
- ‘Tis blizzarding outside and therefore today’s photoshoot is cancelled and I’m going to have to come up...
metrax asked: Mise go hiontach!! is tú féin? An bhfuil as Dún na nGall tú? Ní fhacas "Gaidé" riamh! Bhfuil tú líofa i ngaeilge? ;)
metrax:
Labhair Gaeilge liom más féidir leatsa!
Speak Irish with me if you can!
‘seo mise ag labhairt gaeilge duitse, haha. Goidé mar atá tú?
Budawanny
sfitzgerald-art:
Here’s an interesting ancient Irish Gaelic word, ‘Budawanny’ which means ‘The Monk’s Penis’. To have such a specific word for something like that, I reckon things must have been fucking bad.
I’m guessing it was at one point more along the lines of “Bod na mhanach” (which is pronounced nearly the same anyway) rather than one single word, but who knows.
Either...
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Blaaarrrggghhh Tá fonn orm a bheith ag scríobh rud éigin ach níl a ‘s ‘am céard. Chuaigh mé ‘is Brógan ag siúil suas an bóthair. Tá gort ann, gort aisteach, thart ar…leathmíle nó ní ba mó soir an bóthair uainn. Shiúlamar ann, stad, agus muid ag éist leis an ghaoth, rith cúpla fianna romhainn go tobann. Fianna mhóir, fianna álainn, thart timpeall orainn. Ar ndóigh, thosaigh...
I hope everyone has had a great day today
selchieproductions:
Traditionally - among Gaels - today is the day when the Cailleach decides whether or not to plague us with more snow or if she’s going to recede back with the winter to her land in the Otherworld.
Good weather equals a coming storm, as it indicates that the Cailleach (old crone) is out collecting more wood for her fire, which warms her as she covers everyone else in snow,...
January 2012
+ I discovered that whole foods sells dillisk.
+/- I had tuna for the first time today. It wasn’t bad really….it’s just the mental part….cat food. That’s all I can think of. Cat food. Urgh. I like fish…but tuna is just…cat food.
+ Eddie Lenihan’s book came in the mail today/
+ My studio visit went pretty well.
- Thesis proposal and outline are...
Ok, see now, here is the problem.
Faculty want me to change things up. I know my work isn’t perfect; in this little institutionalized art world, there is no such thing as perfect art because there are always contradictions, everything is subjective, and taste always comes into play.
I know there are problems; why do I paint in such-and-such style, why is it mounted on panel, why is there a...
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