Month: August 2008

OK, so I made this pattern:

but added godets and petite-ified it (it’s shorter than the one in the pattern pic). The fabric’s from Japan and has a beautiful linen-y slub texture, tho it’s cotton:

I know I should just set up the damn tripod, but I’m worn out from hemming.

I’m wondering if Aase Berg is my Swedish sister. Our writing isn’t similar, but our poetics are:

From “It’s Not Acceptable to be Fatso”:

“… I hope for poetic expressions that are aggressive, baroque and esoteric; I prefer ridiculous and embarrassing to perfection. On the literary market, which is dominated by the aesthetic and social ideals of the upper middleclass, it is unacceptable to be excessive in any way – one adjective too many and you’re out. There’s a stubborn cliché that the sober, quiet and elegant, the so-called “simple” is categorically more informative than the noisy. The fleshy, screamy and overdone, the vulgar, desperate and pathetic are so taboo in our culture that there must be dog buried in the phenomenon.”*

My horoscope today:

August 05, 2008

1. Capricorn (12/22-1/19)

   This is a wonderful day to expose yourself to new art, especially if it’s from a different culture. Turn the dial on your radio or television to a channel where they’re not speaking English. Leave it there for a few minutes and you’ll be surprised how intriguing you find it. There are many ways of journeying through life, but you will only ever know the path you choose to travel. Every now and then, it’s wise to travel down an unfamiliar side street.