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Susan Surface

a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

About Me

It's my real name.
Now I'm an architecture student and rarely update. They keep me busy.
I used to take these photos (see more in my blog.)
I will again.

My Interests

architecture, baroque, beatrice ward, cecil beaton, charles frederick worth, comme des garcons, eileen gray, elger esser, ergonomics, eric gill, exhibition design, fat liberation front, femme drag, feminism, francois nars, genderfuck, gudrun zapf von hesse, gunta stölzl, hans bellmer, helene börner, hieronymous bosch, industrial design, information design, intuition, karel martens, claude nicolas ledoux, jean-jacques lequeu, mannerism, marianne brandt, martin margiela, matthew carter, michelangelo merisi da caravaggio, oskar schlemmer, pasquale de antonis, queers, rembrandt harmenszoon van rijn, richard avedon, roni horn, shamelessness, sir john soane, tea, typography, urbanism, yohji yamamoto, zero maria cornejo, zines.

I'd like to meet:

Beauty in all genders, weights, heights, ages, & colors.

Music:

J.S. Bach, Luigi Boccherini, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Domencio Scarlatti, Frederic Chopin, Red House Painters, Songs:Ohia, Smog, The Angels of Light, Swans, Diamanda Galas, Nick Cave, Tom Waits, Patti Smith, The Smiths, The Raincoats, The Magnetic Fields.

Movies:

Mary Poppins, The Magdalene Sisters, Mean Old God, Paris Texas, Spellbound, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Dimensions of Dialogue, Jubilee, The Brood, Mommie Dearest, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, Belle de Jour, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Aguirre the Wrath of God, Grey Gardens, Heavy Metal Parking Lot, Wet Hot American Summer

Television:

Little House on the Prairie, Tales of Avonlea, Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman, any period drama miniseries, The L Word, My So-Called Life, Shark Week.

Books:

Emil Ruder, Norman Potter, Jost Hochuli, Jan Van Toorn, Valerie Steele, Edward Tufte. Jane Austen, Emily & Charlotte Bronte, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Emily Dickinson. W.B. Yeats, John Keats, William Blake, Andrea Zanzotto, Marina Tsvetaeva, Wallace Stevens, Federico Garcia Lorca, John Berryman, Sharon Olds, Dean Young. Knut Hamsun, Carson McCullers, Djuna Barnes, Dorothy Allison, Michelle Tea. Hélène Cixous. Lillian Faderman, Judith Butler.

Heroes:

ingenuity in the face of adversity

My Blog

YSOA SPRING 2008

IMAGES OF ADVANCED STUDIO REVIEWSMORE IMAGES OF YALE BUILDING PROJECT 2008Process & Pin-UpsConstruction - Week 1...
Posted by Susan Surface on Tue, 20 May 2008 11:27:00 PST

Broken Porches at School


Posted by Susan Surface on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:32:00 PST

Crowd Scene II

Crowds from the LVHRD ARCH DL IV, 2008: Konyk vs FXFowleAll photosArchinect Feature ...
Posted by Susan Surface on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:11:00 PST

MOVED: I now live in New Haven, CT

Dear Friends,I have moved to New Haven, CT, and am now officially an Architecture Student. Love,Susan ...
Posted by Susan Surface on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 09:56:00 PST

Courtier

COURTIER...
Posted by Susan Surface on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 06:05:00 PST

Portraits from 1/07

...& here's the 16th century painting from which I stole her. ...
Posted by Susan Surface on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 03:25:00 PST

Chriz Benz FW 2007 with Kim Stolz

CLOTHING CHRIS BENZ for more images, click on "Collection"MODEL KIM STOLZPressMore PressAnd even more press...
Posted by Susan Surface on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 02:58:00 PST

Crowd Scene

People in the audience of LVHRD.org's Master-Disaster Arch Duel III live design competition, which I photographed for Archinect.com....
Posted by Susan Surface on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 05:56:00 PST

Chris Benz In His Studio

Fashion Designer Chris Benz, my schoolmate from Parsons.Pacific Northwest people find each other....
Posted by Susan Surface on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:30:00 PST

Technicolor Dreamboat

MISS AMY WRIGHT...
Posted by Susan Surface on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:30:00 PST