Laura Kidnap - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I take photos and mess around with graphic design. I want to challenge social stereotypes and gender roles and if some fake blood gets squirted in the process... well that's just more fun.

My Interests

Plenty... activism, Albany, ambition, art, autumn, beads, cemeteries, comics, concerts, costumes, creavity, design, anything and everything 80's, fake blood, fiction, film, ghosts, horror, illustration, literature, make up design/special effects, music, graphic design, paranormal activity, photography, sexual health awareness, spiritualism, Victorian Age, and of course, keeping it realer.

I'd like to meet:

Josh Homme, as well as Troy Van Leeuwen, Ken Andrews, ghosts and models.

Music:

alternative, rock, indie, post-punk, post-hardcore, 80's, new wave, goth and grungy sludgy metal.

Movies:

Almost Famous
Anchorman
Cecil B. Demented
Faster Pussycat Kill! Kill!
Ghost World
GRINDHOUSE
Jawbreaker
Night Watch
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Sleepy Hollow
Universal Monster Movies

Television:

Buffy The Vampire Slayer
The Munsters
Project Runway
Queer As Folk
Strangers With Candy

Books:

Nickel and Dimed - seriously, read it. Agnes Quill and anything by Dennis Cooper and Amelia Atwater-Rhodes.

Heroes:

Rose McGowan
Varla
BÃ©la Lugosi
Agnes Quill

My Blog

A Series of Unfortunate Events.

The recent abortion of my summer vacation is called Class, Power and Privilege. I sit there every Wednesday for three hours hating our social system more with each session. I guess w...
Posted by Laura Kidnap on Sun, 29 Jul 2007 10:50:00 PST

Graphic Design at Sage

I've known for a couple weeks now that David Grey is leaving Sage, but all GDN and ILL majors received his goodbye email this week. I now find myself literally teary-eyed at the computer screen. How ...
Posted by Laura Kidnap on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:52:00 PST

No Rest for the Obsessed

Once I add photos, I promise this blog will be a smash hit, but until then, bear with me. Josh and I went to the Museum of Sex. Can cross that off my "Things to Do Before I Die List." The Mocca Art Fe...
Posted by Laura Kidnap on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 06:38:00 PST

Always and Forever

Technology doesn't last forever.Technology has an expiration date.Therefore, it is useless for form emotional attachments to things that will eventually break and you will outlive.
Posted by Laura Kidnap on Sun, 20 May 2007 12:34:00 PST

Extended Family

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Posted by Laura Kidnap on Fri, 11 May 2007 05:04:00 PST

You can learn a language in forty hours.

I seem to be experiencing the end of the semester blues. Maybe an end of stability in all sections of life blues. Everything is ending. School, security, relationships, they're incl...
Posted by Laura Kidnap on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 07:31:00 PST

Evolving Frames

Evolving Frames My environment is constant flux. I have a one year itch that makes me pack up and move to a new place. It makes me ...
Posted by Laura Kidnap on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 09:48:00 PST

Feminist Literature

Dusted in powder lips caked in blue my hands, my arms will slowly grow fester I am turning into mold....
Posted by Laura Kidnap on Fri, 15 Sep 2006 12:05:00 PST

Ladies, get back in the kitchen!

During my Writing for Mass Media class, I learn that South Dakota governor just signed the bill to make every abortion illegal in that state. Any doctor found performing the procedure under any circum...
Posted by Laura Kidnap on Mon, 06 Mar 2006 12:59:00 PST

Basement on a Hill II Demos

Thanks to Sonic Hangover for finding such a delicious treat for me yesterday. Elliot Smith fans, take note: at some dude's blog you will find more than twenty tracks of unreleased demos from his last ...
Posted by Laura Kidnap on Fri, 25 Nov 2005 04:16:00 PST