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chimaerakaren

ME is me.

About Me


I like to take pictures and play in the sand and read books...
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My Interests

alice's dog, jeeves!
food
art
photography
"new genres"
playing
reading
watching films
anthropology
feminism
posthumanism
cyborgs
postgenderism
reality
"insanity": OCD, Bipolar II
artists: ray caeser, theo jansen, valie export, eva hesse, sol lewitt, cindy sherman

I'd like to meet:


eleanor roosevelt, michel gondry and tilda swinton

Music:

andre 3000
antony & the johnsons
aphex twin
billie holiday
bjork
blondie
broadcast
camille
cat power
coco rosie
daft punk
david bowie
dean martin
delarosa and asora
elton john
the faint
feist
fleetwood mac
f.s. blumm
gnarls barkley
the go find
holy shit
hood
imogen heap
joanna newsome
jill scott
joy tourette
kate bush
ladytron
the mars volta
massive attack
matmos
mirah
mocket
monade
out hud
the need
pat benatar
peaches
pj harvey
portishead
radiohead
sigur ros
the soft pink truth
sparks
styrofoam
sufjan stevens
thom yorke
tom waits
yeah yeah yeahs

Movies:

orlando
blade runner
secretary
the man who fell to earth
when harry met sally
down with love
the price of milk
the american astronaut
the goonies
the hunger
barbarella
eyes wide shut
beau travail
psycho beach party
titus
solaris
beetlejuice
the professional

Television:

re-runs:
family guy
will & grace
cheers
house
frasier
netflix:
northern exposure
sex in the city
the x files
six feet under
twin peaks
dead like me

Books:

lately read(ing):
kalfou danjere's
Dangerous Crossroads: Popular Music, Postmodernism and the Poetics of Place
&
roswitha mueller's
Valie Export: Fragments of the Imagination

Heroes:

HEROS:
my gentle drill sergeants
ANTI-HEROS:
"My pan plays down an unprecedented amount of our national debt."
-George w. Bush
02/27/2001
in his budget address to Congress
WTF?

My Blog

"Yay!" @ Stillights Gallery

KAREN LESLIE FICKE"Yay!"stillights gallery (in that hallway)San Francisco Art Institute800 chestnut st.san francisco, ca 94133sunday january 28th, 2007tosaturday february 3rd, 2007(24 hours a day)...
Posted by chimaerakaren on Sun, 28 Jan 2007 03:54:00 PST

it has been ages...

this winter break i cuddled with my flannel sheets...a lot.i got my grades yesterday and i was pleasantly surprised.i start back to classes TOMORROW!p.s. i got viva pinata in the mail today and i am p...
Posted by chimaerakaren on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:33:00 PST

'homemade' led display

i spent the last 2 days soldering 260 surface mount leds.i am obviously insane.atleast i can be sure i would get some kind of factory job...you know the kind that lists cancer in its benefits package....
Posted by chimaerakaren on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 07:29:00 PST

"ART"

I am terrified of articulating myself...I am even more afraid that I might not ever have anything interesting enough to articulate. I am so afraid of talking, sometimes it brings me to literal tears....
Posted by chimaerakaren on Thu, 16 Nov 2006 08:30:00 PST

where are you?

It been forever and ever since I posted, I haven't had much to say though.I am a busy busy person. Working on two "art" projects and I have two essays coming up. Deadlines make me crazy and I am alre...
Posted by chimaerakaren on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:14:00 PST

Sigh of Relief

I am finally through with midterms. Thank the gods. Now, I just have the rest of semester to catch up on...Oh, Crispin Glover is one weird dude....
Posted by chimaerakaren on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 09:53:00 PST

using the dictionary

words i looked up today while doing my reading homework, either out of curiousity (for the 'official' definition) or necessityEcumenesDialecticalOntologicalReificationRhizomicPr opinquityHyperrealPalli...
Posted by chimaerakaren on Tue, 17 Oct 2006 06:14:00 PST

ah!

school makes me so busy!
Posted by chimaerakaren on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:49:00 PST

An Intervention?

So, I had an exciting (read: annoying as hell) critique today. One person said that parts of my piece were extraneous and looked like accessories and yet another said that my piece looked like a side...
Posted by chimaerakaren on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 05:47:00 PST

The glasses...

Here's a picture of me with my new glasses! It satisfies both my vanity and your curiousity!-Kp.s. Tomorrow...prescriptions sunglasses!Glasses I...
Posted by chimaerakaren on Tue, 26 Sep 2006 09:36:00 PST