i have had a hard time writing here since i started Tweeting regularly (for those of you who are interested: my twitter feed is here). all my writing has become condensed into 140 characters or less, and i find this vexing. i come from an old, old school of online writing, where once upon a […]
i don’t know how this escaped my notice, but i realized tonight that i have significant amounts of gray hair. i gather that this has been happening for a while, but given that my hair has not been its natural color since around age 17, who knows for sure. my current fauxhawk means that the […]
“Untitled (held up)” detail, originally uploaded by m. ravian.
first of all, i have some photos of my most current work up on flickr. please click the photo above and you can take a look at all of it. the above piece is an installation of several hundred dressmaker’s pins nailed into the wall. i’m sure […]
weird clouds over New Bedford, originally uploaded by m. ravian.
look! Thomas Kinkade has taken over the skies of New Bedford! this is the view from my kitchen window. i love being on the third floor.
so, i had a crap day. all these dumb little things. since last week, every day i have been making a […]
about a week and a half ago (when my hair was still mostly red), Meg and i were walking back to school from lunch when a woman sitting at a stop light started yelling at me.
“Hey! where did you get that?”
i started my usual spiel, Sally’s, bleach, dye, blah blah.
she started rambling on about how […]
i was driving to school this morning. a large black pick up truck was in front of me. as i was driving past the projects it stopped. in the middle of the street - no light, no stop sign. a man got out of the driver’s side door, turned and screamed back at me.
“I LOVE […]
first, a bummer: i went back to red hair two weeks ago. i used my usual red HiColor from Sally’s. i’d forgotten how quickly it fades, it’s already a sort of weird sickly pink color. Special Effects is far better, but it unfortunately just bleeds everywhere. i am getting a hair cut on Wednesday, and […]
in the year 2007, my hair has been (in chronological order):
red
black
red
pink
blonde