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first national publication!

( art )

i have a piece featured in the September issue of Ceramics Monthly!
you can see it HERE HERE HERE! i am all the way down at the bottom. A piece of Megan’s is also featured as well (our beleaguered graduate program is finally getting the respect it deserves). this is pretty exciting, considering that the exhibition […]

my newly claimed and entirely lame musical nostalgia.

( music and pop culture trash and rants and ow )

well, this Defamer post depressed the hell out me, because it is sadly true:

After word emerged yesterday that MTV was planning an extreme dieting beauty pageant, we knew it was time to ask ourselves, “Do we still want our MTV?” Many of us grew up in a time where the network was perceived as alternative, […]

tales of a high-minded sloth.

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 […]

the things i have.

new studio space, originally uploaded by m. ravian.
on Sunday afternoon, i finished moving into my new studio space at school. it had been vacated by my friend Jenn. i had spent last year in an interior studio space without any windows, and the difference they make for me is just huge. nearly everyone who has […]

dear 2008 olympics,

i have questions.
despite my qualms about your host country, thanks to my general unemployment and sloth, i have found myself watching you far, far more than i planned. because of the twelve hour time difference, the really good events are airing in what i call M. Ravian Prime Time: 10 pm to 3 am. and […]

my life in pain.

( la familia and neuroses and neck and ow )

i never got around to telling you the conclusion of my dental saga, did i? so many stories i have wanted to tell about What I Did On My Summer Vacation, or how i spent the summer unemployed on my parents’ couch and all i got was a fatter ass.
but i digress.
the first day […]

oh god. not again.

i got back to Mass on Saturday. my parents have been here since then, so we have been doing the tourist thing - driving all over New Beige, Dartmouth, Fairhaven, up to the Berkshires to see Mass MoCA, back from Berkshires, scaling the hairpin turns!, up to Stoughton and Brockton where we knelt at the […]

“i’ll see you at the debates, bitches.”

well, hell has officially frozen over, because i am about to give mad props to, believe it or not, Paris Hilton:

in one fell swoop, Paris Hilton has gone from a general waste of space to earning my grudging respect, a respect along the lines of Pam Anderson and Dolly Parton (i.e., fully […]

metropolis rediscovered.

( film school and art )

Rotwang and his robot, originally uploaded by m. ravian.
i can’t believe i’m writing this, i never thought this would happen, but they found the rest of Metropolis. in ARGENTINA.
i fell in love with the film last year while i was writing a paper about it (Gender issues and technology - such an incredible amount of […]

bed, bed, bed.

( mental health and neuroses and neck and real estate and rants and ow )

from that winter in harlem, originally uploaded by m. ravian.
let this serve as notification to any party who decides to pursue a significant relationship with me - i cannot sleep with anyone.
right now i have relegated myself to the living room couch (which, i should say, is not a terrible thing, as it is a […]