the ghost factory

2012-02-06T09:21:00.002-05:00

2012-02-05T13:22:00.002-05:00

2012-01-10T22:01:00.000-05:00

::haiku::

2012-01-03T22:49:00.003-05:00

h o w t o w r i t e a n a r t i s t s t a t e m e n t

let's summarize: whys
over i's; keep some secrets
don't share the surprise

2011-12-29T22:46:00.000-05:00

::mixology::

2011-12-28T13:32:00.009-05:00

the sub-title of this year's mix is a translated line from wagner's ring cycle. the story goes as such: siegmund and sieglinde have always felt odd, as if part of their self is missing. when they find each other, they instantly fall in love, and siegmund utters, "you are the image i have hidden in myself." turns out, though, they are TWINS. so, tragedy.

happy new year everyone.

modern romance 2011: "you are the image i have hidden in myself"
click here to listen (to most)

01. beginners soundtrack - beginners theme suite

02. jens lekman - and i remember every kiss

03. martha reeves and the vandellas - (love is like a) heatwave

04. the beach boys - you're so good to me

05. belle & sebastian - lazy line painter jane

06. cat power - good woman

07. feist - lonely lonely (live)

08. neko case - things that scare me

09. andrew bird - how you gonna keep 'em down on the farm

10. okkervil river - get big

11. modest mouse - little motel

12. the national - fake empire

13. bishop allen - flight 180

14. the long winters - commander thinks aloud (live)

15. ellie greenwich - you don't know

16. feist - secret heart (live)

17. yeah yeah yeahs - maps

18. yo la tengo - take care

19. the smiths - asleep

2011-12-22T22:47:00.002-05:00

selections from the freeman family archive

2011-12-18T21:59:00.001-05:00

2011-12-15T12:26:00.002-05:00

selections from the freeman family archive

2011-12-11T03:03:00.002-05:00

selections from the freeman family archive

2011-12-09T17:44:00.003-05:00

via: things organized neatly

2011-12-07T19:49:00.002-05:00

selections from the freeman family archive

::new website::

2011-12-04T14:11:00.002-05:00

::haiku::

2011-12-01T10:34:00.003-05:00

i h e a r t m e l a n c h o l y

lovely morning: cake
(carrot), book (moyra davey),
café (hot). despair.

::thank you::

2011-11-24T21:14:00.003-05:00

Happy Thanksgiving. I am thankful to all the wonderful teachers I've had:

For Miss Lipe, my kindergarten art teacher who was a friend and encouraged me.

For my seventh grade teacher who, in our conservative catholic school, wore a button proclaiming "Hail to the Thief" on Wednesday, November 8th.

For an eight grade substitute English teacher who allowed us to analyze and explore the lyrics of our favorite songs.

For Mrs. Courtney, my high school sophomore English teacher who drilled Appalachian values and literature into us for 1/2 a year, much to my dismay (at the time).

For Mrs. Williams, who, my junior year, combined our U.S. history and U.S. literature courses and assigned us to read The People's History of the United States along with State mandated textbook.

For my Art History Professor Marion Lee, whose courses on Contemporary Asian Art and The Visual Culture of China in the 19th C. forever impressed upon me the importance of the post-colonial perspective. And for the time she asked me how I thought I did on the exam, and I replied that I thought I flunked the geography portion, and she said, "Elodie. Forget about it and move on."

For my B&W photography professor Laura Larson, from whom I only took one class but inspired me to study and experiment with photography and its history.

For my Art History adviser and professor Jennie Klein, and her support and understanding, as well as her contribution to my feminist and gender studies. She always had time to meet with me.

For my Art History Methods professor Jaleh Mansoor who encouraged us to share opinions and thoughts and, however intelligent or ignorant, treated them all with validity, thus creating an incredibly effective seminar.

For my Sculpture and Expanded Practice professor Duane Mcdiarmid, and our enlightening and frustrating discussions of my thesis that I still think about frequently.

For Marilyn Poeppelmeyer, my Sculpture adviser, who shared with me her collections and who both nurtured and pushed my friend Halle's and my collaborations. Even though she didn't go out late, she still managed to come out to an evening performance my friend and I did in town.

For the countless graduate students who treated the sculpture undergrads as colleagues and readily shared their perspectives. And for my undergraduate friends who loved collaborations and interdisciplinary research and work.

For my AmeriCorps teacher pairing, Amy Davison, who taught me how to be more charming and how to be generous. But mostly I am thankful for her friendship.

For those who dare to become teachers today, like my father, Julie Freeman and Chris Luessen.

And for my mother, who taught me humility and strength, and how to cook.

Thank you all very much. Teachers forever!

2011-11-18T21:01:00.001-05:00

via: this isn't happiness

::haiku::

2011-11-11T23:14:00.002-05:00

h e a l i n g / h e a l t h

the smell of decades
old band-aids and the slight mint
scent of lavender

2011-10-31T23:11:00.002-04:00

2011-10-30T20:20:00.006-04:00

mend piece

2011-09-26T20:36:00.003-04:00

hello friends!
i have started a new project that i would like to share with you because it needs participation!

what:
do you have items that need mending? i would like to help you. if you don't mind a "home mend" (less professional than a "professional mend"), please contact me with the item and details of the mend-in-need. i will do my best to make a lovely mend.

why:
a few weeks ago, my friend cayla shared this instruction from yoko ono: “Mend an object. As you mend, you mend something inside your soul as well. You mend something in the world as well.” i quite enjoy mending- it shows a well-loved item is one worth saving (loving more). mending for oneself, although satisfying, is not really communicating with others. doing another’s mending, however, is sharing action in which i would like to participate.

how:
my email address is elodie.freeman@gmail.com, but you may choose to contact me via your preferred method of exchange.

also:
i would like to help out friends-of-friends or strangers. if you know of someone who has a large to-do mend pile, please let them know about this project. if you see a stranger who needs a mend and appears they would not be offended if you suggested it, give them my contact information.

thank you!
elodie freeman

2011-09-25T20:19:00.001-04:00

2011-09-22T19:59:00.006-04:00

d&g
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antonio marras
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cushnie et ochs
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creatures of the wind
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antonio berardi
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via: style.com

2011-09-21T08:52:00.006-04:00

alberta ferretti
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burberry prorsum
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à détacher
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via: style.com

2011-09-19T20:42:00.008-04:00

bill blass
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betsey johnson
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bebe
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anna sui
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via: style.com

2011-09-13T18:11:00.006-04:00

3.1 phillip lim
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badgley mischka
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alice + olivia
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via: style.com

2011-09-12T19:12:00.005-04:00

christian siriano
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band of outsiders
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araks
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via style.com

2011-08-08T19:06:00.003-04:00

via: ffffound!

2011-07-30T12:53:00.003-04:00

via: a view from the middle

2011-07-25T22:11:00.001-04:00

via: FY1920s

2011-07-24T20:25:00.001-04:00

via: honestly WTF

2011-07-24T20:15:00.002-04:00

dalton ghetti via: odd stuff magazine

2011-07-24T19:58:00.002-04:00

via: the selby

2011-07-20T21:17:00.001-04:00

switcheroo via sincerely hana

2011-07-20T20:28:00.004-04:00

private views via: barbara crane

2011-07-16T17:12:00.002-04:00

maya deren via supercinema77

2011-07-16T16:54:00.001-04:00

2011-07-12T16:41:00.005-04:00

you MUST see their whole house via: the selby

2011-07-09T19:05:00.001-04:00

via: the ghost factory on flickr

2011-07-09T18:07:00.002-04:00

via: yowayowa

2011-07-09T00:01:00.003-04:00

via: the ghost factory on flickr

2011-07-04T19:10:00.002-04:00

via: the ghost factory on flickr

2011-07-02T17:46:00.002-04:00

via: the sartorialist

2011-07-02T17:41:00.000-04:00

via: karen barbé

2011-07-02T17:34:00.000-04:00

via: in the cave of the beast

2011-07-02T17:23:00.002-04:00

via: forest graves

2011-07-02T17:14:00.001-04:00

via: FYRM

2011-07-02T16:51:00.002-04:00

via: FYLG

2011-06-19T19:31:00.005-04:00

Alexander Calder
Snow Flurry, 1948
painted sheet steel and steel wire
7'10" x 6'10 1/4"in diameter
MoMA, New York

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Marcel Duchamp
In Advance of the Broken Arm, 1915
wood and galvanized iron snow shovel
52" high
the fourth version of 1964, (after lost original of November 1915), MoMA, New York

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SNOW PIECE

Think that snow is falling. Think that snow is falling
everywhere all the time. When you talk with a person, think
that snow is falling between you and on the person.
Stop conversing when you think the person is covered by snow.

Yoko Ono
Snow Piece, 1963
from Grapefruit
good book shops everywhere

2011-06-12T11:36:00.002-04:00

via: forest graves

2011-06-12T11:29:00.000-04:00

via: a view from the middle

::haiku::

2011-06-10T22:43:00.003-04:00

p r e s e n c e

i punish myself
while i am away. i need
rushing universe.

2011-06-02T01:00:00.000-04:00

via: the sartorialist

2011-06-02T00:51:00.000-04:00

via: postsecret

2011-06-02T00:40:00.001-04:00

via: karen barbé

2011-06-02T00:01:00.002-04:00

via: forest graves

2011-06-01T23:50:00.004-04:00

via: a view from the middle

2011-06-01T16:27:00.001-04:00

2011-05-31T22:37:00.004-04:00

BORN THIS WAY

2011-05-08T19:02:00.005-04:00

"everyone will help you, some people are very kind", originally uploaded by the ghost factory.

Via Flickr:
"everyone will help you, some people are very kind"
security envelopes, acrylic medium, wood stain
2011

2011-05-08T19:02:00.003-04:00

"everyone will help you, some people are very kind" (reverse), originally uploaded by the ghost factory.

Via Flickr:
"everyone will help you, some people are very kind"
security envelopes, acrylic medium, wood stain
2011

2011-05-08T19:02:00.001-04:00

"everyone will help you, some people are very kind", originally uploaded by the ghost factory.

Via Flickr:
"everyone will help you, some people are very kind"
security envelopes, acrylic medium, wood stain
2011

2011-05-08T19:01:00.003-04:00

finishing touches, originally uploaded by the ghost factory.

Via Flickr:
me + skateboard

2011-05-08T19:01:00.001-04:00

friendship mural day 2, originally uploaded by the ghost factory.

Via Flickr:
(in progress) friendship mural collaboration with my class of kids (ages 6-11). super fun!

friendship mural (friends with peers, friends with animals, friends with nature)
paint
2011

2011-05-08T18:05:00.002-04:00

via: the sartorialist

2011-05-08T17:42:00.001-04:00

photographs by chris luessen via: switch out the sun

2011-04-25T16:47:00.003-04:00

505, originally uploaded by the ghost factory.

2011-04-25T16:47:00.001-04:00

510, originally uploaded by the ghost factory.

2011-04-25T16:45:00.009-04:00

507, originally uploaded by the ghost factory.

2011-04-25T16:45:00.007-04:00

508, originally uploaded by the ghost factory.

2011-04-25T16:45:00.005-04:00

509, originally uploaded by the ghost factory.

2011-04-25T16:45:00.003-04:00

506, originally uploaded by the ghost factory.

2011-04-25T16:45:00.001-04:00

518, originally uploaded by the ghost factory.

2011-04-25T16:44:00.005-04:00

514, originally uploaded by the ghost factory.

2011-04-25T16:44:00.003-04:00

513, originally uploaded by the ghost factory.

2011-04-25T16:44:00.001-04:00

521, originally uploaded by the ghost factory.

2011-04-19T15:34:00.003-04:00

If you live in the ATL area, stop by to see my board!

SK8 or DIE V opening MAY 7, at YOUNG BLOOD GALLERY!

2011-04-10T21:19:00.002-04:00

2011-04-06T11:31:00.000-04:00

via: the sartorialist

2011-04-06T10:58:00.007-04:00

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from top to bottom: beth hoeckel, m. lewandowski, and yyellowbird via flickr

2011-04-06T00:15:00.002-04:00

rip kurt cobain via: lomography & a view from the middle

2011-04-04T23:02:00.005-04:00

2011-04-02T13:56:00.001-04:00

via: post secret

2011-03-27T21:09:00.001-04:00

504, originally uploaded by the ghost factory.

2011-03-27T21:08:00.001-04:00

503, originally uploaded by the ghost factory.

2011-03-26T13:42:00.002-04:00

via: the sartorialist

2011-03-26T13:38:00.002-04:00