CHRISTY CARLE.

MOXIE: SENIOR ART SHOW, 2012. As graduation is getting...

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 03:15:00 -0400

gallery upstairs. pre-production.

gallery downstairs. pre-production.

emery pre-production.

emery, completed.

the crew that made it possible. love.

MOXIE: SENIOR ART SHOW, 2012.

As graduation is getting closer, I’m getting sentimental. As everyone does. This has been a really tough, challenging, and exciting year. I’ve overcome a lot of obstacles, personally and academically. At times it didn’t seem possible. But, as this show finally saw it’s opening, the eight of us created some amazing work, defying expectations. I’m really proud of it, and all of us. Having such a small group of great friends (and amazingly supporting professors, life long friends) to go through these past few years together, getting to this opening day, this point in our college careers, has been something that I will always appreciate and hold dear.

We did it. Moxie: Senior Art Show, 2012. Boom.

I love this idea - beautiful, detailed, intricate drawings of...

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 03:10:29 -0400

I love this idea - beautiful, detailed, intricate drawings of birds over really mundane notes in a planner.

Maybe i’m obsessed with using birds in my art. Probably. Still, i think it’s brilliant.

Find the work here: Fran Giffard.

Love.

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 03:02:47 -0400

Love.

Sorry to cheeze all over your day, but listen up.

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 02:31:27 -0400

I don’t usually do this. But, as I was listening to my pandora change into a station that didn’t make sense according to the artist I had started with, I was about to use a valuable skip. Until I heard the chorus. It was Who You Are by Jessie J. This feels cheezy, and out of character, but I immediately googled the lyrics:

Don’t lose who you are, in the blur of the stars.
Seeing is deceiving, dreaming is believing,

It’s okay not to be okay.

Sometimes it’s hard to follow your heart.
Tears don’t mean you’re losing, everybody’s bruising,
Just be true to who you are.

Sometimes music has the power to remind you of things that you might have forgotten. Or to show you things in life that you don’t realize because of how clouded your mind might be at the moment. These words (if you can get past the teenpop-iness of the song) are so important in any situation that life might throw at you.

Everybody has set backs, no one is alone in the low parts in life, no one experiences only highs. Learn from your mistakes, learn from your heartbreaks, learn from pain. Become stronger in yourself. Never forget who you are. Don’t let negative feelings control you - they do not make up who you are, they do not define you.

Failures and setbacks define the strength that you have to get back on your feet and get a fresh start. Sometimes you just need a good dose of self confidence (unless you’re an ego-maniac, then I would say you’re all set for a while). Build yourself up everyday, build up those you love as well. They might need it just as much as you do at your moment of weakness. Be true to yourself. Never, ever, ever give up. Continue to be the strong and confident person that you know you are.

Remind yourself of all the positive things that you have in life, in yourself, and hold on to them.

Love yourself, love your friends.

And excuse me again but to make the cheeziness over the top, i’m

1. adding a photo that makes me feel good, and

2. adding a photo that reminds me of how sassy I was as a child.

Both remind me of who I am.

BUFF BEAST. Like this tee.

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 23:42:23 -0500

BUFF BEAST. Like this tee.

Last day here.

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 09:58:52 -0500

Today is my last day in North Carolina. I’ve been here about a month. The warm weather has been really great, I’ve even been able to take a run outside in shorts and a t-shirt. I know the cold will slap me right in the face once I get off the plane on Saturday.

I’ve had a really great month with my family. My bro got engaged while I was here, which was really special. I got to hang out with my little bros everyday. We had a great christmas, all together. We had an awesome photo shoot by Chris Brice [family friend and awesome photographer that I totally recommend]. Just being with my family is nice and I’ve cherished it - it doesn’t happen often.

But I am homesick and I miss these babies [my boyz!]:

So, with that, I’m so happy to have had this month to keep it real with the fam.

I’ve missed you Maine, I’ll be home soon.

1.PLUG IN YOUR HEADPHONES 2.PRESS PLAY 3.CLOSE YOUR EYES ENJOY...

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:05:00 -0500

1.PLUG IN YOUR HEADPHONES

2.PRESS PLAY

3.CLOSE YOUR EYES

ENJOY A VIRTUAL HAIRCUT.

DO IT NOW.

Give kids whitespace, and they'll cover it up.

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:45:00 -0500

adverve:

Create an entirely white room. Invite a bunch of kids. Give them stickers. Art happens. (Thanks, Charlie!)

Different Perspective.

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:41:10 -0500

…”the political realm within which women struggle for forms of equality, such as democracy, must be disarticulated, not presumed a prioi to be a ‘neutral’ system, except for it’s inability to grant women equality. The system is founded on inequality: hence ‘equality in this conetext can involve only the abstract opportunity to become men’.”

-Helen Molesworth, House Work and Art Work//2000.

WHAT IS YOUR EARLIEST HUMAN MEMORY?

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:27:53 -0500

I feel like they’re all biased from photographs. But I remember getting a drumset and jammin out in Dundalk, Maryland at my great grandmother’s house.

Can’t stop, won’t stop listening to this. The music...

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 12:41:00 -0500

Can’t stop, won’t stop listening to this. The music makes my heart beat faster. The double dutch is ballin’ too.

I KNOW YOU CAN’T GET ENOUGH OF MY SOUND.

Happy New Year, 2012. I don’t have a New Years Resolution....

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 23:10:00 -0500

Happy New Year, 2012.

I don’t have a New Years Resolution. It feels superficial; I seem to forget them soon after I make them.

Instead, I am just thankful for the start of a new year. It’s going to be grand.

Sunrise at Christmas. North Carolina. 2011. I’ve never...

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 23:07:16 -0500

Sunrise at Christmas. North Carolina. 2011.

I’ve never seen fire in the sky like this.