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Fact: I wore pink shell toes to prom

I’ve been introduced to a lot of very, very cool people through my internship, one of them being Bay Area based artist Ala Ebtekar. Here are some quotes about his art I found through Google: “…an attempt to glimpse a crossroad where present day events meet history and mythology.” “He creates images that combine the [...]

Ok, ok

After spending about thirty seconds thinking about my last post, I decided it would only be fair to make a profile of myself too. Here we go: Name: Chelsi How I got my name: My mom watched On Golden Pond a month before I was born. Up until then I was referred to as Juli [...]

Not at all immature or petty

In case you missed my Tweet about it a few weeks ago, the joint I intern for asked me to stay through the Summer. How flippin’ amazing, right? So here’s where I’d normally elaborate on the amazingness of this opportunity, but since I’ve been itching for the last four months to talk about the various [...]

Some hat-er-ation, & lov-er-ation, in this gas-er-y

Yesterday I said I wasn’t going to write about the tedious process that is emailing eighty or so artists for their biographies. I’m still not going to do that, but I am going to write out my frustrations because it’s all that’s been on my brain lately. See, my internship is having an auction later [...]

Just some shameless self promotion

I wanted to write a post detailing the process of emailing eighty different artists for their biographies, but I decided that it might come out boring so I’m not going to. I will say, however, that should any of you have to contact an artist or two for any reason whatsoever, please don’t be at [...]

The bags under my eyes want their own zip code

Believe it or not, I wake up each and every morning with the intention of setting some time aside to update this website. Unfortunately, time is even rarer than it was before, and my slacking on writing is largely due to internship related responsibilities. In the last month and a half I’ve been credited for [...]