festina lente

celerity should be contempered with cunctation!

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which i take to mean don’t get too excited and throw yourself into something or someone without some forethought and hesitation
or you might get burned!

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i made the best homemade meatballs and mushroom union rigatoni but jeez i need to work on presentation

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things Joe and I do for fun

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i think because my mom had big hooded eyes and was so pretty when she was my age and i inherited the tiny black deep set eye-lidless eyes of my dad I am so drawn to what essentially amounts to protruding eyeballs covered in skin

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humans are silly

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walking around is my favourite hobby

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and taking pictures of things

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like this sign
which seems to say that taxi drives have an hour limit to drink a hot beverage at a table

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ari showing my buddy something through the window

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oof! 3 outta 5?

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these dogs looked stuffed but then they moved a bit
they got the block covered between em

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jesse took me stu and colin out to dinner

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look how bulemic this little branzino looks!

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look how bodacious these todd james works on paper girls are!

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big nipples scare me!
is there any evolutionary basis for that?

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have been doing so many studio visits but so disinclined to spoil the big surprise that will be Chicken or Beef here March 6 that you dont get to see much sorry

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ooh! a found Kadar building!

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ooh

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this makes me want kadar to go a big installation here if you know what i mean,,,,

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this makes me happy

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close to happy
🙂

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man i really want to launch a new 12oz that is way better. the market is ripe for it! anyone want to do it??? I will be your first investor

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oh man farthest studio yet!

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where am i going??

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to see jocelyn hobbie!

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i love these human skins sloughed off and draped on wall

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i love these transparent T’s and frilly A’s!

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this painting is amazing

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this one too

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so many great pieces!

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man my buddy i guess goes to all these neighborhoods already!

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came in the next morn to this Devin Strother piece. i am really feeling this piece!!!

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one more to go

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Ella Kruglyenskaya!

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i hope i spelled that right!

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had so much fun here!
curvy girls everywhere!

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ooh egg tempera

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some badass bummed butts over there

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check out this funny piece
remember that Kanye West joke about fish dicks?

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i dont wanna give away the work for our show so i must move on

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garbage cat!

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i have spotted you

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lingering over the leftovers

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then i got obsessed of tryign to take these multi-circle full moon photos

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they didn’t quite turn out how i wanted

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this piece is called “Sit Still Bitch I’m Trying to Render”

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it’s hard for girls to sit still when they are so excited!!!

Author: admin

I am the owner of downtown contemporary art center THE HOLE! I am arts editor at i-D magazine I paint paintings and curate art shows all around

4 thoughts on “festina lente”

  1. I want to finish my uni degree and be like a famous art blogger like you but it is so sucking balls! All the students are like so not emotional, they need like to look at a board of emotions and at least pick one.

  2. Wow!
    Everyone is gonna want to get a new Hobbie.
    Great work.
    Also like Ella , don’t stop now, show me more!

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