Friday, March 20, 2009
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Sometimes there is a silence.
There are couples in bad restaurants, at the beginning of a movie when the previews have but just started, in a tiny coffee shop. In hundreds of places and some of these couples talk to one another as if they have hundreds of things to say, to tell, to retell, to repeat, to announce, to question. They propose all this information voluntarily, and hope that the other person can relate, or argue or understand. They talk as if there weren't enough time in the day or even in life to say all the things they need to say.
but then there are couples. The ones who have been married for years, who appear to have used up all their words, or have lost all their words. those who look so bored, those who don't look at one another.
There are the friendly lovers who caress each other and laugh at every word and appear to be immensely jolly and fulfilled.
There are the serious lovers who talk about all those things the man of consequence worries himself over.
Although all these instances come up in any said relationship, none of them are specific to any kind of love. But there is one, filled with little complications, that is so subtle that it is deserving of a certain recognition in a certain tiny world, called Camilleville.
There is the couple. The one that you notice right away. The one you cant pinpoint at the instant you see them. Are they in love? are they terribly bored? are they wonderfully happy? You cant know! And it drives you mad. So you stare at them.
They pass each other the hot sauce as if he who picked it up first, was only lifting it to pass it to the other- because he knows she needs it very badly. Then you notice they are blushing, and it is because they grazed fingertips ever so gently, but you do not know this. So you smile because you now doubt that they know each other very well, you smile because you think you've captured a moment of new romance.
You look at them moments later and they are laughing at each others jokes, but you know they didnt say a word because you are sitting right beside them. and now you are lost. It wasnt a laughter of awkwardness, it was something that can only grow from something small, like the pleasant realization of a mutual sense of humor.
Chopsticks in one hand and shyly holding each others fingertips under the table and laughing then beaming at one another then nothing. and suddenly, as though they just remembered they were in a restaurant, they resume eating.
There are couples like this who with a glance, nod in tiny agreement. It may not have even been a nod but such tiny gestures don't have words. Words are too long and complicated and mean too many different things when paired together. But it is a physical appreciation for knowing something that wasn't said, nor will be said, that matters a great deal.
They have full conversations in silence. they have amorous exchanges about travel and lovemaking, about needs and wants, about bad days and how better days are on the way.
Then something needs to be said and they say that something. But even as they speak they know that these silent intervals are more carefully chosen than even the most special choice in words.
They leave. And you will never see them again. Sometimes you'll feel sorry, and sometimes you get annoyed at yourself for seeing something you don't understand and maybe its complicated and you wish they'd just come out with it! And sometimes they do and in that case they lose it. They lose the quiet gestures and the hand flutters and the butterflies and the way they look when they look at you and the purity of the silence. so you keep the silence. because its more precise and more gentle than any flirtation.
Most times all you have to do is run very very silently and grasp that person and shake them and say nothing and then just hold them and they will know. You should try this in a library, or in a very old museum. These are good places to practice because when you cant create the silence on your own, its helpful to allow someone to create it for you.
With love and a short hum,
JP and Camille
but then there are couples. The ones who have been married for years, who appear to have used up all their words, or have lost all their words. those who look so bored, those who don't look at one another.
There are the friendly lovers who caress each other and laugh at every word and appear to be immensely jolly and fulfilled.
There are the serious lovers who talk about all those things the man of consequence worries himself over.
Although all these instances come up in any said relationship, none of them are specific to any kind of love. But there is one, filled with little complications, that is so subtle that it is deserving of a certain recognition in a certain tiny world, called Camilleville.
There is the couple. The one that you notice right away. The one you cant pinpoint at the instant you see them. Are they in love? are they terribly bored? are they wonderfully happy? You cant know! And it drives you mad. So you stare at them.
They pass each other the hot sauce as if he who picked it up first, was only lifting it to pass it to the other- because he knows she needs it very badly. Then you notice they are blushing, and it is because they grazed fingertips ever so gently, but you do not know this. So you smile because you now doubt that they know each other very well, you smile because you think you've captured a moment of new romance.
You look at them moments later and they are laughing at each others jokes, but you know they didnt say a word because you are sitting right beside them. and now you are lost. It wasnt a laughter of awkwardness, it was something that can only grow from something small, like the pleasant realization of a mutual sense of humor.
Chopsticks in one hand and shyly holding each others fingertips under the table and laughing then beaming at one another then nothing. and suddenly, as though they just remembered they were in a restaurant, they resume eating.
There are couples like this who with a glance, nod in tiny agreement. It may not have even been a nod but such tiny gestures don't have words. Words are too long and complicated and mean too many different things when paired together. But it is a physical appreciation for knowing something that wasn't said, nor will be said, that matters a great deal.
They have full conversations in silence. they have amorous exchanges about travel and lovemaking, about needs and wants, about bad days and how better days are on the way.
Then something needs to be said and they say that something. But even as they speak they know that these silent intervals are more carefully chosen than even the most special choice in words.
They leave. And you will never see them again. Sometimes you'll feel sorry, and sometimes you get annoyed at yourself for seeing something you don't understand and maybe its complicated and you wish they'd just come out with it! And sometimes they do and in that case they lose it. They lose the quiet gestures and the hand flutters and the butterflies and the way they look when they look at you and the purity of the silence. so you keep the silence. because its more precise and more gentle than any flirtation.
Most times all you have to do is run very very silently and grasp that person and shake them and say nothing and then just hold them and they will know. You should try this in a library, or in a very old museum. These are good places to practice because when you cant create the silence on your own, its helpful to allow someone to create it for you.
With love and a short hum,
JP and Camille
ONC Mag. Update!
Hello Hello 'Ello!!
So here are the updated submission dates for ONC Mag: I.N. - International Newsletter for Artists and their like.
Submission due date for Art and Writing is March 6th!!!!!!!!
The first issue will be out on April 6th so get your stuff in QUICK!
Release party will be announced shortly.
For submissions or more info contact ohnocamille@gmail.com
So here are the updated submission dates for ONC Mag: I.N. - International Newsletter for Artists and their like.
Submission due date for Art and Writing is March 6th!!!!!!!!
The first issue will be out on April 6th so get your stuff in QUICK!
Release party will be announced shortly.
For submissions or more info contact ohnocamille@gmail.com
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
ONC Presents...
For those of you who know ONC this wont come as a surprise.
OhNo Camille was founded about 4 years ago. At the time it was an outlet for me to explore my own work-
but this isnt about me...
ONC is starting a magazine. Yes i know, it is very exciting!!!!!!!! Seeing as what Camille does best is bring people together, she decided to do just that.
The first Issue of ONC Magazine is due February 1st and in celebration of such news we are also planning a kickoff show for the 1st week of February. The show will include a number of artists exposing their work as well as some live music and a short film or two. The venue and exact date will be announced shortly.
So if youre a poet, a playwrite, a painter, are into film, animation, photography or anything that can be even remotely considered a sensible artform, please email me some of your work by November 25th. If you know of anyone who may be interested, please feel free to fwd them this email and encourage your friends and fellow artists to participate!
The magazine nor the show will expose local artists exlusively. This is a show based on the idea that it is hard to get exposure regardless of where you live. So if you have a friend in Berlin, Paris, Shanghai, San Francisco, Sao Paulo, Sydney, or anywhere else, let them know and we will try our hardest to recognize as many artists as we can!
The kick off show will explore only some of the work published in the first issue but it certainly will not be the only event ONC will host.
With much love and enthusiasm as always-
JP and Camille
ONC Magazine
ohnocamille@gmail.com
OhNo Camille was founded about 4 years ago. At the time it was an outlet for me to explore my own work-
but this isnt about me...
ONC is starting a magazine. Yes i know, it is very exciting!!!!!!!! Seeing as what Camille does best is bring people together, she decided to do just that.
The first Issue of ONC Magazine is due February 1st and in celebration of such news we are also planning a kickoff show for the 1st week of February. The show will include a number of artists exposing their work as well as some live music and a short film or two. The venue and exact date will be announced shortly.
So if youre a poet, a playwrite, a painter, are into film, animation, photography or anything that can be even remotely considered a sensible artform, please email me some of your work by November 25th. If you know of anyone who may be interested, please feel free to fwd them this email and encourage your friends and fellow artists to participate!
The magazine nor the show will expose local artists exlusively. This is a show based on the idea that it is hard to get exposure regardless of where you live. So if you have a friend in Berlin, Paris, Shanghai, San Francisco, Sao Paulo, Sydney, or anywhere else, let them know and we will try our hardest to recognize as many artists as we can!
The kick off show will explore only some of the work published in the first issue but it certainly will not be the only event ONC will host.
With much love and enthusiasm as always-
JP and Camille
ONC Magazine
ohnocamille@gmail.com
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
As far as I'm Concerned...
There are some things , as I've stated previously, that we should just buy. But then with the market crashing and the lack of jobs available in the States and elsewhere, i find that that statement no longer holds true. If you want it you gotta get it yourself, and if you want it and its expensive or seems like a waste of money, make it yourself.
If the Market blows up big time, and the world crumbles as we are all nervously expecting, you are all going to come running to people like me wondering if i could spend a few hours making this or that. Craft, my good friends, is a simple word for genius. If you are able, make it yourself.
Although material still costs money, i am thankful to people who still choose to go out for dinner or spend a drunken night at the bar for because of them most of us can still spend those late hours busing tables, or taking down orders- its not a lot of money, but for most in the field, it pays the rent.
I have made it my duty as your citizen to work on the little luxuries we will crave regardless of the banks, the stock market, and on smaller terms our declining bank accounts- regardless of all the cynics speculating why it is i spend so many hours working laboriously at my desk on things that would be much simpler, and true, sometimes even better, bought in a store. As my craft gets wiser, and my hands more skillful and quicker, you are all worrying about how you will manage to buy the toys your kids crave so desperately or the dress you wish you had to wear to your friends wedding. No matter what depression comes our way these things, luxuries, will remain precious and loved. Remember the 20's? ... think of us as 1928...
And if you simply do not have the time, insist that one of your single friends go to a tech school or pick up a few do-it-yourself handbooks at the library.
With much love and a slight "maybe i saw this coming?" grin-
Camille and JP
If the Market blows up big time, and the world crumbles as we are all nervously expecting, you are all going to come running to people like me wondering if i could spend a few hours making this or that. Craft, my good friends, is a simple word for genius. If you are able, make it yourself.
Although material still costs money, i am thankful to people who still choose to go out for dinner or spend a drunken night at the bar for because of them most of us can still spend those late hours busing tables, or taking down orders- its not a lot of money, but for most in the field, it pays the rent.
I have made it my duty as your citizen to work on the little luxuries we will crave regardless of the banks, the stock market, and on smaller terms our declining bank accounts- regardless of all the cynics speculating why it is i spend so many hours working laboriously at my desk on things that would be much simpler, and true, sometimes even better, bought in a store. As my craft gets wiser, and my hands more skillful and quicker, you are all worrying about how you will manage to buy the toys your kids crave so desperately or the dress you wish you had to wear to your friends wedding. No matter what depression comes our way these things, luxuries, will remain precious and loved. Remember the 20's? ... think of us as 1928...
And if you simply do not have the time, insist that one of your single friends go to a tech school or pick up a few do-it-yourself handbooks at the library.
With much love and a slight "maybe i saw this coming?" grin-
Camille and JP
Monday, September 8, 2008
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Who's posting these?!
Well. I am in Lisbon Portugal and everywhere I look i see ONC stickers posted on the walls. My statement to my public and my fans is - Nice. see you in Paris!
i dont know whose getting their hands on such sweet material but whoever it may be, keep up the good work!
love as always- JP and Camille
i dont know whose getting their hands on such sweet material but whoever it may be, keep up the good work!
love as always- JP and Camille
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Friday, July 18, 2008
There are some things you should just buy
I have had my mind set on making stickers for quite some time now. I haven't gotten around to it until today.
I finally got out today and bought some adhesive paper after a series of unfortunate attempts at making my own glue.
the first attempt, a crazy flour concoction that i thought i had remembered making when i was a child with my mom...i mixed all the ingredients perfectly and VOILA! playdough. Not exactly the same thing as glue, but definitely homemade.
Next was a recipe i found online. The recipe was for natural based glue. With all the Organic hype, me included, i thought it would be perfect for my products. Well, The glue works but its very cakey, and lumpy. Im sure i just had to work at it a little longer to make it smoother but no matter what i did it just didn't feel right. Not to mention that Glue isnt necessarily what i need. I needed adhesive that i could put on the back of paper or fabric so that my notebook process could be a little faster - a manufacturing investment.
Well, the Glue worked well enough, and i could certainly use it for other purposes, but for the purpose of stickers it was useless.
So when i stumbled upon the recipe for reusable adhesive made of gelatin, naturally, i flipped! It was awesome, I had everything i needed right here at home and it was the easiest recipe yet! One packet of gelatin, and half a cup of warm water. Well, i ran to the kitchen, mixed everything up and waited... not very long because it smelled horrible. So as i looked at the lumpy, yellowish/white stuff that was staring up at me from the bowl saying - "TRY ME!" , I did. I cut out a piece of paper, drew Shark on it, and applied, with a paintbrush as the recipe clearly states, on the back of the sticker. I then applied it to a notebook and waited for it to dry.
Again... FAILURE! it was a depressing morning indeed. The online post of this recipe was so clear and guaranteed success for all the kids that my disappointment was deep. I thought i had failed in a great way, so i tried the recipe again 4 times. each time adding a little more water, a little less gelatin... nothing worked.
The post ALSO promised that after applying the gelatin mixture and after waiting for it to dry, one can stack up all the stickers and save them, only to "lick" the back of your sticker to revitalize the stickiness when you are ready for more non stick and tasteless fun! ....
Well, nothing worked. My mess with the play-dough, although rather entertaining was a silly mistake, the massive amount of homemade nontoxic glue will certainly be used eventually, and the gelatin + water = reusable adhesive is quite simply a ridiculous lie.
Either that, or theres something this particular blogger is leaving out....
<3 JP
I finally got out today and bought some adhesive paper after a series of unfortunate attempts at making my own glue.
the first attempt, a crazy flour concoction that i thought i had remembered making when i was a child with my mom...i mixed all the ingredients perfectly and VOILA! playdough. Not exactly the same thing as glue, but definitely homemade.
Next was a recipe i found online. The recipe was for natural based glue. With all the Organic hype, me included, i thought it would be perfect for my products. Well, The glue works but its very cakey, and lumpy. Im sure i just had to work at it a little longer to make it smoother but no matter what i did it just didn't feel right. Not to mention that Glue isnt necessarily what i need. I needed adhesive that i could put on the back of paper or fabric so that my notebook process could be a little faster - a manufacturing investment.
Well, the Glue worked well enough, and i could certainly use it for other purposes, but for the purpose of stickers it was useless.
So when i stumbled upon the recipe for reusable adhesive made of gelatin, naturally, i flipped! It was awesome, I had everything i needed right here at home and it was the easiest recipe yet! One packet of gelatin, and half a cup of warm water. Well, i ran to the kitchen, mixed everything up and waited... not very long because it smelled horrible. So as i looked at the lumpy, yellowish/white stuff that was staring up at me from the bowl saying - "TRY ME!" , I did. I cut out a piece of paper, drew Shark on it, and applied, with a paintbrush as the recipe clearly states, on the back of the sticker. I then applied it to a notebook and waited for it to dry.
Again... FAILURE! it was a depressing morning indeed. The online post of this recipe was so clear and guaranteed success for all the kids that my disappointment was deep. I thought i had failed in a great way, so i tried the recipe again 4 times. each time adding a little more water, a little less gelatin... nothing worked.
The post ALSO promised that after applying the gelatin mixture and after waiting for it to dry, one can stack up all the stickers and save them, only to "lick" the back of your sticker to revitalize the stickiness when you are ready for more non stick and tasteless fun! ....
Well, nothing worked. My mess with the play-dough, although rather entertaining was a silly mistake, the massive amount of homemade nontoxic glue will certainly be used eventually, and the gelatin + water = reusable adhesive is quite simply a ridiculous lie.
Either that, or theres something this particular blogger is leaving out....
<3 JP
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