Sigga What?

This just in through the Schell grapevine (and from Relevant)-- Sigur Ros’ frontman, Jónsi Birgisson, is working on a solo album that will be out this April. Word on the street is that they were almost done with a full-length album when this all took off for ol’ Jónsi. He’s the high-pitched backbone of this group, so this should be a fun album. It’s going to be in English, not syllables from an obsolete Icelandic language, but even so, it still might be hard to make out the words from his baby bird/angel voice. The tiny bit of sampling that is on his website, and the youtube music video sound pretty fun. If you are not currently a fan of Sigur Rós, then you need to re-evaluate your life. This is a band Andrew introduced me to 2002-ish and they’ve had some good music since then. Check it out.

Also... Watched a great movie on HBO a while back with MJ… “Temple Grandin,” starring Claire Danes (as Temple) who sports some Shirley Temple locks. I have to say; she did a great job and as fellow HBO star Big Edie would say, she was an autistic smash. She’s a fine cowgirl and may have introduced herself in the following way: “Are you a scientist? Hi, Temple Grandin, nice to meet you. Are you a scientist?” This reminds me of when Karen Lesser busted in my room freshmen year and asked me if I was a poet. I told her that if I was I didn’t know it. She told me she thought I was anyway. Yep, Karen also said Hitler was “a famous man from the Holocaust,” so I didn’t listen too much to her predictions about my life. I’d like to see an HBO special on her life. I don't know anyone that wouldn't.

Finally, as promised, here are some pictures that I've taken on my grandfather's old camera. They are in order and you can see the art grow as we go. I think we've finally figured out how to use it properly and here are some of my favorites so far:

I'm still a little surprised that the camera works and I've been very pleased with this fun discovery. I took some sweet pictures of Frank with it while in NOLA but we'll have to wait and see how they actually turned out.

P.S.: I'm working on an art project for a work video. For those who don't know, it's a stop motion (flip-book style) movie of scenes I'm painting. It's about 1600 screens for a 2 minute curriculum video. So stay tuned for that because I'm finishing it up tonight. Probably can't post it but might try to show it to you soon.

Happy end of the week! Rainbows and honey bears,

schell