rachel.lin.weaver

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About me

Gender Female
Industry Arts
Occupation Digital Art Grad Student, or something like that.
Location Bloomington, Indiana, United States
Introduction one frame at a time.
Interests I absolutely adore filmmaking, beauty, travel, accordion, oil painting, ceramics, attics, klezmer, jasmine, old instruments, chilean wines, poetry, ouds, the big questions, the balkans, sociology, vespas, night walks, canyoneering, concertina, bicycles, rain, cobblestones, deserts, playing cello, singing, busking, curry, proto-indo-european, geometry in art, fresh basil, kodak in bulk, charcoal-burning samovar, beaches with black volcanic sand, etymology, knitting scarves, picking cranberries, beekeeping, the pacific rim, truffles, analog, digital, solitude, togetherness, coconut milk, gramophones, paper airplanes, vegetarianism, euskara, porcelain, tea time, chamber music, noctilucent clouds, graphic novels, parasols, language barriers, entomology, making bagels from scratch, dolma, symmetry, old songs, being an equestrian, granite cliffs, celadon, cessnas, old cameras, the andes, many yogas, white lehua honey, banjo, meteor showers, any temperate rainforest, pomegranate, experimental film, north-flowing rivers, language isolates, silk, astrophotography, the chinook winds, kinetic sculpture, windows, odd-numbered rhythms, icelandic, documentaries, anthropology, old books, making muffins with you, the unexpected, surrealism, korean inlay pottery, bookbinding, the skeleton coast, sanskrit, big cities, ghost towns, theoretical mathematics, steinway pianos, glaciers, dada, that creaky old appalachian fiddle music, turntables, deep snow, kidumbak, ginger, birds of prey, being completely self-sufficient, shortwave radio, graffiti, minimoog, reading, screen-printing, meditation, saffron, dancing, mythology, telescopes, cognac, urban exploration, mandolin, tragicomedies, appalachia's spring wildflowers, wasabi, croquet, impressionism, poetry, all things guava, typewriters, philosophy, tapping/making birch syrup.
Favorite Movies Too many to list. Edison. Salvador Dali. Ingmar Bergman.
Favorite Music So much. Turn of the century ballads, love songs, dark weird creaky ditties, Appalachian death ballads, Southeast Asian party music, North African wedding songs. Oh, and anything digitized via wax cylinder.
Favorite Books Yes, books. So many. Especially the very dusty ones tucked away in the back corners of libraries. I tend to discover (and love) books that have been neglected for decades. I wish I could adopt all of them.

That can't really be a fish you're standing on, can it?

How many surrealists does it take to change a lightbulb?