Some new work, M.F.A. show coming up.

Here's some new work. I'm not sure the colors are displaying correctly online. Let's give it a try.

A treatise on how to spell "repetitive".

I almost sent this to my students until I realized how horribly dorky it is.

Dear Students,
It's spelled repEtition, not repItition.
You'll thank me for it someday, perhaps even tomorrow.

So just repeat in your pretty little heads,

repetition
repetition
repetition
has repetitive I's and repetitive E's.

Affectionately yours, Kyla.

The following is a brief poem that I wroteto help you remember. I wish I could say it was the dorkiest thing I've ever done, that it's the only thing that I've distracted myself with today, and that it only took me 5 minutes, but that would all be a lie. I guess I got distracted in coming up with it in the way one is disracted by solving a crossword, only this is much sillier and much dorkier. Now I'm just kind of embarrased by how elaborate it is, but I wouldn't want my efforts to go to waste. Anyway, here it goes:

Repetition Is A Repetitive Word*

-by Kyla Zoe Luedtke.

Repetition is a repetitive word,
the repetitive "I" is never forgot, and neither is the "T",
but for every "I" there is an "E" and without it is absurd.

So remember now, right here on the spot,
repeat the I's and T's, and E's,
without them there's no word.

Just one vowel repeats to three
it's in the word "repetitive"
and with the triple E!

So once and for all, repeat after me,
Repeat the E repetitively.

*I may change the title to: Two E's, Two and I's makes you rEpEtItION wise!, but I haven't made up my mind yet. Ok. No more distracting myself.

Halloween 2008

Here are some photos of me and Jessica Frelinghuysen preparing for our Halloween celebrations. Jessica was whipped cream and I was a mini-fridge. I think we got on the news last night, but we're not sure.

Jessica was keen to point out my likeness to a mime in some of these photographs, especially the one above left. Below we appear to be in a modern dance performance...

Read this carefully. Classic, truly classic.

I was fortunate enough to encounter this eloquent invitation to a soiree while walking through campus recently. I only wonder what they were thinking, and if they will ever realize how hilarious their message was.

More recent art

Here's some more recent art. Still more coming down the line. I just need to photograph it.

Prune Juice: The Drinkable Oxymoron

Is that the best title ever or what? I made it up. I love being a teacher. The following is a portion of the homework I just sent to the discussion sections I teach on Tuesdays:

2. Bois, "The De Stijl Idea": Cite a specific part of the reading (a paragraph or quote) by page number** that you believe to illuminate an important concept relating the reading to today's lecture. Very briefly explain how it relates, and be prepared to share it and your thoughts in class Tuesday.

**You don't need to type out the quote for me, but I should have some way of knowing what specific paragraph or sentence you are referring to. For example (using an imaginary essay so that I don't steel any of your thunder): In reference to the two paragraphs above the heading "Prune Juice: The Drinkable Oxymoron" on page 100 of the "Plum Crazy" article, the author states "there is an inherent contradiction in juice that claims to be extracted from fruit that is, by definition, dried..."

3. Optional, but recommended: Eh-hem...In your opinion, what is the funniest/best you-tube video ever? How might Kyla find it and watch it on the internet? I highly recommend "Aussie Party- Australia", anything from the "Drunk History" Series, and of course, the ol' stand-by, "Leprechaun in Mobile, Alabama".

The art I've been doing

I've been promising to post the art of done, and I'm finally getting around to it. This isn't everything, but its some. Some I'm happy with, some I'm not, but you all have been asking, so here it is. Okay, I thought I had more images on my flash drive. I'll post more soon.