Pete Reseguie-Snyder

Tubes, Apparatus and Pain Meds.

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 06:31:03 GMT

Well, I'll be laying around the house recovering for at least six weeks now. The surgery went well apparently. The surgeon told me that they removed quite a bit of disk material which to my astonishment was immediately noticeable. I can now fully extend my left leg without feeling like a knife is being twisted into my nerve.

This is likely evidence that I'm extremely bored, extremely boring, or perhaps mentally ill, but I am honestly pleased to have had this experience. I mean the whole thing... the IVs, general anesthesia, muscle simulators, the shouting crazy, the blood drainage tube, the constantly beeping machine next to my bed... I have no problem classifying all of that as part a good and exciting time. Maybe I need to socialize more.

I have somewhere between six and fourteen weeks before I can report back to work so I expect to catch up on a lot of my reading. I think I'll finish "Good Omens" then maybe dive back into my many unread Icelandic sagas. Icelandic story time is the best.

Married

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:52:17 GMT

My name is now Peter Benjamin Resseguie-Snyder. My last name probably won't fit on my work badge. Ha. Mwa ha ha.

On Saturday July 12th at about 4pm I married the lovely Nicole Ann Resseguie. We had mead, delicious food from Polska Chata, and pie. Aside from a dash of social anxiety and camera pain (let them... them being the cameras of course, burn in the hell fires from whence they came), it was a beautiful day.

Some of my favorite fragments:

-green skirt
-"I will"
-polish sausage
-silhouettes of tree branches through the tent
-smooches
-pie
-bats (with and/or without rabies)

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 19:35:26 GMT

story time

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 05:47:53 GMT

Due to the extreme dullness of my duties at work, I have taken a great liking to audiobooks.

A list of audio books I have completed in the past three months:

A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
The Demon Haunted World - Science As A Candle In The Dark by Carl Sagan
River Out of Eden by Richard Dawkins
Myths & Masks by Joseph Campbell (lectures)
The Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
The Iliad by Homer
The Children of Hurin by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks
We Can Remember It For You Wholesale by Philip K. Dick
The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Paper books I have read in the past three months:

The Nibelungenlied (translated by A.T. Hatto
The Saga of the Volsungs (translated by Jesse L. Bock)

I am picking through the Prose Edda right now in my spare time. I seem to have a thing for old Icelandic/Germanic literature right now.

It is somewhat telling from the lists I think that I have little time out of work for reading, but I am really happy to be fortunate enough to have such a dull job that I am fully permitted to steer the course of my own brain activity while I'm there. Hmm, what to listen to next...

Dream

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 05:43:33 GMT

I have memories of a dream from this morning. Several very small birds emerged from a hole in wall. They sort of pushed and wiggled through, lazily dropping out and then flying away. The way they came through reminded me of how it appeared when yellow-jackets had done the same thing a few times in the past. The birds in the dream evoked the same sickly tense emotions that I felt with the yellow-jackets. The next part of the dream was less vivid but I recall viewing several different exoskeletal organisms being peeled open, almost like fruit by some unknown hands.

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 07:03:19 GMT

As of today I have aged 25 years. Nicole gave me some beautiful music which I had been pining for for quite some time and some absolutely delicious smelling spicy tea. I am anxious to have some in the morning before work.

I'm working about 56 hours per week now on the b-shift at Coopervision. Fortunately I don't have much of "a life" to be disappointed about missing out on... My feet are angry with me but the paycheck is nice and I am losing weight. Curiosity is nudging me towards picking up a pedometer so I can see how many miles ten hours of fast paced walking fetches me. I'm doing well and my supervisor wants to hire me as soon as he can so... hurray for job security

Despite not winning the Windgate fellowship grant, I'm going to proceed with my plans and use some of these nice shiny paychecks to start building a nice shiny metal casting furnace. I love casting every bit as much as I do painting and I think that it could turn into something somewhat profitable for me. Painting is a bit too personal and private of an activity for me to try and use it for any serious cash flow, but I can see myself casting bronze bookends and other functional/accessible things for that purpose. So yeah, it is past my bedtime. Time for sleep.

Sat, 28 Apr 2007 07:44:10 GMT

After more than three months of sending applications and searching I've finally landed a job with CooperVision (via temp agency). Very basic mindless duties but the pay is fair and it sounds like they'll keep me busy for about fifty hours a week. I start Monday, B-shift. This is a wonderful and significant change.

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 07:15:24 GMT

Another piece from last year.

New webpage is being worked on. I picked up a never-used copy of Adobe GoLive5.0 for $12 at Goodwill last week to make things go a little faster. I don't feel that I have time to build the whole thing in notepad as I generally prefe, but GoLive has always seemed pretty neat and clean so I don't mind. I'm not exactly sure how to structure the galleries yet but I suspect I'll come to a solution soon.

It will be a little less frame heavy... more use of tables and I'm trying to make better use of CSS for future modifications. Blah blah. Off to bed.

Painting for sale

Mon, 12 Feb 2007 03:52:51 GMT

ebay

Time to try and move some art along. I have just this one piece up right now but there is more work on its way. I'm also thinking about toying around with an etsy store, perhaps I'll do some drawings to sell as prints.

paintings

Sun, 11 Feb 2007 21:22:33 GMT

Just a few things from last year that had yet to be photographed.

New painting

Mon, 22 Jan 2007 07:57:09 GMT

I made this one this previous evening. Playing around more and more with bringing the sketchbook work to canvas. I'm not entirely thrilled to death with it but I am moving in the appropriate direction I think. At the end of the month I'll be getting back several paintings from 2006 to photograph.

Webpage update

Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:13:59 GMT

I have added thirteen scans from my recently completed sketchbook to the drawing/painting section of my webpage and I have added and subtracted from my links section a bit.

impactnoise.net

Sat, 14 Oct 2006 13:12:48 GMT

I helped out at Gallery r last tuesday keeping the doors open for the carpet-installers and I managed to take a few shots of the incredible underbelly of the gallery floor after they ripped out the old carpet.

new work

Sat, 02 Sep 2006 05:16:57 GMT

I finished this piece for my mother's 50th birthday last week.

Women Take Back The Noise

Thu, 24 Aug 2006 04:22:02 GMT

I just received my lovely WTBTN package in the mail and I am very happy. The project features 47 women artists involved in electronic, experiemental, ambient, noise music on three CDs. Attached to the shiny vinyl packaging is a circuit bent sound module (aka noise cookie) and when you turn the module on and touch the spike in the center of the flower the package emits wonderful noises. Oh oh, and more fun and excitement...there is a minijack for amplified noise cookie jam sessions!!

I have not been this thrilled about a music release for a long time. I'm still only about halfway through the second disk and I am in love with every bit of it. I am unfamiliar with about 95% of the musicians so I am very pleased to dig into their past and future works.

webpage: http://www.ubuibi.org/wtbtn/

killstabkill

Fri, 30 Jun 2006 03:22:29 GMT

People are so shockingly irresponsible. Nicole and I went out tonight for coffee and halfway there we saw a car parked on the side of the road with a guy standing next to the front passenger door. Right as we drove by the guy reached in, picked up a white cat, tossed it away about 6-7 feet into the parking lot of a car dealship and drove off. There was a woman in the car with him.

We turned right around and pulled into the dealership to pickup the assholes' "problem." There were actually TWO beautful very friendly cats, a gray female and a white male. We had no difficulty getting them into the car, Nicole stepped out, called to them and they came right over. Both cats are pretty light weight, perhaps a bit malnourished but otherwise healthy appearing. The male has not been neutered and the female appears to be pregnant. We brought them home but we have to keep them separate from the other cats in case they happen to carry any contagious illnesses. Right now we have them outside under the deck in a cage with sheets, a litter-pan, food, water and some extra shelter from wind, rain etc...

Tomorrow we will call around and likely take them to Lollypop Farm.

It makes me sick and angry that anyone could be so cruel and irresponsible, dumping two domesticated cats on a busy 55mph street. There is no excuse for that. Over time I get so that I think that I am used to the smell of shit-humans and then something like this comes along and turns my stomach.

Wed, 21 Jun 2006 06:56:38 GMT

Nicole and I saw Pig tonight. It was amazing. I brought a bit of the joy home:

Pig - One Meatball (live clip 06-20-06)

Sun, 14 May 2006 06:48:50 GMT

a few new things

Sat, 01 Apr 2006 04:08:09 GMT

sketchbook scribble snapshots:

A few more on flickr

paintings:

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and the webpage has been updated a bit

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Sat, 11 Mar 2006 23:38:19 GMT

A sound piece completed last January, titled today: A Volatile Image

I have recently discovered the art of sound collection. When I first started toying with noise-making, I was only interested in it in terms of its relationship to images, working with coagula and spectrograms, but apparently that limitation has been lifted. Clock ticks, car engines, air-vent hums, and other background noises are trickling into my collection of source materials. This should be a productive series of months.

Mon, 20 Feb 2006 02:27:01 GMT

The new collaborative sound project has now been upped.

Card/Snyder - Winter: Part 1 | Part 2

For more info go to: impactnoise.net --> Digital/Sound --> Card/Snyder - Winter

Fri, 06 Jan 2006 17:33:52 GMT

I purchased "FLStudio 6 Producer Edition" last night which I think is a pretty good indication that I am becoming more committed to the idea of making music. The potential of this software has me drooling all over the place. All I need now is a good sustain pedal for my keyboard and I'll have everything I need for a long time.

I've had a lot of ups and downs lately but I am feeling a bit more 'up' today from the lovely snow this morning. The lack of daylight (I typically enjoy it in the winter) coupled with the rain and mud we've had for the past week or so has had me in a pretty miserable state. I don't know why this has had me in such a low but yeah.. snow now... happy. I have been going to sleep at 5-6am and waking up around 2pm only to get about 2hours of dwindling sunlight, but I (with Nicole's help) kind of forced myself awake at 8:30am today so hopefully I can get my sleep cycle back on track tonight.

I have been working on one of my largest paintings so far, about 3' x 3.1' I know that is not much compared to what most people consider large, but I am used to doing work that is under a foot long and wide. It is made from a large wooden crate top (donated by a friend from college) with wool felt stretched over it for that incredible addictive surface. Maybe after I get a bit more done on it I'll post some in-process shots.

Brain bits stirring.

Mon, 19 Dec 2005 08:08:05 GMT

Time for a little update...

Having had a bit of a rest from the stress of last quarter, I am very animated (for me that is, which doesn't say much I suppose). My passion for sound is steadily becoming a strong path for creative interaction. I have spent the past year or so experimenting with and familiarizing myself with the tools and I have come to feel that playing with sine waves can be just as satisfying as playing with paint.

I am collaborating (gasp) on a new project with guy at RIT who has very similar/compatible musical interests. We have been trading sound files back and forth for the past three weeks now, and if we are lucky, it just might turn into something interesting by the end. If it does not, it doesn't really matter because we are both enjoying the process...though the bits that we've assembled so far have me pretty excited.

In other news, I have been nominated at RIT for a $15,000 art grant which has me pretty excited. One hundred people nationally can be nominated and ten awards are granted from that pool so my chances of winning are not terrible at all. I have until the end of January to complete my proposal for the grant and then the winners are selected in April I believe.

In other other news, I have updated my webpage (impactnoise.net). Added a section for sound projects and re-organized the galleries. The sound section is still quite rough but I will be working at that through the week.

Painting is better than ever now. I have been in this wavering rut for a long time now and it finally feels like I am finding that sense of balance once again. Probably has something to do with the winter. It rarely matters how depressed or withdrawn I am, as soon everything is covered in snow and ice, the creative core recharges and things happen.

Relic

Sat, 12 Nov 2005 06:01:13 GMT

My first cast bronze piece. A very exciting process that I wish to repeat.

new piece

Tue, 13 Sep 2005 00:22:41 GMT

"All and Nothing"