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Feeling Vague Vintage

2012-01-20T13:11:00.001-08:00

Some Art Work I did for my online shop, I like them just as art by themselves. I was debating between Feeling Vague and Plastic Lake for my Etsy shop names, it was a tough decision, but may use the other at some point when I get my T-Shirt store going as well, hoping to make some ART T's with a 90's grunge apathetic vibe going.... we shall see!Check out Feeling Vague Vintage @ Etsy.com/Shop/

Fake Rocks and Botox SNC Alumni Art Show

2011-09-28T11:45:00.001-07:00

Here are some recent collages of mine that were in the Sierra Nevada College Alumni Show: Fake Rocks and Botox (click to see full write up and images).Some pics from the Show:Me during Presentation:

My Video: Alchemy.

2011-06-29T12:05:00.000-07:00

Lustre Noir from Babs Laukat on Vimeo.

My favorite Spring 2011 Trend, "Flatforms" or flat platforms

2011-05-15T19:20:00.000-07:00

I am currently obsessing over flat platforms this spring (aka flatforms) because of their vaguely nostalgic 1940's vibe yet super modern futuristic look. This shoe satisfies my nostalgic love of vintage and gives me the satisfaction of a modern look combining in the perfect shoe, not to mention great for summer. I am coming to hate any type of pointy heel, they are completely impractical for

HB Vintage clothing store now online!

2010-10-24T14:06:00.000-07:00

My online clothing store HB Vintage is on now on etsy.com! Check it out, handpicked and unique vintage clothing. Get some new threads for this fall!XOXOBabs

Recent Work, collages

2010-10-21T14:10:00.000-07:00

Tumblr

2010-10-21T12:59:00.001-07:00

Burning Metropolis

2010-06-09T11:41:00.001-07:00

My Tumblr for the Burning Man class this summer, more focused on ideas for costumes and dwellings. Please feel free to send pics to go onto the tumblr and or make your own tumblr too! I am specifically posting fashion ideas/concepts I find relevant to this years Burning Man theme Metropolis.

Lustre Noir, an over view of the show written by Chris Lanier

2010-04-21T14:00:00.000-07:00

Click this for full writeupIn Babs Laukat's BFA show, "Lustre Noir," the space was arranged around a series of inversions. Shapes squatting in a corner were echoed by shapes dangling from the ceiling, live flowers were set against a frame of artificial flowers, liquid water dripped and spattered against hard shards of glass. It was as if a set of conversions were being worked out: a sense of

Hutchinson Studio and Work in Progress pics for BFA show

2010-03-27T21:48:00.000-07:00

Work in progress pictures of orchid pots at Carol and Williams Studio....Some other random work in progress pictures....

Metal Heels

2010-03-27T21:46:00.000-07:00

Almost finished!

Work in progress

2010-02-23T00:01:00.001-08:00

For BFA show this April!

How to critique!

2010-01-31T19:22:00.000-08:00

How to do a Proper Critique from F Newsmagazine on Vimeo.

New Genres Final for spring semester 09"

2010-01-24T19:23:00.000-08:00

Installation set up in greenhouse, mixed media: video sculpture, plants, paper umbrella, steel and plastic tables, dirt. Viewing this piece consisted of entering greenhouse alone could use umbrella if desired, cement floor underneath ice sculptures was covered in dirt directly under ice sculptures only, and lead one on a path to view video projection, surrounding were plants mainly orchids but

On the way home from Burning Man

2009-12-06T01:33:00.000-08:00

Only 8 more months! :-(

Video

2009-11-22T10:26:00.000-08:00

Sculpture: wood project-Chair

2009-11-17T20:11:00.000-08:00

Most boring title ever

Mixed Media assignments: Text Project and Bookmaking

2009-11-08T22:36:00.000-08:00

Text Project for Mixed Media:((Photos from Kat))Book Makin:((Photos from Kat))

Happy Halloween!

2009-11-01T19:21:00.000-08:00

Its a chair

2009-10-26T00:26:00.000-07:00

woohoo.

Towels!?

2009-10-24T13:53:00.000-07:00

Photo Project

2009-10-22T15:56:00.000-07:00

Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization from Adbusters.org

2009-10-17T00:42:00.000-07:00

(https://www.adbusters.org/magazine/79/hipster.html)(The comments are just as good if not more interesting)We've reached a point in our civilization where counterculture has mutated into a self-obsessed aesthetic vacuum. So while hipsterdom is the end product of all prior countercultures, it’s been stripped of its subversion and originality. (Cover story of Adbusters Issue #79.)I'm sipping a

Found GIF

2009-10-16T23:18:00.000-07:00

Do not know who made this from my photo but GIF'S are neat.

Greenhouse

2009-10-16T01:52:00.001-07:00

More Nest Dancing!

2009-10-15T23:27:00.000-07:00

Thanks Kristin and Teryn!

Nest Dancing

2009-10-11T12:08:00.000-07:00

Kristin's dancer Teryn danced the other day for a while in the nest. Kristin asked for opinions and worked with Teryn. Chris took pictures and Danny and I watched and threw random ideas at Kristin. More to come....!

For Danny

2009-10-06T23:16:00.000-07:00

Extraordinary Gestures

2009-10-06T22:34:00.001-07:00

Extraordinary GesturesTHE PERFOMANE OF POLITICS AT THE BORDERLAND OF AN ABOSOLUTE- Noah Simblist -In July 2007, The Miss Rockaway Armada, a floating art parade buoyed by a handmade barge, set sail down the Mississippi River. This exercise in performative sculpture is a collaboration between multiple artist collectives including the Floating Neutrinos (who assail industrialization in favor of the

This is what I keep saying...

2009-10-04T12:24:00.000-07:00

Your Artist Statement: Explaining the UnexplainableQ: Why do I have to write an artist statement? It's stupid. If I wanted to write to express myself I would have been a writer. The whole idea of my art is to say things visually. Why can't people just look at my art and take away whatever experiences they will?A: Artist statements are not stupid; they're more like essential. And you don't have to

it works becasue its perfect your a mistake flowers grow and melt into the ground backwards and when it feels like death its never felt so alive

2009-09-20T14:49:00.000-07:00

Pillstoswallow.tumblr.com

Arstar and Crystal Castles

2009-09-20T12:51:00.000-07:00

Curiosa

2009-09-20T12:07:00.000-07:00

For New Genres

Photo Project

2009-09-15T20:46:00.003-07:00

Burning Man 2009!

2009-09-15T09:34:00.000-07:00

Burning Man 2009

2009-09-09T13:37:00.000-07:00

Before Burning Man... house is a disaster zoneSome Photos.....

Pony Fallout

2009-09-09T12:51:00.001-07:00

for Danny <3

Heart Breaker Vintage Photo shoot

2009-08-14T21:35:00.000-07:00

Photoshop and photography by Danny!

Internet Debris Collection Collage

2009-08-13T17:14:00.000-07:00

This was one of the collages made on photoshop that I turned into a transparency and then into a B/W photo as seen in many posts down this page.... it is hard to tell whats going on in my photographs posted previous because it is a picture of a photo on a photogram! anyways whuuuut. buying my burning man ticket now dont worry becca!

TRASH FORCE REAPER'S BLOG

2009-08-04T07:50:00.000-07:00

Interesting posts, great photography collection...... check it outTRASHFORCEREAPER.WORDPRESS.COM

polyvore

2009-07-30T01:12:00.000-07:00

blossom decay by \\Noir// on Polyvore.com

Just keep pretending.

2009-07-21T22:49:00.000-07:00

Photos by ponyboy

My Favorite Music Video: "What else is there?" by Röyksopp

2009-07-21T12:42:00.000-07:00

Avril 14th

2009-07-15T13:56:00.001-07:00

Polyvore etc...

2009-07-14T00:20:00.000-07:00

Summer by \\Noir// on Polyvore.comempty cage girl in the glitter by \\Noir// featuring Johnny Loves Rosie accessorieshow to fuck by \\Noir// featuring Celine shoesHB by \\Noir// on Polyvore.comMiss you by \\Noir// featuring Chloé blousesin the glitter by \\Noir// on Polyvore.comFarewell balloon noir by \\Noir// on Polyvore.comRay Johnson by \\Noir// on Polyvore.com

Camera Phone Explosion

2009-07-13T02:20:00.000-07:00

Self Portrait

2009-07-13T02:12:00.001-07:00

Hayhayyyyyy, just got bored when I had to do 30 self portraits for my life drawing final. Its probably my favorite.

Photograms In the pool

2009-06-25T09:21:00.000-07:00

Danny visits!

2009-06-25T09:11:00.000-07:00

Downloaded my photography back from a porn linking site....

2009-06-11T15:05:00.000-07:00

Huh well ok.... at least I have all my photos now. All I did was type in "toxic tea time suicide girls" into google and the first 2 sites were porn linking sites that allowed me to download the whole set illegally of my very own photos! Awesome! I originally took these on my brothers camera so I don't think I even have the original files, and did not get credit on the suicide girls website

Fur Graffiti

2009-06-05T11:27:00.000-07:00

Damnnit why didn't I think of doing this!??????The Video is here!>>>>http://www.babelgum.com/html/clip.php?clipId=3020158

OH MY.... shuga eye treats

2009-05-30T16:16:00.000-07:00

How would you like spending your summer on one of these? I know I would.Drool.... :-P

The Future of Food

2009-05-28T12:44:00.000-07:00

This documentary reinforces everything I am scared about and also points to what I have been thinking about: a lifestyle where I can move away from the system a little bit. Whatever that means... I'm feeling slow today.... Hopefully I will get paid to work in the greenhouse at school, I also want to start composting.Growing things is FUN!

Kate O'Brian Photography

2009-05-26T18:46:00.000-07:00

I really like these religious portraits and how photoshopped they look, but just like the idea of recreating religious iconography into photographs. These are fun!

Little Boxes

2009-05-17T16:24:00.000-07:00

The house I grew up in is the one on the right, next to the putting green... in Danville California... also maybe more like "Big Boxes" Going to make a sculpture to go along with this soon

Butterflys in Student Show

2009-05-13T13:12:00.000-07:00

Butterfly installation in student show last week!

Dualities

2009-05-13T12:32:00.001-07:00

Final project for Life Drawing, behind the drawing is a projection of my hands pulling back and forth.

Photoshop/Darkroom Collages, combining darkroom and digital processes

2009-05-09T02:22:00.001-07:00

Collaged polyvore and internet flotsum pictures together on photoshop then inverted that image and made a negative by copying with a photocopy machine, then layed myself onto the photopaper in the darkroom...after that put my pretend negative images on top. This process is fun, I like combining both digital and darkroom processes. Thinkin about: Polyvore, Youtube, the Individual, and the INTERNET

Jocelyns BFA Show and Kennas Performance, 4-23-09

2009-05-09T02:07:00.000-07:00

Jocelyns show was gorgeous everything was displayed wonderfully, the curtain was magical, memorys are strange. Kennas performance gave the hallway lots of energy! The shadows were fun, I am happy Kenna didnt pass out from the no ventillation gallery hallway heat.

Butterfly

2009-03-27T12:32:00.000-07:00

A project done for New Genres that involved time. I interpreted time as a way to understand a found object I rescued from a thrift store of a brown butterfly on a plastic rose in a glass dome. I am interested in at what time in the persons life did they not need this object anymore. What did this object represent for this person? What event caused them to not want it in their life anymore? Since

Photoshop collages

2009-03-06T14:20:00.000-08:00

Made these last year, I like using the blog as a way to document all of what I have been and am doing so will post old stuff along with the new to just get it all on here

Basement Show

2009-03-04T16:27:00.000-08:00

From last year in the spring:

Alice in wonderland LSD style with cotton candy vagina portal!

2009-02-24T21:04:00.000-08:00

Actually a MAC cosmetics ad for the hello kitty line of cosmetics... be prepared to get blown away! and article from coilhouse.net to go with video >Last time in latex, Coilhouse showed you how to re-enact that deleted scene from Alien using a thousand-dollar inflatable rubber alien egg. But that was child’s play compared to the great opus of short cinema above, in which MAC Cosmetics obviously

PONY PART II

2009-01-25T12:43:00.000-08:00

Polyvore.com set that includes music, about a little pony. Hopefully I will elaborate on this and create a more legitimate art project out of this idea, but good start! Look at image, read lyrics and listen! Pony Part 2 - by \\Noir// on Polyvore.com I'm just a little pony, Working in the funfair, Life has never been easy, That's not life, that's a nightmare... I've never seen a prairie,

Chris and his Wine Mouth

2009-01-24T21:34:00.000-08:00

Oh no! 3 bottles of 50 dollar wine later......

Nadines Suicide Girls Photo Shoot

2009-01-14T16:22:00.000-08:00

This was an extremely fun photo shoot as I got to choose the location costume and set up the shoot. Nadine now owes me an awesome tattoo :-) The photos got accepted to Suicide girls but personally think they are too badass for them they don't even deserve it and not to mention my name is not even on the website for the photographer! Assholes. Anyways here are some of my favorites....

NEW GENRES PROJECTS

2009-01-13T17:11:00.000-08:00

My recent New Genres Projects:The Nest: A experiential sculpture built outside the Art Department Building near a stream out of recycled wood that was cut for forest fire prevention. Can fit about 8 people comfortably, has canopy made of string around it, has softer material inside very much like a real nest and a light that hangs above in the top of the canopy that looks gorgeous at night. Photo

HEARTBREAKER VINTAGE

2009-01-13T16:16:00.001-08:00

Check out my stuff here >>>> Lots more coming it is taking a while getting it all up on the ebayzzz! Let me know what you think!

Collective Nightmares

2009-01-09T02:26:00.000-08:00

The Thanksgiving Break Chronicles: Broke and selling clothes on Ebay!

2008-11-25T10:43:00.000-08:00

Wow this ebay shenanigans took me way longer then I thought, editing photos and whatnot... geesh. Hope my stuff sells, some of the photos are pretty nice, my brother helped me with that. Heres the link for more ebaygasmic stuff for sale http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/babsnoir_W0QQ_nkwZQQ_armrsZ1QQ_fromZQQ_mdoZ

I like spaghetti, I dont like meatballs and I love sauce!

2008-11-20T00:19:00.000-08:00

Quotes from Valerie Solanas SCUM Manifesto

2008-11-18T18:39:00.000-08:00

I am Psychoanalyzing Valerie Solanas for a research project in Abnormal Psychology. I watched the film "I Shot Andy Warhol" as we are supposed to analyze the characters mental illness from a film but unlike most peoples projects my character is based of a real person I can look up on wikipedia! yay wikipedia! So here are some excerpts from the SCUM Manifesto I found... really interesting please

RIP Pickles

2008-11-14T10:44:00.000-08:00

I miss Pickles.

Polyvore.com Art

2008-11-12T15:49:00.000-08:00

FU*K!? by \\Noir//all will die by \\Noir// no calories! by \\Noir//you were all ready dead by \\Noir//IM SORRY by \\Noir//. by \\Noir//crash by \\Noir//Clean up before she comes home, clean up the dusty dome by \\Noir//betty page meltdown by \\Noir//shhhhhhhh by \\Noir//Its our thing by \\Noir//. by \\Noir//This Bee has Shoes by \\Noir//. by \\Noir//NO NO NO by \\Noir//Made my way up on your

Badass Raft

2008-11-04T23:07:00.000-08:00

Raft Inspiration Pic! My goal is for this to be done by the end of next semester and to have a super sweet picnic on it! This is my inspiration picture for my raft, although mine will be much different, I really like the idea of using found objects and recycled materials. Becca also inspired me because she is currently making a badass spacepod/spaceship inspired by the movie Barbarella!My vision

Last Blog for today! Polyvore.com

2008-11-02T15:09:00.000-08:00

These are my top 5 most popular polyvore.com clothing sets I have created. Polyvore is really interesting in that you can search clothing by website, color, type (skirt/shoes/top) or all of those at once. Once the set is made each piece of clothing or image of clothing in the set has a link where you can buy it, or will just link you to the site. Then you can also pick any image in the set and

Lasagna Cat

2008-11-02T14:49:00.000-08:00

These are fucking weird...and I have watched every single one... I don't know what internet adventure i was going on but somehow i found these video series on youtube.... basically just making fun of garfield comics for being lame and boring. These videos emphasize that I guess... I really like how lame the videos are especially the music videos at the end of each one.... those are the best! Here

Western Spaghetti

2008-11-02T14:44:00.000-08:00

More Burning Man!

2008-11-02T14:19:00.001-08:00

WEeEOoO~~!

Burning Man Pics

2008-11-02T14:05:00.000-08:00

These are James pics from Burning Man, they are FUN! Reminds me to use those cheap little disposable cameras more often! Definitely used a couple of those this weekend for Halloween! Should be getting those on friday... I love how cheap they are to buy and develop, perfect for fun little outings, I don't know why I didn't think of that before, nice digital cameras should be for photo-shoots and

Junior Art Portfolio Pics

2008-10-27T16:54:00.000-07:00

Art for Junior Portfolio Review Stayed up many late nights with my friends had some good times, it was very exauhsting but very worth it! All went well during the review except some teachers failed to read the titles of my work or even really look at it before they critiqued... hahaha... its ok I was expecting something like that to happen so it didn't surprise me. YAY ITS OVER WITH!