Check it out!
http://www.fotoblur.com/people/behepp

A lot of the photos on this site aren't really to my liking, but some of them are very impressive. I enjoyed exploring!

Hey everyone, I'm doing a project for my alternative media class and need some help. The assignment is to do a subversive fashion project and mine will include as many pictures as possible of people making a "model face". I'm trying to include lots of photos of people from outside the normal (skinny, symmetrical, young) model category. I've been going up to people and asking them to pose and, though they tend to feel silly, they usually say yes. I've gotten a lot of great pictures so far but for my project to work the way I want I'll need a lot more. So, if you could send me a picture of you, and anyone else willing, giving the camera that silly "I'm bored, I'm hot, and you love it" face that would be great! This does not have to be done with a great camera, you can do it with your web cam or camera phone or anything.You don't need to touch them up at all either, this is about real people, pores and all. The finished product will be published online and possibly in an installation.
Thanks gorgeouses!
You can send it to my email beheppe@gmail.com

Yessss, got to be on Warren Ellis' blog today. He invited everyone to send a picture of their message to the world on what is said to be the most miserable day of the year (today)and that he would try to post them. However, it kind of back fired, considering it pretty much made my day. My theory is that he was just trying to give everyone a fun little activity to make up for the sucky day- what a pal.




This is George.

Bah, I had to design a logo for my computer art class and these are my idea sketches. I think I'm going with the Whalephant, though I don't see why I need a logo...


This one is based on my family crest...cause apparently my family has one.



Whalephant and I are very close, I like to paint him.

I Spy Two Elephants

Self Portrait Day- why not

I woke up today and realized that I like being named Beth. This is a personal, momentous moment.
Positive thought about myself of the day: My name is Beth.



!!!
embrace

Ecclesiastes 1-3, from Last Minute Portfolio

Zachariah, Star Boys 3


Pen, Star Boys 4

Decided last minute to apply to SCAD, and since all my art is lost in storage among the family trinkets - I had like a week to make a portfolio which I hope will get me some money for school. Ian helped so much, he is responsible for a lot of the brilliant titles (which i normally leave out altogether). He also stayed up all night with me just about every night for moral support, three cheers to the boy! So I'm going to be posting that over the next week or so, it is mainly photography and painting....

Star Boys, 1


Star Boys, 2

the boy being the boy
<3

My summer with Ian has been amazing. First we went up North to visit his entire family, and sure it was a little stressful (mainly cause I got sick) but they were great. Then we came back to Savannah and got all tucked in to our home. I've been learning how to ride a bike in the city which is getting easier though still freaks me out a bit. Also have been playing some flute, reading some Sandman, and just being happier and felt more at home than I have in a while.
Anywho, these are two photos from when Ian's dad let me play on his drum set. the first one i took and the one where i'm totally rocking out ian took.
:) summer timeeeeee

home made

haven't been a postin'
hope to fix that
this is a watercolor lion

I've been busy being the second mom of the house since i've been back in SC, while trying to maintain my "cool older sister" title. There is a lot of tension in the family (with moving and people being around each other too much) and everyone seems to have appointed me family counselor; which is good practice for me (since i want to be an art therapist, but is a bit stressful. Lots of cleaning and trying to keep the house looking like an L.L. Bean catalog everyday.
The kids were all playing in the pool the other day and I accidentally used a whole roll of film on them. I'm going to miss this backyard a whole lot. I'm supposed to call a bunch of people to hang with while I'm in town but frankly I kind of have more fun with the kids, no pressure --just silly. I'm so busy and tired out from doing the tedious packing and cleaning that it's just easier to stay in and watch Short Circuit and Monk.
Can't wait to get out of here though, it has felt like the day before a big trip for a week and a half now and its a strange way to live.








i will figure out a better way to post pictures this summer, i promise

So I was going to leave school friday, but then on Thursday I agreed to be a last minute actor in a short film some friends were making. We started filming Sunday at like 7 am and didn't finish til like 8 30 that night; then of course we had to have an after party to celebrate our success. It was tons of fun. I play a rather masculine girl, Courtney/Dylan, who identitfies as male and who does not get along with her ridiculous roommate, Bart. Bart refuses to respect her and in the beginning he throws me in the shower, at one point I slap him in the face while choking him on the floor, at another point he is working out with two jugs of wine, at ANOTHER point i rub heads with a girl while our hair is covered in aloe, and in the end we happily wrap him in tape. Sooooo pretty much it's going to be the best short film ever. And I've never acted before but I think it went well. Here is a picture of me as Courtney and Blacki as "Bart":

and now that that and all my stupid finals are done i'm at home for a little while, trying to sell some of my stuff so I can go to Savannah and start an amazing, broke, fun summer

ah yes, i made this for my DJ friend the other day from this stuff i magically found at good will. i'd clean it up if i had time. i think its pretty sweet cause it happens to look a whole lot like me and him. my life has been so seredipitous lately, probably cause i keep using that word

i woke up from a dream about my ex boyfriend, what a shitty way to start the day. I was at his house in California and was going through his stuff with this butler, who doesn't really exist but who determined that i wasn't insane and tried to help, I guess trying to figure out if he still loved me or not? Ex boyfriend came home and it was half him upset for me being there, half us totally still completely drawn to each other. I'm so sick of this, we didn't date that long and it has been almost a year since we broke up. I still think he is just well, the best, but I hate waking up with this feeling of i don't know what.
on a totally random note...some people have an amazing smell, it almost seems like that is a huge part of their charm. from my night out i ended up with another girl's sweater in my bag totally by accident, I've let her know and shes coming to pick it up, but right now its just hanging there on my doorknob and i swear i can smell it from here. it smells so good! i guess i'm a total creeper for saying that-oh well it just makes me hope i have a good smell, cause i don't think you can really check what your own smell is...hhmmmm my thoughts are so intellectual i hope you can keep up
to make up for the gross love rant i suppose i should put something neat on here

while this may look like trash stapled to a wall, it is actually a picture of my painting "toes" from my most recent gallery show with my best buddy Ian.
if you have the patience for it to load, you can pretty much experience being there at ourartisttrip.com

I don't know where to begin. Well my Mom and Peter are getting paid to be extras in Jake Gylenthingy's new movie which is being shot in Columbia. Not only that, apparently Jake hangs out with my cousin's friends and they were driving around the other day and Jake heard a song he liked and bimbamboom one of my friends is now making Jake Gyllenhaal a mix, mad world indeed. Ha man I'm so excited for them, this is all so random and I feel like such an american for being tickled by this indirect interaction with someone famous.
Also, it is the end of the year, and now I'm finally starting to meet more people. I don't think I ever didn't have the ability to make friends, I just couldn't be bothered and couldn't not be let down by what I found. But apparently with the end in sight I've become a lot less cynical and, with a complex twist of fate, met some cool people.
Friday evening was really very strange. My friend and I went out to Tech and didn't even have plans or anyone to meet and just happend upon a few girls from agnes walking by and ended up hanging out at their friends' place til like 4 30 am. young hooligans we are...but yeah something must have happened to change my life bc it was all just so seredipitous.
I've also noticed that my behavior when I'm out meeting people (esp when the situation includes alcohol)is strange but has a pattern. Apparently I like to talk about how I was friends with Mr. Rogers (true story, he came to my house, buy me a drink and I'll tell you all about it) and teach people yoga. It could be worse, but seriously the last three times I've been out meeting people I've taught the crow position without even thinking about it. Ha maybe that is subconsciously what I want to "be when I grow up"
Now I'm packing my stuff and watching a bunch of awesome movies and trying to make myself work just a little longer.
here's a photo to keep this a picture book, two silly pictures, two silly friends, never too silly



ohoh and i watched the history channel today and learned how big the universe is
OMG so cool, gravity and galaxy clusters etc., heres to dark matter

my most recent painting
well i did the face last summer and couldn't decide how to finish it til now, if it's finished. havent decided.

my food reflects my life
a series
by beth heppenstall

written while drinking coffee out of the skinny straw
pre.s.-Simon has multiple personalities
and Joel wants one of Simon's personalities very badly, and hates the other.

Joel: Simon! I have a new theory!
Simon: Yeah?
Joel: Yes.......it is the theory that we are becoming obese and lazy because SOMEONE (may be the government maybe even scientists maybe the shoemakerrrr!!)
Simon:couldn't be.
Joel:then who?
Simon: Then what anywayyy, what did whoseewhatsherface do to make us all lazy and fat?
Joel: They have been taking SUCKING some of the flavor out of our ingredients! so we have to have more!!! to taste more!!! to digest more!!1
Simon: oh noooo!
Joel: OH yes...

now, s o l o

then, nasty aulgia


after thoughts-
some things you just can't "p.s."
so you just post

heh, some people are just the "oh i looooved that part!" sections of your book.
I love when you realize that that day you never thought would happen is the one you're in

today was good. got a little money for dog/guinea pig sitting and got a little cleaned up. one more painting left to finish for the show. my life! everyday!

I am reading a new book which is wonderful, it helps so much when time feels heavy w/empty and i have to put SOMETHING in it. But when I like a book I read it quickly, and it makes me feel like i should ration it.
"The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter" if you were wondering
It sounds cheesey but don't be fooled so easily

Now that i've cut my hair short on a whim AGAIN i really want to learn how to do one of those 30's bobs, you know, the kind that curves back an forth all swooshy like? can't find a good "how to" website, i should just ask my grandma when i see her next

lots going on, i'm really excited about a few art projects i have going on right now, one show i'm in is tomorrow and saturday and one is a whole exhibition of just me and ian's stuff on April 11th. I have to miss a few days of class to go down and set up etc., hopefully it won't cause me to fail any :/. it's tricky because i always come up with my ideas for new projects/paintings when i'm falling asleep at night and half the time i'm too lazy to get up and write it down

This summer sounds like its going to be so great. Ian and I have this great creative relationship that really helps balance each other. I hope our living together situation works out ok. I really need to get a job and I have no clue what I should do...a bookstore would be golden...nothing where I'd be forced to listen to crappy music all day.

got new meds today, hope they work better. i think it would help a lot if i had more friends in atlanta to hang out with. but i hung out with some scad kids i loooved the other night and will be doing more of that this weekend when Ian visits. being shy is so annoying
here is a picture i like that one of my friends took on a night when i actually went out

sooo i think i'm really tired
and for some reason it smells like rotting crabapples

went home for easter, good trip

little brother made me a bracelette out of a broken guitar string and i love it

i just drank a big bottle of very red gatorade fruit punch and i dont think it helped me feel more rehydrated replenished OR refueled. liars. at least my lips are bright red.

saw a mystery play/musical. the acting and story were great, and the musical numbers were horrid so it was a fun night.

got pictures developed for free bc the poor quality. it was fun, cheesey photos but i feel pretty cheesey about my little brother and sister, i love them so much. so i took pictures. and i love my backyard

saw a magician about a week ago. i was forced up on stage by a friend to be a lovely assistant and he blew my mind for entertainment. being in front of a large crowd isnt my "thing", but when he read my mind and all that jazz i got forgot about people and just went "wha? wha? wha?". he predicted that i'd pick the word apartment of a random page in a book. i was SO CLOSE to chosing kitchenware....but does it matter???

after the show i cornered him and made him give me all his secrets and his number

that is a lie, but i did question him and shake his hand a few times
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went to savannah, hung out with ian. it makes no sense that we're not madly in love. but we love each other like bestest buddies and have such good time just hanging out. watching star trek is a new hobby he got me into, and now i have something to talk about with my dad! and probably 80% of all dads...

oh and i helped shoot a fashion show while i was down there. it as stressful and a lot of fun, i got stuck backstage with the tits and freak outs so the lighting wasnt great but i think i got some good pictures anyway.







mom quote of the day: "put the fox between your breasts and above your colon!"

GOOOOOOOOD morning! the rain this morning at about 6 thirty was soooooo loud against the window that my roommate and i got up. it was so cooooooooooool

enough ooo's.

so i was introduced to a guy from Sheryl Crowe's band. It was not planned and took me totally off guard and while i said i liked her i couldn't think of one song she played. so i shook hands with him(he had straightened hair and split ends)and I had no idea what to say. so I said how awesome it must be to play music for a living, and he asked if i was a musician. I could have said so many things...I've performed in disney world, toured with a singing group around europe, and sang the national anthem at a major league baseball game (with a group, i'm truly not great). but no. none of those came to mind, all i could think to say was: "well, i've got this great two dollar key board i got from a thrift store and it has some really cool disco noises... sooo i play with that when i'm bored. good fun....."
pathetic. or so he was thinking i'm pretty sure based on the "ick" look on his face. and he's probably going to be like hey sheryl guess what this crazy girl said... i just hope they don't write a song about the silly girl with the disco keyboard. oi.

this is the valentine i gave everyone...sheryl doesn't get one bc now i indirectly don't like her



oh and here are some pictures of a band i saw, they totally would love my keyboard.

Hey mom!

went down to savannah again this weekend. saw ian and took an amazing roll of film, which didn't catch properly and turned out blank (so i got really sad and only felt better after a ton of japanese food). but i did get a bunch of black and white photos i took from last year which i've scanned in, though my scanner sucks and a lot of them are way too high contrast its still a lot of fun to see them.




whenever i go down there we pretty much just eat, watch movies, and make art. this time we watched several classics including disney's robin hood which has absolutely great music.
also i have been writing a bunch of songs on my new two dollar key board including a sure hit called "i spy" which is a jingle i wrote for the books we all love, so if maybe someday i'll post some of my musical experiments :)

i love this poem, its better read out loud

The Lovers

What do they want from each other,
that man and woman clinging together and staggering
around the kitchen, the man's tongue completely
inside her mouth, her breasts flattened against
his chest, what is it they can't seem to

get to, why do they look to me like two
people roped together and thrown overboard,
sinking and thrashing in the stove's light?
what makes them seem so desperate
when they're only kissing, really only

a memory of kissing; why do I think of them and feel
my lungs burning, my heart filling with water?
I want them to break free of each other and reach
the surface again, or else i want them
to hurry up, I want them to drown. But they go on

and on until I'm exhausted, until I lie down
and finally stop caring. I'm sealing them into a box
like in that paradox the scientist proposed-
Schrodinger's cat, that as long as you don't look
might be alive or dead. I'm putting them in there

with the imaginary jar of poison,
the hypothetical hammer, with their letters
and little gifts, the photographs that say
they're happy, and I'm not going to look anymore,
I'm not going to kill them or save them.

There was a little girl,
Who had a little curl,
Right in the middle of her forehead.
When she was good,
She was very good indeed,
But when she was bad she was horrid.