Relations That Suck: The Story of Eva and Dries

Vote on a Design

marilyn — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:48:31 +0000

It’s time to vote for your favorite design for the La Femme Fatale Box Contest. We received some great designs and have narrowed it down to two (Design A & Design B).

The top left is the outside lid, top right is the outside bottom, lower left is the inside lid, and lower right is the inside bottom.

Please email your vote to marilyn@marilynyu.com. Feel free to comment on the designs as well.

Design A

Design B

Photos from La Femme Fatale trailer shoot

marilyn — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 19:45:54 +0000

The key players in this past weekend’s shoot. For more photos check out the Album on Facebook.

Marilyn Yu and Matt Abaya, the Collaborators

Boots the Python as the Snake

Jessica Knecht as Eva

Alan Becker as the Brothel Patron

Jaclyn Kate as a Prostitute

Egg creatures as Themselves

Christal Saville, Hair and Make-up Artist

Angelo Ibañez, Film Crew

Francis Novero, Film Crew

Relations that Suck at the MoMA Store

marilyn — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 17:59:51 +0000

The Museum of Modern Art in New York is ordering the book! I’m not sure which store(s) the book will be in, but it’s exciting to have the support of an institution like the MoMA.

MoMA Design Store – 44 West 53 Street, New York, NY MoMA

Design and Book Store – 11 West 53 Street, New York, NY

The Museum of Modern Art is a place that fuels creativity, ignites minds, and provides inspiration. With extraordinary exhibitions and the world’s finest collection of modern and contemporary art, MoMA is dedicated to the conversation between the past and the present, the established and the experimental. Our mission is helping you understand and enjoy the art of our time.

My New Etsy Store

marilyn — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:40:46 +0000

Marilyn carefully crafts custom clothing and costumes in San Francisco under the line “Plutonium.” Occasionally she will have some ready-made items to offer, which you can find at her new Plutonium Etsy Store.

Right now there are some mini-hats, as featured in “Relations That Suck.” Enjoy.

Friday 11 June – Marilyn at the Opening of Archetype Boutique

marilyn — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:19:00 +0000

I put together an installation for the opening of Archetype Boutique – part of the City Centered Festival (June 11-13) by Gray Area Foundation for the Arts. There were books, prints, and a handful of Plutonium clothing to purchase.

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984 Market St (in Warfield Building)

San Francisco CA 94102

415-563-7467

Archetype Boutique – With an emphasis on wearables, this unique product-focused space supports emerging local and international designers focused on the principles of technologically-inspired and sustainability-minded fashion. Spearheaded by Gray Area Foundation for the Arts (GAFFTA) Fashion Initiatives Lead, Melissa Wilson and Creative Director for Archetype Boutique, Jarred Garza, Archetype is another avenue to further GAFFTA’s mission of building social consciousness through digital culture onto the runway and into the marketplace.

Eva at Mad World – Messages to the Future

marilyn — Mon, 17 May 2010 16:30:17 +0000

Mad World – Messages to the Future
A group exhibition seeking artistic insight into the future
May 8 – June 26
Galeria de la Raza
2857 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110

Galería de la Raza presents Mad World: Messages to the Future, an exhibition featuring work by fourteen artists’ that imagine the future in 40 years through a fictional history of objects. In considering work for the exhibition, artists’ were asked to ponder the statement, ‘If you’re interested in the future, Invent it.” Responses range from both the artistic representation of objects 40 years from now, to witty statements about our cultural evolution. Through works such as future almanac entries, nomad friendly furniture and objects made from discarded material, the exhibition will display a unique imagining of what’s to come.

La Femme Fatale Box Design Contest

marilyn — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:57:34 +0000

Marilyn Yu is seeking an original, creative graphic design for the box housing her up-coming book, La Femme Fatale.

La Femme Fatale & Marilyn Yu

Genre-busting artist Marilyn Yu’s up-coming book project is a gateway work that invites readers to have an intimate interaction with the beautiful and profound. La Femme Fatale is the epic story of Eva the vampire encapsulated in a deck of cards. Inspired from tarot and illuminated manuscripts, Yu is creating a tool for introspection and divination for our current era.

Yu values collaborative creation. She strives to direct our cultural evolution onto a more constructive trajectory by facilitating idea exchange, encouraging critical thinking, and inspiring collective envisioning of our future. As advances in technology break down traditional boundaries, Yu finds our inherited cultures unskilled at dealing with the collisions of different ideas and views because they have ceased to evolve. Instead of leading to greater understanding, easier access to information and people has led to defensiveness and an entrenchment of ideas. Yu hopes to develop constructive ways of interacting, so that we can proceed towards the future together and without fear.

Prize

The Grand Prize Winner will receive $250 and a signed copy of La Femme Fatale. All eight (8) Contestants will receive a signed copy of La Femme Fatale.

Contest Process

Everyone is encouraged to apply. Eight (8) competition contestants will be carefully chosen by a selection committee comprised of La Femme Fatale collaborators. To apply, submit an application before 6 July 2010. (See below for Application Criteria).

Contest Timeline

July 5^th – Applications due

July 15^th – Contestants chosen

August 25^th – Designs due

September 1-15 – Voting

September 20^th – Winner announced

Application Criteria

(1) A one page resume

(2) A sample of your work either on disc or online. Clearly describe the medium, title, and any other contextual information.

The application deadline is Monday 5 July 2010.

Please submit your application to inquiries@marilynyu.com or La Femme Fatale Box Contest, c/o Marilyn Yu, P.O. Box 591105, San Francisco, CA 94159.

Become a fan of Marilyn Yu to monitor the progress of the Design Competition.

Submissions must include all the requested information. Entries missing information will be deemed incomplete and ineligible until all requested information is submitted.

If you have any further questions, comments or concerns about this contest, please contact us: inquiries@marilynyu.com.

Contest_FAQ’s

Contest_Official_Rules

Contest Flyer

Upcoming Book – Preview

marilyn — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:49:40 +0000

La Femme Fatale is the name of the up-coming book. It consists of 42 cards: 26 story cards and 16 suit cards. Here is a draft of card #1. Let us know what you think of it.
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Genre-busting artist Marilyn Yu’s up-coming book project is a gateway work that invites readers to have an intimate interaction with the beautiful and profound. La Femme Fatale is the epic story of Eva the vampire encapsulated in a set of cards. Inspired from tarot and illuminated manuscripts, Yu is creating a tool for introspection and divination for our current era.

La Femme Fatale
Written by Marilyn Yu and Heather Papp
Illustrated by Marilyn Yu
Art & Lenny
Launch date: Fall 2011

Photos at Beretta

marilyn — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:22:34 +0000

Some of the book photos just need to be seen bigger. Now you can. Nine of the photos are back from touring in LA and are on display at Beretta – 1199 valencia st x 23rd. They are hanging in the stairway and the downstairs dining room. Check them out next time you are there.

Examiner.com Review

marilyn — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:30:15 +0000

Relations that Suck: The Story of Eva and Dries Book Review

January 3, 7:35 PMLexington Vampire ExaminerBertena Varney

Relations that Suck: The Story of Eva and Dries by Marilyn Yu is more than just a spellbinding, emotional story but also a visionary delicacy for your senses.

The story itself is one to which any reader can relate. The characters struggle with who they are, with the consequences of their actions and with their finding a relationship between each other that extends further than either would believe.

Eva is a vampire who struggles with who she is. She has adapted to feeding only as needed and as little as she needs to survive. Dries is a spider that cannot handle the mundane world of web spinning and searches for a new meaning to his life. They meet and both share a relationship that is life changing. The author weaves a story that makes you yearn to know more.

But the amazement of the story is not all that Ms. Yu has contributed to this book. She is also credited with the Art Director, Clothing Designer, and Artist. Each page of the book is a photograph of different models as they go through the struggle of the story. The pictures are so inviting that you find yourself inside each page. The details of the symbols, the clothing and even the doilies are so exquisite that one can stare at each page and wonder what profound meaning each holds.

The author knows that her beautifully dressed vampire and large spider will want her readers to know more and she provides this on her website. Yu provides us with a free study guide on her website as well. This study guide tells the meaning of each character, picture and symbol located within the book.

Ms. Yu wrote that she may write a prequel telling of Eva’s life before she met Dries. I encourage her to do this and will be one of the first in line to buy the book. Ms. Yu is a talented artist in both visual and linguistic talents that has created a piece of art that tempts all of the readers’ senses. It is definitely a book to be collected and enjoyed.

A Knotty Boy likes the book

marilyn — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:50:14 +0000

One weaver appreciating another, Dan of the Two Knotty Boys likes the book.

“Beautiful book! … Fantastic work.”

The Two Knotty Boys are educators and the authors of “Two Knotty Boys: Showing You The Ropes” and “Two Knotty Boys: Back on the Ropes.”

“Relations That Suck” in Blogs and News

marilyn — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 23:56:50 +0000

OutsaPop Trashion Recycled DIY fashion – elokuu 2009

“Relations That Suck” is a art book about a creative vampire and a traveling spider that bridges the worlds of fine art, fashion and writing. I could not stop staring at the floor piece made from 20 something bridal white bleached doilies sewn together. Pretty. Would work beautifully in a dress or as an interior wall piece or curtains.

Dale Radio - 12 September 2009

Dale crawls into some unsavory places including a meat eaters speakeasy, garages for pilates, and the terrifying but illuminating Book Nook.

Note: In this episode we discuss Marilyn Yu’s spooky book, Relations That Suck. We’re working to get her on the show, but in the meantime, check out Marilyn’s website for more!

Vampyrai Blog – 1 Sept 2009

Alumni News in RISD Views – Fall 2009

Relations that Suck: The Story of Eva and Dries, “a piece of art in book form” by Marilyn Yu, Sculpture (San Francisco), was published in August by Art & Lenny. The story of a friendly vampire and a traveling spider, it combines photographs and narrative into a fable about denial, guilt and friendship.

Irensmiren - 31 August 2009

Crochet-Decorate - 1 September 2009

High Snobette – 1 November 2009: New Book Alert

Federal Vampire and Zombie Agency