sean and his brother came up last night. went and saw 8 crazy nights. save your money. went to a party, lots of sluts. and alcohol. and sluts. 2 girls made out for my amusement. unfunf i miss steph, havent seen ehr in a long time :/
wow, i wish i could go home today. so friggin bored. wrote my paper for drawing on 60x1.cam (5pages) in very little time. read, had a drink with dad @ the palace around 2p.
crit?: 1good thanksgiving with other family (mom's side) woke up early cause my mom is a walking noise machine. didnt do any school/portfolio work, just had fun with lil' cousins. they've turned into real people now. its strange. much more agreeable than when they were little.
crit?: 2went to work, then home picked up sis and we drove to ferndale. had dinner @ the 101 diner. best burgers ever
crit?: 1didnt hardly get anythign done today. felt like i spent most of my day with talk. whether good or bad... first off, here is yest'days summer drawingesque thing with a bit of kinkade. thisis the big drawing ive been working on, part of an exquisite corpse
crit?: 1drew. worked, calss then drew till midnight or so. tired. will upload pic later. got good summerish drawing done in arthistory. will upload that later too.
crit?: 1woke up late. the plans were to goto berkeley and get supplies, but then i figured out that i didnt need to drive that far for 2 brushes and some paper. had dinner with steph and linds. got my supplies @ montgomery. fucked around. want to be drawing.
crit?: 1had thanksgiving with my down here family. lil' cousin slept all day, neensy slept most of the day.i took my ps2 and whiled away my time. food was good. cold, bu good. oh well. got to have a good talk with neensy on the drive back from the vaca area.
crit?: 1went to steph's dad's playoff game. they lost hard. it was cold. bleh.
crit?: 1i got invited into a show @ the smova! im excited! it runs for 2 months and ther eis a charity auciton thing n stuff. ! shawn and chris got invited too. there was an article about it in the paper today. yay art stuff
oh and i found out that this guy that im'd me the other day is the cox cable guy i was talking about 2 2518 1.59% 778 0.55% 10690 0.58% 35 0.95% ip68-6-103-201.sb.sd.cox.net so im gonna mail him a drawing or something if he wants.
went to work, drove to corte madera, fixed something in less than a minute, drove back to work. drove to boss's house, spent 5secs fixing something. drove home. drove to shad's (hi shad) fixed his psx, then broke his psx, hard.
crit?: 1i put 4 images up, seemed to be fairly successful. the plate wasnt as lost as i thought. the hand worked one went over good, the computer'd one not as well. i still favour the computer'd image, but not neccesarily the print as that could be lighter. i didnt get reamed and im dissapointed. :( i tend to work better after i get shot down art-wise.
crit?: 2work was quite a bitch today. this one lady had perpetual problems. my heart wasnt in it whatsoever, ended up leaving several hours early. couldnt focus on making computer magic when i had the stressy plate-crit to finish up. went home and photoshopped. kept snapping at everyone so i took a nap, woke up and scrapped what i was working on and started photoshopping the handworked one. steph's dog thor died (thorby was a GOOD DOG) went to kinkos and printed it. costs $10~ or so 'cause their computers are so slow, but it looks real nice. this is the image. looks real good cause the color laser printer printed it a bit darker. thisis how the plate endedup after these past 4ish days. poor poor plate RIP PLATE
crit?: 1ive succeeded in completely ruining my image. i kept trying differnet things, experimenting and now i have a big muddy nasty mess. im gogin to put a handworked and before and after fuckage proof up for the crit. luckily i like how the hand worked one is rolling along. also a drawing i have been putzing on or awhile
crit?: 1steph cooked me a nice breaky, then i went into the studio for the day. ruined my image even worse. this is just the plate from hell. i cant imagine why anyone would actually need to rely on intaglio in this day and age.
crit?: 1went to work as normal then into the studio. worked for several hours only managed to fck up my plate more. didnt get any real interesting drawing done. decided it was time to leave studio and went and surprised steph at her dad's football game. at least i got to see her this week, even if it was only for a few hours and at a sport thing. :/
crit?: 1this new technique is really coming along. shawn showed me this thing awhile ago, while he was making touches' ive applied it to shading/drawing and im getting pretty good results. also did a lot of work on my plate, im goign to have to work on it all weekend though. for the crit i vbelieve im goign to put in a handworked one (new technique) a regular b+w one, an ala-poopay'd one and one that ive dicked with in photoshop
went to work, normal day got my server all cleaned up with a nice exim bash script (had a tonne of frozen messages in my logs) went to school and worked there till 7p or so, started handworking somethign i really like. had to go up to a clients and work till 9p. then ate dinner. McD's bleh. the group show i am in opened today here sounded like somethign im glad i missed. they made kurt and my studio-mates wait around while they did some general assembly. i guess kurt was just fuming. chris got hit on my teeny boppers. he's not too old hisself so it doesnt sound too gross.
crit?: 0went to the city with the rest of PS151 Art school. i tried to go on sunday as ive mentioned so that i could avoid the mass of people. I only nearly lost my shit once, and towards the end of the day i had a wicked bad headache from scrunching my shoulders up all day. when i goto the city i cant ever relax. im always "on guard" so i get these bad headaches. its rare that i can goto the city and not get one. the grichter show was ok, i question the curatorship. i relaize that it was a retrospective, but damn it could be summed up in 2 words: "kitchen sink" id really like to speak with the curator and see what the grand design was. convinced my parents to take back this new stereo they bought. it had shitbird sound and cost WAY too much. i upgraded studios yesterday, i now have much more room and an extry wall or 2. hopefully this will help the level of work go up, and hte level of chatter go down.
crit?: 2OI! OI! got a b+ in modern (midterm)
crit?: 1was goign to goto the city with steph and shawn today to see the gerhardt richter show @ the MOMA but i had to finish the 3rd computer :(( spent most of my day dicking with that, then steph bought us dinner @ shogun. the show last night was alright, there was a good band, and several suck bands that ran over time-wise so the rum diary only got to play a set consisting of 3 songs. they played mileage so it was good. i bought an EP that had that song on it. then i introduced it to my friend Senor CDEX_1.40. saw petepetepete at the show, we ended up talking to him most of the night, it was cool. he's got a livejournal! the underage HS girls must be rubbing off on him ;) (not in the good way)
crit?: 2woke up early and went to tap to get plexi, forgot the damn matted work. picked it up form home and drove it up to sonoma academy. ende dup staying and helping a bit. came back home and started in on the 3 computers i have to fix this weekend. 1 took 3hrs 1 took 5hrs. (so far) dumping data, ghosting, formatting, installing xp, restoring data, installing officexp, configuring outlook and doing other machine specific things. PAIN IN THE ASS. but it pays well. XP setup takes forever. we're goign to see the rum diary tonight
crit?: 0worked as usual, then went to studio to finish up matting the things for the show. tap plastics lost their power o i couldnt get plexi, bought a frame, but it was the wrong size and i didnt want to cut down mat for larger piece. ill pick up lexi tomorrow. went and saw the ring with steph, shawn and neensy. these stupid little latina gangsta girls talked throug the entire movie. i stared em down, but they didnt shut up. fat cows perform mouth attack TALK TALK. then they wouldnt keep their hooves still. grr. everytime i get the urge to go see a movie i should just take that money and put it in a jar and buy more stuff for my home ent. center.
crit?: 1the art doors _appear_ to be opening a bit for me. show opens on wednesday and now i have several other prospects that may or may not be coming up. im kinda excited. this weekend gonna go to the moma and see the richter show. also goign to work. stephs car died today, my sister is gonna pick her up on the way over.com listened to visiting artist ray beldner today. very odd day. stomred like hell, power was cut to the entire campus, wen and had a drink with the BFA class and a diff artist. had a good talk, goign to submit something for a print exchange/book type thing. with real live artists. old HS art teacher came by, she seemed to like my stuff. got drawing done, though i forgot to take pics to show y'all.
crit?: 2i saw ben today. i introduced him to nat just to make sure it was real. surreal is a better ... thing. the black bunny is back. it has made it onto a plate and a drawing. i had the same feeling when i saw ben as when i saw the black bunny for the first time. today 4 people have asked what was the matter. i explained my thing about nightmares to ben. i dont really have dreams or nightmares anymore. what gets my blood pumping has left. nothing has changed in 5 years. things have changed, thats not completely accurate. there are major things that have not changed that probably wont change to any large degree throughout my life. ben asked me what my favourite drawing was. it was the one where i got to draw without having to get critiqued midstroke. it took nat and "i" 1.5hrs to mat my 2 pieces that are going into the show this weekend. i need to take everything ive done recently, down. then, i need to put up all the miserable shit ive done lately up. instead of wallwoing in my successes i need to wallow in what ive done wrong i think. this rut has me down. its not as bad as the one that hit midsummer. he got bronze for a cartooning award. he didnt get into santa cruz's art school. too illustrative. i fucking hate that word. it doenst even mean anything. oh wait. it means showing precisely what you are trying to communicate. no talent art school fuckwads can choke on their ambivalent foggy hazey victim art. die. eat my fuck.
crit?: 3this has been my rut-week. today i only got this done. well i got other stuff done, butnothign worth show and tell. also scanned this.
crit?: 0i think i did embarrisngly poor on part of the midterm. slide wise i nailed them all but one, and i could remember its title and date, just not that it was "wols" i blanked on ny-school/abex. which is like the easiest gimmegimme . i couldnt come up with more than 2 or 3 artists associated with the movement. bleh. i got SHITTY drawing done today. so instead of posting that, im posting other shitty drawings from may of 2k1. so here goes. number 1 and number 2
crit?: 0peanutbutterstudywithabaseballbat. midterm tomorry in modern arth (45-79) not too terribly worried about it. set up a gallery for all the images for slide ID/comparison. steph is helping, and shawn is coming over later. dropping his mad flavour kitty theory and massive talky action all up in hizzy fo shizzy. hella. dude. brah. i hate that jasper has me saying dawg, even if it is facetiously.
crit?: 0went and saw the egyptian show at the legion, steph got us memberships. the show wasnt all i thoguth it was going to be, but they had some max ernst bookings and a cornell there. no mummies or zombies. they did have the philip guston drawings of poor richard im into guston's paintings, but his drawings are notsogreat. but what do i know.
crit?: 0i didnt do jack doodly for halloween last night. there is supposed to be a party @ adam's tonight but i havent heard word. i went out to jack in the box last night to grab some food and a homeless dude was spanging next to the restaurant. it was really cold out. i ended up buying him and his gf dinner. i wish i had one of my art jackets with me though. :/
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