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An update? Unpossible.

As you may or may not know I am now an honest and for true Art Major and the university place. I imagine I'll post a selection of the work I've been doing after the quarter ends, although there's really nothing too terribly impressive as of yet. But I have a few peices I put more of myself into, I'm proud of those.

I am stuck on my final for drawing right now. I had a burst of creativity right before it was assigned, and I came up with a very rad idea for a painting. That idea is becoming problematic now, it's really all I can think about, and I cant seem to translate any of it's elements into the assignment that I have to work with. Frustrating.

This is my 4th blog this year. I would probably be more popular if people though there was a real live person uploading pictures of things and people. You know, give hot-soup a personality. I should really try to do that.

The Fountain was a fantastic film. Now, if you're reading this, you probably know that I am a complete drooling fan-boy for Darren Aronofsky. He directed π and Requiem for a Dream, which are also awesome. It is a completely awesome story, although you can tell that he had more ambition than money in the product. I require a second viewing of it.

Music: The Divorce - The Force of the Iron Cobra

Inspired by how totally bad ass the upcoming movie looks; I picked up a copy of A Scanner Darkly by Phillip K Dick (the dude who wrote Blade Runner). So far it's pretty cool, I'm really digging the hallucinations and paranoia. Really excited about the release of the film, the way it's shot and edited looks all kinds of awesome.

I'm pleased to report that I got accepted into Pratt and Western. I responded to Western this month, got my deposit in and everything. Pretty excited (Perhaps stoked is the word) about going off to university in the fall now, the idea is starting to become more real to me. I'm still really pleased that I got the accept from Pratt, even if I can't afford four years in an art school, it's a great pat on the back for me. Right now I'm planning on transferring to a more art-focused school after I complete my first year at WWU. Now I just need a roommate to creep out... maybe they'll set me up with another art major. I think that would be fun. Those people that I know, ~BornToBeReborn and ~maiamaiam are also going to be attending. And I think I'll know one other art major from spscc when we go up to the bellingham. Awesome, eh?

Working on a real live painting right now. Well, it's a sketch on a canvas now. But it should be cool when I'm done. For some reason I decided that a man in a suit would be a good thing to base it around. I cannot draw that. We'll see how that turns out. Meh, even if the result is not so great the painting itself is always enjoyable.

It's oficial: ~BornToBeReborn and I kick ass. We received our Gold medals for winning state-level web design yesterday, following the correction of a judging snafu which claimed we did, in fact, not kick ass. So were off to nationals in June, just after finals. That's in Missouri. Where ever the hell that is.

We kicked out a totally new design last Saturday, I'm totally proud of it. It reflects us more as a business, cleaner, more professional. Also matches our business cards I'll post a link when we have more than our current working prototype.

Music: At The Drive-In - Alpha Centauri

~BornToBeReborn decided that ~doomed-soul and myself are having a beard-off this week. I can't shave untill thursday. This thing is totemo itchey.

In three to five business days I shall be getting my very own tablet thingy, I am very pleased with this. I do so enjoy having gadgets to piss around with, and artsy gadgets are of particular interest. Why am I getting such a nifty little bugger? Because it is my birthday, I am t3h 18xorz today! So, of course, now I feel inclined to so some things which I was previously unable to do. The problem is I really care for the smell of cigarette smoke, and I can think of better stuff to spent my money on than porn. I am more keen on the idea of checking out the hookah bar thing in olympia, provided the hookah-ing age is the same smoking age, and that smoking ban thing didn't close them down. That would be a bummer.

I'm bidding on a ps2 right now on the ebay. I have such for a good rpg right now, and the playstation thingy would seem the rpgiest of them all. The plan was to wait for the ps3 to come out and snatch up one of the ps2's that get tossed in favor of the newer, more banana-conrtolled version. But I'm cool with paying more for quicker gratification. So now, I keep twitching and clicking refresh.

First Boffer Club thing is happening tomorrow under ~BornToBeReborn's guideance, that should be cool. All those cool people will be attending, so it'll take a good deal of creepy sps larpers to tip the scales in favor of uncoolness.

Music: New Pornographers - Twin Cinema

Okay, havnt updated this thing since last finals last quarter. That was a while ago... Those went bitchin apparently, I nabed a 4.0. Now theres a little *presidents listzorz!* thing on my transcript. So, kickass. Thats not happening again, ever. I have writing 102, japanese 102 and math 99 this quarter. Writing 102 looks, of course, not even a little bit cool. But there are enough loud angry people to keep the heat off me when the prof is looking for people to talk about things. Math is taught by a mexican gnome, and I hate him. Japanese contains kanji, thats scary. But it's pictures, and I like pictures, so it might not be horrible.

The only class I don't have friends in is writing 102. ~maiamaiam is suffering the math gnome as well as I am, and she's in the japanese. So is ~BornToBeReborn and ~DoomedSoul. As ~maiamaiam has mentioned, we get to do a video project for that at the end of the quarter. It's going to be very hard for us to keep this free of racial stereotypes and wang jokes. Heh... Wang.

So, I spent most of winter break drawing things. Not somehting I've done in a while beyond notebook doodles for a long long time. I made the decision a little late to apply to those crazy-expensive art schools this year, and was rather portfolioless. My only real "review" was on friday for Pratt, and I passed that. So I'm feeling pretty goddamn great about that, it's very exciting to live the dream - so to speak. That portfolio contained no digital works in it, oddly enough. Now I just have to submit a real application... and pull millions and millions of dollars out of my ass, or grow them in my closet, since they are in fact a fungus. I'll scan those portraits sometime too.