Getting back to school has been majorly busy
There has been all sorts of drama with my friends - break ups, fights, people moving, getting back from JYA, all sorts of nonsense. But mostly, its been good, and I'm glad to be with them for one last semester!
Monkeys are going well, we're about to embark on the Spring Fire show, which I'm running. It will be glorious. We're also doing the Wicked Winter fest- Charlie and the Condom Factory. Don't ask. Look, its an adult Ren faire. What do you want? Raunchy humor earns tips. We're poor.
I'm still working on the purse I've been knitting, although I've finished the part that will be sewn into the actual bag, now I'm just knitting the strap. Then lining and sewing, then DONE. Finally.
I decorated a notebook for Kate Tracy, and she thinks, and I agree, that I should sell them. Perhaps this can be a way for making some money after graduation.
OMFG the Shiva Rave is this weekend! I'm playing the 11pm slot! Everyone but me is tag-teaming, so I'm kinda paranoid. But, I have tons of music prepped and it should be awesome, even if said prep is eating my life. Now if only I knew what to wear... I'm such a girl.
Classes should be good. I'm taking Advanced beginning ballet, which is fine. I'm also taking Women in Antiquity, which has a metric butt-ton of reading, but seems interesting. Also, Barbra Olsen rocks. Then I have Color Theory, which is basically collage and playing with color, yay. And Behavioral Econ, which seems really cool, and is taught by Sean Flynn, who despite being slighty wierd (hey, it's Vassar), is awesome-sauce and really fun.
Graduation is coming way to soon and while I am ready to be done with the academic nonsense here, I'm not done with Monkeys and VT and my friends. Also, in the real world one needs a plan and income and a place to live, so I have to sort that out ASAP. I'm freaking out a little.
As if that weren't enough, I'm taking belly dance and yoga and going home for PT and working 8 hours a week at the ROC. My room is already a huge mess. And going to the gym 3 mornings a week, and trying to have a life and some downtime and make some art. Sleep what?
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Monday, January 5, 2009
I've been distressingly unproductive this break, which is why I haven't posted. I've slept, hung out with friends, tried to snowboard (ouch) and lazed about. Also, fought with my mom.
Yesterday, Robin, Jon, Allie, Friedman and I went to MoMA- I am super inspired right now.
We saw: a huge Miro exhibit, which the boys hated and after a while, I started to be rather sick of. Some of his work is really interesting, but mostly, I just find it too minimal, neither pretty nor especially interesting. And there was just too much of it, about 8 rooms.
Then we saw an equally large Marlene Dumas exhibit, which I really liked, even if they thought it was creepy. Best parts: use of shadow and color, painting of a drowning woman (couldn't find my notebook to write down the name, or the amusing quotes outside the exhibit) which I want to hang opposite a bathtub, and the room with about a hundred ink paintings -quick sketches, really- of faces, which we walked into, and Friedman goes "This is creepy" and turns around and walks back into the room we'd dubbed the porn room. Also, the erotic babies were massively improved by Friedman noticing how much one looked like McCain.
This was one of the quotes: "My best works are erotic displays of mental confusions.. with intrusions of irrelevant information." ... me likey.
Then we saw the permanent collection. As always, water lilies was beautiful. I ogled some Pollack and decided to make a piece with cigarette butts in it and glitter. We all enjoyed the Jasper Johns, and I also have a plan for a Clyford Still inspired piece.
Then Friedman and I went to the Van Gogh at Night exhibit. Having seen the major exhibit at the Met a couple of years ago, this was a disappointment, because I'd seen all the pieces, and it was quite small- 4 little rooms- and mostly paintings, not as much of the ink work I love. But really, its hard to go wrong with Van Gogh, and the concept of looking only at his night work was cool. His use of light to represent dark is very individual, and while I don't love it the same way I love his line work, it was interesting to think about. Plus there were quite a few early works, so you really saw him evolving as an artist. Maybe I'll do some night work of my own, and I was planning to experiment with ink and line on my new vellum anyway.
I've started knitting a hat, although I'm not quite done with the bag yet. I'm using a much finer (worsted weight) yarn, in a striated purple-green mix. Also, I've learned to purl.
I'm going to make art, rather than talk about it now.
Yesterday, Robin, Jon, Allie, Friedman and I went to MoMA- I am super inspired right now.
We saw: a huge Miro exhibit, which the boys hated and after a while, I started to be rather sick of. Some of his work is really interesting, but mostly, I just find it too minimal, neither pretty nor especially interesting. And there was just too much of it, about 8 rooms.
Then we saw an equally large Marlene Dumas exhibit, which I really liked, even if they thought it was creepy. Best parts: use of shadow and color, painting of a drowning woman (couldn't find my notebook to write down the name, or the amusing quotes outside the exhibit) which I want to hang opposite a bathtub, and the room with about a hundred ink paintings -quick sketches, really- of faces, which we walked into, and Friedman goes "This is creepy" and turns around and walks back into the room we'd dubbed the porn room. Also, the erotic babies were massively improved by Friedman noticing how much one looked like McCain.
This was one of the quotes: "My best works are erotic displays of mental confusions.. with intrusions of irrelevant information." ... me likey.
Then we saw the permanent collection. As always, water lilies was beautiful. I ogled some Pollack and decided to make a piece with cigarette butts in it and glitter. We all enjoyed the Jasper Johns, and I also have a plan for a Clyford Still inspired piece.
Then Friedman and I went to the Van Gogh at Night exhibit. Having seen the major exhibit at the Met a couple of years ago, this was a disappointment, because I'd seen all the pieces, and it was quite small- 4 little rooms- and mostly paintings, not as much of the ink work I love. But really, its hard to go wrong with Van Gogh, and the concept of looking only at his night work was cool. His use of light to represent dark is very individual, and while I don't love it the same way I love his line work, it was interesting to think about. Plus there were quite a few early works, so you really saw him evolving as an artist. Maybe I'll do some night work of my own, and I was planning to experiment with ink and line on my new vellum anyway.
I've started knitting a hat, although I'm not quite done with the bag yet. I'm using a much finer (worsted weight) yarn, in a striated purple-green mix. Also, I've learned to purl.
I'm going to make art, rather than talk about it now.
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