Tuesday, January 31, 2012

ugh.
I'm gonna kill myself with this work. I have 6 compositions due, but they took taking like 50 compositional pictures, writing papers every day, and other mental gymnastics. Whoever down plays art as simple and easy going are seriously mistaken. I quite enjoy the work, don't get me wrong, I get to go to visiting artist lectures, watch/create compelling dissertations on and within the art world, and learn new things about creation, balance, medium, positive and meaningful marketing, compositional structure, and even a little mathematical structure of art. It is an enlightening world, but tiring. And I only have one paper for my writing class and just an exam for criminal justice, both so far my most relatively easy classes. Non art majors got it so good right now lol. I'm just hoping I'll pass with a C+ to move on with my program.. the arts here have a foundation program where we learn the basics of art, and there is a rigorous review at the end of the year in which the professors look at your work and decide whether you are well rounded enough to continue to major in art. It is more or less a filtering system, 1/3 people don't pass and 1/3 quit... I hope I'm not in that category lol. Even so, I'd still do art rather than business.

Other than that, not much going on. I had baked cookies for our afternoon class's documentary showing where we watch small series about artists and their work, and we just chill and eat snacks while taking notes for quizzes and papers we'll have to do later. So I'm just munching on leftover cookies right now lol not too bad ;)

I've also been having really weird, weird dreams, yet somehow I forget most of the content of what they were about. Even so, I still have that lingering eerie feeling when I think about them... I've had some good ideas for stories and drawings from them once before, maybe I should write them down so I can make something with them... hm. I do remember dreaming about a tengu though, lol weird I know. Tengu is a form of youkai. I've been reading a book about youkai and the role they play in modern Japanese art and manga. Youkai are ancient Japanese supernatural creatures, the word itself means both uncanny and eerie. They're the Western equivalent to fairies, demons, ghosts, etc. I have a paper that I'm doing on illustration and stuff for my writing class so I got the book for some research... pretty cool stuff.

other then that, probably won't update for a while, but that doesn't mean that I won't try to visit the site around here once in a while, even if my schedule is tight. :) have a good one.
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