the ninja returns
to my too-numerous-to-name readers: i apologize for my absence these past weeks. things have been busy with school and work and squandering my youth and beauty on sweet, sweet booze. and that damn boy with his damn hurricane had me worried and distracted for several weeks. in truth he's distracted me some years longer than that, but the hurricane really upped the ante. what a destructive force. the hurricane was pretty bad too. AYE OH!
dr. mystery inspired me to love a blog again with his recent post. i must embrace truth and hilarity through the written word. things have been pretty great here. i have a personal painting studio on campus and it is huge and well lit. there are 6 seperate studios in one bay and 6 in the other. i think i lucked out with the side i picked. all figurative painters of varying degrees (which is extremely rare in any contemporary program) and we all seem to work in the studio a lot or at least similar hours. it has been great staying up late at night getting work done, listening to good music, drinking beer, and having people to talk to when i need a break. the other bay has a lot of married people and commuters so they don't tend to be around as much, almost entirely abstract artists. i also lucked out with my side's generally high quality taste in music. i sort of took that for granted, but i believe i heard some loreena mckevitt or shania twain or some such shit wafting over from the other side and i realized how closely i had missed the bullet. you only hear them when they miss, professor romance once told me. i have been doing a lot more thinking and prepping than i normally do before painting. it is somewhat intimidating to be entering a graduate program. i want to start off strong, so i have been sketching and revisting ideas as opposed to jumping in the second an idea hits as i usually do. i have been questioning my motivations and intentions, how i've been approaching it and whether that is how i want to continue working. a lot of introspection. i can only get so much done theorizing, however, so this weekend i am planning to just jump in and get some work done.
the assistantship has been incredibly hectic and much more stressful than i would have hoped. i have been doing more hours each week than i am supposed to, but there are so many close deadlines that i have to stay to make them. i will make the free time up later when things are less under pressure. it is a pretty good job for me though. tons of "multi-tasking" which i am pretty naturally inclined to do. it has been frustrating to bend to the specifics of the director of the show for the poster ideas. i spent a day and a half reworking my original design (the one that most closely followed his specifications, but which was the most boring) in hopes of coming up with something a little more interesting. he came in and very politely shot down everything. as my boss put it, at least i knew exactly what he wanted from the start. it just sort of kills whatever desire i have to create attractive and creative posters when i know they will lose to whatever simpering idea the director came into the first meeting with. it reminds me a little too much of my last job in that sense, but it is different in most every other way and i usually enjoy being there.
I have been getting involved with one of the galleries in town. it is entirely grad student run and they are looking for new grad students to pass the torch along to. this is the sort of thing i tend to gravitate towards, although it usually contributes to my glorious downfall. i just really want it to succeed as there are not a lot of exhibition opportunities or artistically social places in town. i know i will get involved. they have been having touring rock shows there once a week or so to raise money as there are not many art shows booked until the spring. the music has actually been pretty enjoyable. i expected tons of poorly done punk and emo bullshit.
i saw broken flowers with a friend the other night at the independent theatre. it was so good. i am in love with bill murray as always. i believe i should own everything he has been in. i also appear to love jim jarmusch as everything i have seen of his so far has struck me as excellent. honest, but also posed, but in a way that makes it seem very real. really nice to watch. i loved the way it looked. and really funny. bill murray is a genius. he can just sit and look at something and i crack up. my movie-critqueing skills are lackluster, but you should see it if you haven't. i'm not a moviebot for a reason.
i will try and write more later. i don't own a computer so it is hard to make time. i have a totally sexy mac g5 at work, but i don't have much screwing around time there. right now i am up late in the 24-hour lab. tomorrow i am going to the farmer's market in the morning, working out at the sweet campus gym after that, going ice skating with a group of friends in the afternoon, working in the studio the rest of the day, and then going to a concert and getting drunk late that night. it is a ridiculous and lucky life.
dr. mystery inspired me to love a blog again with his recent post. i must embrace truth and hilarity through the written word. things have been pretty great here. i have a personal painting studio on campus and it is huge and well lit. there are 6 seperate studios in one bay and 6 in the other. i think i lucked out with the side i picked. all figurative painters of varying degrees (which is extremely rare in any contemporary program) and we all seem to work in the studio a lot or at least similar hours. it has been great staying up late at night getting work done, listening to good music, drinking beer, and having people to talk to when i need a break. the other bay has a lot of married people and commuters so they don't tend to be around as much, almost entirely abstract artists. i also lucked out with my side's generally high quality taste in music. i sort of took that for granted, but i believe i heard some loreena mckevitt or shania twain or some such shit wafting over from the other side and i realized how closely i had missed the bullet. you only hear them when they miss, professor romance once told me. i have been doing a lot more thinking and prepping than i normally do before painting. it is somewhat intimidating to be entering a graduate program. i want to start off strong, so i have been sketching and revisting ideas as opposed to jumping in the second an idea hits as i usually do. i have been questioning my motivations and intentions, how i've been approaching it and whether that is how i want to continue working. a lot of introspection. i can only get so much done theorizing, however, so this weekend i am planning to just jump in and get some work done.
the assistantship has been incredibly hectic and much more stressful than i would have hoped. i have been doing more hours each week than i am supposed to, but there are so many close deadlines that i have to stay to make them. i will make the free time up later when things are less under pressure. it is a pretty good job for me though. tons of "multi-tasking" which i am pretty naturally inclined to do. it has been frustrating to bend to the specifics of the director of the show for the poster ideas. i spent a day and a half reworking my original design (the one that most closely followed his specifications, but which was the most boring) in hopes of coming up with something a little more interesting. he came in and very politely shot down everything. as my boss put it, at least i knew exactly what he wanted from the start. it just sort of kills whatever desire i have to create attractive and creative posters when i know they will lose to whatever simpering idea the director came into the first meeting with. it reminds me a little too much of my last job in that sense, but it is different in most every other way and i usually enjoy being there.
I have been getting involved with one of the galleries in town. it is entirely grad student run and they are looking for new grad students to pass the torch along to. this is the sort of thing i tend to gravitate towards, although it usually contributes to my glorious downfall. i just really want it to succeed as there are not a lot of exhibition opportunities or artistically social places in town. i know i will get involved. they have been having touring rock shows there once a week or so to raise money as there are not many art shows booked until the spring. the music has actually been pretty enjoyable. i expected tons of poorly done punk and emo bullshit.
i saw broken flowers with a friend the other night at the independent theatre. it was so good. i am in love with bill murray as always. i believe i should own everything he has been in. i also appear to love jim jarmusch as everything i have seen of his so far has struck me as excellent. honest, but also posed, but in a way that makes it seem very real. really nice to watch. i loved the way it looked. and really funny. bill murray is a genius. he can just sit and look at something and i crack up. my movie-critqueing skills are lackluster, but you should see it if you haven't. i'm not a moviebot for a reason.
i will try and write more later. i don't own a computer so it is hard to make time. i have a totally sexy mac g5 at work, but i don't have much screwing around time there. right now i am up late in the 24-hour lab. tomorrow i am going to the farmer's market in the morning, working out at the sweet campus gym after that, going ice skating with a group of friends in the afternoon, working in the studio the rest of the day, and then going to a concert and getting drunk late that night. it is a ridiculous and lucky life.
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