i entered 2 prints into this show thing the other day, found out today that both got in. This one(looks much diff than this), and this one. im happy. i also got to fuck around and just draw all day. no messing with plates, or acid or fighting the media. just me and a ballpoint pen. A BOY AND HIS DOG. I like this scan of it better i think
crit?: 0worked, skipped going into the studio and finished up a computer ive been tyring to get off my bench for 2months~. good to get that burden off my back, whipped up my spare computer, used to be my studio computer, but i dont got room at studio for it now. 33mhz cel, lx chipset, 640mb sdram(!), 40g, ati 8mb, scsi, 52x, 8x etc...
crit?: 0im such a sucky printer. pulled this damn proof 3 times, finally settling for single instead of double pass. doesnt look as good. this is double pass #1 as of yesterday, this is double pass #2 lastest proof, form tonight. , both are hoppy. its kinda cool to watch the progression though.
crit?: 1worked at work. got razzed about sat night halloween party then went and worked on plate. ill have proofs up tomorrow or so. im finally kinda rendering. kinda, with drypoint.
crit?: 1so hungover. i couldnt hold down even a sip of water till 3pm. i drank mostly this whole bottle, modeled by the talented Ms. Leah had a good time. thoguh leah must have been in cahoots with steph, cause she kept stealing all my smokes, and making me not make an ass of myself. darn those girls. i smoked like a fiend, drank like a fiend and was "the good kind of beligerent" says leah. my car is still over at the party. in RP. i dont have any pics of me so ill describe it. first off, everyone loved my costume. i was a mormon. with brown polyester slacks and a matching (color and fabric) tie, backpack, bike helmet, elder name tag and dark little book. when they opened the door, they bought it. then they saw the 6pack. a fun time was had by me, i havent been shitty drunk since may/june of 01
crit?: 1dudes. HELLA BRAH DUDES. hi. so im looking at my logs, and there is some shmoe on cox cable that has checked out my site like 34 times or so. i want to mail that guy something. if youre that guy let me know. also, i didnt get a pic of that painting last night. so im going to go ahead with the ennui shwag, then just introduce the dm one later. i cant decide on what ould be a good mormon name for me tonight for that party.
crit?: 3went to steph's reuniony thing for homecoming. she used to be in drill team in HS, so tehy invited back alumnus (ni'?) to perform. from '85-last year. it was pretty cool i guess, i had to watch it through the viewfinder of a video camera, so im not even sure if it was good. i dont want to be one of those dad's that videotape everythign and simultaneously miss everythign. was playing with a firend-of-the-family's 6yr old. she's a goof ball. lil' emma. anyway, i guess i made a good impression on those around me cause i was kid-friendly. ate taco bell for dinner. whup-de-frikkin-do i hear you saying. i havent eaten taco bell in years. mostly cause it makes my guts explode in rage. digestional rage. taco bell bad. guts good.
i got some good work done on plate today. after all my semester's of harping on the whole the-computer-is-a-valuable-tool-for-creating-art thing, it finally sunk in with mark... got the newish flaming lips album (pink robots...) it is fucking awesome. hecka frikkin awesome. (dude) (brah) here is a proof i pulled. i changed the image a teensy bit befor ei left, but forgot to piccy that. chris got his first "floaty heads and cartoony bullshit" talk today. it's like watching the history of shawn+eric.monster unfolding all over again. without the jade'd'ness. had good talks with gordon, chris and nick today. got some compliments and criticisms... dished out some heat. feeling positive.
crit?: 1work. i was dreading school so i didnt go. i played video games and looked at bills and read and stuff. hooky from studio. guilty i feel, yoda i speak.
crit?: 1we went down to the city to pick up our rejected soex entries. (we = shawn and I) then we went over to the haight and walked around and had lunch n' stuff. mapquest has been giving some fucked up directions lately. we played hooky from school. just left @ noon, didnt get back to SR till 6:30~ so i had an evening to myself. im going to have this whole weekend to myself as well. decided that for the unofficial-work-halloween-party-for-cool-people i am going to be a mormon. elder pthree. or elder McDudeness. complete with backpack and helmet. TEH ME NOO NUB ME. i hope courtney love gets an economy sized dose of karma
crit?: 1i didnt get into the soex show. oh well. big sigh :/ i took detail shots today of big drawing, these are pretty good shots. check out the top row. this one in particular shows off the uhm showy offedness. tomorrow shawn and i are driving down to the city to pick up our ppieces (he didnt get in either) and then we're gonna putz around the city for awhile. oh and im goign to fix this picture up for a shirt too. shawn said he'd want one with that image. and here is today's class notes. and another hand. i like to draw hands.
crit?: 1so, would you guys wear or want any of this stuff? ive been asked about wearables before. and last week some kid emailed me asking for permission to make a sweatshirt out of a picture. so this cafepress thing is cheap, and i can toss whatever pic i want on there and itll be all professional, not nasty silkscreen. im thinking baseball tees (3/4 length) with the dm lady and a dm.com... actually i havent decided what pic yet either.
crit?: 2just had a lazy day, picnic in the park etc. picked upfish food and fixed custy pc finally. poor dude has had his comput0 with me for like a month now. but i got him all fixed.
crit?: 1i hate the city.com. man i was pissed today. we dropped off our shit in the city then got lost cause shawn was buried in a comic book and i dont know the city too well. we got figured out. then we went out to dinner for shawn's bday. it was pretty good, got wine-schooled by the waiter. then we went to 3rd street for a pitcher.
crit?: 1had my crit today, i was so nervous. i had bought a large sheet of plexi yest'day to hang the drawing under. (also bought 22"x30" piece of copper for etching) so i hung it and it looked sweet, flatteened out etc. oh shoot, just take a look thats under the plexi with shitty yellowy lights. and i left my camera on 1024x768 instead of 1600x1200 so, ill have to retake it for slides then ill post. im goign to finish it up, but im going to give it some time first, some distance. im also sick of looking at it. ill get detail shots too at some point. god. that looks awful now that i look at it. ill take better pics when i can. i broke the plexi when i was takign it off the wall, $20 piece of plexi used for several hours, busted. :/ shawn's setting up his bfa thing tonight, then tomorrow we're going to soex to drop off pieces.
crit?: 1bought a new cell phone @ lunch, got this for $50. its super good. it has so many more features than my old, dying nokia 8260, except i paid more than 3 times as much for the nokia. bleh. worked on drawing for al ong long time. think ive got her just about wrapped up.
crit?: 0i can draw, but i cant make it be art. WHY WONT YOU BE ART? im nearing completion on big drawing. im nearing completion on being at school. soon life will start. the kind of non-sheltered art life where you have to do things to make money. my dad left a smattering of piccys on my chair. he's wanted me to draw him a viking tattoo roughly forever. i dont do good at stuff im supposed to do. and ive had a hard time wining it. but ill give it the ol' art-college fuckwad try. bleh. 11p, time to scrounge up some cereal.
crit?: 1i shaved my head. the whole pink/orange/yellow/brown long ass bangs thing wasnt working out. i used to love shaving my head but certain wimmin in my life wouldnt shut the hell up so i stopped shaving. also, class tonight. also worked on my big drawing ALSO did a smaller page in class, my first comic strip and a somewhat developement of my character, homo robot. who right now looks too similar to bender from futurama. but that will change
crit?: 2woke up late, didnt get to bed till 3am last night. parents said they wanted my help today taking apart the kitchen, so i made plans to be here. turns out they didnt need my help so i had a day to myself. the computer shoppe was closed so i couldnt get a part i needed to fix a custy pc (since this is hte first chance ive had to work on it in a month) ended up just cleaning and washing things. shawn invited me over to his house for dinner so i went and we ate and drew and walked. oh, i got a haircut the other day, part military man, part euro-trash 100% p3.
crit?: 0woke up late at stephs house. she went to some teacher dealyin benicia. when she got back we went and had lunch then i came home. bright eyes concert @ 9 @ the great american music hall. it was ok, they played most of the new album, which isnt htat great, and only 2 or 3 songs form other albums. it seemed like the less instruments on stage, the better it sounded. when they were @ full tilt, there were 12 people all playing instruments on stage. The bruces sucked hard, M. Ward was pretty good. i guessi expected a better show from conor. the encore was as long as the their set.
crit?: 0i check my referral logs constantly. some little pigfucker geoshitties guy stole one of my pics and is raping my hosting with it. i sent off a letter to yahoo/geocities about it, but if they dont take it down im goign to replace it with some good ol' farm sex. little fucker. work then steph's house. went to her other school's homecoming football game (she teaches half the day at one HS, half the day at another. ) that was lame.
crit?: 1ok, here is the latest state of drawing. ive put 14ish hours into it over the past 2 days. please go look, leave comments drew all day. not feeling so great about myself, but likin' what im drawin'. bought a new scanner today. also an optical cable for ps2<>stereo. im wiped and i want to lpay with my new scanner. went by my old HS today. artquest open house thing. was pretty cool, sorta got invited to come back and do an alumni slide thingy or something. it was weird seeing stuff from folks who are dead now :/
crit?: 0did i mention i got stopped by a cop yesterday? prolly cause im a young punk he was very insistent that i had been doing "trick riding" even though i sakte an old school deck, with massive wheels and i can't actual "trick ride" on it. he was having none of that. apparently he confused me for the kids that were "trick riding" the stair sets and filming for a sponsor me video. he siad it was fine to use for transportation, but no tricks or he'd confiscate it. i started to get up in his shit, but he's a cop so logic wasn't gonna work. today i worked. was v. productive. then i went into the studio and drew for 7hrs. ended up talking to nat for like 3hrs, and she bought me dinner. quite nice. so i got good drawing done, but the pics i took came out shittier than last nights. ok fine. here is tonight's progress over last night's progress
crit?: 0ok, lets get piccys out of the way first this is what im working on right now. do you like it better horizontal? or vertical? detail shot face, legs/crotch, feet so please leave comments telling me whether you like it better vert or horizontal. i know its kinda hard to see, but deal. shawn and i packed up and were ready to leave tongiht when we got held up by a beginner printer. i decided we should stay and make sure she didnt break anythign and lock up for jasper who was completely negligent. anyway. walkign over to my car, we skate by this girl... i smile at her and kinda half-nod cause she looks familiar and she says something like "hey um, do you guys live her eon campus?" and we explained that no we didnt but we were going to our car. so really embarrasedly (i guess) she asked us to walk her over, across campus, across a dark bridge to her car. so i agree and we start walking. she was right. it was very dark. she was afraid of getting jumped by bums and raped or whatever. she said we didnt have to escort her any further when she could basically see her car but i stayed behind and watched her to make sure she got to her car, and i noticed her profile in the dark walking quickly, then running. it was odd. shawn and i are grubby mother fuckers. esp. when we are at school. tonight we were quite grubby. and i hadnt showered today (woke up almost 2 hrs late) she was that desperate that she asked a couple of tattoo'd pierced smelly grubby art kids to escort her and we were the better of 2 evils... this is an older pic that mozghan took of us, but you get the jist. thos pants i am wearing tonight, and they are cut off and practically able to stand on their own due to excessive grubbiness. (im goign to these lengths so that i can illustrate just how fucked up this situation was) she was pleasant and nice and thanked me when i offered her my hand (to get down a gravvely creekside) she gave use brownie things too, and im still alive (i ate one). got the new bright eyes album today. kinda ghetto so far :/ we're seeing them play in SF on saturday
crit?: 2today was a real good day. i was all smiles. yay.com. free donut, free pastry, class was light and short.
crit?: 0so, this is my old blotter, but im thinking its going to become my current blotter. here is the full thing. today i will be hunting for a new pair of pants to wear in the studio. im getting tired of wearing just the one pair day in and day out for weeks. plus they smell funny. not funny like shawn, but funny like too much chemical. and i _really_ need a new scanner. fuckin bestbuy. all sold out of the one i want till thurs. and the goowill and salvation armies are all closed. so i got a pair of old navy cheapy pants. and my cell phone keeps dying so att said to hold off until the 8th, when they roll out their new network. kind of a bust of a day.
crit?: 0man last night i dropped. today im feeling a lot better. tonight shawn silvaniesteph and I are going to go see spirited away at the rialto. im thuper exthited. yay for wacom today i did this, this and i scanned this old notepage. steph and i were drawing together tonight. it was fun, maybe we'll be able to work together on stuff, dunno. holy freakin hyper jesus that was good. ive got ideas to draw for days.
crit?: 0ok, so ive stripped almost all the movable type gheyness off except the archiving features down below and comments. now it should have a more "personal" touch like pseudo-hand edited html instead of sterile BLOGGERSYSTEM feel. guarana really fucks my guts up. and im sick or something, but i finally coughed up the aquatint dust i inhaled the other day. i got sleep last night so im feeling good too. steph you like it now?
testing names w/ colors: steph, sil, shawn, boxx.
sil: if you want a diff color lemme know,
shawn: i stole and extrapolated based onyour css, the actual text color you use looks like puke on this background
steph: its definitely a problem with your browser
n9mtb fucked bsddb and perl up on the server, so my first true day and its broke! but then he fixed it (obviously, since im typing this) cause he's an NA god. printmaking crit today, didnt go so well. kurt did most of the talking and what he said was stuff i attempted to address already. technical issues bogged down the image, and nat and i worked on those damn technical issues for a long time till i just said fuck it. so he rehashed a lot of stuff i already knew. he made some weird offensive comments about grafitti to another student, which encompassed several of us. weird. he had an issue with my use of thick outline. im not sure if he has forogteen that this is plain how i draw. i need to get whatever drawing happeend over the summer on to a plate for my image. i wish there was some way to do this cleanly. the technical issues are standing in the way of the drawing/image.
here is one son of squido
here is the other squido
I switched over to a blogging package today. i wasnt even up with a year yet and the blog you have been used to seeing was around 200k, huge. so now here is a new system that allows commenting and views and date stamps and rss and blah blah blah, same info, feature-sopped package. if you all want to comment you certainly may, all of the old stuff is here and here
also i want you to see these 2 drawings (same 2 from last night if youve already seen them)
number the 1
number the 2