Life is alright, getting work done and whatnot. Getting schedule back on track tonight (finally). And I appear to be allergic to pineapple. Which would definitely explain some scattered, odd symptoms as of late (burnt tongue/mouth, sleep disruption, headache...after reviewing daily actions, eating pineapple was the logical link and its allergic symptoms fit my reactions). :( I love pineapple! I will have to get this tested...when I can afford to anyway, and until then (in the unforseeable future), I shall just avoid the lovely spiky yellow fruit.
In other news, I bought myself toy cars today (got to finish some HW concepts this week, so I just wanted to get properly in the mood...by playing.). Some advice - purchasing baby food is a good way to get checkout baggers to stop hitting on you. (baby food jars are great for storing mixed inks/dyes/paints...I'm working on a self portrait in ink at the moment and having to remix/waste the ink every work session is a total bummer.)
Ciao!
-Ren
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Sunday, March 28, 2010
spaghetti for breakfast...
That pretty much sums up my life right now. Yep.
(Also, I ran my modeling program out of memory...)
back to woooooooork. sketching. by hand. (good thing was only doing some quick 3-D digital sketches, killing ram on a real project would SUCK)
-ren
(Also, I ran my modeling program out of memory...)
back to woooooooork. sketching. by hand. (good thing was only doing some quick 3-D digital sketches, killing ram on a real project would SUCK)
-ren
Monday, March 22, 2010
This story's missing a wishing well
So, it's taken me about 3 hours to listen to Guns N' Roses' Rocket Queen. I, earlier today, got to watch my entire immediate family get murdered in cold blood by post-apocalyptic crazies and consequently skipped all my classes (2/3 by accident), and I have all this work I need to be doing that I just do NOT feel up to right now. Was going to run to the store to buy paper I was supposed to have last week. Didn't do it. It was sunny and pretty today. Too pretty. Hurt my eyes. Want to leave. Can't. And by leave I mean wake up. Or feel. Or do/be/etc. Felt like this last Thursday. Can't keep fracking with my schedule. It's murdersome. Got a good room pick - 5. Will take one of the converted doubles on third floor I think. Hopefully get a good RA too. I feel like my writing, indeed my current sentiment as a whole, is a bad cross of Faulkner/Hemingway/Rorschach (and yes, I mean the Watchmen character...). Apologies. Said I wouldn't use this as a whining post. I lied. Hoping to get an entry going for Athens Bench Mark soon. Need to get it entered by Friday so that it has time to garner some votes. Placing in that (not gonna pretend I would win) would be utterly sick.
I remember as far back as my early childhood feeling a disconnect between mind and body and in recent years that feeling has grown, not between just aspects of self but between self and world. As if I were a spectator, and too often I am just that a person alone sitting watching waiting not a person but yet a being I DO NOT UNDERSTAND these people who go about doing all that is right and expected and interacting oh interactions especially... It is a cosmic chasm of blackest loneliness that when realized I cannot cross, like an illusory bridge painted into the wall of an opposing cliff face - you can only think you can cross until you look down, or try to cross and in all reality I am not sure I ever tried at all. No, I've tried, I've been there and back again so many many times such futile fruitless efforts and the pain is exquisite if you're a masochist and otherwise, excruciating. And if I call you friend, may I call you that, friend, then do not feel slighted or insulted when I do not treat you as all your others do, it's merely that I don't know how anymore without the garish sense that I am overacting very plainly. And if you never had a problem reading modern literature, especially stream of thought, and you didn't skip this paragraph, I apologize for the view you just received into insanity's lonely little mind. It's a dark and scary place, full of bunnies and creepy mice. (or was it mice and creepy bunnies?)
Latest musical favorite: The Birthday Massacre. Check them out. Sample song from their 2007 album: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzhLj8UMOkE Also, have to love the artists' names.
Also, gotta dig an old friend's band - Exit Mouse. They have a soundcloud and a livejournal. Check them out here: http://exit-mouse.livejournal.com/
(I use the word also far too often. Further apologies.)
Sunday before last was at the International Home & Housewares Show in Chicago. That was totally amazing. Though, by the time I reached the third auditorium, was a bit overloaded on the sensory intake end of things. I'll do a whole 'nother post about that when I have time/drive. Saw a lot of really cool stuff and also sparked some new ideas, did some sketching and whatnot. I think one of those I may actually develop for another contest (don't remember which one at the moment).
To sum up lately though, basically just swinging between workaholicism and being a grand disappointment to everyone, including, though not especially, myself. On days like today, I don't know what I want or need anymore, but I've a suspicion it feels like tears and tastes like blood and ends up just being sweat.
I remember as far back as my early childhood feeling a disconnect between mind and body and in recent years that feeling has grown, not between just aspects of self but between self and world. As if I were a spectator, and too often I am just that a person alone sitting watching waiting not a person but yet a being I DO NOT UNDERSTAND these people who go about doing all that is right and expected and interacting oh interactions especially... It is a cosmic chasm of blackest loneliness that when realized I cannot cross, like an illusory bridge painted into the wall of an opposing cliff face - you can only think you can cross until you look down, or try to cross and in all reality I am not sure I ever tried at all. No, I've tried, I've been there and back again so many many times such futile fruitless efforts and the pain is exquisite if you're a masochist and otherwise, excruciating. And if I call you friend, may I call you that, friend, then do not feel slighted or insulted when I do not treat you as all your others do, it's merely that I don't know how anymore without the garish sense that I am overacting very plainly. And if you never had a problem reading modern literature, especially stream of thought, and you didn't skip this paragraph, I apologize for the view you just received into insanity's lonely little mind. It's a dark and scary place, full of bunnies and creepy mice. (or was it mice and creepy bunnies?)
Latest musical favorite: The Birthday Massacre. Check them out. Sample song from their 2007 album: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzhLj8UMOkE Also, have to love the artists' names.
Also, gotta dig an old friend's band - Exit Mouse. They have a soundcloud and a livejournal. Check them out here: http://exit-mouse.livejournal.com/
(I use the word also far too often. Further apologies.)
Sunday before last was at the International Home & Housewares Show in Chicago. That was totally amazing. Though, by the time I reached the third auditorium, was a bit overloaded on the sensory intake end of things. I'll do a whole 'nother post about that when I have time/drive. Saw a lot of really cool stuff and also sparked some new ideas, did some sketching and whatnot. I think one of those I may actually develop for another contest (don't remember which one at the moment).
To sum up lately though, basically just swinging between workaholicism and being a grand disappointment to everyone, including, though not especially, myself. On days like today, I don't know what I want or need anymore, but I've a suspicion it feels like tears and tastes like blood and ends up just being sweat.
Friday, March 5, 2010
Out of the Deep
Really, a truly productive blog is one that has a driving force and draws a substantial readership. It should be relevant and interesting and outside of a personal spectrum.
Whatever.
Though I will try to not use it as my whining post to the world.
Anyway, please help out a friend of mine's sister. She's a high school senior who dreams of being a pediatric oncologist and could really use scholarship monies. Go to http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Help-Katie-Krog-win-20000-on-Zinch/327657689068?ref=ts and become a fan, then invite all your friends. Also, stop by http://www.zinch.com/Voting/Regionals.aspx?GroupId=63#Katherine-Krog and vote for her.
In other news, working on an external hard drive reskin design/model, drawing on predators (sharks, panthers, etc) and sports concept cars for inspiration. Spring break starts today, that's fantastic. Will be in Chicago this evening for a few hours, and be seeing Alice, in 3D. Would actually prefer the normal, "flat" version, but only the 3D was showing at the time I needed. When I first heard of this film project, I was terrified, because I happen to disdain most film adaptations of Carroll's works. However, since they've stated outright that it's not a book adaptation, I'm actually quite excited to see it. I do enjoy Alice extensional reimaginings, for example, the Frank Beddor series The Looking Glass Wars, which was a very fun (though unchallenging) read.
Could comment more on various subjects, but I need my hands to sketch and model, and I unfortunately don't have enough to work and type at once. Oh well, back to work then.
laters.
-Ren
PS - I also seem to be...running out of television shows. Any good science fiction/fantasy that I should know about? Could be old, new, foreign, discontinued, what have you... For now, catching up on Primeval and occasionally Beauty and the Beast. I watch while I work. Overloading my sensory perception helps me stay on task. (Yes, I realize that concept will elude most people, but just trust me here. Although I'll admit that if a task requires an exorbitant of specific concentration, I'll switch to just music, or, rarely, silence.)
Whatever.
Though I will try to not use it as my whining post to the world.
Anyway, please help out a friend of mine's sister. She's a high school senior who dreams of being a pediatric oncologist and could really use scholarship monies. Go to http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Help-Katie-Krog-win-20000-on-Zinch/327657689068?ref=ts and become a fan, then invite all your friends. Also, stop by http://www.zinch.com/Voting/Regionals.as
In other news, working on an external hard drive reskin design/model, drawing on predators (sharks, panthers, etc) and sports concept cars for inspiration. Spring break starts today, that's fantastic. Will be in Chicago this evening for a few hours, and be seeing Alice, in 3D. Would actually prefer the normal, "flat" version, but only the 3D was showing at the time I needed. When I first heard of this film project, I was terrified, because I happen to disdain most film adaptations of Carroll's works. However, since they've stated outright that it's not a book adaptation, I'm actually quite excited to see it. I do enjoy Alice extensional reimaginings, for example, the Frank Beddor series The Looking Glass Wars, which was a very fun (though unchallenging) read.
Could comment more on various subjects, but I need my hands to sketch and model, and I unfortunately don't have enough to work and type at once. Oh well, back to work then.
laters.
-Ren
PS - I also seem to be...running out of television shows. Any good science fiction/fantasy that I should know about? Could be old, new, foreign, discontinued, what have you... For now, catching up on Primeval and occasionally Beauty and the Beast. I watch while I work. Overloading my sensory perception helps me stay on task. (Yes, I realize that concept will elude most people, but just trust me here. Although I'll admit that if a task requires an exorbitant of specific concentration, I'll switch to just music, or, rarely, silence.)
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Tintinabulation
of the bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells.
First non-lit concert (in awhile at least...not sure if they've done one before) is coming up for the choir. Such high hopes. Such expectations. Such glories as will have to be worked out minutely over the summer and saved for the year ahead. Would love to incorporate innovative ringing techniques and staging and lighting and Drama - to make bells come alive as never seen or heard before, but I simply haven't had the time what with being absent last semester. Currently, I just hope we get something together by the concert date.
But in all seriousness, I want this year to be a sort of trial run and to next year make it something truly spectacular...something...incredibell. For now though, I'd like to just help keep this year's from turning into some catastrophic jumble of near-showmanship and our (dare I say somewhat pathetic) lit concerts... I also need to save poster designs tonight. Simplicity will be our friend. for Real.There was an article I read on telling a client "No" and making them believe they picked it, but I can't remember where I read it.
Oh well, I need to get back to studying for that midterm anyway.
Later.
-Ren
First non-lit concert (in awhile at least...not sure if they've done one before) is coming up for the choir. Such high hopes. Such expectations. Such glories as will have to be worked out minutely over the summer and saved for the year ahead. Would love to incorporate innovative ringing techniques and staging and lighting and Drama - to make bells come alive as never seen or heard before, but I simply haven't had the time what with being absent last semester. Currently, I just hope we get something together by the concert date.
But in all seriousness, I want this year to be a sort of trial run and to next year make it something truly spectacular...something...incredibell. For now though, I'd like to just help keep this year's from turning into some catastrophic jumble of near-showmanship and our (dare I say somewhat pathetic) lit concerts... I also need to save poster designs tonight. Simplicity will be our friend. for Real.There was an article I read on telling a client "No" and making them believe they picked it, but I can't remember where I read it.
Oh well, I need to get back to studying for that midterm anyway.
Later.
-Ren
Small items of note
Do not take too many loratadine pills. This can cause rapid, forceful heart palpitations and drowsiness. Not very pleasant. Or safe.
Do NOT mix garlic hummus chips and chocolate hazelnut coffee. Unless you really like wrinkling your face up for all the wrong reasons. And really foul aftertastes.
Yes, I did both these things in the last day. Unfortunately, my intelligence isn't faultless. Or anywhere close. Lesson one = missed class, which earlier lessons had indicated to be a bad decision. Apparently I should have also called poison control...though the labeling is a bit foggy on that. It reads "taking more than directed may cause drowsiness" and then later "in case of overdose contact physician or poison control immediately." So is "drowsiness" that serious? Well, since it apparently also causes heartbeat fluctuations amid other possibilities, I would say yes.
As for that flavor combination...I knew when I purchased the chips it wasn't a grand plan, but they're so tasty separately... Although, part of the problem was the coffee I used for the base - it was way bitter...either I made it too strong or it's just a bad brew to use. I remember the Kirkland's being a bit unpleasant in the past, so probably a combination. Coffee recommendation - Batangas brew. Good caffeine amount without being overly acidic in taste; in fact, it's the smoothest coffee I've ever had, practically silky.
Anyway, mouth still tastes terrible and I have yet more studying to do for (tomorrow's!) art history midterm. Where was I? Ah yes, Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Izard, by John Singleton Copley in 1775. A lovely dual portrait, somewhat innovative in portraying both figures in same picture, showing them against one of Copley's typical faked architectural backgrounds with aristocratic trappings as well as indicators of their European tours (such as the Coliseum in the background's countryside). The Izards met Copley in Italy where they visited Pompeii and Pasteum together.
Ciao
-Ren
Do NOT mix garlic hummus chips and chocolate hazelnut coffee. Unless you really like wrinkling your face up for all the wrong reasons. And really foul aftertastes.
Yes, I did both these things in the last day. Unfortunately, my intelligence isn't faultless. Or anywhere close. Lesson one = missed class, which earlier lessons had indicated to be a bad decision. Apparently I should have also called poison control...though the labeling is a bit foggy on that. It reads "taking more than directed may cause drowsiness" and then later "in case of overdose contact physician or poison control immediately." So is "drowsiness" that serious? Well, since it apparently also causes heartbeat fluctuations amid other possibilities, I would say yes.
As for that flavor combination...I knew when I purchased the chips it wasn't a grand plan, but they're so tasty separately... Although, part of the problem was the coffee I used for the base - it was way bitter...either I made it too strong or it's just a bad brew to use. I remember the Kirkland's being a bit unpleasant in the past, so probably a combination. Coffee recommendation - Batangas brew. Good caffeine amount without being overly acidic in taste; in fact, it's the smoothest coffee I've ever had, practically silky.
Anyway, mouth still tastes terrible and I have yet more studying to do for (tomorrow's!) art history midterm. Where was I? Ah yes, Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Izard, by John Singleton Copley in 1775. A lovely dual portrait, somewhat innovative in portraying both figures in same picture, showing them against one of Copley's typical faked architectural backgrounds with aristocratic trappings as well as indicators of their European tours (such as the Coliseum in the background's countryside). The Izards met Copley in Italy where they visited Pompeii and Pasteum together.
Ciao
-Ren
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