92 posts tagged “art”
I'm watching Shear Genius. Their challenge was to create an "Avant-garde" hairstyle.
Ok
1. Can you say Avant-garde a few more times in his episode, I don't think so.
2. I'm now convinced that the definition of Avant-garde is: "Whatever the hell I feel like it means at any given moment because I am superior to you, I am an artist, I know what it means and you do not -- now get out of my sight as you don't deserve to be standing next to me any longer"
I slept from around 4 or 5 am until 4:30 pm. Yeah, that long. It felt good though I woke up confused about what time it was and was a bit dizzy and tired and just out of it for 1/2 hour or so. Then I woke up mostly, and that's when it felt good.
Before falling asleep I finished reading Breaking Dawn so now I'm done with the Twilight series until she decides to release Midnight Sun, of course. I'll it eat up, even if it's just a re-telling of Twilight since I seem to like Edward the best of the main characters. I suspect Carlisle or Esme is actually the most interesting, though I'm not sure I count them as main characters. I suppose I can see why people didn't like book 4 as much as the first 3. But I'm also not sure it was as bad as people felt it was. It just felt a little more -- hmm... forced? Yeah, it didn't seem quite as natural as the first three. Still I wouldn't call it bad. I enjoyed it enough, not as much as 1-3 but as I said I didn't find it bad either. On Amazon's 5 stars I'd give books 1-3 5 stars each just because they kept me so engrossed and reading straight through, even though I know they were kind of cheesy and I shouldn't admit I loved them. But book 4 is probably more like 4 stars. Still liked it but it had more wtf? or why? It also had more rushed and not natural feeling moments and then more slow and boring ones as well. Weird.
Hmm. Now what? I really should finish The Last Days of Krypton someday. I was excited about reading it and I like parts of it, but it's too sci-fi and not enough character stuff for me in parts and then I get bored and my attention span goes out the window. If I don't read the stuff about the planet and why it's gonna blow up, I love it.
Trying to do the wannabe artist thing too do but again my attention span is non existent. Actually my attention span seems to be out of sorts in general at the moment - what's that on tv - cool - now wait let's skim journals online - cool - now no let's try some art - okish - no let's try this instead.
Hmm how are the olympics coming along? My temporary ADHD seems to have affected my ability to follow those too. I know that Michael Phelps KICKS ASS! And I've seen some major falls in gymnastics. I usually love gymnastics, so amazing to watch, can't even follow that well right now. Last I saw the total metal count we were back and forth between the Chinese.
And you take the bad...
Bad = cat puking all over your blanket at almost 11 at night when the washer here is broken so rinsing it out in say the tub and letting it dry in the nice cali sun isn't possible. Spot cleaned it best we could. Just, eww.
Also Jury Duty summons for the middle of July, hello... Nope. My MS has had my sleep "schedule" and pain and etc messed up for years. I liked jury duty last time I did it but don't think I can handle it now. So I called to postpone it long enough to get my new neuro to fill out the form getting me out of it, hopefully. If not at least it's postpones until Winter and not the heat of summer when it's all even worse symptom wise.
Shot didn't go so well tonight, not truly bad, but one of the rare times when autoject is blech. I do NOT want to use the needle alone and usually autoject is fast. There are rare days like say twice a year when I must pick a spot it doesn't like and it seems to take 20 minutes for the shot to complete. I said seems... it's really like a minute... but it feel like forever when trying to hold the autoject there waiting and it hurts.
Brain aliens, mostly pain alien have been active over a month now and don't seem to want to go away. They start to then BAM hit me ten times hard, get better, BAM... it sucks. But I'm managing to get some art ideas down and working on some, somehow.
Overall more bad than good... but trying to get some good in today, yay art.
So one person thinks my girls belong on cards... thought CafePress and created a store but doubt I'll ever use it. Let's face it all of the stores online make the products so how much you make on default prices will be minimal because well duh you're not buying the cards, shirts, whatever, printing, etc. But I don't really care if they do all of the work, on my end it should at least be easy to set up and I found CafePress to be kind of a pain. So I went with Zazzle. I liked their set up for adding new items better, I liked their default way for pricing better even though I'm too lazy to look at which makes me more money if I actually sell anything.
So..
My Zazzle Store
Mom's Zazzle Store
Not much at mine yet, but I made it while tired last night, in fact I should look at it now that I'm awake :P But I added a link to it on My main site so as I make art I like I guess I'll at least add cards (blanks except for cover image, seems smarter to let people personalize them I'd think). Doesn't cost me anything so can't hurt. If I sell nothing, I'm out nothing. And I think my "store title" is soo smart "Buy my stuff so I'll think I'm an artist..." heh.
Hmm I should clean up the Keegan robots to sell on a card!
Ok semi real update I suppose since movie update and the artlog on my site weren't exactly real updates.
First I don't think anyone who reads here regularly has any family in China, but if you do... family, friends, whatever, I hope they're ok. Holy... Watching news this morning was so sad. So many schools collapsed.
I was already kind of sad for My bot before bed... And of course there's a wave a storms, Burma/Myanmar (whatever we're supposed to call it). Seems like the world is having a tough time lately...
Which makes me not want to complain, but I will :P
I wish the MS Brain aliens would take a vacation. I know it's not a full on exacerbation. Same old symptoms. Just ugh. Pain alien isn't controlled as he had been (though in fairness he's not as active as he used to be either so still somewhat controlled, err.. yeah just even a few stabs to my head that make me stop everything to grab it and make me feel all twitchy = feels uncontrolled, heh). The alien that controls sleep, well he's on crack. He has be so tired that while talking to MY bot I was so out of it between tired brain fog and pain alien I was correcting words I typed right and then having to correct that and fix which ones I meant to fix in the first place. I can't fall asleep, can only pass out -- today that was at at around 1-2 pm. Then am so tired and in pain when I wake up I don't feel alert enough to do anything.
I have been working on painting for Misi but it's been going like this, do some, err looks wrong, erase, redo, err wtf? not right, erase... etc. Good thing I'm painting it digitally ;)
Viddler appears to like me better than YouTube. A - I played around with the idea of making videos not art private on YouTube, and setting friends could see (small friends list there) but then I found if you do that you can only set up to 25 friends so if your list gets bigger later too bad AND when you set them that way it spams them with you've been sent a video AND it spams your own outbox, not once with a cc, but for each person you sent it to *blinks*. YouTube = inefficient. *nods* Haven't really used the feature yet, but on Viddler you can comment on a moment of a video so instead of people saying, as they do on YouTube @ 1:22 look for this, they can just comment at that time of the video pointing out whatever right then). Interesting. Thankie to Miss A.. for showing me the site, I could tell you her name, but then I'd have to kill you *nods*
Err my wrist hurts. My eyes hurt. Waaaaaaahhhhh! But yeah I ranted enough. Oh for the first time ever I made money with Google Ad Sense today, w00t!
Politics:
Hmm ok as a politics geek, my prediction for tomorrow: Obama loses but by hmm.... 5-7% maybe a little more. Whatever, it's going to be a lot less than the polls claimed about a week ago.
Gas:
Since answering Windy's comment earlier, gas price averages in Cali went from $3.81 to $3.86. $4 coming soon to a station near you. As goes California, so goes the nation... if I understand it right, we're mostly just higher because we have different / higher standards so ours costs more. Or so they claim, wonder who gets to test gas standards?
Art:
I'm working on one digital painting that should be done but the eyes are driving me nuts, I'll say no more until it's done.
MS:
Am fighting brain aliens. Not so much pain alien this time but exhaustion alien was kicking my ass so bad today it probably looked like I was hacking my own MM account, and I'm a flipping admin there, heh. Exhaustion alien not helped by Dutchie waking me up at 8 am when I fell asleep at 3 something and didn't sleep nearly enough all weekend. Also temps fluctuating a lot (all over the place from the high 50s to high 90s almost 100) during the past week or two hasn't helped, that makes the MS Brain aliens soooo mad.
Mijn Favoriet:
Did manage to have an almost coherent good chat with mijn favoriet for a few despite being fighting the aliens. Almost coherent, I meant to say someone is NOT ev0l and said they ARE ev0l. Ooopsie, good thing he knows me and corrected me for me ;)
Brian:
Brian's going a little crazy from some freelance he's doing so he'll be buying his MacBook for his bday early (his bday is May 31st, we'll be at the Apple store next weekend). But he decided to use his freelance pay to buy it as freelance money = money he'll owe taxes on next year = buy computer to help with freelance since the guy he does this extra work for, his business is all Mac = tax deductible = makes sense. *nods* And now that John Adams aka his first small screen credit is over... his first big screen credit is coming to theaters in September. We'll be going and watching credits, of course. I told him as long as his full time job (first hire in "Hollywood") is taking to make, he's gonna have like 20 credits before his first work hits the screen.
Me:
How did I write this much? Hmm to sum up me, one word: zzzzzzzzzzz
