Day 430

I had a good talk with my mentor, Charlotte, today. Prepping for my progress review tomorrow. Dun dun duuuuun. Haha. And I have been doing research into humor. And I’ve been making things. And I’ve been animating, which is what you like to see on here anyway. You don’t follow me to read my blethering.  I know and it’s ok. I’m also going to go see and possibly participate in an iron pour at OWU today.  Yay, stuff!

Day 422

I don’t really have much to say right now. I’m just working and working and making.

So instead of having to read my ramblings, enjoy this picture of me as a small child.

 

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Day 409

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So I took the wonderful advice of Malcolm Cochran and ran with it. I visited the Fab Lab and made cardboard boxes. (which sounds simple and ridiculous) It was as meticulous as is everything I do. I am going to try and animate these. We’ll see what happens. And I made a green screen. Ooooooh. Editing!

Day 394

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This is a vague idea of what I want to do for my thesis. Also it’s a bit smaller than I had thought. Meh, it works, for now. Next comes the question of narrative. Do I want that in my animations or should I just keep it simple? Hmmmmm. Thinking…

Day 382

Making, making, making. It’s one thing to just make things, it’s a whole different fish to actually know why you’re working and what you’re doing. I’m in both camps. I need to keep working to figure out why I’m making, and this year is going to be a lot of thinking with the making. Good thing I’m a thinker. Thanks Strength-Finder, I had no idea. Hahaha! This year, I’m making larger piles of rejected detritus with tongue-in-cheek animations and a vague idea. We’ll see what happens. As for the animations, I’m going to keep working on those and eventually I’ll come up with an excellent reason why I’ve incorporated them into my subtly beautiful joke. Work, brain, work!

Day 369

 

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So, this is what I made over the summer. Or at least part of it. There ended up being 101 boats total. It’s not my project, it’s Elizabeth Fergus-Jean’s, but it helped me work through ideas and projects for my thesis year. And it’s going to be up in the Ross Museum at Ohio Wesleyan in November. I think the opening is Sun Nov 9th, 5:30-7:30 pm. I did make a animation of one of the boats which I posted earlier this month. Now if I could only get them out of my studio, I think they are starting to multiply…