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Day 239

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Working like crazy to produce more. Sleep is completely overrated. I have a new sculpture, partially built, waiting on the test results. Haha! Sounds like it’s sick or something. No, just glaze test results. Hehe. New colour- moving away from the black. Hopefully I mixed it correctly. Measuring, ppshht. Also working on another couple of animations, and learning a bit more about after effects. We’ll see if I can get it to work. I should probably sweep. There is a significant accumulation of clay bits and dust under my chair and table. Meh. More bolts! I’m going to go make something now.

Day 227

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I’ve been working. Both on my stuff and with the second years. Their show is hanging in the Canzani Gallery and it is amazing. I concentrated most of my efforts on helping David DeRosa with his awesome Rorschach wall craziness. Of which Jenn suggested that he make wallpaper and sell it. And we would buy it. If you, dear readers, find your way here, to go and see it. It may blow your mind. And now we have to step it up and do something more amazing next year. Aw, crap.

Day 210

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I spent my entire spring break making things. And it was awesome. My back got sore being all hunched over working at my table, but stretching helped with that. The quiet studios were glorious, giving me enough silence to be able to think clearly. And I got to use the kilns over break. Behold the power of the grad student! And the mercy of the head of fine arts. Hahaha! I wish we had more breaks like this, just days and days of producing. I feel like I got more done in the past week than I have all semester. I know that’s not true, but firing pieces seems to give things finality and the idea of having accomplished something. It’s interesting too, talking things over with Jenn, seeing as she doesn’t have any art background. We put our heads together and went thrifting, finding a possible way to display the animations. We’ll see if we can get it to work. Technology! Metal Boxes! Gears! Coffee! I’m going to go animate things now.

Day 197

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Do you ever pause and think about that one important thing that happened and realize that it only happened a week ago? That you’ve done so much and been awake for so long that it feels like a month instead? I did. Within the past two weeks I’ve met with Malcolm (which was amazing and inspiring), driven a short bus to Cleveland and back in the snow, taken care of my girlfriend who had the stomach flu, gone to classes and work, filed taxes and my fafsa, went to crafting my hustle, fired some of my stuff a couple of times, bought some lockers, rearranged my studio, and made some more stuff. And then did a whole bunch more. And I’m animating. Or at least I’m trying to. I need to invest in some modeling clay; glazed clay doesn’t stick to things as well as you’d think. Gravity all nonsense now. Sleep is a wonderful thing when it comes.
I’m also trying to figure out how to really talk about my work this semester. I don’t want to just repeat last semester’s work and reasons. Although they are a base for my current work.

“Pppbbth. Words.”

Day 184

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This is what I’ve been doing for my animation class. I’m still learning dragonframe and this is the first time I’ve added in audio. It’s a work in progress. I want to make more of these. But I will stick with 3D. Don’t worry, I haven’t gone off the deep end, but I have been corrupted. HAHAHA!

And a quote of the day: “I should be on medication, I’m sure.”

Day 182

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It’s always interesting to stop and realize what has influenced the decision making up until this point. When I was in 6th grade, I remember reading an article on stop-motion animation and doing a report on it. No one believed me when I said that it took the animators three weeks to shoot thirty seconds of usable footage. I believed it and now I’m living it, although technology has improved beyond imagination from 22 years ago. Who knew I’d be animating in grad school? When I was in 6th grade I had no idea this could be so awesome. And thanks to Toby and his scattered wooden gears, I have another element to animate. Sketches to come soon. By the way, I love epic instrumental music. Been listening to it while I’m working and it makes everything seem so much more exciting. That, and having Lulu in the studio space.

Day 175

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Random thoughts. Please bear with me.

 

I’ve been witness to some pretty fantastic disciplining in the past couple of weeks. Susan has had some late kids and some disappearing kids and some let’s-not-do-any-work kids. Unlike some teachers she does not embarrass them in front of the whole class by calling them out on their slacking. She walks over to them while others are working and asks them to come out into the hallway. She then explains things gently but firmly and sends them either back into class or home, depending on the situation. I admire this method. It focuses her attention on the students and the problem, it avoids gossip, it focuses the student’s attention, and it avoids embarrassment.  Awesome.

I’m making boxes. Meticulously. 

So, I was driving home late on Friday and was attempting to not end up in a ditch somewhere on 29. It was snowing and the roads were quite terrible. Add cloud cover, snow covered fields and light pollution together and it ends up being slightly eerie. The clock says it’s 12:04, but I could see well enough to turn off my lights. I didn’t- don’t panic. The crazy part was when I could no longer see a horizon. The sky and the ground had melded into one color and I could not differentiate between them. It’s the strangest optical illusion I have ever been privy to: Pale light, no horizon and constant movement. Very twilight zoney.

I love working with Dragonframe. Just need an updated video card. And decent weather so I can drive around Columbus without dying.

 All of this snow and ice, freezing and thawing has created some amazing icicles outside of my back door. There is a group of them that have grown legs, splitting at the bottom. Along my drainpipe is one that is currently over six feet long and thicker than the drainpipe. The perfect murder weapon… but that’s been done before. 

Day 168

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I’m playing around with Dragonframe. This is my first sketch. Short and simple. The next one might have sound. I’m working on what sounds, if any should go into these animations. It will probably be music. Instrumental definitely, piano maybe. I had a good talk with my mentor today, about textures, technology, Eva Hesse, connections via titles or words, and maybe how to touch without touching. I’m doing a lot of thinking today. And I think best when I’m working. Good thing my pieces are so detailed oriented, it gives me extra time to do all this thinking. Lots of mesh squares. I’m going to go make some boxes.