I went to the Metropolitan Museum with the Art Club on Friday. Since a lot of the people were from South Jersey and didn’t take trips to the Met as often as my high school did, they wanted to stay a bit later. We arrived at the Met around 11:00AM and they wanted to leave at 5:30PM. I love the Met. I really love abandoning the map and wandering. You find all these new rooms each time you go and it’s … exciting. (I know. GEEEEK!) Anyway, I don’t think I’ll find any new rooms the next time I go. 6 hours was just too much. I spent the last hour and a half shopping. I bought a caligraphy set and a Piet Mondrian tumbler.

We visited the roof garden. I didn’t even know the place HAD a roof garden. The colorful splotches made the view 42840328403820 times better than what it already was.

I finally visited the Asian Art wing. I’ve been going to this museum almost once every year for 7 years. I’ve never been in the Asian Art wing until now. It was practically empty. I wonder if it’s because of the lack of interest in Asian art or because the wing is kind of difficult to find. The doorways of the Indian art rooms were gorgeous! There was one room in the Japanese art area that was so peaceful. I could’ve fallen asleep right on that bench. I walked into one room and there was this giant statue of a god (not sure which or from what culture) and it just surprised me. You walk in and the room is dim. You walk in a bit further, turn your head, and BOOM! It’s there, looming over you, as if it were saying “DON’T DO ANYTHING STUPID. I’M WATCHING YOU.” here’s a photo of it. It definitely looked more intimidating in person.
I wish I knew more about Asian art.

We saw the new cafeteria. The food was just as expensive. New look, same price. What I had tasted better than it did the first time, though. Always a plus.

Last night, on the way to WaWa, we tried to take a “Repent To Jesus” sign [that was put up illegally] from a telephone pole and got caught. I don’t know if I should be scared or if I should be laughing because we got caught stealing a sign that was telling us to repent. I’m kind of doing both.

… and repenting too.

Prediction for tomorrow: a nice, continuous flow of mucus and other happy things that you can find inside my nose

I think I’d rather have the bad sinus headache that causes me to sleep for 24 hours and vomit up yellowy-orange substances. I can’t do anything when I’ve got that. I can still go to class with a runny nose. It just gets embarassing. You’re trying to pay attention and then you realize, OH.CRAP. I used up all the tissues that I brought to class!!!!!!! You don’t want to leave because you don’t want to miss anything, but you can feel the snot and mucus exiting the nostril and you certainly don’t want snot running down your face. Of course, situations like this only happen in classes where there are more than 70 people and you’re sitting waaayyyy too close to one another.

I am so tired of that stupid “Nice Guys Finish Last” rant that almost every guy you know writes in his myspace/blog/xanga/whatever. I think these ‘nice guys’ always pick girls who will do this to them. She doesn’t like you. STOP WHINING. GET THE FUCK OVER IT. [boysarestupid. girlsaremean.]

We had to write little critiques for other people in Computer Graphics. Our current assignment is to design our own TIME magazine cover. I think the girl who I critiqued wasn’t too happy with what I wrote. I didn’t write a lot. The idea was good, but the text and image needed work. If I made it any longer, I would have written out swearwords and made fun of her. [I really don't like the girl to begin with, so... yeah.]

• 1. The background was too dark. It looked like she just placed an item on a scanner bed, added more items in photoshop, and placed that image in InDesign.
• 2. The text was hard to read. The images of the electronics were so big and the text was just so small. Then the placement of the text… oy vey. One line was about sunglasses as an mp3 player and the other was about a cellphone as an mp3 player. She put those lines next to the corresponding images. The text went over other images of electronics, and to make it ‘easier to see’, she used red text with white outlines. I know I’m explaining it horribly, but it just looked… BAD.
• 3. I don’t know if we were supposed to comment on the actual image itself. The handout didn’t tell us to (so I didn’t comment), but the girl needs to work on cutting out images with the Lasso tools and Magic Wand tool because a lot of the electronics on her image looked similar to the chips bag: .

Maybe it would’ve been better for her if I did write out the blunt ‘YOU STUPID IDIOT, CLEAN UP YOUR IMAGE’ version. Ah well.

“Positively 4th Street” by Bob Dylan. Ever hear it? It was a song that I listened to a lot during my junior year of high school. It explained how I felt about a lot of people around me. It was angry and bitter and PERFECT. I listened to it for the first time in a year or so, and it upset me. Instead of a song about people around me, it sounds like something someone would write about me. I’ve become the person that 16-year-old me hated. Hmm. I still like the song, though.

I hate this time of year. It starts getting a little too cold for me. It gets harder to get out of bed and walk to class. The sun starts going down at, like, 4 o’clock, and it’s depressing. I am not a big fan of Halloween, but I am dressing up* this year. I am certainly not a fan of November. Nothing to look forward to… except, of course, good Thanksgiving food and the new Harry Potter movie. I don’t even know if I’ll get good Thanksgiving food this year. I don’t like Black Friday b/c of the crowds at the mall. And then come the Christmas songs! I don’t understand how people can listen to the same goddamned Christmas songs every fucking year of their lives! (I just bought my ticket to hell right there.) I’m not against all of them, though. I like ‘Christmastime Is Here’ from the Peanuts special. Yeah, that’s about it. What about Christmas Day? I don’t know if anyone noticed, but I’ve been anti-relatives lately. Christmas has been sucking donkey balls for the past two years.

*going as a Gryffindor. Roommate is going as a Ravenclaw. Other roommate as a Slytherin. and, if you’ve been living under a rock or in a fallout shelter for the past couple of years and don’t know what Gryffindor/Ravenclaw/Slytherin is, read this.

It’s weird how I get a lot of email after being offline for one day. This weekend, I planned to work on my art site and work on my illustration homework. I kind of got sidetracked. I bought Season 1 of ‘Lost’ at Target and decided to watch the Pilot. Then I decided to watch until the fourth episode…. then the episode about the Korean couple… and then, before I knew it, I watched about 11 hours of ‘Lost’ with my dad. Before I bought the DVDs, my dad told me that he wouldn’t like the show. “I don’t like drama.”, he says. Yeah… 11+ hours later, he’s asking me when the show airs.

Yesterday, we had a model pose for us in Illustration after our critique. After getting over that inital (and kind of awkward) “Hello, naked stranger.” feeling, I really started to enjoy it. Drawing people who aren’t the airbrushed models in Vogue = awesome / a step up / the highlight of my day.

I noticed that I really like drawing shoulders, I have trouble with leg length and the positioning of the knee, and I always save the head for last… or I don’t put a head on the figure at all.

I’ll scan and post some when I get home…

edit: posted. crappy scans. Read the rest of this entry »

Nine O’Clock On A Saturday

• 1. My Name Is Jonas – Weezer
• 2. Fucken Awesome – Spiderbait
• 3. We Are Young – Supergrass
• 4. Hey Hey What Can I Do – Led Zeppelin
• 5. Alcohol – Barenaked Ladies
• 6. Pianoman – Billy Joel
• 7. You Only Live Once – The Strokes
• 8. English Girls Approximately – Ryan Adams
• 9. Mr. Tambourine Man – Bob Dylan
• 10. Molly’s Hangover – Kings of Leon

The devil and one of his cronies often go out as juvenile delinquents and steal stuff.

The drawing only has the horns colored in. Maybe I’ll color the bag of chips too. I’m not sure what’s wrong with Mr. Devil’s legs. I’m sure I drew it wrong, but I’ll blame it on the scanner. The image is actually four or five scans pieced together.

I decided to copy Nancy from dujmo.com and post random playlists.

• 1. Bring Out The Gimp / Comanche – The Revels
• 2. Dirty Lives – Love As Laughter
• 3. Daft Punk Is Playing In My House – LCD Soundsystem
• 4. This May Hurt (A Little) – Dressy Bessy
• 5. Shine a Light – Wolf Parade
• 6. Kaze Wo Atsumete – Happy End
• 7. Caravan – Van Morrison
• 8. The Idea of Growing Old – The Features
• 9. Just Couldn’t Tie Me Down – The Black Keys
• 10. Spiral Staircase – Kings Of Leon
• 11. Country Sad Ballad Man – Blur
• 12. Having An Average Weekend – Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet
• 13. Queen Bitch – David Bowie

update 2005.10.11: just watched Crash… GOOD movie.

• 10. A Clockwork Orange
  I probably will never see this. Why? I’m a snob. I’ve read the book and I’ve heard that the movie is kind of different than the book or it’s crazy or it’s both. I don’t want to watch it and say, “Well this sucks.”
• 9. Casablanca
  Leila owns it. It’s right outside of my door. I want to see it, but black+white films tend to make me sleepy.
• 8. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  I’ll admit it. I have no clue what this movie is about, but I want to see it purely because of the title.
• 7. The Usual Suspects
  Everyone who knows that I like Reservoir Dogs has been telling me that I’d like this.
• 6. Le Fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain / Amélie
  Wasn’t really interested in seeing it. Kind of curious now.
• 5. Taxi Driver
  When I told my dad I wanted to see this, my dad said he didn’t like it.
• 4. Crash
  I’ve heard it’s really good. I just never remember to rent it.
• 3. Donnie Darko
  Okay… this is a lie. I saw it three years ago, but I didn’t pay attention at all. I was making some vector graphic. All I know is that there was some creepy bunny named Frank and Drew Barrymore played a teacher. … and something about planes.
• 2. Cool Hand Luke
  Jonathan Trager’s favorite movie.
• 1. Mary Poppins
  everyone usually gasps when i tell them this. go ahead. you can too.