Container or material? a useless debate of whether or not something is a container or a material. Reading comprehension people.

Gravity: material, it exists for the benefit of other containers and materials.


Good News: I've figured out that my research paper is only 1200 words instead of 10 pages like I had originally thought. So I will be able to finish it before 9am tomorrow and be able to write up my other assignments for my other classes tomorrow.

Bad News: Couldnt sleep at all last night; was up with the sunrise and then proceeded to sleep for 2 hours from 8 to 10 when I had originally wanted to be up at 8. So even though I'll have all my work done, I'll be incapable of operating tomorrow most likely.


I'm super happy with my collage practice right now. Its really nice to look over at my work desk and see little scraps of paper that have that one pink color that I want for one of my dozens of unfinished collages that are laid out. And I love not working in the school studios b/c I can just leave my workspace the way it is and not have to clean up my shit OR get settled in again every time I want to work.

I'm also learning a lot about how I solve compositional and technical problems with my available materials. Which isnt really saying that I have a lack of materials, but nor do I have an overabundance of expensive supplies. But the fact that I'm learning a new technique and that I've gotten good enough at it that I'm at a place where I can productively be concerned with my lines matching up, getting my shapes right, the colors I want, etc. That means I've obviously gained a hold of the technique, at least partially and am able to command it to do what I need it to do. Im no master by any means.

Rauschenberg is the master. (Which reminds me, I need to get a book of his work from the library. Dammit I was there this morning -__-). But I have a clear enough understanding of my materials and the process I'm using to now begin adding more steps, tools, materials, etc to my process. This is really exciting. Its a lot of self discovery, but not in the self-help book kinda way. Adding more materials means that I'll be able to use spontaneity in my process while I'm working. Not saying that the resulting use of said materials will look spontaneous, but it will spice up my process and let me breathe a little every now and then. It sounds really lame, but adding gouache to this current series of collages will completely change the way I work and will, most likely, be a very important step for me in furthering my exploration of the process and my technical understanding of it. Not just gouache, White gouache. Now it sounds even more lame. I'm going to add one color with an opaque medium and it will suddenly open up so many doors.

But shit...I hate painting -__-. Even that small amount that I'll be doing by just adding white gouache. It just adds a bunch of extra, messy, unnecessary steps to the process. Its also a wet medium, which is something I'm trying to avoid. The more wet mediums I have running on one piece simultaneously increases the time in which I wont be able to work on the piece. And especially with collage, I want to be able to see something, grab it, and make it happen when I see it. I'll have to work through it though and eventually it'll become integrated into my "Build Order."

Which reminds me, I've been wanting to play starcraft so bad. Just havnt had like 2 or 3 hours free to just sit down with a friend and play for like the past two weeks. But see, the thing about it is that I have maybe an hour free randomly throughout the day, but that is definitely not enough to play starcraft. Like I need at least 2 consecutive hours to play because I'm gonna get in the zone with that game and not feel satisfied if I have to stop playing after an hour. Its like sleep. If you have 2 hours of sleep, your brain isnt able to reach that state in which it regains the most energy and is in the deepest sleep; or maybe it reaches and is then abruptly woken up. Then you're groggy and you feel like shit. Same thing with starcraft. Gotta work on my macro! My terran vs terran is so bad. I get rocked by tanks every single time.

But its way more fun to make art than it is to play starcraft. Starcraft is already finished for me; The fun is in creating something.



Jesus. Running off basically no sleep. The last half of this paper is going to be really taxing. (oh no you dont blogger, this post was started at 7pm something but it was completed at 9:25pm. just kinda left it open while doing other shit).

Updates.

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Getting excited about Portal 2. 3 hours left until release. That is not good for #1 finals week, #2 my visit back to boarding school on thursday.

Pretty happy that mux mool is releasing new tracks on soundcloud. I mean, its not much, but 2 new tracks were posted. Makes me hope that a new ep is comin out.

In lieu of portal coming out, i was playing killing floor with a buddy of mine to try and get potatos (if you're into portal 2 you'd know what i was talking about). Then everybody came back from class in the dorms and ruined my night of games. Bandwidth is all being used for various useless things (like people playing games). My friend said he had Starcraft: Broodwar on his computer...and I instantly went and got my copy and reinstalled it. Am about to play and am looking forward to it.

Made some new transfers/collages today. Only 1 is really good. And I'm really proud of it. I made I think 4? I'll have them scanned and uploaded soon.

Thanks to those who stay tuned to the blog. I know its slow when I dont have work up, but trust me theres stuff coming when theres a calm on the blog.

Steam, why you hatin on me?

Trying to download a demo for a strategy game that I want to try out. Its only 10 bucks so I'm tempted to just buy it, but I'd rather not.


The, "download mac demo" button isnt working on steam. Frickin frack. Thats annoying. I guess the game like came out today so w/e...maybe theres a bug or something. If anybody has played it, lemme know if its any good.
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4:33am 4-11-11
Oh well, Total Biscuit did a "WTF is?" of this and I discovered that I probably didnt want to spend the time downloading it. Thanks TB!