Is it weird that I've finally found a real,true hero who I can connect with and who is a woman and she is my painting professor? I guess it makes sense.
SHOULD I TELL HER: Jennifer- You're my hero.
Seriously though. I think she is perfect. She is so accomplished and has amazing talent and she really, really knows her stuff. She's so aware of what is going on in the art world, and she knows like all of the chemistry of oil painting. And she's probably at most like 6 years older than me. I want to be organized and really good at painting and inspiring too! Right now, she is the only person who is keeping me sane in the knowledge that I am still pursuing my teaching certificate. She has the exact impact I want to have on my future students. A lot of people complain about her because of low grades and she "doesn't like them." But honestly, all that she is doing is giving the us honor of treating us as adults and true artists. She is giving us the benefit of taking us seriously in our work, but most people here would prefer to be coddled and learn nothing instead. I quickly learned from Mr. Jiorle (go figure?) that being coddled is like the worst way to go for an artist. It seriously is. We have to learn to push push push what we do and how we think and how we approach things. Jennifer is so good at making us push but does it in a way that she isn't just telling us what we should do and how we should do it. For my painting final last year the concept I came up with was out of this world and I couldn't have done it without her, but it was still my concept 100%, which is a good feeling.
I am learning so much already in my Intermediate Painting class. The level of competition is going to be amazing, and it has really made me excited about art again in a way I haven't been since probably high school.
:)
Adirondacks today! I will take pictures and post them to the photography blog.
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Friday, February 6, 2009
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Classhole.
Someone please tell me why the man in the front of the room is persistently asking us if we are going to COPYRIGHT OUR FUCKING LESSON PLANS.
What the fuck. This class is so freaking useless to me. Technology in the Classroom! For the art major? Not so much.
Anyway- today I learned about a society of OS people...Objective Sexuals. THEY ARE IN LOVE WITH OBJECTS. I will post the 21 minute documentary when I am out of this ridiculous class. This woman married the freaking Eiffel Tower...but like: they aren't even monogamous !!! They are cheating on their objects!?
One woman was in love with her bow (of a bow and arrow). His name is Lance, they had sex, she was an archery world champ because of him and isn't as good now since they broke up 2 years ago. Too ridiculous (too good).
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What the fuck. This class is so freaking useless to me. Technology in the Classroom! For the art major? Not so much.
Anyway- today I learned about a society of OS people...Objective Sexuals. THEY ARE IN LOVE WITH OBJECTS. I will post the 21 minute documentary when I am out of this ridiculous class. This woman married the freaking Eiffel Tower...but like: they aren't even monogamous !!! They are cheating on their objects!?
One woman was in love with her bow (of a bow and arrow). His name is Lance, they had sex, she was an archery world champ because of him and isn't as good now since they broke up 2 years ago. Too ridiculous (too good).
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Cookies?!
What the fuck! Here I am thinking about which work out I am going to do today, A PERIOD day (whatever, I said it), and someone downstairs is ingesting something that smells so much like cookies I want to scream.
This is partially because I woke up 12 minutes ago, and it takes me like 45 minutes to become human again after waking up. I am in such a bad mood! I have to fucking tutor some child today on reading & writing and I have to give a presentation for a class that is a total waste of time for my major. Totaltotaltotal.
Whatever.
YESTERDAY was pretty awesome because my Art & Exile professor (Shalom Gorewitz) introduced me to an artist who came to Ramapo all the way from Ghana. He introduced me because of Invisible Children, and it was a very awesome moment because he only introduced one other person in the class and that was the hot white boy who left his homeland of South Africa with his parents (his dad from Zimbabwe and his mother from Czech(?) ) because of the violence. So neat!for me:) I was also pleased to see that the artist from Ghana was incredible. So awesome. And he loved to talk about his work, which is something that I should learn how to do. I actually took home a number of ideas based off of work he had on display. Exciting! :D I
seriously love painting.
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This is partially because I woke up 12 minutes ago, and it takes me like 45 minutes to become human again after waking up. I am in such a bad mood! I have to fucking tutor some child today on reading & writing and I have to give a presentation for a class that is a total waste of time for my major. Totaltotaltotal.
Whatever.
YESTERDAY was pretty awesome because my Art & Exile professor (Shalom Gorewitz) introduced me to an artist who came to Ramapo all the way from Ghana. He introduced me because of Invisible Children, and it was a very awesome moment because he only introduced one other person in the class and that was the hot white boy who left his homeland of South Africa with his parents (his dad from Zimbabwe and his mother from Czech(?) ) because of the violence. So neat!for me:) I was also pleased to see that the artist from Ghana was incredible. So awesome. And he loved to talk about his work, which is something that I should learn how to do. I actually took home a number of ideas based off of work he had on display. Exciting! :D I
seriously love painting.
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Wednesday, February 4, 2009
RA/CA Apps
Oh Lordy!!!! I am trying to apply to be a CA for next semester (Fall 2009) but dude, the application process if so fucking confusing and all over the place. I am the worst person with paperwork so I'm really nervous I won't even have the opportunity to get considered for the position because I have no freaking clue what's going on as far as filling shit out and what's supposed to be emailed and stuff.!?!?1
Whatevs, dude. We'll see what comes of it.
I'm starving and not eating lunch until 1:30.
Today I'm also talking to one of my teachers about possibly becoming an adviser for my Ramapo Chapter of Invisible Children!!!! I hope it works out. He said that he is already an adviser for another group, so I'm not sure if that means yes or no...but maybe he has someone else in line who could take the position.
Anyway, peach slices and Arrested Development? Yes, please.
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Whatevs, dude. We'll see what comes of it.
I'm starving and not eating lunch until 1:30.
Today I'm also talking to one of my teachers about possibly becoming an adviser for my Ramapo Chapter of Invisible Children!!!! I hope it works out. He said that he is already an adviser for another group, so I'm not sure if that means yes or no...but maybe he has someone else in line who could take the position.
Anyway, peach slices and Arrested Development? Yes, please.
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Tuesday, February 3, 2009
SketchSteph Shoots
SketchSteph (that's me!) has started a FOURTH blog. This one is very exciting and should be slightly more active than SSReads and SSRuns...
Here is the link. It will probably be updated at least once a week.
Check it out!
http://sketchstephshoots.blogspot.com/
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Here is the link. It will probably be updated at least once a week.
Check it out!
http://sketchstephshoots.blogspot.com/
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Monday, February 2, 2009
Smash
Good of the day: Playing Smash on N-64.
I seriously love playing this game. It is total bonding time, plus it's amazing. Good deal. Good of the day.
I seriously love playing this game. It is total bonding time, plus it's amazing. Good deal. Good of the day.
Singer,songwriter?
It could happen? I wrote something down and my friend Lauren is an amazing guitarist. I guess I have a lot to say to a lot of people, and this is the best way for me to do it. Through performance. We'll see what happens. It might not happen, it might happen just this once, it might happen sporadically.
Shit time and then 4-mile fun (training day 1 for the Philly 1/2)
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Shit time and then 4-mile fun (training day 1 for the Philly 1/2)
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