"05-09"

Well, I'm done with this print. Here's a crappy camera phone picture of a crappy newsprint print of it. I'm not out of the woods yet but at least I'm feeling like I can breathe again.

Making progress.

Here's a crappy camera-phone picture of what my print is looking like right now. It's due Tuesday at noon so I've still got a couple late nights left. Anywho, I'm tired and off to bed.
P.S. This was my layout for my Visual Continuity class. There are some obvious things that need to be touched up but considering I did it in two days I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

The Sportsman [detail]

Big Block

I just got home from school a couple minutes ago. My fingers are getting pretty sore from carving but overall I feel like it was a pretty successful Print Jam. Just as I was leaving I snapped a picture with my phone of the block I'm working on. I'm really excited about it until I remember that it's mostly due in less than a week.

As a bit of a challenge, here is the first print for one of the portraits I'm working on. Any guesses who it is? If anyone figures it out I'll let them choose one of my prints to have or something of equal value (so maybe just a combo meal from Wendy's).

Anger Management

Well, I didn't get it loaded last night because the ink was still wet, so here it is. I'm glad to have it done. Now I can get started on my 25x37" print and work on my other portraits. I also found out that I won't be starting any more books until all my projects are done since my lack of self-control led me to finish The Subtle Knife in 3 days instead of concentrating on what really needs to get finished. Later.

Sticks & Stones

Today I printed my edition for our print exchange titled "Sticks & Stones." Later I will scan one in and post a detail of it. Now the hard part: writing an artist's statement.

Kathy Puzey

I was really excited to find out this morning that my incredibly talented teacher Kathy Puzey got her job! I don't know all the details of how the process works but she was a temporary assistant professor and now I think she's on tenure track. All I know is that she'll be back next year. She's one of those teachers that really make a difference in their student's lives so I'm glad that the administration was able to see that and do what was necessary to keep her here.

THRILLER

Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova

I hate when I fall asleep on the couch. Without fail after doing so I can't fall asleep when I finally wake up and drag myself to bed. So here I am at midnight doing some "electronic scrapbooking." I had two critiques today and they successfully wore me out. My Thriller print is finally done and I'll get it scanned in and posted tomorrow morning. With that done I only have my magazine layout, a print for a print exchange, my 29x37" final print for relief prints and a bunch more portraits to do for my advanced class. I get a bit overwhelmed just thinking about that I only have 3 weeks to get it all done.

Anywho, one of my sibling-in-laws gave us the movie Once for Christmas (I thought it was Bree, but Whit says it was Trevor). It sat happily in our movie case for 3-4 months without us ever touching it until one day a friend recommended it to us and I thought "Hey, we have that movie. Maybe we should watch it?" And so glad that we did. It really was a good movie. I've found that I like those more Indie films lately, and this definitely falls under that category. The story is pretty simple, this guy plays guitar on the street but wants to make it big so he enlists the help of a fan who sells flowers and other street performers to make a demo album. Probably 60% of it is music and it's amazing. Promptly after watching the movie we acquired the soundtrack and bought the remaining songs off their album. Sadly, I cannot recommend the movie without a disclaimer: It is rated R. As far as I can tell this is basically all due to the opening scene where, thanks to Clearplay, two people's heated discussion is almost completely muted. Whit and I looked at each other with that look that says, "I hope the whole movie isn't like this otherwise we'll have no clue what's going on," I'm sure you know the look. Anyway, if you don't check out the movie at least check out the music.

Oh, and Whit started her own blog. She said she felt weird posting on here after I was the only one to do so since it was created in December, so check hers out here.

Hyoung Seok Kim

Well, I haven't had much time to post lately but I promise that within the next couple days I'll have some more work posted. I got nominated for a scholarship so I've been trying to put together the application that includes a mini portfolio of my work. Also, my Thriller print that I had hoped would be done by now needs to have the last layer reapplied because it didn't come out as rich as I had hoped. So first thing tomorrow I'll be doing that.

Now, if you ever get the chance to see the work of Hyoung Seok Kim, do it. Really, really cool stuff. He's been a graduate student up here for a couple years and I guess he's finally finishing up so this past week he had a solo exhibition in our crappy little gallery. I picked up a small pamphlet that had some studio shots of some of his work but it excluded my favorite pieces so here are my fantastic camera phone shots.


If you push this last one you find that it is balanced like one of those blow up clowns that we all used to have and always finds its way right side up, but unlike the blow up clowns it has a gong inside that resonates as it swings back and forth.