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[May. 12th, 2008|12:26 am] |
so i am going to try and write in this again...
or thinking of scrapping this one and starting a new one from scratch on another site. i don't know why. i think mostly becuase this was my high school journal/college journal where i just complained or described my life. i am just feeling the need to go deeper than those things (but knowing myself i will probably do those same things as well)
i have recently wanted to go deeper within myself figure out who i am, well maybe not so much that i think i have an understanding of myself for the most part, but figuring out my identity that i chose and how that interacts with society. like i think as an foremost identity i would say i am a girl geek. but in my chosen feild (of art and photography) it is basically nonexhistant. people are confused by me. where i stand. and recently i been getting into some girl geek readings (which i have been trying to pass onto oher girl geeks, which hasn't gottenmuch reception but i will post here anyway in hopes people will read it.)
exhibit 1: She's Such a Geek: Women Write About Science, Technology, and Other Nerdy Stuff
by Annalee Newitz (Editor), Charlie Anders (Editor)
http://www.amazon.com/Shes-Such-Geek-Science-Technology/dp/1580051901/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1210566274&sr=8-1
exhibit 2: The Occasional Superheroine
http://occasionalsuperheroine.blogspot.com
basically they both talk about sexism in the geek industries. in the end they have happy endings. in exhibit 1 they are essays of girl geeks trying to get where they want to be and happy there. in exhibit 2 (which i am not done reading. but in the end the girl quit her job where there was sexual harassment and then with the help of her blog postings got a job offer from friends of lulu which is a nonprofit organization whose purpose is to promote and encourage female readership and participation in the comic book industry. but getting to that point was hard and is probably still rough
then back to me. trying to figure out what i want in life realizing i want a gee job doing something with comics or cartoons or something hopefully inserting my photography in there (and cursing my nonability to draw) but then at the same time facing sexism from my own culture of geeks.
so here i am at 1 am reading blogs on females in comics and the comic industry instead of working on an artist statement (on a project that didn't really interest me in the first place) and then having to get up at like 5:30 am to go to a job i hate and wanting to break the damn cycle and live for myself and not for things that have no meaning for me.
this reminds me (now don't make fun of me) but something from this astrology book i just bought:
"The biggest challenge for those born on April 19th is to find a way to combine Aries' sense of adventure with the bullish practicality (since i am on the cusp with Taurus). In addition, your underlying need for security is often at odds with your persitent desire for change and excitement."
before i read that i was just starting to realize that about myself but reading it like it hit me hard THAT"S ME!! and yet its still hard grapplleing with that. if i didn't have bills to pay i think i wold quit my job tomorrow and say whatever comes my way comes and leave it at that. but no i still feel my practicle side winning and saying i ahve to find a new job before i can quit my job.
but as i said it is 1am and i still have that artist statement to write. hopefully it will get done and i won't be too too tired tomorrow at work (and i won't want to gouge my own eyes out) |
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[May. 3rd, 2008|01:47 pm] |
man i kinda miss this thing. i don't think i have really used it in a year. kinda sad. i miss telling of my life for later remembrance. maybe when finals are over i shall take it up again. life right now is a big race to the finish
man it's raining and all i want to do is stay in bed. too bad i have to go to work |
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[Feb. 26th, 2008|11:08 pm] |
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i really hate work right now. i want a new job. ::cries:: |
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[Jan. 21st, 2008|10:30 pm] |
well went to see my heart doctor today and i think i might be hvaing surgery again. my doctor said that medicine was a little extreame since i only have this thing about once a year and that she thought she could stop this thing for good and it would be better since i now have an adult doctor too. so yeh i think i am going to have it done agina since in a year or two i am going to be off my moms insurance and i am worried that if i have another episode i am goign to be paying a very high bill. but we are meeting again in the summer after she goes over my surgery reports to see if its possiable to do it and then probably be doing it at the end of july. i just hope the 4th times the charm.
on a side note not having caffine is really getting to me. i am tired a lot of the day now. :'(
other than that school has started. not sure i really want it to start. alreayd starting with projects. blah!!
also i got my car back. yay finally fixed from the bus.
well i guess thats it on the update on my life. |
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[Jan. 13th, 2008|05:23 pm] |
woop fun hospital run. well about 3am this morning my heart thing started. so me and my mom headed to the hospital. evertyhings ok now. just kinda tired since we got back home at 6am. and tomorrow i have to go see my heart doctor. so i might be skipping school tomorrow. also skipped worked today. so yeh just been bumming around.
but i also got my ekg of my heart while it was going super fast. check it out.
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[Dec. 25th, 2007|10:44 pm] |
BLARGGGG!!! i am sick. and i hate it. i haven't updated this thing in awhile and since there isn;t too much else to do online right now i guess i will post an entry.
well my life was going great for a bit. i got done with finals. i got a random scolarship for school for 1,000 and i got straight A's for the first time in my life. yeh so life was going good for 4 days. yeh then i get hit by a bus, and get sick pretty bad, can't talk for 3 days, and have a panic attack after work the other night afraid i was going to die in my grandmas death trap car(more on that later) and miss christmas with half of my family. woo fun times.
so yeh since my car is damaged and i guess i didn't realize that the insurance place was only open 7am-4pm mon-fri and since of christmas i missed calling them to get to work on getting money to get my car fixed and get a rental car. (yeh i can't call till tomorrow) so it meant my dad having to come and get me and my brother and since i only have off from work until friday that meant him haveing to come get us on christmas eve. so yeh i kinda just realized it was the first christmas not spent with my mom's family (which people were kinda upset about)
so we spent christmas with my step-moms family which was cool but we don't know them that well so i was kinda akward and i am not very good with conversation starteres and questions. so me and my brother were kinda quiet.
but it was cool got a nintendo ds, a hat my step mom made, and a wind up flashnight. no idea what i got from my mom since everything was last minute she didn't have stuff ready for us so we get to open them when we get back on friday.
so yeh not feeling the best. my sinuses fianlly caught up to me and i got a sinus infection which then moved to my throught and i couldn't talk friday to sunday. but at that time my head felt fine but yesterday and today my sinuses clogged up again and now i can't breath through my nose and my nose keeps running. wooo. man i hate being sick around the holidays.
ok on to my panic attack which was on sunday. now keep in mind i had just got hit by a bus and was sick and there wa drama in the family about where i was spending christmas. so i take my grandmas car to work in the morning and its ok since its raining. but then later it freezes and snows. now my grandmas car is a death trap in any kind of winter weather. i almost died in it one in this kind of weather. anytime it hits snow it almost goes out of control (or does) so i am leaving work and i think its ok i can drive its not too bad. well i start going up the hill at sams and it almost swerves. i try to stop at a stop sign and it doens't want ot stop. so i pull into the gas station and try despretly to get a hold of one of my relatives to come and get me and drivethis car home. i finally get a hold of my uncle and him and my cousin come and get me. so i go with my cousin and my uncle follows behind us and we are driving and we hit 422 where the arbies is and we see him swerve into the turning lance. thank god no one was there and he got control and i am freaking out that i am just dooming someone else to crash the car instead of me. but thankfully we all get home safe. and my uncle was like that is the worst snow car i have ever been in. thus valadating my opinion of this being a death trap car.
but anywya everything is fine at the moment (except me bing sick and me trying to figure out how to get some antibiotics to get rid of my cold) just kind of venting now becuase it seems to me that when things go bad in my life they always is a lot of bad things that happen and not just one thing. so its a little overwhelming for me at the moment. but tomorrow should be fun. going to go shopping and to see national tressure. woop. just hopeing i can breath through my nose tomorrow.
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[Dec. 20th, 2007|12:23 am] |
stupid day. well i got hit by a bus today. yeh a bus. there was a school bus stopped so i stopped behind him and then all of a sudden it started backing up. and i honked my horn and it didn't stop and then i tried backing up but i didn't do it in time. so yeh the bus hit me and now i am sad cuz my car is broken. i am totally fine. and i think for the most part my car if kinda ok i need a new hood and they arne't sure if i need something else since they have to open the hood before knowing what else is wrong. so yeh tomorrow me and my grandpa get to run around to get the police report and talk to the school for insureance stuff and hopefully drop off my car to get it fixed. but yeh i took some pics of my car acident. also comes with blurred out liscence plate numbers.
not a fun day |
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[Dec. 16th, 2007|09:16 pm] |
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oh how i love my grandma. so she wanted to watch hairspray so i put it in and when tracie gets on the show and dances my grandma says "oh good now she can loose a lot of weight dancing." ::smacks head:: |
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[Dec. 14th, 2007|12:30 am] |
i got bored and deicided to color this in adobe illustrator |
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[Dec. 13th, 2007|11:28 pm] |
i stole this from someone. but everytime i see this guy at school i think of him as bizzaro tim. |
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[Nov. 6th, 2007|10:40 pm] |
i finished the first version of jenna's part of the project
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[Nov. 6th, 2007|12:26 pm] |
i finished jenna's photo
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[Nov. 6th, 2007|10:28 am] |
kinda feeling that right now. but someone posted this by the painting room. i thought it was cool.
but yeh i don't know i think i am getting behind in projects but i am not sure if its just me or not since i stil hvae a month left.
but yesterday was frustrating.
printmaking wasn't too bad but other than that frustrating (also speaking of printmaking i might be giving you guys a copy of what i am making.
i made this on the compter so it was easier to make. but i had to make a lot of prints. so if you guys want you can have one.
but man sculpture class sucked. i was painting my sculpture which most people finished last week. i don't know i was hvaing trouble with the colors i chose so with an hour left in class i just picked another color instead. it ended up working out but i am not done yet and i was the last one left in class yesterday. not fun. plus i ran out of crayons :'(
computer class sucked as well. e just went over what will be on the test on wed and then she went over our final project which took forever. blah!!!
but i should get going i have to work on jenna's pic for photo class since i have a metting tomorrow.
but before i go
i thought this was cool. some random paining in the painting hallway. i was just amused by the FF7 reference |
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[Nov. 5th, 2007|05:48 pm] |
New Hayao Miyazaki film!
anime master's next movie comes out summer of 2008
© Dominic von Riedemann
Mar 20, 2007
early poster for Ponyo on a Cliff, from ICv2
Stop the presses: Studio Ghibli has announced the name of Hayao Miyazaki's next flick. And guess who the model for the lead character is?
(Source: www.nausicaa.net)
Studio Ghibli has announced the title and plot for anime legend Hayao Miyazaki's next movie. It will be called Ponyo on a Cliff (Gake no ue no Ponyo in Japan) and it's due in theatres in the summer of 2008.
Here's an early draft of the plot: the movie revolves around the story of Sosuke, a 5-year-old boy, and his Princess Goldfish named Ponyo, who wishes to become human.
Earlier reports had claimed that the 66-year-old director would adapt the Chinese children's story I Lost My Little Boy for his next film. However, Studio Ghibli has stated that Ponyo on a Cliff is based on an original story by Hayao.
Studio Ghibli President Toshio Suzuki said, "Almost 70 to 80% of the film takes stage on sea. It will be a director’s challenge on how they will express the sea and its waves with freehand drawing."
Hayao began working on the film in October of 2006, creating hundreds of watercolours based on location scouts around the Kobe area of Japan. This means that Hayao will take 20 months to produce the movie, the longest he has ever spent on a single project. Ponyo on a Cliff will be produced using traditional cel animation technique.
There are conflicting reports about who will serve as the model for Sosuke: Nausicaa.net claims it's his son Goro, when he was five years old, but Ghibli World claims it's actually Goro's son (Hayao's grandson) who is the basis for the character.
Certainly Hayao's relationship with his son Goro is very much on his mind. Goro and Hayao had a much-publicized feud last year when Goro decided to make his directorial debut with Tales from Earthsea (Gedo Senki in Japan). Hayao publicly stated that Goro wasn't ready to direct his first project, leading to the rift. Many observers, including Ghost in the Shell director Mamoru Oshii, believed that Hayao's comments were based on fears that Goro would supplant him as Ghibli's premiere anime director.
Although Gedo Senki was hammered by critics (some of whom gave it Japan's equivalent of the Golden Razzie Award), the flick smashed box office records for a Japanese film, and was the 3rd most successful movie of 2006. Given Gedo Senki's unexpected success, it's very likely Goro will direct another movie.
Some reports have claimed that Ponyo on a Cliff may be Hayao's cinematic apology to Goro: some have stated that the anime legend's notorious workaholic habits may have kept him from spending enough time with his son when he was growing up. Certainly some scenes in Gedo Senki (such as where a prince stabs his father to death) may have resonated a lot with the elder Miyazaki.
Reports on Nausicaa.net have claimed that one of the major themes of Ponyo on a Cliff is the closeness between a parent and child. |
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[Oct. 21st, 2007|08:14 pm] |
so i made my first item of clothing today
yeh wes i said i was making this for wes but i really made it for me
did i make it well?
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