The colourful post

And welcome to another installment of Tea & and All things Posh! AKA TAP! No, I'm joking...really. But I'm considering it... 0__0

I've really run out of good options. Firstly my camera has mysteriously disappeared and I'm being blamed for it, secondly, our scanner has been busted for almost a year now and thirdly, I don't have photoshop so I have to resort to using....you guessed it, paint.

So here's another sucky picture:

And here's a slightly better one, just to make myself feel better:

 I really want to upload some (TONNNES!) of my hand drawn sketches but as explained above I am unable to digitize them thanks to my lack of input devices. I have also already had my exam exhibition for this semester and I'm pretty nervous about my mark.

I AM SO changing the layout and banner of this blog. My eyes! AHHHHH! Study study study. One more exam to go! (dies of boredom)
 


Note: This is not mine



Quote/question of the day(yes...this is new):



“Happy memories are invincible, protected and protecting, no one can destroy them.” Marcus Sedgwick~ from 'White Crow'

 Website/page of the day(this is also new):
Origami twitter bird  

WARNING Anger levels may rise (if you're an incompetent and impatient bafoon...like me for example)

Does anyone have a request for something they'd like to see appear in this blog that I either haven't done before or have (e.g. comics) but you want more? Then request away! I might just deign to answer (glues eyes to screen and waits).

Safe Mode and other movies

Does your life sometimes feel like a movie? When an emotion just swamps you and no one seems to notice or care and you already know of the perfect song as a soundtrack to that emotion and it feels so much like a movie you're surprised when no one jumps out and yells, "CUT!"

Actually, you're disappointed when it turns out to be real life and more importantly, boring old you merely having another rage at life. Reality seeps in like water into a sinking boat and BAM! Your safety switch is flicked and your brain reboots  in "Safe Mode" allowing you to come to terms with what has just happened to you by viewing yourself as a character in a story or a movie. You feel pity for this character. You feel sympathy. But the connection has been broken. And that is what safe mode is all about. Protecting you from reality...and most importantly yourself

I'm in  a panic because I can't use my graphite tablet to its full potential. I don't have photoshop.

I don't have photoshop

I don't have photoshop

I don't have photoshop!

So I end up drawing stick men. For crying out loud! I'm an art student at a prestigious university and I'm drawing stick men!

Tomorrow I will post up a picture of my dollhouse I promise.

Please comment. Please?

Anybody there!?

RAAAAWR! Deshtrooooi aaall!

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Bonjour

I feel I must apologise for the girly layout but I don't want to. I'll probably get sick of it in a few weeks and change it again but for now it's staying.

Well, I'm supposed to be studying for an Info skills (general computer shtuff like word, excel, etc) test right now, but I have no idea what document retreival is since I missed my last lecture seeing as I was cursing myself at that time about having just failed my drivers so I had a valid excuse. Or so I like to believe. Actually my eyes were just really red from pathetic bouts of almost nonstop sniveling and I didn't want anyone to see. Compromise! Yay!

On a happier note, I am now the proud owner of more anime. Yesh!

I am also supposed to construct a dollhouse out of wood for my wood carving workshop. Those machines for cutting, and sawing and dismembering...I mean drilling and other stuff give me the creative heebie jeebies; I hate working with machines to create art, I either mess up, hurt myself or both. *twitch*

Buuuuuut, if the dollhouse turns out alright I will definitely post up pictures of it. :D 

Check out THIS dollhouse but don't expect mine to look ANYTHING like it. :( Are those hand painted minature paintings I see?! Who had so much time?! And skills.... Why is the world so cruel and mocking?!

More dollhouses: antiquedaisy

Check out this blogger: pretty things she has cute shiny things for you to look at :3

Long time no posting

Yo! It's been a while since I last posted but I have valid reasons for my negligence. Since I last posted I have had...hmmm...150+170...about 320 sketches to do for art and I kid you not. Most were five minute contour sketches done on an A5 piece of paper while some are slow contour...or even worse blind contour. x__x
Contour sketches are done by not lifting your pencil/pen from the paper to create a drawing made from one continuous line and blind is that plus not being allowed to look at your paper while you draw

See what I mean?

Oh! I have this awesome joke to tell! It was first told in Afrikaans so excuse the bad translation:
George Bush and Mandela meet up and Mandela notices Bush is chewing gum which really starts to annoy him.
Bush: (suddenly) Do you have jelly in South Africa?
Mandela: Of course, we call it jam
Bush: Well, we make our jam from cast off fruit peels and export it to South Africa
Mandela: :I
I can't remember how the rest goes but basically bush keeps on tuning Mandela about how South Africa gets America's cast off products.And all this time Bush is still chewing on his gum, chewing chewing chewing. Suddenly Mandela can't take it anymore.
Mandela: Do you use condoms in America?
Bush: Of course!
Mandela: Well we use ours twice, clean them off and then make them into chewing gum which we export to America.
Bush: :I

Ah! A bit of a rude joke but it's still funny :D Way to go Mandela!

I used a few stock pictures on Deviantart to do these with my wacom tablet. :3 They didn't come out too shabbily if I must say so myself.

Well, tonight a friend of mine is picking me after she's done with her lifesaving at the beach then we're going to this one street near campus where the whole street will be closed off since bands are going to play there till late FOR FREE and then we might go dancing at one of the clubs nearby. My friend and I are both nondrinkers so when I say dancing I mean it. I want to be like that police man in that movie Hot Fuzz who walks into a bar.

Barman: (looks up cheerfully) What can I get you?

Policeman (he's wearing casual clothes by the way) Cranberry juice please.

I also went to the entomology department on campus to get a specimen to draw for my final art project of the term. There were moths and butterflies bigger than my hand! Beautiful scarab beetles, huuuge prey mantis's (how do you spell that?) and really really creepy bugs with spikes and wings. I was so relived that they had pins through them. I took a common brown moth which the lady told me I could keep while my friend took this rare species of moth with the shape of a skull on its back and it's one of the most poisonous moths in the world! I also learned that some are found not only in South America but here as well! :0 But what scared me more was the fact that my friend knew exactly what it was and what its called!

Anyhoo's we passed a few rooms on the way and in this display cabinet were stick insects half my size and a scorpion longer than my hand. Erp! Another girl in my class went to the zoology department and got the skeleton of a kiwi bird that is apparently hundreds of years old. Now she's so paranoid about it getting harmed that she can't relax and get down to drawing.

Something funny to check out: crazy things parents say

Have a nice weekend dear readers!

I want a Merlino dagger!

Procrastination

On Friday I went to costume party in the quad of my Arts building. The dress code was SUPER VILLIAN! and I went as Sweeney Todd as he was the only character I could pull off. I've done him three times now and I'm getting a bit sick of it... But he's ze only von I have ze clothes for!

Anyway. This afternoon I finished up this 1500 word essay due for Monday's Visual Studies class and for the past three hours I was supposed to study for my Ancient Cultures test also for Monday. But I didn't. (I did do the essay though. phew!) And here I am, highly regretting it. I also just had a fight with my brother so I don't want to go downstairs and procrastinate there by stuffing my face. :(

Did you know that the Ancient Near East is that Orient nearest to the Europe? And the Ancient world is catergorised as the time period circa 3000 BC to 650 AD before the rise of Islam. Circa means approximately. And the first writing systems were developed in Egypt and Mesopotamia (sort of the area where Iraq is now) which marks the advent of recorded history. Before that it was just pictures. PICTURES! Sorry, I've been in front of the PC too long and I should probably go study...

I must apologise for this deathly boring post. Next week I'll hopefully be in better spirits. I'm also looking for a place to stay on campus (not res! I refuse!) and the pure hoplessness of it drains me...Places are so expensive the closer they are to campus. It's like prime real estate in New York or something even if the rooms are cages made from brick.

Well cheerios! Off to studying! Yay...

FRRRRRRREEEEEDOM!

"Turpentine induced headache, stained hands, tired of seeing my bad linocut, nauseous, but at least it's almost weekend! Yay weekend!"  (R. Hugo 2011 Feb)

That quote is my facebook update for today. I'm in fact qouting myself. Which is of course stupid. Which is of course why I don't want to learn the damned Harvard referencing method because it tells us that using our own opinions/ and reasoning twice for different essays means we are in fact commiting the heinous crime of plagarism...against ourselves. I have never heard of anything stupider.

Anyhoo's. The new art project I was so excited about? Yeah, not so excited anymore. I might sound contradictive by saying this but I hate getting my hands dirty when I do art. And not in the figurative sense of asking someone else to kill off your competition (which I have a lot of) but in the literal cat shaking it's paws when it gets wet sense. We basically have a tile of linoleum(linoneum?) which we carve an image into. We then roll on this special linocut printing ink, sandwich it between two sheets of paper, put it through this big roller press and voila! Instant print! Now that's the fun part.
Cleaning up takes more than double the tme it takes to print; we have to use turpentine to clean our roller, our tile, our board, ourselves...The ink sticks to everything and thus my prints have monkey paw smudges on the edges. My prints were also coming out either too dappled, too dark, or had these little marks because specks of dust got into the grooves. And my etching/carving itself sucks. This project sucks. My fingers are still stained after at least several washes. I'm a bit high on turpentine (if that's even possible) and you could've had the whole gist of this story by just reading the first paragraph at the top! la la di doo di da. Screw this! I'm not doing another print even if I get the worst marks in the class for it! (triumphant laughter)

The graphic arts peoplez are doing self portraits a la traditional. I finally talked with one of them after a spout of jealous staring. The girl laughed and said our roles should be switched. I want to draw and paint! I...I...

If you're interested check out my other blog fragile eternities where I rave about my favourite artists and books.

I've also been on a popcorn spree. I'm the ultimate popcorn maker extradonaire if I must say so myself. I must; it's my blog.

 My vision:

 

My other vision:

Don't laugh! Girls either want to be fairy princesses or leather wearing tough girls who look good in skinny jeans. I want to be both. Guess I'm going to have a problem.

Sushi

I didn't know University would be keeping me this busy and we haven't even started proper work yet!

I already have a test/quiz on Monday for Ancient Studies and although it's very fascinating I couldn't give a damn who Sargon the Great was. Get to the good stuff! Mythology is the only reason I took this class!
I've also received my first Art project brief which I'm really excited about. We're doing printing! Booja!

I'm putting off studying for that quiz but I'm too lazy to even make this post halfway presentable and I can't upload those photo's like I promised either because I can't find the usb cables for the camera. >__<

Last night I ate sushi...My parentals ate prawns...

Prawns are also bottom feeders i.e. They feed on waste. So choose the ethical...and healthier option when eating seafood.
PS I eat sushi without the fish, just FYI. Nori counts as seafood right? Right???

GLOOOOOSH! Taking pets to vet! About time.

Ciao!