Well things are gonig alright here lately. Will apparently listens to the voices that come from paper bags (jk, will ;]) and greg was kind enough to give the whole class an extension on our latest sculpture. Mine is going to be small and simple, since that is what I do generally speaking, and it will kick ass except I am worried about the craft grade. We're drawing patterns onto white 3D shapes made out of bristol, (exactaly the same as the alst project except for the drawn on patterns, which are in black) and the "dimishing" pattern I chose to draw on one of the shapes got a bad mark when Greg graded the prototype panels. :\
It's a hard pattern to draw and make match up, its a bit sloppy. I switched my augmenting pattern to the one he gave the highest mark, because it still allows the concept to be the same.

Errg.

Pam talked to us about our grades as well. My quiz grades are perfect A's and my project grades are all B-, B, B+. That's certainly not bad but she thinks I can do better and I agree with her. Design is a difficult class for me, since it is very anal and precise and neat and clean and I am not by nature a perfecting artist as far as craft goes. I have a geeper connection with things that are grungy and kind of wabi-sabi and handheld, handmade, imperfect. But I am pretty good at taking the things I learn form design and transferring them to other projects in drawing (and I guess in sculpture but we only have two of those so far and they have not been insanely design-related I think, though I suppose it could be argued that patters are pretty freakin design-y.)

I am working on it, Pam. Thankfully the project she just gave us has me BESIDE MYSELF with excitement. It is a tile project where I design one tile from biomorphic shapes (but proferably not too recognizeably from animals/plants ect, sort of abstracted bioforms) and then reflect it into a four-tile pattern. It is gonig to be SO COOL :]
I have two designs already (I need 2 more by next tuesday) and I like themm pretty well, I just think I need more of a small pattern repeating in them someplace.

Drawing is the best class ever, I love doing figure drawing SO MUCH. I will take some pictures and things, probably today, and post them here soon! I also have a few 18"-24"s which need photographing. I warn you that until summer when I can get Doug or someone else to do realy GOOD photos of the peices, that my personal photos of them will look like steaming horse stool and no mistake.
Sorry, had to get rather graphic there x]

Anyway, I am a busy little person these days. I miss you kids back home. Good thing my bday, Thanksgiving, and my 3week Christmas break are coming soon!!


Peace,
HD

After atching two debates I am waaay pro Obama. But he needs to quit his bullshitting about nuclear power, since he doesn't plan to pursue it and WHAT THE HELL JMC, DO YOU REMEMBER CHERNOBYL????? Yeah, kids, nuclear power sucks. just look at this photo site to see what I mean:
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And also, SCREW BIOFUELS. I am going to submit my paper to the Winston Salem Journal teen section, hopefully it will be published, and I cna link you guys to my written belief of why biofuels suck suck suck suck and suck.

BUT! On to other shtuuuff.

I have been doing a LOT here, but some of it will not ever see this site since it craps
But, there is a distorted portrait, possible sculpture slides, and anatomy drawings on the way.... as well as my personal project which is a double drawing. You shall see. *maniacle laughter.*

Chicago Arts Institute came to visit us today and talk to VA2's about college. Sounds like a really sick place! MICA is coming tomorrow but screw MICA.... and RISD.

Anyhow, hopefully more stuff will arrive soon.

Peace,
Hannah

Well, I'm here at artyschool. It's quite the trip. I miss home a lot, but it's quite fun here. Listen to a lot of Beatles these days.

I want to post something of everything I do here, hopefully I can do that...

My roomie is chill, but is pend more time with Shelby or Kate/Paige or Lucy/Erin.

I am waiting to see what develops here.

I've learned some things already...

1. art is time consuming.
2. sleep is FUN.
3. love sucks.
4. non-love dating sucks because it's impossible!!
5. SLEEP IS FUNNNNN!!!!!!
6. I miss home when I'm away more than I thought.
7. Teachers who are actually invested in their students are nosy as crap.
8. More personality = more fun.
9. I really need people like Lou and Jordyn here right now.

I'll do what I can to update.... Eric and I should be doing a creepy photoshoot involving his old respirator and a suit in the woods... AWESOME!

Peace,
HD

ALRIGHT ALRIGHT. For all those who will care about such a thing, who are few but valued to me (or unknown, hehe) here is my opinion of BD.

Louise started this by asking me "WHAT DIDN'T I LIKE ABOUT THE BOOK? BELLA IS GROWING AS A PERSON AND SHE'S NOT ANNOYING ANYMORE."

My reply was:
That is very true, that in having the child she matures and begins to understand things, but first of all Edward always struck me as the kind of guy who would be SURE that there was no way she could get pregnant, and if that meant that no one had ever tried it he wouldn't want to be the first.

Additionally his spasm of wanting to kill the baby seemed appropriate to his character- and yet also wrong, which is a weird thing to say since I have no idea how I would have made him react- except maybe that he should have asked Bella how she felt about the situation instead of leaping straight to nipping it in the bud, especially since he's always wondering how she feels and what she's thinking since he can't see it for himself like he can with everyone else.

DESPITE all of that... he is supposedly impotent, with only the slight pumping of blood and the activity of the nervous system, if I remember correctly from the first book. He can't even cry. I suppose it is a possibility that since no one ever tried getting a mortal pregs, then they all could have been assuming for thousands of years... but it seems an awful risk to take as far as staying true to your own universe. Then again I suppose it is hers and she can do what she wants in the end, no matter how farfetched.

and I can't help but think the whole Jacob + Baby thing was weird and underdeveloped... "feeling strange and sparkly"? Not the best bit of Meyer's writing, which isn't exactly Ursula K. LeGuin in the first place.

(here I'm continuing where I left off in my comment to Lou)

The whole Vulturi meeting was a little anticlimatic. I didn't WANT them to fight majorly, naturally, but I wanted them to fight a little bit before Love Previaled Over All as it rightly should in any decent story. Bella speeding her way through Baby Vamp-dom was kind of odd and not very coherent with her Talent- but her talent was perfect! I was not dissapointed by that. It was very appropo. :]


I have read Jacob fan's reviews and they are all stark raving mad xD
It's very funny. It's just a book, flip your shit already. The cullens adopting Jake maybe isn't very normal for most vamps, but these are the CULLENS for shit's sake, one of the only clans to take up non-human-eating practices, so that they welcome a werewolf who wants to protect them into their clan is perfectly reasonable to me.

Also Bella being so desperate for sex, while I suppose totally realistic as far as the world goes, also makes no sense beucase she's losing her V, which is painful enough for normal people but imagine a vampire bruising the shit out of you and tearing things up while he takes your V card??? I would not be interested in sex anytime soon after that, I would have made him turn me right them so I could get it the hell over with and possibly enjoy the next time we made love. Her sex scene were very tasteful though. Almost nonexistent soemtimes, but it works with her style.

And Bella's birthing bit was extra gorey- almost TOO much so. It just kind of crossed a line with the blood vomiting....... there's just got to be a more subtle way of killing Bells in childbirth. Personally I always wanted the turning of Bells to be a loving, painful, painstaking and almost touching task for Edward- since he loes her blood mroe than any other taste and yet he is endangering her and he knows he ahs to stop before she is dead-dead, I thought it would make for a very epic scene. Instead SM coughed up a bizzare and bloody excuse for Bella to die.... if Padme Amedala could die inexplicably but with angsty class, then so could Bella. xD

NEWAYS.
I just think that if SM was going for something as bizzare as a Ed-Bells child it should have been done with a bit more mystiscm and class, instead of serious gore. I mean a superstrong vamp baby coming out of your womb is OF COURSE going to be an ugly thing, but she exceeded her room for reasonable guts and went right down the cheese train to Goreyville. The baby plotline could have been executed more cleanly is all I'm saying. And the whole Jake-imprint shit was just odd. Like, you silly JB fans should know he would NEVER end up with Bells, PERIOD (yeah I'm on team Edward but use your logic. Three books of being madly and quite unreasonably in love with a vamp and she dumps him for a were in the fourth? That's just shitty writing, not to mention unplausible as far as characters go.) But sticking him with her weird prodigy immortal 7 year old child was kind of bizzare.

All in all it was gorey, strange, and really just out of proportion with the series, which was meant for teen readers and I don't believe by any means in writing censored things for teens but think of her ACTUAL audience... yeah there were 15-17 yr old who could take it, sex gore and all, just fine- but what of the 11-12-13s? I just wanted the whole thing to end in another action and romance-packed Twilight style not-too-excessively-tween-friendly-but-still-kosher sort of adventure with Ed turning Bella (like all us bloody fans wanted in the first place) anyway.

I got that one wish...
I might could even have lived with the storyline...... except it was so badly done really.

SORRY from my bones SM, but that was one bummer of a finale. Eclipse kind of sucked too, and I was a real emotional trainwreck after New Moon..........


So Twilight is the only book of the series I will enjoy reading again I think.
But hey..... there's always room to improve. I think her inexperience as a writer is going to be erased becuase of this series, and her books should continue to get better from here on out.

I think if SM keeps her romantic sensibilities and her uncanny ability to make a gooey book read quickly she will do just fine.

EDIT: sweet Jesus I can smell all the shit I'm going to get for this xDDD

Yeah Breaking Dawn officially sucks. Not as badly as I was expedcting but still rather ont he shit side. O well. I have a book to write!


Hopefully some clothes designs and character mock-ups for my in-progress unnamed novel will appear on here soon, even though I mive into NCSA on Friday and I'll have no scanner *annoyed noise*

But I'll come home often enough to scan things, if all goes according to plan.

Meantime I have left my sketchbook at my aunts!! :[

I've been watching the Olympics, which is a FABULOUS inspirationsal source for bodies and the like. It is really fascinating. & I know that the rest of America is rooting for Michael Phelps but I like Ryan Lochte better ^____^



I'll be around.