*click to big*This picture was taken a couple of weeks ago. It's not exactly as clean now. In fact it's very much unclean. I labeled everything because I am weird.
No offense, but...you are a robot. Aren't you?
Friday, November 30, 2007
I have a desk...
...and I would like to share it with you.
*click to big*
This picture was taken a couple of weeks ago. It's not exactly as clean now. In fact it's very much unclean. I labeled everything because I am weird.
No offense, but...you are a robot. Aren't you?
*click to big*This picture was taken a couple of weeks ago. It's not exactly as clean now. In fact it's very much unclean. I labeled everything because I am weird.
No offense, but...you are a robot. Aren't you?
Thursday, November 29, 2007
I Coinked your Dink So hard just now
REMINISCE TIMES
I'd like to prove to you all that this is a small world. Like, tiny.
Alright, so the first thing that blew my mind when I got to this school was when I found out Josh Kahn was going here. Josh was my suite mate at Pratt Pre-college. I hadn't talked to him in over a year and during our orientation week I spot an all too familiar mohawk that could only be his. It was, and now we are best of budz again. He's so rad.
Meet Josh:
Tee Hee art skewl
Ok, first mindfreak was that Josh goes to my school. Back at Pratt, though, Josh has a girlfriend with Pink hair. No one in our dorm room knew her name so we called her pinky. Well Josh has found another sweetheart with pink hair as well. Not that CRAZE, the d00ds just into pink hair, I get it.
Later on in the year I found out that a kid I used to play America's Army with went to the same high school as three of my good friends here! Now, they didn't know each other or anything...but what are the chances I end up at school with some cats that went to the same small Pennsylvanian town high school as some dork who I used to play a computer game with 3 or 4 years ago? Shit blew my mind.
NOW, I meet another girl tonight who ALSO went to Pratt pre-college. Now, I knew of her when I went to Pratt but I didn't know her. So we get atalkin' and turns out she was the chick who HATED Talia and wrote "TALIA SUCKS DICK" on the Subway platforms. Now I heard stories of this and I practically died laughing that someone actually wrote that on the walls, but I didn't know her back then. Now I know her and it's even more funny. I almost died when she told me that. She's totes rad.
KAY, even more crazy connection, her roommate now at uArts ALSO went to Pratt Pre-college. It turns out she was the love affair of my OTHER suite mate Selim Benhabib.
sohawtrightnow
Selim didn't know her name but he thought the girl looked like Tomb Raider, and that's all I remembered about her. Imagine Tomb Raider being said in a thick Turkish accent. thebest
OKAY MIND BLOWNT TIME, Especially Jeremy. My good friend, Jackie, knows Moose. Yeh yeh, lolwhat? Yes, the Moose of Ranssite and the PA forums and everything. Not only did he go to her high school with her but she talks to him CONSTANTLY online. When I found that out (I can't even remember how) my mind had already been blownt so many times I was numb, but it was still shocking. His latest quote "I want to marry my sandwich, but that would result in some sort of cannibalism after the fact". He also frequents your blog, Jer. Just so you know. But daym d00ds, that shits redic. For those of you who don't know Jeremy has been buds with this guy online for years and on many different websites. I believe Jeremy said he was very similar to Ryan too...so you know he's got to be rad.
I don't have anything else to say, really, this stuff is just too much. It's crazy.
I'd like to prove to you all that this is a small world. Like, tiny.
Alright, so the first thing that blew my mind when I got to this school was when I found out Josh Kahn was going here. Josh was my suite mate at Pratt Pre-college. I hadn't talked to him in over a year and during our orientation week I spot an all too familiar mohawk that could only be his. It was, and now we are best of budz again. He's so rad.
Meet Josh:
Tee Hee art skewlOk, first mindfreak was that Josh goes to my school. Back at Pratt, though, Josh has a girlfriend with Pink hair. No one in our dorm room knew her name so we called her pinky. Well Josh has found another sweetheart with pink hair as well. Not that CRAZE, the d00ds just into pink hair, I get it.
Later on in the year I found out that a kid I used to play America's Army with went to the same high school as three of my good friends here! Now, they didn't know each other or anything...but what are the chances I end up at school with some cats that went to the same small Pennsylvanian town high school as some dork who I used to play a computer game with 3 or 4 years ago? Shit blew my mind.
NOW, I meet another girl tonight who ALSO went to Pratt pre-college. Now, I knew of her when I went to Pratt but I didn't know her. So we get atalkin' and turns out she was the chick who HATED Talia and wrote "TALIA SUCKS DICK" on the Subway platforms. Now I heard stories of this and I practically died laughing that someone actually wrote that on the walls, but I didn't know her back then. Now I know her and it's even more funny. I almost died when she told me that. She's totes rad.
KAY, even more crazy connection, her roommate now at uArts ALSO went to Pratt Pre-college. It turns out she was the love affair of my OTHER suite mate Selim Benhabib.
sohawtrightnowSelim didn't know her name but he thought the girl looked like Tomb Raider, and that's all I remembered about her. Imagine Tomb Raider being said in a thick Turkish accent. thebest
OKAY MIND BLOWNT TIME, Especially Jeremy. My good friend, Jackie, knows Moose. Yeh yeh, lolwhat? Yes, the Moose of Ranssite and the PA forums and everything. Not only did he go to her high school with her but she talks to him CONSTANTLY online. When I found that out (I can't even remember how) my mind had already been blownt so many times I was numb, but it was still shocking. His latest quote "I want to marry my sandwich, but that would result in some sort of cannibalism after the fact". He also frequents your blog, Jer. Just so you know. But daym d00ds, that shits redic. For those of you who don't know Jeremy has been buds with this guy online for years and on many different websites. I believe Jeremy said he was very similar to Ryan too...so you know he's got to be rad.
I don't have anything else to say, really, this stuff is just too much. It's crazy.
Blonde Girls Have To Die
Today in my Freshmen Film class we watched Chinatown. This was the first time that I have seen this movie and it was absolutely fantastic. Jack Nicholson is amazing and the storyline is superb. Jack's character was so cool also, I want to be him. I am seriously going to miss my Film Class next semester. Not only do we not do any real work but I have seen SO many movies that I've always wanted to but never had the chance to see. Nearly every movie we have watched in that class has been absolutely fantastic. My teacher picks out movies to show us not only because she thinks we would enjoy them and she likes them but because they are truly important movies in film making history. I'm never going to remember the titles of them all but from what I can remember we watched:
A silent Salvador Dali experimental Film (Experimental, so...thats about it, but it was good)
The Dictator (Charlie Chaplin)
Metropolis (Amazing)
Sunset Boulevard (Soooo good, this was the first time I had seen it)
Badlands (Martin Sheen)
Suspira (Awesome sound track to a bizaar as hell movie we watched on Halloween. It was great)
Delicatessen
Chinatown ('nuff said)
And some other movie about the life of the director...I can't remember what it was called but it was great.
On a completly unrelated note this weekend should be pretty rad. On Friday I am going with my friend Geoff (I met him the first day of school, he was in my orientation ground and now we ARE FRIENDS FOREVER) to this BBoy event. I don't really know what it is but he's obsessed with breakdancing and damn good himself so we are going to check that out. It should be fun. Every now and then I go with him to the Levitt (Auditorium in Gershman Building) to practice breakdancing. I can't really do anything but he's teachin' and it's a lot of fun.
THEN, on Saturday I am seeing M.I.A.. Ahhh, I can't wait. It's going to be so much fun. And, uh, get her newest CD if you can, Kala. It's totes rad, obvi.
G00T BAI
This is my bro Yis Goodman's work. He has probably the coolest graffiti character style I've ever seen. I love his stuff.
Monday, November 26, 2007
Still Reppin'
FIRST OF ALL
Okay, all of you seemed totally chill with seeing a 60 LB WOMBAT SPRAWLED ACROSS MY FATHERS LAP. I guess wombats are more common where you are from because I had no fucking idea what a wombat was before I saw that picture. I thought it was a bat. BUT SINCE YOU ARE SO CHILL AND CAN’T BE PHAZED BY NOTHING I might as well explain. My dad was in Australia for a couple of weeks for business and meeting some old friends. He took some great pictures and saw a lot of cool stuff. One of the things he happened to see was a zoo with all the shtuff that Australia has that we don’t. He said kangaroo’s are weird and koalas are soft. He was in Perth too, I told him to go to a psy-trance festival but I don’t think he did. Lamer. The fun doesn’t stop there though, after Australia he hit up Dubai on the way back, the country that holds 80% of the world’s cranes and the world’s ONLY seven star hotel. Pretty rad. He didn’t stay in that hotel (something like $2,000 a night) but he did see plenty of cranes, an indoor ski mountain, and the man made islands. Dubai sounds like a pretty fucking gnarly place. I want to go. Paul Van Dyk was playing a concert while he was there too, which is pretty cool. Again, my dad didn’t go.
Alright, I hope that explains the wombat-ness.
END OF FIRST OF ALLZ
I would have thought that the more stuff I do in Philadelphia the more often I’ll update this blog. It seems the opposite has happened and I have been so busy that I haven’t had the time to update at all. That, and I’m lazy.
Right now I am currently on the train back from home to school after Thanksgiving vacation. I’ll start here because it’s fresh in my mind and I can practically taste the turk still. It was most definitely a delicious Thanksgiving. We had it untraditionally at my house this year accompanied by our family friends from California. The oldest son goes to school in Pennsylvania at Bucknell so instead of flying him back to California they all decided to make a trip out of his vacation and visit New York. It also gave their daughter a chance to look at some of the schools in New York and Connecticut. The last time I saw them was about six or so years ago at Stamford Sierra Camp. Gawd that place was so fun.
The first Friday of the month was First Friday and I didn’t decide to sell anything this time either but I did go down to Old City and walk around and check out the scene. My friend Jackie met the owner of a pretty cool store that sells a lot of hot brands at Sneaker Pimps last month and she scored a gallery show of her own this Friday. Crazy good deal on her part, not only did she get a bunch of her stuff shown on First Friday in a gallery but she also sold over 100$ worth of work…including a couple of skate boards she made that you can see in pictures from the Sneaker Pimps post.
After that I saw the “Art of Can” gallery in the same building where REAL WORLD PHILADELPHIA (OMG) was held. This show had art made from the modification of Red Bull cans. Some of the stuff was so cool. There was a train, a crazy angel, a dress, some faces, a massive canvas that looked like a painting and many other awesome pieces made from cut up Red Bull cans. Not only that but they were giving out free Red Bull too! NOT ONLY THAT but there was a DJ who was spinning a decent house set and I IDed some Röyksopp and Ratatat so I enjoyed.
I have started my final project for Drawing class, which is a perspective view of Philadelphia. I’ve spent six hours drawing it already and I’ve barely covered the layouts of two buildings. My teacher wants us to focus the most on accuracy of planes and edges rather than finished shaded walls or whatever. I’m actually really excited to continue doing it but it’s going to be a bitch and a half to finish. I’ll post it up when it’s done (which won’t be for at least a couple more weeks). The only downside really is that I am on the ninth floor of Anderson (The main School of Art and Design building). I have to take the slowest elevator ever to the eighth floor, and then walk across the entire building, and then up a flight of stairs to the dustiest corridor I’ve ever seen. I chose the top floor because I think it’ll come out the best in the final drawing, but it’s hard to breathe and takes forever to get up there.
I’ve also started work on another project for Newgrounds. I’m not sure how many of you are aware but over the last three years I’ve participated in the first two World Sketchbook Tours that forum member, Luis Castanon, has set up. Basically I give this guy my information and he mails me a page to do whatever I want with. It was cool being a part of something that wasn’t just the intangible web pages of the Internet and worldwide as well. Hundreds of people participated including some of the best artists on the site. Now, however, Luis is doing something different. This time he set up one of those DIY Munny competitions. You know those blank Kid Robot models that people paint up? It’s basically those, except the figure it slightly smaller than a Munny and called an ‘I,WZL’. Luis sent about 20 out to various artists and I was to slow on the up keep so I ended up buying my own. He just told everyone to design and paint it however you like and mail it back and I’ll decide the winners. I don’t care about winning again but being part of the competition is great. Also, it’s super fun paint. I’ll post my two when I am done with them. The finished pieces will sit in the Newgrounds office for all to see.
I’ve started getting into sticker street art as well. I have all the stickers I need I just need to paint them and put them up. It really is pretty rad though cuz it takes about a million hours quicker to put up your piece and it’s so fast there is almost no worry of getting caught. I almost feel like there are more possibilities with stickers too. But where they excel, they lack in places were graffiti doesn’t. I guess there is sort of that balance with everything though. More on this later.
I’ll end this post with what I started with. Thanksgiving was fantastic. The best part of it by far was seeing everyone I haven’t seen at all for the last three months. Catching up and telling stories and reminiscing and going mental in celebration make being away from each other for so long totally worth it. I am absolutely in love with my school as I am sure most of you are, but Wepo is still home and seeing everyone is fantastic. Having this short break before the long Winter Vacation makes me look so forward to the weeks to come, the holiday season and then spending it all with the Wepo crew.
We were also thinking about you guys Harry, Chris and especially Jeremy… even though you were off in far away lands.
I love you all, this train needs to get to Philadelphia.
To many words, here is a picture of my roommate:
Okay, all of you seemed totally chill with seeing a 60 LB WOMBAT SPRAWLED ACROSS MY FATHERS LAP. I guess wombats are more common where you are from because I had no fucking idea what a wombat was before I saw that picture. I thought it was a bat. BUT SINCE YOU ARE SO CHILL AND CAN’T BE PHAZED BY NOTHING I might as well explain. My dad was in Australia for a couple of weeks for business and meeting some old friends. He took some great pictures and saw a lot of cool stuff. One of the things he happened to see was a zoo with all the shtuff that Australia has that we don’t. He said kangaroo’s are weird and koalas are soft. He was in Perth too, I told him to go to a psy-trance festival but I don’t think he did. Lamer. The fun doesn’t stop there though, after Australia he hit up Dubai on the way back, the country that holds 80% of the world’s cranes and the world’s ONLY seven star hotel. Pretty rad. He didn’t stay in that hotel (something like $2,000 a night) but he did see plenty of cranes, an indoor ski mountain, and the man made islands. Dubai sounds like a pretty fucking gnarly place. I want to go. Paul Van Dyk was playing a concert while he was there too, which is pretty cool. Again, my dad didn’t go.
Alright, I hope that explains the wombat-ness.
END OF FIRST OF ALLZ
I would have thought that the more stuff I do in Philadelphia the more often I’ll update this blog. It seems the opposite has happened and I have been so busy that I haven’t had the time to update at all. That, and I’m lazy.
Right now I am currently on the train back from home to school after Thanksgiving vacation. I’ll start here because it’s fresh in my mind and I can practically taste the turk still. It was most definitely a delicious Thanksgiving. We had it untraditionally at my house this year accompanied by our family friends from California. The oldest son goes to school in Pennsylvania at Bucknell so instead of flying him back to California they all decided to make a trip out of his vacation and visit New York. It also gave their daughter a chance to look at some of the schools in New York and Connecticut. The last time I saw them was about six or so years ago at Stamford Sierra Camp. Gawd that place was so fun.
The first Friday of the month was First Friday and I didn’t decide to sell anything this time either but I did go down to Old City and walk around and check out the scene. My friend Jackie met the owner of a pretty cool store that sells a lot of hot brands at Sneaker Pimps last month and she scored a gallery show of her own this Friday. Crazy good deal on her part, not only did she get a bunch of her stuff shown on First Friday in a gallery but she also sold over 100$ worth of work…including a couple of skate boards she made that you can see in pictures from the Sneaker Pimps post.
After that I saw the “Art of Can” gallery in the same building where REAL WORLD PHILADELPHIA (OMG) was held. This show had art made from the modification of Red Bull cans. Some of the stuff was so cool. There was a train, a crazy angel, a dress, some faces, a massive canvas that looked like a painting and many other awesome pieces made from cut up Red Bull cans. Not only that but they were giving out free Red Bull too! NOT ONLY THAT but there was a DJ who was spinning a decent house set and I IDed some Röyksopp and Ratatat so I enjoyed.
I have started my final project for Drawing class, which is a perspective view of Philadelphia. I’ve spent six hours drawing it already and I’ve barely covered the layouts of two buildings. My teacher wants us to focus the most on accuracy of planes and edges rather than finished shaded walls or whatever. I’m actually really excited to continue doing it but it’s going to be a bitch and a half to finish. I’ll post it up when it’s done (which won’t be for at least a couple more weeks). The only downside really is that I am on the ninth floor of Anderson (The main School of Art and Design building). I have to take the slowest elevator ever to the eighth floor, and then walk across the entire building, and then up a flight of stairs to the dustiest corridor I’ve ever seen. I chose the top floor because I think it’ll come out the best in the final drawing, but it’s hard to breathe and takes forever to get up there.
I’ve also started work on another project for Newgrounds. I’m not sure how many of you are aware but over the last three years I’ve participated in the first two World Sketchbook Tours that forum member, Luis Castanon, has set up. Basically I give this guy my information and he mails me a page to do whatever I want with. It was cool being a part of something that wasn’t just the intangible web pages of the Internet and worldwide as well. Hundreds of people participated including some of the best artists on the site. Now, however, Luis is doing something different. This time he set up one of those DIY Munny competitions. You know those blank Kid Robot models that people paint up? It’s basically those, except the figure it slightly smaller than a Munny and called an ‘I,WZL’. Luis sent about 20 out to various artists and I was to slow on the up keep so I ended up buying my own. He just told everyone to design and paint it however you like and mail it back and I’ll decide the winners. I don’t care about winning again but being part of the competition is great. Also, it’s super fun paint. I’ll post my two when I am done with them. The finished pieces will sit in the Newgrounds office for all to see.
I’ve started getting into sticker street art as well. I have all the stickers I need I just need to paint them and put them up. It really is pretty rad though cuz it takes about a million hours quicker to put up your piece and it’s so fast there is almost no worry of getting caught. I almost feel like there are more possibilities with stickers too. But where they excel, they lack in places were graffiti doesn’t. I guess there is sort of that balance with everything though. More on this later.
I’ll end this post with what I started with. Thanksgiving was fantastic. The best part of it by far was seeing everyone I haven’t seen at all for the last three months. Catching up and telling stories and reminiscing and going mental in celebration make being away from each other for so long totally worth it. I am absolutely in love with my school as I am sure most of you are, but Wepo is still home and seeing everyone is fantastic. Having this short break before the long Winter Vacation makes me look so forward to the weeks to come, the holiday season and then spending it all with the Wepo crew.
We were also thinking about you guys Harry, Chris and especially Jeremy… even though you were off in far away lands.
I love you all, this train needs to get to Philadelphia.
To many words, here is a picture of my roommate:
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Chunk Comp
I have been having a lot of problems with my computer lately. It started the beginning of last week where my keyboard and trackpad work tweak out and stop working. I would have to give the underside of my computer a little love-tap to get him going again but it didn't work every time. I was getting nervous because if I can actually hit my computer and jostle it into working order again then that usually means it is some hardware issue. : /
So Monday I bring it to the school technical support guy and tell him whats up. He takes the computer and says "Come back in a few hours after I run some tests."
First of all I should say, getting this dudes attention was a very uncomfortable situation. The tech room is in the basement of one of the school buildings were I have one of my classes. I had never been down there so I was already not sure exactly where I was going. I walk through a very hot computer lab full of quietly working students and find myself in an even smaller room with one of those 'half-wall' things that looks like of like a counter. There is NO ONE there except for a tiny bell on the counter. Alright so I have a classroom full of silent kids working away and I'm here with this bell that I don't want to touch. I can see a doorway two feet away past the 'half-wall' counter thing and I'm sure he's in there. I would have felt like such an asshole ringing a stupid bell to call someone over that I can practically reach around and touch...not even considering disturbing the SILENT room behind me.
I ended up stepping aside and distracting myself with my cell phone and some other kid rang the bell. heh.
EN E WAYZ, I come back later that day and he said "I have to reimage your piece" I say "Shit dog k" and I leave for a few more hours. It ends up taking longer than he though because he had to back up all my tunes (thankgod) so I'm comp-less for a day.
The next day I go in and he says 'Shit bro fuck I sent it apple what did you do to it?" I said "Shit man shit k" so he hands me a perfectly unused free loaner Macbook Pro with all fo my stuff he transfered over and still the Adobe Creative Suit.
So I'm here typing on a perfectly new computer with EVERYTHING on my old one. I have absolutely no problem with never seeing my other computer. This one works fine, maybe I'll just keep it and run away with it. Hrm.
That is basically the reason I haven't updated in awhile. Besides that honestly not to much has gone down here. Halloween party was a lot of fun. I mean for a Wednesday night it was pretty redonk at least. I hope all of you had good ones as well.
I tried to go bowling with a bunch of people a couple of days ago but they turned us down becuase after 8:00pm it's 21+. Alright, thats weird for a couple of reasons. One, 8:00 isn't exactly a party time crazy hour...and when was bowling all club-bouncer protected? Weird weird. We walked away heart-broken. We had free tickets too! Another time...
Little Charles Icky Man died this week. :( Poor little guy, I guess his weirdness finally became to much for even him to handle :(
<3 <3
Stay true
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So Monday I bring it to the school technical support guy and tell him whats up. He takes the computer and says "Come back in a few hours after I run some tests."
First of all I should say, getting this dudes attention was a very uncomfortable situation. The tech room is in the basement of one of the school buildings were I have one of my classes. I had never been down there so I was already not sure exactly where I was going. I walk through a very hot computer lab full of quietly working students and find myself in an even smaller room with one of those 'half-wall' things that looks like of like a counter. There is NO ONE there except for a tiny bell on the counter. Alright so I have a classroom full of silent kids working away and I'm here with this bell that I don't want to touch. I can see a doorway two feet away past the 'half-wall' counter thing and I'm sure he's in there. I would have felt like such an asshole ringing a stupid bell to call someone over that I can practically reach around and touch...not even considering disturbing the SILENT room behind me.
I ended up stepping aside and distracting myself with my cell phone and some other kid rang the bell. heh.
EN E WAYZ, I come back later that day and he said "I have to reimage your piece" I say "Shit dog k" and I leave for a few more hours. It ends up taking longer than he though because he had to back up all my tunes (thankgod) so I'm comp-less for a day.
The next day I go in and he says 'Shit bro fuck I sent it apple what did you do to it?" I said "Shit man shit k" so he hands me a perfectly unused free loaner Macbook Pro with all fo my stuff he transfered over and still the Adobe Creative Suit.
So I'm here typing on a perfectly new computer with EVERYTHING on my old one. I have absolutely no problem with never seeing my other computer. This one works fine, maybe I'll just keep it and run away with it. Hrm.
That is basically the reason I haven't updated in awhile. Besides that honestly not to much has gone down here. Halloween party was a lot of fun. I mean for a Wednesday night it was pretty redonk at least. I hope all of you had good ones as well.
I tried to go bowling with a bunch of people a couple of days ago but they turned us down becuase after 8:00pm it's 21+. Alright, thats weird for a couple of reasons. One, 8:00 isn't exactly a party time crazy hour...and when was bowling all club-bouncer protected? Weird weird. We walked away heart-broken. We had free tickets too! Another time...
Little Charles Icky Man died this week. :( Poor little guy, I guess his weirdness finally became to much for even him to handle :(
<3 <3
Stay true
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