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Thanksgiving break is this week, but it's not really going to be a break. Not with >20 pages worth of essays due immediately after, plus epic printmaking.

Scheduled for next semester also. Looks like it will be 6 studio classes again... I'm starting to regret not staggering my academic classes more. Oh well, it's almost over; 3 more semesters + a summer session... that is assuming I don't get screwed out of a fall / spring - only course, or two.

Good news is I have a new friend named Vlad. Pictures to come.

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Posting some of the work I have done this semester and a little during the summer. I've been going to the Harvard Museum of Natural History at least once a week, sometimes twice a week. I really don't have many products from the semester so far, just a lot of sketches.

I've posted quite a bit to my scraps too. Just scans from my sketchbook stuck together roughly in the only 15 minutes I have.

I might post some of my essays too.

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Three of my works are featured in the show.

If you're around, stop in and check out the work, if not, check out the work on the AIB flikr page: [link]



~~~~~~~~~~~
In other news, I'm busy. Really busy. I don't have much coursework to post, actually, most of my work this semester has been in my sketchbooks or silly digital exercises (trap the amoeba!).

I'll try to scan some stuff soon.

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Major construction going on in the labs this month. I had a nice lull at the end of July where I felt *gasp* relaxed for a few days, now its back to some insanity. At least I'll feel productive.

I got to sit in on an animation precollege class in July, and it was really fun, maybe I'll post some of the work I did. I've also come up with some good concepts and preliminary work to start out next semester, as well as a slightly clearer idea of what I want to do with my comic, so we'll see where it takes me.

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Well summer's finally about half over. I'm ready for school to start, this summer has been so subpar for various reasons. I haven't finished basically any artwork, can't seem to get beyond sketching. I was hoping to do some srsbizniss watercolor and dyes, maybe some oil, finish my comic, blah blah, but nothing's panning out.

I am, however, sitting in on the precollege animation class. Its fun, I'm learning a lot. I'm also playing through Mass Effect again.

So really I don't have much to post, unless you want to see a bunch of half finished sketches.

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Now I am uploading a few things from the tail end of last semester. The photos are not ALL that great but I didn't have access to a good camera. When I do I'll retake some of them. I'll probably be uploading them in small batches.

I have lots of ongoing projects underway.

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Now I'm in the market for a second job. I've been signing up for Harvard Psychology studies in the meantime under the recommendation of . Turns out I'm ineligible for the Sleep studies, not sure why, probably a few months too young.

But I think if anyone wants me to do some sort of commission things that'd be fun to do. I'll also sell originals of most of the work on here since I need to clean my closet. If there's any interest, let me know in PM or comment.

Now its time for some gameage.

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*COLLAPSE*

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Feels like it only just began...

Posting some of my work from Litho. I don't have as much to show for myself as I did last semester overall. A lot of the work will need photographed since it is a little large, and the best work of the semester isn't even finished yet.

]]> ~KizitoKitty http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/23738456/ http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/23738456/ Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:57:32 PDT
I will try to get some of my Litho work up soon.

EDIT NEW QUIZ LIST

from facebook
TO EVERYONE YOU TAG: REPOST THIS WITH YOUR "STALKERS"

1. Katie Starr
2. Nate Jacob
3. Wouter Donders
4. Vineet Modi
5. Jon Mandelbaum
6. Blanca Simandan
7. Tyler Peery
8. Sophie Lannon
9. Maggie Dennis
10. Adam Boudreau
11. Justin Hesson
12. Ben Irwin
13. Db0
14. Sarah Wittberg
15. Jessica Lapatta
16. Patrick Ryan
17. Jess Lynch
18. Bobby Sheridan
19. Alana T
20. Greg Meece
21. Dylan Combs


Are you honestly surprised about any of these?
Kind of

How did you meet 4?
On the interwebs, Darklyrics

How much does 6 mean to you?
Enough to be ca

Describe 13 in two words.
Crazy Commie (in a good way ;D)

What is your most fond memory with 15?
Helping me learn lock up

Do you know all of 2's secrets?
Mwah hahaha...

If you could marry either 1 or 21, who would it be?
Neither.

How far do you think you are on 5's stalkerlist?
Don't know, probably very far down because I basically never use facebook.

When is the next time you're going to see 8?
Hopefully soon...

When is the last time you saw 17?
Couple weeks ago

How do you think 14 feels about you?
That I am a friend.

Are 11 and 12 anything like each other?
Kind of.

Describe the relationship between 16 and 20.
They don't know each other and probably never will.

Would you ever want to date 18?
WHAT THE FUCK

What do you think 9's parents are like?
Not a clue

Is 10 single?
He'd better not be.

If you had never met 6, how would your life be different?
In a lot of ways.

If you could tell 7 one thing right now, what would it be?
HAI

What is the funniest thing you've ever heard 16 do?
He does lots of funny things. Check out on youtube.

How did you meet 19?
She's been in lots of classes with me.

How did you come to be friends with 11?
Band

If 3 died, would you be lost?
I would be very sad.

What is the weirdest thing you've ever seen 4 do?
Not sure, he took a picture once where he convinced a bunch of kids in a little village in India to all make devil's horns with him.

What is 8's only weakness?
WoW. I heard she's kicking the habit though.

Are you friends with any of 19's friends?
Yeah we go to the same school, and it's kind of a small school.

Do you think 16 and 8 would make a good couple?
It probably wouldn't work out, but it would be an insane few months.

What is the most bad ass thing you've ever seen or heard 21 do?
Exist.

What is the one thing 20 most exceeds at?
Not sure

If 1 and 3 hated each other, what would change?
Absolutely nothing.

If 2 said to you that she/he loved 9, what would your response be?
Confusion.

trying this old quiz again after two years.

DESCRIBE--------------- ---
-- YOUR HERITAGE: German/Irish/Italian/Lithuanian/Czech for the BIG ones and some Scandinavian countries and a little Eastern Europe mixed in
-- THE SHOES YOU WORE TODAY: Black Rocket Dogs
-- YOUR EYES: Blue/Green/Grey depending on what I'm wearing/feeling. RIGHT now: green.
-- YOUR HAIR: Brown with natural red and blonde highlights, more visible in the sun than in the dark dungeon where I currently reside (aka lockup). Always straight. Very long. Sometimes down, sometimes pulled back.
-- YOUR WEAKNESS: My video game addiction
-- YOUR FEARS: Not succeeding, unjust discrimination
-- ONE THING YOU'D LIKE TO ACHIEVE: Publication.

-----------------WHAT IS------------------
-- YOUR THOUGHTS FIRST WAKING UP: Wha... that dream was fucked up.
-- THE FIRST FEATURE YOU NOTICE IN THE OPPOSITE SEX: Facial structure
-- YOUR BEST PHYSICAL FEATURE: I don't know, its all good enough for me
-- YOUR BEDTIME: 11-12 is what I shoot for, 12-2 is what I get
-- YOUR GREATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT: Overall, what I have done in college
-- YOUR MOST MISSED MEMORY: Long hours with Mo.
-- YOUR MAJOR: Illustration / Fine Arts double major with History and Art history Minor
-- YOUR FAVORITE COLOR: Black, Blue, Purple.
-- THE MIGRATION PATTERN OF A SWALLOW: Your mom.

-----------------YOU PREFER------------------
-- PEPSI OR COKE: No.
-- MCDONALD'S OR BURGER KING: McD's.
-- SINGLE OR GROUP DATES: No.
-- ADIDAS OR NIKE: No.
-- CHOCOLATE OR VANILLA: Chocolate
-- CAPPUCCINO OR COFFEE: No.
-- BOXORS OR BRIEFS: no.
-- GIFT... ]]> ~KizitoKitty http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/23644888/ http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/23644888/ Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:49:15 PDT
Don't expect pics for a while, the first thing baby Giger did was molt... so its hands off the terrarium for about a week. No digging to find Promethea or Euler (the new brown striped)!

I've saturated the interwebs with this picture enough so instead of posting it as a deviation, here's a link:[link]

Giger with his molt. Epic cuteness. That's only a corner of a corner of strawberry, for size comparison.


Anyway, spring break is going along nicely and un-productively. I'm going to regret not being productive next week.

But screw that, its all the way next week. I'm actually relaxed right now.

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Also some old work got moved to scraps today and I added a few new scraps that were from last semester.

And I updated this journal.

I'm making a bunch of cd's for one of my professors with video game soundtracks on them.

I'm also trying hard to get all my work done before spring break so I can do nothing but gameage.

Also I ordered Promethea two friends today. Yes... two... I just wanted one but there was a minimum order limit so...

The new arrivals will be a baby Giant African Black millipede [link] and a Brown Striped Millipede [link] Haven't thought of names yet, they should be in next Tuesday or Wednesday. Hopefully Tuesday because I have to go in to work on Wednesday. I'm curious to see how small the baby is, and what type of pattern the Brown Striped has, and how much they burrow, and what they like to eat, and if they're as friendly as Promethea. To be honest though, Brown Striped really wasn't my 2nd choice but my acceptable 2nd choice millipedes are all on a different website, and the other ones were small species I don't want to get until I can keep a brood of them... Someday...

Oh shit, I'm hooked on herps... This might not be good for my long term financial goals. Well if I keep it just millies... for now...

XD
XD
XD

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~I'm really busy with work

~I will try to scan stuff in soon.

~That is all

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Rules:
1. Post these rules.
2. Each tagged person must post 8 things about their self on their journal.
3. At the end, you have to choose and tag 8 people and post their icons on the same journal.
4. Go to their pages and send a message saying you tagged them.
5. No tag-backs.


Facts:
1. I picked out the grammar error in rule 2 before I understood what it was telling me to do. I suspect the error threw me off.
2. I collect pieces of dead animals, and they regularly appear in and inspire my art. I like skulls and face-masks the most.
3. I own a Madagascar Fire Millipede as a pet and am going to get an African Giant Millipede in a few weeks for her to have a friend.
4. I like to ride my bike to school and around downtown Boston. In other words, it is empirically possible to prove that I am insane.
5. I am an extreme skeptic and serious philosopher, and my hobby is reading science books. I read almost exclusively nonfiction for fun. (my painting professor was surprised at this last week...)
6. My music heavily influences my art, and I am very secretive about what music I actually like. I rarely show people my absolute favorite songs, and my last.fm page is not completely accurate as it can't scrobble my mp3 player... [link]
7. I currently have enough credits to be considered a Junior, even though I am a second-semester Sophomore.
8. My favorite type of video game is hack-and-slash roleplaying. I just can't get enough buttonmashing action.

Tagged:
Whoever wants to do it. Just comment back that you did, I guess.

]]> ~KizitoKitty http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/23063455/ http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/23063455/ Sat, 07 Feb 2009 14:44:00 PST
Promethea is doing well and has been invading my imagery this semester, especially in Lithography. The technique of printing Litho so far has been a lot like taking care of Promethea... the key is MOISTURE.

Here's an amusing quote from my Wood and Stone Carving teacher from yesterday.

I was working on my stone and it was very slow going so I asked her if there was any way to expedite the process. Her response was: "... Its STONE. That's why they had SLAVES."

I also have a LOT more respect for those ancient Egyptians now. We're using Alabaster and probably the exact same tools they did. DAMN. I want a slave now.

]]> ~KizitoKitty http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/22798893/ http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/22798893/ Sun, 25 Jan 2009 09:03:52 PST
Finally came up with my idea for the first Lithograph which I will be starting tomorrow in class hopefully. It involves skulls and my New Friend--a Madagascar Fire Millipede named Promethea!

She arrived safe and happy yesterday and is currently exploring and burrowing a bunch. Pictures to come. Though interestingly, she looks strikingly like the millipede in my current ID...

]]> ~KizitoKitty http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/22615018/ http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/22615018/ Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:33:18 PST
I've also come up with an idea for a new series of drawings. Be prepared for something completely different. Sure, there will still be a bit of my usual macabre atmosphere, but...

Arisia is this weekend, hopefully that goes well, then next week will be crazy rearranging the animation basement... then schooltime!

]]> ~KizitoKitty http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/22409937/ http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/22409937/ Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:26:59 PST
I'm going to have quite a bit of dead time before the semester, hope to do some personal work, got a lot of other stuff to do and some work in the computer lab. Hope to get a bookshelf in the next week or so so these huge stacks of books can find homes...

EDIT: this entry is my new meme/quizzes list


FAQ; Your-
1. Shoe size
-7 1/2 US F
2. Worst thing you've done for money
-Work at Bob Evans
3. Worst habit
-Obsessive gaming and sketching on the corner of important papers
4. Favourite word in the English language
-Not sure, I'll have to think on that a bit.
5. Perceived best physical attribute
-Perceived by whom? me? Others? By me, I would say my overall build

Preferences; would you rather -
6. Hugs or kisses?
-Hugs.
7. Beer or wine?
-No thank you
8. Maths or English?
-Science

Sort of a preference question, but not really...
9. If Russia and the US were to do battle RIGHT NOW, who would win? Explain your rationale.
-Russia. Because Putin makes a better LOL subject than Obama.

Short response:
10. My last meal would be...
-Carnation Instant Breakfast
11. The best ever date I've been on entailed....
-Don't know, haven't been on many
12. People I find really irritating are...
-People who refuse to admit their beliefs do not match reality, and take too many things personally
13. I cried during the film ____ .
-Dont remember last time I cried during a movie

In three words, describe the following:
14. Sex.
- integral to existence
15. The way you dance.
-not at all
16. What you find most attractive in the opposite sex (if you're attracted to members of the same sex, then as follows).
-intelligence, independence, face

Extended response;
17. Your favourite lyrics, and why.
-I like different lyrics for different moods
18. What gives meaning to your life?
-I do.
19. I have an extreme irrational fear of .... because...
-I don't have any extreme irrational fears, though I do have minor irrational worries, such as failure and losing what I worked for
20. Is marriage overrated? Why/ why not?
-I wouldn't say its "overrated", but rather, simply unnecessary except for tax reasons.


Can you fill this out without lying?
1. Can you fill this out without lying?
Yes. But was that a lie??!!

2. What was the last thing you put in your mouth?
Ben and Jerrys

3. Who was your last text message from?
Adam

4. Where was your profile picture taken?
(facebook) My computer via photobooth. (last.fm) my desk via dominik

5. Last person you rode in a car with under the age of 20?
MYSELF

6. Name someone that made you laugh today?
Adam

7. How late did you stay up last night and why?
330. Insomnia

8. If you could move somewhere else, would you?
Not right now

9. Ever been kissed under fireworks?
I dont think so

10. Which of your friends lives closest to you?
My room mates, until September... : (

11. Do you believe ex's can be friends?
not really, only under super special circumstances.

12. Calling or texting?
depends on situation

13. How do you feel about Dr. Pepper?
No thank you

14. When was the last time you cried really hard?
Dont' remember. Got choked up listening to Debussy recently though

15. Where is your biological father right now?
I have no idea. At home?

16. Where are you at right now?
My apartment

17. What bed did you sleep in last night?
My apartment mattress

18. What was the last thing someone bought for you?
Adam bought me food

19. Who took your profile picture?
Me / Dominik

20. Was yesterday better than today?
I don't know

21. Can you live a day without TV?
Of course

22. Are you mad about anything?
Yes

23. Do you think relationships are really worth it?
The right one is

24. When was the last time you were extremely disappointed and why?
Yesterday, my mold making thing didn't work right...I think?

25. Are you a bad influence?
Depends on what.

26. Night out or night in?
Situational

27. What items could you not go without during the day?
Book, sketchpad, writing utensil

28. Would you share a drink w... ]]> ~KizitoKitty http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/22033914/ http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/22033914/ Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:33:43 PST
I don't know how much work from the semester I'll get up anytime soon, much of it is quite large and I will not have access to the larger format scanner for a few weeks.

Up next: Planes back, some fun with kitties, and maybe a short excursion into the cadaver lab.

]]> ~KizitoKitty http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/21911187/ http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/21911187/ Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:24:38 PST
In the midst of finals. I'll catch up on the internet things very soon, I have not forgotten, I PROMISE, I have just been up really late every night, in class all day, work at work, swamped.... hard drive catastrophes, large assignments, essays, tests... Its not that I think other things are unimportant, that's not it at all. You understand, I'm sure.

And I thought finals were grueling LAST year...

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Rest assured that I will attend to all PMs and posting my more recent work in the very near future.

]]> ~KizitoKitty http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/21461114/ http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/21461114/ Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:16:52 PST
Registration is tomorrow.

I have lots of work to do, most of it should go up eventually. The stuff I posted is about 6 months old.



I have

A lot

of Home work.


ALSO Registration went well this (yesterday?) morning.
RESULTS:
~Lithography. Monday 9am-2:30pm. 3 credits
~Sequential Projects. Monday. 320-6. 1.5 Credits
~Figure Painting Elective. Tuesday 9-1145. {with Tony Apesos}. 1.5 Credits
~Techniques II. Tuesday/Thursday 1220-305. 3 Credits
~Watercolor. Tuesday 320-605 1.5 Credits
~WEDNESDAYS NO CLASSES! (seriously. I don't know how that one worked out!)
~Making and Meaning: Painting (art history course specifically on painting, with Apesos!) Thursday 610-10:20pm. 3 credits
~Wood and Stone Carving. Friday 9-11:45 {With Anna Poor!}. 1.5 Credits

Total credits: 15. And if I get into that winter Mythology course by being a persistent asshole, then that will be 18, as Winter classes count as Spring, even though they're nearly a full month before.

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I'm very happy to be back in the print shop. Every free second I get, I'm back in there, setting up another bite, lifting, applying ground, aquatinting, making metal pancakes, inking... its really the process that I love, and the excitement and nervous anticipation before you lift the blankets to see the result.

Even better, we have a bunch of new stuff in the print lab! New acid, a squeegee station for paper, new ink, new ground, and even better; a brand new bubbling large acid bath for our large plates! Yesterday, it was all ready to go, full of brand new ferric chloride.

That afternoon, I snuck into Jake's Intaglio I class to make a test print and clean my plate. I was joking with Ria, scrubbing the ink off after a pretty successful print, when this tall girl I didn't recognize started sputtering near the acid baths. "Oh no, the acid, I bumped it with my foot! Ahh... um o no!" Generally looking like an idiot and gesticulating wildly. Moving closer...

She had kicked the spout off the brand new big Ferric Chloride bath and the acid was spilling all over the floor. Jake started freaking out and yelling to get containers to hold it in, I scrambled for some things, all the Intaglio I kids looked around helplessly as gallons and gallons of the yellow fluid spread across the floor. While I grabbed a plastic storage jug, she plugged the hole with her hand, and we funneled the rest of the acid into containers, but the damage was done. Ferric Chloride stretched almost all the way across the room, under presses, the cleaning station, and the water table, and our brand new bath was done for. Jake continued to freak out and as we spread absorptive pads all over the floor, demanded that I go fetch Liza (other printmaking professor, the one I have this semester) from the other building.

Um, that's NOT what I wanted to do... you should have seen Liza's face light up as she told us all about the nice shiny new acid bath, and how happy she was that we had nice things and were all ready to do our large plates. She also has been described by others as not being so nice when she's not happy. Breaking the news to her was the last thing I wanted to do... she didn't believe me at first, then got annoyed that Jake demanded she go over there when she had someone picking her up at 601 in 15 minutes. I explained the situation to her on the way back, and she was NOT pleased to see the results.

As Liza and Jake discussed the situation, the security guard stumbled up all confused. Apparently when I told him that there was a spill in the Print Shop, he heard that there was a spill from the Printers, meaning in the computer lab on the third floor (where I work). He had gone up to the computer lab and asked around, getting a very confused response from Dominik and the other monitors there, because... printers usually don't leak...

Now I'm not sure what we're going to do about our large plates. We'll see. Hopefully we can get a new bath by next week...

]]> ~KizitoKitty http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/20378488/ http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/20378488/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:08:29 PDT
Also got to see 1349/Suffocation/Carcass show Friday. Fucking brutal, and very inspiring.

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See you on the other side.

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So we have a temporary superintendent now, great. He wants to build schools, grea---wait. "Build" as in "construct"? Yup. But I thought we closed those elementary schools because--SHUT UP WHAT DO YOU KNOW!!!

So yay, more budget cuts, especially in the art department. Now, the administration has determined that its a good idea to put all three levels of Art in the same classroom, at once! That's right folks, art 1/3/5 in one classroom first semester and 2/4/6 in one classroom the second! Doesn't it sound maaaagnificent?

I am so glad I graduated before this shit.

]]> ~KizitoKitty http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/20155709/ http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/20155709/ Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:04:54 PDT
For the most part, they're going in my scraps so if you're interested, you'll need to check there or subscribe to my scraps...



This time next week, I'll be gearing up for my first night in MY apartment. This makes me smile.



*EDIT* Most of of my better work for Anatomy is up. Some of the scans really didn't turn out, so I need to rescan, but those will be very delayed. Expect animal overload from today's zoo trip next.

]]> ~KizitoKitty http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/19965207/ http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/19965207/ Fri, 15 Aug 2008 06:47:04 PDT
It's been awesome.

I met :iconrhorsley: and Wayne Reynolds! Wayne Reynolds is one of those artists who's work I've loved forever. I bought an original of one of the creatures he drew for the Monster Manual and talked to him for about 45 minutes. He's really really cool... I'm going to go bother him again throughout the con and draw him a picture! XD

His wife is really cool too, they're witty and dynamic, wear black all the time, and they collect skulls and strange items too!! I'm always excited to meet another crazy artist skull collector.

Anyway, we're going to start the Shadowrun tournament today, and do some more gaming. The dealer room is huge, and there are so many games to try... We have until Sunday... never enough time!

]]> ~KizitoKitty http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/19598891/ http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/19598891/ Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:28:40 PDT
I've been fucking... BUSY!!!!

The only part of it I don't like is working at the Bob's average of 30 hours a week. It could be worse, I know, but with intense summer classes and a few chronic projects, as well as taking-on-every-project-that-sounds-cool disorder, I really don't want to be at the Bob's for any more than ... well never.

I've been assigning myself a number of projects, from some graphic design work to an ongoing drawing that I'm going to make into an etching series next semester (I hope), some RM work, stuff for the Skill Exchange, and now some intense work for the Wittbergs as we prepare a Shadowrun campaign book to take to Origins! I've got less than two weeks for this, and I'm already pressed for time as A+P takes a lot more study-hours than Biology ever would (but is a million times more interesting), and I keep having to do stupid assignments for Macro, which I am not interested in anymore as a million things interest me more. I'm working on a dissection outside of class. OH YEAH and I got a psp game I wanted for a long time and a new cat.

Little kitty showed up on my doorstep at about 2 am a few weeks ago and never left. Now he's back after getting "fixed" and declawed (... I didn't want that... but...). He's really the perfect cat, too. Loves attention and being around people, is insatiably curious and a ball of energy, friendly, cute, soft, incredibly intelligent... I would love to bring him off with me, but he'd probably make a horrible apartment cat as he needs room to explore, lots of attention, and is mischievous.

I think this summer is rivaling certain parts of last semester for its intensity.

]]> ~KizitoKitty http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/19185476/ http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/19185476/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:03:51 PDT
I know I do.

[link]
Vote for us, the ACP! Our votes are low now, but it will only take about 250 to get us on top at the current stats. I don't want to see yet another Christian blogger win this one, and I know there are enough irreligious out there to swing it.

It takes about a minute to register and vote, you can even use a dummy email. It will take even less time to copy and paste the link to a couple friends so they can too.

While you're there, you can also nominate blogs you like and vote in other categories.



If for no other reason, do it for the lulz.
Thanks.

]]> ~KizitoKitty http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/19135433/ http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/19135433/ Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:38:56 PDT
I convinced my Bio teacher to let me into an higher level course, for which the current class I am taking is a prerequisite, and found out he's probably the coolest science prof ever... or one of them.

So that's it, I've just shoved a bunch of work on myself that will be ... interesting... rather than learning how to use a microscope and the scientific method... again.

This means expect work even more sparsely this summer, sorry.

My class switch is a good thing though, I don't think I could stand sitting through the rehashed information, and it will actually help me next semester.


And on another good note, Diablo III has been officially announced, and it will be released for Mac simultaneously with the PC version. I will probably fail my junior year as a result, and it will be amazing.

]]> ~KizitoKitty http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/18903216/ http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/18903216/ Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:07:30 PDT
I'm actually DOING some things in upcoming weeks, going to see Dethklok with Thursday \m/
and going to ColossalCon for a day on 's prompting. She thinks it would be quite entertaining to sic me on some 14 year old anime fans, and I do agree. I'm actually bringing some stuff to sell at her booth, so I hope to come home with about $5 of awesomeness. $10, and I'm a total success. Then Gencon in August.

I'm still up for art trades by the way.

Now I just don't know what to WEAR to colossalcon, oooommmmggg. Haha!
But seriously, I don't know if I should bother throwing together some sort of cosplay even if it is just internet-meme based. I haven't seriously watched any anime in ... years... and am sadly a bit out of date on video gamage due to my schoolwork overload, so there's not much I can think of to do? But it just seems strange to me to go to a con and not do SOMETHING (especially if those I am with did...). Any ideas I can throw together for under $10 and less than an hour or two, for next Friday?
Please, just do not say "wear your Bob Evans apron and be that girl from Diner Dash!" I refuse to dress as a waitress if I'm not getting tips.


Anyway, WSCC classes start next week so hopefully that hits the accelerator as I explore the wonderful worlds of Biology and Macroeconomics.

On another note, my mouth feels much better. That is all.

]]> ~KizitoKitty http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/18566350/ http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/18566350/ Thu, 29 May 2008 19:24:17 PDT
Who would like to do an art trade?

(or remind me of a trade I may have forgotten through my crazy semester)

I'm up for just about anything. Just comment here what you would like and I'll comment back what I would like and well go draw draw paint paint and have things to do because summer is actually kind of boring without assignments.

THIS ENTRY is becoming another quizzes list as I filled the last one up.

REALLY stupid country quiz. Why didnt' they at least make the same amount of questions for each nationality? And why are all the questions MORONIC?

○● E N G L I S H ○●
[ ] You drink a lot of tea.
[ ] You know what a brolly is.
[ ] Deal or No Deal has taken over your life.
[ ] You wanted Ben to win X Factor.
[ ] You use the word "bugger" or the phrase "bloody hell”
[ ] Fish and Chips are yummy.
[ ] You can eat a Full English Breakfast.
[/] You dislike emos almost as much as you dislike chavs. \
[ ] Its football...not soccer.
[/] You believe the correct way to spell ‘Color’ is ‘Colour’, and 'Center' is 'Centre.'

Total: 1

○● A U S T R A L I A N ○●

[ ] You wear flip flops all year.
[ ] You call flip flops "thongs", not flip flops.
[x] You love a backyard Barbie.
[x] You know a Barbie is not a doll.
[ ] You love the beach.
[/] Sometimes you swear without realizing.
[ ] You're a sports fanatic.
[ ] You are tanned.
[ ] You're a bit of a bogan.
[ ] You have an Australian something.

Total: 2.5

○● I T A L I A N ○●
[ ] The Sopranos is a great show.
[ ] Your last name ends in a vowel.
[x] Your grandmother makes her own sauces.
[x] You know how a real meatball tastes.
[ ] You know Italian songs.
[/] You have dark hair and dark eye color.
[ ] You speak some Italian.
[x] You are under 5'10".
[ ] You know what an Italian horn is.
[x] Pizza/spaghetti is the best food in the world!
[x] You talk with your hands.

Total: 5.5

○● S P A N I S H ○●
[ ] You say member instead of Remember.
[ ] You speak Spanish or some.
[ ] You like tacos.
[ ] YoU TyPe lIkE ThIs On Da CoMpUtEr.
[ ] You are dark skinned.
[ ] You know what a Puta is.
[x] You talk fast occasionally
[x] You have had highlights or have dyed your hair.
[ ] You know what platanos are.

Total: 2

○● R U S S I A N ○●
[ ] You say villain as: Vee-lon.
[ ] You get short tempered.
[/] You know of somebody named Natasha.
[x] You get cold easily.
[x] Rain is fun for you.
[x] You get into contests all the time.
[x] You can easily make do with the cold weather.

Total: 4.5

○● I R I S H ○●
[ ] You think beer is the best.
[x] You have a bad temper. Sometimes.
[x] Your last name starts with a Mc, Murph, O', Fitz or ends with a ley, on, un, an, in, ry, ly, y or L.
[x] You have blue or green eyes.
[x] You like the colour green.
[ ] You have been to a St. Patty’s day party.
[x] You have a family member from Ireland.
[ ] You have red hair.
[ ] You have/had freckles.
[ ] Your family get together always include drinking and singing.

Total: 5

○● A F R I C A N A M E R I C A N ○●
[ ] You like rap.
[x] You know how to shoot a gun.
[ ] You think President George Walker Bush is racist. (HE'S NOT PRESIDENT)
[x] You like chicken.
[x] You like watermelon.
[ ] You can dance.
[ ] You can sing gospel.

Total: 3


○● A S I A N ○●
[ ] You have slanty/small eyes.
[x] You like rice a lot.
[/] You are good at maths.
[ ] You have played the piano.
[ ] You have family from Asia.
[ ] You laugh sometimes covering your mouth.
[ ] Most people think you're Chinese.
[ ] You call hurricanes typhoons.
[ ] You go to Baulko.

Total: 1.5

○● G E R M A N ○●
[x] You like bread.
[x] You think German Chocolate is good.
[ ] You speak some German
[ ] You know what Schnitzel is.
[x] You hate it when stupid people call you.
[x] You went to Pre-school.
[x] You're over 5'2".


Total: 5
What does PreSchool have to do with German? Kindergarten is the German word...

○● C A N A D I A N ○●
[ ] You like/play/played hockey.
[ ] You love beer.
[/] You say eh.
[ ] You know what poutine is.
[/] You speak some French.
[ ] You love Tim Horton's.
[ ] At one point you lived in a farm house.
[ ] You watch/watched Degrassi.

Total: 1
~KizitoKitty http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/18527147/ http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/18527147/ Tue, 27 May 2008 12:54:35 PDT
Looking for a job quite actively as I have no interest in working at Bob Evans again.

Wisdom teeth out tomorrow.

Posting some more stuff from this semester soon.

Buying skulls on ebay.

That is all.

]]> ~KizitoKitty http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/18357332/ http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/18357332/ Fri, 16 May 2008 19:51:45 PDT
No seriously, I literally almost died.

So there are these gigantic wooden panels put in the room that we were using to tack up our stuff, probably weighed a good 30-50ish pounds each (probably more, all I know is I couldn't lift them). I had my paintings arrayed around on easels, and tacked up all my drawings, well most of them, I didn't have enough space for all of them.
After a long and somewhat stressful wait, the crit began, I gave my name and stuff, talked about my work. One of the professors asked a very good question, which I began to answer, and nearly got crushed by on of the giant panels of my own artwork crashing down next to me. It would have been quite a noble way to die.

But is it a bad thing that I was more concerned whether or not it dented up my giant glowing Beethoven painting (which I will post sometime soon) than my own safety?

One of the students in the crit informed me that I won the scholarship for best composure, as I just calmly went about setting up my work in another way and finishing my explanation.
In retrospect I should have been seriously freaking out. Even if that thing didn't "kill" me, if I was standing right in front of it I would be incredibly lucky to come out with severe bruising at the very least, especially since there were a few of the white model stands with very pointy corners in front of it and I would have been slammed quite forcibly in between.

Other than that the crit went fine. I was the only freshman in the group, too.

I finally got a chance to talk with a teacher I'd been meaning to talk to for quite a portion of the semester, and he even offered to let me sit in on his summer class. If only I was in Boston this summer....
I found out also that some of the most bizarre skulls he has (he collects them too) are a walrus skull, and a capybara skull. I will top this someday!

Now its time to relax a bit before going back into the abyss.
And getting my wisdom teeth out.

]]> ~KizitoKitty http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/18285223/ http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/18285223/ Mon, 12 May 2008 07:29:12 PDT
Tomorrow morning I will be working on documenting a bit of the work from this semester, so it will be going up off and on in the relatively near future.

I found a great site to download video game soundtracks from: [link]
Yeah, they have a lot of Anime soundtracks too and a Final Fantasy theme, but I haven't seen a selection of Video Game soundtracks that comprehensive anywhere else on the internet, plus full sheet music!

Good stuff.

That's about it.

]]> ~KizitoKitty http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/17987740/ http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/17987740/ Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:07:28 PDT
Classes end next Friday, exams for liberal arts courses are the following week, and following THAT is crit week and then go-home-time. I'll probably have quite a bit of free time this summer to get proper pictures of my work this semester up.

I'm not looking forward to summer.

Though, the food will be considerably better.



I got my schedule for next semester!
I will be taking:
Anatomy and Figure Drawing MW 9-1145 Lanza
Techniques 1 MW 1220-305 Steele
Illustration Survey W 320-605 Schneider
Intaglio II TTh 9-1145 Folman
Ancient and Medieval Art TTh 320-445 Liddell (!)
World Civilizations I M 645-915 TBA



]]> ~KizitoKitty http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/17722056/ http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/17722056/ Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:00:58 PDT
I've got some great stuff to post whenever I get around to it which, who knows when that will be, but it will be around the time I need to submit my portfolio for the scholarship competition and am forced (!) to take pictures and scan overtime. I actually may do some of that this week or next.

We also made a big step today; signing on an apartment!!! Next semester I will be OFFICIALLY (!!!) off campus. Its a nice little 3-bedroom place in Allston just 2 miles from school with an easy (for Boston) bike ride there. Inside there are sort of two floors with a bedroom, bathroom, and small living room/kitchen combined area on the first and two bedrooms on the second. All the bedrooms are huge, bigger than my dorm room right now. Its also Kitty friendly so...
With four people pitching in for rent (3 roomies and me) it's quite affordable. I really can't wait for next year, to skip the summer which is going to be horrible and to go straight to fall.



EDIT: I finally finished posting all that stuff I'd already documented from last semester, just a few more final projects from then later, as I photographed a lot of my work tonight.

]]> ~KizitoKitty http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/17381913/ http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/17381913/ Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:31:19 PDT
Unfortunately, my little jump drive seems to have disappeared. With half a semester's worth of Digital Notebook work. ... grr.
At least Butch and Arnold are safe on dA. My other endeavors, not so much.

On another note, I have come to appreciate my roommate more after hearing part of a friend's story today. I seriously could not deal with her room mate. She gets kicked out of her room, the roommate freaks and stresses a bunch, more or less insults my friend, etc. I'm just glad I'm not in that situation, and I have a room mate I actually get along with and enjoy the company of, who doesn't go crazy whenever tension runs a bit high, and doesn't kick me out of the room. I think if I had a room mate that did try to kick me out of the room, I'd probably physically resist and chew her out until SHE left.

Looking for apartments next semester is pretty interesting. There are some nice openings and promising leads, we just need to actually find time to follow them!

I'm just doing a bit of warm up for a paper I have to write tonight, its going to be good, and I might post it if it turns out especially well.

I also found out today that I'm kind of stupid as far as logos go. We did a sort of drawing-logo game in Illustration today, and I couldn't draw any of what I was asked; Mercedes-Benz and Dunkin Donuts. The teacher insisted that I do know the logo from when I'm driving down the highway looking for one... Yeah, all the Dunkin Donuts in southeast Ohio? And that I'd be looking for one, because I don't like coffee OR donuts, so naturally I'd be compelled to bring my business there. So I just wrote "dunkin donut" on the board and drew a donut. Apparently... it wasn't correct.

The end. Oh and by the way, I lost the game.

]]> ~KizitoKitty http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/17172913/ http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/17172913/ Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:33:10 PST
Guess what class it was in... that's right, "Conceptual" Development II.

First, there were the products. The assignment was to take "found objects" and arrange them on a piece of foamcore so that they made an image. Eh. Its to be expected that few of the products actually seemed to have any real effort put into them. A lot of them seemed to me to have been put together as fast as possible just to get the assignment over with. Nothing wrong with that, overall it wasn't exactly the assignment I wanted to be spending my time on. So we had a nice lineup of mediocre on average work, some great, some... not. Mine was not too bad but not much better than OK in my opinion.

Then there was the teacher's reaction. How WONDERFUL we all did, how FANTASTIC, how *praises gush out*. Uh, sure... You could literally see the thoughts of "What bullshit" written all over many students faces (including my own). Not too much wrong with this picture, we've gotten to know the teacher's demeanor enough to expect this sort of thing.

Then she called on us individually to talk about someone else's piece, so that everyone had a chance to talk and critique someone else's work. I liked this actually, it got some good dialog going and was a break from the "So how did X do?.... *silence*" we get in some other classes. Not too bad here.

But THEN, we get to my piece. I made a tank out of chopped up army men. I used different shades of army men for different planes on the tank, sliced and tore up the background with an exacto, and used a piece of an old greenishbrown t for the ground. It was OK. It looked better at a very specific angle than straight on. I got blisters from chopping army men. I also didn't care much about what people said about it, because I thought it was a stupid project and could take any criticism on a piece I didn't care too much for... But I was blindsided by this.

One girl speaks up. I've had this feeling she doesn't like me much for a while, I think she thinks I'm some sort of arrogant, self-righteous, know-it-all prick who thinks very highly of herself at the expense of others, but since I haven't been a prick to her directly (I rarely associate with her...), so I don't know what her problem is. She tries to find flaws with my work in a very nitpicky sort of way (kind of like some other attempts at "critique" I remember...), starting with my Calabi-Yau wire structure, simply because she couldn't wrap her mind around the irony of the situation, and couldn't seem to figure out that I was just trying to mess with the teacher. No, she took it personally that she had no idea what a Calabi-Yau shape was, or how a 6-dimensional object would even work visually, or something. Regardless, I seem to have offended her without intending to. Too bad for her, if she wants to be offended for no reason. I've got nothing against her, I'm just astounded at the way she draws conclusions... and her critique of my tank.

"I'm somewhat questioning the composition," she says a bit arrogantly. I thought the composition was just fine, fairly balanced and good for what it was (which was bullshit), but if there was something wrong with it, I certainly would like to know what it was. So I responded with an inquiring look and a nod. She continues. Keep in mind that this is said with 100% seriousness and with a somewhat aggrandizing manner.

"Well... it goes from right to left, I don't know that just doesn't make sense because I'm used to things from left to right and so a composition that comes in from the right doesn't make sense to me."

WHAT???????? The picture doesn't make sense because the tank is entering the picture plane from the RIGHT SIDE???? How does THAT even make sense?????

I would have loved to come back with some sort of sarcastic remark, or done something to make her seem more like a moron than she already made herself seem to be, but my jaw was kind of on the floor, tripping up my feet and not moving at my command. What's that saying... "Better to keep your mouth shut and be thought an idiot than open it and remove all doubt." ? Maybe she should have thought before speaking, because I KNOW she's smarter than that. Or at least I hope she is...


That was only one half of that class... when we came in from critique, we were all given a paper with individualized instructions. We all have to go to a gallery show this week and make a sketch, but some of us have to write a 1 page paper comparing the show to an artist she picked out for us to research. Cool right? She specifically selected artists she thought we would like. I thought it was pretty awesome, until I learned how she chose who did and didn't get to write the papers.

Last week we spent one of our fourteen class sessions going to the teacher's gallery sho... ]]> ~KizitoKitty http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/17081363/ http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/17081363/ Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:45:49 PST
I've still got a few things to post from last semester, lots of work for this semester. I saw an original Malleus Malefecarum today in the public library and the rooms and rooms of rare, ancient books made me smile... as well as the beautifully pagan mural above the print room.

Work has been piling on pretty steadily but keeping up is good, though there's not much feedback on performance yet aside from mixed critique here and there. I've been focusing most of my energies on projects I like, and less energies on projects I don't. In theory, this will even things out when everything is reduced to numbers and create several excellent products instead of a great deal of mediocre projects.

Time will tell if this strategy is viable.

I've also been looking for some good Cinema 4d tutorials but having a few problems. Most tuts I find are for a different edition (I have 10) and while I can usually figure out the discrepancy, in a few tutorials there have been unexpected and unexplainable effects, such as things collapsing in v10 that apparently don't collapse in v. 8.7, so hitting the delete key destroys everything, but in order to not have the thing collapse, you'd have to not make the figure editable, and if its not editable then there's no point in even attempting anything. I'm sure there's a really easy solution, I just have no idea, and no time to watch tutorial VIDEOS, but suffering for lack of image based tutorials. If anyone knows of a good source for C4D image based tutorials, I'd definitely be open to checking it out.

And now... enter TAXES and FAFSA edition II!!

]]> ~KizitoKitty http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/16853799/ http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/16853799/ Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:33:14 PST
I've been a bit down for the past while, during the time things were running smoothly, and now that I lose my mind, I'm in an unbelievably happy state. Now I want nothing more than to go back to my dorm and play on the computer. I hope the weather is horrible tomorrow to cancel classes so that I can play on it all day. This is my co-workers fault of course, for giving me amazing things (one of which I will DEFINITELY be floating you a copy of over the summer, Nate, if it works on your computer...).

Updates on events:
Studio Classes: going pretty well. Lots of work, some of which I'm not too keen on, but Oh Well. Lots of it I like, such as Intaglio. I'll scan some of my prints sooner or later. Conceptual Development this semester is more like 3d 101. Less concept, more learning 3d.

For example, our last assignment involved replicating an interestingly shaped object in wire. She just told us to bring in an "interestingly shaped object for Inspiration", so I brought in my attempt at making a Calabi-Yau manifold out of pound purries (remember these cute little 90's toys? [link] Yeah, I still have my whole collection). The teacher then told us to create the object to scale out of wire considering line weight and speed as you would a line drawing... then said a very dangerous thing: the degree of abstraction is up to you. So I attempted to capture the chaos of both a ball of kitties and the six-dimensional Calabi-Yau manifold by using a single, long piece of thin wire and more or less making a ball of chaos. The combination of abstraction and absurdity is awesome when you think the project is stupid. The product was pretty neat too, and she saw me making it, and asked me about it, and said OK.
Then next class, when we presented them, she claimed she "couldn't refute" my reasoning or concept but thought I missed the point of the assignment, which she claimed THEN... was more or less "Copy The Object Exactly As It Is". So I (and two others) had to redo the assignment according to the NEW specifications that she gave us.

Not that CDII isn't an alright class, so far its not been terrible. We've had assignments in media I rarely explore, which is interesting. The teacher isn't the worst I've had or anything, either. I just wish she'd relabel the course "3d 101" if CONCEPTS aren't going to be a part of the class.

Work: Is good. Paychecks are getting sent to Ohio though, for whatever reason, so that money I was hoping to have to counter the price of the Wacom... delayed for at over a week.

Illustration project: Going OK. Not too into the Vampire thing so its hard to get inspiration, I guess... not to mention the weekly showings of new work puts a lot of pressure to make every sketch in the book decent or better. Very hard for me to pick up a pen to that... and I'd rather play with my Wacom in my spare time XD XD
I'm focusing on a side element now, which is the "Vampires VS..." comics that the cousin-vampire reads. For some reason I'm more interested in making a few of those and the interactions between Zhulagoth and Mordecai that follow... than an actual story line.

Wacom: Its my new best friend. Working on a name for it so I can print it out a neat barcode sticker at work someday. And someday, I'll Be Good.

Sanity: Gone. Hurhurhrurruuuuu......

]]> ~KizitoKitty http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/16725772/ http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/16725772/ Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:38:14 PST
I've officially claimed that Wacom Intuos tablet for sale advertised around the building, and will have it in my possession within the week. I've waited for so long to get a Wacom, and this particular model and price is too amazing to beat. Its actually one of my coworkers selling it, so I just chatted with him today about it. Originally I was a bit worried that it was defective, since he was selling it after just one semester of use, but... no, he just bought one of these: [link] and figured he'd offset the cost by getting rid of some "old" hardware. To my benefit, of course.

Hopefully getting a nice tablet will help me work up my familiarity in the digital realm for my digital elective this semester, since most of my knowledge there comes from Gimp and a rather shitty mouse... (i.e. my hideous coloration of chibi Anath from quite some time ago...)

I know I'm tight on money right now, but this investment will pay off so much, in so many ways...
I also have a sort of mini-job opportunity tutoring a faculty member on PC's for quite a high hourly rate, so the money will come back faster than I expect.



Just

On another note, my dining dollars are all messed up. I currently have 335 from this semester and rollover from last semester. They are reading as 0 when I go to buy something. I just haven't had time to fix this...

]]> ~KizitoKitty http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/16607170/ http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/16607170/ Mon, 28 Jan 2008 04:27:04 PST
That aside, we got in an email our all semester long sketchbook project for Principles of Illustration. I haven't actually had that class yet, since Wednesday's session was canceled, but we received our syllabus and today our project setting. Mine is so ironic: a glitzy mall/hotel/pleasure complex off the coast of Florida run by a Vampire.

I'm not really as into the whole Vampire thing, or the shopping/party scene, but we'll see what I come up with. I might somehow incorporate Silence into the picture towards the end, since he's the Vampire/Werewolf slaying spellstitched I devised for the purpose of destroying stereotypical "monsters". I do have a good idea for a template for the Vampire (Armand) involving a friend of mine, but he doesn't know it yet. He will soon, and he'll probably love it.

Thinking more about it, this could be a pretty decent fit for me, since I can incorporate my interest in the occult and downplay the vampire half... or create a zombie invasion or something. Or aliens. We'll see. I'm still not big on the Vampire thing...

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]]> ~KizitoKitty http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/16302518/ http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/16302518/ Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:48:24 PST

However, kitties aside, I have been wondering a few things lately.

Is it even possible to create a lasting piece of art anymore? I mean, if one thinks of say, a random piece of art that is timeless and beautiful or classic in some way, and such, one is most likely to come up with a renaissance piece, Mona Lisa, or Starry Night, Andy Worhol's Soup cans / Marylin Monroe, or maybe one of the iconic Norman Rockwell illustrations or something along those lines. One generally doesn't think of much that was produced in the past few years. At least, I personally don't. I've been browsing the internet for art since I discovered the internet, and honestly, all the images, the excellent art and photography on sites such as dA melds together, and it seems as though little is "original". One of my professors last semester told us that we needed to stop looking at the common visual language that we've been trained on and come up with our own. Yes, I understand that drawing from life and such will help, but how does one separate oneself close to entirely from the modern visual language? As soon as you see a movie, play a game, read a comic book, even do a puzzle with an image on it, you've exposed yourself to someone else's visual language. Everything from art on a tshirt to the banner ad at the top of this page is someone else's visual language, and illustrations are everywhere now. With such overexposure to external images, how is it even possible to separate oneself from the stream of images we starting artists flounder in to build our own raft? Is it possible?

I know that a great deal of this separation comes from personally taking focus away from external sources and shifting it to your own development and work. This seems logical. However, what i argue here is whether or not that shift of focus is ever fully successful. Looking through the dA "popular" daily gallery, one tends to see trends and even among the most "famous" (read: always on the front page) artists on dA, and a surprising lack of individual language. There are a number of artists who have it to a degree, but it seems as though the majority of artists today simply copy each other and create variations on a theme, and do well for it.

So I ask again, is it possible to formulate a personal visual language nearly uninfluenced by the media, pop culture, and What Everyone Else Is Doing?

The only solution I see is to head up to an isolated island/mountain/field/etc and live for a few years, reteaching yourself how to create art.



Sigh, I've been away from school too long.
On the bright side: I have a nice new toy from Rinky Dinks; a real bobcat skull. Its beyond badass. Expect to see some pretty pictures soon... and next semester painting/intaglio assignments will generate a theme! I should name my sheep and kitty... heh...

]]> ~KizitoKitty http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/16073524/ http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/16073524/ Mon, 24 Dec 2007 09:12:22 PST
I posted a few of my drawing intensive things, and I'll post some things from other classes sometime, since I know models and still lifes are not always the most interesting things to view, but that's what I did this semester in that class.

Mo got pretty offended when he found little Luci(fer) on my lap yesterday. She's such a lap cat... if you sit down a certain way she just jumps in and refuses to move. I played through a lot of video game last night with her curled up there. She's also very small, and her "tail" is hilarious... Though really, I'm glad I'm back with my big Mo. He's gotten bulkier since I left.

I had a nice train ride to Pittsburgh Saturday. Got a lot of my books read, slept off and on, and such.

My replacement laptop is also in, so I'm playing with it.

]]> ~KizitoKitty http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/15797103/ http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/15797103/ Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:28:38 PST
Its already snowed several times, and the snow has been sticking, and its cold... VERY cold. But this makes me happy. No more pussy winter (until of course, I go back for winter break and go "what the... where is the SNOW! Where is the COLD!"). Only problem is, walking anywhere can be fatal.

On another happy note, my family has acquired a new kitty, which puts our kittycount back up to a happy 2. Well not really happy 2. They don't really like each other yet. The new kitty's name is Luci (potentially short for Lucifer depending on her behaviour... I didn't name her though. I was pushing for Freyja, Bastet, or Nefertiti), and she is about a year old and a stay. Black and white like Angel, but patterned completely differently, a polydactyl, and has a half-chopped off tail. When I get pictures, I will post them (more for me than any viewers), but I can't exactly take them myself and I can't rely on my family to work the digital camera AND email pictures.

Crit Week is this week, and mine is on Thursday. Now that its crit week, I wish I had scheduled it earlier, but oh well, it will give me time to do more of my torso-up self portrait for drawing. That is going to be so badass. Bracers + spikes + cloak + sheep skull = most extreme self portrait evar and most blakk metul in the class. Just like the time I made a Spartan war helmet out of a box of Frosted Flakes, or the time I painted a glowing orange toilet for Visual Thinking, or my still life with animal heads and action figures, or my response to Richard Serra's Verb List for Steck, or maybe even my LOLcats "The Internet is for Porn" paper, only better. I bet now you want to see what exactly I've been doing this semester (or not). I'll see what I can do.

oh yeah, and I started Mass Effect this weekend. It is so far one of the best games I've played. Similar to KOTOR, but... better. The imagery reminds me of old school science fiction paintings (stuff like this: [link])
If you get a chance and have a 360 available, GET THIS. It will not disappoint (or... should not. I'm not very far yet, so we'll see) I just wish I had the time to game more than an hour or two on some weekends...

Oh yes, and I did that song meme, Nate, its in my quizzes-thing journal because I didn't want another one on my main page. [link]

]]> ~KizitoKitty http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/15725110/ http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/15725110/ Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:46:03 PST Next week is Crit Week, and I'm typing this instead of preparing.

For the first time since I've been here I stayed up very late. 4am late. I haven't stayed up past 2 in months, and even then I was only up until 2 once or twice, and those weren't even "school nights". THIS was a Tuesday Night. All in all probably not the brightest thing I've done in a while but so worth it. I had to write up all my research for philosophy by hand because... oh yeah, I forgot to mention why I was so pissed in my last entry.

My laptop got stolen.

Anyway on a much lighter note I am doing this nice mindless thing now, stolen from and all the other people who have used it already. I probably shouldn't waste so much time but I really need to do something mindless and since I don't have my computer, I can't play Marathon. : (

DESCRIBE--------------- ---
-- YOUR HERITAGE: German/Irish/Italian/Lithuanian/Czech for the BIG ones and some Scandanavian countries and a little Eastern Europe mixed in
-- THE SHOES YOU WORE TODAY: Black New Balance sneakers
-- YOUR EYES: Blue/Green/Grey depending on what I'm wearing/feeling. RIGHT now: green.
-- YOUR HAIR: Brown with natural red and blonde highlights, more visible in the sun than in the dark dungeon where I currently reside (aka lockup). Always down, always straight. Very long.
-- YOUR WEAKNESS: My jugular vein and achilles tendon.
-- YOUR FEARS: Losing my independence or control of my own body
-- ONE THING YOU'D LIKE TO ACHIEVE: Working for Wizards of the Coast or Blizzard

-----------------STATISTICS------------- -----
-- NAME: "Kaitlin" on my birth certificate, introduces self as "Kate", becomes "Kat" to some, "Kat(e)-Metal" to others, and "Anath" to the internet.
-- MEANING: Kaitlin: Pure. I presume this is supposed to run along the lines of religious piety and chastity, but for me it fits better modified to something like "Pure Darkness", "Pure Metal", "Pure Idiocy", etc. "Anath": Phoenician goddess of war with a penchant for violence.
-- ALIAS: Anath
-- BIRTHTIME: 8am? I don't know, I wasn't particularly sentient back then.
-- GENDER: Female, I guess? *checks* Yeah, technically.
-- BIRTHSTONE: sapphire \m/
-- ZODIAC: the balanced Libra.
-- YEAR: Dragon. YES, I'm really a Dragon. Will someone tell those snakes and horses to take off those lame "Year of the Dragon" shirts already?
-- PET CATS: 1. Mo.
-- PET DOGS: NEVAR
-- OTHER: I have a pet tanar'ri that I occasionally hang out with, but for some reason other people don't seem realize he's there or ignore him. He gets very angry at this.

-----------------WHAT IS------------------
-- YOUR THOUGHTS FIRST WAKING UP: AAH TURN OFF ALARM!
-- THE FIRST FEATURE YOU NOTICE IN THE OPPOSITE SEX: How much or how little they resemble Adam. Then, their overall facial structure.
-- YOUR BEST PHYSICAL FEATURE: I like my overall appearance.
-- YOUR BEDTIME: 11-12 is what I shoot for
-- YOUR GREATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT: attending AIB
-- YOUR MOST MISSED MEMORY: Drawing on the floor at Grandma's with my cousin and making up stories. Time went so slow then, and it was a good kind of slow. But really, I don't miss much about my past.
-- YOUR MAJOR: Illustration / Fine Arts double major with History Minor
-- YOUR FAVORITE COLOR: Black, Blue, Purple.
-- THE MIGRATION PATTERN OF A SWALLOW: Non-migratory.

-----------------YOU PREFER------------------
-- PEPSI OR COKE: Mountain Dew. I hate all other pop.
-- MCDONALD'S OR BURGER KING: McD's, and only for snack wraps and the occasional fry.
-- SINGLE OR GROUP DATES: No Dates. Dates are Lame.
-- ADIDAS OR NIKE: New Balance
-- CHOCOLATE OR VANILLA: Chocolate
-- CAPPUCCINO OR COFFEE: Frappuccino or Green Tea Latte
-- BOXORS OR BRIEFS: Satin or silk panties
-- GIFTCARDS OR GIFTS: Neither. Fvkk buying people things. (I don't have money anyway XD)
-- REAL TREES OR FAKE TREES: Real. But if this refers to christmas trees than: none at all.
-- ACTION OR ROMANCE: ACTION! EXPLOSIONS! SCIENCE FICTION! FANTASY! APOCALYPSE! BANG!
-- THE LITTLE MERMAID OR HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL: they both suck

-----------------DO YOU------------------
-- SMOKE: never
-- CUSS: fuck, no!
-- TAKE A SHOWER EVERYDAY: 9/10. Helps me wake up anyway.
-- WANT TO GET MARRIED: someday
-- WANT TO HAVE CHILDREN: Not really, but maybe I'll change my mind when my Biological Clock has something to say about that
-- THINK YOU'RE ATTRACTIVE: I don't really care. I'm not out to impres... ]]> ~KizitoKitty http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/15559628/ http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/15559628/ Sun, 18 Nov 2007 08:42:08 PST
See, this is how balance works. Really AWESOME things juxtaposed with really SERIOUS problems.

Since I've been here, its either been the time of my life or a REALLY big screw up. I can't just mess up a little bit, oh no. I can't just have a number of small problems, no. I have to have BIG problems. And not just any kind of big problems, 2500$ size problems.

Well fuck that.

]]> ~KizitoKitty http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/15524019/ http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/15524019/ Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:34:12 PST
PLEASE comment on this, I need as much data as I can get. Also ask people you know either through dA, another website, or real life to either comment as well or to give you additional answers! As I stated before, the more data I can get, the better!


For my philosophy class, we had to generate "forums", or presenting a controversial topic we discussed in class with a group of people split in half to present either side.

My forum focuses around the thesis: "Good and Evil in Western thought are generally represented as black and white, but in reality are shades of grey along a continuum."

Since my group only has three people that share this opinion, we decided to each present a different view to support it. My focus will be on disproving misconceptions of what is stereotypically and incorrectly considered evil in modern Western culture (such as "satan" and "atheism"). I am going to do this roughly in the style of Debunking Christianity II but with much broader subject matter. By going through a variety of internet groups, I can get ideas I might not have thought of and be able to say that I DID poll a random group.

So, list a few things that modern Western society considers stereotypically "Good" and a few things that modern Western society considers stereotypically "Evil".

An example might be:

"Good" = faith, selflessness, preserving life
"Evil" = questioning democracy or God, selfishness/ambition, death or destruction of life



Again, thank you for participating, every comment helps.

]]> ~KizitoKitty http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/15423661/ http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/15423661/ Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:02:50 PST
I have my schedule lined up for next semester, I just hope I can get it. Registration is next Friday for me...
I will be taking my first Major classes: Principles of Illustration, Painting 1, and Intaglio 1. Yeah, I know that technically you're only supposed to take One Major class. I've been doing whatever I want and making exceptions for myself here at AIB, and its been working out. My adviser approved my plans, so no big deal, even though when I talk to people about my schedule they always freak out and ask me annoying questions/tell me things I already know. Like talking to this one girl... she asked me what I signed up for and she immediately responded with an "OH! Intaglio is REALLY labor intensive!"

... No kidding...

Then she proceeded to tell me how much work I'll have to do and how busy I'll be. I wonder if she even has a clue what I'm doing this semester... she's in several of my classes.

Even though I am busy, I do find free time to relax and I get out of the city occasionally, so I stay sane. I must say, I really do like the work I am doing now. There are very few things I've done that I've not enjoyed, and most of them have been external things, like getting a free Flu Shot, or fighting with the stupid Cafe people about what time they are open until and how I can't get there until 10:45 at the earliest on Tuesday and Thursday and I need dinner and if they can't be bothered to provide me dinner than I'll stand here and bitch until they bring me some cold cuts at least. Fortunately, the guy there was nice and gave me two free drinks.

its also interesting that a lot of people and professors around here seem to think of me as a generally happy, friendly person. In some ways I'm not sure how this misconception got started, but I HAVE been in an almost perpetual good mood since I got here... with only a few exceptions. I can wake up in a bad mood, or generate one on the T, but as soon as class starts, everything changes. This one guy who works the main cafe called me "Smiley" a week or two ago...

I have a LOT of work to post for the few people who do occasionally look at my site, but as I probably promised months ago, I have to borrow someone's camera/check one out and then find time that I WANT to just sit there and mess with all of that... though I might do it Monday, then edit the pictures to be bite size at work on Tuesday, then find time to post them throughout the week. Unfortunately some of my better work hasn't been given back to me yet... because its being held for the Open House in late Nov, and my best work of the semester hasn't been created yet.

Honestly, I'm dreading Winter Break. I don't want to go back to Marietta, I don't want to go back to my parent's house, my missing cat, Bob Evans, the lack of Odwalla and public transportation... I won't mind seeing Mo again, and I can't wait to get back to roleplaying, but I don't want to leave Boston to do those things, and I certainly don't want to leave Home (aka AIB). Winter Break will be longer than summer. I may see what I can do about coming Home early after break... and how I can get out of the majority of next summer in Marietta. I have ideas, but unfortunately I will have to take a Science class at WSCC over the summer so that I can get out of my science requirement here. I like running my own affairs and life, and here I can do that. In my parent's house, I just have them breathing down the back of my neck all the time, imposing this or that on me. I know they mean well, but I feel very restrained if ANY sort of collar or fence is put around me, and I've been too used to the absolute freedom of college to stand for it. Plus, some people get along better with many miles in between. And I have the leverage of being able to cut of communication completely.

I don't know, I just foresee bad things after the "Parent's Weekend"... I figured that we could stand each other for two days, but I was wrong. My mom and I ended up shouting at each other, attitudes exploded, they jostled me about scholarships and financial aid again and again, and I accidentally let my future plans slip.

Thats right, I told them I'd be double majoring in the five-year Illustration/Fine Arts program with a minor in History. And they began to worry.

I still don't think they're fully convinced that I'm doing the right thing for my future. I think my dad still sec... ]]> ~KizitoKitty http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/15173577/ http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/15173577/ Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:22:59 PDT

[link]


And now, a moment of silence for felines here and gone. May there be plenty of catnip mice on the other side.

]]> ~KizitoKitty http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/14800057/ http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/14800057/ Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:51:57 PDT
Everything is in full swing now. Sometime soon I'm going to borrow 's little digital camera and take a few shitty snapshots of my recent work to post. Most of it isn't that exciting, but It will be nice to clear the terrible stuff that is my current four pictures into my regular gallery so that they'll blend in a bit more, even if it is for class work. And one of my classwork pictures includes Relis-Gaul.

I'm getting back into a few comic series, now that I have money and means to spend it. I've almost completely caught up with Testament again, and found a short series called Mouse Guard. I don't know, I guess I just can't resist Redwall-y things. It seriously is a lot like Redwall too.. Mice with swords and cloaks, slaying snakes...

Anyway, I'm really not sure what else to write about right now. I'm lightly stressed, muscles sore, but overall I feel much better than I did at this time last year.

]]> ~KizitoKitty http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/14465487/ http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/14465487/ Mon, 03 Sep 2007 04:01:19 PDT
So my dorm room is pretty much one of the best places in the world. Its huge for a dorm room, I've got a trunk of gaming gear under my bed, a closet full of the clothes I will actually wear, a wall-length window that can completely open on the sides, kickass posters on the wall (even my roomies', the best comforter and pillows, gigantic bookshelves I didnt' bring enough books to fill (!!), and a city surrounding that is not just buildings and concrete, but parks and cemeteries and GREEN... oh yeah, and I control what and when I do things.

However, there is one problem, and that problem I listed as one of the reasons my dorm room is amazing. The windows open up all the way. I'm used to near silence when I sleep and this morning I kept waking up to car doors slamming, and weedwackers and who knows what else was going on outside. It doesn't help that I'm excited like a kid who believes in Santa and reindeer at Christmas waiting for a variety of things (later today, tomorrow, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, getting this, doing that, meeting professors...), so really I'm not sleeping very well as it is. I don't need people making noise at 5-6 am to wake me up.

Anyway, move-in yesterday was probably the smoothest process you could imagine. We drove up to one building, I got my ID, went through a maze of getting papers, then we drove to the small parking lot of the dorms, where we waited in a line, then parked and unloaded everything on a blue tarp. Then, we loaded everything from the blue tarp to the room via carts. Then I unpacked while more loads of junk were coming up. It was pretty much the least painful think I could have imagined.

Anyway, I have a lot to do today.

]]> ~KizitoKitty http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/14421463/ http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/14421463/ Fri, 31 Aug 2007 06:40:51 PDT
[angsty rant follows]
Tonight I read a bunch of my old journal entries on dA. It was interesting to see what I said just a year-and-a-few-months ago. Many things haven't changed, and I'm more or less where I projected I'd be... the only differences are minor and mostly irrelevant.

Though it feels like ages since my last quarter of my junior year, when I wrote the journal entry entitled "The Throes of Death". College then seemed transient and far off, and now its nearly tangible. In two days I'll be on the last few hours before move-in, when my life accelerates again and four years later I have to be (well I don't "have to", but it is rather required for a while to attain certain goals) a "productive member of society", whatever that means.

I see a lot of people around this time getting sentimental about their child hood, their gradeschool days, middle school, and high school. I'm really not. I do find it interesting, in a detached sort of way, that "just yesterday", I was in fifth grade, and what all that implies, "Just yesterday" I was going through the Church, and not because I wanted to, and "just yesterday", I was meeting people that would shape me into who I am today. But big deal, thats over now. I am who I am, and I will still be me at the end of the day, just with more knowledge. What happened in fifth grade, middle school, and the shit that went down the last semester of my senior year is over. I'm accepted into college, I already know a few people at school, I have an intense schedule, a job waiting for me, and the drive to achieve. Why dwell on the past? I am not nostalgic for the 90's, Saturday morning cartoons (I have youtube after all), or days where our hardest work came from solving "8+6=?". I am glad those days are done. Completion of that time puts me closer to my goal of leaving this plane.

So I grew up, so what? Millions of people grow up every day, what makes me any different?

I have occasionally wondered what "future me" would say about "current me", what "past me" would think about "current me", and the like, and today is a day that I look ahead to the future me of four years, or even of just one year. What will I think of the people I know on a name-only basis through facebook, or briefly met at orientation? What about the people on my floor? My professors? The school in general? Will it, and they, meet my expectations?

And taking a step back for a moment, it really doesn't matter. None of it. So many things from high and middle school do not seem real anymore--feelings, events, people, opinions--that soon enough college won't be "real" anymore either.




And now, from a non-angsty-rant perspective!

I got my Art History textbook this week, and its massive. I could feasibly kill someone with this book. Br00tal.

I also have new frames to sort of represent the new stage of my life. I moved out of the kid-frames I wore all through High School into a slightly sleeker design, though they are about the same shape and color. I think the change is a good one.

Anyway, I probably should stop rambling. I have a lot to do today... pack the car, double check everything, try to relax, finish thank you notes (XD), torment Mo, and so on.

]]> ~KizitoKitty http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/14327732/ http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/14327732/ Sat, 25 Aug 2007 00:38:16 PDT
tagged me for this one:

The game is 6 weird things about myself, habits/facts/dislikes whatever. This rule has to be stated clearly apparently, so there it is.
After this I have to pick 6 people to be tagged and list their names and comment on their pages to inform them of such. They must do the same, and so the vicious circle continues.

1. I play pen and paper roleplaying games like some people take heroin. I love gaming too much for a legal "Adult"... and I like to cosplay as original characters to Ren Faires and conventions.

2. When I was in preschool, I told the teacher I wanted to be a Paleontologist when I grew up. She had a chat with my mommy, then found out that I was for real.

3. I generally prefer the company of online friends to real ones, and the company of books and pencils to "homo sapiens". For this reason I had a high school reading level in 5th grade, but no friends to hang out with. C'est la vie...

4. I take things either VERY seriously or not seriously at all. There is nothing in between. The first indication that I'm not taking something seriously is a lapse into internet slang, which I hate.

5. I am highly involved in the metal/ambient and occult underground; the TRUE underground. Using Last.FM as a basis (since its the largest online musical social network) lots of my favorite bands have less than 1/2K listeners, and the majority have less than 10k... compared to chart-topping bands such as the Beatles with 800k+, RHCP with 840K+, Metallica with 560K+... etc. Most people do not like my music aesthetically, can not/do not want to understand the ideological aspects, and stereotype it to an extreme (Satan worshipping, church-burning, Christian-killing, mislead, violent...). Most of these people can never understand because they are turned off by the perceived imagery, and never try.

6. I first got serious about drawing when my cousin and I created a fantasy setting similar to Brian Jacques' Redwall. We designed animal warriors, created stories about them, and obsessed over them for years before our styles and subjects grew and developed into what they are now. I have been trying to redo my favorite character, Stalfos, for several months and failing terribly...


And since one of the rules is to Tag 6 people, I tag
j000!
You
YOU!
YOU!!
Yuu
and, whoever makes the first comment on this journal that I did not immediately tag.

]]> ~KizitoKitty http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/14316750/ http://KizitoKitty.deviantart.com/journal/14316750/ Fri, 24 Aug 2007 09:32:50 PDT is coming this weekend. Its official.

TFH FTW!

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