http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:Kruszewski&section=today deviantART RSS for by:Kruszewski en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:44:42 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://Kruszewski.deviantart.com/journal/14015077/ http://Kruszewski.deviantart.com/journal/14015077/ Sat, 04 Aug 2007 12:42:16 PDT I'm home.

Things are rather slow around here compared to what I've been living in for the past month. It's something of an opportunity to finish pieces on several mediums I had started in the past thirty days, along with books being and assignments getting done.

I got a facebook. I would like to say I've succumbed but I feel like it's something more along the lines of commitment to people I've met over that past month and want to keep in touch with so dearly. So I'm going with that. I'm keeping it kosher on some level, a very small number of applications, checking only once or twice a day if need be. I don't want to get addicted to ANOTHER web site again, I have barely enough time as it is.

I went to a Nickel Creek concert in Baltimore a few nights ago; Fiona Apple was a special guest. It was a beautiful show with so much truly great musical innovation and skill. I like how they tied in Miss Apple; instead of having her play alone, the illustrious quartet opened and then, after a few songs, Miss Apple joined the whole of them, singing some of her wonderful music with a more folksy backing rather than the jazzy piano that I'm more accustomed to. It was so great! I believe there are pictures on that bookface of a site.

Anydangway. I wrote some things and composed some things and orchestrated somethings over the past month ad I plan to share some of them with all of you throughout the coming week. I hope you enjoy them. For those of you that preferred that era...I've written some romantic pieces again, and I'm rather fond of them; I hope you all will be too.

I'm doing more recording musically now, so I'm trying to find more ways to make it all listentoable. I'll make a site soon or post links or something...I promise.

Well, I hope you're all well, and until next time...
HURRY, my friends! Off we go! To the future!

]]> ~Kruszewski http://Kruszewski.deviantart.com/journal/13561064/ http://Kruszewski.deviantart.com/journal/13561064/ Sun, 01 Jul 2007 07:54:11 PDT
I'm going away for a month to the University of Richmond in Richmond, Virginia to participate in the Governor's School for the Visual and Performing arts. I applied earlier at the beginning of the school year and after auditions, forms, and suspense on several levels; I seem to have made it into the program. I applied for dance, for those of you who don't know me on a face to face basis. It's rather exciting but I'm more concerned with whether or not I'll end up messing up or something of the like.
I'll be gone from after I post this Journal to the 28th of July, so, don't expect anything from me until then. Cell phones and computers are prohibited so the only way to contact me would be to write me. If any of you feel some unfathomable urge to write me, feel free. Here's the address:

Alex Kruszewski
Lora Robins #A104
Governor's School Program
28 Westhampton Way
University of Richmond, VA 23173

Staying on the topic of dance, I danced at the Kennedy Centre a few weeks ago. It was part of segment remembering two students lost in the Virginia Tech Incident during the Cappies Gala, which is a critics award program for high school theatre in the National Capitol Area. If any of you are interested, there are some photos on the Cappie website, [link] (somewhere between 70 and 75), and they will be broadcasting the Gala on Channel 21 in this area with is the Fairfax County Channel for us, at 1 P.M. on July 2nd and 3rd and at 9 P.M. on July 6th and 7th. It will also be aired in August on WETA, public television, but the date is still unconfirmed; when they finally decide, it'll be on the site. The program is about three hours long but the dance is within the first half hour, just so you know in case you planned on checking that out.

- - -

Anyway,
Outside of the dance world, I've been writing a lot lately, and I haven't been limiting myself in ways that I have in the past. I've been drawing upon styles, concepts, and mediums that I have used throughout my entire artistic experience, incorporating them all into the recent pieces. I'm not limiting myself to English either. It's a rewarding and refreshing experience and I hope to share some of it with you when I return. This may include something like a game for all of so...be ready.

Have a nice July everyone.
and Goodbye for now.

]]> ~Kruszewski http://Kruszewski.deviantart.com/journal/13001468/ http://Kruszewski.deviantart.com/journal/13001468/ Fri, 18 May 2007 13:34:31 PDT But I'm here now.
Ok.

I while ago, ~nesarcy asked me to do this and now I guess I'm finally getting around to it.

Rules: The 1st player of this "game" starts with the topic "6 Weird Habits//Things About Yourself" and people who get tagged need to write a journal about their 6 Weird Habits//Things as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose the next 6 people to be tagged and list their names. Don't forget to leave a comment that says "You are tagged" in their devPage comments and tell them to read yours.

1. Showers. I love hot showers, preferably an hour or two long. Sure, a lot of people like hot showers, longer than they should be, but strange things happen to me when I take these showers. I loose all conceptualism of time and priority, leading me into situations where I take a shower for a half and hour longer than I should have. In some cases, I'm fortunate that there's a limit on how much hot water one heating unit can provide over a certain period of time, otherwise I'd probably be in there all day.

2. Water. In an attempt to remain on the same topic. Something about water makes me feel more at home and at peace within it. Remaining stationary within in water, underwater, is one of my most favourite feelings and experieces. The sounds. The sights. It's so tranquil, regardless of what is happening above the surface. During the summer I often retreat to the deep end on my own and submerge myself in its middle to about the midway between the bottom and the surface...and I just remain there...drifting...training myself to have to breathe less in order to remain longer. It's a beautiful thing. Long hair helps accentuate the feeling too.

3. Sound. Of my five sense, I favour sound by far. I react more and can comprehend more through sound than through any other sensory method of perception. This probably explains why music has always had such a strong effect on me. Additionally, save a few exceptions, words spoken and heard have always been better understood than those written for me, which is awkward, being a writer in many respects. When I write most of my pieces, I write them as though they were to be spoken, sung, or chanted, creating different styles and effects that I tend to favour. I learn more about myself, others, and things happening around me through the music that I listen to and play than my writing, on it's own, could ever teach me. Printed words are difficult to understand until the sound is percieved in my mind.

4. Wherever I am, whatever I'm doing, if there's a piano there, or any other instrument for that matter, I'll find it and find a way to play it. From a high school auditorium to a cruise ship, from a friend's house to...somewhere obscure, I will pick up anything and start playing and composing, drawing back into the aural fixation expressed earlier. Being a multi-instrumentalist almost on an annoying and intrusive level is never my intention, but the concept of an instrument is so easy to used as long as you understand how the notes in a scale work.

5. I like to have everything organized and maintained in a certain way, arranged in a certain pattern, that is, everything except that which belongs to me. While I like to keep my surroundings in a more coordinated, efficient, and easily adjustable position, things like my room, my things, my schedule, my thought process, my priorities, and in many scenarios, my life as a whole, is terribley disorganized. Yet, when I get nervous, I don't go and fix my own problems, I fix that which happens around me. How so? I'll never forget the night that I attended a party at which there were less-than-acceptable activities occurring and in a confused and nervous state, I rearranged the entire basement of the house. It was odd, but I did it. It's something I'm always trying to work on, but I have a feeling that it's problem I'm always going to have.

6. Regardless of what you may say, I thought it through over and over and over again, and the same idea remains present: I would rather be female. After a significant amount of study and analysis, there's a certain inherent beauty and depth in the female experience that males will never, ever, have the opportunity to understand fully. I'm aware of this and that and the other thing that many of my female friends have complained about, trying to convince me that I should feel otherwise, and I've determined that such things would be small prices to pay in return for other wonderful things that women and girls have the opportunity to experinece and understand. Even more than the physical and emotional experience, I long to be a mother, and to experiece that connection between a mother and her child. Above all things, the creation of life is more beautiful than many can see at first, and to know that the... ]]> ~Kruszewski http://Kruszewski.deviantart.com/journal/10319540/ http://Kruszewski.deviantart.com/journal/10319540/ Sat, 07 Oct 2006 22:17:56 PDT I guess that's how things go these days,
It was being cumbersome
Not so visually appealing.

I want to post many a piece
But I have many a time constraint

Am I the only one that recieves the spam emails the consist of sadoldforgotten schitzophrenic stories? They're so interesting to me.
I save them and keep them for later.

I'm going to start studying classical piano again.
^{mymodernclassicalmeloncholiawontcutitfor ever}




I wish I had nothing to do.

]]> ~Kruszewski http://Kruszewski.deviantart.com/journal/9441555/ http://Kruszewski.deviantart.com/journal/9441555/ Thu, 03 Aug 2006 21:29:24 PDT After commenting on some poetry from watchers,
I've been noticing their style and their method of writing,
It's so innovative and fresh and thought provoking.

I would compare with my work,
And I find myself discontented and rather disappointed with my gallery.
My style, or lack there of as I've come to notice, isn't exactly original
Basic metric style and structure with just occasional lack of rhyme scheme.
It really leads me to question myself as a poet, and as a writer,
As an artist entirely,
I feel like I should alter the way I do things...

Before Jonny Cash died, he was working with producer Rick Rubin,
One of things I had read that Mr. Cash had said to Rick at some point was that a little while back, Jonny had written a song, Rick read it and said that maybe he should take out all of the "I's" and the "Me's." Ever sinse, Jonny said that he had been writing without putting in those words. I really thought about that too, finding the same occurence in my work...

I'm going to be trying new things, hopefully
Taking chances language wise, structure wise, everything wise.
I'm tired of my work, I'm tired of everything I've done.
Allright, maybe not tired of it, but it's time for a change.

I still have so much to post though, pieces that remain continualy sitting on my floor,
Pleased don't be overwhelmed if you see about fifteen or twenty posts in about a week or so...
I would greatly appreciate if you read them and made helpful critiques.

I might be moving several things to scraps, as well.

As soon as I'm finished with those though...
I hope to bring out something new, something fresh, things I haven't tried before.
I want the poetry to be more than just thoughful words on a sheet of paper,
It needs to paint pictures and build cities in peoples minds,
Taking them where they've never been, and then bringing it all back home.
That's what I want to accomplish.

Consequently, take a good read of the galleries of ~forallthingsblue and ~yournotagoodbye
They deserve it.

>>>OK.
maybe I was a little critical of myself, but i guess you can't always be happy with your stuff. i'll get newer things up here soon
i just have these pieces i don't really like in my way...
but there are those who like the ones i don't like so, mental roadblack i guess
I'll just force myself, they might go right to scraps but who cares?
get these out of the way and put up a much less critical journal entry, just so i don't have to look at this things anymore.

^{Happiness abound ^-^
I'm going to go play a song now} ]]> ~Kruszewski http://Kruszewski.deviantart.com/journal/9160061/ http://Kruszewski.deviantart.com/journal/9160061/ Fri, 23 Jun 2006 14:11:26 PDT It's time.
I think I'll finally be able to post things,
far more frequently on a monthly basis.

When you comment on a piece, please interperet the piece and then comment on the aspects of the piece iself and how it could be better. "That's cool" and "^-^" aren't very constructive when I'm looking for ways to better my artistic abilities; whether it be writing, photography, painting, drawing, or whatever I may post in the future.

I hope you like everything I've had hiding up in my room. ]]> ~Kruszewski http://Kruszewski.deviantart.com/journal/8989478/ http://Kruszewski.deviantart.com/journal/8989478/ Tue, 06 Jun 2006 14:05:44 PDT No real motivation to do anything about it.

We'll see.
Don't push me. ]]> ~Kruszewski http://Kruszewski.deviantart.com/journal/8754273/ http://Kruszewski.deviantart.com/journal/8754273/ Fri, 12 May 2006 22:20:52 PDT
I just finished two shows and now I'm almost done the third.
I just performed at my school's coffeehouse, the opening act, singing and piano.
I sang "Pyramid Song" by Radiohead and an arrangment of "Hurt" by NIN
Apparently people really liked it.
Kevin Manship's performance was phenominal, singing and guitar.
Write down that name folks, I'm not kidding around here.

I really feel the need to write.
I feel something.
Somewhere.
I'll have some new stuff up soon. ]]> ~Kruszewski http://Kruszewski.deviantart.com/journal/8057211/ http://Kruszewski.deviantart.com/journal/8057211/ Thu, 09 Mar 2006 15:46:05 PST
Now that that's over with, I'll get back to things that matter.
Ill finish posting some more of those traditional-manipulations I created.
Going to get back to more traditions mediums, in fact...and I'll finally post some fuckin' hairball ball pictures, for you ~MK~!
The Dropped Vic Rattlehead Redesign Concept has reformed intself into a traditional piece/poem, nice to see that they have a specific category for that now.

Definitely going to get a backlog of poetry up here, just need to do some more editing, everything is all over the floor of my room...
Actually, I'm gonna be posting some larger works, i.e. works that span over multiple deviations.
Like, "The Mutagen Sequences" are almost done, again, just need to finish the editing...
I was rumaging through the desk where I put crap that I've allready finished and I came across this three/four pager, cealry split up into separate pieces that all flow together continuously, and I think it's got potential, so I'll work on that too.
I might even get back into some romantic poetry, but that all depends on a particular someone...

god damn, I need to get me a devID and an avatar...but I guess I've been prolonging it because I want my hair to be as long as physically possible so everyone will know the me with long hair.
Maybe I'll have one up soon, because I'm sick of not having one...definitely gonna need help from others for that...

Oh yeah, almost forgot, I'm seriously thinking about going back into all of my old poems and taking out all the commas at the ends of the lines. After considering something that took me a while to grasp when *iamshe commented on "Tweety," I realize that they could be somewhat of a distraction to the reader...any objections?

I might be putting some deviations into storage soon, just to clean up the gallery, make it look more presentable with more of my better work. If something is suddenly gone and you want it back, note me.

Well, until the next major developmental update...
You know where to find me. ]]> ~Kruszewski http://Kruszewski.deviantart.com/journal/7632615/ http://Kruszewski.deviantart.com/journal/7632615/ Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:45:37 PST
I'm sorry I haven't commented on anyone's submissions or journals for a while, I've been really busy, severely stressed out at points. I'll get comments up soon, and some new submissions of my own as well. Definitely gonna be submitting more visuals now. I'll update the devID and finally get myself and avatar.

As for non-DA work, I've have been working on some music lately, that's going well. Eventually, I'll put a link up to a site where you could download my stuff. As for bizzare music projects I'm working on at this second: my good friend, ~Mr-Shutter [link] , and I are building a mixer for all of my keyboards and turntables and whatnot, and I'm trying to get myself an accordian*...

Well, expect to see something cool by the end of the month.

*Why the hell would I be looking for an accordian? Listen to the soundtrack to Amélie, by Yann Tiersen, some of the most amazing accordian I've ever heard. I wanna learn to play the damn thing... ]]> ~Kruszewski http://Kruszewski.deviantart.com/journal/7440172/ http://Kruszewski.deviantart.com/journal/7440172/ Wed, 28 Dec 2005 13:16:52 PST Don't damage your ears, especialy if you're a music enthusiast like myself. Even the temporary damaging or clogging is detrimental and really bums you out.
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I hate being temporarily deaf, what a drag... ]]> ~Kruszewski http://Kruszewski.deviantart.com/journal/7258446/ http://Kruszewski.deviantart.com/journal/7258446/ Sat, 10 Dec 2005 10:02:34 PST
I have a time managment problem, some of you already know that. It's not exactly easy to balance all of these big things, small things, and unimportant yet still important to me things in my life. I'll have some time freeing up soon though, I'll post something, keep your shirts on...
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And here it is, the long awaited "Four Stones Puppet Show!" (Episode 1)
[link] ]]> ~Kruszewski http://Kruszewski.deviantart.com/journal/7122226/ http://Kruszewski.deviantart.com/journal/7122226/ Wed, 23 Nov 2005 10:34:48 PST
GO BUY IT!!! ]]> ~Kruszewski http://Kruszewski.deviantart.com/journal/7010029/ http://Kruszewski.deviantart.com/journal/7010029/ Thu, 10 Nov 2005 14:34:48 PST ~Kruszewski http://Kruszewski.deviantart.com/journal/6812795/ http://Kruszewski.deviantart.com/journal/6812795/ Wed, 19 Oct 2005 19:05:00 PDT ~Kruszewski http://Kruszewski.deviantart.com/journal/6760569/ http://Kruszewski.deviantart.com/journal/6760569/ Thu, 13 Oct 2005 18:55:20 PDT
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What if a crazy-ass heavy metal band, for like, their fourth album or something, just put on tap shoes and and danced? That would be the whole album, just the band...tap dancing. I would buy it... ]]> ~Kruszewski http://Kruszewski.deviantart.com/journal/6710298/ http://Kruszewski.deviantart.com/journal/6710298/ Sat, 08 Oct 2005 06:55:55 PDT
All of that hassle for a dance.
Homecoming is weird. ]]> ~Kruszewski http://Kruszewski.deviantart.com/journal/6696483/ http://Kruszewski.deviantart.com/journal/6696483/ Thu, 06 Oct 2005 15:38:36 PDT ~Kruszewski http://Kruszewski.deviantart.com/journal/6573028/ http://Kruszewski.deviantart.com/journal/6573028/ Thu, 22 Sep 2005 13:31:09 PDT
But considering that it is my birthday, I found that it would be a great occasion to say that things are gonna change around here.

I'm gonna be posting a whole buncha new stuff soon, when soon is, I can't really say, but just bare with with me here.

I'm gonna be tryin' some new stuff, messing with some old stuff, and just making this stupid site actually define how I think and act and just get by, y'know. That's how art should be anyway, y'know what I'm sayin'? ]]> ~Kruszewski http://Kruszewski.deviantart.com/journal/6415574/ http://Kruszewski.deviantart.com/journal/6415574/ Sun, 04 Sep 2005 16:30:55 PDT --
URL to his site:www.freewebs.com/mysteryguycomics
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We're gonna create a puppet show based on one of his comics, and it's gonna be hillarious. But it's gonna take us a while, so i'll keep you posted. Stay tuned! ]]> ~Kruszewski