Pics from Chicago

I am going to post a link to the photos on my facebook account instead of loading them all here.

First Batch

Second Batch

Third Batch


Song of the Day: Respiration, Black Star feat. Common

Chicago

I'M IN CHICAGO! w00t!

holy shit, either a bomb just went off or it's a surprise thunder storm.

Anyway, Chicago. I got in around 9pm and have mostly just been chillin' with my friend Kristi, waiting for the others to get in around midnight. We discovered that we both love hip-hop and have been trading favorite tracks via youtube videos.

Not much else to report. Tomorrow is the beggining of the conference, should have more to say then.

Peace

Snake in the Eagle's Shadow on the Big Screen

Snake in Snake in the Eagle's Shadow, one of Jackie Chan's first big films, is playing at the Hollywood Theater next Tuesday, March 24th, at 7:45. I won't be able to make it, for I will be in Chicago, but you should! This was the first movie that Jackie was given artistic control and one of Yuen Wu Ping's first blockbusters. The music is some amazing early German(?) electronic music that fucking kicks ass. Great film with awesome snake and eagle style kung fu.

bite sized blog #2

Today has been thoroughly depressing. I have begun the process of packing up my belongings for the move. I decided to start with the closets. These I have hardly used in my two year residency here, filling them with junk. I don't have boxes to put things in yet, so mostly I have just been making different piles on the floor: garbage, recycling, goodwill, to be boxed up, etc. This was a slow process, like archeology, but instead of skulls and pottery fragments I am uncovering two years of life. The astonishing amount of detritus from my failed relationship with Amanda constantly giving me pause. To throw out a love letter written on the back of a small painting, crafted with great care and intimacy, once holding heavy emotion, is a strange experience. Too, I am leaving my home! Woe! I love my little apartment. sigh.

Ah, well. I am off now to drink beer and play pool. The balm of depression.

bite sized blog

Once more I am writing from my iphone. In short, I just watched "In Bruges" again. What a great film. If you haven't seen it go to movie madness or netflix or whatever and get it. It's beautifully shot, funny, has a stunning setting, delivers good action, and is actually pretty smart. In a way it reminds me of "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang." Oh, if you haven't seen kiss kiss bang bang, pick that up at the video store as well.

That's it for now.

hiatus

I'm not gonna have internet readily available for the next two weeks. This week I am moving and next week I will be in Chicago. While in Chicago I hope to be live blogging the conference on the official PSU printmaking blog (I'll post the link later, I'm writing this from my iphone) and twittering the crap out of it.

That is all for now.

Five Kung Fu movies worth seeing

The Odd Couple:


36th Chamber of Shaolin:


Magnificent Butcher:


Fist of Legend:


Drunken Master:


Song of the Day: Damn Your Eyes, Zap Mama

Final Printmaking Critique

We had the final Critique in my Printmaking class today. It went alright. Nobody really said anything about my art, and they never do. Which can mean several things: 1)they don't like it 2)they don't get it 3) the art is so unbelievably awesome that they fear speech will ruin the divine act of looking upon my work. But, whatever, I am not very emotionally invested in any of the art I produced this term. I felt that I majorly slacked off but still produced quite a bit of work. This makes me rather disappointed in myself, for if I had engaged this term I would have produced a crap load of work.

On to the pictures (note, these are supremely shitty iPhone pics taken hastily so as to not block the view of other students. Most of these Prints are much nicer looking in real life, let it be known!):

Aisha




Ryan




Sara




Cassie




Me (eli)




Her name escapes me


Waylon Solos (Ben)





Ross (that is not Ross in the photo. ha.)



Dan

Amber



Erik

Alex



Peter

From left to right: Aisha, Ross, Dan, Cassie (obscured), Eleanor, Amber, Alex

Ben talking trash

Fancy dresses.




Song of the Day: Don't Stop, Brazilian Girls

School. China. Chicago

With the Winter term wrapping up, I will soon be on spring break. Tomorrow I have my last tai chi fan dance class, final critique in Printmaking, and concluding Senior Art Seminar class (which will be a potluck!). This is good, I am glad to see this term go; it has been the single most unproductive quarter of my college career. I have been in a funk that has been hard to escape. Hopefully a fresh start will be the boost I need.

I found out yesterday that after this term I will need only one more class to graduate. This is great news. I thought that I might need three or four more classes, but my adviser squished around some floating elective credits into empty spots. This leaves me needing four upper division art credits outside of my emphases, which means any four hundred level art course that is not printmaking. Hell Yeah! I can't decide between a metals casting class, a social practice class, or a class called Contemporary Studio Practice, which basically is a class where they give you a small studio space and allow you to work very hard on whatever you want. These all sound very fun to me.

My good friend Tyson is in China right now having fun. I am a little jealous. For those of you who may not know Tyson, imagine the doofiest goober in the world. Now multiply that by a few dozen. now you have Tyson. Here are some pictures of his shenanigans:

After eating sea horse on a stick in Beijing

Hearts in the Bird's nest Olympic Stadium

The great wall


Drunk on rice wine on the great wall

Drunken style Kung Fu on the great wall

PK bike gang sign.


I was able to have a brief Instant Message conversation with him today. He is doing well and having fun with his friends Robin and Steve. I have met both of them before and they seem like they would be great folks to travel with. Their plan as of right now is travel around China until they run out of money. I am crazy levels of envious.

Chicago is coming up quick and I haven't even begun to deal with the logistics of the trip. ugh. I have to pack, print an addition of twenty prints, and loads of other shit, all while moving out of my apartment. sigh.

I am gonna have SO MUCH FUN though. I am sure I will be super pumped to create all sorts of art when I come back. Which is very exciting.

Song of the Day: Cobbs Creek (Great Skate Remix), King Britt, featuring De La Soul