The Value of Stress

Our last assignment was to find a b&w photo, put a grid on it, put a grid on a blank piece of paper and recreate the original b&w photo with cut out pieces from other b&w magazine photos.

Found this nice one of... Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman, I think?

UGHHHHHHHHHHH Looking back on it, I'd really have to say that this assignment stressed me out more than any other assignment I've ever done. Even the paintings.

1. I mostly LOATHE arts and crafts. I can draw, paint, play piano, whatever... but when it comes to cutting things and glueing them... DEATHHHHHHH
2. I worked on these straight through two class periods. That's about 4-6 hours of cutting these tiny pieces to paste them into a 9x12 image without talking to anyone and being really frustrated at glue and scissors and keeping track of value tones and little pieces of paper and FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

Yeah, I know. I'm just a big drama queen. Complaining is how I get stress relief, alright? Cut me some slack. No pun intended lol :3

HOWEVER, I must admit that as cruel and sadistic an assignment this was, it was good for patience, detail, and... well... looking at it now, maybe not so much it's intended purpose for valuing value. @_@;;

Next assignment is a freeform self-portrait or self-expression mixed media piece. Need to get ahold of a clean TBell wrapper... HMMMM

ALSO: Living on your own is really expensive. Holy crap.

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Update

I got the Social Justice Art Internship at the Multi-Cultural Center on campus! SUPER STOKED!!!! Was so worried because the supervisor that called me sounded hella down and I'm pretty sure she sighed at one point and I was like... dangit. But I got it. YESSSSSSSS!!!! BOOM. DONE. THANK YOU AND GOODNIGHT.


lol 


As for the "What do vegetarians do when vegetables attack?" painting, I'm revamping it A LOT. Completely redoing the lady [ref here], fixing the sky, might change the hill colors. Changing the light source so that it is coming from the left. Yadda yadda. Might as well completely redo it. Right? What have I got to lose when it comes to an assignment for a beginning painting class?


And for my final project for Beginning Digital Art, I decided to sort of make a bigger deal out of the zombie stop motion animations that I've done in the past. Pretty stoked. My professor showed me the basics of how to use Flash and I was like... 2012 acting status. MY... GOD... [2 minutes later] ... MY... GOD!!! But yeah, it was pretty amazing and so I am excited for that as well. Not sure what I'm going to do for my Beginning Painting final.... eek. Even though I feel like a lot of people bullshit the work in class, and I do it too... not even gonna lie... but I actually learn a lot through... bullshitting. lol Just gotta go all out and see what happens, learn things along the way. 


It's the journey that counts, not the destination, right? 


ALSO: thesixtyone is pretty much AMAZING for pretentious indie hipster music. Check it out. A lot of the downloads are free too. 8D LEGIT.


And if you want electronica, then 22tracks is good. Updates every week, I think?