Posted in Finished Work on 05/31/2008 11:22 pm by Mandy
So, first, and most important. Constructive Deconstruction is DONE! As in, finished, totally done. The critique was amazing, so many people were there! Somehow I got lucky and two classes where there to watch the festivities. I got some great pics and Zach was filming it. So, lets just get down to it.
And here is the VIDEO! I had so much fun editing and added a Deftones song. Hope you likes!
Also I dressed up as a Rockstar Neko today for lunch and work, it was epic. Heres some pics
Yay for ipods and kitty ears! Tomorrow – steampunk kitty! W0000t… hopefully we still get to go to RONS house! His kid is sick.. so sad.
So today I finally got to ride my bicycle to school. It was in Lake City for SO LONG! It hurt my ass though, Im going to have to get a new seat. lol.
I think i totally bombed my psych test. Oh well, that class isnt really my thing. I didnt make it to the review. I really think the rest will be easy. I was working on sculpture during the review, that is worth more to me.
Rest of the classes are boring. My sculpture class was okay, we discussed what is to come. I told him about my idea for my Movement project and he loved it, so do I. It will be amazing.
I came home today and took a nap, I had several people going to call later, but no one did so I ended up speeling.. well.. forever. LOL Oh well, it was worth it!
My ceramics class is going well, have many pieces waiting on glazing.
The roses are a new thing, I thought looked nice, Its just if they can last. The bowls are fun, the glazes look thick, but alot of it is wax and clear. I cant wait to see them finished!
So, Im working on my neko kitty outfit! Im going to be so adorable! lol. I wanted to make some kitty ears because I cant find any ANYWHERE! I got a great lions tail at Golden Grotto, but they had no ears AT ALL. I got some little clip ears at Hot Topic, but they were tiny and looked weird with my ears. So I got some cloth piping stuff and felt and some boa stuff. They looked better than alot of sites I went to. (ie pawstar)
Saturday night PARTY! Im excited! Rons super exclusive Halloween Partee! Its going to be epic! Last party for a while.. BOO! but it will be an amazing time! And all those bands! SWEET!
Today I cleaned ALL day long! I also marinated and cooked some derishus lemon pepper chicken with garlic over rice and green beans. Mmmmmmmmmmmm! nom nom nom nom! It was good. OH and I also got Zoe Zoe groomed at Ms Ellies! She looks so good!
And I bought some new furniture! See, the guy next door is moving… or ’something’ and needed to sell his furniture fast. He was going to give me a couch, love seat, bed, and table for $150. WOW right? Well I got a $150, but didnt get to him in time and didnt think he would have it, oops. Well today he knocked on the door and I told him I had $110. So he gave me a couch, love seat and queen sized bed for $110. So we had to rearange all my furniture and now my house is totally trashed again! But I have a big comfy green couch!
Im having so much trouble trying to think of something for my sound project. It has to be perfect.. im too much of a perfectionist…..
Last night was.. well interesting. lol. We always go to our firend Rons on Saturday nights and well, a girl showed up that I hadnt seen in about 3 years. The weird thing is, she has dated about everyone there, so things were.. interesting.. especially considering she was drunk… DRUNK off her ass.
Today was great though, I got to spend time with my friend Lou, shes the best. We are derishus mexian food. El AGAIN! OH no! We are going to hang out again tomorrow. Im excited!
Posted in Sculpture on 05/25/2008 12:16 pm by Mandy
So I was up working on my sculpture, oh… til about 5am.. What I did was put hose on the wire frame and painted it with many coats of starch. This made it very stiff, which would be good, but I needed more of a contour shape, sooo… I decided to use plaster. Well the water in the plaster dissolved my starch.. so I decided I would use paper mache. This worked well but wasnt drying quick enough, so.. in a stroke of brilliance (sarcasm) I figured if I put a layer of plaster over it, it would dry and soak up the water. WRONG.. wrong wrong. It NEVER dried.
So I did my Plan B (or Z) and just covered it in an old copy of “The Female Orgasm” (a scientific look at it) At 5am I just gave up. I went back at 8am and it was still VERY wet… I had to use woodglue to keep the pages from falling off. After the pages were wet and had turned colors abit, i really started to like it.
It came time for class and I had to move that heavy bitch. It sucked, but all worked out in the end! My critique went well and I loved how she looked displayed. I cant wait to actually finish her. I think she would look amazing in a gallery.
I really like it. The inside looks like fire, which helps the concept. I want to go back over her and make it a bit more smooth, also add some thicker wire. In critique someone brought up the idea of sound, which I think would be interesting to add pr0n background noise or music.
In other news, a butterfly landed on my hand today.
Posted in Sculpture on 05/23/2008 07:24 pm by Mandy
☞ Well, I have a sculpture due tomorrow at 11am. It is a project involving light. Right now its a bit in shambles but headed in a good direction. I just talked to my (wonderful) boss and she is giving me the say off (I also worked for her Sunday) to finish up. I have a shit ton of work to do on it. like… TONS. I dont even know if my plan will pan out anyway. Lets hope starch still does the same stuff it did when I was a kid. I still have to starch the damn thing and cover it in plaster, then shape the plaster. Oh my.
It looks like a big heap of poop now, lol. But I assure (at least hope so) its coming along nicely. lol.
In other news, yay for blogging! LOL first once since… 2004 maybe? oh god.
Posted in Sculpture on 05/23/2008 11:47 am by Mandy
okay, so I have been more than busy this week.. Im working on a very ambitious piece called Constructive Deconstruction. I havnt had my camera with me but here is it almost finished.. I worked from 7pm last night until 7am this morning… wow.. im pooped. I had class at 8am til 1pm and Im just about to head to bed FINALLY. My feet are dying. The piece is due next tuesday, and I cannot wait to show it!
it needs a few tweeks and a new paint job..
See those little doors at the top, they are hinged and the inside has hypodermic needles attatched. The dark black you see are baggies of black paint, which will unleash when struck with the ball and cover it black. Also all of it is ment to corupt, and while you play it, you will be destroying it.
Ya, so the ball kept getting hung when I tried, I cant wait to see the finished peice all destroyed like! lol.
Last night, Me and my wonderful boyfriend Joey went with my friend Lou and her husband Roo to eat at O’Charleys. It was delicious! I had Bayou Salmon. Me and Lou got drinks, I had an amazing margarita and she got a cotton candy martini. It was neat, they put cotton candy in a glass and pour the drink ontop to melt the cotton candy.
We went and saw Quarentine, the new Zombie movie out. It was good. I thought I would be scared (because I usually get scared at movies) but I wasnt. I think it must just be ghost movies.. Those are scary as HELL! Like this one
!! The previews of that alone scared me to death. Im a chicken. I think its the dog with the mask.
Afterwards we came back to my place and drank and watched youtube. But it was late anyway so everyone was tired. Overall it was a great night. ^^ I cant wait til tonight!
Did these for my frien d Lou, she is always putting on her music at parties and such. Anyway, quick post dont have too much to say. I think my next post I am going to do a tutorial type of post on how I did those, I took a ton of screenshots. Its really pretty easy though, dont know if its needed.
Last night we went to Memphis with Joey and his boss, Ben, to see Avenue Q at the Orpheum. We got there way to early and ate at The Kings Palace on Beale, which was derishus! I had Voodoo Chicken. Mmm. Also Ben bought 2 bottles of wine for us, Yum. I also had an Amaretto Sour and a Baileys and coffee after dinner. Also Yum. Our bill was about 70 with tip, and that didnt have the alcohol on it. Wow, thanks a billion Ben.
Avenue Q was AMAZING. I laughed SO hard. I loved it! There were PUPPETS FUCKING…. wtf. Still, hilarious! Im so glad we went, Joey is amazing. He looked so good dressed up. It was VERY FUN hanging out with ‘grown ups.’ lol.
Oh oh oh oh! I am getting a new car soon. My truck is literally falling apart, so Im getting a new Honda Fit. PURPLE! I am so excited. Ive never had a NEW car. This is the one I want.
Also, today we saw this adorable little kid dancing in our Neighbors door. He was only like 3 years old. I was laughing so hard! This is epic.
so sad.
