Iam:
Twenty
From Long Island, New York
Attending Long Island University - C.W. Post campus for art therapy
An amateur sculptor with big visions for a short person (and I do mean my actual height!)
An employee of Old Westbury Gardens
Not a vegan (which everyone seems to be?)
Not a drinker, smoker, or drug user
In love with VH1 reality shows (I love those classless skanks!)
Far too giddy for my own good, but surprisingly short fused
A stereotypical angry artist, swearing and throwing shit about
An avid listener of synthpop, futurepop and EBM
Also an avid listener of Murder by Death (they're so wonderful they get their own line!)
Open to random messages (feel free to send one, because fuck knows I'm too nervous to :D)
On AIM (CastToDamnation).
Current modifications:
4x Ear lobes (3x Left, 1 Right)
3x Helix (Left)
2x Navel (Inverse, Side - Left)
Standard nostril (Right)
Orbital (Rook to helix - Left)
Nape
Septum
Tragus (Left)
Sternum surface piercing
Sternum Surface Piercing: Done by Brian Decker of Pure Body Arts (Brooklyn)
The Beasts
Marvin: : ) She's a cutie
2009/11/18 09:27 Wednesdays would be SO much better if I didn't have photography tonight. One more photo project to go. And binding our books (my cover alone will make everyone else's look pathetic). Presenting my presentation today. And I think that bitch who took the photographer I wanted didn't actually do her project and just said she did so she could get that photographer, as she's not presenting today (the first day available), yet somehow... I finished my thing in a week and I am. How fucking peculiar.
Anyway, my implied function project dilemma has apparently been resolved. For my sculpture 1 class, I did this bullshit project in all of an hour and then it was a do whatever the hell you want project time. So I went to the metal shop, drew out something random and started cutting and welding shit together. So Steve comes over at some point and is talking with Jim and they're like yeah your sculpture looks like a rocket ship. It looks like it has an implied function, to which I promptly asked if I could use it for his class and I can. And I'll make some piece of shit thing for Dan's class where he'll lie to me and tell me it's amazing. I swear, anything I do he tells me he loves, and that stuff isn't good, but he'll say it anyway. Steve also told me he doesn't understand why he says that (which is kind of funny in itself since Steve is openly hating on my stuff... Love itttt). However, I have a theory, since I think Dan knows I'm not like the rest of the class who blindly loves and worships the ground on which he walks; he's trying to indirectly get the class to resent me (which is how I think the class feels, which is thus why I propose this theory). With everything I do he has the class stop working and come over and look, be it for his class or Steve's. He sends people back to the metal shop to have me give them a welding demo (which I'm not knowledgeable enough to give and I told everyone who came that little bit of information). So Dan tells me yesterday after the class was over and I was in my Sculpture 2 class that the Sculpt 1 students all look up to me (so I think this means he wants me to try to get a little ego trip from this and not realize everyone in my class thinks I'm trying to make them look bad). Yeah... I guess it's good I have two friends in the class from last year and a few friends from this year and help out everyone so they can't really resent me with any really legit cause. So that's my theory, and I admit fully I'm a paranoid person.
And to end this, I'm totally excited to bake some cupcakes tonight! I want to bake something once a week. So I'm going to bring some of these cupcakes into the sculpture studio tomorrow and it'll be wonderful. : ) And Saturday is going to be totally exciting too, as it's a city trip with the Art League and then, hopefully, meeting up with my sister and her friends for dinner for her birthday (this is assuming they find me or someone comes with my from the art league because I have this wonderful ability to get lost). Annnd that's it.
2009/11/12 21:00 This implied function sculpture is fucking killlling me. Seriously. I can't take it. I told Steve twice I give up. I'm so glad he's like the chillest person ever. I guess it helps to have a professor who is pretty much of the same mentality and personality as you to get through the semester. I'm just bringing shit in and attaching it together. I hate using found objects though; it's such a cop out, unless it's done exceedingly well or with a really great reasoning behind it. Mine has none of those things going for it, so I'm not particularly happy about it. I just want to weld, so I think this thing may just have a really nicely welded base. My welds are getting a lot better, thank goodness!
Shot my photo project this week for the "dream sequence". It wasn't so much a dream as general sequence. The guy I'm interested in modeled for me. He's such a sweet guy; instead of running off to class (which he was already going to be late for) and leaving me to probably break either a table, a door frame, or a few bones trying to get a table through a door frame all by my lonesome, he was very gentlemanly and helped me with it. I argued though, since I didn't want him to be any later for his class. The pictures came out pretty well though. When I first shot them and was looking at them I wasn't too impressed, but as the book they are meant to be, I'm happy with it. I have to make a cover and bind it and then add some words to it. With art I don't add words to it unless it's something profound - so very rarely. However, since I don't consider photography an art form, I have no hang ups on this. : )
2009/11/02 19:04 I got in touch with a place I want to intern at, and made legit contact with the art therapist there. I'll be interviewing with her on Monday. I hope I get it, it's so close that it would be quite convenient. And I would like to intern with the adult psychiatric population at some point, so why not now? I just hope I don't have to take out my nostril screw. I am a little scared, though if I do get the internship and I have it in, that someone will go and try to rip it out. That would be entirely too unpleasant for me. I want to say I figure the odds aren't that good... But I really can't convince myself of that. But then if I do take it out, it will undoubtedly close up. I guess I'll deal with whatever comes when (and if) the time comes.
Anyway, my schedule sucks for work for this month. I'm working three more days this month. That's absolutely pathetic. But November isn't a big time for weddings, I suppose. I wouldn't be surprised if I get called in on some random days because the ticket booth girl calls out sick (which was why I was in the ticket booth all this weekend), or for some other random reason. We'll see. It's reaching the end of the season, so I'm starting to resent the place again. That's what's so great about working seasonally, I work from the middle/end of April through the middle/end of December. So from January through early April I have three and a half months of off time (with scattered days sometimes of random weddings), so I then start to really miss the place again and can't wait to come back. But right now, things are getting on my nerves and I'm a bit peeved at the place.
My tortoise just walked over towards me while she's in her cage and she has this pretty decent sized piece of lettuce stuck to the side of her mouth and one really small piece right under her nostril. She's such a silly Marvin. :) And I felt that was certainly something integral to add to this.
2009/10/30 09:38 And the search for an internship begins again. I just sent out an email to a place that's literally like three miles away that I pass all the time. I hear bad things about the place, and it's a psychiatric ward for part of it. But it's so close! I don't know if it was the best choice since I'm on the fence about art therapy. However, all the other places are either far away, or they don't have an email for the people and I have to call up and ask (and that's awkward!). If it comes to it, I will, but otherwise I really don't want to. I hope they get back to me soon. I have one other place I want to email, but I like to hear one way or another from one place before I go to another.
My Acer is beyond fucked, so I'm really just a Mac person now. I was telling my friend about it (among many other things for our like three hour long chat in the sculpture studio last night), and since he knows about computers (and apparently has friends who know a shit load about computers) he told me he'd take a look at it and have them take a look at it. So that's like totally nice and awesome. All of my music is gone. I have it on my MP3 player, but you can only put things on and not take things off. Boo. I'm just hoping I don't have anything weird on my computer if they actually save things haha oh boy. Anyway, that's just totally nice and so awesome. As it turns out, his exgirlfriend (from like two years ago who he dated for a year and a half) was my old best friend from like second grade through ninth grade, so we had a good time finding out about those gaps in time. APPARENTLY, she stopped being friends with me and my group of friends because we became "too dark", which was only me went I went mall goff (not to mention the fallout was induced by my friends and not her haha, love ittt). But yeah, it was amusing. And just so weird.
