Feeling uninspired...I have ideas but no desire to actually work on them. Hopefully my visit home will spark some much needed inspiration within me.
I want to do a series based off of a few of the seven deadly sins, and I have ideas written down and everything, but I think it's only going to work if I have more than one person (i.e. me) in front of the camera. I've also been doing collage pieces that include scanned pages of my old journals.
Hmm...

I know photography is always going to be my first love, and what most people (and myself) think I'm best at, but I'm having a sordid love affair with animation. I am having so much fun with it, especially because all of it is hand drawn, and right now we're doing stop motion. I'm doing a piece about crayons spilling out of a box, scribbling all over some paper, and then going back into their box. My teacher is fantastic, too. All of my teachers have worked in their particular field of study before coming to teach, and it's refreshing to know that they've done pretty much everything that we're doing now...

Another thing I'm totally into right now is the game Borderlands. Oh man, normally I don't like first person shooters but DUDE, this one frigging rocks. I think it's mainly because this game isn't set in like, a war zone or something. It's set on another planet, and it's kinda like a cyber/steampunk Western kinda thing, with REALLY COOL GUNS! I have a shotgun that shoots acid, a repeater pistol that makes things explode, and a sniper that lights things on fire, among other things.

Yeah. That's my life right now

I LOVE BOSTON.
My school kicks arse so hard and it has Wi-Fi and I love my apartment and....glee! I have my Video I class in 20 minutes and we're going to be learning how to edit stuff. My Animation I class was great yesterday, too. We drew and etched onto 16 MM film and then spooled it and projected it. :3

Anyway, I wanted to take advantage of the wonderful, fast Wi-Fi here and update. w00t.

So I left home yesterday, and I'm visiting my Daddy-O in Philly before I depart for Boston. I'm really pumped. I mean, I'm going to be living with my boyfriend in an apartment that's 15 minutes away from where we need to be. The House of Blues is really close to us, too, and man, I'm going to freaking art school! I'm seeing Mother Mother the night I get up there, too. What a way to conclude moving day by getting on a train and going to Cambridge to see an awesome band, only to wake up at 7:00 the next morning to get ready for orientation?? Hehe...

I saw 'Inglorious Basterds' recently and AAHHHH Quentin Tarantino never fails to disappoint. I mean, shit, he's one of my favorite directors for a reason. He knows how to work a dialogue, he knows how to direct, and he knows how to keep you engaged in the story even during the inevitable slow build-ups. Brad Pitt was AMAZING in it. He's quickly becoming one of my favorite actors. I really dig his versatility. I don't find him all that attractive (except in 'Fight Club' ) but man, the guy knows how to act. I also like that Tarantino didn't use his usual slew of actors in this movie. It would have been really sick to see Uma Thurman play Shoshanna or to see Christopher Walken play Hans, but those actors kicked booty. Another movie I saw recently was this little indie flick called 'Teeth'. It wasn't very good story wise but it was entertaining as all hell to watch. Vagina dentata is an interesting choice of subject matter, but it was really funny to watch a gynecologist get his fingers bitten off by the main characters vagina teeth I'm going to go see 'District 9' with my dad today, and I'm looking forward to that. I've heard nothing but good reviews for it.

Anyway, that's my monthly update. It's fun stuff

I'm 21, I didn't get any birthday art, so I hate all of you.
Except not, I'm sure you all have a million other things to do. I have been taking pictures, but slide film has to be sent out to labs to get processed and junk, so let's hope that's worth it. I also got a Nikon D40 which I love dearly...it's fun and pretty and Jay and I can share lenses and filters which is totemo sugoii desu.
I probably won't be uploading a lot, though. I see no real need to. There's no demand for my artwork and I spend more time commenting and ing things and I get enough joy out of that.
Plus, I have video games to play and scarves to knit...but mainly games to play. My life has been consumed by them. It's pretty cool