Well, time to update my journal; I apologize to all the throngs of salivating fans eagerly awaiting the latest installment (*sigh*).
I suppose I've been sort of busy with the holidays as I'm sure everyone has. I don't have much of a family to spend it with, but dealing with my dad and my girlfriend's folks make up for it and then some.
So, she's home for her winter break and things have been going really well. There have been some rough patches as I suppose will be characteristic of our relationship for years to come. I guess one major one is that she doesn't treat me so great when her friends are around. She chalks this up to her not wanting to make them feel uncomfortable and I understand that. I don't, however, think sitting next to a person or putting your arm around them is inappropriate, especially when her ex is at the party and some reassurance would be very nice. Again, *sigh*.
On a bit of a lighter note, I just got back from a short trip up to NYC where ymonster finished touching up my half sleeve. Boy am I psyched to have it finished. I love having it, but getting it wasn't the most pleasant experience. I have the nastiest black and blue marks in the crook of my arm from it, and damn is it swollen. But who am I to complain, I made the decision voluntarily, and I was of sound mind then, not now though.
While up there we went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and checked out some really cool works. I will probably get flak for this, but no one will read this, so I have to say that a great deal of what is dubbed modern "art" is pure shit. I just want someone to shout the emperor isn't wearing any clothes. Lines dividing a canvas or 8 different canvases all the same size, just different colors all in a row. That doesn't turn me on. I was in art class one day in high school looking at some works when I came across a portrait of Gandhi. It was a frontal view of him walking with a staff on a white background. He was done in a shaky outline style that looked like the artist used his wrong hand, and the proportions were, lets say interesting. I showed it to my teacher and said, "What the hell is this doing in a magazine, I could do that." She replied "Take a very close look at it and ask yourself, is there anything I would change, any element of the composition, the line quality, anything". I looked for a while and said honestly "No, I wouldn't change it". She replied therein lies the art, the artist didn't just scribble this down, he thought about it and executed it carefully. This satisfied me for a while, but I have again come to question that explanation and that style of art. I just don't think that the art nowadays is of the quality it was hundreds of years ago. I think the pace of life is such that no one spends the time on art anymore, we just want things faster and more efficient, why spend half a decade on a painting anymore. I may be wrong and am open to opinions, but for the moment that is mine. I just find it sad and disappointing, it seems like people will just accept what someone says is art for fear of looking un-cool. The emperor is naked, wake up.
I suppose I've been sort of busy with the holidays as I'm sure everyone has. I don't have much of a family to spend it with, but dealing with my dad and my girlfriend's folks make up for it and then some.
So, she's home for her winter break and things have been going really well. There have been some rough patches as I suppose will be characteristic of our relationship for years to come. I guess one major one is that she doesn't treat me so great when her friends are around. She chalks this up to her not wanting to make them feel uncomfortable and I understand that. I don't, however, think sitting next to a person or putting your arm around them is inappropriate, especially when her ex is at the party and some reassurance would be very nice. Again, *sigh*.
On a bit of a lighter note, I just got back from a short trip up to NYC where ymonster finished touching up my half sleeve. Boy am I psyched to have it finished. I love having it, but getting it wasn't the most pleasant experience. I have the nastiest black and blue marks in the crook of my arm from it, and damn is it swollen. But who am I to complain, I made the decision voluntarily, and I was of sound mind then, not now though.
While up there we went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and checked out some really cool works. I will probably get flak for this, but no one will read this, so I have to say that a great deal of what is dubbed modern "art" is pure shit. I just want someone to shout the emperor isn't wearing any clothes. Lines dividing a canvas or 8 different canvases all the same size, just different colors all in a row. That doesn't turn me on. I was in art class one day in high school looking at some works when I came across a portrait of Gandhi. It was a frontal view of him walking with a staff on a white background. He was done in a shaky outline style that looked like the artist used his wrong hand, and the proportions were, lets say interesting. I showed it to my teacher and said, "What the hell is this doing in a magazine, I could do that." She replied "Take a very close look at it and ask yourself, is there anything I would change, any element of the composition, the line quality, anything". I looked for a while and said honestly "No, I wouldn't change it". She replied therein lies the art, the artist didn't just scribble this down, he thought about it and executed it carefully. This satisfied me for a while, but I have again come to question that explanation and that style of art. I just don't think that the art nowadays is of the quality it was hundreds of years ago. I think the pace of life is such that no one spends the time on art anymore, we just want things faster and more efficient, why spend half a decade on a painting anymore. I may be wrong and am open to opinions, but for the moment that is mine. I just find it sad and disappointing, it seems like people will just accept what someone says is art for fear of looking un-cool. The emperor is naked, wake up.
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I would be willing to sell one. I don't "actively" sell them - I mean not in a gallery or anything like that. I dunno - which one do you like? I could see if I have any extra prints.