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Thank you for taking a look at it, Anna. I used to draw and paint the human form almost exclusively. And then I took an Anatomical Figure Drawing class that completely changed how I saw the body. It's pretty amazing. Sometimes I miss drawing the figure, but I'm pretty excited about what I'm doing now too.
Anna Anna i really liked your work. I really like yoru observatory drawings. I find myself doing a lot of anatomy drawing. when i was little i loved to look at pictures of maps of muscles on the human body and bone structure. - anna cuddlecore
Anna Thanks, Speck and Jeffron! I'll eventually be putting up newer observatory works up on the page. It will take a bit of time, though. Jeffron, how nice of you to pick up on my Aryan undertones ;). (Disclaimer: This is *sarcasm* and *irony* for those who haven't heard the conversation leading up to Jeffron's comment) My show was okay. There were highs and lows. My reception had one of the worst turnouts ever because it was the last week of school and people were all busy preparing for reviews and for the Open Studios. Also, there was another big reception happening across town and several people from my school were represented there, so I'm sure that drew a bigger crowd. The high point was my final review. All of the first year grad students had reviews a week ago with all of the full-time faculty. I had the review in the gallery since my show was up. They came in at 9am and I had bagels and coffee for them, which seemed to really brighten them all up. The comments were really supportive and constructive (much more than those of my peers in my critique with them on the same work). I felt it went extremely well and I was *so* relieved! There was a piece in the show that I'd never shown anyone (except for my boyfriend) before presenting it in the exhibition and I had been really stressed out about it because I had no idea how it would be received. But I was getting praise for it! So, that was cool. -graham, a.
Anna I love your observatory pieces too, Anna, especially how they overtly criticize 20th century Aryan propaganda. Heh, conversation killer, indeed. I read your post with interest, Jimmy. All I'd heard previously about Equilibrium was "hey, this is another surprisingly good sci-fi movie, like Pitch Black, that wasn't widely pitched by its studio". So it's on my list to see. I just saw The Ring, which was really sort of disturbing. I mean, I can't beleive this was rated PG-13 and 8 Mile wasn't. I had my eyes closed at several points, there were some grisly deaths and some video montages worthy of David Lynch at his most Eraserheadish. Some of the dialogue was weak, and the acting in places thin, and the plot sometimes seemed to feel like I was watching someone else play a CD-ROM game, but overall it was a good scare for five bucks. This whole holiday thing is for the birds. I can't wait for 2003. 2003 - The Year We Make.....More Stuff, People, Etc., and keep processing SETI@Home packets.
jeffron x I love your observatory drawings, anna- How was your show? you have a very cute kitty too.... hee hee!
Miss Speck and the Giant Librarians my page It's changing.
Anna Makes one wish one had trained as an insurance assessor. A hand-ons type.
Ashok Sorry about the rant.
jimmy  This post is a Xenius certified discussion killer! Equilibrium was very nice. Comparisons are inherently flawed, but they are the foundation of mind and world, so I'd have to say that this film was a cross between The Matrix and (the film) 1984. Many things were a complete rip off of any dystopia you can possibly think of, but overall it was well done and extremely intelligent in some ways and you find yourself wondering how this film managed to hit the mainstream theaters in quite the way that it did (this is a good thing). Christian Bale is dead sexy and plain deadly, and he was the perfect master of ceremonies for my introduction to "Gun Kata", a martial-art built around the use of guns and based upon the study of countless gun battles, their outcomes, and the hit probability densities of various areas of the gun battle (you have to see it). The choreography was incredibly beautiful, and even those who abhor television and film violence will concede this point. (I don't always agree with this position on film violence. While mindless at times, as the Bhuddists say violence is neutral, arbitrary, not inherently good or evil, so film violence has its place. When it is like a dance, it is to me no different than the stage blocking of Hamlet or the incessant spinning of your run of the mill ballet of tragedies. Film violence, no matter how gruesome, how digitized, or well modeled, is in no way like actual violence and film death is in no way like actual death. I'm not an expert on death or violence, but I've seen them both up close. The bodies in the literally hundreds of homes and hospitals I've visited in just a two year span did not have the benefit of a Beethovenesque fanfare or a bassy techno-theme. These tools though, have been a part of theatrical art for centuries. If you want to bitch about violence in film, you'd better bitch about Shakespeare and well, fuck, you might as well take the Greeks out with him. Sure, it's unforgivable that mainstream film is about the violence and carries little or no content...they're just condensed versions of the male principle spiralled out of control. It's also a shame that our only connection to death has super-imposed images of Bruce Willis and Van Damme in slow motion action poses pasted over them, and that our version of sex and personal intimacy (as delivered by the media) is compressed, cleansed and almost completely devoid of depth, mutual respect or cellulite. When working on character development between two human beings who are destined to a. see one another at a dance club, b. fuck, fall instantly in love, break up and get back together, c. get kidnapped or fall for someone else for a little while until the industry standard 38.6 minutes of interpersonal strife is exceeded and the audience becomes restless, directors rarely leave you with the impression that the two lovers have any idea at all what their sex partner's favorite color is, unless they explicitly bring it up earlier in the film, in which case it serves as awkward foreshadowing catering to the attention span of a permanently 7 year old American public. It's love, J-Lo style. I am sure that many, many man hours were spent airbrushing and photoshopping J-Lo's heavily insured buttocks for its 3 second cameo in "the Cell" (which was extremely beautiful and extremely violent...and that's just her buttocks, you should see the film). Yes. I love everything about her bottom. I hate everything about her acting. I want people who make us feel things that are larger than the actors or ourselves. Which reminds me of another thing. Female musicians. Why, oh why is it so necessary to choose scantily clad vixens over other people with talent? C'mon. Jewel was better when she was called "every female guitarist/folk singer that came before her". Why is it that female artists are evaluated on sexuality rather than quality? I feel for the female musicians who have to do videos like "Dirrty" or "Stripped" or whatever to get back into the game, and even while they almost sound convinced that they are part of a sexual revolution, it is the same sexual revolution that happened when she was called "the last 17-25 yr old pop star who made parents nervous". News flash. Sexual revolutions patroned by pop-stars last until station identification. I loved what I saw of the video. I have no problem with it. What I do have a problem with is that the girl is actually talented. She has an incredible voice. I once had a date with this girl, Leah Andreone...she played me her demo. It was a little weird (because of her back-up band), but her voice was incredible, absolutely heavenly. This was talent. She's quite attractive, especially by "industry standards". A year later I saw her video on MTV. She came on a few times and was big for awhile, getting her cd's in Music Warehouses and what not, then she disappeared (but I just found that site, so I guess she's still out there!). I have a feeling that her talent didn't speak as loudly as all of the various formulas Brittany and Christina and the rest use and abuse to keep them in the running. Why is it that the American public vigilantly and paranoidly overshadows the sexual lives of teenagers, denying their bodies and their urges, castrating the 19 year old who sleeps with his 17 year old girlfriend, yet supports industry standards that place 15 year old girls in lingerie for catalogs and fashion shows, thus laying the benchmark for feminine beauty and sexuality that scarcely a sexually mature 25 year old can meet? Why is it that women's bodies have bounced back and forth between portly, deathly thin and impossibly proportioned over just under a hundred years, and male physical beauty has remained at a stand-still since the beginning of time? Well. YEah. A little side-tracked, but great fuckng movie.
jimmy Those lucky jerks! Anyhow...the movie Equilibrium looks like it might be a nice distraction in to keep me from pulling my hair out before the Two Towers official release.
jimmy Heh, I know, I'm so ticked off about not being in the Cities anymore so I could go to those things. Maybe next year, it will be time for an extra special field trip. I just wish Barrie Osborne were in my Reunion group. (the 2's and 7's) Those guys who do the PBS kids' show "Kratts' Creatures" are in my reunion group, and they are cool, but they are not Barrie Osborne.
coop Those Carleton students get everything before the rest of us. :)
jeffron x Here is something happy for Monday. I have been straining against screaming out loud with laughter while reading this, you'll see why: Bad translations of Fellowship of the Ring dialogue on pirated DVDs
coop I like that song, too, Jimmy. Simon and Garfunkel remind me of some good times in my childhood. I started my morning with Zap Mama, a female acappella group from Africa. Damn, it's a good mood. My term is over! Over! ! I survived, *and* I passed the term! Well, I still need to go over to the gallery and repaint the walls, but that's it. But first, I must stuff myself with sourdough bread and non-dairy creamcheese! -grahamanna
Anna Thanks for the dream Jimmy. Must have been a windy night that because all I got was some static. But it was good static. Not any old random rubbish. There hasn't been snow in London for a few years now. Global warming it seems is working. But seriously, have noticed that the winters are brighter. That can't be greenhouse gases. Used to get depressed during winter and would really realy crave the sun come Jan/Feb. Last 3 years haven't had those feelings. Well still depressed but not for the sun. No, only joking. Depression it seems is only a state of mind. Just had 3 mince pies. Time to go home and sleep them off.
Ashok "Let us be lovers we'll marry our fortunes together I've got some real estate here in my bag So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner's pies And we walked off to look for America Cathy I said as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh Michigan seems like a dream to me now It took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw I've gone to look for America Laughing on the bus playing games with the faces She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy I said be careful his bowtie is really a camera Toss me a cigaret I think there's one in the raincoat We smoked the last one an hour ago So I looked at the scenary she read her magazine And the moon rose over an open field Cathy I'm lost I said though I knew she was sleeping I'm empty and aching and I don't know why Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike They've all come to look for America All come to look for America" -Simon and Garfunkel I was moved by this song. I've zipped it just in case Mary is one of the folks interested in it. Mp3's are already compressed, but they suffer such discrimination! I don't know if the misspellings are due to S & G or not, and I don't care.
jimmy 
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