I just watched the 2nd episode online tonight, and was laughing out loud. Alot. 'Tis good. I'm glad my show is back. Although this last episode was full of smut. I mean, really everyone was being slutty. It could have been called Slutty Anatomy for this night.

Anyways. Today was pretty cool. I got to sleep in which was nice. Although I woke up to find out that a water main had been shut off at Webster, so none of the food places would be serving any meals at all. Which sucks, cause I haven't gotten any checks from working yet, so I'm still kinda poor, and would prefer to eat my mealplan meals, which are already paid for. And you can't really do that off campus.

Irregardless, Sam and I went to Mokabee's a little coffee shop with free internet, and sat in a little booth box upstairs (where its kinda dark, but they have miniature lamps on each table, they're cute) and had a "Photoshopping Party". She's trying to learn for a class, so I installed the program for her, and helped her a bit, but then there was a good three or four hours of just photoshopping. It was fun. I also like that I'm finally beginning to actually 'make' things with it. I used to just consider it as making graphics, or playing with image editing, but the other day someone referred to it as my 'artwork' and that was pretty cool. At first I was like...pshh, I don't have 'artwork', but now I kinda feel like I'm at least in the beginning stages of making some type of art. Even if its mostly fan art right now. I hope there's potential for growth. I mean, it's taken about 2 years of working with this program alone, and working with general image editing since like 7th grade where I was just goofing off with it, but I'm liking the progress I've made.

The two pieces I worked on today are probably the two easiest I've ever done. And I don't mean they were the easiest to do, technically speaking, but more like they came the easiest without having to think much about them. One is just a cool alteration of a photograph, and another I even made with a sub-context consciously influencing it. Basically I wanted to make a piece that was simply outlining simplicity itself. Black and White. Comedy vs. Tragedy. I kinda wanted the drama masks meaning, only in more human form. Well, I'll just let you see for yourself. It's not anything deep and meaningful (remember 'simple') but it's the first time I think I've made something that could have any meaning resonating from it at all, and everything had reasons for being placed exactly where they were, should people look for meaning in it (like the word 'black' under the sad face, and 'white' under the happy one). Which felt kinda cool. So here's what I came up with today (of course featuring my most recent muse - and some lyrics from one of her songs).

My Space
My Tube
My Demo Reel