Okay, so, I wasn't going to make this "my blog of pretty photos that no one gives a shit about" but...he's so cute...
Besides photography is art too.
Anyway other than that I'm just having one of those weeks that is accompanied by the nagging suspicion that god is secretly laughing at me...
So basiclly the week was overwhelmingly off
I'll just list it:
>Allergies. Man, WHAT THE HELL? I never had them before, all of the sudden its a full-on attack on my nose.
>Locked out for hours on Tuesday, didn't get in till 10
>Same day, roomate charmingly left a huge bag of garbage leaking all over the floor of the kitchen, mice everywhere.
>Roomate doesn't bother to say where she was when I was locked out from 6-10, I don't bother asking because apparently that's 'prying' and I don't deserve to know.
>Roomate also offers no apology for garbage mess. Instead says "I too it out from the can and put it in a bigger bag than the one you used."
>I discover a cockroach in the kitchen. Possible reasons? Constant dishes in the sink that roomate says she'll get to "Eventually, ok? Not today! Not tomorrow! But it will get done, you have no patience!" Or the open candy left on her floor.
>Smoke alarms battery starts to die at 3am, beeping is constant and irritating
>Roomate complains that I turned on the door alarm and that it scared her. She went out thursday and came back friday, I assumed she wasn't coming back because she said she was leaving.
> Roomate basiclly hates me and treats me like the lowest worm beneath even her notice. I deal with booze.
And because I am in love with this site, I urge you all to take a virtual tour of Hell. Get to know the place, travel the circles. Figure out where you're going. I'm pretty sure I'm going to Caina.

So this weekend was pretty much debauchary all around. The twin brother came to town with his girlfriend and pretty much a good time was had by all. I hope. I'm kinda in a bad way these past couple months so I've the sneaking suspicion I'm a bit of a downer.
But anyway let's talk about art, because it's what this thing is here for.
Unfortunately my etching class is now over for the semester, much to my pouting. The print room is pretty much always full of people and I'm trying to get a project done. Mainly a series of prints that I'm going to make into a book. So far I've got 6 prints with 3 of each. The copper plate and early lineart of Hell are both a part of the series, as is the print above. It's a photograph I took and made into a photo etching. One of the good things about making a book of etchings is that you can have very, very small margins. I am a messy person by nature, so making a print and keeping huge, fashionable margins clean is a really big challange for me.
Anyway, I'm giving you this link to Luka's blog, he's the author of the webcomic Kagerou, which I've read and loved for years. Of particular interest is his pretty humurous entries on the recent Todd Goldman, of David and Goliath fame, issue. Always of interest to me is the debate of idea/art ownership and the role played by the internet in these cases.
Seven Day Wake 6" x 8" Photo Etching (c) 2007

This weeks update is an etching plate! Not the etching, but the plate that makes them. Why? Because it's pretty and takes a long time to prepare and I like copper a lot.
So I signed up for classes at Tufts. And as if it wasn't hard enough signing up for classes at the museum school try signing up for classes for a conected college that you've never been to with a block program you have no idea about. Lovelies. But I'm all set now! And next fall I'll be taking Intro to Genesis and its Interpretations and Myth, Symbol and Ritual. Sounds exciting, right? I'm thinking about a minor in comparative religion. However I don't know how useful a minor would be. The fine people at the museum school couldn't tell me. At least I can paint with the blood of a beanie babies all I want.
Fight Plate 6" x 8" copper etching plate (c) 2007