February 2011
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Major/Minor choice advice needed
I’ve narrowed it down to:
MAJOR: Printmaking, or Drawing and Painting.
LEANING TOWARDS: Printmaking
POSSIBLE MINOR: Graphic design
LEANING TOWARDS: probably in the later years
I’m torn between printmaking and drawing and painting. Decisions decisions…
I was talking to my drawing teacher last semester and she seemed to want me to steer away from design and stay in the arts....
January 2011
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“I’m looking for this brush. It’s kind of big. Like. It looks like Bob Ross’s hair. I saw the brush in the show. Yes. He used the brush. And the brush looks like his hair.”
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So over the weekend my hair accumulated all sorts of substances including: printmaking ink, pastel dust, acrylic paint, wood dust and wood shavings, charcoal dust, and a mysterious piece of something I’m hoping is sticky tack. I struggled with my mane over my bathroom sink for a few minutes before cutting a bunch of it off with a nail clipper.
Also, the other day I sat on this one seat on...
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Artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are super-sensitive. They keel over like canaries in poison coal mines long before more robust types realize that there is any danger whatsoever.
- Kurt Vonnegut
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Hell yeah Friday night
Intaglio party in the printmaking studio
Perks Of Going To An Art School #7
It will kick your ass.
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A baby in a stroller waved at me today
It made my week, you don’t even understand
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Perks Of Going To An Art School #6
Ask someone where they got a certain item of clothing. They made it themselves.
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So my mom bought this tub of Coffee Crisp ice cream and I was like “what’s it for” and she was like “cause you missed Mandarin today”
But she doesn’t know I had all-you-can-eat sushi for lunch, I feel bad now
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ricebitch replied to your post: Eating cherry pie filling and reading crazy Vegas…
I would tell you to go to sleep but I don’t even have the right to say that to you lool
Some day your mom’s gonna find you dead and when the news reporters ask about your death she’s gonna be like “dat crazy ass ho when she leaves for the night she ain’t coming back”
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Eating cherry pie filling and reading crazy Vegas stories
So the first page of my new sketchbook has a huge photo of Steve Buscemi glued on it
My friend opened it up and screamed
Good times
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Does anybody know any cheap photo development places around downtown Toronto?
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“If someone told me that I could live my life again free of depression provided I was willing to give up the gifts depression has given me—the depth of awareness, the expanded consciousness, the increased sensitivity, the awareness of limitation, the tenderness of love, the meaning of friendship, the apreciation of life, the joy of a passionate heart—I would say, ‘This is a...
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Why don't I ever learn
Note to self: don’t eat from Tasty Chinese Food again
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“Speak to the hand that wrote all,” said the sun.
The wind screamed with delight, and blew harder than ever. The tents were being blown from their ties to the earth, and the animals were being freed from their tethers. On the cliff, the men clutched at each other as they sought to keep from being blown away.
The boy turned to the hand that wrote all. As he did so, he sensed that...
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Along with all other libraries in Baghdad, the House of Wisdom was destroyed during the Mongol invasion of Baghdad in 1258. It was said that the waters of the Tigris ran black for six months with ink from the enormous quantities of books flung into the river.
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Ugggh why does nothing on Queen West open till past noon
I go to Black Market (lol Cat) and I’m looking at coats and stuff and I’m like damn there are some big ass people in this world
Walk for about half an hour. Why are there so many textile stores? This is so random wtf am I lost
Go to the Lomography Gallery Store. I don’t really know what’s on display and...
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Hey all! I started a new Tumblr called sketchbookporn.tumblr.com. Head on over to check it out. It’s for those who love that destroyed, torn, fished-from-the-bottom-of-a-lake look that a well-used sketchbook has, or the crisp newness of an unused one. If you’re more interested in sketchbook drawings, head over to fuckyeahmoleskines.tumblr.com instead.
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So there was this girl in my tutorial and she’d been in my essay-writing class last semester and she started talking to me and she was from India but her English was super good cause she’d gone to international school but she was super young cause she was still only 17-going-on-18 and she is rooming with 6 other people in this place at St. George and she kept insisting I take the...
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So my mom bought a set of old-fashioned whiskey glasses cause our family is psychotic and our regular glasses can’t handle the ravages our use
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Please, dear body, please please please let me sleep tonight. I have an 8:30 class I need to wake up for, and I don’t have time for any of this insomnia business.
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God damn it Google, I don’t want to buy any essays, I just want to read them. Pinky swear.