Bliss

Obstacles to that perfect Altared book

1. artistic talent

2. Symbolic understanding

3.drumming up the hatred I once felt after I've already gotten over it

4. time

5. thinking of a deep dark secret to include

What if ?'s

What if I answer one of the incessant phone calls from ITT that keep coming in and let them know how I really feel?

What if I just burn this damn thing, will I feel better?

What if I use this p.o.s. expensive ass book as a transition from one horrible school to one that actually cares about their students and what they learn!

This Experiment really did help me figure out FINALLY what idea I should use for my altared book! Im really proud of this idea for once and would love to find the time to get started on it eventually.

So this class takeaway is great by the way. Take away 7

Seeing as how I didn't have to come to class, I spent most of the day sleeping in, now I'm trying to figure out what to do for the bliss assignment and how to work on my altared book. Today will be a good one.

Eugh...

If you couldn't already tell I absolutely hated what I thought I'd like. I figured I'd try asparagus for the first time and this is the result. I was still recovering from the effects of eating said evil vegetable when creating this... I imagine this as being what my brain was going through under the torment of that awful taste. It tasted like tree...I don't eat tree...

So yea...stuff and things

Not much has happened today, just sitting home sick. Days like these are the worst because theyre days you don't wnat to be sick and have the mental energy to do so many productive things but the physical energy is being sucked out of you like some stuffy headed medieval leech... I feel bad missing this class, but hey what can you do? The sickies come when the sickies come...

Work sucks

Work sucks so thats why I missed class on Monday. I HATE MINIMUM WAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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It sticks with me because I hate getting screwed over so I have to miss out on my education to fill in for people who can't quit correctly...

Rules were made...

This is a page from my comic book for the sequential narrative class. This is an example of breaking "comic flow". Typically comics are supposed to be read and the images within are supposed to form a zigzag pattern across the page leading you to the next page. The last two panels are the panels I chose to really break comic flow because all the direction is pointing left instead of right. I did this one to piss of Matt Powers because he is a bastard about comic flow, and on a more serious note, it gives the reader a sense of strangeness and a sense of being followed. I wanted it to read as creepy and unsettling.

Class Takeaway 4

Its been a while since I've posted but Today I'd really like to talk about the impact the film "Waste Lands" had on me. I thought it was a very interesting documentary that had a dual charm of getting deep down in the lives of these Brazilian garbage pickers and seeing their lives up close and personal and then seeing the change Vik Muniz was trying to make and the statement he was trying to convey. It was a very powerful movie to me and it certainly makes me realize that my life, though I complain and bitch and moan, isn't as bad as the people living in literal drug war zones, and who live among piles of garbage and in shacks made of what looked to be cardboard and tin roofing, surrounded by all manner of vermin, insects, and rodents. The emotion alone after the project was completed and the pickers seeing themselves as literal works of art was vastly superior to what they had been going through in their lives before then. Not to mention the literal act of transforming "garbage", which to these people was the only means to their survival, into works of art worth thousands of dollars and more because of the impact it had on the humble garbage pickers involved. It was great.