A Transformer-Robot-Dinosaur who makes art.
I make things. This is a process blog/art journal of things I make, things that inspire me, and things that I like.
My ongoing letter project:
someonetowriteto.tumblr.com
My bow tie production line:
callmecornelius.tumblr.com
DFTBA
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Thoughts on the Yahoo! Thing
First, I love Tumblr and want to keep loving it. And yes, it is immediately terrifying to hear that Yahoo (which, from a...
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kingrandom-rambles asked: I was wondering what you think about Yahoo buying Tumblr.
Who cares…
If tumblr starts to suck, people will stop using it. It doesn’t matter who owns it. Everything is temporary. Times change. Tumblr is not...
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do you ever meet someone and at first they seem like a pretty normal average person and the more you get to know them their mind and...
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just a few minutes into meeting Assistant DA Rafael Barba, so far my opinion is: yes, good, hello there, dad-type middle-aged man
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Anonymous asked: Growing up, my mom was an alcoholic. She didn't get sober until I was 16, but the difference just in the past 4 years have been amazing. You getting sober is remarkable so know that you have an admirer out there!
hey, thanks. I am really happy your mom was able to do it, and I’m glad it’s been amazing for you. that is so great.
I think sometimes I feel like...
Elija Montgomery
Room 201
The Grad Show is over.
It’s been a long four days.
Thank you to everyone who came out.
But I am especially thankful to all of you, who have been with me through this, watched my work grow, and supported me so wonderfully.
Thank you.
And don’t worry: there is still so much to come.
Starting tonight and going all weekend!
Facebook Event Page
GRAD SHOW OPENS TONIGHT.
So excited/nervous! Visitors are welcome to take photos with/of Wat; I’ll be taking my own through out each day, and posting them to this tumblr:
http://thisiswatsup.tumblr.com/
Hooray!
Official web invitation. Feel free to share.
Facebook Event Page
Everyone please recognize that I am the cutest.
Okay, thank you.
This was taken by my lovely friend Michael, who—along with my rad friend Rufio—helped set up this final thesis critique. So… I’m done thesis. Well… kind of. I still have the Grad Show in two weeks, and there is much to be done, but… yeah. No more things to be marked. Whoa. Weird.
Two days ago I got some really horrible hate from someone on OK!Cupid, for Wat’s OK!C profile. It was rude, offensive, and unnecessary, and I mostly felt sorry for her (I may write about it another time).
But today I found this message waiting for Wat/me.
Wat has an OK!Cupid profile for social reasons (it specifically states he’s “here for friends” and doesn’t say “dating” or “sex” of any kind); it allows him to exist in a social place where he can meet strangers and they can choose to interact with him. He/I never contacts other people; only responds to the messages sent; never visits other people’s profiles, unless they’ve messaged him a bunch and have said they want to meet him.
Unlike Facebook or Twitter, OK!Cupid allows for complete strangers to come across and get to know Wat, without my discretion/control. Which means he is interacting with people outside of my own social/professional realm; people I wouldn’t “normally” have access to, I guess you could say.
The Mean OK!C Girl from a few days ago apparently reported Wat’s OK!C profile (and I reported her messages for harassment and hate), but I really hope it doesn’t get deleted. From the twenty different people who have sent messages in the three weeks it’s been active, The Mean OK!C Girl’s was the first/only negative response.
I AM A MONSTER is an exploration of misunderstood monsters, their use as narrative, and addresses the ways in which we feel different and other, by looking at our relationships with people, spaces, and ourselves.
Monsters have always been a way for us to categorize others. Through the use of photographs, the audience discovers who this monster really is, rather than just what. They are given a glimpse of his insecurities, his fears, his hopes, and his accomplishments. The true complexity of his nature is shared with the viewer, who is given permission to empathize with him, and to accept themselves and others as being a little monstrous.
I AM A MONSTER highlights our similarities by exposing them as our assumption of difference. It is an invitation to celebrate the complexities of our humanity.
I have spent the past two and a half hours trying to write a succinct summary of my thesis work (by mostly avoiding it).
Did I do it? Does this even make sense? Why am I still awake?
Should Wat have a business card at the Thesis Grad Show?
Wat should probably have a business card at the Thesis Grad Show.
Thoughts while attempting to design a flyer for my thesis show:
1. Why are you doing this at 12:44am? There’s no way you can summarize your thesis work in a few clever, catchy sentences.
2. Why are you doing this in Photoshop? You should be doing this in InDesign. The Amanda in your head is shaming you.
3. Seriously, what the fuck are you still doing awake? Turn of your computer and sleep, asshole.
4. Wait, you should make a post about this on tumblr…
5. …Amanda will laugh.
As I am painfully formatting all of the photos I have taken of Wat out and about, I thought I’d go ahead and share one with you.
Experiencing the TTC and sporting a pronoun shirt: hooray for a day out in Toronto!
VEDA 8: two days late and a bit too long
I talk more about my thesis work, as well my influences and inspiration. (warning: a Joey Comeau gush)
Tomorrow ends my hiatus from [thesis] work. I wouldn’t say I’ve been on vacation for the past two weeks: having major life-changing surgery is not a vacation. It’s a major life event on-going process thing. And it’s been hard.
But thesis is far from over. No wait. Actually, it’s rapidly coming to a close and I still have things to do: edit photos, format my documentation book, build a mock-up display model, apply for studio space, submit things to a couple of group shows and scholarships, sort out that one final summer course I have to take so I can finally bloody graduate. Phew. Yep, all that in about a week.
My final critique/thesis defence is on the 17th; after that, it’s allllllll Grad Show prep. With the obvious exception of Seannukkah.
Oh April: you such a crazy month of change. And happenings. Be good to me, okay? And as for all you dears: you’ve been lovely as always. Whether you know me IRL or not: [insert sappy human sentiment].
Cheers.
In which I finally talk about my thesis work.
Also, talk about tumblr because… god, I love tumblr.
Of course Wat (@ThisIsWatsUp) is a Nerdfighter and Whovian. #DFTBA
when you think you’re going to stay up all night finishing writing your thesis paper and then your brain is all like NO.STOP.OUR FRIENDSHIP IS OVER UNTIL I SLEEP.and then you try and push past it and keep writing but then your hands are all like YEAH F THIS S KNNSDOGISGNSLD ,KDVLVSKDJPS,.,F MM
Is my last thesis class.
Is my last EVER studio monitor shift (after two amazing years).
And by this time next week, I’ll be OUT of surgery.
But, you know, no big deal or anything.
*vomits*
