Sunday, October 2, 2011

Forever Lazy, in the fleece.

See what I did there? In the flesh, in the fleece (Punny right? Okay, I'll stop now.). I went to BJs the other day and found the 'Forever Lazy'. I just love weird unusual products like this.

Speaking of which do they still make Frankenberry cereal? That was the bees knees.

Dada Day

What much can I say? It was so awesome it sent the school 'on fire'. The acting really set up everything (kind of set a really high bar to reach.). I was so into I forgot to clap!! (trust me, this is no sarcastic comment I mean it!). It was nothing like expected. For this whole day there wasn't really a expectation to be quite honest. Then the dance came and it was very interesting but yet very entertaining to me, very cool. For music I couldn't hear much of the words but it was still thought it was great, I remember Scott ran to the STAC room one day screaming, then everybody joined him by screaming too, and I think Ellen said,"That's going in the song.", very happy to see it did end up in the song. The writing was absolutely nothing of what I thought it was going to be, much more entertaining than I thought it would turn out to be, very funny too, with the lollipops, signs, clothes, and the phrases said, it was all quite amazing. The art gallery was fun squirting people who passed by our project with tiny toilet water. From what I could see all the art projects seemed to come out quite well from what I could see. Overall very Dada!

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Spent a period learning how to pick up a hat.

Today's acting class with Luke was very interesting, not exactly what I expected. We did a lot about expectations, how no matter what something is always going through our minds, even when we are told to stop thinking. We did a lot of acting more naturally, instead of worrying about become a character we should just act, because we will never truly be the character. Then Luke had us all act as we are stealing a hat from somebody or someone. When we went up at first we were way to fake and overdoing it. When I went up to try at first I wasn't even trying to steal the hat I was imaging myself sneaking a box of cookies upstairs (something I do quite often), in the middle I realized it was a hat and was trying to change the story in my mind, which made me lose it. After trial and error I think we all learned a lot today!

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Watch out snuggies, you have competition.

I thought today I would never smile because of 9-11 being such a dark gloomy day for me, my family, and most of America. However I came across this commercial and just lost it.
I thought it was a joke but it is as real as it gets. Just the name of the product makes me want to buy it.

Forever Lazy? Yes please!!

Thursday, September 8, 2011

My heart on a wall.

   My thought when I heard about what we were doing, I was a bit skeptical to be quite honest. I had this wall blocking me for the first ten minutes telling me "Hey you like that? Why? You're such a weirdo." I'm kinda of used to hearing that by now, but sharing it with everybody on a wall, WITH SHARPIE? I'm generally not that self conscious, I'm generally always myself but for some reason the idea struck me as well, unsettling.  But, after maybe two minutes I just kinda thought fuck that, it should never matter what others think about me.
   The thought of doing something like this seem so simple, but it is a bit more complex than that. Then the ideas just flew out! Well, not really, but you get the idea. The only thing stopping me was spelling, but actually did well as far as that goes. I personally think the best part was connecting it with the people around me, it felt good in a way, we connected as people, in the end we are not much different. It was very fun, talking about the things we like (along with cracking jokes here and there of course!) and stuff we enjoy. As much fun as it was doing it, the end product kind of bothered me in a way, it reminded my of those brainstorms I had to do before going on to an English essay. I would rather see drawings on the wall than words, but hey that might just be me.

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

New faces, new year.

School is back and kickin'

I am glad see you all survived through the summer, can't wait to hear more about later. Super weird seeing scared newbie faces, a little weird but, quite funny (especially the freshmen newbies, new to high school and STAC). I am excited to catch up more and get to know (and maybe even love) all the new faces.

Star Trek the Next Generation, was very cool, I've seen my mom and dad watching it but I have never actually gotten around to seeing it myself. I didn't really have bad expectations but it was better than I thought it would be! I could tell right from the start that Soran and Riker were attracted to each other and even thought it wasn't too obvious (like screaming I'm gay!) I could tell the episode was related to how our world views homosexuality. I thought it was interesting how even though it talked about homosexuality they switched it up in the way that, being with the opposite gender or not the same 'sex' (which is kinda like the genderless) was a bad thing, when to our society some people view being with the same sex is unnatural or a sin.I am personally glad they had the ending they way it was, even though it doesn't feel great to see she changed, it still lets us keep in mind that this is what our society tries to does and it sucks, if they showed a nice ending that may make people think otherwise. It shows there is a problem with society and that it won't have a nice ending if we keep acting the way we do.  Did not expect to see those messages in Star Trek.

Can't wait to see what we will do tomorrow in STAC.

Friday, August 19, 2011

Who's ready for STAC 11-12?

Summer is almost over, and that means school. YAY! (I mean this in the most unenthusiastic way possible). However a new year of school also means a fresh new year of STAC! I can't wait! ( It is the only thing I'm looking forward to this upcoming school year). I can't wait to catch up with the 'oldies' and meet and get to know some 'newbies'. I hope everybody summer has been well and I can't wait to see all the new and old faces.

I 've been doing a lot lately as far as drawing goes, I just finished this up this morning:
Recently I was looking at this cool artist who made her artwork kinda look something in a display window (to me.) I don't know I just feel like sharing it with you,, I thought it was cool :Check this out, its cool! My favourite of hers is 'Tears Explode Like Bombs' very cool.

See you all soon!

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Art From a Man 152 Years Old.

      My dog wanted to go to the backyard and I saw that my dad was in the grarage, so I went in and I saw him with this big trunk. It was very old and had the name H. Koster Jr. engraved on it. It turns out my dad's friend was going to throw it out, but instead my dad decides to take it. My dad opened it and inside there was a lot of rolled up pieces paper and some things in frames. It turns out a lot of those rolled up paper and frames were filled with art this guy did in the 1800s and early 1900s. His art is really good too, lots of drawings, watercolored in, and some paintings in there too. Some of the paper was also his graduation certificate of the second grade (1866), a map of america, some other certifcates, one about a medal of honor. There was also a few books about "Amazing Art of the World" made in the late 1800s, a lot of realism in there. Some books were about photography too. It was very interesting to see. I'll get a picture of it later.

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Last day of Jim Bonnie.

Surprise, surprise! I did not know it was today, I don't think anybody did until the last few minutes we were told the sad news. Overall it was an amazing workshop, I feel more open and powerful from it, and I learned a lot about myself. It was nice getting in touch with our inner child and going into our body and hearts. I learned that I am happier with myself when I am not hiding under a mask, and that we should feel what we feel and should not be ashamed of our emotions. That is basically what I learned, it is actually harder to explain than I thought. I know I will use what I got from this for a very long time (by that I mean forever).

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Ripping off masks.

Today in the 4th Jim Bonnie workshop we worked more into the idea of mask, the fake emotion we put out to hide our real emotions. I always had the idea of mask in mind since I watched this one anime called 'His & Her Circumstances', I watched it a long time ago but I remember it being about a girl who acted as the smart honor student in school, but at home she acted like a completely different, crazy girl, and then she finally met somebody she could open up to so the had a scene where her face is a mask and it falls off and cracks.

As for the Charlie Chaplin film, that would make my 2nd time watching a silent movie, so that was fun. I think you get more expression and feeling out of that movie than a movie with words, words ruin everything. I wasn't sure if I was going to enjoy the movie, but  I ended up really liking it.


Well, I'm kind of tired now, so I'll stop here, but have fun anybody going to Italy!