surpriseeee!

So today in STAC we started with ideas for commercials. My group was basing ideas off the limitation we got: same action, different place. We started off with the idea off knocking on multiple doors asking if that door led to the STAC room. We eventually went to the idea of me (I don't know why it has to be me) in the middle of a class in a box. Out of nowhere I jump out of the box exclaiming something along the lines of "Come to STAC live!" and then running out of the class. Doing that a couple times to fit the limitation. I hope it comes out looking good and not come off as stupid.

Honey, If We Are a Family, Its Only Natural to Fight.

So Friday was a bit hard to sit through...
with all the tough really deep questions, to the argument that went on.
I love everybody in this class to death, so this stuff really put my head into a pickle and drives me crazy. Half of the groups to seem to have major problems. The freshies seemed to have some 'Lord of the Flies' situation, the sophomores in my opinion didn't have too much problems, we just kinda drifted of did our own thing and came back together to make something cooler, the juniors seemed to have a great time, and the seniors seemed to be in major hell from what I see. I felt we were more open with our opinions than we have ever been before, causing more feelings to be hurt and more people to be defensive of their opinions. Sometimes I like to think of STAC as some artsy family, but there is no such thing as a perfect family everybody gets on each others nerves sometime or another but I think if get over any ego we have (not saying everybody is an egotistical jerk by the way) we can move forward and become stronger than ever.

By the way happy 'Sarah Eve' (aka the day before my birthday).

Be kind, Rewind.

Second time doing this, I wasn't sure what we were going to get out of my group's little movie, even though you have a general idea of how people will react to it, you never know. I think the movie we made this year came out better than the one I made last year, it was more fun filming and I think it came out better, even though it still kinda sucks due to the lack of editing and such. I think my favorite part of this is how if you mess up you accept it and move on, no time to dwell or worry upon some tiny mistake, after all the mistakes you make, the more enjoyable it is to watch back. This film I had to pick my nose, burp, eat with my mouth open, fall down some stairs, and become the world's worst policemen. Oddly, it was so much fun. I hope we can do more of these in the future.

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!

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!

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!!

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.

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.

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!