Of Vampires, Terrible Ghosts, Magic, and the Seven Deadly Sins

Instead of doing the paintings I originally planned to do I decided that I was going to put that project on hold and go back to something that was 'flow' work for me. I am working with ink again. I'm not sure how long or much I will focus on this but I feel like it may even take me somewhere else, lead me to other ideas or projects. I noticed they had Nosferatu on Netflix so I did a drawing I plan to ink in based on Nosferatu. Before I only inked small doodles but I was thinking of working with bigger drawings (not huge but it doesn't take up the corner of school notes).

Hey non nonny *splash*

***SPOILERS FROM HAMLET***

Today in my English class we presented our groups a scene we up based on a specific character and what went on in Act 4 of Hamlet. I was in the Ophelia group and we decided to have Ophelia and purgatory and three people deciding if she goes to heaven or hell by asking questions about her life just before she died. While one Ophelia was explaining what happened the rest of our groups mimed those scenes in act 4. I was the Ophelia mime. I didn't really have plans as to what to do so improvised. It went pretty well. When Ophelia goes crazy I genuinely scared a girl in my own group who was Gertrude. Then when Ophelia drowned I didn't k ow what to do so I laid on the floor and pushed myself around the room. I was a human mop. I was also getting an easy grade because of improv.

Fetus Drawings

To think I have ever been shorter than I am now is hard to believe. After years of being missing my mom found the box filled with my baby stuff and things from elementary school. Because it is what you did most of the time in those days, I have a lot of art from then. This with further prove that anybody can draw, with proper time and practice:

Hard to see but on the back is written "December 1998. First picture Sarah handed to me and said 'Mommy picture'"

This is a drawing made on my first day of kindergarten

I think this is the first biography I have ever done. I did it on the actress Sarah Bernhardt. I remeber having to dress up as her when I presented it. My handwriting is about the same.

Not sure the date, but I used to draw a lot of creatures when I was younger.

and now:

 I sound like a broken record but the amount of people that come up to me and say the can't draw makes that sound like a broken record. I feel like this is a sequel to the blog post we had to do earlier in the year about where we started as artists.

In this baby book they have things that my mom filled in about me, what I liked, etc. and I found this

"Very Dramatic- always pretended to be someone else or some animal" I seem to be a little actress that also said "Why not" a lot.

So if you want to be "a good drawer" (something else I get a lot) put some clothes inside you.

Always one step behind him, it's Brian Eno! Brian Eno!

This isn't a blog post about Brian Eno. He was mentioned today and I really like the song about him by MGMT:

I enjoyed watching/ talking about David Bowie and Beck in class today. Bowie is such a great artist yet I don't really quite know what to say about him on this blog post. I came in to this post thinking I had a lot to write but my brain has gone blank. I really love how he doesn't stick to one thing, but changes him and his sound all the time. That is one quality I really respect in artists. I mean, if you are going to make the same thing over and over again couldn't that be a waste of your time? You could have just left the world with the one thing and spend your time exploring other things. I think this is why I am afraid to pick one thing to focus on in college and to do one thing for the rest of my life. I hope I can do lots of things when I get older. Kind of like that magician I met who was also a police officer (but maybe I don't want to do that...). I also enjoyed watching Ziggy Stardust because I'm a softy for concept albums. I want to draw Bowie. He has such an interesting face. 

When talking about Bowie I can't help but think of that big framed poster of Bowie that was sitting in my bathroom for about 5 years. Bowie, my bathroom buddy.

I'm not sure how to reinvent myself. To get help I looked up the definition for reinvent.

Reinvent: Transitive Verb. \ˌrē-ən-ˈvent\

1. to remake or redo completely
2. to bring into use again
3.to make as if for the first time something already invented

I still don't know what I am going to do to reinvent myself. I am afraid of reinventing myself wrong. I don't know what I want to do. I don't know if I want to work on art for this. Will I do some sort of live performance for this? I want to do something you can't talk about? I'm getting anxious because I'm afraid that after a week I'll see that whatever I do isn't the reinventing I wanted to do for myself. I think I'll have to sleep on this.

After I filled out my last High School schedule I decided to take one of the personality/career tests Naviance had to offer. Reading the questions I notice they seem very familiar. Extroverted, introverted, sensor, intuitive, thinking, feeling, perceiving, judging; this is a Meyer Briggs test. I have already taken this test because of STAC. Once again this test declared me an INFJ. It also gave me a few career choices, most leading towards art or science, agriculture, or media. Which isn't all that helpful at the moment. The road to the future is still masked by a fog.

 

Spider Webs

Connecting to yourself all over the internet. I know it's mad but I pretty much do that with every site I use except here. Mainly Tumblr and DeviantART, a little bit for Facebook and Twitter. I'll work on making my blogger connect to my spider web this long weekend.

I made a Pinterest. I'm not sure how I feel about it at the moment, so far it kind of seems like tumblr, with out anything that makes it personal, without text post, audio post, video post, etc. But maybe if I spend more time with it those thoughts will fade away.

my 'art' Pinterest board

my 'other stuff I like' Pinterest board

I come from the Nightosphere

Since Lexi, Danny and I did not film today I went home and watched a ton of Adventure Time. I don't care if you think you are too cool for cartoons Adventure Time is flawless. The post nuclear war world it takes place in is really cool, it has tons of kingdoms Candy Kingdom, Fire Kingdom, Lumpy Space, Hot Dog Kingdom, Cloud Kingdom, and much more. So many princesses: Bubblegum, Hot Dog, Slime, Ghost, Lumpy Space, Orange, Lunchbox princess, etc. I like how almost anything can exist, it leaves a lot of room to be creative and it easily helps me off an art block. It also teaches great lessons with out being corny and annoying.

ANYWAYS
As I was watching Adventure Time one episode called Ignition Point and I picked up on that the episode kept referencing to Hamlet. I am currently reading Hamlet in AP English. I get excited when things I am learning/reading comes up in other things I see/read/hear/other five senses. Is that normal? Or am I a nerd? I like learning.


As I said earlier in this blog post, Adventure Time gets me off art blocks so when I took a break from Adventure Time, I drew my favorite character Marceline the Vampire Queen with a hair cut.

If I was a cartoon character, I would probably be Marceline. Most of the time she looks like:

I went to New York Comic Con two years ago as her (and Michelle Li was Fiona). We both got stopped a lot because people wanted to take pictures of us.

Michelle and I then met the creator of Adventure Time

see Michelle in the background as Fiona!

Pen Ward drew me Marceline because I was dressed as her. This morning my dad walked into my room look at the drawing and thought it was me. I guess the long hair and fangs make it look like me.

Well I think my tea is ready... so long and goodnight.

Power and Control

  Very interesting studying posture and how it affects how people view us. I tend to slouch a lot and my backpack makes me look asymmetrical but I'd like to believe I can control how people see me (visible vs. invisible, alpha vs. beta whatever you want to call it). Being short helps me easily escape when I want, but sometimes with proper posture and stride people move out of my way. I've been told that I look like I want to kill somebody when I walk in the hallways during school. I've also been told I walk with a 'swagger'. I think my walk is normal and gets me to my classes on time. Despite my poor posture I don't think I am one of those 'invisible kids' in the halls. Although I'm not one of those obnoxious kids who walks WAY TOO SLOW, people still see me and many of them wave hello. Do I stand out? Do I somehow catch people's eye? Do people see me because a lot of people know me? I think I'm going to study how I present myself on my journey from class to class.
When we went out in the halls to experiment with how posture works, my friend came up behind me and tapped me on the back asking, "Why are all the STACies crossing their arms and walking through the hallways sad." I don't know if she is just observant or if we were being to obvious. Maybe if we were a bit more subtle about it would work even better. When I tried being 'invisible' I kept playing with my hands, picking my nails a bit, keeping a neutral face. I think if you chose to look sad or happy that draws attention. I thought it worked for me.

I love Back to the Future. I used to watch it all the time as a child. I never really thought about the postures in the movie until today when it was pointed out. One thing I noticed that wasn't really pointed out that I picked up on was after George McFly punch Biff there was this one shot taken from below making him look much bigger.

On the whole neck and submission topic, my thoughts immediately went to dogs. As you may know I am volunteering at North Shore Animal League and I had to go to orientation. At orientation we spent a lot of time on how the body language of a dog or cat shows their emotions which is very important to know because they can't really speak to us so to know what they are feeling we must study their body.Especially because at NSAL these are for the most part, animals we don't know too well. We don't know their past, and there is possible triggers we don't know about. I have charts and pictures showing what body language means what for both dogs and cats. Maybe I'll bring it in.
Another thing about necks being a sign of submission made me think that this could be why all the respectable business men wear collared shirts and not V necks. But then I thought there is a lot of reasons why professional people don't wear V necks.

I think posture is a silent language people do not think about all that often.

Keep. You. Safe.

Last Friday after a long day of STAC Live and pancakes, I went to see Warm Bodies. It is the film adaptation of the book I was talking about a few blog posts back. I really liked the book, it is quite possibly the most enjoyable book I've read in a while. I could not put it down. I read it in the span of three days, which may not be anything to some people, but I tend to be a slow reader. I was so excited to see the movie, I felt my face grow into a wide grin when the film started. A lot of my smiles are forced so it is always nice to catch myself smiling on my own. I can't go and tell you that this should win all the awards and it is cinematic genius, but I really enjoyed it. I wanted to like it. So I liked it. What I like about the book/film is that although it is a bit of a romance it doesn't take it self too seriously. Graham Norton nailed it calling it a "ZomRomCom" (zombie romance comedy). It isn't the kind of romance comedy though that would make you want to puke in your mouth. It is very witty. I have never seen a zombie so intelligent as R. I won't reveal any big plot points but the ending was a little different from the book which put me off a tad, but not enough for me to say I didn't enjoy watching it. I enjoyed the references to Romeo and Juliet all through out the book/film. The leading lady's name is Julie and the zombie for got his name but he thinks it started with an R (R for Romeo?). They also have a scene with a balcony but I won't get into much detail on that. Also the whole two groups that don't get along but two people from those groups come together and fall for each other (Montagues Vs. Capulets --- Zombies Vs. Living).

It did very well this weekend, it won number one the box office, earning $19.5 million.

I drew some fan art Saturday night:

  

I don't catch the cold. The cold catches me.

Fall Out Boy Died For Your Sins

I was going to blog about something else but this seems more urgent (I'll blog about the other thing later on tonight). You may have caught a glimpse of my freak out 9th period, but Fall Out Boy has announced that they are no longer on hiatus. Bassist, Pete Wentz announced it on tumblr, along with tour dates and a music video for their new song titled "My Songs Know What You Did In the Dark (Light Em Up)".

Wentz wrote the following:

"When we were kids the only thing that got us through most days was music. It' why we started fall out boy in the first place. . This isn’t a reunion because we never broke up. We needed to plug back in and make some music that matters to us.

The future of fall out boy starts now."

They have been on hiatus since 2009 which in the scheme of things is probably not too long but this hiatus in particular has been hyped up. Many fans collectively sobbed on a daily basis over the hiatus over the past 3-4 years. Some blogs were made dedicated to counting how many days it has been since the band has announced hiatus. To cope with the lack of content many fans made jokes about the hiatus. I'm sure now we can all look back and laugh about how ridiculous we all were. Maybe. Whenever I hear the word hiatus it shudder a bit. Every month for the past few years people made rumors on "Fall Out Boy back together" so it may have caused some trust issues. Although I know it probably wasn't their goal all this hype will probably make them huge again. Not like  that was really a huge problem for them, it's just that their last album Folie a Deux wasn't as well received as they probably have hoped. It was one of those situations where a band tries some new sounds out and a good number of fans are all like "oH Noo fOB is deaD! thIs new STUFF Is cRap" and sometimes fans got rude at shows when they played music off this album (I personally love this album). I think Gerard Way said it best: If you don't like bands changing their sound, listen to the same old albums. Of course sometimes bands release bad albums, but this was not Fall Out Boy's case. I think it taught fans that they don't know what they have until it is gone.

Where am I going with this? Well to be honest I'm not exactly sure. I had another idea in mind as to what I wanted to work on/towards, but now I think I would like to incorporate Fall Out Boy's music into my work in celebration. Maybe not a big project, but a least a little one that I can smile at when I look back to it.

This feels like Jesus rising from the dead. This is like a pop punk Easter.

Remember kiddies,

Fall Out Boy died for your sins!

Reason#3246 why I should not be allowed to use photoshop. Yes I know I just compared FOB to Jesus and this is God touching Adam but let's not burn my house down over it, please?

The new Fall Out Boy single:

I personally like it, as expected it doesn't sound like their older music, which I am fine with. I'm just glad they are back to be honest.




citations:
Tumblr. N.p., 4 Feb. 2013. Web. 4 Feb. 2013. <http://petewentz.com/post/ 
     42274051819/fobhiatusisover-when-we-were-kids-the-only>.