i wish i knew how to quit you

Every once in a while, someone comes a long who is so good at art and computer graphics that it makes me feel like the work I've been doing the last 2 years resembles kindergarten fingerpaintings. I attended this photoshop workshop yesterday put on by this usc student, Marie Lu, who does amazingly detailed digital paintings. She showed us step by step how to do hair and eyes, but I think I would never be able to come up with the things she does. But in a way it's kind of inspired me to start working a little harder on a few of my outside projects. Here are a few of the pieces she did.









Anyway, I went to BJs last night with a bunch of people for a late birthday celebration, and despite the rain, it was a lot of fun. I always get nervous when I'm the person planning something like that because I'm worried that since people don't know each other at all, they might not get along or you'll get the horrible awkwardness. But everyone seemed to get along really well and it was nice to see. We had a little bit of trouble with the waiter but it worked out in the end and we got 2 free pizookies out of it. Even though I did spaz out, turn around at the wrong moment, and got smacked in the head by the pizookie tray that the guy was bringing over. My hand eye coordination has been miserable lately. I smacked my head on the plate, spilled a drink all over myself when I was trying to take a sip, and then was trying to pay the guy at a drive through window and instead of giving him the money I hit my arm on the doorframe and dropped the money all over the ground. I'm getting sloppy in my old age.

Oh I also stabbed myself in the finger while working on printmaking. I hate that class. It seems like such a dead art to me. I could be off learning how to edit video or working on some graphic design thing that will actually apply to my major, and instead I'm stuck here carving out patterns in linoleum blocks. Tonight I'm going to see Brokeback Mountain with my dad and brother which I've already seen but am excited to see again. Especially after seeing all the mock trailers made for it like "Brokeback to the Future."