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So… a few things.

1. I haven’t worked on my hybrid creature sculpt thing as much lately as I would have anticipated, but it is  still around. I had to make some fundamental pose/proportion changes, which means that although it’s been worked on, it’s still in its “early” stages in terms of how detailed it is.

2. Lately I have been listening to The Decemberists’ “The Crane Wife” and some Mountain Goats albums, which are all generally pretty awesome.

3. I “finished” the beginning sculpture class at work with a male figure study. There is a lot missing from it as I didn’t have as much time as I would have liked to put the details in that I wanted to, but I will probably post pictures soon. The female sculpt may be considered a lost cause at this point. I missed the 4th class, which might be considered ‘the hand and face class.” I kind of doubt I will revisit it; I may just remove most of the clay and use the armature for another sculpture starting in a few weeks.

4. I was working rather diligently for several weeks on a digital sculpture, but then I ran into some difficulty and also switched to the day shift at work (which a] is awesome and b] demands more energy/focus and active work at the computer), so it has sort of fallen by the wayside. I am going to return to it shortly, and may very well post some in-progress images.

5. I have a lot of images/ideas in my head for upcoming work. I may have mentioned this previously; I don’t remember and am too preoccupied at the moment to read previous posts. The point is, I feel somewhat inspired and creatively charged. I just hope I can find the time to put in some work, don’t get too frustrated with shortcomings/delayed results, and don’t get carpal tunnel.

6. I like semicolons.

Lists are a way to write unrelated paragraphs and not feel bad about neglected transitions or absent coherence.

And here is an in progress image for something I’ve had in my head for a few weeks, related to #2. Not sure what will come of it, especially regarding the pose:

Oh yeah, and keep in mind: he’s just sitting, and he shouldn’t be naked.

I haven’t forgotten you my bloggy little friend.

New design. New engine. Same nonsense.

The site is running on WordPress now. This wasn’t quite the goal I had in mind when I started tinkering recently, but I am kind of happy it’s where I ended up… I was running a very old version of a blog software called Textpattern that I didn’t use (for a year and a half) and didn’t want to deal with updating. So hopefully using WordPress will streamline some things. Except connecting to a little network of humans on blogger.

I added a bunch of categories for blog posts, although I’m not sure how useful they are at the moment. Seeing as I started this blog in college, and historically used it mostly to talk about art, my life, and things I’m working on, there is a lot of overlap and dubious value for the categories of “life,” “art,” “college,” and “work in progress.” But the exercise of creating categories and categorizing posts made me think about two things. The first is that I need to post a lot more work, a lot more frequently. Which was kind of the point of the site in the first place, and of the recent upgrade/conversion, and I could have told you a long time ago. In fact, I think I did.

The second thing was, I got to thinking about other facets of my life. Things that may be neglected, or at least that aren’t shared openly on the internet. At first I was thinking of interests/goals like running/exercise or trying new foods. Small things that will make me healthier and happier. But there are big things too. Family. Friends. Ideas. Dreams. I feel a little bit disconnected. Maybe I’ll end up touching on some of this stuff as well. I needs me some more categories.

This probably isn’t exciting for you, but I just fixed the site’s gallery. I’m not sure why this didn’t happen sooner; it was just a memory allocation issue and only took about 45 seconds to fix. There’s nothing new in the gallery yet, just old artwork and pictures. So you can check those out if you want. I have some new stuff in the works to post up eventually, but I’m considering taking it FARTHER THAN EVER BEFORE, so it may take a while. You can call me captain cop-out.

Okay. It’s been over a year and a half since my last post. I apologize. BUT if you cared enough to visit this site during that time, then you are probably a person I’ve talked to since then. I certainly hope so. If not…. well, you’ve probably long since given up on me and aren’t going to bother coming back now. I am a terrible person.

Lots of things have happened. I doubt I’ll write about any of them, with one exception. I just moved to San Francisco to work at ILM. Kacey and I took a road trip to get here. You can read some details, ramblings, and fabrications about it on our blog thing, and see a bunch of pictures grouped by location on flickr. We still have some posts to make for the last few days of the trip, and we are dating them according to when the events happened. So in addition to possibly being slightly confusing in the text, I don’t know what impact that will have on aggregator/feed type things. And we are going to continue posting on there as we do stuff around San Francisco, and future trips.

Oh also… I tried to change this site a little bit, about two months ago. At some point I fixed the old gallery for about two days, then something happened with execution time limits and I haven’t dealt with it since. Considering my schedule is about to get rocked like a hurricane (I start night shift in about 17 hours), hopefully my impending nocturnality or insomnia will allow me the time to migrate the content to somewhere/something whose upkeep will not be in my hands. The same may happen with this text stuff you are reading.

See you soon?

The PC is up and running. The art is not.

The summer is full of classes and work, and not a great deal of art creation. This will have to change, not least of all because otherwise I will have an F on my transcript and have to repeat Senior Thesis if I don’t make some 3D stuff by the end of July.

There are probably two weekends in July when I won’t be focusing on 3D. There are probably also a lot of days dedicated to homework and the like.

I hope I can pull this off. Meanwhile, I’m avoiding doing an assignment for my databases class.

One day I’d like to post something thought-provoking. Or at least something that takes some thought to write and isn’t just an expression of anxiety about the future and an acknowledgement that I haven’t written in a while.

I’m going home this weekend. All seven members of my immediate family will be together for the first time in something like four years. I am looking forward to it. I promise.

I guess I’ll end this before it becomes even more of a rambling and nonsensical post about nothing.