cyberized, while only slightly shaded

I hurray. Austin's put the necessary programs in my little box (the new laptop my mum and da sent as an x-mas present). Huzzah! I still need to figure out how to get some stuff done and the saddest bit is that I don't have wireless in my house but I don't think that that would be the best idea really. I'm as distracted as a bee on mesc as it is and really all I have to deal with in my apt is my radio, books, food and futon.

Gawd effing damn it, why is my bike cursed! The seat's been stolen and truth be told I wish I could drop kick it off of Monkey Hill (nola's highest point of elevation: a manmade hill in the Audobahn Zoo). Oh Pancake Widower, my most favoritest bike and trusty steed. Why did that stupid dipshit drunk driver in the Quarter hit me and her. Couldn't he have hit a stamp or used kleenex, not me on my bike the best bike in the universe? So really, I've had to repair my bike a lot and now I've had to take it to Michael's bike store and then none of the seat posts fit and i curse the day those little (presumptive) brats who stole my bike seat were born. Grr.

Okay. So I'm calming down a bit and would like everyone to know that not everything is a total drag, it's just that I'm going to have my pyramid and consequently am a little bit more aggressive than I should be. I will attempt to calm down and think happier thoughts and maybe get excited about those things instead of letting my uterus champion the helm.

I've finished my gigantic had drawing/painting. I've even found a place for it but I have some minor tasks to complete before I can hang it up. The steps might be a bit simpler to understand:

1. Buy some acrylic clear coat spray paint, googles & ventilator.
2. Spray n dry.
3. Nail it to the side of that abandonned barn by Tchoupotoulous

urmmm
more later.

Use your sketchbook as a visual work journal, a place to record your thoughts about you, your life and school.

· Challenge yourself

· Ask for help when needed



Homework 1: Make a title page with different pictures of shoes. Now annotate them saying which shoes you like and why? What do other types of shoes say about a person? For examples slippers or sandals compared to boots or high heels. What can you find out about a person by their shoes? Write your opinion in your sketchbook with arrows pointing to parts of the shoe.

Learning objectives:

- to examine how a shoe is made

- to understand the influence of fashion, culture, and practicality with shoe design.

Helpful hints: Use the Internet, catalogues and own photos. Maybe choose a theme e.g. sporting shoes or two contrasting themes e.g. functional to fashion.






Homework 2: Do an observational drawing in pencil of a collection of shoes that you have at home. The composition is up to you e.g. a line of shoes in a neat row; or a mismatch of odd pairs of shoes; or an unorganised pile of shoes. Use tonal shading.

Learning objectives:

- to develop drawing skills

- to develop awareness of the important and significance of composition.

Helpful hints: fill the page, and don’t be worried if it some of the shoes go off the page, this can often be more interesting.



Homework 3:Design or make a box for your clay shoe. You could use a real shoebox or make a wild shape and transfer your design onto it. Think about how you can relate it to your shoe design.

Learning objectives:

- to think creatively on presentation

- to know how to develop an idea for another means

Helpful hints: Think about an environment for your clay shoe, if its based on an animal where would it live?



Homework 4:Design some futuristic shoes that will be worn in 200 years time. Write a short paragraph explaining the reason for their style. Either shade or paint them.

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There are assorted articles about Z'Otz: one from Where Y'at about the old store my favorite , and this more recent one . Jesus Christ resurrected here. Wonderful, so maybe miracles are only a latte away and all of us struggling scam artists (my fellow employees) can sweet talk some clams into that big blue tip jar.

Mack and Chesley are opening another on Decatur. Jack's been ripping up the carpet there and he tells me that it's bigger than a high school gymnasium. I'm excited and will probably guilt myself into helping them out just a little bit because I am a big sucker and they're family anyway...

Oh poor Jack he lost his wallet after we went out for Chinese. Darnation. It's odd how we're paired: someone stole my bicycle seat yesterday.

I am currently applying to join the Peace Corps. The ideal destination? The sunny shores of Romanian... To further explore my eastern European fantasies. I have found myself in an odd situation; it is something like a dream. I realized, somewhere, perhaps talking with Chase, that I could do whatever I wanted. That ultimately if I didn't want to do something, that I didn't have to... and that if I wanted something, some weird element in my life to materialize that I could make that something happen.

I've just finished reading Richard Brautigan's An Unfortunate Woman. Strange, my friends are traveling away. Possibly indefinitely. Sprechen Sie Brian has flown to Deutschland. Claire and Chase are with Big Bang and I might possibly reunite with them at Mutant Fest in Oregon. Thomas is moving to Asheville. June and Johnny are already in Cali but only for a bit. Genghis and Issa are moving back to Minneapolis. Sigh. Gloom. Brood. I guess that Stanley (clairvoyant morose newt co-habitant) and I will have to hold down the fort in expectation that they will return to visit.

Um, yes.

Thunderstorms.

Are you a gastropod?

You have big, rough tongue
right inside your mouth.
Use it to rip pieces
off leaves and
eat them.