The New Indiana Jones Trailer is HERE!

This just might be the best valentine's day ever!



The only question I have is what kind of creepy thing will the have in the movie, the first one had snakes, the 2nd had bugs and the 3rd had rats, what else is there?

I know it's still a ways away but these things should be planed in advance, I'm thinking about having an Indiana Jones themed birthday party. But I will keep you up dated on that.

Update Part II

I know you all probally already know this but I am terrible at keeping in contact with people. It's not that i don't care, I often wonder how people are that I don't see, there's just something on me that makes it almost impossible to pick up a phone or write an email.

So since i last wrote a blog I made a life size truncated torso in plaster that weighs about 150-200 pounds ( i'll post pictures later). then i came home for vacation for about a week. For the rest of vacation I worked at the library a couple times a week and mostly just relaxed. Alex and i went to Newbury Comics one night and bought a bunch of cheap DVDs all of which I highly recommend:

Brazil



A Very Long Engagement



The Machinist



Sliding Doors

I couldn't find a sliding doors trailer but it's basically a romantic comedy with a twist, the movie is split in two , what would happen if a women makes a train and what would happen if she missed it.

City of God



Classes started on Tuesday, I'm now a senior, my classes are a mix of easy and hard.
I'm taking Printmaking II, Principles of Abstract Sculpture, Italian III, Arts and Human Development, Art Education: History and Philosophy, and senior studio.

Arts and Human Development, and Art Education: History and Philosophy might be my two hardest classes, they're grad classes.

Really all i've been doing is working and watching movies. Some good ones I've watched in theaters lately:

No Country for Old Men


Persepolis



Sweeny Todd



I Am Legend

Update

So I started my second job a couple weeks ago. I'm now an Italian tutor. So far it's going alright, it's only three hours a week so I still have time for homework and a little free time but not much.

Red Sox madness was in full swing this week. Wednesday night I was in Psych class right across from Fenway, the class is 6:45-9:15 so right in the middle the game started and jets went flying over the school and the park and shook the building.

I finally got my summer grades back so next semester I will be a senior, which means I have to apply for grad school before next semester because I'm supposed to start grad classes senior year so I get my masters quicker.

Alex got some animations in the "Short Attention Span festival" last night. It was great,he had the most work in the festival, five pieces, and people laughed the most at his stuff.

Anyway so that's pretty much what I've been up to for the last few weeks.

Work, Work, Work

(Myles' comment reminded me of this comic)
I have no real purpose in writing right now, i'm just a little board and felt like rambling.

In my figure sculpture class we have projects we work on just in class and then compleatly independent outside projects of our choice. I'm making four 6-8" figure sculptures one of someone very fat, very thin, very old and I haven't decided the last one. I can really change my mind as a go along. I'm starting the fat one this weekend. I need to go to the hardwear store first and pick up some wire and stuff to make the armature (a structure for the clay to hold on to). I'm going to post some pictures as I work on it. I realized the other day that I don't have any pictures of my work on here.


My schedule at the library changed so now I won't be as busy during the week.

Parker is coming back from Egypt and Turkey on Wednesday. I'm pretty excited. I think he's staying at my place Wednesday night and then my mom is coming to get him at some point.

I got an email from my school today saying they are having a free school trip to Mt Monadnock. I think I'm going to go so if anyone's in the area on Sunday Sept 30th I will be on a Mt. They are giving us lunches and sweet rolls so the name of the trip is "The School of Hard Rocks and Sweet Rolls"! I think that is pretty amazing.

I watched East of Eden with James Dean the other day. :S The acting was great but the movie was awful. They took like the last 150 pages of this book and made it into a movie. They even left out one of the main characters, actually now that I think about it they left out everyone who wasn't in the last 150 pages too. I was so disappointed because I loved the book. My mom said the mini-seris done in the 80's was good as long as I overlooked how 80's it was. It's funny because the entire time I was watching it I was saying to Alex "They have to remake this". I went on imdb the next day and a remake of East of Eden is coming out in 2009. It was really weird. It's kind of like how if you just think "Boy I haven't seen Shawshank redemption in a while" within a week it's on tv.

anyway that's the end of my random babling

It's Good to Be Back

I'm starting my secound full week of classes tomorrow. I find it's kind of hard to get back in the swing of things. I like all my classes so far, they seem like they are going to be a lot of work though. I'm taking Illustration techniques, Advanced Figure Sculpture, Printmaking, Ancient and Medeval Art History, Boston Skecthbook, and Psychology. And I'm back working at the library. Wednesdays and Thursdays I'm at school either in class or at work for at least 12 hours.

I unpacked the last box in my apartment on Friday. It feels so nice to be a little more settled. It still doesn't really feel like home. A lot of windows still need curtains, the oven isn't working right now (the landlord said it would be done in a week about 2 weeks ago :S), and we have this one room that compleatly empty that I'm not really sure what I'm going to do with yet. We're thinking about useing it as a studio space.

I put my Netflix on hold for the semester and started renting a ton of movies from the library. I watched Howl's Moving Castle for the first time. I didn't think I would like the story, I really just rented it because Hayao Miyazaki is supposed to be a fantastic animator. Anyway I loved it. I rented East of Eden and Lawerence of Arabia too, but I haven't watched them yet.

#7 Some Like it Hot

Joe and Jerry (Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon) are musicians running from the mob, the only way they can hide is to dress as women and join a female band going to Miami. The problem is Joe falls in love with Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe) and an old millionare falls in love with Jerry.




And here are some more unrealted funny clips

#8 Young Frankenstein

Young Frankenstein is fantastic. luckily for you youtube didn't let me down this time and actually had many fantastic clips so here you go!












I had my final crit today. it actually went quite fantasically. everyone seemed to really like my work. so for the rest of the week i have work at the library and i have to get together stuff for my visa and then i have my visa appointment on friday and then i'll be home on saturday.

oh by the way
ONE WEEK UNTIL MY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!~!!!