Shibori silk- tie dying with grandmommy

(titles are above the pictures)- grandmommy with her first tie dying silk ready to go in...also just for clarification she is wearing a t-shirt...lookin' mighty fine

first step, you have to put it in a water bath which allows the ink to go to the center easier

into the ink it goes...

i did mine after grandmommy's but i just wanted to put the photos together...grandmommy is taking my picture her first time with using my digital camera ;) good picture grandmommy

here it is after the ink bath now she is going to...

cut of the rubber bands to see her design

here it is in full glory...still wet...the darker blues are a little light than shown when dry(see last picture)...she is walking over to hang it up to dry while we work on the other 2 silk scarfs

now this is the shibori...you wrap the silk on the tube like a candy cane(which is taped down on each end) and then you wrap a string really tight around it and then you scrunch it down(it is shown in a couple pictures from now)

here is grandmommy holding the tube...you need partners for this

then we put it in a water bath and then the ink(we don't have the ink bath picture)

here is grandmommy holding the tube in the water bath

here is the silk scrunch down...there is both grandmommy's and my silk scarfs down there

here is grandmommy hanging her third tie dyed scarf(we had three scarfs- grandmommy and i made 2 tie dyed and 1 shibori)

i thought this was a good picture...mine is the darker of the two

the two on the right are the shibori and the one on the left is one of my tie dyed scarf which i re-did because my first try didn't get a lot of color

here grandmommy and i are sitting and waiting for our pieces to get damp/dry

and finally here is us to with all our creations

it was a lot of fun and hard work...shibori ooh my it was strenuous...anyways enjoy the enormous amount of pictures...there was so picture that i just had to show(which i did)...so thanks for looking at all of them

Arabic night with grandmommy

So we headed to a Arabic night here at baker. I am sitting here typing about it while everyone eats food. I tried the food and it was interesting, very spicy. I really enjoyed the belly dancing girl, i mean i can move my hips a little but oh my. we also saw beautiful traditional clothing. just the intricate beading and patch work was amazing. Then we also saw four men dancing with white sticks, which i believe was a traditional dance for a wedding or celebration. Then they sang a song of peace which was very beautiful. All the music was entertaining and all you want to do is get up and dance, even though i didn't understand the words it is still entertaining.

(not from the show, but something i googled)

My baby

In the past 2 to 3 days i have had my laptop with me...it is always at my side.

updates coming on sporadic intervals...it is a nice sweet break from reading so many pages

Here is where i stand

i like these songs...it is from the movie 'Camp' via youtube.com (may take a little while to load and also the lips might be off from the video clip-i just like the song)....if you check this last night i had 3 other videos, but i figure that this one is the most important and the one i really like....

I DON'T want-to

I don't want to study,
I don't want to be here at the library,
I don't want to write papers,
I don't want to read 58 pages by tomorrow,
I don't want to study for my exam,
I don't want to go anywhere, or be anywhere,
I don't want to have a schedule,
I don't want to feel like a grown-up,
I don't want to be sick,
I JUST don't want to...

I want to sleep,
I want to cozy up with a good book,
I don't know what else i want, but i sure of hell will come up with something else...
but that is mostly all i want to do.

Guess what i am typing on?

Ohh yeah....my baby...thats right i received my laptop. woo-hoo
well i took pictures and they are right now on my camera. i haven't downloaded all the programs yet to have the same things on the laptop as my desktop. well i have to go and eat DP Dough with ursula...my celebration of getting my laptop.

It snowed today...

me walking and taking a picture of myself

me again taking a picture with out anyone around

walking up morton hill...

view from one of the sidewalks in front of alden(library) 4th floor

a bench as you can tell, but the snow on it is about half...we had 4 inches roughly

My baby is almost here...

it started out in Kowloon to the airport then..

traveled across the ocean...my belief the north pacific then...

It arrive in customs in Louisville, KY then...

traveled to Columbus down to Athens...supposedly to arrive the 22nd...if one of my roommates can sign for it...if not i will get it Tuesday when i will be wait at the door until it comes :)


this is my baby(picture off website...i will official put one up when i actually get it)

okay i am done with the library..i can not focus and i just have to get my small paper read and write a conclusion...the laptop was good and i even rechecked it out for another 3 hours(that is the norm) and now i have been on it for an hour. not relating to the laptop my neck hurts , my eyes hurt, and i still have more stuff to do tonight...bye

still at the library writing...i am tired...i have abotu 30 more mintues on the laptop and i am half way done with my paper...it is probably going to take me a little to get use to the laptop...i had some problems in the beginning but everything is working out now....well got to go...

who would of thought that a lot could be said about "the creation of adam" by michelangelo which is located in the sistine chapel...bye

new findings at the library

well i am atthe library right now....on a laptop...no not mind...you can check them out for about 2 hours at library...the only down side is that you have to keep them in the library, it is only for 2 hours and that is it not my laptop...

for everyones information...my baby is coming in the mail..soon i am going to be a mommy...i am going to treat it like a baby because A)it costed a s***load of money B)it costed a S***LOAD of money...my money no less C)it will probably be at my side the whole time this quater lovely reading and paper writing...it will be my extended arm....

i might do these impromtu blogs just to take a break....well on to my pape r it is due by midnight or before she(my professor) wakes up tomorrow morning.

bye...goodness i can't wait until monday...or tuesday depending if someone can sign for it on monday

1 paper down 1 more to go

I have until the 17th at midnight to turn in this paper....whooo

i went to bed at 1-130am
I have been up since 715am...out of bed at 745am
class at 9-10am...an hour off of just sitting
now i have been at the library doing work for 9 hours...11-8
AND i am still going 8) i'm bugging out


oooooohhhh...i love kim....she is the coolest
SHE BROUGHT ME PIZZA :)

i left at 930pm

College sucks...just why?

Why add things that don't matter...why make things more difficult...why do i care...why do i even try...why do papers suck...why am i stressed...why does everything suck....F-ing WHY???? why does this matter...why is it important....why, just freaking WHY.

(not my room/office but it should be....)

I am better but it is going to be an early morning today (it is 1257am)...i am going to have a long day ahead of me also...i just wish writing was easier for me....well nite or good morning...whenever you read this....

GRRRR

Okay some venting for my own pleasure...
Now i am going to explain things that you might not understand but i just need to type fast and just let out all this irritation out....

I HATE writing...it is such a time consuming, detail orientated and stupid means to no freaking end...i mean i have been working all weekend trying to read just read and then today i am just trying to write 2 papers...did i write them NO, HELL NO....no i have been sitting here re-writing and re-writing and GRRRRRRR

Someone told me to do something else...i would do something else but the only thing i have to do is to write another paper....it does not get me away from my problem....grrrrrr

why does writing have to be that hard....why do some people whiz through it and i am here struggle with just a Book report and a analysis paper......ggrrrrrrr

My MLK three day weekend consisted of waking up early all weekend and my consideration of sleeping in was at 9am...i am so tired and frustrated...it is 1118pm and i want to go to sleep but i have to at least finish a rough draft for both papers before i go to sleep...Grrrrreeeeaaaaattttttt

well enough time spent venting when i can be struggling through a paper....fun oh what fun i am having....college majorly sucks and what is the freaking purpose....to get a degree, a stupid little paper for all the hell they put us through...but as Kim says...if college was easy and cheap everyone would go...so for us to be here is a accomplishment all its own.

Life consisting of Art History

Now you might say that my blogs are boring but the thought of writing something well written is not me. I can say the amazing stories in my head but they just come out jibber-ish in the end. I suppose to be reading my art history stuff but decided to take a break and write about it. This is probably a combination if many days of writing. I have limited time some days and other i am busy but not tied down.

The first thing and may be only the only thing is that i am consumed by art history. I know that is my major and that is the purpose of my major. I am interested but sometimes suffocating in the information. A couple of days ago i luck out because i didn't do all of my reading but the reading i did do, oh jeez. it was hard with things flying out of know where, facts upon facts that twisted around in my head, and names (i felt like the writer put them there just to put them there). Anyways i have extra reading to catch up on and that is what i was doing today. i am also trying to get a little ahead so i am not put into the pressure cooker like i am always feel i am put into.

this article was titled "the object of art history," certain writers were selected to write 2,500 words on the object of art history. So i am reading this article, i came upon on this paragraph and it spoke volumes to me. Maybe because i read everything else and had previous information of the articles or i might believe this as i go through a museum(hint: i don't really like museums, i get bored).

"...an object that encounters new sites, new audiences, and therefore new ways of seeing and talking about "art" is changed by those encounters. The altarpiece leaves its liturgical context and enters the museum; the Mona Lisa, after three hundred years as a portrait, becomes in the context of nineteenth-century Romanticism the embodiment of the femme fatale; swatches of objects are transferred from nineteenth-century art museums, and Navajo blankets--tribal artifacts woven by women--are exhibited in American galleries as the works of anonymous "masters" of innocent abstraction; so that the question to ask, as Nelson Goodman famously put it, is not so much "What is Art?" but "When is Art?" "

Another author states, "It doesn't really matter, in other words, whether or not my dolls are works of art, nor does it matter whether or not my kava kava statue is a doll. What matters is that, together, they can teach us something about the many ways, some different and some remarkably similar, in which people the world over--including Euro-Americans--have conceived of and used objects. More important, they can shed light on how people construct meaning in their lives--on how they negotiate the tensions between the material and the nonmaterial, between the worlds of form and formlessness. This it seems to me, is the big questions tend to lie, and this therefore should be the real object of art history.

Update: I can't remember the situation I was in when I wrote this, but I think the last paragraph makes more sense now. We should all question and create our own art in our own lives, if it isn't art or if it is doesn't matter only to us and how we see the world.

school starts...

Well it is official...school started yesterday.

I have only been to 2 of my classes and i am going to the other 2 today.

This quarter i can see is going to be lots of reading, writing, and studying. Not fun. I might drop Anthro. 101 because it is not need for me to graduate just something to fill up time. Though my advisor said it is a good classes to take. I haven't been to it yet so i am just getting a feel for it all.

This quarter i am taking:
Chinese Art History 314- need to pass with a B to replace AH 214(non-western art history class)
Methods of Art HIstory 460- This goes for 2 things: Tier 3 and 1 class 0f the 32 hours in 300- and 400- Art history classes
Spanish 112- Second in the series of elementary spanish
Anthropology 101- study of cultures...3 books, 1 textbook :/

Well it is 854am and i have class at 910...i am going to head upstairs...i am in gordy typing this. i will update later when i am done with all 4 classes and see how the quarter is going to work out....

Leaving tomorrow

I am officially leaving tomorrow from texas. I have been since the day of my last post 11/21, it is now 12/29. I haven't written because there was just no use. i will update picture of lillee when i get home. other than that my brother justin and dad have explained the holidays just as well as i could.

I can't believe i have been here this long but in a weird way it feels like it has only been 2 weeks. The crazy thing is that school starts in 5 days...geee whiz. well i have to go and start packing some more and then do some last minute shopping and visiting with family and friends.

Heading to Texas Today

Kim ansd I hiking/mostly taking pictures

Kim likes really hiking i like cement hiking.....hmmm



Insert jumping friend....though we were on the bridge jumping it looks like we are pasted in...kim mostly

2nd and 3rd painting

On the 2nd painting we first had to have a under painting of just blacks, whites, and everything in between. Then we had to do a glaze painting over the B&W underpainting.





The third painting was up to us. The minium size was 18X24 which this one is. To see it in person is better than online. It is of my neice LilleeAnn...i wanted to do this becasue she makes me happy, calm, and in aww of the child wonder. i finished this one before the 2nd painting because i enjoyed this one much more. Both of these paintings are due tomorrow(tuesday) for our final.

My work in a gallery opening for Basic Painting 1

Tengo mucha tarea en historia de arte, y espanol, y mi dos clases de arte. Durante las vacaiones, voy a estudiar historia de arte y espanol. Voy a hablar espanol todos durante las vacaciones.

Tengo ventiuno anos. Mi padre tiene cincuenta siete anos. Mi madre tiene cincuenta cinco anos. Mi mayor hermano, Justin, tiene ventiseis anos. Mi hermano, Matthew, tiene ventitres anos.

My hermanos tienen novias. Justin novia es stephanie. Ella es bonita y intellgente. Matthew novia es Beth. Ella es tambien bonita y intellgente. Me gustan ellas.

Tengo tres tias y tres tios. Mi madre tiene dos hermanas. Mi padre tiene un hermano. Tengo cinco primos, dos primas y tres primos.

Tengo ir. Te queiro.

Adios.


This is my quick paragraph in spanish. (it is missing dashes and accents...i just don't know how to create them on the computer)









if you want to know what is says:
I have much homework in art history and spanish and my two art classes.During the break i am going to study art history and sapnish. i am going to speak in spanish all during break. (not really but i will try)

I have 21 years, my dad has 57 years. my mom has 55 years. my brother just has 26 years. my brother matthew has 23 years.

My brothers have girlfriends. Justin's girldriend is stephanie. she is pretty and smart. Matthew girlfriend is beth. she is also pretty and smart. i like them.

i have 3 aunts and 3 uncles. My mom has 2 sisters. my dad has one brother. I have 5 cousins, 2 girl cousins and 3 boy cousins.

i have to go. i love you.

bye

Te quiero.----i love you

Voy a pasar tiempo con mi familia durante las vacaciones.----i am going to hang out with my family during the break.

the reason(s) why i haven't written in a month:

one...COLLEGE
two....ART CLASSES
three...BAD INTERNET CONNECTION
four...didn't feel like it
etc......

Warning...this i sgoing to be filled with bad grammar, bad langauge and bad spelling....

i am tired it is 840 in the morning and i have been at the graphic lab since 9 last night...yes no sleep and the night before i only got 3 to 4 hours of sleep. i am going to be a zombie when i get home and addicted to caffine...anyways...the picture below with my face and the owls was in a gallery in seigfred. Grandmommy and kim where there to see it...i felt proud. earlier that day i was dissappionted becasue i have wuld oooo-ber hard on my portfolio for my graphic final and supposely i was doing it wrong. she said it would be fine but you know if a teacher doesn't like it or says it is wrong and then says it is fine you have to change it....so that it was i been working on...i am trying to get ahead and elminiate things earlier in the weekend before the ast 2 days of class....i have a busy schedule the next couple of days or a week...whatever...i wish with all my heqart with being to perferct and nit-picky that i would put my work up on the blog but i am just tooo exhausted and busy.....

though i am getting ahead in graphic i have 2 paintings to do for...what else? painting....i have a 2'x4' and a 18"x24"....it will take lots of time to complete them....

art history, though it is my major...early times in art puts me to sleep...it is almost over

in spanish it is going well maybe matthew and i can talk to each other over break in spanish (it would help, if he remembers any) but i have a speaking oral exam thursday i have to memorize and monday is the 3 exam....


STRESSED and EXHAUSTED are my words for these two weeks.....


well i have to go and get some sleep to have a long night ahead of me again...or i might work a little more but that means i will work 3 more hours not realizing they pass and then an hour before my class....ehhh i am going home i guess...work can be done another day (thursday)


bye...see you over break

Quiero dormir y ir en vacaciones con mi familia, mis padres y dos hermanos. Tengo mucho hago pero quiero desunyar(sp). Te quiero todos. Hasto luego. (don't know if gender and number agree but i think i am close)

(it states: "i want to sleep and to go on vacation with my family, my parents and two brothers. i have much to do but i want to rest. i love you, all. See you later.")

final piece....

the picture is sideways slightly because i was standing on top of a chairs reaching over and hoping i got the whole picture in the frame...this one was the only one that was not blurry

old picture


new edit, still edits


i still need to fix my hair and eyes and then take off the tape so i have a clean white border

i will be finishing it today so...by tomorrow morning or tonight i will have the finished picture up

Been very busy with classes...

i have been very busy...for the past 2-3 weekends i haven't had a weekend. i have had moments but moments are all they are. On saturday i worked from i believe noon to 7 am in the morning on my painting, which still can be toucheed up(seen below). as of right now it is fine for the critic tomorrow. i also in the pass week into this week have had:
worksheet due
a spanish oral exam
spanish exam
spanish paragraph written on the computer
120 thumbnails
read essay-write 5 questions
Art history exam
find information on essay questions and study
finish up a graphic project(thurs. last week)
finish painting
finish color chart
finish tints and shade chart
finish mixture of complementary color chart

even though the list is not that long, time was really taken up..i am tired all i want to do is sleep and with that i have almost been late and been late to classes because i rather sleep than wake up and i have turn off all my alrams and i have missed my alarms going off. On friday i am sleeping in and taking the day off, but of course that might change also because work seems to increase as the days go by.


(click picture to make bigger and edges still have tape on them, that is why they are not clean white edges)

well i am heading back to doing some homework...bye

what classes am i taking?

right now i am still getting a feeling for all my classes:

I am in spanish 111...elementary spanish which is interesting because i dread going but end up leaving speaking spanish in my head...hopefully i will learn something before next quarter when i have to take 112 and then 113 in spring quarter.

I am in art 250...graphic design priciples which i guess right now is the beginning learning of graphic design...right now i am doing things with black squares...i just still and getting to know what i am doing

i am in art 275a...basic painting1...it is a painting class...that is about it...below is the one collage i will paint but this is the composition(the first step)

(it is cut outs of paper taped on a canvas board...will be smoother when painted)

I am in art histroy 211...it is about prehistoric history...cave paintings will be taught next class on wednesday.

that is all 18 credit hours...

and the school year begins....

that is basically all i have to say....future post will tell how the classes really are.

p.s. and dad i miss my movie buddy as well. :) miss you and love you.

other pictures

IF you ever wondered what deposable water cameras look like if taken underwater here is the result...i think it is pretty cool.





we were in a swimming pool...it was hard to see each other when taking the picture but we like the result. :)

kim is gone....

3 more pictures below... click pictures to make bigger

kim and i did many things while she was here for 8 days:
LET'S SEE...(not in order of doing)
freebirds(the night she arrived no less)
schlitterbahn
san antonio riverwalk
-dinner
-boatride
alamo
shopping
cascade caverns
visited lilleeann and kendra
round rock donuts
visited my mom's work
drove downtown
castle hill cafe
corpus christi
-swam in the bay for 10 minutes
padre island
port aransas
san antonio again(shopping at market square)
dinner out with parents
amy's ice cream
getting lost on ceasar chavez(sp?)
again freebirds
bob bullocks state museum gift shop
which wich? (sandwich place)
riley's BBQ in dripping springs
fredricksburg
-shopping
enchanted rock
fish daddy's
bats flying out on the congress ave bridge
toured the Ausitn City Limits studio
watched movies at home
-my big fat greek wedding
-rudy
i think that is all...it was fun and exhausting, all at the same time

Kim IS in TEXAS :)

well kim is here...yeah

we are heading off to schlitterbahn and then on to san antonio...

i will tell you what we did when i get back

bye.

I'm tired...I'm sore

DONE with work

TODAY Kim comes :)

14 days until I leave TEXAS

time has flown by....somewhat

What does DELL do to you????

well there are many things...
theres.... NOTEBOOKS

theres.... DESKTOPS

HUGE and HEAVY


Little smaller and lighter


and smaller
there is a medium one to this and there are smaller ones too

BUT the question still remains....

what does DELL do to you????

well ponder this...
putting systems on a their individual trays

shoving them out with their matching traveler(notebooks have to have adpaters with each one of them)

all facing a certain way(back of systems facing the left...front side facing the right...laying them on their side)

now ponder this...
on a really good day(8 hours) 1200 systems get pushed out onto a line(to much to explain...just a tray and shove it on a line...where it goes from there who cares)...

on a really bad day 76 systems(server crashes...3 to 4 hour day)...

on a medium day 500ish(some crashes of the server)...

FYI...the servers run a program that scan in the systems for receiving, production, and shipping....IF IT CRASHES WE ALL STOP


this is what happens to you arms...



Now how many bruise are there...


if you guessed 20 you are correct!

(the top arm hits the back side of the system...the other the soft flat or round front side)


got to love DELL....

12 days of work left...if no more saturday workdays...*crossing fingers*
17 days until kim comes...
29 days left until i leave texas
32 days until school starts

28->23->20 days...of work left until i can stop....
21->18->15 official days of work so far...who knows what overtime i volunteer for...
i am exhausted but at least i work from 6 AM to 230 PM instead of 500 AM to 330 PM or even on other times i worked 500 AM to 530 PM...

my official job title is "De-trash Deconstruction team"...basically is a fancy name for open boxes and sort part...ALL FREAKIN' DAY LONG....i mean the skids don't stop ever....if they did i would worry...

also if you a:
BUBBLE WRAP;TAPE;HIT THINGS (mostly boxes);POPCORN (the stuffing in boxes...AKA...Packing peanuts);SLOBS, you leave messy caked in dirt;PEOPLE WHO like to THROW things....STACK things...ORGANIZE things...and don't talk much...

ALLWAYS....caked in dirt, caked in sweat, and definately needing a shower and a change of clothes....bye

new job IN the SAME building...

well here is the story....

i started three weeks ago at DELL... come to find out the temp. agency i go through to obtain a job put me completely in the wrong area from the get go... not knowing this i went about my business and wondered was i going to get through being a material handler... well yesterday i found out (that i wasn't suppose to be working where i was), they said i would be switching tomorrow, meaning today... so after the first break i went on my way to the new area... basically i was in the back...the wayyyy back :) i don't know if it is good or not yet, but i am having trouble feeling happy right now... no one talks in the "Refurbishing" area, basically you are in your own world, one lady talks to me like i don't get things the first time when i was standing there hearing from the specialist(basically the head honcho i refer to), they play music which i try to drown into but seem to be just missing my other area of cutting tops of boxes and shoving them into there respected spots... i don't know, but i have no choice in the matter becasue it wasn't my fault to begin with...sigh...do i want to hurt myself by shoving boxes in or hurt my feet by walking all day long....you know right now i rather hurt myself cutting boxes open if i get to hang out with the people in the area (at least they crack jokes, laugh at the bad white boy dancing across the way, make inside jokes, have people wonder about you as much as themselves....i just hope this gets better

Me against the boxes...Who's going to win???

THE BOXES....

Bruised...Battered...And sore from non-living boxes...

The DEVILS in them...I think

Still working...Wondering when the summer will end...Hope the pain will stop in the many sporadic parts of my body...I hope I live through this summer :/ ...Which of course i will...SADLY

Well had a long night and I have a wake-up call at 4am*tear*....So nite to the late owls

Bye