Hm.
Going away to art school in the fall. Here's what I did last semester in my Drawing/2D Design class. :)
- This is an unfinished still life. The paper is 18x24", but the space I'm working on takes up maybe 1/2-1/3 of the page. I probably should have waited to finish this before posting it, but I don't know when I'll get around to that. The stipple technique kind of hurts my eyes after I work on it for 3+ hours without a break. I start to get dizzy :P
- Not EXACTLY my favorite piece, I have to re-work the face and give it a wider range of value/soften the outlines. Otherwise I like it. 18x24 on off-white drawing paper with compressed charcoal/charcoal pencil.
- this was for my Drawing I class, which is a basic beginner class in which the majority of the homework assignments were to copy xeroxes of other things. This was one of them. Copied to a 9x12" piece of drawing paper with graphite pencil from an 8x10 image. This took maybe like a total of 5-6 hours.
- not my favorite either, but I did put a lot of time into it. I wish I would have changed the angle of the sharpener in the beginning because the angle was awkward, and the circular metal piece with the holes in it was JUST off from being a perfect circle, so it came out wonky. 18x24 on drawing paper with micron markers.
- another unfinished piece D:. I have to again put more tones into the face and work on the hair, but the basic jist and shape of the face is done. I was never really a big fan of self portraits because I've always dreaded having to draw myself, and I would always make things up to fix the features about myself that I didn't like- I don't really care anymore. It's beautiful in it's own essence; I'll deal with my actual body in the mean time :P 18x24 on off-white drawing paper with graphite pencil.
- nude figure. Professor told us to just outline the figure, meh. Not much to talk about here really. 18x24 on drawing paper with graphite pencil.
- another figure, except male. Added some value because this pose was around an hour and a half. Regret doing it on newsprint ( I wasn't listening when they said how long the pose was, I was used to quick 20 minute ones!), reworking the paper kind of wore at the image, but it's all good. 18x24 on newsprint with graphite pencil.
- Don't remember exactly how long this pose was- I wish I would have gotten her face. Might play around with this image and some tracing paper/markers. We'll see ;) 18x24 on drawing paper with graphite pencil.
- Another figure drawing. Longer-ish pose, but not that long. 18x24 on drawing paper with graphite pencil.
- this is probably my favorite of the poses, and most difficult (and longest) , from that figure-drawing session. :) 18x24 on bristol board with graphite pencil
- now this is from my 2D design class. Hated the class at first, but then it became my favorite. We had to create 3D intersecting shapes using 3-point perspective. So much fun. :) 18x24 on off-white drawing paper using micron markers.
- I have to take a better photo of these: these are three SEPARATE images, I just merged them together because they were a set and this is how I wanted them displayed next to each other. Each image is a drawing of an apple, portrayed using different techniques. Each image is 6x6 with an 8x8 border on off-white drawing paper with micron markers.
- Grand finale! haha. This was my final project for 2D design. We were given a source image by the professor, and he told us to reproduce the image to be at least 18x24", using an interesting grid technique. In each box/shape that made up the grid, we had to use different media or somehow make it look like a mess when you got up close, but when you stood back, you can see an image. The inspiration for the project was Chuck Close, and the way he has treated portraits as small images within one large one.
The background is actually a collage of an old cut-up watercolor painting I did a while ago. The actual face of the old man (I don't know who he is! Sadtimes.), was made using a combination of old newspaper(from soviet estonia XD lulz), charcoal, graphite, ballpoint pen, micron marker, aaand I think that's it.
As for the grid, it was hard to transfer from an image that was somewhere around 4x6" big to an 18x24 image, especially since this grid was almost impossible to transfer by hand(see down below). Used a projector etc to transfer it. I wanted to make it almost look like broken glass around his left eye, but in the finished image it's difficult to notice from far away.
This was so much fun to make, I'm contemplating whether or not to do more portraits in this style. 18x24" on bristol board, mixed media.
A WIP and some close-ups:
Sorry for talking too much XD I just liked the process and maybe if you're artsy you'd like to try something like this as well! I'm not gonna hog all the fun. I don't make art to please other people or to be unique or quirky. I make art because I enjoy it and I really feel happy when I'm doing it. I want to learn/show other people how much fun/how relaxing it is. Give it a try sometime :P
That's it for now. I'm working on an oil painting (oh jeez) of my dad and my brother for my dad's birthday towards the end of July. Plan on spending the next two weeks on that. Should be decent :)
Toodlelooo
About Me
- Cassie
- Cassiepants is a 19 year old girl living in New York with her dog. She likes makin' art, among other things. n__n
In other news... well, there really isn't much other news.
My dad and I were talking the other day, as we were driving down the road to get back home, how Jesus and Buddha wouldn't have lasted 10 minutes where we live, right now. Their love for humanity would pretty much disintegrate and they would realize how terrible the human race is. Once you think about it, anyone could have love for the human race if they did what they did. Just take off into the wilderness/desert and not see anyone for a long time, and then maybe you'll feel like you love everyone a little more. But, hell, if you stick them on Long Island in present day, I highly doubt they'd still have those ideals they had a while back.
And you know, times aren't terrible. Compared to 500 years ago with serfdom and child labor(among other things), we've really evolved positively as a species. I'm proud of us.
But times aren't hard, no, when they're compared with the past. Just people still generally suck.
Things are okay.
We also conversed about the events of 2012, and all the different people having something to say about it thousands of years back.
And you know, something probably WILL happen.
But I think rather than have the human race be completely destroyed, I just think it will be some sort of awakening. The people left, after some sort of natural/unnatural disaster, will wake up in some way; spiritually or otherwise. I don't doubt something will happen.
You can't prove anything exists, either. Solipsism is interesting in that way, but I'm not quite talking about Solipsism. I'm just talking about the plain fact that you really don't know what's real and what's not. I used to be dead-set against anything metaphysical, or the belief in any kind of sense that the norm of humanity can't necessarily feel or experience.
Who's to say these things exist/do not exist?
The universe is simply a big circle of recycling energy that passes in and out of things, through things, under things and over things. We're all giant masses of energy.
And I think this image of energy is often perceived as this all-knowing being, known as a 'god'. I think this image of a god makes it easier for people to understand the constant flow of energy; it makes it easier for people to explain strange occurrences, or 'sixth senses'.
There are so many things that exist that we, speaking as a regular human 'know to exist, but can't sense it'. Such as electromagnetic fields and different gases.
Humans might just be made, molecularly, not to be able to pick up these things. But think about how many different types of things there are in the universe that we may not be able to sense.
There are endless possibilities and endless suggestions for what kind of unknown things are out there, but you still can't prove that anything is 'real'.
I guess I could say, if I wanted to identify myself with a certain 'belief', that I would be Solipsist or something along those lines. That the only thing you know that exists is your self. But you know, even then, you can't be too sure about that either.
I don't really think much matters, really. I'm just here to be happy. Genuinely happy. And I think I'm going in the general direction.
I don't know what I'm getting at, I promise I'll post something of 'significance' sooner or later. I just don't have much to say.
Jeez. My bad. I forget about this thing so often that it may as well just not even exist.
u_u
I've mostly just been consumed with school work. Even though I'm going to community college(not for long), the fact that I've been taking honors classes and laborious art classes seemed to have made my experience a lot more time consuming than one would think. I'm nearly done with this semester; Tuesday is my last day. I've got some final projects to finish, but the bulk of my work is done. Thank goodness.
I would like to plan a road trip to Boston. After mulling it over and talking about it a little bit with teh Steve, I decided that would be a good trip to take since I haven't been anywhere of interest since last August when I went to Estonia/Finland. If my calculations are correct, this trip to Boston has the potential to be more exciting than my trip to Finland. We'll see.
I'm contemplating whether or not to post my artworkkk. I can never get decent photos of anything; there should be a course on how to photograph your artwork properly. Jeez. Maybe I'll make a post later, I don't feel like going through everything right now and taking photos.
However, I don't really think anyone reads this, but if you have been looking forward to an entry, only to be disappointed that I haven't posted for months, I apologize. Not much has been going on though, to begin with, so you weren't missing much. :p
So, I forgot to mention that for my birthday my dad bought me an accordion.
!!!!!
I'm a bit anxious to take lessons despite the fact that I feel awkward playing it; I really want to be able to play a few good songs on it, at the very least.
He said he's wanted to get me one for a few years after he noticed the majority of the music I listen to involved accordion usage, and I think I may have mentioned wanting to learn how to play one at some point.
Nevertheless, I took some photos! I don't have any of me playing it(lolol), but it's beautiful. It's a Hohner Arietta 1B- I'm not sure of accordion types and specifics yet(if I would have bought it myself I would have researched a bit more), but I'll find the rest out. I know there are like a billion different types of accordions, like the kinds with the typewriter-like keys on the side instead of the buttons. Those are pretty cool.
I perhaps should have taken some photos with the billows extended, maybe I'll do that when I get photos of me playing it.
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In other news, my love for the musical ensemble Beirut has been rekindled. Not that the flame ever went out in the first place, but I was able to find some of Zach Condon's earlier work from before he formed Beirut(even though, if I'm correct, most of the instruments heard in his album(and I'd imagine many other songs in Beirut), Gulag Orkestar, were actually played by Condon and then mixed).
His earlier work(from before he traveled around the Balkans at age 16) was more mellow and electronics oriented. I actually think he did most of his work with cheap computer software. It still included his voice, although in my opinion I don't think his voice suited the melody. It's still beautiful music though, extremely relaxing.
RealPeople holland(I could be mistaken, so don't hold me to this) was the name of his project before he formed Beirut. I think you can buy/download the March of the Zapotec/RealPeople holland EP. It's really great.
I also discovered "A Hawk and a Hacksaw" the other day, from looking up similar artists to Beirut. Just as amazing, and even more so a little bit due to the general lack of vocals. I have a soft spot for instrumental music I guess.
Well, I guess that's it. I've been doing more artsy stuff; I spent around $150 yesterday on acrylic paints and Bristol paper(OUCH), but $50 of that was spent on a decent-quality easel. I needed one in the worst way. It can hold pretty much any canvas up to maybe around 5' tall. It's pretty durable too, even comes with a carrying case. Haha!
I'm excited to get painting, but also not so much. I'm kind of awful when it comes to acrylic paint, I'd rather use oils or water-soluble 'oils', most probably because I'm a blending fiend.
I think I need to get some of that jelly-medium to make my acrylics more blendable. The name escapes me at the moment.
My drawing classes are going well though. I just wish I was taking more than two, and didn't have to write essays on the Battle of the Nile or what I want to do after college.
I can't wait to go to art school, actually.
And I also must add that Long Island(more specifically, where I live) will be getting around 12-15 inches of snow by tomorrow morning.
I will probably need to move someplace warmer in the near future. I found out that it is a fact that I hate the cold weather. Which contradicts moving to Canada in the future. Bahhhh.
Well, I guess that's it.
If you live around here, godspeed with this snow business.
Oof.
* the dark background in the photos was achieved using the brush>darken tool in Photoshop. Useful and effective, I'd say.
I'm feeling a little sad lately that I haven't been able to take photos of the things that I've been working on! Since Christmas I've made scarves(knitted and assembled fabric), a fleece blanket with an applique, a pot holder, more electronics cozys, and a bunch of drawings and whatnot. This makes me sad. Eventually I'm going to have to wrangle up all the people who I gave that stuff to and get them to take photos of them! Hehe.
Any how; since I've been living at my dads house, my room has been a mystery. It's dimensions are about 8'x8', which is the size of a typical American household closet. =P
But recently I've added color and storage to make it more like a room, and I even have a floor to do crunches on. Who knew.
So I'm posting a picture entry today! Because everyone loves photos.
This is a photo of my room as you enter it! There's Sophie on my bed, and my large green pillow, and my dry-erase board, and my side table, and the little pink panda on my windowsill named Small Arms.
This is my messy desk space. I stood on my bed so you can see the mess clearly. There's my door to the right, it actually IS a closet door my dad bought from Home Depot. Ahaha. My dad also recently stuck that shelf up there, but now I have no clue what to put on it. I'm stumped.
Now this is getting to the real messy part where I keep my craft stuff towards the top, my jewelery/hair things/makeup/lotions in the middle, and my clothes hanging up to the left and on the bottom in those ugly baskets. I wish I could find cuter ones but I'm just broke, so they'll have to do. You can see my poor keyboard hiding behind the mounds of clothing on the wall. It's so huge, so I have no place(not even anywhere else in the house) for me to set it up and use it. =( My ceiling fan is up there too; it's super dusty and the light does not work.
Here is a better view of the mess, near my window. There's my phone, my lamp, my painting tape, my drawing pencils, and my flowery necklace that my mom bought me in Hawaii. Those red curtains were actually once sheets, but I cut them up in the middle and used the hems as rope things to tie them. Very unprofessional, I know; I plan on finishing them... SOME day. Those pink/green/purple bins up on my shelving hold my sewing notions, patterns, fabric, and the last one holds all my felt and embroidery thread and such. They're a little too small to hold everything, so they're kind of exploding.
This one's a bit dark, but I wanted to add it so you can see outside. That's my neighbors house. I wish we could get a 20 foot tall fence to keep all their noise out.
I wanted to throw these in because while I was photographing this stuff, Sophie was being really cute on my bed. Teehee.
This is a photo of my wobbly night table. I used that fabric to make a part of a scarf, and used it to cover the ugly thing. There's my hair drier, a photo of my old dog Eiffel, my lamp, a photo of my mom and I, and my alarm clock. Oh, also my phone.
This is Small Arm chillin' on the photo of my mom and I with my scarf on, with my bookend hand thing, and one of the unopened moleskin books my boyfriend got me for Christmas =) I'm using the other two.
A photo of two photos of my dad and I! I love this so much. I loved my elephant hat. It's a little red because my curtains tend to glow when the sun shines on them. Magic curtains.
It might be a little odd to say that this garbage pail is my favorite thing in my room. It was originally a pail with images of Spiderman on it, but I painted over it with acrylic paint, and stuck a cute little panda on it. This is where I keep my jewelery and my hygiene/makeup things. I hate the new Pepsi logo, by the way.
This is on my desk. I have an office-supply fetish.
Another shot of Sophie lyin' on my bed. I have a huge mirror in my room. It's the only one in the house. Lololol.
These are my rainboots, Christmas wrapping paper, and the stuffed dog I got when I had my tonsils taken out when I was 12.
This is me after waking up and taking a photo of my recent knitting. Excuse the sleepy.
Here is Sophie with my knitting. Cuuuute.
That's it for now. When I think of something cool to post I guess I'll do it.
Also, I started a weight loss blog with my pal Jessica from the Not Cool Club. If you're looking to lose weight, you could check it out, it might provide some inspiration. XD
Alrighty.
Toodles.
I'm afraid I have some apologizing to do.
Unfortunately since I'm not a famous blogger yet or talked about on YouTube, I haven't really been checking back here as often as I'd like to.
Some stuff has happened in..... a month and a half. LOL.
Not many important things though.
I mean, I do have a new president.
And I heard through the grapevine that he speaks fluent jive, although don't hold me to it because I'm afraid I can't provide proof of that.
We've been having really cold weather here lately except for the last two days which have been absolutely gorgeous. It's been around 60 degrees(F) yesterday and today, except today the wind was so strong my car was being pushed onto the median of the highway! It was frightening but I just kept pretending that I was playing Project Gotham Racing and then at that point I felt like I needed a pair of goggles. Sometimes I get a little crazy with the driving and I make zooming noises as I weave in between cars when I'm late for school or something else. I get all crouched over the steering wheel to, leaning with the turns and moving my neck. It's a little frightening.
I also sing when I drive- but I know everyone does that. What I have noticed though is most people stop singing when they're stopped next to other cars at a red light.
I don't; I can't decipher whether or not this is admirable or really silly.
Anyhow, this week has been weird. I was in so much pain from a bladder infection on Sunday that I had to scoot to the hospital and get an IV of morphine. I haven't been to the hospital since I got my tonsils out in 5th grade. I miss those guys.
Oh, I also started going to community college. Not the best when you're trying to show people up as to where you're attending school, but the classes are informative and all's I really needed was a place to do my artwork in. Trouble is, I'm only taking two art classes. And one of them I've only been in once, because I was out this Monday due to my illness.
I'm a little scared about that class, because we have no school this Monday either. So that's 3 weeks of me not doing anything for this class, and it's 5 hours long that meets once a week. My professor is not answering his e-mails, so it looks like the next day I have class(Tuesday) I'm going to have to go to his building and try to find him. Hopefully during my three hour break I can catch him while he's in his office and ask him what I should do. I have proper hospitalization documents so that shouldn't be a problem. Blah blah blah. This is exciting.
Not much else to talk about today except the wind, really. Shit's banging on my windows and there aren't really any trees near my window at all. Which would suggest that the wind is picking up debris and flying it into our house. I'm going to have to inspect the damages in the morning.
Speaking of, a lady who has the same name as me mentioned that her Psychotherapists office is looking for a secretary/receptionist. Somehow I wish I would have stuck with wanting to study psychology, this is a pretty good opportunity to have a great looking resume.
Anyhow, tomorrow morning I've got an informal interview with this lady at a coffee shop that's halfway from my house to hers. I'm hoping that I don't have to tell her that I need to get going by 2:30, because I don't want to have to explain to her that I have my OWN psychotherapist to see on Friday's at 3:00pm. LOLOL.
It feels weird telling people that I have to attend a doctors appointment every Friday at three. I wonder if it sounds suspicious, I wonder if it makes them think I have some rare condition. Maybe I do.
It's just nice talking to my therapist. She's very helpful when it comes to talking about eating habits because she happens to specialize in weight control and eating awareness. It's great. I'm learning a lot.
Anywho, there's my life, pretty much.
Tomorrow is Friday the 13th. I wanted to make happy Friday the 13th cards for all my friends, but then I realized that I don't really have any friends. HAHAHA.
Oh, life.
You can tell me about yours if you want. Or if you have plans for this Friday. Or if you are excited about President's Day this Monday.
I'd also like to wish Mr. Charles Darwin a very pleasant 200th birthday!
:D
It seems as though I've neglected to update.
Mostly due to the fact that I've been busy learning new things and making Christmas presents!!
I haven't been cooking much lately on account of laziness, however I did pick up knitting, crocheting, and making scarves out of scraps of fabric.
I made a scarf out of fabric for my friend, Andrea, but I did not get to snap any photos of it before giving it to her, because I was just really excited. Next time I see her in it I'll have to take photos. Unless I end up making one for myself, which is very probable, seeing as though if she wasn't my best friend I'd probably have ended up keeping the thing for myself. :P
Anyhoo, this Christmas was a great success. For a lot of reasons! My brother is staying with us at my dads house because my mom has been staying in Hawaii. She took a last minute vacation, and has been doing things like this ever since I left around 6-7 months ago. Oh well!
I'm almost finished knitting a scarf for my dad for Christmas, it's nearly done. I have to take photos of this one because it's my first knitting project and it's coming out really nice looking. The multicolored yarn makes it look like I put zig-zags of burgundy and tan into the black. It's coming along really well.
On the cooking front, I recently purchased two bags of strawberries and blueberries. I'm going to experiment with them because I also bought a lot of flower and a 10lb bag of sugar.
So be prepared for new recipes!
I also need to write down the recipe for this really nicely made spicy soup that I came up with one day after I had a little container full of veggies like tomatoes, squash, carrots, celery, and etc. It was like a small vegetable dipping tray with ranch dressing, and I even went so far to add the ranch dressing into the soup. It came out surprisingly delicious. I'll have to try to remember it.
Anyway(again), I've been drawing a lot too lately, maybe I'll put those up.
Well, it's about time I put a photo of something up, so up there is a collage of angles from a camera case I crocheted the other day. It's my first finished crocheted project, and I'm very proud of it. I didn't have an exact pattern for it, I just kind of started crocheting a single chain stitch(or whatever it is, I'm not that technical with the terms yet), made a bunch of rows, folded the thing to make it look like the case, and crocheted the sides together. And added a button with some messy threads. I'll even go so far as to say the mess was on purpose, but you wont believe me.
I promise I'll start taking more photos of the things that I've been doing, give you more recipes, and talk about fun stuff. Hehe. For now I've got to finish making a scarf and a pot holder and a belated messenger bag for my boyfriend that has been promised for a few months now!
Anyway, have a great holiday, and I'll post again sometime next year. :P
When I was little I always thought coffee cakes contained some sort of coffee, so I never ate them. I understand now that these cakes are really great WITH coffee. Or milk. Yum.
I was messing around making some dinner this afternoon, when I felt like combining a bunch of stuff into a bowl and making a cake. This is neither vegan NOR low-fat. Hahaha. Lots of sugar. But once in a while, stuff like this is such a real treat! Anyway. This is what I came up with:
Topping:
3/4 cup sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
2 tbsp margarine
1/2 cup flour
Cake:
1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/3 cup oil
1 egg
1 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla extract
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 360degrees Fahrenheit.
- Lightly flour a round baking pan(use an 8" or a 9", whatever you have. I don't recommend going smaller because the cake rises quite a bit, and it will end up spilling over the sides).
- Whisk together all the dry cake ingredients(flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt) in a large bowl. Then add the oil, the egg, the milk, and the vanilla extract. Set aside(don't let sit for too long or the oil will separate!).
- Then, mix together the sugar, the flour, and the cinnamon for the topping in a bit of a smaller bowl. Then, slowly add the margarine. The mixture should be brownish and crumbly.
- Pour the cake mix into the middle of the pan on a flat surface. Then, evenly crumble the topping onto the cake mix.
- Place in the oven until the top is hard like a shell(around 40 minutes, I guess), or until a knife comes clean(of batter) when you stick it in the middle. The topping will melt and integrate with the cake mix, leaving some spots of the cake to just be sections of cinnamon and sugar(I'm not complaining), so if you stick a knife in and cinnamon-sugar looking stuff is on it, that's a good sign. Just check other spots because it doesn't happen throughout the whole cake).
When you're done, you can fancy it up by lightly sprinkling some confectioners sugar on top.
It will be cook to maybe about 2x the size, so make sure you use a big enough pan!
I have to say, this is probably the best recipe I've ever come up with. :D
I said BEST, not necessarily the healthiest. Bahaha.
:X
Well, I've got the StumbleUpon application, right?
And I stumbled upon the ICanHasCheezburger(or whatever) website. It had a bunch of other websites giving captions to celebrities, and another one about Engrish. Which was funny.
However, there was one website that I could just not stop looking at.
I Has a Hotdog.
I think I was "aww"ing and "eeeee"ing for about three hours. Then I decided that enough is enough.
Hehe.
I'll find something interesting to post sooner or later.
:/
So, before I actually take photos/give tutorials for some of my projects, I'll start off with my favorite home-made soup. I usually make a batch that's larger than this, but if you want to make something that serves around 4-5 people, follow these ingredients. You can also add cauliflower and zucchini, and even a lot more carrots and potatoes and celery. The more the merrier, especially since it's all healthy stuff.
Veggie Potato Soup(Healthy/Vegan)
You will need:
- handful of baby carrots/ few large carrots(cut into pieces
- an onion(diced)
- a few stalks of celery(cut into pieces)
- 3 medium-sized potatoes(cubed into approx. 1/2 inch pieces)
- 1 carton vegetable stock
- basil, oregano, parsley, rosemary, salt, pepper, ginger(powdered or fresh, doesn't really matter. you don't need that much of it)
- large pot
- Coat the bottom of your pot with olive oil.
- Dice the onions and throw them in. Saute them until they become transparent. A little browned is okay too.
- Add the carrots and celery. Keep mixing them for around 5 minutes.
- Add the carton of vegetable stock.
- Add the potatoes.
- Let it come to a boil.
- Add a bunch of the spices, nothing more than a teaspoon of each though. Do it according to your tastes(for the ginger, add a very little bit. too strong will give it a weird taste).
- Put it on a low flame, cover it, and let it simmer for around 25 minutes.
Voila!! It's delicious. And doesn't really need much else. I love the rosemary, it's my favorite.
Well, hot-DOG.
Obama won.
I got to see most of the election between watching episodes of LOST with my boyfriend. This was probably the one night where I wasn't like, "QUICK PUT THE NEXT ONE ON".
I thought the election was interesting. I watched MSNBC for the beginning, and then CNN finished it off. And then for giggles Fox News, after that. Ha ha. They did nothing but talk about McCain's campaign.
What a surprise.
Anyway, I'm pretty sure Obama can handle this country. He said a bunch of things in his speech last night that literally sent shivers down my spine.
Can we.. POSSIBLY... clean up after ourselves? Can we live a life where we know our country doesn't have debt shoved down its throat?
I'd consider myself rather unpatriotic. I used to really frown upon any of those people with those flag stickers on their car, or anything like that.
But surprisingly enough, Obama gives me a reason to be patriotic. He makes me WANT to love this country. I don't know how he did it. But I must give him some kudos if I ever see him, because he's accomplished something that's pretty damned awesome, if he's able to make me love America.
I'm proud to say he's my president. I don't feel ashamed to have him lead my country. I actually feel pretty confident and good about it. It's amazing. I never thought I'd have this sort of feeling towards government.
I was watching the election, and there were these projected outcomes for each state, and as I continued watching it, I just kept getting the feeling that he would pull through.
The people have spoken- Obama is our new president. He won by the popular vote, AND the electoral vote(2:1, might I add). I'm glad I feel good about my country now, and I'm glad he's our president.
:D
In other news, I've been working on making a few things. I'll list them here and then possibly take photos and make tutorials and whatnot for making them. :D
- messenger bag
- tea-stained paper to be made into a fabric-covered journal
- Sculpey jewelery
- boxes made of paper
All projects have either been created or are in the process of being made. I'll get photos up soon.
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I'm not sure why I stay up this late.
I miss the sunshine.
Anyway, today is election day.
I bet anyone who has a blog who lives in the U.S.(and probably outside the U.S. if they're interested) will be talking about today's outcome.
I can't say I'm a huge advocate for either candidate, and it doesn't look like I'll be voting. I got my registration form back in the mail, telling me that I forgot a section. It's a little too late now. I haven't gotten any confirmation in the mail about it or anything.*
I think that if Obama gets elected, things will change. Oh yes, has he preached about his change. I'm not sure if this change will be the change we need, or the change we were looking for, but I do think that we need to stray off of the path we've been traveling for the past few decades and head somewhere new.
If McCain gets elected, I don't think we'll have much change. Me, I'm a person who can't handle having the same thing happen to me every day. I need variation. I don't like monotony, at all. I don't know if he can make our dollar stronger, and I don't know if he'll even live to serve out his term. And to have a crazy book-banning fundamentalist soccer mom for a president isn't exactly what I'd call a "good change". Not really much of a change though, to be honest. Most politicians are the same.
I don't like politics. I don't like getting involved, or talking about it. Yet somehow it always ends up being talked about at the Thanksgiving table. Do you know why?
People are so stubborn about their opinions. They think that they've got it all figured out, and everyone else just doesn't get it. Most people are so righteous, and think they're doing everyone else a favor by telling them to get a grip and listen to them. They've got valid sources telling them that they're right, and telling them that anyone else who is wrong is against you and shouldn't be trusted. And don't eat the cranberry sauce, it's been tampered with.
People are so eager to show other people things they 'know'. Knowledge is a 'gift' and the more you have of this knowledge, the more respected you are in society.
All knowledge is, really, is the collection of different memorizations and thoughts, maybe a little processing(although I doubt it's your own), and all you have to do is keep it nice and safe inside your brain, until it proves to be useful in a conversation with your family or some conservative/liberal you happen to meet in a cafe. Your ego(and everyone has one) is telling you to prove to everyone how superior you are to them, just because you were able to process a bit of information and conveniently remember it. It sounds a bit silly when put that way, doesn't it?
People let their egos take over their brains. Egos should be demolished. They do nothing but hurt you. Getting to the top of the ladder, be it socially or economically, is not what it's all about. It's about realizing that your brain is just a brain, you're a small thing with a beating little heart sitting on a tiny little planet in the middle of nowhere. You don't have control over other peoples thoughts or actions. You can't make people feel bad. Sometimes your ego likes to think that it has control over others, but it really doesn't. It's just a shame that other peoples egos get in the way, and act in a reverse manner, and start to feel inferior to the larger ego. Thus feeding both of them, and sending both spiraling into a vortex of hell. Seriously. Welcome to Earth.
Anyway.
Politics doesn't matter. I wish there weren't borderlines between countries. I wish our egos didn't exist. If they didn't exist, man wouldn't feel the need to have control over others, thus eliminating government and the like. If egos didn't exist, we would be able to live like fish do. Or dogs. Or rabbits.
Sometimes I like being able to think and do things that rabbits and dogs can't do. That's what makes humans special. I like the good aspect of having a mind that can work things out and be able to make choices. But when bad stuff starts to cook up in there, and when you start feeling superior/inferior to others, that's when it starts to get screwed up, and everything has gone to waste.
I think it's fun learning. Even if we are insignificant beings, why not make the best out of our so-called 'lives'. Why not just try to have fun while we can, and get along with each other, and read books and paint pictures and have a silly laugh, and fall in love, and make run-on sentences without punishment.
Why not!
Unfortunately not everyone could understand it. And I'm not forcing you to understand this, Or agree with me.
After all, this is my ego speaking.
I hope the population is pleased with it's decision. If not, I hope something happens. Come on, life's been too boring lately. You gotta give me something here.
*Edit: It turns out that I AM registered to vote, and will be casting my ballot for Gloria La Riva, the Libertarian Socialist candidate. We need summa that.**
** I'm just kidding. I'm voting for Obama. Just because everyone else is and I'd rather support him than a grandpa with a VP who is completely insane.
Well, I don't have much to say just yet. When I get around to making projects and coming up with new ideas, I will probably put them up here.
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Although I must say that instant cappuccino is obnoxiously addicting. It doesn't even have any caffeine. Oy vey.