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I wanted to make plaster hands in art once, but it was mainly because I couldn't think of anything to do and I wanted to play with plaster...

I hates plaster. I HATES IT. It's the evil. I don't mind carving it. But casting in it is vile. VILE I tell you! I hate working with it, it dries out my skin, it's just icky and it's bad for the lungs. It gets everywhere and it's vicious.

Soapstone carving FTW!



*eyes roll* I know. I KNOW. Man. Art is so full of diapers and berries it makes me angry. I'm so sick of the idiocy in it. My school is bad for it because it's 'conceptual' most of them don't have a blinking clue how to draw and stare at my drawings like i'm some sort of God because they just don't know how to draw like that. I don't mind the appreciation, but at the same time it ticks me off to a massive extent because being art students they should have had to learn the basics before they went on to harder things.

/endrant

*is annoyed by conceptual art*

Yeah..I worked at Best Buy, thus..Geek Squad T-Shirt. We were allowed to wear them in place of our blue shirts for our uniforms sometimes.

Anyways, nice pictures Fidds. The eyes are watching me though

Well to further my hatred of conceptual art, I just got shafted for my final show of my student art career. I'll never be in a show in this university and thats a burn to me.
Nice to know that my arts not good enough for a place that I feel isn't good enough for me. (And whoever cites me on bad attitude on that statement, can go shove their head in a drain. If you don't believe me you can come here and look at the horrid idiocy of the art thats being made in this institution)

I made paper mache hands+arms once, painted prisoners all over them and then stuck them in handcuffs for an art project.

I'm sure that they were just too booked showcasing paint splats on toilets and blank canvases to showcase your art. Talent is so yesterday. Who wants to see something worthwhile nowadays? If you just set a chair on fire and call the ashes "art" they eat it up.

*pokes* Any blackmail on Frankie is appreciated, should you have any, Jas...

Very nice shirt, Frankie, and a very nice picture. How appropriate for you. And I've posted now! Feel loved!

You guys need to read "12 Moments in the Life of an Artist" by David Sedaris, if you haven't already.
I wonder how many people a day come up and shake the plaster hands. Can they at least be used to hold backpacks or coats?

I despertly try to avoid reading anything about art or for artists due to my hatred of the art world. I'd honestly enjoy the idea of scouring out my eyeballs with hot irons and then eating the remains of my eyeballs then having to read another artistic text.
Sadly to graduate, I need both my eyeballs and to read more artistic texts. This place has been a crushing University and I can only hope that one day it does fall into the coulee on which it is built.
If I were to do a series of illustrations about that, i'm sure they would have gotten into the art show. However. If I did such a series, to meet the requirements of this school they would need to be poorly rendered and have a mass of theoretical background behind it that involves me ripping off another well known artist.

"12 Moments in the Life of an Artist" is about how the author was desperately jealous of his sister's artistic talent until he discovered drugs and conceptual art. "Their artworks were known as 'pieces,' a phrase I enthusiastically embraced. 'Nice piece,' I'd say. In my eagerness to please, I accidentally complimented chipped baseboards and sacks of laundry waiting to be taken to the cleaners. Anything might be art if you looked at it hard enough."

I think that book would sadly only serve to anger me more. As amusing as I know that is, i'm so sick of that sort of thing being true that it hurts. Anything can be art, because art is everything so to speak now adays, and it's honestly like being knifed. Art is now for the elite then it is for other classes now, or at least much of fine art is. Art that does not cater to that conceptual class of other artists, is looked down upon and is ignored. Technique has now been forgotten in lieu instead of idea. Most professors seem to believe that there is no where else to go with art, and instead only ideas can be reused and recycled, so the ability to get a good grade in many schools only plays off the ability to copy the work of another artist.

Perhaps in a few years, when the memory of this school is fading, I can read that book. But for now i'm far too embittered and furious with the teaching here that I don't think me reading that book would be a good idea.

I've never posted a pic here before, and thought it was about time. This is me as a bridesmaid at my best friend wedding last year.

Edit: changed pic!

Hahahah cool phtoos Fiddeh. You model you.

dang, it's been a looooooooong time since I've been here. I used to be homeschooled and I'd come on here everyday and I was a little punk who thought he knew everything. Well, thats changed since those days. After 7th grade, I left for public school and I discovered something....theres a world outside of neopets! haha, I've havent touched that game since.

Anyways, I figured I'd give an updated look at how I'm doin.

This is what I looked like when I left PPT....




OK, maybe that was age 3 or so, but you get the point.

Nowadays, I'm doin a little better....


haha, it's all chicks in case you were wondering (faces censored for obvious reasons). Actually, that was late 2005, so I actually look a bit different. But thats probably the favorite pic of me. Haha.

I've definitely missed PPT. I love the people here....and I cant believe some of these people are still here (shapu and fidds come to mind.)