Studio Journal Four.

My business cards just came in the mail! I'm feeling all professional now and whatnot. I never really thought about getting business cards until recently. I had noticed a couple of my friends and peers had invested in some, but the real kick in the butt was when I participated in the Highland Park art festival and multiple people asked me if I had a card. Silly me had to whip up some makeshift cards. The whole thing made me put together a website too so I could have something more professional on a card than a deviantart and a tumblr url.
I also have signed out the project space room for October 23-29. I created a facebook event for Tuesday 25th for an Exquisite Corpse party-shindig in order to get this whole idea rolling. Our last crit was really helpful in coming up with that idea. That type of thing had not crossed my mind until Rachel had brought it up. I'm very appreciative of the suggestion. I am going to get some little posters up tomorrow to post around the school. I've already started to buy some silly art supplies for the event; crayola crayons and some strange markers from the dollar store. I have to see if I can acquire a table and some chairs for this event...

Also...its been two weeks since I've put in an order for a new lightbulb in my studio...Ugh, its beginning to cause some difficulties.

But anyway, the weekly plan:
1. Get posters up
2. Work on my etching
3. Get more disposable supplies
4. Acquire more paper
5. Work on installation piece for advance print
6. Start folding paper for Exquisite Corpse party in advance

On a side note, I've been playing a lot of final fantasy lately...I decided to look up the art behind the gameplay. I always tend to forget how much artwork is made before an actual game is put together. The artist, Yoshitaka Amano, is amazingly talented. His art is beautiful and stand alone, even without the video game beside it.



I don't know if this counts as some type of written material, but I was studying for psychology and I was reading that pheromones (aka our unique scents that we give off) can alter the age that we hit puberty. Girls who are around unfamiliar men may hit puberty at an earlier age because of the pheromones that the male give off. I find this beyond bizarre. I wonder if this could be captured in some for of art in some way. Its so strange, but I don't know how to conceptualize it.

Here's something else thats crazy.


I am interested in weird stuff like tentacles, feet, abnormalities, and diseases, but technological advances, psychology, and science really intrigue and inspire me as well.