I'm tired, it's past midnight and I still have a bunch of homework to do for tomorrow/today (Friday). I'm one of those procrastinateurs extraordinaire who do things at the last minute. Terrrribbbblibible.
Despite all that...NPR recorded a recent Antony and the Johnsons concert! Go and listen to it! There are some links to video footage of the concert on the NPR page too. (If you look hard enough, you'll see I left a comment on the NPR website I'm a geek, hehehe.) Antony is my hero, and he's got a gorgeous, gorgeous voice. He used to live in my hometown he calls "the armpit of silicon valley," as I read in an article in the local newspaper last month. He also did a recent show at the Noise Pop Festival in San Francisco, which I missed...
What else did I miss? Lissy Trullie's performance at the De Young museum in San Francisco for the "Warhol Live" exhibit, that's what. I've been waiting for her forever to come to the West Coast! aand I MIIISSSSEDDDD IT! okay, that video is a little bit so-so because her band isn't with her, but that's the only footage i've seen so far on the internet for that event...look at this one instead. She totally looks like she could've hung out with Andy Warhol. Back in '07 when I probably first heart about her, her band (which used to be called Lissy Trullie and the Fibs) didn't have any released recordings at all, and now she has a EP out! hooray! :) Watch out for her. She's gonna be big, I swear!
Here's a drawing I did recently just for the hell of it:
and an older one:
Now, I hope your poor eyes aren't shock'd from the nudeness. I draw naked people every friday, and sometimes on mondays and thursdays, and it's no big deal. Those who have no or little experience with life drawing are initially overwhelmed by nakedness, but eventually you're supposed to forget all of that because you are supposed to draw. drawing is hard, period.
Right now I'm struggling in my drawing class ("Drawing for animation/illustration") and one of my instructors is real TUFF, but he's real cool since he worked on films like Space Jam and Fern Gully and has been drawing since forever! My class is learning the techniques of the Florentine School, which goes way back to the Renaissance! Now I can say stupid stuff like, "we are the heirs of Michelangelo and a bunch of old dudes that drew lots of things five hundred years ago." I'm also taking an art history class (a general education one, sadly) and we're covering the Renaissance so it's all so amazing to learn about what you are practicing at the same time. Next semester I'd like to take a class exclusively on the Renaissance. Oh, I could write and write everything in this measly post... but that would be too much. So now I sign off. Bye!
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