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You should listen:
Wunder Rocket [link]
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In other news, classes start again soon. I'm ambivalent, because I'm not keen on going back to school, only having just finished on the 8th and then enduring the fun of operations and injuries, only to go back, but August has sucked, so maybe I need September. It's probably unwise to enter a semester of art feeling completely indifferent and apathetic. The only fun thing about school is buying new notebooks and pens. I'm a sucker for stationary.

Also, I just bought a tambourine and I think it's the third most wonderful instrument ever invented.

You know the funny thing about unemployment is I have all the time in the world to do things but not the money with which to do them. So, I have to be creative. Frankly, I don't mind being unemployed, I'm in a privileged position where I'm not going to die of starvation because of it. I've already picked a major where I'll likely occupy a cardboard box, I might as well get some practice in on resourcefulness.

I've also discovered that my ambition to take more photographs is great, but I don't have the bucks to get them developed. Yes, I am a slight film snob, which is probably unwarranted, but for my purposes it appears "warmer" somehow. My other ambition to make more videos (you don't know this part: recently, a large portion of my work has become video-related, which contains *shocker* other people's music, therefore not eligible to be posted here) alas, I don't actually own a camcorder, I've been borrowing other people's and the school's- big fucking pain in the arse.

I wouldn't classify this as complaints, just obstacles. Part of the fun is making things pointlessly hard, that's what a lot of art, music, literature, film and so forth is about. Without limitations, sometimes needless ones, freedom of choice can equal a limitation of imagination. You say to someone, okay you can do an EP but only in the key of B flat- well The Raveonettes did it. All poetry that isn't free verse has formal limitations. A big one is budget (mine actually) and you can look at all those cult B Movies, and they MacGyvered everything. It forces a person to find alternatives and that's part of process and in the end, hopefully, charm. Maybe I just like DIY.
Cheers, hope all is well with everyone in internet land.

Hello Friends,

I had a revelation, I need to start over and rid myself of a weighty past. That might be a little melodramatic, but I just finished cleaning out my 'gallery' I've gone from 180-something to 100, with 2 scraps. I might further reduce the number. I felt as though, I needed to start over. I've had an account here for 2 years and some of that stuff may have seemed decent at the time, but now I feel it's not worth sharing anymore.

I've also noticed that documentation of my visual art work is sub-par and I need to improve that. I mean, it's a bit funny that I'm a student of visual art, yet I am consistently submitting literature. Where are my priorities?

I've been working on a couple of videos, one of which has been selected for an all studio critique, but I can't post them here and I refuse to post on youtube. The last thing I need under Comments, is "this site has better porn" or some curse about my mother if I've read the comment.

Any viable solutions?

And viewers like you

I've been working on a couple of stories and general prose pieces. It's hard when I have school and I have to make mundane "art." Somehow it feels as though art shouldn't be assigned, but maybe that's flakey. This is more like a practice of technique for the next however many years I have left before a degree, and then what? I'll write. I'm probably in the wrong program. I'm not an academic, but I'm not a labourer either, certainly I'm not an artist either, nor a writer. I just feel like I write character sketches and prod at being.