Its been a while, I’ve been busy, school is busy and life is busy, and then my poor little blog disappeared for a bit but now its back, and here I am! I registered for classes next semester and let me just tell you, my schedule is awesome. I only have class Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. I am taking a Jan. intensive on motion graphics, which will be hard, but it means I only have to take 4 classes the rest of spring. So I am taking humanities B, and art hist, color theory in painting and then a tutorial. So I only have three classes to go to, because the tutorial is where you just meet with your mentor three times a semester, not really a class where you have to go to a class. Its going to be fantastic since this semester I was so in over my head! I have to head to class now, so another update will be soon, but I will leave you with this little gem…Drew an I as Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain on Halloween.

It’s that time again, the back to school and homework and projects time. I’m back in San Francisco, just in time for some nice warm weather, just as its cooling down back east. I’m also taking some pretty awesome classes this semester…

Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic: in which on the first day, the class stood in a circle and held hands and transfered energy through each other…our teacher has outright said we are going to do “weird” things, this should be interesting and definite something different.

Screen Printing: I am super excited for this, I’ve wanted to learn to screen print for a long time now and its a good cross over from digital media.

Illustrator, Photoshop and Indesign: Another class with a teacher I’ve had several times, again a class I’m excited for because I’ve never worked with Indesign.

Frameworks of Art, Design and Technology: This class is with my department chair, and I was really skeptical if I’d stay in this class, because its six hours long on Wednesday starting at 9am and I’m just not a 9am type of girl. But I went to the first class and I’m pretty pumped for it, it should be really interesting and delve into more abstract design ideas.

Math: I don’t know what to think of this class, the teacher is a riot, he says “math is not about numbers, and all that shit, its about all that other shit, and logic is just what you use to clean up after the parade.” Uh what? I don’t know, but apparently Pythagorus was a cult leader? Yeah. This will certainly be an experience…

So the land of school, as of the first week was good, I’m pretty excited to start making stuff again. Outside of school things are more or less typical…

I got another tattoo…a lighthouse.

And I got a haircut, I’ve been wearing my bangs forward like this now, I think its cute.

Added a few odds and ends to my portfolio that have been kicking around for a while. New album for installation and collage as well.

So in about three weeks it will be the end of my freshman year, its pretty hectic right now with all my final projects and such. Plus I’ve started doing yoga! So I do that everyday and it wears me out. I’m pretty excited for this year to end, it went by super quick but it was a lot of work. Trust me when I say art school is quite hard. My schedule for next year is looking so good too! I’ve got two design classes, one of which I am very excited about. A crazy class about shamanism and witchcraft, screen-printing, and math…which will certainly be a challenge. Well, thats all for today, just wanted to post a brief update, now its time to go to the park! Yoga kicked my butt this morning and its time to go out and enjoy the 80 degree weather and sun!!

One night I opened the door to my room, it was about 3am and to my surprise, I found a mannequin sitting there facing the door. It actually scared me quite a bit. But everything is art! Ha! And so I painted it and used it as my installation project for collage.

The heart is made out of strawberries and raspberries. Acrylic paint.

Me, looking “enthused”. Both these pictures were taken by my TA, Korka.

School this semester is hectic, I have class at 9am everyday and apparently all my teachers want to load on the work, in an the midst of school work I had to move rooms, but I actually like my new room a lot its very cozy and I have it all to myself. 

 Meet my new home base. 

Sometimes dance parties just happen, especially in dorm buildings around midnight…here are some of my favorite (although slightly embarrassing) dance party worthy songs!

1. Girls Just Wanna Have Fun by Cyndi Lauper

Oh come on, you knew this was coming, its the quintessential girl power dance song.  

2. Kids by MGMT

3. Take A Chance On Me (and Mama Mia) by ABBA

4. Dancin’ With Myself by Billy Idol

5. 1999 by Prince

6. Wannabe by Spice Girls

7. Like a Virgin by Madonna

8. I Think We’re Alone Now by Tiffany

9. The Safety Dance by Men Without Hats

10. What I Like About You by The Romantics

This semester I am taking a collage class and its been the most inspiring thing to come about in a long time, so heres a little sneak peak at what I’ve been working on!

Getting back into the groove of school is hard after you’ve been off for 6 weeks, so this week I’m bringing you my  five of the things I’ve done this week to ease back into a school routine!

1. Get back on a decent sleep schedule

2. Drink water

3. Eat Snacks

4. Write lists

5. Be early

My posting has been less frequent in the past week due to starting up classes again, I’ve got all 9 am classes, which is proving to be very hard for me because I am just not a morning person at all. However my schedule is looking pretty good, Tuesday and Thursday I’ve got web design, which will be the hardest of all my classes this semester, I had the same teacher last semester and she is tough. Tuesday afternoon I have art hist…which is looking to be considerably more interesting than last semesters art hist. Thursday afternoon I have English, which I haven’t had yet but the course topic is “Tourism In Question” which I think could be pretty interesting. Wednesday I have a 6 hour collage studio with Carlos…which is amazing, I’m telling you, this is going to the best class, I’m finally feeling inspired to make work again not to mention Carlos is awesome, I had his painting class last semester. And finally Friday is the second semster of freshman Contemporary Practices, which will no doubt be another pointless Friday spent in the lecture hall. So do forgive me for the less frequent posts but expect to see some new work up soon!