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.

Sunday afternoon my little group took a trip over the bridge for some lovely scenery…

Hello internet. I forget you exist sometimes when I get very busy. I’ve been working on so much studio work lately, which is exhausting but awesome, I feel like I’m finally back into my old flow again and it feels great to be making meaningful work again. Aside from that my social life has been busy as well so I haven’t had a lot of time to sit down and write at this. So here are some pictures, more fun to look at anyways!

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.

Today (because I missed my yoga class) Drew and I took a rather long walk all the way down Market St. And went into a hotel thats down there with a pretty amazing view (and really cool elevators made of glass), these pictures aren’t the best, because obviously they were taken behind glass, but if you’re ever down market by the Embarcadero then I recommend going into one of the taller buildings and checking out the view.

Angel Island is the bigger of the two bay islands, located right behind Alcatraz. Probably most well known for being the “Ellis Island of the west”, as well as a military fortress and Nike missile site. There are countless sites you can google if you want more historical info, but I wont bore you with that. I’ve been to the island twice now, there are few people on the island and the walk all the way around is about 5 or 6 miles. The second time I went was on Valentines day, we hiked around the whole island, and saw some breath taking scenery. Its deffinetly worth a visit, there are tons of old buildings and amazing views, but be cautioned that it is an all day trip, the boat there leaves at 10:30am and the boat home doesn’t come until around 3:50 (I think the times change somtimes but I’m not sure?). Heres a slide show of my photos from the day.

I was wandering around Haight St. yesterday when I stumbled upon Buena Vista Park, I hadn’t ever seen it before and I didn’t even realize it was a park at first, where I entered you walk through a gate over some grass and into the woods…and I was so weirded out, because once you’re in the wooded part its crazy! All sorts of winding paths going up this gigantic hill that you didn’t even realize was there. What more is the trails have many scenic overlook points of the city, it was breath taking, and we got to the top most point right as the sun was setting. 

Apparently Buena Vista Park is the oldest official park in San Francisco, established in 1867, and at first it was named “Hill Top Park” (and aptly so!).

There are paved trails that wind up the steep hill to the peak at 575ft, but there are also staircases and dirt paths that wind and climb every which way. There are also many rare plants and trees in the park, including at least two Red Woods and many plants non-native to California that were planted as an experiment. One creepier feature of this park is that the paths on the west side have gutters created out of old headstones from the city’s old victorian cemeteries on Lone Mountain. 

This was the view you are greeted with on a clear day at one of the scenic outlooks, luckily for me it was clear out and so I got to see some pretty incredible views! I am very happy to have stumbled upon this park, so if you’re ever down on Haight St. be sure to visit!

The blog updating hasn’t been happening as frequently, and I do apologize, I am trying to enjoy my last few days before classes start on the 20th and just trying to enjoy the beautiful weather we’ve been having. This picture was taken at Crissy Field, a place down by the Marina in San Francisco, its absolutely breathtaking.

 I just made the 6 hour flight back to San Francisco and its definitely good to be back. Todays quote is in the spirit of travel!

 “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” - Jack Kerouac