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[21 Jun 2006|04:34pm] |
I managed to get to two car shows this past weekend. It was a welcomed break from my summer course even if I did get a bit behind. I find myself torn with my renewed interesting in old automobiles. I admire people learning skills like metalworking, welding, and general mechanical ability and the idea becoming self sufficient in terms of transportation. I'm drawn to the idea of giving life back to something abandoned. I think this is a parallel to my love of collage. Much like collage, I find it hard to ignore the items age and previous context. I don't like old cars with modern drive lines and big rims and whatnot. It's as if these people want to hide the fact that it's old. I embrace the idea and prefer cars that are more traditional in appearance. This preference applies to the engine to. This is where my problem comes in. Most of these cars have no exhaust system at all. Just pipes off the exhaust manifold. Some have mufflers but they all spit out pollution like crazy. I suppose some of the disguised cars with Lexus engines will have modern exhaust systems but I don't like that style or lack of. Many of these cars get better gas mileage than a modern SUV but make up for it with pollution. I wish ethanol would take off but as Marc reminded me it isn't very efficient to produce it. I've heard arguments from both sides in regards to ethanol's net energy gain or loss. I hope it develops further myself. I think the prospect of getting an older car would sit easier in my mind knowing that I could run a more efficient and cleaner burning fuel. Now I'll take the time to post pictures of 49-54 Chevys. Click to make em bigger if you dig.
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[14 May 2006|08:53pm] |
Today I purchased the following:
Bleubird 12" EP
Skyrider 7"
Why? 7"
Les Swashbuckling Napoleons 7"
and I think I'm getting a free SoSo 7"
Shipping from Canada kinda sucks but I'm happy.
This summer I'm going to get my motorcycle license. I might go get my permit tomorrow. We'll see how ambitious I feel.
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[15 Apr 2006|09:46pm] |
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I'd like to get this but I spent all my money on those monitors. Sometimes I wish I worked more. Money helps.
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[11 Apr 2006|11:00pm] |
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Everyday I show up to Printmaking class I get so hyped up listening to the teacher talk. He has such a passion for printmaking and it makes me excited. Almost everyone else in the class is taking it to fulfill an upper elective art class for the BFA requirements though. So here I am, the lonely student who is really psyched on photo intaglio and nothing goes right. Everyday it's like your parents forgetting your birthday or a betrayal by a good friend. Knocked down a few pegs twice a week. I'm so terribly far behind in that class at this point. I have trouble asking for help but I even broke down and asked a few weeks ago if he could go over what I was doing one on one. He did. It was exactly as I was doing it. His worked. Mine still don't. I'm the only kid psyched on this class, I even asked for help and I still can't do it. I feel like such a fucking idiot. Put film on a plate, expose the plate, put the plate in a wash for 9 minutes, rinse it off. I'm perpetually in a foul mood. The only thing I can fathom majoring in is some form of art and aside from moving to LA and doing an integrated media program, printmaking is it. That's my ticket and I'm at the point where I just want to quit school and be done with it. The knowledge that for the next 40 years of my life I'm going to be working a job I hate sucks, but I've just come to accept it as an inevitability. I want and I need to just sleep this shit off. I'm sorry I don't visit but I need my head straight.
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[10 Apr 2006|12:09pm] |
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What do I do for fun? Hang out with friends? Go to bars? Movies? Nah, I watch my uncles put a Ford 342 stroker V8 engine and transmission together and put it into a 1935 Ford Truck and then get a lesson in how to properly polish aluminium. Bah.
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[14 Mar 2006|11:10am] |
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I'd rather a simple "fuck off" then no response at all. From the clues I've gotten so far this will be another break to forget.
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[22 Feb 2006|12:41am] |
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i will kill new york city.
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[21 Jan 2006|11:00pm] |
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I've felt really odd the past few days. Groggy and tired. My legs feel as they have no energy. Printmaking this semester should be really good. Audio production sounds like it will be better this time too. Field recordings and music based projects (if we want). I can't seem to get a SCSI zip drive off ebay. I bet I've bid on atleast one daily for the past week or so. New cars are ugly. There is a 1950 oldsmobile sedan for sale in New York I'm thinking about getting.
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[04 Dec 2005|12:04am] |
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I feel shitty I didn't go out to Louisville today.
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[29 Nov 2005|11:05am] |
Hawthorne Heights must be the worst band I've heard in some time.
I'm sick as shit. My temperature is triple digits right now.
My birthday was boring except for the part with Kim. That part was good.
I have work to do.
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[20 Nov 2005|03:36pm] |
This must be the best looking car I've ever seen.
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[19 Nov 2005|10:26pm] |
Sometimes I really like when Allison puts up pictures of artwork she likes. Here is where I take that idea.
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[18 Nov 2005|06:05pm] |
So the headgaskets on my van are gone. In a normal car it might not be so bad. You have to rip apart the engine to get to them and well, the engine is tucked way into the van. I might just scrap it.
I failed my portfolio review which is shitty. I knew my 2D was terrible but my drawing and life drawing is real good so fuck that committee. I have to go back in the 30th and show them more. I have to try and do it without an attitude. They said I need to learn to draw hands. Hands are my thing. I kinda took offense to that one.
I was trying to think of people who live close that I care about a lot. This is a quick list, but everyone is gone for school or moved. It's really shitty.
Jamie: Totally fell out of touch with this kid in highschool. He started partying and lot but recently we've been hanging out a lot. He cleaned himself up a lot. This kid is like Jesse Goldchains but with hip hop. He has so much passion in him for music and sound and art. It's really inspiring to me. Plus when I chill with him Jeremy is around a lot and we have good conversations.
Kim: I never thought I'd keep in touch with old work people, but she's a good one. Makes me want to read the news as much as I should.
Sheila: Even though I never see her she's still a good one. I just feel like a lot of times my personal preferences keep us from seeing each other more often.
I may be forgetting someone but I'm really exhausted. Three. Everyone else is far. Granted, I know a few other people but we're more like aquaintences. I never see them. Sometimes I think being in more of a city environment might be better. Even a bit more east and I'd be closer to some kids. I don't know if it's something I'm doing that keeps me from meeting new people. Probably, I'm just not social. I never go out. Where does one meet people now? I dunno...
I really like good hip hop. I really don't like Wes' amp.
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[17 Nov 2005|05:37pm] |
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Apparently I can't draw hands?
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[15 Nov 2005|10:56am] |
I've been really stressed lately. I have my foundation portfolio review on Thursday. In some ways, I'm pretty confident in my work just by comparison. It seems like a lot of people who have passed produce really almost subpar and immature work (I know that makes me sound like an ass but in some ways it's really true). However, in 2D Design and Painting/Color Theory I really half assed a lot and destroyed a lot of my work from those classes because I just didn't care. Now I'm fixing/redoing those assignments and they still suck and I'm worried I'll get stuck behind having to repeat those classes. That thought has kept me from doing much lately. It's overwhelming enough (I'm already on the 6yr plan) that I just shut down and don't get anything else done. Never got around to that Audio project due tomorrow and that's bugging me. I really just want it to be over.
My printmaking class has been a pretty good time but we had our first critique last week. It so rarely happens that I'm into the work I do but I was honestly pretty stoked on some of my color monoprints. Teacher sorta tore them apart a little which really bummed me out. I was planning on concentrating in Printmaking and still do, but when something like that happens it just really makes me wonder. I get shot down and don't want to go on. Happens a lot. My Graphic Design teacher has been telling me to go into that field too but I'm not so into the fundamental idea of communication that goes with it. I like being vague sometimes.
I got some of the Van Johnson records out to Dave for him to look at. I forgot to put them in the clear sleeves though. I haven't really painted any since I sent those in case they aren't so good. I guess he's still up in Canada and I mailed them to Chicago. I dunno what the word on that is.
I wish I didn't have these classes so I could create things I wanted. By the time I'm done with all the shit I have no money or energy. Back to work.
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[23 Sep 2005|07:54pm] |
Tonight I will talk about this:
This is probably the hottest car I've ever seen. In a world of chopped 49-51 Mercurys, this is refreshing to me. It's not over done. The roof was chopped but it looks good, not extreme. The skirts on the rear wheels are flush and look good. 5th wheel on the back bumper is classy as are the fat white walls and Cadillac wheel covers.
What does this mean? It means once I find a 1949 Ford Business Coupe, the Olds is getting sold.
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[19 Sep 2005|11:00am] |
I really like The Incredible Hulk with Lou Ferrigno. When people make him mad it makes me go "ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" and point and smack my hand against any nearby hard surface.
I also really want to go under Rt.1.
Last night, I stenciled one of the actual covers for the Van Johnson record and it looks pretty hot. I have to show dave today. I really don't even think the back needs anything. The tape just breaks up the back into 4 parts. Maybe just something small in the lower corner or maybe I just appreciate simple things more than others.
I have to go do a compression test on my cylinders cause my car is eating a lot of oil. Bye.
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[25 Aug 2005|02:45pm] |
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I like Pennsylvania. It's got such a different vibe. There really wasn't a lot of modern looking things. Even the car dealers had a bunch of old cars (even an old Model A sedan). I think I'd have a lot of fun out there exploring. There were so many abandoned places. I saw a nuclear power plant and water falls too. Shame it's so out of the way of everything. Oh, we fed fish too. A+.
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[01 Aug 2005|10:33pm] |
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i still get this feeling whenever i'm talking with people or hanging out with them that many of them aren't really stoked to be around me or to talk me. i don't know how to expand upon this feeling but it's definitley there. i really wish it wasn't.
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