Minus the murder that's the coolest Barbie kitchen I've ever seen.
So, because it's 0224 and I'm feeling introspective, here's a quick update about my priorities and where I am in my life right now.
Pretty much my main goal in 2011 is to get at least one exhibition going in London and sell some stuff. The main thing I want to do is exhibit at my mom's cafe in London. The business-minded part of me thinks this would be an awesome promotional strategy, and the rest of me just really wants to have my first exhibition there. For reference, my mother - who died when I was four - opened the Neal's Yard Soup and Salad Bar in 1982 and it was a really huge hit. The guy the runs it now was very good friends with her, and he and I get on really well. I bring him gifts back from Seattle and he gives me free food. There's a lot of outdoors space in the courtyard with tables and such, it's a really hippy type cafe. (Flynn would be all over it.) I'm currently thinking that maybe setting up a trestle table and a couple of boards to display work and catalogs on wouldn't be too bad, and i can promote the cafe along with the exhibition, and get coverage from all his clientele. I'd like to run it for at least a weekend, ideally a week. I ran the idea past my dad, and he seemed to think it's a good idea, and the more I turn it over in my mind the better an idea it seems to me too. Having a straight up indoors exhibition would be silly, because it would be expensive and get no coverage. But I think I can make a thing out of being my mother's daughter there, and like, tie the exhibition into my history with the place and stuff. It's a good way to promote myself, and it has massive sentimental value too.
The other thing that's becoming really important to me right now is to be very productive with Tron. I have a lot of ideas and stuff, and it's becoming so unprecedentedly important to me that I really need to not get distracted from them. I managed to sort out where I'm going with my Sam x Clu fic tonight and even write a bit more, and I have ideas for a Rinzler x Clu ficlet and a long, long Tron x Alan fix-it fic. I've always been incredibly bad at following through with my ideas, but in this case, it's really important to me to finish everything I start. Tron means too much to me not to.
It's kind of weird how Tron has gotten so deep into my heart, because it hasn't happened in the usual way of finding a character that really, really resonates with me, comforts me and helps me understand who I am/what I want better. It's like the entire series, as an objective thing, just makes me so insanely happy. It's kind of an entire world that I can just go to to feel really good about everything. I think the eightiesness helps. It's all based around video games and arcades and 80s cultural memes and those things always made me really happy. But it's more than that. It's hard for me to describe, but it feels kind of like it's... just mine. There's nothing emotionally difficult about it for me, and I'm not projecting myself like I have with everything else. I think it might be a sign that my self-loathing/lack of self problems that I've always struggled with are being given a chance to go away right now. If that's so, then that makes Tron the first thing I really loved for myself since Pokemon in 1998. Which is probably why it feels so good and so different all at once.
Other than that, and the eternal goal of "find a hairdo that looks okay", there's the other big goals like dancing, making a bit of money, keeping up with music, passing my engineering class and stabilizing my relationship with my family, which almost go without saying.
So I'd like to put out a request to my flist: since I'm not really accustomed to drawing stuff that isn't fanservice for fandoms I'm into, can I get some suggestions for stuff to work on for that exhibition? I'm not entirely sure what people want to buy. I'm thinking basically, subject material for fine art sketches/drawings/possibly paintings that you would like to buy, assuming you had a little bit of disposable income to spend on it. Thanks in advance bbys! ~♥
Edited to add: Oh my god this night is the worst night. My study materials for Engineering, which I'm already nervous as anything about, were mailed to Oxford, despite my having updated my address to my Dad's apartment in London. They were signed for in my name, but the only person I knew of who was in the country then said they hadn't seen them. After a little enquiry, it turns out that my friend's mother signed for them. They come in a big box labeled OPEN UNIVERSITY: ACADEMIC MATERIALS or words to that effect. And she didn't mention this fact to anybody. Not to me, not to anybody. And now the books and paperwork that I need are in an empty apartment in Oxford, and the only people with keys to that apartment are abroad. And I need them by February 5th.
I'm honestly so close to tears right now it's not even funny. I have got no idea what to do.
Pretty much my main goal in 2011 is to get at least one exhibition going in London and sell some stuff. The main thing I want to do is exhibit at my mom's cafe in London. The business-minded part of me thinks this would be an awesome promotional strategy, and the rest of me just really wants to have my first exhibition there. For reference, my mother - who died when I was four - opened the Neal's Yard Soup and Salad Bar in 1982 and it was a really huge hit. The guy the runs it now was very good friends with her, and he and I get on really well. I bring him gifts back from Seattle and he gives me free food. There's a lot of outdoors space in the courtyard with tables and such, it's a really hippy type cafe. (Flynn would be all over it.) I'm currently thinking that maybe setting up a trestle table and a couple of boards to display work and catalogs on wouldn't be too bad, and i can promote the cafe along with the exhibition, and get coverage from all his clientele. I'd like to run it for at least a weekend, ideally a week. I ran the idea past my dad, and he seemed to think it's a good idea, and the more I turn it over in my mind the better an idea it seems to me too. Having a straight up indoors exhibition would be silly, because it would be expensive and get no coverage. But I think I can make a thing out of being my mother's daughter there, and like, tie the exhibition into my history with the place and stuff. It's a good way to promote myself, and it has massive sentimental value too.
The other thing that's becoming really important to me right now is to be very productive with Tron. I have a lot of ideas and stuff, and it's becoming so unprecedentedly important to me that I really need to not get distracted from them. I managed to sort out where I'm going with my Sam x Clu fic tonight and even write a bit more, and I have ideas for a Rinzler x Clu ficlet and a long, long Tron x Alan fix-it fic. I've always been incredibly bad at following through with my ideas, but in this case, it's really important to me to finish everything I start. Tron means too much to me not to.
It's kind of weird how Tron has gotten so deep into my heart, because it hasn't happened in the usual way of finding a character that really, really resonates with me, comforts me and helps me understand who I am/what I want better. It's like the entire series, as an objective thing, just makes me so insanely happy. It's kind of an entire world that I can just go to to feel really good about everything. I think the eightiesness helps. It's all based around video games and arcades and 80s cultural memes and those things always made me really happy. But it's more than that. It's hard for me to describe, but it feels kind of like it's... just mine. There's nothing emotionally difficult about it for me, and I'm not projecting myself like I have with everything else. I think it might be a sign that my self-loathing/lack of self problems that I've always struggled with are being given a chance to go away right now. If that's so, then that makes Tron the first thing I really loved for myself since Pokemon in 1998. Which is probably why it feels so good and so different all at once.
Other than that, and the eternal goal of "find a hairdo that looks okay", there's the other big goals like dancing, making a bit of money, keeping up with music, passing my engineering class and stabilizing my relationship with my family, which almost go without saying.
So I'd like to put out a request to my flist: since I'm not really accustomed to drawing stuff that isn't fanservice for fandoms I'm into, can I get some suggestions for stuff to work on for that exhibition? I'm not entirely sure what people want to buy. I'm thinking basically, subject material for fine art sketches/drawings/possibly paintings that you would like to buy, assuming you had a little bit of disposable income to spend on it. Thanks in advance bbys! ~♥
Edited to add: Oh my god this night is the worst night. My study materials for Engineering, which I'm already nervous as anything about, were mailed to Oxford, despite my having updated my address to my Dad's apartment in London. They were signed for in my name, but the only person I knew of who was in the country then said they hadn't seen them. After a little enquiry, it turns out that my friend's mother signed for them. They come in a big box labeled OPEN UNIVERSITY: ACADEMIC MATERIALS or words to that effect. And she didn't mention this fact to anybody. Not to me, not to anybody. And now the books and paperwork that I need are in an empty apartment in Oxford, and the only people with keys to that apartment are abroad. And I need them by February 5th.
I'm honestly so close to tears right now it's not even funny. I have got no idea what to do.