[art] why
Also check out my etsy shop: http://insomniel.etsy.com
This is the beautiful sculpture I was working on this past week. I call it the "Snivy de Milo." It has a touch of scoliosis, but I haven't done paper mache in like, 10 years, so the fact that it can sometimes stand on its own is a miracle. Well, it was good to get messy and be covered in paint and have my mom peek into my room and say, "You are so creative and full of strange ideas!"
I missed going to A-kon this year, and while I was sad to not meet up with my 2 friends who were going, I wasn't sad about the actual anime convention part itself. I think despite my Pokemon sculptures and pretty boy fanart, I am (overall) not interested in talking with other fans anymore. Granted this is 99% due to the fact that sweaty weeaboos in the winter are bad enough, and sweaty people in a Texas summer of a broiling 100 degrees are even worse. But still... not enough to want to get to downtown Dallas.
I don't know... I find myself not watching anime or reading manga anymore. Instead I am clipping out coupons from the newspaper and reading Martha Stewart magazines, designing the decor for my dream house, spending hours browsing for jewelry or new recipes, planning my trip to Europe, worrying about car payments and insurance and just... grown-up things.
Not that nerds and geeks don't also do this, but now for me, anime and videogames are not a factor in how I spend my time or money anymore. It's sad because it means I am old and boring now, but it feels liberating, too, to be in more control of my life and time and expenses, and to become independent of slavish desire of material luxuries by becoming dependent on material necessities instead. Sometimes I'm amazed that instead of needing such and such merchandise from such series, I can either make it myself or you know, save up for contacts so I can go to the gym and not trip over myself because my glasses have slid off my sweaty nose.
I hate growing into that old boring person that I scoffed at when I was a kid, but at the same time, I know I will still be one of the coolest old boring persons around.
And rich.
At least... when I get that job as a pharmacist...
/sighs deeply
But seriously, should I work on Disney Princesses or other art instead? Too many projects, but so lazy...
This is the beautiful sculpture I was working on this past week. I call it the "Snivy de Milo." It has a touch of scoliosis, but I haven't done paper mache in like, 10 years, so the fact that it can sometimes stand on its own is a miracle. Well, it was good to get messy and be covered in paint and have my mom peek into my room and say, "You are so creative and full of strange ideas!"
I missed going to A-kon this year, and while I was sad to not meet up with my 2 friends who were going, I wasn't sad about the actual anime convention part itself. I think despite my Pokemon sculptures and pretty boy fanart, I am (overall) not interested in talking with other fans anymore. Granted this is 99% due to the fact that sweaty weeaboos in the winter are bad enough, and sweaty people in a Texas summer of a broiling 100 degrees are even worse. But still... not enough to want to get to downtown Dallas.
I don't know... I find myself not watching anime or reading manga anymore. Instead I am clipping out coupons from the newspaper and reading Martha Stewart magazines, designing the decor for my dream house, spending hours browsing for jewelry or new recipes, planning my trip to Europe, worrying about car payments and insurance and just... grown-up things.
Not that nerds and geeks don't also do this, but now for me, anime and videogames are not a factor in how I spend my time or money anymore. It's sad because it means I am old and boring now, but it feels liberating, too, to be in more control of my life and time and expenses, and to become independent of slavish desire of material luxuries by becoming dependent on material necessities instead. Sometimes I'm amazed that instead of needing such and such merchandise from such series, I can either make it myself or you know, save up for contacts so I can go to the gym and not trip over myself because my glasses have slid off my sweaty nose.
I hate growing into that old boring person that I scoffed at when I was a kid, but at the same time, I know I will still be one of the coolest old boring persons around.
And rich.
At least... when I get that job as a pharmacist...
/sighs deeply
But seriously, should I work on Disney Princesses or other art instead? Too many projects, but so lazy...