quick update wasting time
Not much to report. Went to Kara's house over the weekend. Maybe not the best idea, hope I didn't get anyone sick :[. And Kara's puppy, Bike, is a really cute lil guy. I don't really like dogs that much but he's alright. Hmmm didn't do much out there but still nice to get away from the parents and downriver. In painting today we had a visiting artist speak to us; she was pretty goofy and ended up talking for 2 hours over 5 or 6 pieces that she had done and more so about what she had been thinking and learned while working on the piece. Surprisingly she opened with slides of her student work and progressed to how those works inspired later pieces; pretty inspiring. I think what I liked most was how she talked about gathering items just out of impulse for no apparent reason, but in at some point in the future those found objects could come together to create a whole body of work. I plan on going to see her presentation tonight at 7 at Purdy-Kresge should be fun.
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The visiting artist was great and shes going to be talking in my painting class again tomorrow. Also had a good time hanging out with Tsvetana; apparently we have similar drive by masturbator stories but hers is a bit better. But I really realized how strange artists are today, well compared to other people. First my ceramics teacher made a statement of a corset he saw at a store in royal oak..hmm sounds like Noir Leather to me(lol I don't think I'd know that without you Lex). Not that I have a problem with that but in what other type of class other than a studio class would that statement not seem totally out of place. Then the visiting artist was just acting pretty goofy, but then again not like that is anything new. Guess it all just came together today.
Hmm also remembered something really awkward that happened in African History today. The teacher got in an argument with this kid about war and the teacher knew that this student had been in the Iraq war. The kid debating that war is not civilized but it will always exist because people will always have differences, but the teacher kept debating something about it being possible in a civilized world. The teacher never let the student speak more than a few words before cutting him off, when all the kid wanted to say was that from experiencing war his mind was made up that war is inevitable and that the teacher should not question him about such an extreme experience if he planned not to even listen to what he had to say. And to make it all worse the teacher ends the whole thing by saying "Tesla(the student) I did not ask you to speculate, you should have just said that you do not know the answer to the question." Oh yeah this guy is also from Africa so he has a pretty heavy accent. I've seen this teacher get in some really awkward situations but this was just terrible, he didn't even apologize. The kid even said something about almost dying in iraq, but that might have just been a figure of speech for having his life on the line out there, but I congratulate the kid for not losing it must have been so frustrating.
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I've also just found out about, FINAL EXIT : The practicalities of self-deliverance and assisted suicide for the dying[553Kb], and what an interesting book it is. As the title says it is a book about killing yourself in a humane manner if you are close to dying from terminal illness and feel that this is a more dignified way to die. What it really makes me think is that this guy is just trying to convince you to kill yourself with sleeping pills and a plastic bag. If you're interested click the link above for a pdf of the book. There are a few things in the book that kind of stayed in my mind one being a paragraph on page 11 of the pdf where he describes witnessing a man being shot in the head, and then page 148 which begins his 6 page long explanation of how to properly kill yourself with a plastic bag a couple extra materials, and page 176 begins a chart displaying lethal dosages for certain drug types[also note how many of these advise to be used with a plastic bag]. There are also lots of other interesting and insightful moments in this book for those who might be interested in reading.
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The visiting artist was great and shes going to be talking in my painting class again tomorrow. Also had a good time hanging out with Tsvetana; apparently we have similar drive by masturbator stories but hers is a bit better. But I really realized how strange artists are today, well compared to other people. First my ceramics teacher made a statement of a corset he saw at a store in royal oak..hmm sounds like Noir Leather to me(lol I don't think I'd know that without you Lex). Not that I have a problem with that but in what other type of class other than a studio class would that statement not seem totally out of place. Then the visiting artist was just acting pretty goofy, but then again not like that is anything new. Guess it all just came together today.
Hmm also remembered something really awkward that happened in African History today. The teacher got in an argument with this kid about war and the teacher knew that this student had been in the Iraq war. The kid debating that war is not civilized but it will always exist because people will always have differences, but the teacher kept debating something about it being possible in a civilized world. The teacher never let the student speak more than a few words before cutting him off, when all the kid wanted to say was that from experiencing war his mind was made up that war is inevitable and that the teacher should not question him about such an extreme experience if he planned not to even listen to what he had to say. And to make it all worse the teacher ends the whole thing by saying "Tesla(the student) I did not ask you to speculate, you should have just said that you do not know the answer to the question." Oh yeah this guy is also from Africa so he has a pretty heavy accent. I've seen this teacher get in some really awkward situations but this was just terrible, he didn't even apologize. The kid even said something about almost dying in iraq, but that might have just been a figure of speech for having his life on the line out there, but I congratulate the kid for not losing it must have been so frustrating.
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I've also just found out about, FINAL EXIT : The practicalities of self-deliverance and assisted suicide for the dying[553Kb], and what an interesting book it is. As the title says it is a book about killing yourself in a humane manner if you are close to dying from terminal illness and feel that this is a more dignified way to die. What it really makes me think is that this guy is just trying to convince you to kill yourself with sleeping pills and a plastic bag. If you're interested click the link above for a pdf of the book. There are a few things in the book that kind of stayed in my mind one being a paragraph on page 11 of the pdf where he describes witnessing a man being shot in the head, and then page 148 which begins his 6 page long explanation of how to properly kill yourself with a plastic bag a couple extra materials, and page 176 begins a chart displaying lethal dosages for certain drug types[also note how many of these advise to be used with a plastic bag]. There are also lots of other interesting and insightful moments in this book for those who might be interested in reading.