As promised, I have returned to LiveJournal to describe in more detail the major life decisions I have recently made. Given that I am still feeling pretty fuzzy about a lot of this, I have decided to list my new plans in (roughly) decreasing order of the likelihood that they will happen or be carried out successfully.

1. Learn how to sew, and make ( Read more... )

Hello and welcome to the third installment of the continuing story of my life as an artist. If you've been keeping track, thanks for sticking with me. If not, go ahead and read those first two entries. They took me from my childhood as a little fantasy artist to my second year as a Brandeis student, firmly committed to a career as a painter. ( Read more... )

Welcome to the second installment of the ongoing memoirs of my artistic life. Last time, you learned about my childhood and the very beginnings of my artist inclinations. This time, college (the early years).

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Inspired by my good friend and fellow artist, _dragonwolf_ , I have decided to write for you all the epic, multi-volume account of my life as an artist. In a sense, I suppose this is something like the first draft of my memoirs. Of course, a complete work in that genre would also include My Life as a Teacher (which I think is the sequel to this project), My ( Read more... )

Although everything I said in my last entry was true, I feel as though it was incomplete, or perhaps a bit muddled in the telling, so I wanted to clarify some things.  While I don't think that being addicted to work is a less-authentic version of addiction, I do think that my last entry ended on a note of humor or dismissal that somewhat negated ( Read more... )

I think it's pretty safe to say April 2010 has been possibly the busiest, and certainly the best month of my life to date.  Now that it is officially over, I thought I'd take a few minutes to give the world an update on what's been going on with me, since a lot has changed recently.

Art:  I gave up oil painting earlier this year, and came to the ( Read more... )

I've spent a lot of time this past year (well, my whole life, but this past year in particular since I'm officially in "art school" now) trying to figure out how to best express myself.  Like it or not, I have a lot of strange, terrifying, and possibly wonderful ideas floating around in my head.  Stuff that just exists in there.  Magical stuff.  ( Read more... )

DISCLAIMER  I'm not sure if it is necessary for me to state this more clearly, but I think people might be thinking that the rejection to which I am referring in the first paragraph is the dismissal of my drawing that I refer to in my fourth paragraph.  This is not the case at all.  I am referring to good old-fashioned romantic rejection.  I could ( Read more... )

So, I haven't LARPed for a while, and my final art show at Brandeis goes up on April 14, two days before Vestival starts, so/but I am very excited to get into the swing of things again.  Here are the games I am signed up for:

Friday
Kind Friends Together This is a game I've wanted to play ever since I first heard of it, and I just learned that I am ( Read more... )

Every once in a while something new enters my life and I know, instantly, that it will belong there forever.  It feels almost a part of my DNA.  Now, some things, like drawing, I've been doing for as long as I can remember.  Some things, like painting (!), never really click despite persistent attempts.  Then there are a few things that just sort ( Read more... )