I got this map!

Now I won't get lost! Matt and Kendall have a DC one, and I liked it so much I got one for myself.

Building sets

I'm helping build sets for a video for this band.

Found Photo Friday

Photographer Unknown.

Lighting Demo

Stephen Slappe and I tag-teamed a lighting demo today for the video class, so I got to be a pretend teacher for the day! That's right: paying tens of thousands of dollars a year for an arts education in Portland might just mean you are learning from someone who just graduated and has under a year's experience with video.

I can't even work at Subway here!

Hmmm.. I guess I didn't get the Arts Intern position

Nice of them to tell me.

Submitting to the Video Fest

Putting in a reshoot and doing some color correction so I can submit a DVD to the PNCA Video Fest. Hopefully they'll let me be in it even though I've graduated.

Found Photo Friday

Photographer Unknown.

Jeopardy Online Test

I didn't do very well... guess I'll try again next year. I'd better start studying.

They won't even let me teach kids how to rock here

Sweet, I'll remember you when I run out of money and have to move back to my mom's house (a very real, very scary possibility in a few months).

My Blog Post as a Drawing

The original was pretty text-heavy, so I tried to replace that with more drawing. Can you tell that I re-worked it from the first panel and then ran out of time and just reused all of the original stuff at the end?
I showed up at the gallery to turn it in with 20 minutes to spare and of course they were like, "oh you can turn it in tomorrow, too." Because in Portland deadlines mean nothing.

An episode of Portlandia at the Mission Theater

It was actually pretty good for once.

Found Photo Friday

Photographer Unknown.

First Thursday

I'm usually not into little painted objects, but these Sumi paintings were just gorgeous. On some of them he took the imperfections in the brushstrokes and incorporated them into the image. Little spots became snowflakes or clouds. That is brilliant.
The artist's name is Matt Leavitt and if I had an extra $90 I would have bought one. But I need a job.

Working on my piece for The Love Show

I'm re-editing it and I'm going to add some new drawings. It might be weird to have an inkjet print of a drawing, but too bad. I like that this one also incorporates real images and I'm not good enough at drawing to make something look good (relatively, heh heh) without being able to edit it on the computer.

Cookin

I didn't have any tomatoes so I put salsa in this rice. I hope it's good!

Found Photo Friday

Photographer Unknown.

Catherine Opie at the Portland Art Museum

I went to see Catherine Opie speak at the Portland Art Museum. She takes socially-loaded portraits like this one:


But also takes picture of houses, strip malls, and highways like this:


I wrote about her series of high school football photos in my thesis paper:




Afterward I got dinner with Petra. She met her wife while they were both in bible college - that's a pretty good story.

A trip to Ikea for a frame

I went to Ikea today for a frame. I actually hate Ikea because walking around in there just makes me feel lost and confused. Sort of like a sneak preview of every day of my life in 40 years. But that have nice looking cheap frames, so whatever.

Soon this frame will hold a print of this blog post and will be up at this show.

I'm a TA at PNCA now!

But it doesn't pay, so I still need a job. And actually this makes finding a job harder because now I'll have to give this up if I find a something that's 9-5. But whatever, I really like being on the other side of the classroom and I'm TA'ing for Stephen Slappe, who is totally rad.