It's based on a photo of me, but heavily modified.
Some of you may have already seen this on facebook, but I don't care :P
Wednesday, 28 November 2012
Art
I finally got around to painting something, the first piece I've done since I started uni. This is a digital painting, by the way, using PaintToolSAI, and I gave up on the texture of the hair. I quite like the skin though. I'm proud of that.
It's based on a photo of me, but heavily modified.
Some of you may have already seen this on facebook, but I don't care :P
It's based on a photo of me, but heavily modified.
Some of you may have already seen this on facebook, but I don't care :P
Friday, 23 November 2012
Hello wonderful people, I thought I'd write a post on the weird and wonderful things we've been doing in art college recently. Since the start of term we've been doing a different thing every week like graphics, textiles, fashion etc and this week we had to choose which one we want to specialise in and do for the rest of the year. So I thought hmm.. I quite like drawing, so I'll pick Illustration. That'll be all about drawing! How very wrong I was.. This is all I did for the first day...
Meet my good friend, screw face..
Oh and here's happy bottle face..
Sad bottle face..
And surprised bottle face...
And my personal favourite - crazy bottle face!
Yep, so that's apparently Illustration. And as fun as that was, (which it was fun, don't get me wrong!) I was thinking, I'd actually like to learn something at college and develop some skills, so I changed to Applied Arts, which looks really fun - Mondays is claywork all day, Tuesdays drawing all day, Wednesdays day off whoo! Thursdays METALWORK!! ALL DAY! :D and Fridays, sketchbook stuff and theory. :)
I've just realised how you sciencey lot may find this post a little boring, which I apologise for :) Also, this is gonna sound cheesy and weird and soppy, but I miss you guys and I love you all and I think you're great! :) from Rach x
Thursday, 22 November 2012
I swear I'm still alive.
I was inspired by Mina's post of a quick update on her life currently, so I've decided to do the same, seeing as I haven't had proper contact with some of you guys since I last visited Sheff town!
First things first, despite how much I may or may not rant for the rest of this improvised post, I'm not doing that bad really. I'm not mega unhappy or super depressed, it's just things could certainly be better. Just throwing that out there.
Bad news first, as I'm sure everyone knows by now, just like Mina, I'm really fucking sick of the workload. University as a whole seems to be "Good grades, Sleep, Social Life. Choose two". I have opted to drop the social life aspect, but it wasn't a deliberate choice. It just sort of happened. I still get to see people at meal times and during lectures and stuff, but I'm really not doing that much at all otherwise. On top of that, it's not just the amount, it's the sheer difficulty of some of it. Linear Algebra is by far the hardest maths I've ever had to do, it isn't at all intuitive, and it's getting more and more abstract with every passing lecture. Abstract in my book by the way, means "really bloody weird".
Good news? I've met some really brilliant people here, who I have a lot in common with. Now if only I could actually spend some time with them.
That's my life right now in a nutshell. Work, sleep, eat, play the occasional video game at the weekend. I'm not exaggerating, that literally is it. I need to bloody get out before I blow a fuse.
So yeah. Overall, I'm still enjoying the subject itself, but I just need a break. Screw three weeks till Christmas, I need a break NOW.
How's everyone else's life been going? Maybe you should all make an update on you're current standing in the universe. This blog needs more attention really, I've really been slacking off on it!
Laters.
Jake
First things first, despite how much I may or may not rant for the rest of this improvised post, I'm not doing that bad really. I'm not mega unhappy or super depressed, it's just things could certainly be better. Just throwing that out there.
Bad news first, as I'm sure everyone knows by now, just like Mina, I'm really fucking sick of the workload. University as a whole seems to be "Good grades, Sleep, Social Life. Choose two". I have opted to drop the social life aspect, but it wasn't a deliberate choice. It just sort of happened. I still get to see people at meal times and during lectures and stuff, but I'm really not doing that much at all otherwise. On top of that, it's not just the amount, it's the sheer difficulty of some of it. Linear Algebra is by far the hardest maths I've ever had to do, it isn't at all intuitive, and it's getting more and more abstract with every passing lecture. Abstract in my book by the way, means "really bloody weird".
Good news? I've met some really brilliant people here, who I have a lot in common with. Now if only I could actually spend some time with them.
That's my life right now in a nutshell. Work, sleep, eat, play the occasional video game at the weekend. I'm not exaggerating, that literally is it. I need to bloody get out before I blow a fuse.
So yeah. Overall, I'm still enjoying the subject itself, but I just need a break. Screw three weeks till Christmas, I need a break NOW.
How's everyone else's life been going? Maybe you should all make an update on you're current standing in the universe. This blog needs more attention really, I've really been slacking off on it!
Laters.
Jake
Quick Update
Firstly, how glad are we that Obama won the election? Aww yis...
Hi guys, not been doing anything much besides work recently. Who knew university would be so hard? With all the recommended reading we have to do, I might as well just teach myself. Which is exactly what I do with a certain lecturer we have twice a week... Seriously, how is it even possible to communicate absolutely NOTHING in an hour? He jumps between topics without explaining where his train of thought is going, he takes minutes to say what could be said in an single sentence and his powerpoints are full of spelling and grammatical errors. Even in the names of bacteria. The one thing he has to get across to us. I just have a nap or doodle and read up on it later. I mean, I know lecturer's aren't really at uni for the teaching - it's just a side job next to research - but COME ON.
Not been able to go out much, haven't seen friends or boyfriend recently, not even been able to play the new zombie mode on Black Ops 2. And drawing has just... not... happened. Apart from last night. I may have something to show you next time I post on here.
I'm still enjoying uni, I'm just getting a bit sick of the workload. I need Christmas to happen.
Sorry this has been a bit of a rant,
Mina out.
P.S. To be fair, we do have some brilliant lecturers, as well as the shit ones.
P.P.S After complaining about spelling and grammar, I know I will have made mistakes here. Murphy's Law. However, I am not trying to teach you guys :P
Hi guys, not been doing anything much besides work recently. Who knew university would be so hard? With all the recommended reading we have to do, I might as well just teach myself. Which is exactly what I do with a certain lecturer we have twice a week... Seriously, how is it even possible to communicate absolutely NOTHING in an hour? He jumps between topics without explaining where his train of thought is going, he takes minutes to say what could be said in an single sentence and his powerpoints are full of spelling and grammatical errors. Even in the names of bacteria. The one thing he has to get across to us. I just have a nap or doodle and read up on it later. I mean, I know lecturer's aren't really at uni for the teaching - it's just a side job next to research - but COME ON.
Not been able to go out much, haven't seen friends or boyfriend recently, not even been able to play the new zombie mode on Black Ops 2. And drawing has just... not... happened. Apart from last night. I may have something to show you next time I post on here.
I'm still enjoying uni, I'm just getting a bit sick of the workload. I need Christmas to happen.
Sorry this has been a bit of a rant,
Mina out.
P.S. To be fair, we do have some brilliant lecturers, as well as the shit ones.
P.P.S After complaining about spelling and grammar, I know I will have made mistakes here. Murphy's Law. However, I am not trying to teach you guys :P
Monday, 19 November 2012
A Person and their Bucket
You are standing in a bucket.
You're not entirely sure why you're standing in this bucket, how it got there or how you got there, and in fact the whole situation is rather confusing.
The only thing you can really be sure of is that you're sinking.
You appear to be unable to calculate your rate of decent, and so you have no idea how long it'll be before you're completely in the bucket.
On top of that, no matter how hard you try, you don't seem to be able to get out of the bucket.
At this point a person, also in a bucket, comes along, "Excuse me," they say, "But it looks like you're standing in a bucket."
You are rather unimpressed by this remark.
The person explains that all people are stuck in buckets, that all buckets are filled with acid and that eventually all people will be a little hydrolysed mush at the bottom of their bucket, but that this is no problem, you can enjoy learning about yourself, your bucket and the ever consuming acid while you wait for this inevitability. The idea for some reason seems quite appealing. After all, it would explain the strange tingling feeling that you have in your legs, and it'll give you something to do instead of worrying about your sinking.
Just as you're beginning to enjoy yourself with a game of bucket tennis, another person comes along.
This person proceeds to explain that they have a better way of doing things. If you clean the outside of your bucket five times a day, and treat other people in buckets nicely, give to those who have more acid in their bucket than you, practice imagining yourself outside of the bucket, and everything else in their book of "One Hundred and One Ways to Have a Better Bucket", life itself will be much nicer for you. You're rather unsure about this option, it seems appealing, but also like a lot of effort. And at the end of the day, you'll still be mush in a bucket, so it's probably not worth the commitment (although you might dabble in it now and again).
A few more people come along, all stuck in their own buckets, and all of them basically saying the same stuff in different ways. Well by this point you've quite had enough of these different people telling you different things about your bucket, after all it's YOUR bucket, not theirs and what right do they have to tell you how to spend your OWN time in your OWN bucket? Unfortunately one more person seems to be on their way. They are rather unimpressive; they appear to have sunk quite low in their bucket, plus their bucket is absolutely filthy. How can someone like this give advice on how to spend your time in your bucket? For that is surely what they're about to try and do.
"Listen, I know a way to fix this bucket situation," they begin, "but it's going to sound crazy and I don't quite know how to explain it or where to begin. Basically, there is a way of being free both of your bucket, and of the acid in it. There is a person who doesn't live in a bucket, he's free to go where he likes, he's found a way of taking the mush that you'll turn into, and remaking you outside of your bucket so that you'll be free forever. I don't get exactly how any of it works, and I've never met the person face to face, but the only thing that we have to do, is admit that we need his help, and ask him to help us out."
"Great," you think, "This person is the loopiest yet." You state your case against what they've said, trying to be as nice as possible, "Look, you seem lovely and I'm happy that you can live with such hope, but what you're saying is really quite ridiculous. Firstly you're asking me believe in a person who doesn't live inside a bucket. I have never met anyone who doesn't live inside a bucket, the idea of someone living outside of a bucket is childish, if it were possible, I would've seen such a person. And that's a point, you yourself admit you've never seen this person! Now let us assume, for argument's sake, that such a person could exist (after all, just because you haven't seen something, it doesn't mean it can't be theoretically possible), you're telling me that they have a way to turn mush back into a complex and living organism, such a thing is impossible. But let us assume that even that is theoretically possible, and note we're getting quite absurd in our assumptions by this point, we face the issue of why such a person would wait until we are already mush in order to release us from our state of bucket imprisonment. Such a person is obviously sadistic, who would want someone to have to suffer and turn to mush before helping them out, if they have the power to help them in the first place. No, I would not want to be saved by such a person, even if they did exist. And even if you could answer all these things, you clearly are not someone who is a shining example of how to live, why would I even wish to believe the same thing as you?"
Their response is short and seems rather unsubstantial, "I can't give you answers to every question you have, don't you think that I have questions of my own? I don't understand how this works, but I do understand that if there is a way to be free of my bucket, I want to take it. And I understand that if the evidence I've seen about this person is true, they are someone I would like to help me. I'm not asking you to believe what I say, I'm asking you to just give it a shot. And I'm aware that I'm no shining example, like you say, but that's not the point, I don't claim to be the solution to your problems, it's the one I'm telling you about who is. Surely this is better than simply becoming mush?"
This person seems hopeless, they are unwilling to listen to your logic, to see reason. Surely it is better to accept that you're just going to be mush than to waste your time arguing with someone about a fairytale they've taken too seriously? You suggest playing Call of Duty Zombies instead of continuing a seemingly pointless argument. (Yeah, alright, I stuck the zombie bit in just so I could include this picture... I call it 'Plant Pot Warfare'...)
You are standing in a bucket.
You're not entirely sure why you're standing in this bucket, how it got there or how you got there, and in fact the whole situation is rather confusing.
The only thing you can really be sure of is that you're sinking.
You appear to be unable to calculate your rate of decent, and so you have no idea how long it'll be before you're completely in the bucket.
On top of that, no matter how hard you try, you don't seem to be able to get out of the bucket.
At this point a person, also in a bucket, comes along, "Excuse me," they say, "But it looks like you're standing in a bucket."
You are rather unimpressed by this remark.
The person explains that all people are stuck in buckets, that all buckets are filled with acid and that eventually all people will be a little hydrolysed mush at the bottom of their bucket, but that this is no problem, you can enjoy learning about yourself, your bucket and the ever consuming acid while you wait for this inevitability. The idea for some reason seems quite appealing. After all, it would explain the strange tingling feeling that you have in your legs, and it'll give you something to do instead of worrying about your sinking.
Just as you're beginning to enjoy yourself with a game of bucket tennis, another person comes along.
This person proceeds to explain that they have a better way of doing things. If you clean the outside of your bucket five times a day, and treat other people in buckets nicely, give to those who have more acid in their bucket than you, practice imagining yourself outside of the bucket, and everything else in their book of "One Hundred and One Ways to Have a Better Bucket", life itself will be much nicer for you. You're rather unsure about this option, it seems appealing, but also like a lot of effort. And at the end of the day, you'll still be mush in a bucket, so it's probably not worth the commitment (although you might dabble in it now and again).
A few more people come along, all stuck in their own buckets, and all of them basically saying the same stuff in different ways. Well by this point you've quite had enough of these different people telling you different things about your bucket, after all it's YOUR bucket, not theirs and what right do they have to tell you how to spend your OWN time in your OWN bucket? Unfortunately one more person seems to be on their way. They are rather unimpressive; they appear to have sunk quite low in their bucket, plus their bucket is absolutely filthy. How can someone like this give advice on how to spend your time in your bucket? For that is surely what they're about to try and do.
"Listen, I know a way to fix this bucket situation," they begin, "but it's going to sound crazy and I don't quite know how to explain it or where to begin. Basically, there is a way of being free both of your bucket, and of the acid in it. There is a person who doesn't live in a bucket, he's free to go where he likes, he's found a way of taking the mush that you'll turn into, and remaking you outside of your bucket so that you'll be free forever. I don't get exactly how any of it works, and I've never met the person face to face, but the only thing that we have to do, is admit that we need his help, and ask him to help us out."
"Great," you think, "This person is the loopiest yet." You state your case against what they've said, trying to be as nice as possible, "Look, you seem lovely and I'm happy that you can live with such hope, but what you're saying is really quite ridiculous. Firstly you're asking me believe in a person who doesn't live inside a bucket. I have never met anyone who doesn't live inside a bucket, the idea of someone living outside of a bucket is childish, if it were possible, I would've seen such a person. And that's a point, you yourself admit you've never seen this person! Now let us assume, for argument's sake, that such a person could exist (after all, just because you haven't seen something, it doesn't mean it can't be theoretically possible), you're telling me that they have a way to turn mush back into a complex and living organism, such a thing is impossible. But let us assume that even that is theoretically possible, and note we're getting quite absurd in our assumptions by this point, we face the issue of why such a person would wait until we are already mush in order to release us from our state of bucket imprisonment. Such a person is obviously sadistic, who would want someone to have to suffer and turn to mush before helping them out, if they have the power to help them in the first place. No, I would not want to be saved by such a person, even if they did exist. And even if you could answer all these things, you clearly are not someone who is a shining example of how to live, why would I even wish to believe the same thing as you?"
Their response is short and seems rather unsubstantial, "I can't give you answers to every question you have, don't you think that I have questions of my own? I don't understand how this works, but I do understand that if there is a way to be free of my bucket, I want to take it. And I understand that if the evidence I've seen about this person is true, they are someone I would like to help me. I'm not asking you to believe what I say, I'm asking you to just give it a shot. And I'm aware that I'm no shining example, like you say, but that's not the point, I don't claim to be the solution to your problems, it's the one I'm telling you about who is. Surely this is better than simply becoming mush?"
This person seems hopeless, they are unwilling to listen to your logic, to see reason. Surely it is better to accept that you're just going to be mush than to waste your time arguing with someone about a fairytale they've taken too seriously? You suggest playing Call of Duty Zombies instead of continuing a seemingly pointless argument. (Yeah, alright, I stuck the zombie bit in just so I could include this picture... I call it 'Plant Pot Warfare'...)
I'm not entirely sure what the main point of this post is, and please don't be offended by anything it says. Feel free to discuss it or ignore it, whatever you want. It just came to mind earlier today, and this blog is a space for posting about what's going on with us, and this stuff is important to me. Finally the, "than to waste your time arguing" bit, is not a reflection on my opinion of discussing stuff, in fact most of this post doesn't, at least on the surface, reflect my thoughts. (Actually the whole thing started off with me drawing a stickman, realising I wasn't happy with the legs, sticking a bucket in the way to cover them up and then letting things escalate from there.)
Happy blogging, peeps! And start posting again!!! I miss your posts.
Matt
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