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Well…
What to say.
It seems to be getting worse.
I didn’t sleep last night.
And still can’t now.

The upstairs neighbor was sweet enough to bring me a steam oil of patchouli, which at least calms me down.
So much for my ranting of last time.
I’m a dick.
I feel fucked up.

My surprise gift is done and I’m rather content about it, so yay.
Uggh, it just kind of feels like I’ve forgotten how to sleep.
Like I don’t get it anymore.
I hope I can get some sleep in Halseren this weekend.
I need is oh so bad…

What’s up with me?
Why can’t I relax?
Even my earplugs are a nuisance now.

Wow,
Now thát was a lovely movie.
Ink-black humor, no trust, a star cast, interesting turns and an unhappy ending.

Really now, John Voight as a half-blind half-indian storyteller is priceless.
Jennifer Lopez as a nymphomaniac temptress.
Joachim Phoenix as a rockabilly psycho douchebag.
And a whole bunch more in a modern western around a hillbilly inbred hole in the desert.
I love it!

Just had to babysit a friend from that same up-stairs neighbour….
Kid came by when the dude was out shopping, so I led him in, sinds it’s pooring outside and all.
Sayd he’d be waiting in the hall…
Yeah sure,
“ohh, guitars man!”
“Oh Fallout man!”
Let him have a try at the guitars and was tolerant enough about his J-rock pop-metal ranting, I think.
I meen, is one actually expected to welcome some unknown brat who’s deepest thoughts range to whether what he does is cool and if he’ll get laid and tries to impress you by how alternative his motivations and tastes are.
I could rant on about how stereotypical it all was and hard he tried not to be.

Well, here’s an alternative to that brick-head,
Go fuck yourself.
Since Rebecca I hate these ‘alternative’ goofs even more.
Bloody punk ruining my nice and quiet spaghetti.
Allright.
Had to get that of my chest.

My up-stairs neighbour, Marcel, has his girlfriend over again.
She hasn’t been inside for 10 minutes yet and they’re already tearing the fucking place down.
I’m sure they’re having loads of fun.
But come on…
I’m going to get so fresh air and sketch down some alleys.
U-Turn on tv tonight, awesomeness.

Syd Barrett.Period.

After a bit of a hold-up with the workings of the menu’s en structures of the categorizing of the gallery….
It’s all functional now, and there are only some small things to tidy up and prepare.
After which I’ll have to go and look through my heaps of work to fill up the new categories, which, obviously has spread my work quiet thinly over the whole gallery, to a rather pathetic point.

On that note,
looking through portfolios of others, generally isn’t very healthy for my ego.

I’ll be having a 3 hour class considering Office and Excess tomorrow…
So, no fun there.
If it’s all repeating of what I know, I’ll try to arrange that I might skip it.
Yvonne might have come tomorrow,
if that lesson wouldn’t keep me at school ‘til 6.

Sleeping still has been terrible though, with general waking up at 3 and 5 in the morning after not falling asleep before at least 11:30.

Oh, I hadn’t mentioned yet that, last Monday, when Bart, Ivo, Mike, Ime and me went to the Athenaeum Library in search for some books on Neolithic hunters and their transition to farmers(which is the next subject we’ll be studying for a project) I found a book with the transcript of ‘Rebel in the Soul’, a 4000 year old hieroglyphic text, including comments and the actual original text in hieroglyphs.
Suffice to say I was pretty excited.^^

Right.
Been working too long again, should find some relaxation somewhere.

I can’t seem to stop myself from working on the site, even in the weekend.
On the other hand, there’s not much of a difference between weekends and school days for me lately, so meh.
In any case, in an attempt to increase the logic of the pages, I’m going to sub-categorize my work.
As it is already divided into Printmedia, Animations, Art and Webdesign.
Which all work nicely in both languages(only thanks to our bastard-native language).

I’m struggling with the ‘Art’ tag, since I’m hesitative to claim to create art in the first place and it is just far too broad.
One could, in the right mind, practically distribute the rest of the main categories in that one.
Another bump in the road is the sub-categorizing in general, but specifically the art department.
Do I pick techniques, which would lead to serious overlapping?
Or do I define them by style…which really is a bitch to do and will lead to far more categories than I’d like.
Searching around the net for examples by known and unknown artists/designers really hasn’t gotten me much equally varied gallery.
Excepting some long-time design groups, with about ten times my quantity in work and skill.

So, how to define and divide art?(oh yes, here we go)
Art would be expressing myself through my chosen media.
But not all which I’d consider art, would be created with a certain mood, concept or thought in mind.
Certainly not, since that is the way most modern abstract art comes to be, and is the way art, at it’s base begun: not to express the views within but the views by the artist.
E.g. I see a man, I recreate him in the way I see him and to the extent I am capable of doing so, resulting in my image of that man.
That would be the essence, I guess.
But, of course, there are styles in which to do this.
There, I think, you can split it up into personal, a-personal and ’public’.
In which the first is a blend of influences one develops into a style, the second is such a style developed by another the third a style created by a multitude of persons.
Right, deriving….

With that clearer, I think the most concrete aspect would be the media.
An aspect left out of this is the projects that the works where created in.
It might be a nice idea to find a way to gather pieces into another main category like that.
Though it would be difficult to do so in the dynamic system right now, until I implement the ‘tag’ system what’ll allow me to let the program check for things such as file extension, resolution and indeed it would be a small step to add tags to categorize them.
But that’s not an option for now.

Very well,
Media it is.
Hope to send out those mails today.

Thanks!

or

"Et tu, Vita?"

Alright, now that was sickeningly incredible.

The Number 23 is without a doubt the best thriller I’ve seen since The Silence of the Lambs.
Just breathtaking, I’ve sat there with my arms crossed and enthralled for the whole duration of the film.
I’m still chilly of the Goosebumps.

It, once again, shows the versatility and talent of Jim Carrey in the most gruesome role I’ve ever seen him do.

Christ-on-a-cracker.
What an achievement.

I’ll try to upload those inkings tonight. 

Ah, I think I found my hook again.
‘Think this weekend will be quiet  a breeze of productivity.

‘Should ride the wave while it lasts!

Patience ís a virtue.

I am what I am.

Iron Man is fucking awesome.
Apple pies are righteous.

And the obvious is far too obvious.