Tonight

9:53pm

I added my dad to my friends list on facespace. 

what have I done?

Upcoming Art Show!

As a student at Shoreline Community College I will be graduating this spring with a couple of art degrees. As a requirement for graduation, we put on a show of some of our artworks. This show (of which I am a part of) will have its reception on the 28th of April.

Admission is free and you are invited!

on this postcard here, my piece is the one with the eye looking out of the red and white bust. You can't see the whole piece there, but I fairly certain that it will be in the show.
I'm so excited!
It is a strange sensation to feel relived and somewhat proud of my cumulative work out of the past three years.
(Andy Hunter's To Life To Love song is very cherry) [if you have no idea what that means, it means: it's rad, cool, boss, da-bomb, retro, groovy, keen, splendid, rockin', and awesome].

I think that I will have to create a webpage for my work, in order to display it, and garner the attention of those who I would dearly love to be working or employed with.
Life is good!

Just Monday?

I took this picture last year, it's entitled: "Charlie Brown's Success"

It's still just Monday?
It feels like I lived a couple to a few days today. I probably lived them inside of my head. Because of this, and some reflection,This came about:
So many adventures await us in the future. Many of them are happening now.
I am going into training for a new job at SCC which will provide a bit more than tutoring which is such an enormous blessing! preparing for the portfolio class though is challenging, and I thought that I would have more time for preparations, nope, I don't.

"What challenges are these but that which lead us to greater heights? Are they such ephemeral things as to be like dreams, such languid thoughts stirred up in fervor once minute thoughts pursue them into magnification. Aye, such languid dreams. Were I but wiser I would have more purpose to pursue such dreams, but as of yet, I live them into fruition. I do not beg to create them, but to pursue them, ensure that their completion come to fruition.
Such thoughts, such meanderings down the pathways that only the mind may lead us upon, bear witness to the jumble that lies within. Where would we be without such remembrances? Purely mathematical beings that urge nothing, nor expect that which is filling of the mind with wonder. No joy in purpose, no sorrow of releasing a loved one, no melancholy at the thought of the now-faded rose. What reason would there be beyond ones' self other than purpose? I challenge the harborer of yesterday to release it. There is no absolute perfection in a mind preoccupied and focusing entirely upon self-fulfillment.
Such thoughts are rebellious against the nature of masses. Condemning in content, I keep them, but I share them, questioning the duality of what is "out there and commonplace" and what is "inside my mind; a truth I hold dear". There is no replacement for the time spent today.
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Jesus Christ. Philippians 3:14
Oh philosophy. I took the classes, now I can never go back to how I used to think!

One week going on three...

One week is seven days.
In one week I have had so very many adventures.
Seven days ago I went in to see the person who evaluates whether or not you have enough of the right kinds of credits in order to graduate from SCC.
I found out that I was missing a non-lab science course. The only class left after the portfolio class that would allow me to graduate with two associates/transfer degrees. I had/have no money to pay for the class let alone books!
So I freaked out, met with my advisor and he sent me to SCC's Foundation office. I filled out the paperwork for the general application for assistance and was in shock when Lynn said that they would take care of the class and books. Tuition for that class and a voucher for the books has allowed me to take the final course that i need in order to graduate from SCC!!!
I finished up the week completing paperwork to work for another department at SCC, finishing tutoring, rushing to prepare for a paper due sunday and the finals week extra credit assignment as well as one final for Geography and a critique, or two.
Monday evening I found out that Dad had lost his job that morning.
Tuesday evening I found out that I was selected as a staff member for Sakura-con 2011 at the convention center in Downtown Seattle.
Wednesday I went in to SCC for a critique in Ceramics.
Thursday I went in to tear down a sculpture and meet with a filmographer about some work.
Friday I went in for the final critique in Ceramics for my independent study course and finishing up some work as well as making another hat.
Friday afternoon I felt drawn to go to Seattle. So I ended up waiting in the rain for busses to come and I thought that I was going to go see Holly, my friend who works at Argosy Cruises. As I was praying in the city all the way to argosy praying about why I was called to go there that day I passed argosy cruises and went in to Ye Olde Curiosity Shop. I was there for awhile, and as I came in was drawn into an area but fought back and continued through the store. it wasn't until after I was done looking around that I tried to leave but was stopped by a man named Lloyd. he asked me if I wanted to see my name take on a curious shape, I gave him my nickname. He made an elephant out of it. He also wrote scriptures verse locations on the piece of paper, his name and a website that he was a part of. I started to cry. I explained to him very briefly that I had been called there to meet him that day, and I didn't add that it was entirely overwhelming.

This was the reason that I was here today. I had been called to meet Lloyd, and on top of that there was a job opening! As soon as I got the application, said goodbye and gave Lloyd my real name, I started sobbing, and walking through the streets of Seattle to get back to my bus I cried and I cried, because I realized that God has awesome plans for me, and he wants me to realize that he wants me to be filled with joy! I am his daughter and he wants his joy to fill me. I have been fighting it for so long that I've tried to convince myself that a joy that pure and wholesome doesn't exist, but I have been blind!
How profoundly amazing is God's love! He has been nudging me ever so gently towards this and I have resisted all the way. But I know the plans I have for you declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. I have tasted the joy of the Lord and it is overwhelming, but it is so beautiful, so comforting, and so filled with his love that it is filling up my cup and overflowing!
I can't even say the words that I need to say because they don't cover even half of his glory!
Now my sister is going to be taken care of in her studying for her master's degree financially!
The joy of the Lord is my strength!
God is good! Fear not!

What Spring Break?

The Monday of spring break I discovered two e-mails from the instructors for the two classes that I have this upcoming quarter.
the first contained: read chapters 1-3 of the human anatomy and physiology course, and the second said that I need to start working right now.
so naturally I'm going for a walk today and it feels utterly wrong to do that when I need to study for a potential quiz tuesday next week. the syllabus says that each week starts with a quiz and there is one final exam that will cover everything.

Great.

Even backpacks make faces during Spring Break!

Monster tent!

For this Project I was designing a sort of bivouac for adult-sized people. It was supposed to return the entrant back to a state of mental peace that you could only find while inside of a fort. Remember making a blanket fort when you were little? It's sort of like that, but a home made tent.

I started out sewing recycled fabric chunks together, they were each about a yard-squared so you can imagine how large the entire thing was with this picture of me sitting in the middle of it. (I'm about 5' 9" tall)

I then proceeded to fold the fabric into the shape of an oragami water-bomb. It took about fifteen minutes or so; it's a lot harder with just one person than with more than just me. 

then I built the armiture construction parts. I originally went through about five re-designs of the inside before settling for pyramids. when put together properly they made a cube about 8x8x8 feet cubed, much to my surprise after a week of frustration I found that the fabric was 5x5x5 feet cubed on the inside. so yet another re-design was needed.

I had first assembled it outside, so I took it apart and re-assembled it inside where it would finally rest for the duration of the week and critique.

I moved the fabric next to it and enlisted four other people to help put the armature inside of the fabric.

it took maybe ten minutes for us to get the fort to this stage of readiness.

Finally I cut, sewed, and attached the eyes and mouth to make the covering for the portal inside.

blood sweat and tears went into the making of it but I couldn't have done it without the support of my friends, colleagues, instructors and mentors. 

I've got to get used to being so terribly ambitious that it's sometimes unhealthy, then change my ambition to healthier forms of creation!

ECCC 2011 Continued

This is probably my favorite picture ever from the comic-con in Seattle.
Batman talking to superman with Calvin running back to Hobbes. I love to see families at the Comic con! There's always a die-hard family that will all dress up, or try to dress up, as their favorite gaming/comic book characters. I saw an amazing Spider-man with his parents Codex and Fawkes from "The Guild" web-series which I highly recommend. Go see it here! Be advised, most content isn't suitable for children.
No, I didn't  get paid to promote them, I just find the show to be great and I want to share my tastes with the interconnected community of today.

Have a Super Day!