New version of blogger. Niice. Just figured I'd drop in a few words:
1) First and foremost, Nate DeYoung's Exquisite Corpse {click} novel is finishing up its first week! He just cooked up a slick website which you should check out as soon as you can. What is an Exquisite Corpse, you might say? Click away and find out. I'll be scanning in the first illustration shortly (tomorrow hopefully)and will post it up here, along with other ideas/sketches I've made for the project. Though that actually may cause a problem, now that I think about it. Well, if not hopefully some stuff I've been doing in class well start getting on here.
2) Oh! And I almost forgot: New Zealand may no longer be in my future. I gave some thought about it, realized that I'm a lot more closer to finishing my film credentials than I am in my art major; and if I'm serious about switching emphasis on the majors, I need to get drawing into high gear. And so instead I might be going to CUBA! It has a great art program there and there's a NU program there, though its super competitive and tough (you need a 3.4 gpa minimum, a spanish interview, etc). I know I like to talk about these kind of things all the time (Thailand?) though at this point this definitely is what I 100% want to do. Cuba and Nicaragua are among the most similar and paralleling Latin American countries, and from the embargo act, Havana is a kind of 1950's haven that technology and modern day has forgotten. I would improve on my spanish tremendously, and there's just so many more good reasons why I want to be there. Cross your fingers.
3) And well, a lot sooner in travel plans I guess I'll be visiting Lima, Peru for 10 days as soon as finals are over. I'll be visiting family, undoubtedly our closest relatives (we'd often live together for months at a time). THey just moved over there and we'll be visiting and going to Machu Picchu in the process! How cool is that? I used to be obsessed with National Geographics and this one about Machu Picchu would always be my favorite. I'd always ask my parents if we could visit there-- and now we have a chance to go! Then it'll be flying back to Evanston and, at the very least, building up a solid portfolio. If we get the grant, (still no word) then I'll be working like crazy on animating, but if not then at least give it a good healthy start and maybe continue it in the fall on some independent study.
And here's a link to tide you over {click}. After taking this Asian Art class, there's nothing more than I'd like to do than visit this place. I remember the Scollards telling stories upon stories of adventures and trips there. To Ryan, Dan, Nate, and whoever else is in the running, I hope all will turn out well tomorrow morning. Hopefully these kids will be there next winter on TM. They'll be eating curry, I'll be eating communism.