HAP-PY Birthday RORY!!!

The Weinett is now officially 1 year old and still getting longer every day. We're all so proud!

 She got more brown and long and neurotic, and I LOVE her so much!

If anyone has the chance to see this guy in concert it's amazing!! It's like Bob Marley and ...Dave Matthews (who I don't like) and someone else that's really really really talented at the guitar all put together. This video doesn't do him justice, you have to see it live. Anyway, I'm a new huge fan!

KALAI -Reggae Local Artist

My House

This is my art/music studio.

Family Room & Bedroom

 

Personal Pet Room

 

My storage Room

 

The Pantry

 

The Dining Room (and Henry the Orchid!)

 

The Kitchen

 

The Lady's Room

Hypoallergenic Dogs

Ever since I got my dog, Rory, I have received several comments of others having doomsday pity parties because they are allergic and therefore cannot ever have a dog :( Sad, right? Whatever. There is a solution, and since 80% of my readers (hi guys!) are allergic to dogs, I thought I would do you all a huge favor and give you some options to work with. ....okay, it was a slow work day, but nonetheless- check them out: 

The Hypoallergenic Dogs:

 PUREBREDS (run a little pricey)

 

 Okay...so some are the ugliest dogs I've ever seen (esp. the Irish Water Spaniel, which reminds me a little too much of my 2nd grade teacher), but most aren't all that bad. Everyone likes Scottie Dogs, right? The coolest one, I think, is the dreadlocks dog that's like a huge mop with eyes- the Puli Dogs. For a good time, you should google pics of them jumping, it's funny.

For the more price-efficient, (and cuter) I looked up a few mix-breeds. Keep in mind they are not limited in any way to this selection. I mostly looked up a few version of weiner dogs and jack russells (something you can all relate to, lol). So, a few look really screwed up, but others are pretty cute.

MIX BREEDS

I think the labradoodle is the cutest one, personally, and I don't know about that walrus of a thing that's supposed to be a schnauzer-dachshund mix. Gross.

13-year old Talent

I was going through some of my old stuff from middle school to make myself more grateful about how I never have to go through that time in my life again. And I found these old cartoon blocks that I made in seventh-grade on our home computer using window's paint. I used to really want to be a cartoonist until I learned that the majority of them end up homeless, so I took up art instead, go figure -I don't know. More artist are homeless than cartoonists, if they are even different categories. Anyway- having used Windows Paint recently after being used to the Adobe Suite, I have to say- I'm impressed with my 13-year old talent to manipulate that mouse!

Funny Quotes

We idolized the Beatles, except for those of us who idolized the Rolling Stones, who in those days still had many of their original teeth.   -Dave Barry

There are only two things a child will share willingly - communicable diseases and his mother's age. -Benjamin Spock

Life is hard....and then you die.  -Dad

Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself. -Mark Twain

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice. -Bill Cosby
 California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange. -Fred Allen

I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific. -Lily Tomlin
 

 

 

3 year old Jonathan conducting to the 4th movement of Beethoven's 5th Sy...

Top 10 Things I do on a Slow Work Day

10) Switch back and forth between work email and personal email, desperately hoping for a message of any kind and getting more and more depressed when nothing shows up.
9) Instant-Messaging Rachel with short repeated words at rapid-fire speed so that she will eventually hear her computer beeping as if its about to blow up and answer me.
8) Page the part-timer's office and then hang up on them after they answer, repeatedly.
7) Check every type of account I possibly have online (bank account, phone account, facebook account, rocky mountain power account, etc. etc. etc.)
6) Eat candy out of the bowl that sits directly in front of me, constantly brimming with every kind of candy bar.
5) Check my cell phone for any calls/texts and when there isn't anything, scroll down my list of contacts trying to find anyone I can possibly come up with an excuse to text a message to so that they'll return one to me. Then eat some more candy.
4) Go to the bathroom and take an extra long time washing my hands and fixing my hair and then slowly pulling out sheets of paper towels and letting my hands drip dry over them.
3) Sit in the part-timer's office and ask them how its going but don't respond when they answer so that they'll feel the need to keep explaining themselves.
2) Windex the desk, sanitize the phone and keyboard and mouse while eating more candy.
1) Make a blog post.

The Gallery

Wow, 4 posts in a week! I'm on a serious roll! This is where I work, but someone told me I can't put the name of it because then I'll get all of these crazy stalkers and get murdered or something. Anyway, I love my job! There are 6 of us: 2 owners, me, 2 part-timers, and an intern. I'm supposed to supervise the pt-ers and the intern but in all reality it's a team effort to supervise the owners.

This is a shot of one of the famous dog parties that they have once a month here. My boss love his dogs. Rory got promptly kicked out when she tried to join because she's a mud-blood and "made the others nervous."

Rory (AKA: Rorsworth)

 

Don't let the big innocent eyes fool you. I've seen this thing rip the eyes out and pop off a head to completely de-gut three stuffed animals within five minutes before. I have/had a new shag rug for my new apartment and within two weeks she dug three big holes into the middle of it. I first super glued the yarn back into place, she dug it up. Then I sewed the yarn onto a separate cloth and super-glued that into place, she dug it up. Then I sewed and super-glued the yarn to leather and nailed it to my wood floor (not the first holes, don't worry), and it didn't even phase her. Eventually I had to cut the rug in half and stack it. Since she has an unparalleled fear of hard floors she lost a lot of moving space and I think finally learned the lesson. No holes have been dug in the rug since. 

Anyway, despite her terrorism, she is a complete angel and can always make me laugh. She's absolutely hilarious, and I'm so grateful for her fabulous spirit.

Newsletter.m4v

Last year's New Year's family newsletter. My family rocks. What a bunch of weirdos.

Lashes

This is the final project for that 3D Design class that people keep asking to see.
Confused? Me too. Artists are crazy, what can I say? At least they keep life colorful, ...or at least interesting if not that.

Randomized

No more art classes for awhile, and besides they never gave me the pics from the last semester (which were lots better than those others ones. Anyway now my bachelor's career has turned into Psychology for various reasons, which, if you really care to know, I can tell you about. But, for the sake of not wanting to type boring things, I am going to leave it at that.
With that being left at that, my purpose for this blog (which was supposed to be art) is going to be changed into whatever I want whenever I want to post something. I guess that's what everyone else does, but still.
For starters, I saw Gandalf the Grey today as I was driving down the road. He looked a little more homesless than I remember him ever being in the movies, but that's something that ought to be blogged about. People need to know these things.
I also talked to Diane Keaton the other day at the gallery. It's true. Her secretary called me to ask if someone was available that she could discuss a certain peice of art and then she put her on the phone and I talked for awhile and then passed it on to the gallery owner to finish up the deal. Her name meant nothing to me while I was talking to her, but the gallery owner and many others have convinced me that's she's a big deal. Yet another thing that people ought to know about.
And, just because people never read blogs unless you have a picture to go with whatever you're saying (at least I don't), here is a picture:

Meet Rory :) Dogs don't get any better than this one.

After a year and a half I got sick again and ended up energy-less and marooned on my bed with a mucus brain and frog-throat and figured it was a golden opportunity to update my blog.

Here's what I've spent the last year working on: 3D design, the class I had to retake at the U because I threw everything away from the Snow College class. If you're wondering why I threw it all away just take a look at all the random junk they have you make in the following photos. I'd love to tell you that I learned my lesson this time around, but I've thrown everything from this class away too. On the plus side, I now know how to weld, use power wood tools, bend, roll, and cut sheet metal, fire a kiln, and use a blue print plotter machine. I also ended up buying a power drill. I spent hours and hours and hours on these things and never really succeeded in making anything above junk yard level. Haha, guess my brain is strictly 2D:)




First project: Make a look-a-like sculpture out of really oily, sharp and hardly bendable wire of something. I chose the space needle, which ended up looking more like a lollipop so I stuck with that.
Then we had to morph the shape into something more design-oriented and then change that shape into something even more design oriented. (The order they are in the picture goes: 3, 1, 2).
I hated this project and I have scars to show for it.







ooookay, so I guess on blogger you can only post one picture at a time. Lame.

Second Project we had to use a blue print plotter to make our own origami designs out of one sheet of poster board and then apply the use of black and white to "enhance the appearance of the design." Mine's kind of a checker-board, target looking thing. The photos on top are the front and back views. Then we had to place it into a setting that enhanced the design even more- hence the checkered room.

OK, so project #3 we had to use styro-foam so we could contribute to slowly killing the planet, because contrary to common belief, art students/departments are as anti-green as you can get on most campuses. Anyway, we used styro-foam (which I have no idea how to spell) and the use of light to create focal points. I had little holes in each hand carved-foam-still-being-found-in-random-piles-throughout-the-apartment disks which direct the light down to the "pin point" ball at the bottom. The pictures aren't that great, but it kind of had a cool effect when all was said and done.

This one has my blood on it- literally. This started out as a 6 foot by 8 foot sheet of ....sheet metal. To cut it I had to jump with my whole body on this huge foot pedal, over and over and over and over and over and over again. Got very tired. Then I had hundreds of these really long swords- kind of like tons of cut-co knives without the handles and 30x longer than usual, which I had to bend, twist, and shape each individually. I was wearing some heavy duty rubber gloves, but they lasted a whole 10 minutes before getting completely sliced through. I had a Utes band-aid on my palm, a skin-colored one on my thumb, a My Little Pony band-aid on my middle finger, and a flourescent yellow patch on my other palm at one point. Everyone else was smarter and made big, bold, simple shapes out of their sheets of metal. Anyway- I call it "the claw"...among other *edited* things .

Ok, so this was the last of the projects for the first semester. Seriously, it was the weirdest assignment I've ever had but definitely stretched those little brain cells. We had to think of a part of our body and make a sculpture that you could attach to it that would exaggerate the movement of that body part. Make sense? Then we had to make a movie of us moving with the sculpture and making a "mark" with it. We were studying artists that sell their art solely from the process of making it rather than the product itself. ANYWAY, this took a lot of redoing and redoing and very swollen eyes in the end, but this is the finished work. Sacrifice for the...art, you know?

Here's my portfolio for what it's worth right now. I included 2 extras that were not in the original 10-piece portfolio because I...just like them. They are mostly older pieces- I haven't done very many at all lately, but I'm starting to get back into it. I still plan on doing a new set using the photos you all submitted, but it was going to take more time than I had for this current portfolio. However, Missy and Rachel, you can each choose one that you want (if it's still available) or just give me an idea of what you want and I'll try to do you up a new one. -there's just no promise on how long that will take...heh. Anyway, there you go. Oh, and by the way- critique away, I like that! -That's kind of why I'm posting any of this stuff in the first place.