I'll never know what you've shown to other eyes
Mar. 23rd, 2009
Feb. 10th, 2009
Nov. 19th, 2008
12:02 pm
Yeah, so I'm filing for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy. Just deciding to do that relieves a ton of stress. For the next three months I pay the lawyer instead of my credit cards.
Oct. 18th, 2008
07:05 pm
I've been distracted by life lately and haven't felt the need to pour over the internet and Live Journal. Amazing.
I've been working on lace. I have a progressive teaching book and when I worked the lace before, about nine years ago, I had reached lesson nine. I'm going through them from one again, quickly, to refresh my memory. It makes me so happy to work on my lace. I have ideas, people. I want to make a big lace pillow and work lace with enough netting to make a skirt, and use it to make fully hand-made lace over-dresses.
Oh, and I've started updating my doll journal again, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
purpledolls.
I hoarded, I mean, collected a LOT of lace books back in the day, and it's nice to see that they aren't available any more, which means my hoarding was reasonable. I'm very happy with my books. Hardly regret a single purchase of ANY of my vast craft book collection.
Oct. 7th, 2008
10:15 pm
I really need 6- to 10-year-old girl face models for my sculpting practice. I use non-smiling, neutral faces and need front, side, and 3/4 views. I will share my progress with you as well.
Please! Do you know someone who might let me get photos of their girls?
May. 6th, 2008
Apr. 15th, 2007
Apr. 1st, 2007
07:38 pm - Chicago
If you noticed someone wearing a watch, and not having one yourself, inquired of this person the time, and then that person said to you, "Does anybody really know what time it is?", would you smack that person? Cause I think I would.
Mar. 30th, 2007
09:17 pm - from korperschwache
The original question, reprinted from the FAQ at Giger's site:
I'm an aspiring artist and a big fan of Mr. Giger's work, and was wondering if you could possibly give me some advice? Any help you could give me would be greatly appreciated, particularly if you could guide me as to what courses you feel would be of most benefit to me.
The answer, provided by Giger's agent:
Dear Aspiring Artist:
Here is my advice. Think of it as a five-year plan:
Take whatever courses you find the most interesting.
Study closely the work of the Old Masters.
Stop making art that originates only from your own imagination.
Stay with one technique until you perfect it.
On any given day, always be in the middle of reading a book. When you finish one, start the next. Fiction, nonfiction, biographies, autobiographies, history, science, psychology, or how to build a kite. Anything but go easy on the comic books.
Buy and read the first 6 pages of newspaper every day and also the editorial commentaries. Skip the entertainment section. Su Doku is fine. Do the crossword puzzle.
Fill up a sketchbook every month with pen or pencil drawings of the world around you, not from your imagination.
Buy a book on figure drawing. It's the only art book you will ever need.
Until you can draw an accurate portrait of someone, you don’t know how to draw.
Stay away from the airbrush. You'll never master it, hardly anyone ever has.
Visit every museum in your city. Often, until you have seen everything in it. Every kind of museum. Not only the art museums but, of course, those as well.
Forget about contemporary art by living artists, at least for the next few years.
Stay away from most art galleries. Go to art auctions. That's where the real action is.
Learn to play chess.
Take a business course.
Talk to you mother or father at least once a week.
Stop going to the movies until you have rented and seen every film on this list. http://www.time.com/time/2005/100mo
Do not watch television unless it’s the news or documentaries.
Do not use an Ipod.
No video games, either.
Learn a foreign language.
Learn to cook.
Spend 8 hours in a hospital emergency room.
Save up money so you can travel to a foreign country within the next five years.
Do not litter.
Avoid politically correct people.
Vote in every election or never dare to utter a political opinion. You are not entitled to one.
Buy a digital camera and take photos every day.
If you see nothing interesting to photograph, you will never be a good artist. Keep only one photo of every ten you take. Delete the rest. It will force you to learn how to edit the garbage from your life, to make choices, to recognize what has real value and what is superficial.
Visit an old age home.
Listen to classical music and jazz. If you are unable to appreciate it at least as much as contemporary music, you lack the sensitivity to develop into an artist of any real depth.
Go to the ballet. Classical or Modern, it doesn't matter. It will teach you to appreciate physical grace and the relationship between sound and movement.
Wake up every morning no later than 8 AM, regardless of what time you went to sleep.
Learn to play a musical instrument.
Learn to swim.
Keep your word.
Never explain your art. People who ask you to do so are idiots.
Never explain yourself. Better yet, never do anything that will, later, require you to explain yourself or to say you're sorry.
Always use spell check.
Stop aspiring and start doing.
This will keep you very busy but it can't be helped.
In my opinion, this is how you might, possibly, have a shot at becoming a good artist.
Hope this helps,
Les Barany
Nov. 23rd, 2006
09:02 pm
NewSong: The Christmas Shoes. This is a bad song. I want to shoot myself when it comes on the radio. It sounds like a fake Matt and Trey song from South Park. Why must they ruin my Christmas-only station with crap like this?
Sep. 1st, 2006
04:06 pm - I finished it
By an amazing coincidence, it was exactly one year ago that I started this project.
Jul. 25th, 2006
03:30 pm - Are You Gay?
(Somone from MCC sent me this)
My father asked me if I were gay.
I asked, "Does it matter?"
He said, "No, it doesn't matter."
So I said, "Yes, I'm gay!"
Then he said, "Get your things, get out, and don't come back."
My boss asked me if I were gay.
I asked, "Does it matter?"
He said, "No, it doesn't matter."
So I said, "Yes, I'm gay!"
Then he said, "You're fired, get out, and don't come back."
My friend asked me if I were gay.
I asked, "Does it matter?"
He said, "No, it doesn't matter."
So I said, "Yes, I'm gay!"
Then he said, "Get out, and don't ever call me again."
God asked me, "Do you love yourself?"
I said, "I'm gay. How can I love myself?"
He said, "I made you gay.
And that is all that matters."