Wow, I'm beat. It is Monday after Some Cats From Japan all over again. But like that time, it was sooo worth it. Halloween was great! Fun times were all around.
Karen's Party
Karen was throwing a party for all those who were not invited to parties. I was not invited to a party (well not directly, I'm sure Noel would have been cool had I shown up with Michael to her party) but I would have preferred the smaller one with people I liked and knew better.
I didn't know who all was going to Karen's so I hung out with Cidney and Mel until all was sorted out. There was lots of hubbub about which bus to take and where, which max, max and bus? In the end, after about 45 minutes of discussion we went with the first choice, the max. Which was the obvious choice as it comes every fifteen minutes by Goose Hollow and it takes us within 10 blocks of Karen's. So at around 7:00pm Cidney, Mel, Chelsea, Kristin, Robin and I left.
The Max ride was fairly uneventful for most of the fair less zone. Once we got into East Portland. Hooo boy.
This really drunk guy sat next to Robin and harassed her a little bit. Then he got into some weird yelling/shoving match with this guy he had gotten on with. Drunken playing around but it was very very off putting. I was very glad that they didn't have tickets and got off promptly at the first stop after they boarded. We just sort of sat about silently and awkwardly while the two guys yelled back and forth about, oh I forget. It was weird. The other loud guy was sitting right next to me and I was very scooted over next to Kristin. That wasn't fun.
We got off at a stop I remember from the time last summer when I went to the river with the pre-college people. It was a brisk walk and we stopped at a house that had trick-or-treater indicators around it and go some candy. The couple at the house were really nice and loved our costumes. Yaay!
We found Karen's house no problem and settled in with Tabitha, her friend Allison (I believe that was her name), Karen and Jim. The ten of us were all that there was for the night. Nice little group. Karen had burrito fixings layed out, and chips and drinks and soda and brownies and all other goodies. I brought Trader Joe's Cheese Puffs and Sprite and Juice. More than enough.
We started off with a movie; the remake of The Amityville Horror with Ryan Reynolds. Not really that good or scary. Well less scary due to the fact we were making fun of it the whole way through (we nine girls all paused and sighed during the scenes where Ryan Reynolds ran around shirtless, Jim just rolled his eyes). All it all, it was a pretty bad movie. Way too embellished and lacking in lots of action. Sorta funny but it fell into cliche so often. This movie, it really makes me glad my dad never made me hold the wood while he chopped it.
Then we moved onto a Mob themed card game. It took a little to get into it but we really got into it. Lots of fun being mean to each other. Robin and I were the first team to get out so we noshed and observed the others playing.
When the game was over we sat about and talked about calling a cab to take us home, one of those bus cab things. We called Radio Cab and they said it would be forty minutes. So we played charades from Cranium cards for the next forty minutes. I flopped around and somehow they got that I was a Waterbed, a Greenhouse, Titanic and Eddie Murphy.
When forty minutes was up we called the company to find out what was up and they told us that after forty minutes they delete our call for a cab. So apparently we have to call again and again every 10 minutes to make sure our cab is coming, instead of you know...relying on it and not pestering people. Yeah so we got mighty frustrated about that. Karen told off the company a little and then the awesomely kind lady that she is, Karen offered to give us a ride home. In her car. At the same time. Well, Tabitha and her friend were driving home in their own car. So it was the eight of us in a five seater car.
Robin sat with Chelsea up front, I sat on Jim('s lap, tee hee), Mel was squeezed next to me and Cidney was on Kristin. It was a squeeze. Unsafe squeeze but it was either than or wait till 1:40am for a cab that may or may not come on time. Karen was a safe driver and knew safe routes. Jim was dropped off first and Robin moved into the back seat on top of me. She used the handle to hoist herself so she wasn't putting her weight on me (something I didn't think to do for poor Jim). Karen dropped us off at Goose Hollow and we all meandered in and all probably got to our comfy beds at around the same time. 2:00am. BAHHG!
Halloween at PNCA
Rose from bed at about 7:00am to take a quick shot of Lindsay and Sean's costumes. They were doing their costume together and were Maude and the Dude from The Big Lebowski.
Thanks to sleeping in, I got a really good start on the day. I didn't ride in costume all though now I wish I had. I pass by a High School on the way to PNCA everyday and on Wednesday's all the kids are on break and I saw their costumes. Some pretty cool ones at it as well.
I made a quick change from bundled up biker to a certain infamous missing person before entering the school. I got so many smiles and "I found you!" from people. I loved the attention. Sohkun was a flamingo and was downright adorable. Got tons of good response from the darkroom people. Messed around with my old prints, played around mostly and hung around being overall awesome with my awesome costume. I knew someone else was going as the same person but I didn't see them so it is no big thing.
They gave us a free lunch and made the willing costumed people parade in front of the uninspired non costumed people. Mel's Jellyfish and Mollie's Medusa were downright spectacular but we were all beaten by a voodoo woman, a pirate with a real parrot and a girl with a rooster on her head.
The critique in 2D was rushed near the end as always. Got some good feedback but overall they always end up rushed because there is too much to talk about and not enough time to do it equally.
Time Arts was fun. Diana flipped out when she saw me. As did Amina. Very fun. We watched some videos and listened to a really intense audio. Then we worked on composing videos using clips from the 3 second animations we did a few weeks ago. Finished clipping things together and left to go to Karen's awesome party!
The next day (today)...
BLIMEY! I'M TIRED I'M TIRED I'M TIRED. I do NOT want to go out to First Thursday but I should because if I go out and see some stuff and write about it I'll get the coveted bonus in Digital Tools.
Gordon's strategy is that if we just do the work required for the class we will get a B. He wants us to go out and see art and make our own unstructured opinions and thoughts about it. And there is any number of things going on we can go to, First Thursday is just the easiest way to do it. I like that teaching practice. Doing the work is not enough, and it shouldn't be. There is also an extra project we can do to get the uber coveted bonus. I plan on making my own zine. Maybe about working in a library four three(!) years.
I started to nod off during my midterm meeting with Gordon. He was really well spirited about it considering I was midsentance explaining where I want to go with my art. He seems to really like where I want to go with my art and his interest encourages me to structure what kind of artist I want to become.
Drawing was torture. Ish. Did some great ink drawings in the first half, the second half not so much. I was tired and loosing focus and my drawing showed that. I didn't get the chance to do a good amount of value range and ended up with mostly dark shadows and a few lighter ones. Ah oh well.
So glad to be freed of the school to go home and relax. Ibanez totally loves me when we are home alone.
The chocolate yogurt was not much better than the green tea.
Well time to go out into First Thursday. First stop: going to Floating World Comics to see if Kazimir Strzepek remembers me from Stumptown Comics Fest. Next stop: I dunno, Steven Slappe's new exhibit? Compound Gallery?
Back from First Thursday:
Whee! That was fun. I was dead and a zombie for most of it but I did a pretty good gallery loop. Rode my bike down 14th and then down Couch and parked it at 5th. Scooting along on my bike past all these slow cars, so awesome.
Kazimir didn't remember me but he did sort of vaguely recognize me. Anyway he was sweet and fun to talk to. His comics are done at a 1:1 ratio and he had them up on the walls and I had to lean in super close to read them. But yeah we chatted and some other comic people were around that I didn't recognize but I knew they had to be important as they were all...published looking.
It was really hot and stuffy so I moved on to some of the other galleries. I went to check out Slappe's but I was never able to find it. I ran into Craig in this gallery with wigs and drawings done in Thailand. He told me to check out his and Sean's show that was on the other side of the block. I ran into Gavin at Pink Pony...Prancing Pony...Plastic Pony...uhm. Something Pony, they had really sweet cheap shirts and prints and zines galore. I didn't buy anything but now I know another place to go when I have money (which will be ages from now. I want a real job).
After that this guy was standing at a door and was like "Hey wanna check out this 3 foot ceiling gallery?" And I said "okay" and followed the arrows. I had seen the paintings before but they were in an open setting. This time they were placed in a crawl space that you had to pretty much scoot on your knees around to look at the paintings. Being in that space made me feel like a giant looking at tiny little paintings and in that setting it made me appreciate the intricate detail more. Kinda hurt my knees but it was worth it. I was starting to get really bleary so I continued on my way to find Craig and Sean's show. Stopped in at Rake, some cool paintings but I was so unfocused I wasn't paying attention. Saw Jack and ran into Gavin again.
Craig and Sean are MFA at PNCA and they were having a dual show in a cute little gallery. The stuff was mostly pieces I have seen before (either from their show at PNCA or by sweeping up past their studios) but it was nice seeing it more collected and tidied up. Congratulations go to Craig for selling his giant colorful robot piece. Chatted both of them up about whatnots and complimented Sean on his awesome tattoos (some great ones down here). Matt was there briefly. Jason...person, uhm I don't know he had a plain name and I kinda forget it but he heads student council, he was there and we chatted about how crummy Seattle is, how much the new sculpture park sucks and teasing the MFA's about their pathetic student council cash pot. There is a MFA trip to Seattle the 16th and they had open seats so Mollie and I will be joining them.
After them I waved goodbye and meandered back towards my bike. Stopped in at Compound Gallery but it was totally packed and people just stood chatting and blocking the paintings like they didn't matter. Will have to stop by later and look when there isn't so much congestion and claustrophobia inducement.
Popped into Floating World Comics and had a few more words with Kazimir and picked up my comics; well it was just one comic and I got one of Kazimir's smaller works. Then I rode home pretty much the same way I got back. Finished off my cheesy puffs and now I am ready for bed. Gotta get up for work in twelve hours.
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