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Thursday, April 29, 2010

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Felt so good to get that extra hour of sleep. Tomorrow I am not coming to school till lunch time. Don't need to roll out till 11, oh yeaah.

Heather Birdsong's proposal first. Her slide show was rather short, but no one questioned her allegorical etchings. She later bought a bandana! Whoop whoop!

Then came Miles Brown's. He is doing paintings based on memory. He takes old photos, projects them, then photographs them again, and then paints that. Someone in the audience asked "why painting" and he replied "because I'm a painter". Great response.

Lunch time! Enchilada day. Sat with Madeline and Kristen and Tabitha later joined us (Melissa too for a little bit). Mmm. After that, I chilled with Karen and Kristen and Tabitha in the library and BT and Phil in the commons. Ate candy.

First thesis was Alfredo's. He did several highly composed contra posto nude photos. Most of the people were PNCA people, but seeing my peers naked doesn't register anymore. There are boobies and bums everywhere on campus. Who cares? Anyway, poor thing. Alfredo was so nervous. He clutched the podium quite tightly and read from a paper. His defense was also in an open gallery, so he had to compete with the noise from the commons. If it was an actual room, he probably wouldn't have had as much trouble. He got asked a lot of questions about how much he reflected his model's personalities even though it was constructed space and pose and all that. Nervous as he was, he did quite good.

Not seemingly nervous was Anthony Roberto's thesis defense. He made a series of amazing engravings about the absurdity of the apocalypse. He was clear in his explanation and his research naming was effortlessly expelled. It did run long though. A lot of chatter about different things I can't quite remember. But damn his prints looked good. And to accompany his talk, the thunder and rain rolled out.

Tabs, Kris, Karen, and I all got pizza after. Mmm, pizza.

We parted ways and Karen and I went to go see The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo at Cinema 21. Unfortunately the times appeared to have changed, so it wasn't at 7:00, but 7:45. So we chilled at Coffee Time. I got an Italian Soda and we girl talked. A guy was inking a comic page. Nice art in the page.

The movie was a true blue nail biter. I got so tense. The cinematography was amazing. It was a compelling murder mystery as well. It was also very graphic and VERY VERY DISTURBING!! Not for the weak hearted movie goer. I felt almost bad that I dragged Karen along with me to see it. Good thing it was a well crafted movie and while violent, it wasn't needlessly so. Graphic but damn did Lisbeth get her awesome revenge (a few audience members cheered). Afterwards was just a "woah" feeling.

Wasn't so cold on the bike ride back. Popped on the new episode of Justified and set about cutting and rigging my puppet head:




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