Hello people!
I haven’t been doing much blogging lately but I have been everywhere else on the web. While in school I have been making lots of images and art and I have occasionally posted some on here but I have also been working my devianART, my Flickr, and I just recently have gotten a tumblr paged. I am working on synching them with this blog so that for those times where I can’t come up with words, what I see can always be found.
See ya!
For those of you who have been to my blog in the past you should know by know that I am an avid Stephen R Lawhead fan. Absolutely loved his King Raven Trilogy (retelling of the Robin Hood legend) and have read a handful of his books since then. Well I got really excited yesterday when I learned that he has just released a new book, The Skin Map, I was super excited. And when I went to the Doctor Who BBC America website (another one of my latest cravings; watch all the past five season in three months) and saw promotions for his book, it was just icing on the cake. Two of my favorite things in one place ( 
). I have since gotten the book and have begun reading it. I am loving is thus far (note that I am not very far into it).
Check out the book website here or you can visit Stephen Lawhead’s website here.
He has to be one of my most favorite artist. Ever since I first heard of him I loved his use of natural materials to make simplistic yet fantastical forms. There was a documentary made following his some of his work called Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time and it is worth the watch.
Well, it’s still summer time and I am about to die. I love my apartment, just mostly during the winter time. Not much has changed since I last posted using words. Summer school is going well. I’ve been taking astronomy and it has been kind of fun to do something using my left side of the brain (not that I enjoy my right side, it’s the one that works closer to normal function) and do some art for fun.
I have been reading like mad lately. I’ve had all these books pilled up saying that I am gonna read them and I’ve made a small dent in most of them, but I have finally settled down and am going through them one at a time. I finished The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (fantastic read; highly recommend it) and now am going through The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett (all 900+ pages of it; over halfway through though).
That’s basically been my life for the past few weeks.
ciao
oh, yeah, there is one exciting thing coming up soon. I turn 22 next Tuesday! Yay! I survived one year past legal day (knock on wood until Tuesday)!
Well, I’m in Summer School. Things are fine. One good thing is that I have been able to really take time and play with art and trying new things and getting to work on stuff that I have always loved to do. I have a http://ran-dl.deviantart.com/ page if you would like to see my work. I’m trying to keep it updated at a fairly normal basis (but those of you who’ve been to my blog know that normal isn’t always what it seems). Hope you enjoy.
*The image above I have titled Conquer the Horizon and it’s a photograph I took while riding around. The texture used in the image was provided by Zen Textures (http://zentextures.com/)
I sucessfully completed another semester of school! (insert chorus of cheers here)
My gosh, it was absolutely bloody crazy. Nothing but four studio classes at the same time can make a guy go bonkers (as I kind of expressed many months ago in my most recent blog). But in the end, my only real regret is that I didn’t do more. It seems as I grow more comfortable in myself and my abilities my ideas and ambitions get bigger and bigger. My desires from just painting has expanded exponentially to dreaming of doing huge installations that are transportive. As the days progress I want to share some of my work. For now I want to leave you with a new video. My latest musical find (actually it hasn’t been that recent, more like many months) is Florence + the Machine. She has released a video for her song “Cosmic Love” (one of my favorites on her album) and it is absolutely stunning. I have found many videos lately that visually inspire me and this is one of them. Enjoy.
It will not stop snowing! For the past month straight it has done nothing but snow and it’s driving me crazy! The first half of that month it just did it on the weekend but now, since last week, it has not stopped. Last Wednesday we were in a literal blizzard and didn’t have classes Wednesdays and Thursdays (this being a school that has a history of continuing classes even if their is 2 feet of snow on the ground). The parking lot of my apt has been suffering severely because of this because they really won’t come and scrape it clean so my little front wheel Corolla has gotten stuck numerous times and most nights I’m lucky to even find a parking space. This event has completely screwed up my semi-decent work ethic with my classes cause between missing classes, projects due dates changing, and the incapability to get to campus and work it’s making this semester crazy. That and I seem to be constantly loosing things and I’m just in a ‘blah!’ state.
*sigh* there, I feel better. Wanted to share an awesome video/song with you all that sort of sums up my life. Just imagine him singing about snow instead of rain and you’re pretty close.
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