art and all of the above

it took two and a half hours today to print the monster. by monster i mean my lamp that i am making for my final in computers in art. we were given the choice of making a large poster or creating a 3d object (basically geometric shapes and such). i wanted to make something that i could get a lot of use out of, and that i would not have to buy. i decided on a floor lamp (made all out of paper and lamp parts). as i am imagining what assembly will be like, i believe i am going to have to add some sort of skeleton to the base to give it some sustainability. i hope that everything works out, and there are not too many problems. what i thought was a simple, cheap project has become a $72+ project so far. after it is completed it will probably be about $100, so let's hope this sucker lasts a heck of a long time.

a trip to dallas is planned for sometime soon. we will be visiting king tut, and some awesome art museums (of course!). i can't wait because i've never been, but i am a little nervous about some aspects of the trip. then branson sometime over break to go to the titanic exhibit. i am super pumped about that because i've always had this fascination with the ship. lastly it'll be to chicago after spring break for the printmaking convention!

reading, traveling, developing photos, screen printing (hopefully), and building a coat rack is what i'll be doing over break. i plan to design the coat rack after this. the reading list: (finishing) a heartbreaking work of staggering genius, my one-night stand with cancer, letters to a young artist, and whatever finds its way into my hands.

my friend, suzanne, makes these fun monsters,


and amber drew this nice illustration.