Emil Alzamora

Found my new favorite contemporary sculptor!:D

Emil Alzamora

I have a spot in my igoogle for the Artistaday site.

Maybe once or twice a month I find something that I really like. A great tool for finding new favorites!

Sushi-D

This is kind of irrelevant to this blog, but I will post since I really really loove Sushi-D.

I just finished an order of sashimi, and it’s soooo yummy:)

I’m curious as to how they always manage to bring me really fresh fish every single time I order. The salmon literally MELTS…<3

It’s my favorite place to order sushi from in Brooklyn.

Hands

This is for the first block print project. It’s the initial pen outlining on linoleum. However, I have a feeling this one’s going to turn out really different from the original plan. I have never block printed before, so it shall be interesting.

I did around 25 studies of different hand gestures; especially really extreme twisting gestures. I love drawing hands.<3

The first idea sketch was to do this weird…crawly…snail thing with arms poking out of it. But I had to abandon the idea, because I already had the linoleum cut wide, and couldn’t come up with a good plan to handle the space on the left. (which will get printed reversed, so actually the space on the right)

I think I may possibly incorporate the snail thing on a painting that I need to do for my painting class. I will keep that updated.

Arduino-1

Hurray for my fine choice of elective class this semester! Robotics!

It turns out we are learning Arduino. More “hurray!”s.

It was a good idea to learn Javascript over the break. The syntax doesn’t look too different. Plus, this will be a good excuse to delve deeper into Precessing. After four separate visits to the NYU computer store, I finally got my hands on an Arduino USB. This is all very exciting.

Let’s get started. First assignment, blinking LED:

int ledPin = 12;
void setup()
{
pinMode(ledPin, OUTPUT);
}
void loop()
{
digitalWrite(ledPin, HIGH);
delay(1000);
digitalWrite(ledPin, LOW);
delay(1000);
}

Easy enough. Actually…real easy if you just open the code from one of those example files.

I’m not sure if I’ll have to upload every code we learn on this blog, but from now on, I will try to include pictures to spice things up a little bit.

Night shots from 1-23-09

Before almost going to watch Slumdog Millionaire, I took my camera & tripod for a walk to shoot some night shots around the Brooklyn Heights area. I wanted to play around with different exposure times. The Brooklyn Promenade is definitely one of my favorite places in Brooklyn…:)

Your Inner Fish

by Neil Shubin

This has been my subway ride read until today. I have finished it, and it was a very interesting read. It’s written in a style that’s very easy to read. There are some cute jokes here and there; not heavy at all. That’s why I liked it. It was a leisurely book that informed me of several things that I had not known before. A couple of things I can remember are the chapters about how reptilian jawbones developed into ear bones in humans and why mammals experience hiccups while fishes don’t. It slightly tempted me to change my major, but alas, it’s not the first time this happened to me.

There’s a two-part article on the theory of evolution in this month’s National Geographic, as a 150th year celebration of the publication of The Origin of Species. I was really delighted to see a photo of the author of this book, Neil Shubin, in part two. (What? I know that name?…this does not happen very often) Part two explores how modern biologists/geneticists are coming up with data from various DNAs that further expand on Darwin’s speculations.

I really want one of those mail-in DNA annalysis things. (23andme) Crazy how accessible these things are nowadays. I will have to make money first, then have my gentical identity analyzed.

Intro.

I’m currently enrolled in a BFA painting program at the Pratt Institute.
In trying to keep a record of the things I learn, I decided to make a blog about everything I learn.
This may also include some outside books I read, galleries visited, etc.

Hopefully, I will manage to update this blog regularly.
Hopefully, I will, once and for all, stop forgetting what I did last week.