Sunday, May 9, 2010

Finals!


I have 3 final exams and the semester is over! While taking a little break from studying I started working on my unfinished drawing (also shown in my last update) on Tegaki again. I still have a little more until it's finished but I really should get back to studying. I guess I'll let it sit for a bit longer before it finally becomes a finished drawing. :)

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Study Time

Whoa long time no update! Finals is coming up and all my final projects/essays are due... which is not the best time to be blogging but oh well. :)

I'm sitting at Panera, sipping my frozen mocha any typing my last essay for my comparative world literature class. I'm hoping I get it done by the time I run out of coffee and scones -____-;;

Enjoy some scribbles that I drew on Te
gaki while I took a break from studying! Drawing is such a good stress reliever ~~<3

後少しで夏休み!
でも一番勉強が大変なときでもある。
と言う訳で今日はおとなしくカフェでコーヒーを飲みながら勉強。。。
この店のオレンジスコーンはやっぱりおいしいな〜☆

ついでに落書きを少々。。。
勉強しすぎて気晴しが欲しいときに何かインスピレーションとか湧きますよね。汗
彼は誰と戦っているんでしょうね〜。相手を見たい方はこちらへ: http://www.unowen.net/tegaki/dblog.php?u=34999
Click the link and scroll down to see who he's fighting. :)

まだ描き終わってない。
と言うより続きを描きたい。。。でも勉強がぁ!!! 涙
AAAHHH I want to finish this drawing so bad! But I have to study!

Thursday, April 8, 2010

picking a major

Right now I'm doing interviews with my school to see which art programs I can get into. It looks like I can get into painting and sculpture for sure, but I'm not too sure about art education (which is what I was planning on doing for the sake of getting a job OH NO) If worst comes to worst I'll major in painting for my BFA and declare a second major next spring? *sigh* that's so much waiting for me...
To be honest I think I could have gotten into Art ED easy but for some reason I couldn't find the place where they were doing the interview. I wrote down one room number where I was sure it was at but the advisor wasn't in the office and I grabbed the head person of the art foundations from his office to help me look for where the interview was being held and we still couldn't find them. WHAT.
But I only have till tomorrow till the program advisors decide what majors I will be allowed to pursue. OH GOSH I'm nervous.

Other than that the club that I'm in is hosting a Japanese style Hanami picnic this weekend and a Japanese festival the week after that. I'm in charge of bringing some snacks to the picnic and I'm manning the yakisoba stand! Woo!! I'll definitely post pictures for those!

Friday, April 2, 2010

more hemp!


最近以上に暑くなってびっくり。ほんの少し前に雪が降ってたのに、まるで夏みたい!
と言う訳で昔大好きだったヘンプを最近また始めました。
やっぱりアメリカの夏と言えばヘンプ!特にビーチとかでよく見ます。
ヘンプの編み方は結構簡単ですぐに出来上がるのが良いところ。

高校生の頃、カリフォルニアに遊びに行っていた友達がビーチでヘンプのブレスレットをその場で作る売店のおじさんを見つけたのが始め。ちなみにその人は真っ白なドレッドヘアのすごいオーラのある人だったらしい。あんな怪しい人に平気で近ずくのも友達らしい。。。でも良い子は真似しないでね!
その辺なおじさんにヘンプの編み方を教わり、その後、友達が私にも教えてくれました。
懐かしいな〜。。。

More hemp bracelets. :) This time a simple bangle bracelet
Available in my etsy shop if you're interested.

There's a really sudden heat wave here on campus, I can't believe that it was snowing just a week ago during Spring Break! It's inspired me to make some summery things, and when I think summer I think hemp, leather, and worn metal on the beach. :)

Thursday, March 25, 2010

summer bracelets

I've gotten back into hemp recently, and I've been making bracelets like crazy for the upcoming summer. I plan to finally re-update my etsy store which I've been... neglecting for quite a while thanks to my schoolwork. Hmm... I wonder what I should make next?

Saturday, February 27, 2010

My Baby!



So I thought it was about time that I showed a photo of my board, so here it is! An Earthwing Superglider; it's really solid (well I guess all boards don't flex for me since I'm super lightweight) and I've been practicing on the bike paths around my dorm until I'm comfortable enough to go around campus where there's lots of people and cars. I get a lot of funny looks from passing people but I've only been on the thing 5 times so far and I've never skateboarded/surfed/snowboarded in my entire life. Give me a break!

I've decided to call my board Dubhán (pronounced DUV-an). Yes, I name all my precious things. My white macbook is called Kouki and my black bamboo fun tablet is Takeshi. :) But I've decided to call my board Dubhán after a black horse that appears in the story I am currently writing; stubborn, strong, and hard to tame, but reliable and well-worth the wait once you gain his trust. Let's hope that I can do that soon, it's getting warmer out and I want to take this baby out for a ride!

自分のロンスケの写真をまだ撮ってなかった!
早速キレイなうちに撮っておかないと。。。
と言ってももうかなり泥まみれ。
外はまだ雪解けでビシャビシャ。
多分これからももっと汚れるんだろうな。(笑

ちなみにこの子をこれからドゥヴァン(Dubhán)と呼ぶ事にしました。
ドゥヴァンは今私が書いている小説の主人公が乗っている黒い馬の名前。
Dubhánはアイルランドやスコットランドの古い言葉で『黒い』と言う意味らしいです。
頑固でワガママな馬。でも強くて懐いたらほんとに頼りになる。
何となく似てるなぁ〜と思うのは多分私だけ?
やっぱりお気に入りの私物に名前を付ける悪いクセが止まらない。。。

Friday, February 26, 2010

stop-motion animation!

お久しぶりです!最近ブログに何も書いてないなぁ。。。っと思ったらヒマな時間がないからだとやっと気がつきました。最近友達に勧められてロンスケを始めたのです!
ちなみにアメリカではこれはロングボードと言ってサーフィンとはまた違うもの。
日本語と英語の微妙な違いはめんどくさい〜。。。

簡単にいえばデッかいスケボー。たのしいです。転びまくってます。
しかも夜中一人で練習。(涙)
昼間は人が多すぎて危ないから練習にならずって感じです。

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宿題でストップモーションアニメを作りました。早速youtubeにうp!

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Hmm, not much updating yet again. I'm finally not sick anymore! All of my free time has been used to go outside and practice longboarding for the last week or so. For some reason I'm not very good at pumping... but I guess I just need practice. I've actually only been outside maybe 4 times with my board, and it's always in the middle of the night where there aren't too many people to bump in to.

In other news, I've been busy making stop motion animations for my art class. Here's one of the finished products! It's hard to draw every panel, I can't imagine having to do all those drawings like in real animations...