Whew, hectic days, hectic days.

So, we are on final cuts here on college, and all my grades are above the 4.0 mark! YAY!

Now that everything is drawing to a close, I feel free time coming up. I know you're sick and tired of my empty promises, but for fuck's sakes, I have some stuff I'm really excited to show, and I want to post it as soon as I can.

In other news, we are doing "Anti-Shape" on Sculpture, and it has been a karma for me because I find it an utter waste of time. Good thing is not just me, but also everyone else. Anti-Shape consists on basically "exploring" the "material", in order to "maximize" the "creative potential". All that in quotes, because what we have REALLY been doing is burning everything that comes across, from tar to cotton candy, passing through soda cans and molasses. It would be fun if it weren't because the teacher demands complete silence so that we can "listen to what the material has to say". Christ, that woman's off...

Regardless, I did a pretty sweet granite sculpture, with a black wax overlay, which garnered much praise. I'm happy with it, and I am going to upload some pics of it when I upload.

Other than that, not much with my life. I know, I'm fucking boring. However, there is a poll about what would you like to see. Feel free to comment and vote.

See ya.

Sooooooo.

One month no updates, eh? Yah, I know. Sorry. Been tough days.

So, after much struggling and piles and piles of more homework, it turns out the government didn't approve enough budget for our college. We are currently in a deficit of approx. 30 million bucks (which, in our coin terms, is a lot of money) and riots and blockades started. Marches were made, and ensured a budget addition of 100 million dollars, but that's all the pricks are going to give us for next year. That means, we will be in the next situation next year.

Yay.

Also, due to torrential rains, everything here flooded and lost almost all of my paintings >.< They got soaking wet and smeared.

Yay.

In more cheerful news, I recently went to this art event called ArtBo, a gathering of art galleries here in Bogotá. There were great artists, but, regrettably, modern art is very often overestimated. What's the artistic content of a bunch of dried up concrete and a shovel sticking out of it? Why would anyone sell it for 1500 dollars? What is the goal of making a series of technically amazing pencil portraits when they have nothing to say? What does 3 pink round papers (CHEAP paper) glued on a wall mean? I've always said that good art strikes a perfect balance between concept and technique, (or like mom says, form and content), and there were some serious sores in that gallery. Either great technique and zero concept, or viceversa.

Oh well. Guess that makes things easier for me now, eh?

As you may have realized already, it's raining cats and dogs here. Is non-stop. Rains all day long, and it rains hard. All our leaks have been averted, but our college library (harboring over 20 thousand volumes) which had recently been rebuilt (at a staggering cost) flooded. So there. We have cash to waste in a remodeling that doesn't even work, but apparently we don't have money for the students. Boo hoo. Well, at least we are STILL, and DESPITE EVERYTHING, the best college in this motherfucking country.

Leaving some things for next journal, stay tuned.

Well, remember last journal when i said I had a heavy schedule and i was eager to face all the challenges?

I'm torso-ing my challenges as well. The ludicrous amount of homework, while being (slowly) chewed up little by little is something mind-numbingly humongous for what I had predicted for first week.

-320 pages (The Art Dehumanization)
-178 pages (The Origin of the Form)
-194 pages (Modern meets Classic)
-3 cromatic schematics (red-white, yellow-white, red-black, red-white)
-1 achromatic schematics (black-white)
-An essay (with full description of the work analyzed) on any of the thesis of last semester students.
-3 regular solids made in clay
-10 rough sketches, free subject
-5 photographies, free subject, serialized.

All that for this week, from previous week. I've read most books, but I still need to work in the rest of the list.

I'm loving it.

Ok. Haven't started classes. We are in a so called "induction week", which for me has been epic fail because, since I already made part of a career in the same college, all they say on the conferences and chats is nothing new for me. So, the only fun I could draw was with a kite building activity, which was fail again because there was no wind whatsoever -.-

In any case, I'm eager to start. I have a heavy schedule, but I'm ready to face anything that comes across.

There is a parents meeting on Saturday, and mom wants nothing to do with it. She studied, worked and retired from the colege Im studying in, and Fine Arts still keeps the same teaching staff than 10 years ago, so mom knows every last one of them personally. I can already feel the awkwardness in the air when mom doesn't sit as a teacher on that auditorium, but as a parent instead

Other than that, things are great. I comissioned $y2jenn for three pieces which are linked here on my journal. No thumbs, they deserve the whole visit:

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Thar

No more news this end. Be well!

Very well. My last day of vacations. You people can't even begin to fathom just how giddy I am to finally start my Fine Arts career. I will be able to do what I've always really wanted, and actually get better at it!

Both my family and friends have been very supportive, so I am very glad things are working out in that field too. So, in some sort of celebration, I'm posting three renders I made on Cinema 4D

Also, expect more frequent updates in the coming months. So far I've been a total lazy bum, but that's because I was in this limbo stage. Now that I start my artistic career in full, I will post everything I got, even if it's just doodles. Make sure you check the Scraps, because most likely, that will be the most frequently updated gallery.

Also, I've been having some trouble with the photographs. The SD memory got corrupted, but I am using a program to repair the images. Not all got saved, but I managed to save those I cared about the most, so, in a span of 15 days or so, expect to see them posted here.

Ok, you people take care now!

P.S: IT IS YOUR DUTY TO GO SEE WALZ WITH BASHIR. NOW.