Must check this out...

If you're a facebooker and love vintage clothes for affordable prices, you must check out House of Maryanne Vintage . I bought my first piece last week and it was beautiful when it arrived. Check it out!!

One down....too many to go!!!

So, one interview down.

Now tell me - is asking about 'which area current students most likely end up in' an irrelevant question to ask? I didn't think so, but apparently my interviewer did. But you get that, the pretentious ones, the tired ones, the ones trying to test you, the ones who have seen one too many 'VCE' folios.

Otherwise, I think it went pretty well really. I spoke well about my work in a conceptual manner, and I think I presented a pretty good folio. Now to wait for an A, B or C....we will just have to wait and see.

Can I multiply myself, just for maybe a few weeks...

I have several university interviews so far, as well as starting a new job on Friday. I wasn't nervous till now, but after i wrote that I just got VERY nervous. Money is good though, as well is a new start.
I'm going to please myself by writing down some uni interview tips, whilst I wait for my washing machine to finish it's cycle...

• Confidence - this is the key I believe. Don't let the interviewers intimidate you, nor let them make you feel less confident. 
• Speak conceptually - and in 'art terms' 
• Study your artists/designers and know them
• GO AND SEE EXHIBITIONS AND GALLERIES!
• Be yourself
• Talk honestly 
• Don't over-talk. No need to talk about every step taken in photoshop or how you used a "darken filter at 47% opacity"
• BE YOURSELF
• maybe be yourself.

I think thats enough for now. And tips for starting a new job? Heaven knows I have no idea....I have to use a cash register?? Crap. 

Owls....never again!

Conceptual piece. This was basically about the symbols of my ancestry. The symbol of the town Bouf, where my grandmother is from in Macedonia is the owl. I wanted to show the qualities of an owl through the strong image of the female. Owls are solitary, strong, and wise creatures. They also are known to be 'old souls' (which is something a 'psychic' lady once told me I was) so they are very curious little creatures.  I also wanted to give the girl/owl an spirit-y kind of look, as she is a mythical creature after all :) 


Also I read this quote which inspired me a little before I started these - 


"When philosophy paints it's gloomy picture, then a form of life has grown old. It cannot be rejuvenated by the gloomy picture, only understood.  Only when the dusk starts to fall does the owl of Minerva spread its wings and fly."


It's quite hard to understand, I don't even quite understand it. Basically the owl was seen as a symbol is wisdom, and the quote basically says that philosophy cannot be determined before something has happened, but only after, in hindsight. This is only one of three owl/girls also. 

Today felt like 3 days.

Evaluation is coming up...as I may have mentioned. And I've been stressing on a graphics assigment only to learn it wont be marked....*facepalm*

But it's okay, I'm really happy with the end result. I'll post it on here soon.

So tomorrow is my last official day of my course. I have evaluation next Wednesday and that is it. It has gone so fast. 

So I love this new Goyte song. To be honest I have literally never listened to him before, and I heard this song on the radio and I love it (despite James hating it)

So...last week of tafe. It's gone so quickly. Uni applications are all out, and I already have one interview time...I hate waiting for the others, I am way too impatient. 

Trying to complete tafe work this week. Also, instead of an end of year exhibtion, tafe teachers have told us we'll be having a book launch instead, which is pretty cool. They're publishing a book for us, with a double page spread for each of us. Should be good. 

a reintroduction

My name is Alex, and basically I just wanted to reintroduce myself for documentations sake. Currently I am studying a Certificate IV in Arts and Contemporary Crafts.

At the beginning of the year my main intention was to continue on after this year, studying fine art and some form of institute. I was so set on being an artist, and was basing my whole folio on that notion.

Over the year, after taking part in a graphic design elective, I found myself more and more 'into' graphics, and more able to use my drawing and hand skills to create design pieces. As well as this I found I was able to include my love of typography in graphics, more so then I could in my other more fine art-y subjects.

And thus I have now decided my main preferences will be design courses. Hopefully this will work for me, and I'm sure it will. I fell much more comfortable being in a design course whilst doing a fine art subject, rather then being in a fine art course and being restricted to only one design subject.

I feel, for me, the structure of a design course will work better for me, just for the reason that I am not so good at self directed work....I am so bad with 'starting off'. I would much rather that I be given a brief and be told exactly what I am to design - whilst bringing my own artistic flair and hand-skills into my designs.

Story of my life, changing my mind all the time. But hopefully it will work for me....I think it will.

Just a page from my journal/sketch book thing. Random collection of people.

Optical Art Assignment. Basically this had the aim to be a poster for a contemporary optical art exhibition. I just used contrast in colour and shape

City Assigment

As I haven't used blogger in ages, I'll put up some progress of my current work, and work from last semester. The first will be some images for a graphics assigment, and the other will be a contemporary illustration I completed, with the intention of illustrating the phrase 'Man With No Neck'. I chose to go the oppposite way, a bit ironic, and give my little man a massive long neck, full of crazy random stuff.
Fin.

just some of my work.

Last week I attended the AGIdeas confrence in the city. Despite the fact that he wasn't in out group of guest speakers, kinetic sculptor Theo Jansen was amazing. I have seen videos of his sculptures, moving with the wind along beaches. They almost look like the skeletons of animals, and are amazing to look at. This guy seems like he's onto something big in engineering and stuff, his work is great.

aaaaaaaaaaaawesome.

Ahhhh holidays. I didn't even want them, I actually prefer a bit of routine.

I'm thinking of doing a short course...a cooking course. A friend suggested a pattiserie course...it'd probably be fun. 

Anywho, heres some inspiration/stuff I like as of late.

skins love.

i have been slack.

...But I do like cosmic/galaxy things. I got this amazing Stussy top the other day covered in a cosmic print. It's love. Here's some pictures of some cosmic lighting in photographs. I like them a lot.

i wish i lived in new york

Then I could see Mark Rydens new show 'The Gay 90's', including this amazing new artwork.
 

ben tour

He has some amazing artworks.

another monday comes (warning - gossip girl content)

 

Ah, to be rich.

So, this may just be my 'jealous of Little J' post, but I am in love with her outits, both on and off the showl. Her name is actually Taylor Momsen, and shes only like 16. Did I mention she was also the protagonist little girl in 'The Grinch'?

yawwwwwn

I spent the last 3 hours or so frustratingly beading a sculpture for tafe, and I'm now dead. I feel like re-reading this book, it was amazing.

(L)

Such a long time ago now.

i could name many people this applies to

the weather really calls for this

 

Mmm, Japanese Sukiyaki/Nabe. I could really go for some of this right now. This photo was taken in a traditional Sukiyaki restaurant on my last night in Japan. Sukiyaki is basically a Japanese style hot pot, and you crack an egg in a bowl and put the boiling broth and veges/meat/noodles in there. It cooks the egg slightly but not really. This was probably my favourite meal in Japan. Mmmm, makes me hungry :)

more of my own

click for larger image and more detail :)

diane arbus

WANT

WANTWANTWANT

kitties

ron mueck

Recently, my boyfriend James and I went to see the Ron Mueck gallery at the NGV on St Kilda Road. Not only was his work amazing, but I've never seen anything like it. 5m sculptures of newly born babies (mucus and all), and tiny sculptures of wrinkled old women. The feet in his sculptures amazed me the most, the detail in every wrinkle, every folicle, every hair. His work was amazing, and I'm no doubt now a fan. My fave was his sculpture of the massive 10 foot sculpture of the stone age/hobo looking man. The expression and pose as well as the detail on the body was amazing, photos below.

1-9-7-7, 1-9-7-7

Although not many people like 'Crisis' by Alexisonfire, I actually really really like it. 'Watch Out!' was still their best in my opinion, 100%. Theres some amaaaazing songs on there. Like this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy3HFwBJBN0&feature=related. They don't actually have a clip for this song though, which is a shame cos it's my favourite song of theirs, and off that album.

It kinda sucks they got so popular though. Also, I really like the artwork for Crisis (above). Creeeeeeeeepy photos of a snowstorm in America in 1977.

keith buckley

I love this man. He is that funny....and attractive

8.04

I hate mornings.

15°C

I can't wait for the cold. I love Melbourne winters.

my favourite movie

On Tuesday night I went to see Edward Scissorhands being played at the Moonlight Cinema at the Botanical Gardens in the city. James (my lovely lovely boyfriend, who I actually bought the cinema tickets for, for Valentines day) and I took an amazing picnic (and also nearly missed the start of the movie). This is probably my favourite movie ever and when I saw they were playing it I pretty much bought tickets straight away. 

Johnny Depp is amazzzzzzzzzing in it, he plays Edward THAT well. I have so many favourite parts of the movie, like when Kevin, the son, takes Edward to show and tell at school and says "One chop to a guy's neck, and it's all over." while Edward does karate poses in the background, haha. Oh, and when Edward exlpains about his day and casually says "And then she showed me the back room where she took all of her clothes off". Hahaha, it's such a good movie.

But oh so sad :( Like in this part (right)

ash and josh

Ash Stymest and Josh Beech are both sweet models. They both have this really grungy, punk look which I really like. Ash in partiular, though, can pull off these amazing high fashion looks. He has a very changeable look.