The Grey Giraffe

This summer went by at a normal pace, I must say. My internship took two days out of the week – I interned at an architectural firm – and ballet took three days. My weeks were pretty packed, but awesome!

Anime Expo was a blast; I went as Sailor Pluto, but unfortunately, my costume was only 80% done. My friend wanted to see it so I wore it without the gloves and tiara. I’ll be making the time staff soon. The picture to the right is the time key belt I finished making yesterday. I’m so glad I stumbled upon Amethyst Angel‘s styrene tutorials. I made the keys out of plastic and used Testor’s Enamels to paint them. Wonderful stuff!

I’ll put pictures of the costume up when I’m completely done. But besides Sailor Pluto, I’m planning two more costumes: Tethys (Fire Emblem) and Misaki (Kaichou wa Maid-sama). I was going to do Fang (Final Fantasy XIII) but I need to use up my extra fabric before I buy more… Money isn’t easy to come by, I’m sure a lot of you know!

For those of you who know of Magic: The Gathering, I’ve been spending this summer sharpening my skills in it. And luckily, I have friends who play in tournaments (they’re so good)! And apparently, pure artifact decks are sort of disliked. I don’t quite understand why because I play a colourless deck based on Myrs and it’s fun. But I have other decks to use also. Oh, well.

It’s been a week since I’ve left Providence and all I’ve been doing is bumming around at home. Sweet life. No school to worry about, yet, and no projects due every week – I’m enjoying it while it lasts!

I finally have the time to watch, or re-watch, all of my favorite shows and movies (not that school stopped me from bumming around in my dorm room) with no distractions of college life. The current show I’m re-watching is a childhood favorite, one that I woke up early in the morning to watch before heading out to school: Zoids: Chaotic Century.

I was watching it the other day when my brother came by and said, “Hey! My friend and I were just talking about that show! We forgot what the name was but we remembered it was about those awesome animal robots with Van and Zeke…!” Those sweet memories; Zoids was really cool when I watched it way back when and its still pretty sweet – nothing beats childhood obsessions.

On another note, I finally got around to giving Fifth Flight a new look; the background image of it is a picture of a project I did in my Design class: black foam core with 38 4″x4″ 2ply white museum board cutouts (all hand cut). My art portfolio also went under a revamping with a few new pieces added in. When I get around to it, I’ll add more work. One guilt of mine is the continual avoidance of putting Junk&Trash under heavy maintenance. That will happen soon. The maintenance, I mean.

Now on to more serious news: Diablo III. Okay, maybe not, but sue me for loving games – computer games, video games, hand-held games, etc… I’m excited and I’m unsure of which rumour to believe about its release date; has the beta-version been released yet? And I don’t opt to sift through all those Diablo dedicated sites…

Apparently my mom has been staking out internships for me because a week before I left Providence she called specifically to tell me that this architecture company wants me to intern with them and I’ll be paid! Well, the actual story is, my mom’s friend works for the company and they heard I’m an art student attending RISD and they wanted to hire me as an intern. She told them that my focus wasn’t in architecture but illustration and they said something to this effect: we just need a [concept] artist that can help us draw and paint out ideas (I’m still unclear about that…). But, I’m excited! I have no experience but hey! this is the way to get it! Wish me luck!