Monday, June 6, 2011There’s no place like home
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!
June 16th, 2011 at 9:00 AM
Oh man, I forgot about Zoids until you mentioned it! I didn’t really watch it, but I do remember that show, haha.
I like Fifth Flight’s new look! The photo is really cool, and I love how the cut outs look. I can’t believe they’re hand cut. The lines are so clean!
I’m excited about Diablo III too. I’ve heard it’d be released this year, but I’m not sure about that. I don’t think the beta’s started either, though you can sign up if you have a battle.net account. I remember adding Diablo to my beta profile a long time ago, but nothing has happened with it yet XD;;
Good luck with the internship!
June 18th, 2011 at 8:55 PM
I haven’t watched Zoids so I really know nothing about it….
You’re sure a lot more productive with your sites than I am. orz I hope you don’t dread J&J too long. Best of luck with that.
I wish I did more things during the summer that was related to remotely related to what I studied. It was always just make moneys…. buh. Too late to regret now though. Good luck with internship sounds really exciting!
July 4th, 2011 at 2:07 AM
I had the sudden urge to visit Junk&Trash just then, and I came to here… Chaotic Century used to be my favourite anime! Haha. I had lots of them on VHS… and I also used to get up insanely early (ie, 7AM) to watch it on TV.
Good luck with your internship! I’m at university studying design… I’m pretty jealous that you go to RISD!