From ART
So much to blog about!
The above pictures are the project that I turned in for my drawing class today. The first picture is what we had to erase and the second picture is my finished product. It was the same concept as my dolphin sketchbook - fill in the background with a medium (in this case charcoal) and erase the subject to show just about everything. Everything had to be a different shade from the background so that was interesting. I'm sick of my erasers though and don't want to see them for a while (I used three different erasers on this - each eraser was a different thickness). I'm happy with how this turned out even though it took me a while to be happy with it. Also, since you can't tell in the picture the final drawing is 18 by 24 inches.
This weekend was awesome. James and I left Tuscaloosa around 11:30 and headed down to Gulf Shores so that we could go to the Fall Out Boy/Cute is What We Aim For/Plain White T's/Gym Class Heroes concert that was there Friday night. Before the whole idea of going to the concert came up James had been talking about me and him going to a music festival over Fall Break outside of Atlanta where The Killers were playing. The idea was cool, but I had only heard of The Killers out of the 20+ bands and tickets were like $200. As much as I love James I really didn't want to pay that kind of money unless I knew a lot of the bands - but I would've. But it got me started thinking about bands that I would really like to see in concert and Fall Out Boy was one of the bands I thought of so I looked to see if they would be playing within driving distance from Tuscaloosa sometime (hello run-on sentence). Sure enough they were going to be in Orange Beach. I looked up the ticket prices: $23.50 for one ticket center stage near the back of the Amphitheater - floor tickets would've been $36.50. For four bands that are all big names that was not a bad deal. The concert was great. I only knew one song of Gym Class Heroes and had only been listening to Cute is What We Aim For for a couple of weeks, but it was pretty freaking awesome. There were some great moments/comments from the lead singers that made me wish life could be like DVR - rewind and record. I apparently made Mom's night and called her during "Hey There Delilah" - which is a great song for those who haven't heard it. When we told Mom about the concert she wanted us to get her pictures of Plain White T's and before we left I told her I would take a video and hope that the sound turned out great so that she could hear it. It was great - they started the song and James pulled out his camera and started a video and I pulled out my phone and called Momma. I was hoping that she'd be able to hear them singing it because I know that she loves the song and I knew she could hear a little bit of it for sure because I heard her laugh after she picked up and recognized the song. (To read her opinions on it click). As a side note the lead singer from Gym Class Heroes apparently has issues with Dog the Bounty Hunter. Fall Out Boy was just amazing. It was great to be able to watch them live. James and I were a little ticked - both of our camera batteries ran dead about the same time and so we didn't get any video of like the the last three songs. For those interested, pictures and videos are posted on my Picasa Albums (see link on right hand of page).
Registration starts tomorrow, for me at least. It's been going on for a while, which I could definitely tell when I looked to make sure that I'd be able to get into all my classes when I did register. Yeah. It's not going to happen. Every single class that I want to take next semester is full. All of my alternative courses are full. I can waitlist two of my classes so I'll do that and pray that someone drops out of them (Photography and Digital Art - definitely two classes that I need). If I don't get into either of those classes then I'm going to have an all History semester of classes. Speaking of History - my TA for my Western Civ class posted a quiz online that he wanted us to complete before class tomorrow. He gave us an hour to finish it and told us that it would be open book, open notes (even though how can you check when your students have to finish the quiz at home?) and I was freaking out. I mean, an hour and open book? The open book part usually means that they'll be obscure questions and an hour to finish probably meant that there would be like 20 obscure questions to deal with or a couple of short answer questions. I do my readings, open up the quiz, and start laughing. Seriously. It was five question, multiple choice, with at least two of the answers complete BS that you could automatically rule out. I mean, I know no matter our opinions of the LSU Tigers that they were not the carriers of the Black Death in medieval Europe. Believe it or not, my TA came up with the quiz before the game on Saturday - but that's a whole 'nother story.
I'm not sure how many people look at my Picasa Albums - I'm sure Mom's got it on her Google Reader - but I added other pictures to my Various Pictures album. So the only new pictures in there are not in the YoungWildThings Tour album or those two pictures from above in my ART album.
As this post has now turned into an epic I think I'll stop typing.
You and me, we couldn't stand being normal
That's why we, make a good you and me
We both laugh, at the most random situations
That's the key, baby don't you agree?
-- Plain White T's "You and Me"
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