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Name: flory
Interests: there are many things i am interested in. what i am -not- interested in, however, is loneliness, and that seems to plague me a lot.
Expertise: impatience.
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10/12/2004
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i'm an art student, i tell them. i write, i like lots of things. and
then i think about it and realise it's not applicable anymore. running
on autopilot i keep up this facade: model student, painter, writer.
it's only my past that's propping me up and propelling me forward when
all i'm doing is really stagnating. and it's not bothering me like it
used to - not in the same way. the exams end in a few days and summer
work begins; i have an awesome internship, i get to travel this summer,
i have a scholarship i'm not happy enough with, but not enough to want
to give it up, but not enough to care about anything really. so -
who am i now?
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| grief manifested itself today, and publicly too: my best friend's leaving and the world continued to turn.
i never thought i would cry.
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it's the last day of secondary school tomorrow and i'm too sick to go. a bunch of them enacted a little drama, rather cheap and humorous in its undertakings. a group did a nice rendition of "Graduation" and people cried. i had no reason to cry, so i didn't. i don't need to be sad if i have no reason to be sad. but being sad because there's no reason to be sad, now..
i feel nothing, not sane
it's a hard day for dreaming again
"here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)"
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e.e.cummings
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| not that my favourites count for much
but IGCSE Art is over, and i am suffering art withdrawal symptoms: walking around aimlessly doing nothing, playing KOL, typing this post. i also slept for a very cathartic and restful 5 hours this afternoon - Art is virtually the only exam where I have to stretch first - my knees ached something hellish after the first day painting on the floor. without further ado .. some of my favourite paintings (the 10 hour timed test) from my art class, and the other. in no particular order.
Zaffy's apples, reminiscent of Pop Art and, apparently, "Snow White dying" (according to a classmate who shall remain unnamed). Glossy and luscious ... it's even cleverer now that it's been arranged apple core on the left to read from left to right. we shall ignore Dion's comments. ("Think about the Japanese!!!")
Possibly one of my favourite pieces ever. Dion's specialty is trompe l'oeil, and at first glance it's hard to distinguish the real folds from the painted folds. It might've been cooler with a bar at the top, but it's great as it is. Note: he finished in about 6 or 7 hours and did nothing for the remaining 3-4. ("It's very difficult to do nothing for 4 hours, alright?")
I would hang Konan's painting of carp in my .. well, I don't really have space to hang it. It looks great photographed and the inverted colours of water and fish are one of those things that leave you thinking, "why didn't I do that...". It's as though they're swimming in molten lava. Ame!
Des's Cubist bug. Meant to be scary but it turned out adorable and cute instead. my favourite sections are the eyes.
Decried as one of the most "emo" paintings in the other art studio, Azafia's painting is actually pretty damn cool to look at. Even if it is "emo".
Nick originally intended to paint only one canvas .. but since he finished the first (right) piece pretty much within 3 hours, he did a second one and spent 1 or 2 hours out of the allotted 10 bumming around. pfft.
It has been called, among other things, a foetus.
And this would be what I did within 10 hours. It looks like so much crap and the style of painting differs so much from everyone else's. Obviously, I prefer my pre-exam piece (see below)...the washes had more time to dry and it was much more delicate. As it is, the exam piece is the shoddy, rough, abrasive equivalent of what it could have been. Given that painting close to 18 square feet (I had to scale down) within 10 hours is a nerve-wracking, painful process, I'm sort of happy about it.
it's incomplete, but it's nicer than the exam version. and the exam version is not a carbon copy of this. not entirely, anyway. (look at the neck in particular)
it's annoying when some people end with 'enjoy'. but enjoy!
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| songs that have been keeping me relatively sane and in a good mood
so right click and save target as!
Da Vinci's Notebook - Title Of The Song
a parody of the formulaic boyband songs - in Charlie's words, "nails every Backstreet Boys ballad in existence"
listen to and lyrics here
Da Vinci's Notebook - EP
guaranteed to put at least a small grin on your face. utterly and totally politically incorrect.
The Harvard Krokodiloes - Tracks of My Tears
their renditions of pop songs and stuff are lovely - old-school doo-wop singalong kind of tunes. for more look here.
enjoy!
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| 24 square feet and 10 hours in the real thing
and i don't know how i'm going to get it done. although painting big is actually....fun. even if it's a pain in the ass (literally).
below: somewhere half-way done, 1.20AM
so this place is a little dead
because i've been trying (and mostly failing) to get a life and study. writing a scholarship application letter, emailing people in singapore begging pleading asking for a 2 week job, relaxing for the first 6 days or so reading cookbooks, making lemon tart, painting painting painting, paintballing, etc, laced with intermittent doses of panic.
also, 2 canvases for my final piece are arriving today... 6 feet by 4 feet each.
will post up pictures of shoddy work sometime. i'm not entirely sure as to how i'm going to paint an area of 6 by 4 feet within 10 hours.
heroin-e.deviantart.com has a couple of photos of Rachel and the violin.
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