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| 12:35pm 16/05/2005 |
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i might as well update this thing!
I lost my mind for a while last week, finishing off my thesis and trying to wrap all my courses up, including an incomplete independent study (the grade for which still hasn't been posted, grrrr). happily, i came the closest i've ever been to getting 4.0 GPA this semester, one A- screwed me on that : P but i am done done done!
now for cleaning like a madman, and graually getting rid of stuff so that i can move in with vicki, yet still have room in her apartment so that we might cavort freely. This is going to take some work, but at least its not as stressful as a thesis . . . . i would say 'no more school!' but even two of my professors advised me that i might eventually look into getting a masters in comp sci or cog sci, to help me out with further developing ideas in my thesis. while its a possibility i'm considering, definitely not something thats going to happen in the immediate future :D
edit: independent study grade posted, an A-, woooohooo! |
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| 12:04pm 29/03/2005 |
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| time to stop being lazy and post :P |
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| 02:37am 16/03/2005 |
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i just spent way to long with a lego based game making the worlds more awesome tree fort, i'll try and post pics later, though i may just make something better latter as well
mmmm i am still savouring my sweetie's last visit, she rocks my world :D
i have been working hardcore on my thesis the past few weeks, i decided to concentrate on the painting machine, so its a scramble to get as much ready as possible before the parts arrive . . . the last part should be here on the 22nd, which leaves me a week or so to get the motors up and running, the software in a state where it can control it, and the neural nets a little bit smarter than they currently are (dumb as hell atm)
i made a cool frontend for it - artpainter
the drawing part works but doesn't save the lines, and the viewing part works but doesn't get any new lines to view, it will gradually come online and allow anyone to input new brushstrokes to the system, and possibly import photos as well . . . very psyched to get this on the go
i also need to write a preliminary paper on all this stuff by the end of spring break, and go down to jersey for st. pat's day shenanigans, gonna be busy busy busy :D |
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| 01:26am 10/02/2005 |
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i just added a bunch of content to my site, courtesy of picasa's web templates . . . now i have a damn good excuse to go through and organize the shit out of all my photos :D
http://www.erautio.com/
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| 11:51am 25/01/2005 |
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. . . since i got back from hong kong, and i only finished the first few rounds of editting my 2500+ photos (i took around 250 pictures a day on average i think :)
i've been a bit overwhelmed with various things i should be doing, and lack of progress on some fronts was getting me down, but i am resolving to push past these in the next few weeks, v added some incentive to get my work done so we could spend a weekend together in two weeks or so, which i am psyched for :) At times it seems i have so many non productive bad habits its a wonder any work gets done, but i think i just need to make a concious effort to resquash them as i did the past two semesters, and knock this thesis on its ass. I made some extensive lists of things i need to do, and plan on sticking with them. I write this from the wreckage which was my apt, before a late night cleaning extravaganza which needs to be finished by tonight if possible . . . hopefully once my living/working conditions have improved i won't feel so stymied by it . . . |
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| 01:52pm 22/12/2004 |
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way early in the AM i am off to hong kong with my mom and brother for a week and a half! wooohoo!
i'm psyched as hell to take a ungodly amount of photos and buy tons of cheap electronics, and hopefully catch up with a few of my friends there, should be a blast :)
to everyone back in the states, have a good holiday
muhahah, i get to celebrate everything a good 12 hours before you guys :D
now back to finishing last minute work/cleaning the apt |
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| end of semester crunch weeee |
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| 02:52am 06/12/2004 |
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oh man, not updating has left me with question of where to begin, so i'm just gonna say mono sucked, i'm over it but i gotta play catch up now with getting work done for the end of the semester, a few papers, some neural network work, and a bunch of studio work needs to be done before i'm freee freeeeeeeee etc. This week is going to be busy as hell, but after it i've only got one more class, and i get to go to brooklyn and new jersey with my pretty beautiful girlfiend ;) i miss her lots :P
initiation was a total blast and pimps and hoes last night totally put me in the frame of mind that the house is in pretty good hands (not that i was that worried about it anyway, the iron fist is always present to keep those actives in line anyway)
i've got my website back up and running, so i'll have some updates to that and some pictures of works in progress and stuff i had in my last show up soon, probably before the weekend, stay tuned :) |
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| 07:00pm 24/09/2004 |
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So yeah last weekend was a blast and a half, all over brooklyn with v, the botanical gardens, galleries, and coney island aquarium amongst other activities, a gigabyte of photos taken, best weekend ever status achieved once more etc etc
I passed my matriculation review this week, which is a weight off my mind, this semester is shaping up to kick even more ass than i anticipated, the painting machine research has begun in earnest, and the digital work is really starting to come into its own, now that i've developed a bit of a vocabulary to work with, and got a ton of good feedback from professors :D
all in all, i'm the happiest i've been in a long time :) |
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| intoxicants! |
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| 02:09am 12/09/2004 |
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so this whole only drinking thing is actually working out ok, its a lot more mellow in terms of letting me be functional a lot more often i find, and it mellows emotions a bit, unlike coughherbcough which tended to really dull em, to the point where i would actually feel frustrated expressing myself and how i felt half the time :/ head is clearing up nicely and i am amazing myself with how much knowledge i'm actually absorbing for once, does this mean i gotta go back and reread everything i read in the past 6 odd years? yagh . . . sorta scary when one thinks about such things :P
So yeah, last weekend exceeded all my expectations as the best ever, with a buncha emotional roller coaster riding to boot. it feels like its been a month rather than a week since, and still a bit unreal. but when it comes down to it, i feel pretty mellow about it :)
anyway, everything has sorta evened out now and i'm really looking forward to the rest of the year. I'm gonna be working on the painting machine, i talked to the engineering professor i will be working with and happily she didn't tell me i was crazy when i told her of my plans, gotta finish a proposal now which goes into a bit more of the nuts and bolts of what i plan to do, hopefully i can knuckle down tomorrow and belt out a plan. I'm pretty psyched to kick my matriculation review's ass this time around, it just got pushed back yet another week, and despite the fact i didn't have a date set for this week i felt quite prepared nonetheless. I'm planning on buying a relatively wide format printer this week, and then printing the backlog of work i have, which i already wrote a imho kickass artists statement for. THis was the first time while writing an artists statement where it nearly wrote itself, the ideas just flowed out and upon rereading didn't seem like either idealogical nonesense or vague references. I'm sorta glad i had to do this again, this time around it feels a lot better, now that i've switched from pure painting (which i love, but wasn't really going anywhere interesting) to more digital based work, which is mad intuitive and way deeper i feel. I was struck by some possibly paint fume related inspiration earlier today, and i feel in the next week i could go out and start to implement some of these ideas in time for the review, which would be great.
I'm also soo glad that there are a bunch more painting students this year, and i'm interacting more with the other students at HAS in general, which is awesome. second night in a row where i actually went out on the town with fellow students from HAS, as opposed to just wussing out and going to cleo like usual. Don't get me wrong, cleo is awesome, but the same sorta stuff always seems to be happening there no matter what, and it was nice to go and interact with people who i didn't neccesarily know all that well. gotta work on being less of a misanthrope, so far, so good :D |
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| 10:03pm 02/08/2004 |
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128 megs ram
800 mhz
touchsceen display
gps
400 w amp
soon to be added:
wireless internet/lan
rearview camera
onboard engine diagnostic connection
memory card reader
playstation controllers :D
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| 03:30am 21/07/2004 |
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so matty and i entered into a non smoking agreement, and boy is it tough, i've been sticking to the rules while not being completely tobacco free, and going completely without is sorta scary, so many situations which trigger the reach-for-cigs response
it looks like i'm gonna finally get paid this coming week, which is awesome, hopefully the paintings i was comissioned to do will also be delivered and paid for as well. This means i can really push for the rest of the summer to try and get as much school work done as possible. While actually building the painting robot is looking a bit daunting, using my current digital photos and printing capabilities looks like it might make sense to use for this at first as well, just need to spend some time and develop some software (ugh coding) which starts to implement some of my ideas. I'll basically be training the computer through my own photo aesthetic, including how i choose to combine works for photocollage and the like, and possibly even intergrating photos of paintings and the like, its gonna be a lot of work, so i better get cracking.
On the other hand, as far as my own works go, i still have hundreds of photos i can use for create new work, and i just updated my site with a nice new gallery system, www.erautio.com for those who wanna check it out.
oh yeah, and the carputer rocks, photos of car-meets-computer and gps project will be up as soon as i finish neatening and finishing up the installation. I'm psyched to get out and about with this system, having all my music with me, record exactly where i've been, find new and interesting places, the capability to empty memory cards into it, and charge my camera in car, all equates to sheer nerd joy on my part :D |
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| 04:09am 08/05/2004 |
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summer is so close i can taste it . . .all that lies between me and freedom is 10 pages of research paper on artificial intellegence which is used to create art, fun fun
hopefully tomorrow i will also restore my long dead HD, or at least transfer the data to a new HD. i've missed my music something awful, though i guess it will make everything seem new once again :D
ugh .. . .i'm in a sort of weird position at the moment. sometimes too much knowledge is a bad thing :P I've been caught in situations where i've been pressured to make a decision like this before, and it ended badly . . . i'm commited to not make the same mistake twice though
i guess overall i'm pretty happy though :D |
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| 06:08am 24/04/2004 |
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man that was an entertaining night/early morning
we decide to get an early start on the logistics of aquiring flowers for rites of spring, so the car was loaded up with drunken cleos and first toured the campus, collecting what was availible around there
jp felled a big ass branch which resembled a small tree, and is now right in the middle of the foyer, looks very tasteful
pizza was bought and consumed on the way to w hartford, where further antics occured . . . parked on the lawn of the jehovahs witnesses' kingdom hall or whatnot, liberated some flowers, and pulled away MOMENTS before a cop car turned the corner . . . then we hit a elementary school, brutalized a hapless tree and did donuts on their field. buahahahaha doing donuts with a full car is fucking hilarious, it always takes people at least 5-10 minutes to stop giggling and regain their composure
on the other hand, ain't done a bit of research for either paper which i have to do, woohoo! next week is gonna be killer . . . on a plus not, i got a job doing webdesign, which should be fun, educational, and the bling don't hurt either :D |
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| 09:11am 16/04/2004 |
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this week has been one long sleep deprived extravaganza
driving relatives around, writing papers, giving presentations, meeting visiting artists, listening to lotsa smart philosophers to the point of head explosion etc etc
the semester is winding down and crunch time is gonna hit again soon, this weekend i'm just glad i got an excuse to go and goof off in NYC, and hopefully take an obscene amount of photos
i'm looking to print a photo or two really big today, gonna have a tough choice deciding which one . . . i'm torn between just continuing the abstract vein i been working in, or trying to balance it more with a sense of narrative, or possibly elements of satire. One of my defining qualities is my sense of humor and the absurd, and it would make sense to implement it in my work. just gotta figure a way to go about it without seeming too cheesy or anything |
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| 07:43pm 06/04/2004 |
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what an excellent day, and the sun ain't even set yet :D for once i appreciate daylight savings time
i had a crit with peter waite, a pretty well renowned painter. he totally dug my new project idea, which is a multi tool painting machine i plan to build, jokingly suggesting if i succeed in building one, i might make him one as well. i am so psyched bout this project its retarded, i'm considering applying for some grants for funding, which if i get i could make it much more kickass, by being able to realize it that much more fully.
anyway, waite was awesome, he obviously had a bunch of the same influences as myself. he also gave a lecture and showed his work, which was damn interesting and showed a lot of the same aesthetics in painting and photography that i try and work toward.
i didn't have to give a presentation i thought was due today (managed to completely misintepret an e-mail saying as such), and even my african art class was interesting for once
oh yeah, and initiation rocked the hizzouse
edit: nearly forgot, i'm gonna sell a painting MUUAHAHAHAH wooooohoooooo!!!11!!! |
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| 05:34pm 02/04/2004 |
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so its done with, it was not quite what i expected, and ended up feeling unprepared despite much preperation. I asked other grad students about their reviews, they always said it was pretty mellow. maybe its just me, but it was sorta relaxed, sorta me being on the spot and having my work torn apart . . . meh
but at the same time, they all absolutely went apeshit over my photoshop work and wanted to see it blown up huge . . . so i guess i gotta switch mediums for a bit :P
weird, sorta demoralizing, sorta freeing, cause those barely seem like work, i would make em while goofing off :P
damn advisor built the thing up WAY too much . . . this is her first matriculation review, i think she's used to a far more rigorous program . . . they wouldn't get rid of their only painting student for next year, right? right!? heheheheh
time to go get wasted and stop worrying bout it, WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO |
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| 09:05pm 28/03/2004 |
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this week is gonna be a killer
initiation and matriculation review overlap which is just spectacular, and i'm starting the week already pretty exhausted
the rest of tonight is for getting everything straight that needs to be done and make a plan to execute it all.
I don't know exactly why artists statements are such a pain to write for me, other than the usual aversion to anything which seems like real work. this could very well be the reason it's not getting written, but i think i'll just buckle down and get it written tonight, at least a draft. my brain is nice and saturated with art at the moment, a weekend full of going to galleries and talking bout it was good for getting the thinking cap warmed up, just need to get it in gear
its a hard choice to make, but no more cleo till i starts, i'll end up getting a lot more done, and i can concentrate on things other than drama :P
maybe i'll go to meeting if i'm being good and get lots done by then |
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