So it’s been a while since I blogged. There are a number of solid excuses I can throw on the table but that just seems petty. Let’s let bygones be bygones and get on with the pretty pictures, shall we? Since a bit of time has passed and I haven’t gotten to blog about things I’ve wanted to blog about I will just combine several posts into one and organize it with subheads.
We gather here today…
I’ve had this plant for 5 years now. It’s survived a few wild college parties and a number of reckless room-mates. It’s always been my rock. I thought it would never die no matter how much strain or wear and tear I inflicted upon it. This is the plant as it sits in my living room today:
It was thriving before my trip to London. During my two week trip my parents came to my apartment occasionally to water the plants and make sure they were doing alright. It nearly croaked during that time. Luckily due to my father’s shrewd green thumb it narrowly escaped an extended period next to that cold window. It perked up for a while. I thought it was going to survive but I must have over watered it or under watered it. either way it’s been like this for a couple weeks. I keep hoping it’s going to spring back to life when the spring weather sets in but it hasn’t yet and the outlook is looking pretty bleak.
Is it dead? Can I revive it? I don’t want to throw it out before I know if it can be saved. It was such a trooper…
National Champs 2008!
If you don’t know, I’m a University of Kansas alum and although I’m not extremely plugged into college basketball every season, I do follow my hawks. This year they won! I was in Lawrence for the Final Four as well as the championship game. I’ve never seen that town erupt like it did. I was in town for our loss to Syracuse a few years ago and although the streets were flooded on that occasion it was nothing compared to our victories this year. Here are some pictures and a couple of videos I took during and after our NCAA championship victory:
Here’s a video of the final point, our victory and the flood of people into Mass St. Ignore me. I’d had a few beers at this point and got really excited:
And here’s a video from the crowd on Tenth street:
I’ve got a few more videos but I’m already clogging your internets so here are the rest of the pictures:
Life drawing
My latest life drawing semester is wrapping up. Unfortunately we had a majority of male models this semester. I don’t mind drawing male models but it would be nice if we alternated or had an even mix, know what I’m saying? I guess I got practice where practice was needed though. All are done with charcoal on 18×24″ newsprint. Some are done with pastel / conté as well. Here are some highlights from that:
Design
I’m hoping to blog about some design sometime soon as well. I’m just waiting for things to slow down a tad. There are definitely a few things I want to wax on about. That reminds me. I should be working on my site redesign and blog redesign still. I have to keep on myself about that. Keep on me about that if you happen to see me in real life.
Cheers.