I just picked up about 400lbs of bones/meat/fat/cartilage today from a butcher in Wakarusa. It was impossible to scrape off all the meat (the bones were far from stripped) with even a wire brush so my mom suggested I boil them. My mom and I did about 4 batches of bones (this is about a third) in 8 hours. After boiling the meat and fat comes off ( Read more... )

ok.... so its' like 130 in the morning... i was playing texttwist at yahoo games... and then a knock at the door.... im all like, "who the fuck is at the door this late?" my second thought was... "if i open the door im going to get robbed" because let's face it... Kansas City was a rough place and im kinda used to it... so i look in the peephole ( Read more... )

Ok, i'm on my third page. If i can get to five pages i'm cool. My next objective for the moment is to paint my macquettes however. That shouldn't take more than a couple of hours. I've been up since 7:oo o clock this morning. I won't be able to sleep until 600 in the afternoon tomorrow ( Read more... )

So, Im going to be up all night tonight. I have an 8-page paper due tomorrow... that i haven't started. It's on Mexican food though so it shouldn't be too bad ( Read more... )

hey if you don't want to hear me bitch don't read this ( Read more... )

Im very excited to be finishing up my park project. I should be installed this week sometime. I'm probably just so excited because im sick of working in traditional materials... mild steel is a good indrustrial reference, but it can also be seen as references modern art... which i don't want to do. Im not going to talk about my next project ( Read more... )

I have a terrible headache. My hands feel like rocks. My back is awful sore. All my joints hurt like fuck. My biceps, triceps, and forearms feel are as though i have just got done wrestling a bear ( Read more... )

So, i just got showered and am ready to go down to the cafe to grab myself some cheap coffee. Afterwards i'm going to start casting the crimeball... (don't ask me it's a weird foam ball my friends found... that's what they named it). I figured casting would get me better effects than forming the sphere myself over a mold... It should take two ( Read more... )

It sucks having no money or transportation. Today I have to go do laundry at the laundramat, then I go to the ceramics studio to mix clay for free because I have the hook up. Then afterwards I will drag my 150 pounds of earth to the sculpture yard to get to work with my texan friend steve. We are going to rock out the studio because it's always ( Read more... )

So Sara just told me that she is going to maybe minor in Art History! I'm very excited for her. So being the good boyfriend I am, I'm going to start teaching her cool art lingo to impress her teachers with. Also I will give brief historical overviews of the western art world ( Read more... )