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Post by ScottsyII on May 22, 2004 10:31:35 GMT -5
Saw Troy tonight.... have to say I really enjoyed it! Not at all a bad movie, and not an overkill on Special Effects at the cost of a good story like alot of modern day movies... quite an enjoyable night of cinematic veiwing!
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Post by kats on May 22, 2004 22:42:07 GMT -5
is that the one jerry crapheimer did? all i know is brad pitt, eric bana and rose byrne are in it. and whole rose byrne can normally entice me to see a film...not this time. urgh. brad pitt is irritating, no doubt the original story will be slaughtered, and it will be independence day set in greece or wherever it's set, i forget.
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Post by kats on May 23, 2004 8:14:16 GMT -5
i have several things to point out which no-one is interested in.
1) i am the best editor in the universe. was originally two hundred words over the limit, now i am exactly on the word limit. not intentional.
2) i'm a little less mucussy.
3) i wrote three whole pages of a short story on a typewriter...and i feel comfortable with the character for once. i normally have to hate my character to write about them...and whilst i don't think too highly of this one...there's a lot of me in him...and i'm not just airing personal grievances...but there's soace for me to include a lot of my research in..while being all very post modern and post-orwellian etc. feels good and comfortable. and considering i've started about two hundred stories/novels and only finished about ten short stories over three thousand words...this is good. well, good that i can write again.
and i'm trying not to get too bogged down in word play. that's my other big problem. i'm all 'look at my clever use of the english language!! that should be a word, shouldn't it?'
and since i'm feeling a little bit more confident tonight, i promised a couple of people my 8000-worder from last year...if you want it..yell out. though only if you promise not to give a scathing review. i know people say they want you to be honest, but i don't really. no-one does. they'll deal with it, but they don't want it.
like constructive problems, go ahead, but not things like, 'whoa, kat. that was like my dog had vomitted all over the page and stephen king had tried to fix it up'.
and there's no need to point out the hypocrisy in the above statement.
my god, cold and flu tablets are not good for my brain.
have not had a cigarette in THREE days. that's the longest i've gone in five years.
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Post by kats on May 23, 2004 9:07:15 GMT -5
here are some of my paintings, guys. which i have been wanting to upload for a while. to forewarn, if you don't like abstracts, don't bother looking.
i don't particularly focus on the form, but rather texture and colour and the overall impression and then the closer nitty gritty and using different tecnhiques (such technical terms).
but yeah,i am going to upload some of my life drawing which is much more realistic and based on form. these are works from the past two years, so they're very specific. there are many more.
can you tell my walls were meant for art? we have about forty artworks displayed in the house..and thus have netyural walls and halogen lights on each work. lol. might take some photos of some of my sculptures later on, too.
so yeah.
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Post by kats on May 23, 2004 9:07:49 GMT -5
![]() img7.photobucket.com/albums/v18/angstypants/red_woman.jpg [/img] as you can tell, this one isn't hung...it's about 60cmx60cm i don't care how many inches that is. acrylics and probably some impasto and gel mediums.  this one is about...a 125cm long..x 75cm. it's quite large, but not large enough, i found it really restricting to try and paint texture and colour in that size..when i was worried about the overall impression the canvas gave and not some message on a t shirt. there's a fuck load of pain on here. i used all types of glues, wax (scented, of course, the painting smells nice), impasto and gel mediums, paint thinner, paint thickener, acyrilics and spray paint.  here are some close ups to try and give you an idea of thickness...   and side on  |
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Post by kats on May 23, 2004 9:16:27 GMT -5
this next abstract is based on a fra anglieco painting from the renaiisance.  i'd created this post modern rant in a painting, and art school hated it, so they guided me towards my frist real abstractions and realised that this was my domain. kinda. i'm still not particulary very good at it, but you can get away with that in abstracts as its not supposed to look like anything anyway. about seventy layers of paint. used acrylics and the usual mediums, thinners and what have you..but stripped back the paint with knives, wood, plastic bags, even water and ice to let things dry at different times. was interesting. this is one in a series of three which i will hopefully upload later on...did them in four days.  and close up.  i did this at thirteen-- my first proper painting ever. go me! |
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Post by kats on May 23, 2004 9:25:58 GMT -5
*waits for jesus to enter, matthew-collings style*
should be going to see day after tomorrow, the day after today.
damn that joke was ruined. its now past midnight here.
ne'ermind.
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Post by mellie on May 23, 2004 16:05:55 GMT -5
Kat, those were amazing!! You should make Scott and I one to hang up on our wall at our new house when we get it!!!
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Post by maarts on May 24, 2004 6:40:12 GMT -5
I'm impressed! Do those paintings in anyway represent the feelings you had when you put brush to linnen...as in the thicker the paint, the fiercer the emotion?
Like the one in red with the writing!
Flu's slowly coming out here...made a spicy bouillon soup and I'm sweating the flu out...
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Post by RocDoc on May 24, 2004 13:41:52 GMT -5
Very very cool stuff, kat... The yellows and earthtones remind me a bit of a 'well-known' Lithuanian painter names Mikalojus Ciurlionis whose work we saw in an absolutely fantastic museum(in Lithuania naturally) which was built solely to house his very fragile works which are nearly ALL atmosphere-sensitive watercolors on some type of paper, which had begun to degrade...I mean the guy died in 1911, and his medium wasn't supposed to last this well, this long unless you're very careful with it. They raised the money for this museum(an addition to the Lith National Gallery)by 'loaning' out pretty large numbers of their pieces to the Musee d'Orsay in Paris and just a couple of other showings in Berlin and Munich...and now these will(supposedly)never leave Lithuania again.... I will BET you'll enjoy his work... This piece here is probably my favorite, tho it has to be seen in person to appreciate all the inSANE layering of images he's done... 'Rex' SO rules... cgfa.sunsite.dk/c/p-ciurlionis2.htm |
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Post by kats on May 25, 2004 7:34:33 GMT -5
thanks guys. mellie, you'll have to choose between the juicer and a painter, i'm not wonderwoman  maarts, i don't know. i just sort paint. that first red one with the distorted figures in it, and the one with the writing made up a series of twelve canvases that i did for my final work. i didn't plan any painting, and each was spontaenous. i was trying to diarise through paint...and i set up the canvases with red as the interlocking colour and i splashed it on as you're seen and covered it across all the canvses. i also used calico the material in many of the works and that followed through as well. i had a canvas to representing different parts of the brain...and the twelve canvses were all presented as one work. which is fucking hard to do...because i did them all at different times. some incoporated photography that i worked over and stripped back. my problem with my paintings before i went to art school and did the brown one, which is on a huge heavy board and part of three, is that i was too focussed on the concept. when you're an art student today, the actual work will only make up 50% of your mark. the rest goes to concept and evidence of planning etc. so, i tend to get so bogged down in research and plans...and then find it too hard to express what i want to. so, abstracts have given me a new way to completely experiment with the medium im so used to...dick around without thinking and hope for the best. with the writing, i put some writing of psycho analysis over what some canvses meant according to a textbook or dream book or whatever. and used some diagrams from a psychatriatic textbook for inspiration for some of the other paintings. it was exhausting, but good. rock doc, loved the watercolour. watercolour puzzles me. i mean, i've used it and i understand that part of it, but it is something so deeply entrenched in tradition...used a certain way. oils have broken out of the traditional landscape or portraiture, but it's such a fragile means of expression. outside the backyard watercolourist, i love what can be done with it. there's a few australian artists i might get you to check out. one does surreal watercolours, and one woman does spectacular large scale portraits with watercolour. i actually began painting with watercolour, oddly enough. pictures of flowers and so forth...then one day, got handed a white head statute, was told to paint it...and i realised that i have my own style and didn't need to do conventionally pretty things. i'm not saying i' any good, but its a great moment for any artist or wanna be when they find something they did without instruction or copying. |
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Post by Howenstein on May 25, 2004 7:38:24 GMT -5
"I don't know much about art, but I know what I like." And that is some damn fine stuff, kats.
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Post by kats on May 25, 2004 7:45:04 GMT -5
thanks howe, you're a doll.
now, make my flu go away, stat!
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Post by Howenstein on May 25, 2004 7:48:28 GMT -5
Hmmm... if the virus can pass thru cyberspace, you probably got it from me. I'm finally just about rid of it after 7 days of antibiotics.
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Post by kats on May 25, 2004 7:49:17 GMT -5
holy shi'ite muslim. i just called you a doll. sorry, howe. i'm in fag hag mode.
weight loss status: (sorry if this is all too bridget jones diary for you) the pants (greyish...) i wore in sydney when i met mellie/scott/maarts were fairly loose. two weeks ago, i noticed i could take them off without undoing the fly or buttons. today, i was walking around uni and realised they no longer stay on and i have to physically hold them up...or they fall to my ankles whilst walking.
yay! but nay for having to fork out for new pants.
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