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31 October 2008 @ 08:46 am
Things to do:

Proff Prac Electronic
- Finish "Jons Website"
- Buy Domain
- website sketches
- scan artwork and make folder
- make blogspot & flickr stuff (due thurs)

Proff Prac
- Children's Book layout the whole story
- Edit cover letter (for the 5th time) (due thurs)

InDesign
- Skills practice 6 part 1 due mon

Watercolor
- 2 paintings due Wednesday

Creative NonFic
- More writing

Italian Renaissance
- pick up reserved books
- collect images

And work on Janette's book forever and ever and ever
 
 
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25 August 2008 @ 12:14 pm
Well I start school today. As a matter of fact, I'm sitting in class right now using the new 20 inch Mac 2.4 Ghz. They bought a good thousand of these things this year. Figures, just right before I leave everything gets a new face. I'm not even gonna start talking about the new long-awaited upperclassman dorms that will be ready, just as I will forever leave this place. This is all very sickly ironic.
I guess my summer was okay. Painted a huge mural, again, got a new car (will post pics later).
I really hope this year flies, cuz I don't know how much more nonsense I can take.


ps. I really have no respect for the New Albany garbage men.
 
 
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22 July 2008 @ 12:20 am
I just saw the Dark Knight. It was glorious. Simply full of awesomeness.
Heath's performance was absolutely flawless. I mean he completely eats up the scenery that he's in, and all you really want to do is watch him, and when he's not in the scene you anticipate him jump back up again. Batman really plays second fiddle in this one.
I definitely think he's gonna get them Oscars, too bad he...woun't?
It's really not fair, because after you're done watching it you want to see more of him, and the fact that there is really no way to make another film after this one makes it even more special and tragic.

I went opening night, (yes..) and we waited 2 hours in line NOT for the tickets, but to get inside the theater. But it was all completely worth it. We saw it also on IMAX which was also extra extra fabulous. There were like 4 or 5 screens playing the film, and even though we got there early enough, they were all sold out so we had to get a late night show. Obviously inside, every seat was full, even the very front row where people don't care to get eye cancer.

Absolutely go see this movie. It will be the best thing you'll do this entire week.


 
 
18 July 2008 @ 03:25 pm
Well, the day finally came:
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After 3 and 1/2 years of service, it finally kicked the bucket on tuesday. *sniff*
It can now move forward to better and bigger things.
At least it didn't croak on me while i was on the freeway, so that's a good thing. On the downside, I'm completely car-less, feel utterly un-independant, and have to bum rides from everyone until my folks figure this out. At least it isn't the school year....
 
 
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13 July 2008 @ 12:29 am
Today was the first time ever I had hummus that I didn't mind eating, and that is most likely because it was home-made by very prosperous, fruitful, wine-loving greeks. Mrs. Philippidis sure knows how to throw down a party.
Now I don't normally party with my college professors, but today was an acception because Eva (Mrs. P) is more of a companion, and I've been to her house once before to turn in my work (and have wine). Well today was her husbands birthday, the whole house was packed with about 30 well-mannered multi-cultured individuals who, what seemed like had everything going right. I mean, these were lawyers, and journalists, and designers. Brian and I sort of had a hard time relating to pretty much everyone there, for obvious reasons and that is, we were the only 2 students at this gig. However, we managed to hold down a conversation with one guy named Michael, who seemed like he was in his late 40s/early 50s. He was a journalist, and it was very nice talking to him because he was the only one who was actually curious about what we do and where we came from. Pretty much everyone in the house was at that peak in their lives where they had everything figured out for future retirement, and actually had the time in their day to make exquisite gourmet greek appetizers. it was all delicious: Steak and shrimp shishkabobs, sangrias, rum punch, greek salads, cous cous petas, and feta cheese, and dozens of other amazing dishes I didn't even know what was in it but nevertheless it tasted incredible, so much that Brian ate everything. O_O




The solid truth.
 
 
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Current Music: Born Slippy-Underworld
 
 
21 August 2005 @ 12:14 pm
THE MURAL IS DONE!! 7 MONTHS, 900 HOURS BABY! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAAHAHHAAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!!

Channel 2 came yesterday. I embarrassed myself on local television. Suddenly I'm very camera shy??? The paint fumes have deffinately had something to do with that.

SO people, it's done. It's pretty, we got presents, cookies and message boards...and about $150 a piece. ENJOY THE MURAL!
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Emily, our journey to take over the world has just begun.

READ Emily's post about the day, she's got more to tell than I do about yesterday. Here's a segment of Em's post stolen by me just because it made me giggle:

from Emily's Livejournal
QUOTES

Matt looking at the mural.

"It looks good, er, better, oh just pick a fucking adjective and put it in there."

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03 August 2005 @ 08:15 pm

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Emily and I made the front page of Neighborhood section last thursday. Hurrah for the mural :). A large photo in the middle and everything. I don't have the picture saved, however I do have the article that I will share with you.


STUDENTS BRINGING WORD TO FAIRMONT
Recent grads spent summer
painting mural at Kettering
high school.

KETTERING | For the past two months, their lives have revolved around a section of concrete wall, a wall from which their brushes have coaxed myriad scenes of art, history and culture.

Ignoring the whine of machinery and the construction around them, Emily Burkman and Sveta Eremenko stand in paint-smattered aprons before a wall in the Kettering Fairmont High School commons, intent on adding the next musician, author or landmark to their mural.

Already, Beethoven and Elvis hold court in the music section of this "collage of the world," as Eremenko describes it.

Egyptian pyramids stand side by side with the Taj Mahal, under which is the Kremlin. Around the spire of Big Ben fly the tiny figures of Peter Pan and Wendy.

Two former Fairmont teachers also occupy a space.

These are just some of the details in the mural, which measures 6.6 feet by 16 feet.

Burkman and Eremenko, who both graduated from Fairmont in June, began the mural in January.

The two spent a few hours each day working on it during the school year. They even painted on the morning of graduation.

Now, they devote 25 to 30 hours a week.

"We schedule our life around the mural," Eremenko said.

"We're just about here every day of the summer," Burkman added, brush never stopping.

In December, Burkman approached Eremenko and asked her if she would like to paint a mural with her. The students then had to present their design to the administration for approval.

However, it became clear once they began that keeping to the original plans would be difficult.

"We realized that the scale on the paper was different than on the wall," Eremenko said.

At times, sections had to be redone completely.

The young women also worried about meshing their styles, as neither had worked with the other before.

"We thought, 'What if it was obvious that two artists had worked on this?' " Burkman said.

Their concerns gradually faded as they adapted to each other and developed an improvisational approach to their daily work.

Eremenko recounted the time she and Burkman felt the sections they were respectively painting weren't turning out right. They decided to switch.

Burkman completed Eremenko's Taj Mahal, and Eremenko finished Burkman's Mount Rushmore.

All the hours spent in the company of brushes and paints have been worth it.

"I'm a better painter than I was when I just began," Eremenko said. "Artistically, I have developed a lot."

Burkman agreed on the benefits, and also said she looked forward to the day when she could "drag my kids to see" the mural. She's not the only one anticipating the mural's completion.

"It's going to be a showplace," said Candy Clark, a Fairmont drawing and painting teacher who worked with both students. "I just can't wait for everybody to see it."

Clark praised Burkman and Eremenko's dedication, as well as their work.

"It's museum quality," she said.

Burkman and Eremenko estimate that the mural will be finished sometime in mid-August, and are hoping to have an unveiling ceremony Aug. 20.

Soon after, they will leave for college.

Eremenko intends to major in animation or illustration at Columbus College of Art and Design, and Burkman has similar plans when she heads to Massachusetts to attend Smith College.

There will be a part of them remaining at Fairmont, though.

Burkman and Eremenko's painted selves will look out from the concrete wall that was transformed by their efforts.


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Notice how I have stopped updating you with recent photos of the mural. This means that I am building up the suspence for you, that way you will OOOh and Aaah when you see it be completely done, or I am just being really lazy. Either way, everyone loves surprises.
 
 
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