Brrrr....spring?....

This week's been really cold...what's new...but isn't it almost spring? is it 'cause of El Nina? Well winter had been unusually warm so I guess it's just the conservation of coldness then? But then again it almost always seems extremely cold or hot just before it turns to spring from winter or from autumn from summer...the final valiant dying breath of the previous season...just in case you hadn't noticed...the seasons are achanging my friend...

The last few days were a nightmare...working on my model yesterday and the day before...bent over my made-shift table...I gotta tell you one thing though...it didn't do my back any good...the chair was as high as the platform and the heater was blowing right under me...as if it was not cold enough...I had to lower the heating...












A reenactment of the scene




Anyway the model making went quite well...i cut the parts out of cardboard with printed templates...but the tricky bit was cutting the clear plastic sheets...ooo so slippery...and the components to be cut were o so slender and small...i even had to switch spectacles ( my stainless steel glass one kept slipping, had to switch to the titanium one with plastic lens...see la...hiao...)

I must say I wasn't too happy with the design after the model had been made...didnt think so before the model...see...that's why they keep telling us blokes to make models...2d simply cant replace real 3d...

Presentation yesterday was strictly a pin up and everyone in class discussed every pinned up project one at a time...one project at a time I meant...i must say the group took a long time to warm up to giving responses to the proposals...but in the end there was a little bit of inter-student dialogue, which, because it was asked of us and not spontatneous, was a little odd. Still it was a good start...we don't have a tradition of criting each other's work...there isn't much studio culture here...one of the reasons being that we dont' have a physical studio space...but of course that does not absolve us of the poor intra-group dynamics.

Sebas was using a bag he had designed...it looked really good, but it would set us back 100 euros...but it would improve the economy of madagascar(did i get it right? i think he said they were made there)

Dinner was at Adu n Raimund's again...they do have a really nice place...i cooked seafood marinara with fuselli and cannelloni...we had Lipton lemon tea afterwards...boy do i miss Lipton...just don't understand what the dutch see in Pickwick...

After dinner entertainment was The Matador...

went home after too tired...

but couldnt sleep when i got back...hmmm...so i took the herbal sedatives i had brought from home and watched Seinfeld...it took awhile more for it to kick in........zzzzzzzzz

how did i look today?....