Half-Dead

I'm alerting everyone out there:

I will most likely not be in class tomorrow, and possibly Wednesday.
I was working Friday night and at about 12AM, I felt insanely sick. At about 12:30AM, I blacked out.
Paramedics checked me out. I had a fever of 103. They sent me home, and the next day I went to the doctor. I have advanced H1N1. While they don't check for H1N1, they did a flu test which positively placed me in category A. No other strain from this category is rampant right now aside from H1N1, so they can safely assume that it is my plague. I am showing all red-flag signs of deadly H1N1, so I'm on red alert. ER on speed dial.
When I showed symptoms about a month ago of H1N1, it probably was. The doctor said that when I got better, it probably went dormant and my lack of food and sleep made it pop back out.

I feel much better today thanks to the large amounts of Tamiflu. But the doctor told me that no matter what I need to rest for several days.
According to the CDC, someone with H1N1 may return to full function only after 24 hours without a fever. And it has to be unassisted, so no Advil or Tylenol.

So lucky me....


See you space cowboy.....

Project 2: Some Questions

Ok, I started to think about ideas for the second project as I'm detailing the first.

One of my major questions is:
Does the story have to be another person's narrative? Or could I have written it?

The reason I ask is that when I was between the ages of 16 and 19, I wrote a story for fun. The basic explanation of the story is as follows:

Every night when the world of man falls asleep and the eyes of the world's
beasts are closed, the mushrooms of the earth come alive. They eat, love, fight,
pray, and do all that man can do. Just smaller. The mushrooms exist in tribes
battling eachother for territory, but they must also defend themselves from the
attrocities of man. The chemicals and poisons that come alive to attack all that
lives. A great mushroom came about and united all of the tribes in a massive
battle for the defense of the mushroom colonies. In the final battle, the king
died in his final push for victory. The mushrooms won, but had lost their king.
Until another great mushroom came along. He was born blind, but built himself
eyes. This Mycomechanic, as he came known to be, rebuilt the king out of the
metals of the earth, much like his eyes. The mycomechanic named the
newly-constructed king Psilocyborg, and they both ruled the colony forever
more.

This was just a basic overview of it. It actually got real detailed once upon a time. This story was the one that I described in the beginning of the semester on how it influenced that mask. So anyway, I want to make the Mycomechanics eyes, so my other question is:

Does the object have to TELL the narrative? Or can it just be PART of the narrative?


See you space cowboy....

Mask Progress

So I've gotten a hell of a lot done on the mask. Now that I've done it once, it will go much smoother in the future. Or so that seems to be the pattern. So here's some process pictures for y'all.

The original concept sculpture for the mask. I was in NO WAY happy with it, so I started anew.

The new mask sculpted

The mask with the eye to cast in place

The mask cast in transparent blue resin with eye cast in place

There's loads more details to add including a paint job and a bunch of new metal work. There's also a lot of clean up for the resin itself. But really, that's not too bad. The hard part is over and now it's just little things.

The secondary mask (top mask) from the original design isn't even started yet. However, I'm considering not casting it in resin but instead casting it in latex. I need to play with that idea a little more, but I'm not overly concerned about it. Yes, I know it's due Wednesday, but I now understand the process because I've done it on my own. So I predict that I have the time.

The primary (front) mask is the largest concern to me. It's much more important than the secondary.

See you space cowboy...

BLOG LIST

Just to alert every0ne that is still searching for classmates:

There's a blog list on the right side menu of this blog! It says "Followers Blogs" above it. They are links directly to every blog. There's 17 of them, which is pretty close to everyone.

Here is the list repeated:


Amanda Albertsson
Melissa Aldrich
Sally Avery
Jihea Eum
Brian Gouche
John Harris (Me)
Lizabeth Kelley
Sooja Lee
Alison Long
Jennifer Mook
Tara Nahabitian
Vincent Pontillo
Dorothy Rapp
Glen Stew
Rachel Timmins
Aric Verrastro
Pei-Chen Wu

More Masks

So I decided to rebuild the plastic base of my mask. The first one wasn't crazy enough for me. I've been doing loads of research to gain a better understanding of "successful" masks, so here's some images from an awesome mask maker.

The artist's name is Monica Roxburgh for Portland. Her website is goblinart.com

So there you go. Some pretty pictures.

I'll have ALL weekend to pound out some research seeing as I officially have influenza of the oinking variety.

See you space cowboy.......