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To clarify a few things...
14 years ago
Rumors of my demise are wildly exagerated, to quote Mark Twain
No, I have not been slain yet. I still fight for good art and some free time.... maybe even for myself, if I'm lucky.
No at the moment I'm preoccupied with life. To give you guys a brief summary;
- My mom has decided to jumpstart renovations again, hence our living room and bedroom are full of workers and painting equipment, which is why she spends her time working at home on my desk.
- My aunt has come to visit us from finland, which means that my mom is also sleeping in my bed.
- These two things combined mean that I have no place to work at home and no place to sleep, hence I sleep at my mate's place (altogether not a bad thing).
However, it also means that I can't work on anything properly. I have one picture in the works which has been taking me forever thanks to the current situation and I'm supposed to be working on that comic I've been sitting on for 6 months again, commissioned by my good friend
skimike
- Things being as they are I'm stuck using my laptop for any sort of work and it's rather cumbersome to have to set it up and cut it back down every time a work at my mate's place, also because there's limited space there
!BECAUSE! - her mother is staying at her place at the moment also, because her now ex-boyfriend kicked her out and she's behaving like she owns the place again, which she hasn't since she had to hand it down half a year ago... personal shit none of you care about, back to the chase
- Being at my mate's place also lmits my ability to come online, because her wireless is somewhat funny
- At University we've gotten a new head for our institute, whom we're all very unhappy with... alright, unhappy is an understate ment, we hate the fucking bitch for what she is and does.
You see, when I joined this class it was about Industrial Design and that's what we were doing. Apparently that didn't suit the rector of this place, a man called Gerald Bast, much, because him and our head were always getting into eachothers hair (haha, hair and head puns, lets all laugh and shut up again). So since our old head, Hartmut Esslinger, was due to retire from his position this year, a professorate was published and a certain Fiona Raby was his favorite candidate to fill Esslinger's shoes. Obviously you'd have to have shit for brains to think she'd be a good choice to head an Industrial Design class, because what she does is critical design = artsy design = modern art = shit!
Things being as they are, me and a couple' others decided we're not gonna stand for this, because we've been offered a taste of real design work and because we joined this class to do exactly that. Now that this is being taken away from us, we're not very happy at all and we're rallying to form a résistance to kick her skinny ass back to London where it belongs and she can do all the artsy-fartsy "design" she wants, so long as she leaves us alone... a rather hopeless fight, I'll admit, but that can't be helped and I'm determined to fight for the education I was promised when I came here...
For all those of you interested in this (i.e. probably 0), here's a blog I write in the format of newspaper excerpts http://designwithrabies.blog.com/
tl;dr
- Not at home, at mate's, because no room to work
- Hard to work on laptop, hence very, very slow art
- Internet connection wonky, hence little contact with anyone
- Involved in major shitstorm at University, hence less time
Sooooo... for all thos of you whom it concerns, I'm sorry if I've been scarce or on a short fuse with you. The only good things going on at the moment are my time with my family, my mate and the few glimpses I get of my friends online and here in Vienna on the weekends if I'm lucky.
I sure hope actual life isn't like this, or I think I might find myself burned out with 32 <.<
I'm hoping to get to finish that picture and advance on the comic on and after the weekend of the 5th/6th of November.
I apologize to all those of you who feel I've neglected you or cut you short, especially Greex, Skimike and Rhade, because I've been jetting on and off the screen at intervals I can't see for shit and I miss having time to chat with people.
Hope you guys are all doing okay. With a bit of luck there might be a bit more activity on this account again soon.
No, I have not been slain yet. I still fight for good art and some free time.... maybe even for myself, if I'm lucky.
No at the moment I'm preoccupied with life. To give you guys a brief summary;
- My mom has decided to jumpstart renovations again, hence our living room and bedroom are full of workers and painting equipment, which is why she spends her time working at home on my desk.
- My aunt has come to visit us from finland, which means that my mom is also sleeping in my bed.
- These two things combined mean that I have no place to work at home and no place to sleep, hence I sleep at my mate's place (altogether not a bad thing).
However, it also means that I can't work on anything properly. I have one picture in the works which has been taking me forever thanks to the current situation and I'm supposed to be working on that comic I've been sitting on for 6 months again, commissioned by my good friend
skimike- Things being as they are I'm stuck using my laptop for any sort of work and it's rather cumbersome to have to set it up and cut it back down every time a work at my mate's place, also because there's limited space there
!BECAUSE! - her mother is staying at her place at the moment also, because her now ex-boyfriend kicked her out and she's behaving like she owns the place again, which she hasn't since she had to hand it down half a year ago... personal shit none of you care about, back to the chase
- Being at my mate's place also lmits my ability to come online, because her wireless is somewhat funny
- At University we've gotten a new head for our institute, whom we're all very unhappy with... alright, unhappy is an understate ment, we hate the fucking bitch for what she is and does.
You see, when I joined this class it was about Industrial Design and that's what we were doing. Apparently that didn't suit the rector of this place, a man called Gerald Bast, much, because him and our head were always getting into eachothers hair (haha, hair and head puns, lets all laugh and shut up again). So since our old head, Hartmut Esslinger, was due to retire from his position this year, a professorate was published and a certain Fiona Raby was his favorite candidate to fill Esslinger's shoes. Obviously you'd have to have shit for brains to think she'd be a good choice to head an Industrial Design class, because what she does is critical design = artsy design = modern art = shit!
Things being as they are, me and a couple' others decided we're not gonna stand for this, because we've been offered a taste of real design work and because we joined this class to do exactly that. Now that this is being taken away from us, we're not very happy at all and we're rallying to form a résistance to kick her skinny ass back to London where it belongs and she can do all the artsy-fartsy "design" she wants, so long as she leaves us alone... a rather hopeless fight, I'll admit, but that can't be helped and I'm determined to fight for the education I was promised when I came here...
For all those of you interested in this (i.e. probably 0), here's a blog I write in the format of newspaper excerpts http://designwithrabies.blog.com/
tl;dr
- Not at home, at mate's, because no room to work
- Hard to work on laptop, hence very, very slow art
- Internet connection wonky, hence little contact with anyone
- Involved in major shitstorm at University, hence less time
Sooooo... for all thos of you whom it concerns, I'm sorry if I've been scarce or on a short fuse with you. The only good things going on at the moment are my time with my family, my mate and the few glimpses I get of my friends online and here in Vienna on the weekends if I'm lucky.
I sure hope actual life isn't like this, or I think I might find myself burned out with 32 <.<
I'm hoping to get to finish that picture and advance on the comic on and after the weekend of the 5th/6th of November.
I apologize to all those of you who feel I've neglected you or cut you short, especially Greex, Skimike and Rhade, because I've been jetting on and off the screen at intervals I can't see for shit and I miss having time to chat with people.
Hope you guys are all doing okay. With a bit of luck there might be a bit more activity on this account again soon.
And your little footer, which I just noticed today, is exactly my thoughts, albeit a little shorter. I kinda had a rant earlier in my journal, and since I'm a mouthy little bitch, it was rather long. But yeah. Just wanted to say I agree with you whole heartedly on your footer :)
I hope all is well, and I hope you can relax :)
-Auro
Good design is dead. Rich cunts with connections to governments are getting all the work nao.
Good luck with everything!
all I can say is, stay awesome
shit happens
on a side note
love the header and footer.
may not fully understand the first one, but I definitely know about the last one
Hope she gets the boot.
Take all the time you need. I got hit with a $1400 bill I wasn't expecting recently thanks to a car accident. It wasn't my fault and the money will be reimbursed to me by her insurance but it still takes a couple months for them to cut me a check so there is no pressure on the comic at all.
Hang in there. Good luck with the industrial design coup d'état!