This is when I left studio these past two days. Why? Well we have our final pin up on Thursday afternoon so basically EVERYTHING needs to be done by then. This is the final push. Meanwhile, it seems that my little area has a lot of ambition, so we will likely be working the latest for this week.
Ambition? Well, let me tell you, I am casting a model out of clear epoxy resin. I gots to make many negative molds and do a shitload of drawings and cast the motherfucker and that takes time and effort and money... But it will look amazing!!
So in the end 6am will just be another number as I get used to elavingt he studio during the light of day. Sigh.
Meanwhile, Lee is in town, but for some reason I can't text message him. I guess it's all for the best, I wouldn;t be able to see him anyways.
Oh, and I saw Scott yesterday, we went for a coffee break and he bought me a tall caramel frappuccino, easy on the whipped cream and extra drizzle. delicious, delicious.
Ok, I best get back to studio for another 12 hour marathon session.
Moby has been in town this whole month, and left today to go on tour, in the UK. I only got to go to Teany yesterday and he wasn't there. I missed my opportunity to see the love of my life. :-(
Monday: Worked on class stuff the whole day really. At night we saw a move: Safe with Julianne Moor. She plays a California housewife who thinks she is environmentally ill. So she goes to a retreat centre called Wrenwood where she finds a community of people like her. It's a horror movie of the soul, some real crazy shit.
Tuesday: More work, and I was super frustrated because nothing was panning out in any way shape or form. I never enjoyed being frustrated before really, buth ere I was having fun and being pissed at the same time. My teacher tried to help and he did by giving me direction, so that was good. Anyhow, night, Me, Gary, Illana and my Roomate made dinner. We cooked all the stuff we got from the Union Square market: Corn, salad, pasta, bread... delicious home cooked meal. It was so much fun and just so... good. We are going to do it again for sure. It was just fun to cook and to eat and to have wine. Gary mentioned gayness during the meal, and I never really discussed it with my roomate. Well after dinner we all went for a walk, and Gary and Illana went for drinks and Mark and I walked back to the studio to work. He finally mentioned it to me, asking me how I knoe this other guy in our group is gay. He then said "well you don't tell people do you." So I explained to him my ask-tell policy. Now things are out in the open with him (not like Iw as really hiding things anyways) but ya. That night, I was in the studio till 4am
Wednesday: Ummm, more work! But I had a major breakthrough I made some concept models and really thought things through! Exciting! But what's more exciting is that I went to Moby's Teany Resto. I went there with Scott, date number 2, when I really shouldnt have because of allt he work I had... Anyhow, we ended up missing our stop on the metro, Imean SubWay, and because we were on the W train we ended up in Brooklyn. Well, after the detour, we finally made it to our stop. We got the the resto and It's a cute little place with just a few tables and a lot of tea. Literally 96 different kinds of tea. THe rest of the menu is vegan and vegiterian so that was awesome too. It's just a perfect place! I heart Moby so much! So we had a great dinner and just sat and talked for a while. On our way out, Marissa, from Montreal, showed up for tea! It was so odd to run into her! Anyhow, we left and went to a bar called Good World. It was a cool place with the terrace in the back. We got a few drinks and before we knew it it was 1am. crap. So we left and came back to MorningSide Heights so I can get back to the studio. We goodbyed and I made my way to te studio where, at 1:45am, I wasn't the only one there. So, over three hours later,at about 5am, I made my way home, only to wake up now, having to head back so I can complete my work for my pin up. Great.
Today, I have my pin up, and at night, I'm meeting up woth boy number 3...
I never would have thought that it would take so long to push out another post. Oddly, this has been a kind of weekend off, where I didn;t have to go to the studio since Thursday. I guess that's when I really get busy, trying hard not to waste my free time. But I have to say, there was a lot of wasted time, but really that's rested time.
So Friday... On Friday, Illana, Gary and I decided to do a lot of walking. Actually, we didn't decide that really, it was imposed upon us due to circumstance. Illana and I wanted to go to H&M and Gary wanted to walk through Harlem so we headed up to 125th from 116th and due east to only find out that the H&M is a Women and Children store only. Good for Illana, bad for Rob and Gary. So while she shopped, Gary and I picked out some ugly and skanky clothes. We then went to the accessory section and commented on every peice of jewlery and whatnot. It was quite the time.
After H&M we headed down to Central park, making our way to the Whitney Museum. Sad to say it wasn't a Whitney Houston (pronounced house-tonne here) museum. So we walked to central park, took the wrong way around the reservoire, and before we knew it we were walking away from our destination. Great. Regardless, we made it all the way down and east eventually, to the 60s, where the museum was. There we met up with some of Illana's friends and Gary's friends. Rob had no friends, but everyone was so nice that it was cool.
At the Whitney, we saw the American Effect exhibit. It's basically a collection of works from arround the world, commenting on American culture and policy. So on one side there is a lifesize exhibit of superheroes in a nursing home, on another there's a film of porn stars in paradise. It was quite political, humerous, thought provoking and fun. I definitely reccomend. I will be going back to see the other stuff, after all I get in free with my Columbia ID.
After the museum, Gary's friends and I went down for pizza at the oldest pizza place in New York. I forget it's name and I'm sure New Yorkers reading this may kill me. It was delicious! I at almost half a large and by the time I left I had a big belly. Gary's friends were amazingly nice. At times I did feel left out of the conversations, but they would always explain after and stuff like that. Gary didn't even explain, it was his friends that did, that's what made it better.
Wow, this is gearing up to be a long post!
After that we all walked around for a while. We finally went to two bars, one straighter than the other, and there was no dancing too. Dancing seemed to be replaced by pool playing. At the first place there was a super-Texas girl and this guy 'teaching' her how to play pool. At the second, the DJ accepted no requests, and played no good music. I feel that this is a good place to remind everyone that New York City is a non-smoking city. THis means no smoking in indoor public spaces like restos and bars. That's one (of many) things I miss about back home. The morning after shower, with the cloud of smoke filling the shower air, is the single most important remider of a great night out. But here, you have to rely on your memory which, for me, isn't the best thing. Anyhow, after a fun night out, there was no reminder the next day, but I remembered it all anyways.
Before going to bed though, Gary and I went out to the back patio and just sat and talked for a bit. It's so great to find someone to really connect with around here. It's jsut so great.
Saturday now... Wow. ok, so it was a day of issues really. In the morning, Gary and I went to Canal Street for art supplies, but something exploded underground so there was a power failure at Pearl Paint so we couldnt buy our stuff. Great. After that, we headed back to Columbia but stopped off at Union Square. There's a farmers market there so Gary and I bought some veggies in the hopes of making dinner for some people tonight. Issues, so it was postponed. But ya, the farmers market was so... unexpected at Union Square, the same place Gary and I went to and people watched a few weeks back. Anyhow, we went to the Diesel store and i drooled and left. THen there was a street vendor thing going on so we walked through the streets around Union Square. I love just walking with Gary. He's just such a great guy. I guess I'm lucky and make good friends when I'm not at home. Too bad I can't transplant this penised friend back to Montreal. We went and got some Iced coffees and just chatted and it was great.
We then went back home eventually and seperated for the night. I had another date with the second boy. Stuff happened. I don't think I want to see him again really. He has two very distinct personalities and I don't mesh so well with any of them from what I can tell. Oh well.
Now Sunday, today... Today was simple really. In the morning I went to my site on 68th street. I walked around for a bit and hiy 60th street and Columbus Avenue. I then walked all the way up Columbus to 116th street (so not like Rob) stopping for a delicious lunch and then a McDonald's condensed whole milk sundae. I also stopped and sketched a lot for my project. at this moment I only have 4 more sketches to do.
Oh I should explain my project: design a pool and climbing wall complex in the designated site area (on 68th and the waterfront) including washrooms, changing areas and tanning areas. It's a cool project, I'm having fun with it.
That's all for now, I am dead tired. This post only took me... 2 hours to write... Well, Gary did interrupt me in the middle. I thought I wouldnt see him today for the first time in a few weeks. I guess I was wrong. (No, I don't have a thing for Gary, and he is not in love with me, Lea.)
Oh, and today, I wore flip flops OUTSIDE MY ROOM! I even walked outside my DORM to the STORE in flip flops! One step at a time, one step at a time.
What odd days. Well, wednesday was our pin up, and being that I am so unhappy with all my work thus far, I wasn't looking forward to showcasing it. I was one of the last to go and by the time my turn came, they basically addressed all my problems through other people. I was so unhappy with everything that I gave a bland presentation, but got some good feedback. I wished I was able to produce better in order to get real relevant feedback. Either way, we are getting a new teacher so perhaps that will help with my creativity. I already feel I can talk to him and he has a lot of amazing energy about him. anyhow.
So after the crit there was dinner and a lecture and the boy Scott I went on a date with was there so I saw him. He asked me out for a drink but I was getting tired due to that 5am studio of the night before so I said no. I don't know yet if I'm attracted to him on a level more than himb eing a cool guy. damn. So instead I went home, did laundry and then realized I wasn't tired so I went on a date with another boy I met online. He lives a block away but we still went down to 7th or something to go to Cafeteria. THe date was good, but the guy was kind of... Well he was super serious the whole time so I dunno. I'll see him again perhaps, but I dunno. There is at least one more potential boy that I'd want to go out on a date with.
Today, my studio went to the Dia:Beacon museum. It was such a crazy museum with such interesting stuff there! THey had some Andy Warhol paintings, HUGE Richard Serra steel sculptures and his Torqued Ellipses, and Michael Heizer's North South East West two story inverted sculptures. It was so amazing to see everything there. It was a bit... well not the most normal museum, but really interesting things.
But the most interesting thing of the day was finding out something interesting about one of the people in my studio group. She is a lawyer. She's thinking of changing fields and going into architecture. She just won a supreme court case. Damn amazing, and she's in my studio. Wow.
What did I do yesterday? Oh I stuck around the studio for the whole day... the whole day and night. I didn't even get all my work done for the pin up this afternoon, and i really can't plan to either. I left the studio at 5am and woku up a mere five hours later and I will soon be going back. Crazy.
But yesterday from 9:15pm until 11:30 I took a break for my date. Scott took me out for coffee. We had a good time, he's a great guy and we had nice conversation,but I don't see too much sparking. I wonder what he saw. I'm going to see him again probably, and then decide then whether to continue with something. I guess only time will tell.
But for now, time is going to be spent in the studio.
Yesterday was damn fun, damn fun, damn fun. After waking up a bit late I went to the studio for a bit of work, but I got easily bored so I went to the dorm for a nap. I am really getting nowhere for this project and I have to get a lot done by my pin up on Wednesday. yikes. So after watching some Sex and the City I had to take a bus and two metros to get to Union Square. damn construction.
Union square again! but this time for Adam. He was in town with his family so I went out to Union Square Cafe with them. Delicious dinner, and they are so nice, his family, they are really good people. After dinner his family left and me an Adam strolled arround the area. we made a big circle and ended up at Union Square again, just talking for hours. we never really sat down to talk. We went for dinner in June but this was much better. Topics ranged so much, so we really got to know eachother. It was nice. 12:30am came so he headed by cab home and I went by metro. I love getting visitors from home. so nice.
So I'm on the platform right, and I'm jsut standing there and I see all the mice in the tracks. Seen them before and I don't like them much cuz of Neuro Psych or whatever that class that I took was. IT was all about lesioning rat brains and seeing what they did. ZzZZzzzzZZzzZZzz. Anyways, I get on the metro and we head towars 116th and we stop at 103rd and the doors open and everyone in view sees a huge puffy and furry creature run across the door, on the platform. Everyone is like what the fuck! until we hear screaming from a few meters away. The rat ran past a few people and freaked them out. a RAT! a RAT!!!! how nasty!
Anyways, I get home and have many interesting conversations on AIM and go to bed late late late.
Today I went back tot he studio with major designer's block again. If I don't get my shit together I will be fucked, fucked. The day draggs on, we see a movie called Chun King Express and then me and Gary went out to pick up stuff from the pharmacy. I am really getting to know him, he is so cool, so great and so mcuh fun. Gary, who knew?
On our way though, we passed the boy with wom a date had to be finalised. I stopped him this time, and we set up a date for tomorrow night (nervous). I technically should be working my ass off, but I am hopefully going to get an idea tonight and then be free tomorrow after implementing the ideas I hope to have. Delicious.
Last night really made me think, however, about dating here. My dating habits are pretty straightforward: date one person at a time (by date, i mean real dating, not fake dating). But I'm only here for a few weeks and I don't do the long distance thing so what can come out of any of the dates I will go on? Three, four weeks of fun? I guess so. Perhaps I just shouldnt be so exclusive while I'm here. I should see what's around, have fun and make sure it's clear that I'm leaving. I do have a few prospects here, but who knows what will come out of any of them. The only clear thing is that I am not going to whore around. No thanks. Ok maybe... (jk)
With so much going on, it's a wonder why I can't get any work done.
Yesterday, was amazing. I think that every day is better than the last, seriously.
So I went to the studio to do some work in the morning. I get some minor things done when Gary, another guy in studio, grabs me and before I know it we are on the subway going to the Village Voice's Siren Music Festival at Coney Island. It's basically a free all day concert of all these indy bands. Well, due to construction it took about an hour and a half to get down there... fine. We saw a few bands like Oneida, The Dirtbombs and Sarah Hotnights. We couldnt say longer cuz we were due back at 6pm. We were going to MoMa (Museum of Modern Art) for an architecture party thing (PS1.) So we get on the subway and two and a half hours later we get back, missing the people we were supposed to meet, missing MoMa.
but fret not.
Other plans were made and we went to Union Square to meet some of Gary's friends with anoher girl from our course, Illana. We get to Union Square and who walks up to us? Gary's friend Sunny (who has the longest softest hair ever,) his friend Thad, and John who happens to be a casting director for MTV. Well, after many probing question from Sunny, I end out casually coming out. Noe that everything is on the table, it feels good. Later on, gary told me that he would have asked but didn't know if I was comfortable with that. I told him he asks, he gets an answer, and thats how it works. Also, i told him that it's hard for me for me to be on shaky ground like that because I've had a date set up for a few days, but nobody to tell, and tihngs like that. Well, it's out in the open now, I wonder what my roomate will say.
Anyways, Sunny desides to go to the Village so he can be among his people. so we end up at the GAYEST karaoky bar EVER. This really is the gayest place I ever went to, cocmplete with coloured rainbow lights and huge flags. So gay. After a few drinks, we head out to Marissa (from Montreal, Jordy's brother) Party on her roof in Tribeca. It was great, but it was also a Montreal Jews reunion with many connections arround. Everyone had uch a gret time, and allt he people Icame with made connections at the party. Also, the view was AMAZING. I seriouslyt have to go back with my camera. It's so nice, so perfect. It's surrounded by everything. Auch, camera.
So we left at about 2:30 and got back home at about 4:00am, but what a night. What an amazing night. What a liberating night. One day is truly better than the last, so I wonder what today, tomorrow and the next day will bring...
