#20: J. Prufrock "Love Song" [musings]

This is my last semester as an undergraduate (I hope) and I'm being overly ambitious and trying to change my life.

How?

I've joined a metal band (12 Steps Away), am cohosting another Art and Music Day, doing the advertisements for the theatre organization on campus (College Players), am in three jazz bands (one with an astronaut; Jazz Syndicate), and trying to get some art finished and put up.

In relation to the last addendum to my life, I recently worked on a drawing for my British and American Literature class. The assignment was to compare a piece of Modernist writing to a piece of artwork. I decided to do my own artwork. It is almost finished and I hope to have it up soon. It is called 'J. Prufrock "Love Story",' which you may know is a twist on T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J.F. Prufrock". (You can read it here --> The Love Story of J.F. Prufrock)

Eliot's poem is one of my favorite of all time. My mother showed it to me when I was in early high school and I never forgot my favorite lines, "In the room the women come and go/Talking of Michelangelo." Michelangelo was a great artist, and so was T.S. Eliot; however, Eliot was no Michelangelo. The protagonist, Prufrock, is dealing with frustrations regarding women (the attainment of), aging, and of the decadence of living in the city.

In my piece, I imagined Prufrock in a nightclub. Nightclubs are dingy, dirty, decadent, and superficial (you thought all of those words were going to start in 'd's,' didn't you?). The women are dancing to the beats of MC Michelangelo as poor Prufrock stands in the corner. I hope to have this up this week (it is pen, pencil, and colored pencil).

In other news, I have FINALLY joined some deviantArt groups, #All Art Support and #Unknown-Artists-Club . I hope to be a more actice community member of deviantArt. Anyway, stay tuned as I become "more active." ..as if that is even possible.

..oh, hey.. and maybe I'll start exercising.  I say that now..

#16: The Florida Tech College Players present...

..."The Drowsy Chaperone" by Bob Martin and Don McKellar!  This is our upcoming musical.  College Players is a student-run organization at Florida Tech that puts on a main production every semester (Fall, musicals; Spring, plays).

I have been making artsy stuff for my PR position with College Players.  Below is some of the stuff I have made for the show (most of it is just alterations of the same logo with I drew with art markers.)

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This is the original scan of the logo.  Done with art markers.  I drew it like 20 times because I couldn't seem to get the record player right.

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This is the finished show logo.  I drew this with art markers and made the blue bordering with Gimp 2.6  There are some addition edits I did with Gimp to make it larger.

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This is my concept for a 10x10 banner that will be put on Florida Tech's Student Union Building (SUB).

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This is the 11x17 poster.  Let's not get into what the Copy Center did to them.  *sigh*

If you are interested in College Players and/or what we do, check out http://cp.fit.edu/

To make these advertisements, I used GIMP 2.6, Microsoft PowerPoint 2007, Windows Paint, and Microsoft Publisher (my holy grail).

#4 Guitar Duel - Update

I'm still working on the piece I posted about last. It's been a busy week full of rehearsals for the upcoming Orchestra concert I am in (I play acoustic guitar in FIT's orchestra).

Here's a pic of what I have finished currently.



^ Thanks to Dave for taking the pic for me.

If you want to know more about the Orchestra concert, you should check out this link.

FIT Orchestra and Choir Concert

Below is the poster for the concert, created by the orchestra director, Dr. Jamie Younkin. A woman after my own heart.

#2: Comics

Well, I started this blog like a month ago and then our (Florida Tech College Players) production ("While The Lights Were Out") picked up and I haven't had much to say since. While I'm at it, I may as well post the commercial for the show.

While The Lights Were Out Commercial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPnYEgS6X6s

Ashley Wood

In my free time I have been reading some crazy comics that I bought from someone off of fitforum who happens to have a similar soul to my own. She works at Hot Topic, loves Ben Templesmith, and is an artist in Melbourne. She introduced me to an artist named Ashley Wood. Ashley Wood is the artist for a mini comic series called Zombies Vs. Robots. The story is dark and satyrical and plunges the reader into a world full of George Lucas-esque robots where a virus has turned the human race into Zombies.



The second half of the series is called Zombies Vs. Robots Vs. Amazons. Ashley does both the cover art and the actual art for the first five and the art cracks me up. Its very sketchy and many of the characters are unnaturally bent, with all facial expressions being amazingly dramatic.



So, if you can find them on Amazon or at your local comic shop, I would def. suggest buying them. Totally worth it.