Moving forward in the technological world

I now have a website with more recent work
www.hollymatildajones.com
I imagine I will carry on abandoning this blog and just updating my website every now and then instead.x

You could fit three people under here

Drag down the duvet and call me Daysleeper

Haven't updated in quite some time. All has been rather odd and busy since Christmas. However, I have done quite a bit of work. 

Should be receiving the CS4 Premium Package through the post soon which I'm very excited about since I haven't got Flash or Dreamweaver at the moment and am looking forward to the long hours of screaming at my computer whilst trying to work out how to make a website and animations.

The current project for uni is Narrative; I am studying a piece of text from Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood, who I have recently discovered a liking for. It is all quite enjoyable.

Due to having lost my job and having nothing much work-wise to do other than uni I've been spending all of my time on staying at home drawing, watching films, reading (alot!), eating battenberg cake, making things and talking on the telephone, with the occasional trip to town or to a party with friends. Despite sounding desperately boring, it has been fun and much more satisfying than going to shit club nights and drinking too much.

They look like floorboards but upside-down

When I came in drunk this morning I spilt marmite on the kitchen floor and then my friend showed me a video of him hitting his friend over the head with a frying pan to complete an elaborate excuse he'd used to explain his absense from work.
I've always like the idea of someone hitting another person round the head with a frying pan. Perhaps its a sign that actually fried foods or the fumes from hot oil triggers violence in people.

The second picture is part of the Burial of the Dead project. its incomplete but I ran out of time and am sick of working on the project so it'll stay like this forever now. The top one was a pattern I drew to incorporate in my pieces but my tutor said that he kind of actually prefered it to some of the final images. I think maybe I do to. I think I'd like to do things more like that for final images, because I love creating patterns but am usually reluctant because it doesn't take me very long to do and I seem to have decided that you judge a pictures successfullness and quality by how long you have spent on it. Which is why I take so long to do anything.

I ate some celery today and I think it was off.

The bigger your bed, the better the tent

I've looked at this for so long now I can't really work out what's good and what's bad anymore.

Despite this sounding like a typically lipgloss faux-philosophical jabber, I do simply mean I'm sick of trying to make this picture good and not knowing how. 

I gave in a overly unnecessarily-anxious project on Monday, which although a mostly enjoyable process, proved a disappointing finale (like at the circus), which showed how little thought I had put into executing my ideas. (When in actual fact I had put a lot of thought into executing my ideas. It just didn't make all that much difference)

Now we have a new project, I have started drawing today, which is a good start, considering I have weeks before panic countdown begins. 

I decided to go round the charity shops tomorrow to collect a variety of board games for the house. I think playing board games is probably a largely overlooked route of strengthening some part of your brain. And since most of the parts of my brain need strengthening, this would be useful. And I also very much like the idea of sitting in on a cold and rainy day with a cup of tea, slippers and a good cd, whilst playing a board game with someone who holds good company.

Quadruple sized sheets please

Too much happening to ramble on about nothing.

Working hard though.

Carpet burns on my elbow

Haven't posted in a while, this means I'm not working hard enough. 

I've finally started a piece of work that I like, although I'm now stuck, not really knowing where to go with it. Probably won't finish it this week as work is going to be manic and I somehow seem to have been offered a commision for a friend, which is good news. 

Going back to uni on Monday next week, very exciting. It will be good to have some structure and set time to wake up in the morning, not really looking forward to remembering how good everyone else is and how rubbish I am but I'm sure that's what one should call healthy competativeness. Or something similar.

This isn't a current picture, but just thought I'd keep up the routine of sticking an image at the bottom of each post. This was a page of the Smudgeucated Optical project, which I was utterly determined to apply to a 'manifesto' uni brief.