art Tuesday

So this was my second 'art Tuesday' where I spent a few hours after work playing around with 3d for myself. Today I actually made something presentable. Last week I had big ideas for a character and all these details and this and that. In the end I barely got started on it. Today however, I spent some time at work while things were rendering to doodle. The doodle looked similar to something else I had doodled and thought about creating in 3d before. Well enough ranting, I'll just put up the image and be done.

sketch:


final image:


title: noncommittal_01
size: 450x626 pixels
medium: 3dsmax+vray

Ideas for the piece were a combination of my feelings about failed personal projects, the inability to finish something, paper craft folding, origami, and the want to use the 3d program in the most simplest ways. I think I might try to develop this more, both the concept and the visual style I'm looking for.

I used to eat at subway almost every day when I first moved to NYC. It was my safe food because it reminded me of Baltimore. These days I've finally given up on the chain, after poor service and willingness (finally) to try out some of the other places around my office.

A few days ago a co-worker shared this with me: http://gothamist.com/2008/07/16/man_finds_serrated_in_subway_sandwi.php

I could have been that guy!

Scuba class

So yesterday I finished the classroom and confined water diving!

Basically the morning was dedicated to rushing through all the tests within the book and making sure we were good on all that. Next we took a quick test that I aced fairly well. Four parts, 100%, 80%, 90%, 100%. nice. Next up was probably two hours of indoor pool diving. Best part was being able to clear my mask like second nature. Clearing the mask is just taking air from the tank and blowing it out through your nose to push water out of your mask. I had a lot of that because of the mustache! Also equalizing the air in my ears came a lot easier then it had when I did the discover scuba in Korea. WORSE parts were having to breath without the mask on. I can not for the life of me keep water out of my nose, so i had to position myself perfect to keep any air from escaping my nose. After breathing without the mask you had to fit the mask back on and blow air out your nose to fill the mask with air... ouf.

Lunch break after the diving

Then a final exam which I aced with a 96%. So back in the pool! There were two more hours where we ascended while buddy breathing, hovering at the bottom of the pool, and a few other things. My favorite thing to practice was breathing with the take turned off. The teacher would turn my tank off while at the bottom of the pool and you could watch your air take drop as you took maybe two or three breaths before it was 0. Then he'd turn the tank back on. But you could feel the resistance as you tried to suck on the air. It was pretty interesting to know what it felt like just in case it happened while diving. So I'm done with that!

Next up is taking four open water dives. So hopefully while in Antigua I can do a two dive a day, two day thing that will finish the certification and I can get my fancy PADI certification card!

yey.

things going on:

studying for scuba certification

i saw a centipede in my kitchen. as soon as I looked and reacted with this sort of spasm of bracing myself for taking a bullet, the bug looked like it was just ask scared and immediately turned and ran out of the kitchen. There was something that I felt like we shared in that moment. Now I've got a new found respect for bugs that run when they know they're in danger. Except roaches. Die roaches!

art endeavors: so after my vacation trip, and after talking with my old skool high school friend Dyna, I've setup a plan to ease into my fine art experiments. Every Tuesday, two hours will be dedicated to playing around with 3d for arts sake. So far, so slow. Possibly in the future I'll be looking into getting a shared studio to work in.