Although it is easier to criticise than just plain writing, I think I prefer blogging with photos. They're like the simple sugars of the interwebs; easier to digest!

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Fractalius Experimentation

I think it was a good idea pikeying the Fractalius Filter the day before my exam, it came in quite handy and had some fairly nice results, or at least I thought, either way, here are some of them:

Geraint Up In 'Dis Bitch

As you all may or may not know, Monday and Tuesday of this week was our art exam. Two days of utter panic and stress. However, I think if we all spent half the time we do complaining about art, we would get it finished a lot quicker. Ironically, it always seems to be the people who shout, "Ahh, Im going to fail!" who end up getting the best marks. Although, this didnt apply to me too much, as I found it a rather relaxing two days. I was suggested to do some edits for my final piece, and the only manual task I had to do was set up and arrange a set of leaves and ziggurats, take the photos, and edit them. I needed two for my final piece, which would be printed out in poster size, but ended up finishing the day with over 120. Here are a few of them, on one of my die-tetrahedron sculptures:

Pissing About, AKA "Development"

Why Revision is like taking a Good Shit

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Revision, which is now pretty much upon us, can be difficult to stick to, and can seem quite scary, like a  massive immovable object between now and the summer. But I dont think its all too bad, as long as you have dedication, and know how to spend your time well (considering work and play) then you will be fine!

Upon thinking about this, I was suddenly hit with a somewhat strange analogy (wahey), which I thought I may as well share with you all. I would think twice about posting this, but its late and I haven't thought this through.

There is the build up, of eating food, and digesting et.c. Take this to be going to lessons and doing homework. Then, once you actually go to do aforementioned shit, there can be brief moments of discomfort, followed by an overall more satisfying feeling of relief. And of course; there is the classic metaphor of "shitting on exam papers", which I have heard from my friends many a time in pre exam pep talks.

Hope this helps! ;D

- Colm

Drama and the Likes,

 Good evening! In the recent week I have had many a thing to write about. But only now can I be bothered:

Recently, I realised that I had to re-do an english drama piece, and that our last chance to get the grade we want would be on the scene of Curley's Wife's death in, "Of Mice and Men".  Unfortunately, the role I was assigned was that of the retarded character of Lennie. I had to sit on my own, complaining about how I killed a dog, and would no longer be able to, "tend the rabbits" and how I had, "done a bad thing". Not only that, but the humiliation continued! I then had to excitedly bang on about how I loved velvet, and proceed to rub my dramatical partners hair, murmuring, "Oooh, thats nice" repeatedly. Despite my shitty american accent and cancerously bad acting, I somehow managed to get an a*! That says a lot about myself really, the only time I succeed at drama is when I am playing a retard. However, I will still hold on to the fact that I think I was only given the grade out of pity, as she had previously asked who needed the grades or not. This is where the real tragedy comes in. I had made a miscalculation. The only benefit of doing better in this drama, was humiliating myself, and moving up from an average of 24.6 to 25.3, meaning no good was done at all.

- Colm

Interesting Times

 So, after much persuading and nagging, my mother has kindly re-stocked on ink and photo paper, so my art book is beginning to fill up some more; 2 Weeks remaining and 18 pages to go!I have looked back at my work inspired by Karl Blossfeldt from my Contrast book, and have chose to continue with this into my exam book. The photos, which I believe are fairly effective, are made very easily, simply by desaturating the image and adding varying "cartoon" layers. This is very time efficient, and allows me to continue my revision studies, and any other homework I may have.

In other news, I have also very nearly finished my ICT coursework! At last! I only have a few random bits to do left, which will become evident when my teacher finally comes to looking through my work. Although I must say I am annoyed at the amount of lunchtimes I have wasted away in room 208 for half a gcse, the work is easy enough to remind me that it is probably worth while.

At the moment I am not up to much, I was doing some art, and some graphics revision, which is possibly the most boring type of all. Im pretty sure everything is more interesting than learning about adhesives and "spiral wound tubes". In fact, I would say even english, my arch enemy of subjects, is more interesting! But anyways, I fear I have banged on a bit too much about school, which is the story of my blog, to be honest. But admitedly, Im not sure I have much else to talk about, which shows the depressing life I lead. And anything else more interesting Im not sure I can even talk about with my friends (Olly - ¬¬), let alone post on the internet!

- Colm

Edited by me, but not primary source!