kitty!

So, there's this new cat in my nieghborhood. I don't know whose it is, but I've seen it everywhere. It's really young and playful. It loves to chase things and climb trees and scare the crap out of the squirrels.

Anyways, I officially "met" it last week at a friends house nearby. We were out taking a walk and it was outside so we stopped to pet it and wonder whose it was. After we pet it, it followed us on our walk the whole way. It was so cute! BUT THEN! When we had to split and I went one way, my fiends the other, it was totally like one of those cute moments where it stopped in the middle of the quiet road between us and looked back and forth really sadly. Like, no kidding. It sat down and meowed at us so pitifully. It was adorable. But it followed me home! I carried her home and talked to her in my arms like a baby. It was adorable. And then when I put her down and walked inside, she meowed at the door. Way to make me sad, kitty. Gosh.

Anywho, days later. I'm sitting and watching TV with the window open cuz it's hot, right? I hear a squeak from the window and there's the kitty peeking in at me!! I was like, "Awah! It found me!" So I went outside and played with her for a while. Did I say I love kitties?

Then, again, days later, landing on today, I'm sitting here on the computer and there's this door behind me. The screen is open again to let the breeze in the house. And again, I hear a meow, and it's kitty again!! So, she's found me twice now, in totally different parts of my house. I love this cat! So I roll back in my chair to the door and see this!

Adorable, no?

Oh! She's out here now!

Kitteh loves to play.

I told you she climbs trees!

So that's my kitty story. Cute, no? Hehehe. I want to know if she has a name, but she has no collar, and no one knows who the owner is. I might have to name her something on my own. Any ideas? Feel free to suggest!

~Yoyo

Misc.

I'm at a busy time in life right now, so my one post a week goal is failing utterly. I hope to make up for it, but right now I must concentrate on school and graduating.

One project to possibly be coming in the spotlight soon is the bench I've painted for a community project. It will be going up for auction at the end of summer, so I've gotta get some pictures of it before it's gone.

A second project just completed today was a group project at an after-school art program was a twelve-piece chess set and character trio themed from the Alice in Wonderland sequel, Through the Looking Glass. I designed and decorated many of the pieces but I focused mainly on the character trio which included Alice, the Cheshire Cat, and the Queen of Hearts as a playing card. The twelve chess set pieces included a red an black version of Queens, Kings, Bishops, Knights, Rooks, and Pawns. They were all done in papier mache, painted and then bedazzled in glitter. Haha. Quite the feat.

Well, look forward to that later. I just really needed an update for now.

~Yoyo

lol =/= lol

I believe that internet chatspeak has progressed to the point where "lol" no longer means "laughing out loud." I rearly use chatspeak anymore in chatrooms or IM, but the few things I do use include:

lol (laughing out loud)
wb (welcome back, for when someone is disconnected but soon returns)
brb (be right back, when you're away from your desk but with come back soon)
nvm (nevermind)
ttyl (talk to you later, used when leaving)
rofl (rolling on floor laughing, when something is *really* funny)
omg (oh my god)
wtf (what the fuck)
ftw (for the win!)

Well, in any case, I think that lol has been reduced to a chuckle. That's about the most I'll get out of it. It's also become a filler when there is nothing to say in response but you want to let the person know you laughed/chuckled/smiled/at least thought it was funny.

That's about all I have to say. Just thought I'd mark this occasion in interwebz history.
~Yoyo

chicago

Yay Chicago Art Institute! I took a day trip into Chicago today to go to the Institute with a community college group. My parents went for the tour, but I had already seen it in the fall, so I just wandered around since I had already memorized the layout of the building. It's funny though, because I can memorize names and faces, song tunes (NOT lyrics), and building/street layouts, as long as I've been through them before... but anything else I try memorizing just toooottaly fails. Hahaha! It took me two years just to get my times tables right. Ugh. I don't do math.

Anywho, here's some pictures of things I liked:

A Claude Monet painting I liked. It had really nice colors. I've discovered lately that I really enjoy Impressionism. It's probably something to do with my love of the nineteenth century.

Speaking of nineteenth century, this is a Thorne Room Miniature. It's basically a scale model of a period 1840-70 Living Room I believe. It's about twelve inches high, ceiling to floor there... amazing. Perfect imagination fodder for writing! I just had to have a picture.

Downtown Chicago! This is right outside of the front of the Institute. I just love the view. And, since it was raining and sort of foggy, it was really neat how that far skyscraper kind of just disappears in the clouds.

The North Lion! RAWR! Ya just gotta take a picture of the lion. Hehehe.

skeleton writing

I'm working on a new story. It started out as an idea for a short story but I'm only a little ways in, and it's already closing in on 6,000 words, meaning it will be closer to a novella when finished. If I finish it. I have a trend in my writing that the longer the piece is, the less likely I am to finish it. I hope I can finish this one because I am very interested in seeing what happens to my characters.

Well, right now I am basically writing the skeleton of my story. For me, the ideas of what's happening next are coming too quickly for me to spend forever on details and description without loosing the plot to come, so I skimp and write ahead with plot. Then later as I re-edit, I will add more description, and basically flesh it out. Here's to hoping I stick with it long enough! Haha.

~Yoyo

i made a book!

So, I've been writing poetry for about three years now, and have accumulated about 80 or so poems of my own. Now, in my recent bookbinding interest, I have decided to print out all my poetry (quite the task on its own) and put all in a neat little book! I have to say it turned out quite well for my first ever, uninstructed attempt. Take a look-see for yourself! And if any bookbinders out there could kindly tell me how I did, that would be awesome!

The outside!

The inside title page.A close-up of the tail.

88 pages including an Index!

writing somewhat prolifically

My writing comes in waves I guess. Writing is like a feeling for me. It's a rare one, but when it comes, and I feel like writing, and the inspiration is there, I can write some amazing stuff.

For example, with poetry... if I just feel like I want to write a poem, it comes out very forced, and people can tell. It doesn't flow then. When I feel the inspiration, it's like the poem is in me, and it wants to come out. Then it's the duty for my hand to take the pen and write the poem, otherwise it will leave me. Same thing with stories as well. The right inspiration and moment can create some awesome scenes and short stories. Often music will get me in the right mood for a particulary instense moment in a story.

Also, my writing tends wax and wane. I can go for weeks and even months without writing any creative stories or poems. But at some point the dam breaks and I've got a flood if ideas and inspiration that gets me going for week long stints. Like now for example, I've been on a long run. I've gotten about five different story ideas acutally written down, and in progress, and probably like eight to ten different poems written. Quite productive, if you ask me.

Well, now I'm in the mood to share my latest poem. I didn't think I would, but I like it, and I'm curious to see if anyone has any interpretations. I purposely left it out capitaliztion and punctuation to let the reader put their own interpretation into it. So, here we go:


The Flow of Thunder

don't play outside
the flow of thunder
carrying mysteries
they had forgotten me
she held out her hand
and I looked once more
me, remotely possessed
rain, leaving them

drawing

Drawing: one of my artistic strengths. I love to draw from life. I can make wonderful copies of life, turning it to graphite on my paper. I can draw people, buildings, and still lives, just as long as they're sitting in front of me.

The only thing I'm not so good at is drawing from my imagination. That's really difficult for me. It's like some people are really good at making up their own anime characters. I have tried that, but they end up looking really lame. About the only thing I've discovered the ability to do from imagination are landscapes. Draw the ground, some grasses, trees, dirt and roots if you're doing the under ground. Add in some nifty clouds and some shading and "ta-da!" Magical landscape.

Well, about one of my most succesful drawings is this one I like to call "Pachyderm." The bike I had set up on a work table. I sat on the hard a** concrete floor to get the right perspective. The elephant I had a couple photo references. And the mouse is *gasp* completely from imagination! He's kind of cartooney, but I think he's cute. ^_^

~Yoyo

un-drama-ified

Well... I'm hard pressed to find some decent words to start this off. So here I go. I've a had a few blogs before. They failed utterly. But I believe it's because they were too dramatic. (I was in middle school at the time.) So, to illustrate what I hope see come of this one, and why I started another blog, here's an abbreviated conversation I had with some friends of mine in a chatroom:

[yoha_ahoy] 6:45 pm: :faints: am i crazy? i just started another blog... -__-
[User #1] 6:45 pm: O.o
[yoha_ahoy] 6:45 pm: maybe this one will be un-drama-ified and, erm interesting?
yoha_ahoy sighs
User #1 uses blog merely to inform about certain confusions in stories
[User #2] 6:46 pm: Can life not be drama-ified?
[yoha_ahoy] 6:48 pm: well, i'm a blog snooper, and i'd always thought it'd be interesting to read the blog of an artist, but i'm too lazy to find one, so i thought i'd write my own ^_^

So yeah! In case you haven't gathered, I am an artist. Though I'm currently a student. In fact, I just got my letter of acceptance to the art department at the college I'm going to! I was most pleased. I figured that now would be a nice benchmark in life to start writing about my future artistic career. So here are my goals for this blog:

1.) Leave out unecessary drama.
2.) Keep it creatively centered. (Art, writing, etc.)
3.) Have at least one post a week.
4.) Have it be semi-interesting?

Not so sure about number four. That's not completely under my control, for what might be interesting to me could be completely boring to the rest of the world. Hopefully some feedback can correct that. Well, I think that's enough for now. :)

~Yoyo