I’ve been busy. Job hunting away I suppose and getting ready to move. That and nothing interesting that I actually wish to talk about has happened.

Some bad stuff has sure, but I’m not going to wave it all over the Internet. While I could, I’m not falling into that 14 year old mentality that everyone needs to know the shitty drama or that I need to be vindictive and spread stuff around.

I did however, go to San Francisco and while I don’t have much to say about that either, I have photos. Really, if I could live there I’d be super happy. It would be awesome. I’m in love with the architecture, the atmosphere, the ocean, really just everything.

Obligatory self portrait that I just have to do everywhere…

Long day at the Round Up Centre, but such a blast. I ended up going to the annual Calgary Comic Expo with Alex and met up with Andre and Jason once there. I also ran into my wonderful friend Don who I love so much and his beautiful wife Augusta nearer to the end of the day. Good thing to because they only had passes for Saturday.

So, met Jewel Staite. I went along with Alex and she’s adorable and friendly and personable, totally lovely woman and far better as a blonde. Outside of that I caught glimpses of Edward Olmos, and Kandyse McClure and managed to get a sneaky picture of Sean Astin. Lots of people, lots of crowds but I was really there for the artists.

I showed my finished book to Stephen Silver and Sean Galloway. Both artists who I follow quite extensively online as I’m a huge fan of their respective styles. Both have, on occasion, slipped into my work, Silver more notably. Stephen said some lovely things about it as he flipped through it, but Sean’s reaction just made me day entirely. He flipped through it and with every page he got more excited telling me how much he loved it. He asked who did the layouts and everything, how long it took, etc. and was surprised to find out that I did everything minus the actual printing and it took just under 4 months. He smiled brightly and handed it back saying that I should pitch it to Nickleodean and see what they say. Animation studios may love the character designs and such. He seemed to.

It made my day. I have been feeling so discourage lately as I’ve gotten rejected from everything I’ve tried lately. Here’s to hoping things start figuring themselves out.

No art on the blog lately, and I apologize for that. I’ll get with it again soon! The photography has been full force though thanks to my photo class. My final assignment was a party for lack of a better phrase.

I’m breathing, but barely and that is how the last semester has been.

Anyway, long story really short, photos all week due Monday, book to finish, wayfinding assignments, no sleep all dark room all the time.  The nice thing is, a list has been started of people who want to buy my book. This is amazing to me since I figured no one would really give a damn about a final studio project. Proves me wrong as the list is about 7 people looking to buy and 5 as gifts.

Not to mention I’ve been getting a lot of photography feedback for people wanting to hire me and/or buy prints off of me. I should do a career switch maybe. This graphic design/illustration thing is clearly not working.  Photos are actually happening most of this week. I was lucky enough to actually get Peter to help me out since he’d be perfect for the role in mind.  He gets to kill me, but that is entirely besides the point. He felt it was a bit strange and asked me if my mind was as scary as it seems to be.

I think that answer is yes, actually. But its fun. You never get bored having my ideas running around.

Still debating moving to Toronto despite not being accepted into grad school. Not sure yet. I’d need a place to live and while it would be really easy to just move in with a friend the cats are probably not compatible. The plus side of that being that we’d never see each other. The benefits of living with a person without the hassle of ever having to see them. I am so anti-social apparently.  So I’m looking for any types of media jobs that are relevant to my interests. Graphic design, illustration, photography….anything really. Except web design. I’d prefer not to make a career of it.  I’m looking at Edmonton too.  I think that it is just time to get out of Calgary.

The grad school thing really threw a wrench into my plans. I’m not sure what to do now, but at least the rejection letter was nice. I keep getting this feeling though, that with the amount of times I’ve received some kind of rejection in the last few months that I would be use to it. By far the biggest blow though, mostly because my art is my life and it still feels like they though I wasn’t good enough.

Interestingly enough, this image was enough to get people to want to buy the book. Why can’t it be that easy to get a job?