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*g* should have said I made em up and while I was at it also take credit for dragons… 😉 *g*
thanks all 🙂
hey, I found this mystery when I browsed my stats last night:
coincidence? joke? or actually an internet provider?
never seen it before.(links on the very right are the hyperlinks to my homepage, stuff as bluewin and comcast and… uhhh… disney seem to be providers…
I’d like to thank you all for your nice replies. They really mean a lot to me 🙂
things are still in limbo here.
Last monday we DID get a small get togheter with all the teachers and one of the main teachers (since you know the official director is sick and Mr. Replacement a… non-nice person) and the main teacher said that “the bachelor system has been handed in newly this morning and was approved”
first we were WEEEEE! but a day or so after we realized that he had said “the new bachelor”. We are doing something else, and our system wasnt approved previously. This could mean that the new kids will have no problem, but we may have nothing again.
On the very same get togheter we also asked wheter our Bachelor was valid outside Switzerland as an admission to the “Master of arts”. The teacher at the speaking desk says “yea sure!” but various of my friends sitting at the back where the other teachers sat say that they saw them shaking their heads and one teacher said “thats not quite true but they dont need to know it” to the other.I’m clueless.
And I feel all numb and “I dont care anymore”. I havent got much choice, but with all this vague-ness foggy future it is also a bit dangerous to jump off. My boyfriend he says he’s sure our paper will get through because one lawyer is already active (school has been sued a 200 grands by a student) and rather than paying they’d make our paper valid.WHat makes things even cooler is that some of my friends think its totally chill and the paper wasnt important.
I also have cool stories of my school sending me for practical teaching experience (again, I study art, we dont “learn” we just scribble) to a software computer school. They really believed I could teach there,… things I never even heard of, and I “grew up” with the net. Well, the teacher of that computer school is really nice and we found a solution, but still, I WANT TO CHAINSAW THE MAIN BUILDING OF MY SCHOOL!
*sigh*
I’ll keep you updated. As long as I keep my humor, and my sanity…
greets
Aky
darn if I could only plug the airbrush here…. but US versus Europe/Switzerland… nope.
but good luck with them all 🙂greets
Aky
you all know I am a CGI freak. So I was “yay”! (yes, I also watch bad story cgi movies)
then I saw THIS:
http://www.myvideo.de/watch/1312854and even I went “ack no!”
but I may buy the DVD. Just like I bought the Eragon thing.
greets
Aky
thanx all 🙂 I may do some in the future. I know I will open two commissions this october perhaps in the form of a contest. Doh… I’ll keep you informed.
beside of school being an mn23jri9I&/RF*)ZO I atleast can still doodle in the lessons.
pencils on A5
my schoolfriends adored the chick. But as much as I like my friends I had to seriously sit on my mouth when one asked if I hade made it up. Guess griffins are not common….
greets
Aky
I guess not many of you know that I have a … pretty hard time with school.
I am a Swiss student aiming for an art education paper. AKA art teacher. I’ve been having problems for years alone with the direction of my art. YOu see, many people here think fantasy (and everything related) sucks. I got a direct quote from an art teacher saying that fantasy sucks and that fantasy drawing style, including the ability to draw a horse without a reference and within minutes was bad, no, was crap. Said teacher insisted that this should be done by using google and tracing from a print via lighttable. Similar teacher from similar school also said I painted like HR Giger (yes, Alien). Next teacher said that my usage of rainbow colors on an Abalone shell was wrong. And then they picked on my grades.
I sat down and I thought it over. I knew with what fools and narrowminds I was to deal with if I continued my education. But I wanted to go on, as much as said accusations on top had made me very bitter. I didnt want another student to end up with such a moron. And the only way I knew I could help it was to have my own fingers in it, to become an art teacher. To survive and prevent a prejudgement I drew a line between school and private life. Noone, especially the teachers, was to know of my secrets. AT the same time I went to a school that nearly made me insane. Big mouth talking of deep sense theories on random black lines scribbled over a trash paper. No basics such as human anatomy, use of color, still life, perspective, usage of machines and other craft methods (if you are wondering what we are to teach our future students… so am I). It was at some points unbearable, but my family, boyfriend and friends encouraged me, so did my idols(John Howe) and the fact that my “crap” still sold online. I have an official 5 (okay, 4.6 ) years to go. Of this duration 3 years are Bachelor of Arts and after that the Master of Arts. I am starting year 3 monday.
If you wonder, other countires (EU) were said not to be valid paperwise here in Switzerland. Or I’d be long since studying in Germany, where my boyfriend lives.
According to them after the Bachelor of arts we could enrule in whichever school we wanted(like go to Germany) or continue in the one we were.
What we did not know was that there is this new school system. Called the Bologna system(not spaghetti). Our school tried to fiddle our paper to make it as much compatible with other schools and every friggin art durection possible that. When we enruled, in fact, up to one year after, they were still speculating (yes, thats what you do with shares) that all would be approved by the federation of Switzerland. Well they didnt. Suddenly our Bachelor of ARts is worth… nothing. in EU and Switzerland. But no our school cant tell us directly, because until they are a fully 2349% sure they’ll just let it slip here and there and praise a non existant paper. After some screaming and yelling they admit they will do their best to make the Bachelor valid for the new Master system. And quoting them “as soon as the Master of ARts will ne approved by the federation”. Then they go on saying that they will have a fully exclusive Master of ARts with a special exam to approve us (now— if we will be it) as soon as they figured what to ask in the exam. Because, if you are still following me, you may recall that we learned nothing.
Now ususally you’d go running and glueing and coloring up the directors office (now, we are all adults so we behave) IF there was a director. Well, officially there is, but let me tell you, I’ve been at this school since fall 2005 and I’ve never seen him. Not in the welcoming and not in the obligatoire lessons. He was always having the fluebronchitis and relaps of the flue and returning bronchitis and then he caught cold but well we until today dont know WHAT the heck he has. He’s not there, and an unofficial but reliable source says he has one year more to live (yes he does exist) and another says that school knew that before they hired him two years ago. But according to my latest email he still has the flue.
Well, we have a new one now. A cool one who answers our letters without giving a real answer or solution and not even a “sorry”. He also answers two months after we asked him formally to answer.
yes this is a funny post. Its the only way that I wont run and rip my hair until someone locks me up in a rubber cell. In fact I am amazed how I can make fun of something so serious and threatening… wasted money and wasted years… the truth is I dont know wheter I should laugh or cry. I dont know what can be done against all this but hope for better… or a wonder.
It makes me rage because on the first day of school I called my best friend and told her I felt I was at the wrong place. A few days later I told myself that for the paper I’d sit and smile like an idiot and be silent about what means a lot to me.
Here goes the final joke:
I may not even have a paper at all.
I may just aswell start from the beginning.
Or win the lotto.
Why am i writing this? I dont know… to give you an idea what I am… experiencing and why I may be behaving different/snappy/weird sometimes. Or most likely to have this written down because its 3 am here and I left my last chocolate bars at Eurofurence and my head will explode if I lay down with all this thoughts.
There’s nothing I can do and most likely nothing you can do. Well, i could count my stuff and sue school with a lawyer… yes some of my schoolfriends are considering or ,according to rumours, have done so.
Anyhow, goodnight all and thanks for listening. Knowing that others know whats going on already helps…greets
Aky
thanks 🙂
@dragonessjade:
it was for sale, its already sold :/
all of the above listed books are sold.I want to make more (yes Basil 🙂 ) as soon as my hands are done complaining… *g*
thanks all!
anyhow, the night before I left for Eurofurence my boyfriend took pictures of all the books. They are not great but … enough to show whats on them 🙂beware, SPAM!
*hides*
I’ll never ever do this again….but if the weather is nice next week I’ll color paper… for new books….
believe me… I stood infront of the original and stared and stared and stared and stared again.
here go some pics.
It wasnt allowed to take pics of the originals (what else) and the WIP pieces had a pretty nice copyrightphotoproof glass infrom that glared so hard it was nearly impossible to take pics. Not noticeable when you stood infront of it, but impossible to “take home”.okay, when I’m fitter (yes I am sick) you’ll hear sentences to these images I post.
These were taken at the
JOHN HOWE exhibit in Saint Ursanne, Switzerland. The exhibit ends sunday (this sunday) with a autogramme hour of both John and ALan Lee.
uhm… if you can (ok, only Basilisk COULD) do come look at it…
its only a few of his works here in the images I took.
never knew he did sculpture….
I promise I’ll tell more bout the exhibit. perhaps in a sepparate post
greets
Aky
Akeyla wrote:*g*
I love the way he had it in a barn beside the house 🙂 you know, with nice old traditional wood doors.
It was like “oh, have you seen my pet?”.
It is still amazing that only one front paw broke int the kilning process. Usually trapped air makes such sculptures nuke. In the case of the paw it was the temperature change in winter which made part of the sculpture freeze.
He really really worked incredibly well, well calculated and aware of the materials properties.
Compared to polymer I feel like working with playdo 😉I wanted to share this long ago already, but me and my brain. While I am at it, John Howe has an exhibit here in Switzerland:
I’m happy I could amaze you with this post just as his exhibit amazed me 🙂
because, on Nambs topic, he is just as awesome in person as his sculpture/work is. Both Daniel Rieser and John Howe.greets
Aky
wohoo…
you people would have killed to see what I saw today 🙂
medival city with life size dragons and unicorn heads, Step by Step drawings from the master aaaaaand closeup personal view of Originals!
I saw almost all the more famed LOTR images with a once centimeter nose distance.
the originals of this
http://www.john-howe.com/portfolio/gallery/data/media/61/Couv-v1-port.jpg
this
http://www.tuckborough.net/images/glorfindel-howe.jpg
http://www.linesandcolors.com/images/2006-11/howe_450.jpg
http://www.gudehus-net.de/images/bagend.jpg
http://www.eso-garden.com/images/uploads_bilder/myth_and_magic_the_art_of_john_howe_0.jpgI felt like I had died and was in painters heaven….
the originals are poster size 🙂fwee!
I honestly have no idea. I can try to ask him, but I hope you saw how heavy it is (87 kg, thats heavyer than a full grown man).
The only price I ever heard him say was six grands (or more?) for something similar to this:
http://www.dragon-palace.ch/figuren/Komet03.jpgif you are interested I can drop him an email in german, or better Schwiizerdütsch.
regards
Aky
Yep. He and Alan Lee. ALan Lee will be there this sunday too. Giving autographs 🙂
cant make it to see them both, I am hopeing I will see John Howe atleast thursday.. perhaps lurking. I doubt it. But he already signed my sktechbook. Or better, wrote into it *love*. He is so really cool. People asked him to draw something and he’d like… put 15 minutes into a sketch signature for anyone!
Now THATS what i call wonderful 🙂greets
Aky
