...projects

I have yet to really get myself started on my own projects this summer. I work 3-5 days a week for around 5 hours a day for an artist in residence in Katonah named Damian Wagner and sporadically for an artist agency slash miscellaneous public art funding organization called Creative Time. Having the two jobs has kept me pretty busy some weeks and not at all for others. This week Damian was busy mixing his album and got sick, so I didn't end up working today. I haven't done anything with Creative Time since the Trip the Light Fantastic benefit. I may be working sometime soon on Coney Island again, helping set up the Dreamland Artists' Clubhouse with Steve Powers. I bought some painting supplies and should start work on some canvases soon. Or kill myself for being so god damn unmotivated.

projects:
-various paintings
-scrounge for wood panels for painting and graffiti
-begin graffiti
-various sketches and drawings
-get better with photoshop and/or other digital things and my tablet
-possibly play some music (unlikely)
-work on music library, look up bands on list
-watch movies on list
-look up artists on list
-continue to make list longer and therefore totally impossible to complete
-organize various files
-READ BOOKS (my attention span has been nonexistant as of late)
-learn more about Kyoto
-learn more about Japan's art scene
-blog periodically

I figure these goals aren't exactly a stretch, so doing it all before leaving for Tokyo should be no big deal.

In other news, I am highly aggravated by the fact that chapters from 142 up to 200-something of the Shaman King manga have not been translated into English. If I get even more desperate, I may try reading the French translations (I know, it's like Babelfish).