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procrastinating.

I have a very interesting assignment for my illustration class.

And it damn well *SHOULD* be an interesting assignment since I was given absolutely no restrictions over choosing what I wanted to do the assignment on.

What I have to do (and what I chose to do) was to find interesting elements in technology, machinery, etc, and combine it with organic life forms (animals, humans, plants...).

I proposed to do this through taking pictures of both sides of the equation, and then to draw out these new combinations in interesting scenarios using the pictures as references.

I thought this was a fun and interesting idea. The teacher thought this was a fun and interesting idea.

But now I find myself against a mental block.

It's *too* fun and interesting!!

I have no idea where to start!

ha...

oh well. I'll manage.




(maybe these two would go together nicely?)

And uh, here's some pretty pictures too![



Yeah, landscapes are boring, I know. But I like the coloring on this one.



Natural lensflare! Woo!



Baby jesus and a tombo! (hint, tom bo means flying stick).


Oh, so I went out with Cilian and a girl we both know from Musabi into the city yesterday to go check out Musabi students friends boyfriends gallery. Yeah.

The artwork was really pretty incredible. Large, strangely nightmarish, and yet almost cute. Sadly they didn't allow photography inside or else I would have very happily documented the whole thing.

But on the way out of the building we ran into the artist himself! A very nice guy who was suitably embarrassed when complimented, he happily showed us around the area.

Anyways, I said I was into strange japanese paraphernalia so he took us to this strange little hole in the wall store on a side street that led to down twisting dimly lit stairs.

And like all things in Japan, the harder it is to find, the better it's going to be.

This place was very very cool. I managed to buy a very strange and beautifully drawn artbook, and almost bought an evangelion kewpie doll. (it was very cute. maybe a little too cute).

I always get this feeling that there is so much more in the city that I'm not seeing, things hidden just one floor away, something that I would find so incredibly cool, but would be impossible to find anywhere else.

This can be a little aggravating, but at the same time, there is always the knowledge that I *haven't* found everything yet.

I'm absolutely sure the same applies to N.Y.