Gene has redesigned this blog as well as my myspace and designed my website. The website is a little more trickier than what we originally thought.. Domain names and hosting and coding and blah. But, I am assured it will happen. Which I am really happy with as I really do not like myspace. It is FULL of advertising and no matter what you do, it never really looks that professional. Plus, they keep updating it, trying to be like facebook, and facebook does the same. It’s all so annoying, I want my own site to get away from all of that. So the only updates that happen on it, are due to my wanting it.
I’ve got all sorts of accounts everywhere and it would just be nice to have one page I can focus solely on that. It also means, if all goes to plan, that I will be moving my blog to that site. But I will still be using this blog, as I like it. I would assume that the webpage one would be for “major” things.
Anyway, I am avoiding sleep as per usual, and it doesn’t help that I am excited about tomorrow. I love having things to do. I have a commission to do. Usually, I get a little worried about commissions. They make me feel strange, it adds a certain amount of pressure… Makes me feel uncertain and I usually divert to a style that isn’t mine..as if I feel safer if it isn’t “my” style. But this commission has a different feel. I think it is because the gentleman it is for is someone who I like very much, and it is apart of a bigger project. I can’t give out details as it is all in the making at the moment, but it is very exciting. It also feels different as it has sparked 4 new works instead of just one. Doesn’t mean he will want all 4, but that isn’t the point. It means it has opened a new gate for me with my work.
My real frustration is not having a printer here. In Melbourne I had my own office at home and could do everything there. From research to scanning and printing…Now, I have to wait til stores are open and pay ridiculous amounts of money for a print. But, it is a small price to pay to be here. It’s a juggle, travel or security. I’m glad I did this, no matter how “broke” I am. Also, it makes me realize how much I took advantage of what I had.
Anyway, as soon as I get some drawings done, which should be within the next few weeks, I will post them up. They will still be in the same style. But I’m going to stop using texta and go back to ink. I will be using pens..I need to buy a WHOLE lot more now as I totally destroyed all my other pens on the last body of work for Mêlée. I think I spent £100 on pens alone for the last show. God knows the amount on paper and framing..I have stuffed the receipts into my scholarship envelope and refuse to add it all up..I’m pretty sure it’s done. Got me pretty far though and I am thrilled.
Anyway, bless the internet for letting me do my research at any hour of the day, but goddamn scanners and printers for being so fucking expensive to use in dodgy copy stores.
I’m going to go find something else to nibble on.

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