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Instead of actual, you know, video stuff we talked about/watched pictures of urban art in Video II class today, and it was so very awesome. I have always found urban art, and stencil especially to be incredibly fascinating - the anonimity, the risk, the illegality of it, the outright challenge to authorities and the mix of social message with pure undiluted art - it all makes for an incredibly versatile, fruitful medium. I LOVE it. There's few things I like most than finding a new stencil somewhere in my school (artsy school, remember - we usually get to see a stancil first before it spreads to the city) or in the streets I usually go to.

Wonderful, true story from the Guadalajara street art 'scene': A guy used to leave stencils and stickers of a sad guy all over, and a girl started replying, adding stencils of a happy guy next to his art. They've been chasing each other all over the city, and recently she's leaving messages of Where are you? next to her art. YOU GUYS. THIS IS SO INCREDIBLY AWESOME AND ROMANTIC. ♥

Anyway, I'm obsessed with Banksy. He's the guy that made the stencil of the two male cops kissing - I refuse to believe there's someone who hasn't seen it/heard about it yet. He's pretty hot stuff right now, but the dude's art is so brilliant I can't put it at fault. Anyway, I'd seen some of his stuff, but hadn't heard about the crazy stunts he pulls to pretty much laugh at the system - the guy went into an exhibition of Neanderthals, left a rock carving of a caveman with a supermaket car and only talked about it when no one noticed for weeks. It's so exciting! Guerrilla art always is. Said Video II teacher shared his experience of graffiting around the city, how thrilling it is and how he used to strap the spray bottles to his ankles, lol.

I really want to stencil something somewhere. At least once.

OKAY, THIS IS THE FANDOM MASH UP OF MY DREAMS. ZOMG. ;LSDKJF.

James Jean, my all time favorite illustrator, did a pin-up style portrait of Sally Jupiter for the Watchmen movie. SO AWESOME. SO HOT. I usually like James Jean's fantastic style better, but I can so make an exception for this one. Because official or not, DUDE! JAMES JEAN DREW FANART FOR WATCHMEN!!

I IS DEAD. OF JOY.

We'll be going downtown tomorrow during Hystory of Mexican Graphic class to see José Clemente Orozco's murals. I'd be excited about it if I hadn't stared them until me eyes bled (okay, I exagerate, but) during my senior year of high school for a giant project in Art History. Oh well, it's better than class, I guess. And speaking of which, last class we saw a bit of his earliest work, all caricature and oh, it was really good! I mean, everyone knows he was a genious when talking about murals, but that's a whole new facet of him I didn't knew before.

I'm working on that '10 Doctor Who personal canon facts' meme but I've been distracted. And I have The Last King of Scotland on my hard drive and I really want to watch it tonight.

Oh, yeah, I finally saw last week's Heroes and wee, it was pretty good! This is old news, though, lol.

( Now, who wants to see some photos of my graphite and charcoal drawings for school? They're large! they're black and white! they're nudes! yay! )

I got the original photographs form deviantart.com so if you happen to be the photographer, well... Know that I digged your work and that I'm totally not getting any profit, (or good grades, for that matter) or something.

Comment on this post. I will choose 6 interests from your profile and you will explain what each of them means (and why you're interested in them).

snubullownsyou asked me about these ones:

Alphonse Mucha: My absolute favorite painter, in any period. All of his paintings are so fluid and colorful and dreamy and absolutely stunning - this man's work is honestly beautiful. My favorite painting of his is Le Nuit.

Casanova: A wonderful British series about the life of Giacomo Casanova, playboy extraordinaire. The series that made me start fangirling David Tennant, it's so well written and acted and it has lovely music and costumes and cinematography and I just love it to bits. ♥

Garbage: While they're not my favorite band anymore, I still think of them fondly all the time, and I still love their music. My favorite song? Probably 'Sleep Together', although 'Deadwood' is also incredible.

Killing Moonix: inside joke, lol. I stole this interest from terraneanblues in relation to moonix, of course, and we all share it (there's a 'killing nekare' version too) because we like to believe we share the crown for supreme angst queen and we like to kill each other with angst. BECAUSE WE'RE THAT COOL.

Samurai Champloo: One of the best animes I've ever seen - this one was made by the same people that did Cowboy Bebop, Witch Hunter Robin and Ergo Proxy, and oposing Cowboy Bebop (which has Jazz in space), it's all about time misplacement and it's set in the Tokugawa era FEATURING HIP-HOP DANCING SAMURAIS. LIKE, FOR REAL. It's so awesome, promise, I nearly burst something laughing while watching it for the first time. Besides, the animation is top-notch.

Trainspotting: A truly amazing movie about a group of junkies in Scotland in the 90s - crude and honest and yet funny, this one's a hell of a jewel. Plus, it has Ewan McGregor in the main role, which is always a Very, Very, Good Thing. One of those movies that are wonderful in their simplicity.

First of all, have you seen mon_starling's new illustration? It seriously took my breath away, and I would've loved it from an artist's point of view even if I didn't fangirl Carl Barat in the way I do.

( This cut is filled with pretty stuff I bought the other day )

Oh, by the way, my brain has been eaten by cat macros. Or more appropiately: OH HI, MINE BRAINZ IS BEING EEATED BY KITTAH MACROS.

( This cut is filled with 28 Weeks Later )

( And this cut is made of emo. )

I'll be talking about the sheer awesomecakes that is Avatar: The Last Airbender later, so it won't get infected with this entry's emo.

You know who is awesome? I do:

haltlos because she wrote this awesome Remus/Sirius for me!! Ashtrays Filled With Sleepless Nights is such an aching, lovely war!story and mmm, yes. Great. ♥

And spooy because she draw this oh God, wonderful beautiful R/S drawing because she's awesome like that and I can't stop going als;djfasdjfal;sdkjf at her brilliance 'cause c'mon, just look at it! (I know I can't stop watching it) I have decided I have to write something for it. Because nyah, sexy.

I ♥ birthdays. :))



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In other news, I have a flamenco presentation tonight. And lots of homework to do. AND OMG FIL TOMORROW!! (FIL, feria internacional del libro (international book fair) is the largest book, say, con, in latin america, and is, apparently, the same age as I am. It is lovely and grand and I always leave there in complete bankrumpcy from the bazillion books I buy every year.) And a birthday dinner with friends. :))

OMG you have to take a look at this. kitsche is an illustration journal that this girl started at January, an illustration a day. It is SUPERB. Everything I wish my art could be - spontaneous, dreamy and free (it kinda reminds me of circusbunny's art, although hers is much better done). Apparently the project has gotten so popular that she'll be actually published (and isn't that such a dream come true?), and boy do I want one. *is art-lusty*

I checked my final grade for the semester yesterday, and I got a WONDERFUL 96.75/100!! Which is kinda odd considering that it said 93 two days before, but who am I to complain XDD If I keep this up, I'll classify for the exchange program *g* I shall try and blackmail my parents into getting me books for the good grade, even if I feel about 5 while doing that. BUT MONEY IS MONEY.

I have this two X-Men fics on the doing, the Bobby/Rogue (which... is odd), and the Bobby/John (which I'm liking loads); but they're getting me SO frustrated, since I can't seem to be able to finish either. I'll add a line, even a parapraph, and my mind goes somewhere else. GUH. And I'm aching to write something in Spanish, too, it's been about, three of four weeks without writing something original. *le sigh*

Remember that art rec corner I wanted to do a while ago? Well, bring it on, babe!

Nati is an Italian artist that I found through devArt.com. I've never really had any contact with her, but I've been a fan of hers for a while now. The first drawing of hers I ever saw was The Crow Child, and to the date, it's still my favorite.

Her art is mysterious and expressive, almost theatrical and burlesque with her use of colors on gray bases. Her backgrounds are just lovely, very romantic and vintage, and truly up to par with her characters. Beautiful examples of her work are: The Garden of Zephirus, Dawn as a Princess and Burlesque.

Check her out, it's definitely worth it!

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I'm planning to do this reccing buisiness a regular thing. I used to scout DA almost as much as I do LJ now, so I have TONS of fantastic artists to rec.

I watched Irreversible yesterday, a French movie starring Monica Belucci (yes I do know she's italian kthnx) and Vincent Cassel. It was really good, but oh God, how did I cringe. It's told backwards, and it starts with the camera going round and round in circles, and it gets quite dizzy. Then I kinda wanted to be sick with a really, really violent scene. Then I kinda wanted to be sick again with the very-well-done, terrifiynlgy-chilling 15 minute-long rape scene. And then the ending (beginning, really) it's so hopeful that it just makes you shiver. Juanjo, a friend from school lent it to me in exchange of QaF's first season (which he loved!) and I was telling him today just how much it had disturbed me. XD So, quite a good movie, but not one for the faint of heart.

Now, a rec! Ten Fantasies Rose Tyler Lost About Love and One She Found by misscam (Ten/Rose) And its companion, Ten Lessons the Doctor Learned From Sex and One He Didn't. They're just so beautiful and well done that it hurts. Wonderful characterisation, as well.

*sigh* I really wanna try and write Doctor Who fic. As in REALLY. But I still have to finish you wonderful guys drabbles. But anyway, give me a prompt, and I'll see if I can get something out of it. (Er, so sorry if you guys won't understand any of it if I do write it, but see? that's you should all GO AND WATCH DOCTOR WHO, LIKE, NOW.)

( A Mucha Wallpaper )I promised bellle_fille so we could be wallpaper buddies! (yes, this is my current wallpaper XD) Please ignore the ugly watermark ;)

The Mexico picspam is just about to be started! I've already uploaded every picture. :)

I never thought the day would come when I would say 'There was TOO MUCH boy-kissing', but it has. *is sad*

I saw this gay mexican movie today, El Cielo Dividido, which, in essence, is not bad. As a short film, I would've loved it. As a written short novel, I would've idolized it. As it is, though, a fucking 2 hours and a half hours long movie, it bored me to tears.

Premise is: boys fall in love in the UNAM, Mexico City's most important university. Boy meets boy at a club, other boy keeps trailing after him like a kicked puppy until you want to grab him and shake him to sense. Second boy meets boy-school janitor, boy uses him as a substitute. Second boy leaves boy, boy is heartbroken (a fucking HOUR late), there is sex. And nudity. And kisses. (Try and read it three times fast!)

Okay, so that's simply enough (kinda...), but the thing is THERE ARE 10 DIALOGUES in the entire thing (I counted), and five of them are omnipresent narrator. As a written story, that premise would've been awesome, but as a movie it just sounds silly and tiring, even when the acting turns to have a more relevant part. Still, I was just ready to burst with the 'SPEAK FOR GOD'S SAKE, SPEAK AND BE DONE WITH IT!!' since they just stared at each other. And waaaah, frustrating *tears out hair* I stayed until the end, but lots of people went before, and I can't exactly blame them. *sigh* And to think there was another movie at 7:30 that would've been better. (Oh well, the sex was really, really hot, so that's at least something.)

Other than that... Nothing, really. I wanted to write something today while in Design Fundaments, but I just wasn't in the mood. Wanted to draw, and again, zero. I bought a new tiny set of chalk-pastels which I know I'll regret since I'll be needing the more oily ones in third semester, and I'll have to murder my teacher if we don't use them in the end. Still have 11 photos to go (T-T I'll probably have to go to the zoo...). Am doing this odd Piet Mondrian inpired cube for Descriptive Geometry, with a rectangular prim tearing through it. I WANT TO WRITE, DAMNIT!