Above the clouds

Here is a pic of the beautiful sunset I viewed as I flew above the clouds on the way to California. I was pretty happy that I was able to capture it considering I had the aisle seat and the window was kind of dirty. I always enjoy watching a sunrise or sunset. I think it is an amazing sight to watch. The sky is a canvas and there is always a piece of art being created without the control of man. It is so peaceful to watch how rich each color gets. Then it just fades away only for another shade to take its place.

Back Home

I have not been able to post lately because I had a business trip in California that took up a lot of time. It was tiring but very fun and a great experience. I meet a lot of new interesting people. Our hotel, The Fairmont, was right across from the San Jose Museum of Art and I never had a chance to go inside! They had an exhibition going on about the art of robots which seemed cool to see. Well next time I'm in San Jose, I will make it a point to actually go in :) Let me know if you have been inside.

When we were heading back home our flight got delayed three hours so we had plenty of time to kill. I chose to take the opportunity to sketch something since I have not had the time recently. I managed to find a store in the airport that sold regular pencils and I had a notebook that was given to me at the conference so I was set. I needed a subject so my immediate thought was to draw the airplane I was watching in the window. Nevertheless, the plane started to move and was out of site within a minute. I then tried to sketch a skateboarder I shot on my digital camera while I was sitting in the park across from a couple days before, but I could not get the camera to sit properly and it kept turning off as well. It finally hit me to flip through the magazine that was sitting next to me to get some ideas. I wanted to practice faces anyway. I choose Maroon 5's Adam Levine and went to work. I started in the airport of San Francisco and finished it on the plane. Despite the poor light and very tired eyes I was determined to finish it.

The Decline of Local Venues

I saw my friend's band, Leaving Sideways play this past weekend. This band is fairly new and some of the members also make up the band In.Spite.Of who have been around over ten years. They played at a local joint called Chubby's in Red Bank, NJ. They sounded great and had a new song called Believe that I really enjoyed the guitar and vocals on. We also learned that night that this local establishment who is pretty much the only venue where you can see a rock band in Red Bank is now getting shut down. What will it turn into you ask? Well yet another restaurant of course.

I could not believe my ears when Davin the lead singer of the band told me this! I was so shocked because that town already has plenty of restaurants to enjoy. This bar was the only place were you could see a band on a stage without feeling suffocated by other night club goers in Red Bank. Most of the places do not even have enough room for a whole band if they even bring in the bands. Most of the places like Red just have DJ's who do not even show any original style.

Back To School

I'm so excited because they finally posted up classes for the fall that I can choose from. I am very happy because I am able to take three courses without any of them interfering with each other. Even better, they all actually relate to eachother :) One of the classes is even offered on a Saturday! I have been waiting so long to learn these design programs. I have a little knowledge of Photoshop but I never had an official class. I am also going to be taking Illustrator, and Web Design which includes Dreamweaver, HTML, and Flash.

My goal is to one day be able to make beautiful designs on the computer and make them into prints for clothes or canvas. I would also would like to be able to create my own website or my own blog ;) It would be so fabulous to be able to set up a site one day to sell whatever I create at home. I hope to one day have a store to sell my creations as well. Now I just need the time to actually create ;) All in good time.

They also have an oil painting class I would enjoy taking but I know that would be too much at once for me since I also work full time. Maybe the following semester I can take up the painting course.