Ahh Sh1t

NPR

holy sh1t... so i got some new uber high-tech glue today... supposedly dries pretty fast and holds tight and clear... WELL- the abobe statements are most definately true... but a one-way air ventilation system wasnt enough to keep me from getting fukced up form that stuff... BLEH! you can probably see by most of my work that it requires some pretty intense glue methods... i have lots of tricks to make sure things stay where i want them on my pieces- but glue is definately part of my toolbox... i swear i can smell nothing but noxious vapors! ::whine whine whine::

so i just got about 1/2 done with a really hot piece... one of the main textures in it came free with a can of beer (thats a clue, scientist!) and theres a really cool (pats self on back) experimental linen technique i did on the same piece.. it might be the most heavily layered piece ive done but i looov it... i assume it will be in my gallery here on DA by today afternoon (assuming i dont lapse into coma from the nerve damage i have sustained). i wish old school paste was more hardcore... i havnt played with it since gradeschool... remember how gritty as slimy it was and how you had to scoop it onto your paper iwth popsicle sticks.. and how youd be lucky if what you glued down even stayed? we never had colored construciton paper at my gradeschool.. just the 'poor school brown' stuff that repelled crayon wax and hated markers. i remember all of of teachers from grade school... i dont remember liking many of them.

memory.... in 3rd grade we were drawing on this huuuuge paper strung along our hallway (the C hall!)... and it was dinosaur week (we need adult dinosaur week, by the way!) and so we were all out in the hall drawing dinosaur stuff with markers and crayons and chalk on this long piece of paper... well, silly Josh (thats me) draws a rotting goo-infested corpse of a dinosaur under a few layers of sediment and peat. i then proceeded to draw an oil pump coming from the dinosaur up to the surface and into the air where is, of course, spat black gold far into the prehistoric skies. well- my teacher (ms. hupka..SHAME!) freaked out and ripped the whole thing down telling the other kids in claSS i had messed it up and that what i drew was not appropriate or in accordance with the formally stated clauses, rules, regulations and protocol of petition for change regarding dinosaur week. a few days later she apologized to me in front of the class... why? because two days later she fukcing GOT IT... i feel that our ability to get fossil fuel is the most impacting thing dinsoaurs brought to the modern age- and i had that down by 3rd grade- and lots of other kids got it too.. see the thing i realized that day- the teachers rarely listen to the words they teach, but some kids hang onto every word and take it as literal and true without fail. i also think that teachers, no slam in ANY WAY intended- this is just an observation!- are often required to teach things they dont know... for example.. the act of reading a book about flying a plane and actually doing it are two COMPLETELY different things. i think that in most cases, a teacher is qualified to teach because they have experienced, absorbed and invested themselves in a certian topic and can teach it to others from that place of oneness with the topic. with the salary that most US teachers get- most of them have probably never been to any of the places they teach about every day in geography. that sucks. this is really random.. not something i normally feel passionate about- but i like to journal and just let one thought move into the next.. and now im really effin mad that teachers get shit training and shit pay! never forget that we are FAR from the most educated country in the world! serious! there are 'third world countries' with better literacy than we have. why? probably because we blow our money on importing crack and blowing folks up. rar. time for smoking and cuddling in bed- lest my teen angst come back with a goddamn vengence! ha!

A brother of low degree...
J