<p>OMG!!! mamabear
that’s Hachi-kuro!!! (short for Hachimitsu to Kurobar = Honey and Clover)
based on new-sh manga (what else) and cough cough, our alma mater art school!!!
I have not seen live action version ( there is anime version of course, what else?)
I liked it fine, bit too (fill in the blank) since things we (us as students decades ago) and them have in common is being poor and hungry living in cold water flats…
then again
maybe sculpture, arch, ceramics or painting major had more fun.
or
kids nowadays actually are having drama! drama!! in that dorky -this-ain’t-Tokyo-we-were-tricked-middle-of-farmland-with-no-legit-infrastructure- takes-2.5 hours-to real-Tokyo- if-you-are- lucky- train comes every Ih-how we suppose to-nurture-artistic genius and-no-cute-boys-nor-young-profs- helloooo? - art school of ours.</p>
<p>like I said, it wasn’t really like that manga. fantasy fantasy.
I noticed while reading translated manga in English (gawk!!) at B&N because of the plastic bag design of the local supermarket and the rows of familiar lamp posts. asked school friends in Japan and being told it is an old news!
I don’t know if the artist is a student or alum.
live action could have whole new set of restrictions, I guess, like “the art school confidential” was Pratt experience but filmed partly in Otis and stuff.
will be interesting, thou
let me warn you, it’s about feelings, not much of art. Japanese blushed cheek, rationalising, forever one way crush, tragedy, you name it.
we don’t work at colleges. we do, to get in.</p>
<p>So what to do with back-home-for-summer (or longer)-launchee? Well, S is doing some local theatre and an online course but lots of free time but at odd hours…you could suggest to your young financially dependent adult that they update resume or web page…S took the initiative on his web page for his art/animation because he knows during the school year he will not have time and wants to convert from flash(?) to some other program…he worked about 18 hrs straight in the basement and seemed happy with result…I think the main menu is weird…involves a tongue and a head splitting open…I will actually just ask that the resume be updated. If I ask for it at least I know he has it at his fingertips to so I know he can apply for scholarships and internships easily next school year. Does anyone have good examples of art student resumes? His is more of an academic one that he has for college applications/job applications.</p>
<p>He was moaning a bit about not being able to get a job because theatre hours are so intense right now…so I looked at how much the window cleaning company charged last year and offered him 75% of their rate to get them done before my brother-in-law arrives on the 15th! Brilliant…he is doing a room a day…inside and out and screens and inside the frames which the company never does. </p>
<p>I don’t usually pay for chores but the windows are a beast and he is doing a great job, if slow. </p>
<p>He is going to do a painting of a friend’s country home. Frankly, people love these home portraits even if my son hates doing them. He finds drawing or painting homes easier than people and our friends and family are convinced he is destined for fame so they love to receive an “Original” from S of their beloved home. </p>
<p>LoveB perhaps you could get D to do one for you or a friend? It doesn’t bring in money but it does bring in tremendous goodwill and go a small step for recognizing support from
friends and family.</p>
<p>Hi everyone. My little chicken is back in the coop and its funny how the dynamic has shifted back to the old ways. He is working some, odd jobs, babysitting etc, but I think these jobs are going to dry up, havent been as many calls. He doesnt drive, and a lot of people want the type of babysitter that can run their kid all around. I personally wouldnt want a teenager driving my kid around, but who knows.</p>
<p>The insomniac dynamic has come back to roost too. The combination of my natural tendencies that way, and his odd hours, are creating a perfect storm. As an example, last night I woke up around 4 am. I thought, hmmm? more sleep? probably not, maybe I should check to see if my baby made it home. Well baby is sleeping in the basement these days, so I go downstairs, he is in bed, not asleep, with those wide eyed blinks that only another insomniac can recognize. I notice the painting he has been working on looks much more worked on, so I can guess that after he came home from hanging with his homeboys, he painted. I asked him when he got home? 2am, and had he fallen asleep? Not yet…So I go upstairs, check CC, check facebook. I am facebook friends with some of baby switters chicken friends, and one of them has posted this very sad goodbye (to his college buds) that sounds like a suicide note! So I start texting and calling the kid, who is still at college not around here. He doesnt answer. I go back downstairs, and strategize with baby switters, who tries to find the kid on facebook, texts etc, and finally texts the kid and says if you dont answer right away we are calling your mother. No answer, so I call the mother, at 430 am, read her the message, and she proceeds to reassure me that he is fine. He was fine, just emotional. I have facebook chatted with him today. Im going to punch him when I see him.</p>
<p>Hey switters…good for you! imagine if it had been for real…or perhaps it really was a little test to see if anyone was paying attention. You did good! He knows people care and if it was a false alarm, so much the better. </p>
<p>My chick has the oddest sleeping hours too. I am forcing a little structure by making him get up at 8am to take his sister to school but I suspect he returns and naps because he is up all night on the computer. I think at CMU he was pulling two or more alnighters a week and then crashing on the weekend. </p>
<p>I am not nagging at all since I figure it is perhaps the last truly lazy summer and it is just nice to see him filling out. I have stocked the fridge in the basement next to his art table. It is interesting that he naturally is choosing high protein/fruit and veg rather than chips and sodas that are also available. Have you seen the studies of toddlers that when left to themselves to choose amongst a broad selection of foods will sometimes eat the same food over and over for 2-3 days but if you look at their eating habits over 2 weeks or a month they actually will eat a fairly well balanced diet? It seems true of teens too…after a semester of fast food/sodas/junk and ramen…carbs and more carbs…I find that he is just naturally craving what he missed for months. He still looks thin but not gaunt. </p>
<p>Now I am looking into the dark future of my D’s college search which is starting much earlier than my S’s erratic search for an art program. My D came back from school today and said that her classmates are now starting to “claim” universities…there is the widespread belief that only 6 or so kids can get into UVA and one or two to the ivies so if the top student applies to Brown you might as well look elsewhere. She had a friend get vaguely hysterical when she said she might apply to stanford because that girl wants desperately to go to stanford so my D may take her “spot”…There is clearly some belief that there are quotas at the top schools in terms of how many will make it into the very popular schools…D just signed up for a summer enrichment program and now I have two mothers calling to find out whether we did it to improve D’s chances in college…Frankly, the only edge it will give her is that the colleges will say…“oh, that student has parents with the bucks for that highly inflated summer program…good! she won’t be eligible for financial aid…let her in”…I told D she should be sure to apply to schools no one here has ever heard of…(I have my eye on Rhodes or Centre college) so no one can say she took their “spot”…</p>
<p>I think I am going to miss the nice people on the art school forums… i had better get active on the stanford and princeton forums and start scheming for D…first I need to make up some scores and ECs to boast about…</p>
<p>hey FAMMoM – I think I’m just going to hang here. I’ve poked around in the other forums and they seem so ‘loud’ (that’s the best way I can put it). So I will keep hanging here as long as I can.<br>
Poor Aspie girl gets looks from other kids (well that’s not really new) and guidance counselor because she will most likely go to community college despite her good ‘numbers’ (and next year I’m sure that the school would rather be able to say she was accepted to or going to some lofty ivy league school – good marketing for them – I think that’s why they haven’t kicked her out yet - -she has such great ‘numbers’ (but nothing in the way of extracurriculars etc).). And ever-pragmatic Manga girl says she will go to community college for two years as well, in order to save money (!). That kid has a good head on her shoulders most of the time.<br>
At the moment I think Aspie girl needs a LOT more time to mature so I think if she takes a half load at the CC and spends the rest of her time playing with the horses (think get a barn job – not glamorous, but she can do the work no problem) will probably be the best route for her. She tried her ‘catatonic’ thing again yesterday – frustrates me to no end. I did end up getting her to school, though there was a day last week when she ended up spending the whole day home. I keep telling myself one more year, one more year… Also on a good note for Aspie girl is that the school district has renewed all of her IEP accommodations for next year, so that will help some too, especially the resource room every morning.</p>
<p>Gmom!!!
hohohooh
[The</a> Surrealist Paintings of Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy Shown Together at the Katonah Museum of Art](<a href=“http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48080]The”>http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48080)
near you or your manga class?
these nice museums are, I guess, driving museum. not for me or city people without access
but story here is lovely.
French man and American woman, war comes, American rescues French, married, painted together rest of their lives
finally couple’s works are shown together in the joint show in the one museum!!</p>
<p>fammom:
Best wishes to your daughter’s college search and hope you still have time to drop a line, at least at this thread.
As for Resume examples, you may suggest your S go to MFA students web page to take a look, or the many gallery web site to take a look at the working artist’s resume. Anyone: is this a good idea?</p>
<p>Last night, we drive out shopping since D wanted to buy a gift for her dad as father’s day gift. She found it on the Ads, so it is simple, we could just drive there and grab it. It is a angry birds game t-short, a game H likes to play.</p>
<p>On the way back, she asked me:“do you know spiderman?”. I said:“yes,of course”. She started telling me she is so bored and started to write a fan fiction about spiderman, she turned a south Korea boy band singer into spiderman. She finished the first series and may continue to have fun to write.
I asked her to share with me and she said yes this time! After she edit it today, she will send to me. She posted a lot fan fiction online when she was in high school and never share with me. Hope she didn’t change her mind.</p>
<p>I did told her my online friends’s S is bored and he is changing his website. Then she said “Oh, I should do that, mine is too old also. I need totally redo my website”. I said yours is fine, maybe add some new college stuff and she said no, I need to take out all the high school stuff … Will see what is looks like after she redo. I didn’t mention Resume, since it is part of her website.</p>
<p>I think I talked her into considering art history Ph.D. as an option after Cooper and then I started worry I may didn’t give her right advice. Oh, well. She may change anyway, anytime. </p>
<p>She help me cook and other than that she is free, most of the time read and now write.</p>
<p>got a call from D asking our Health Insurance information. She is doing health Insurance Waiver from Cooper for next year. otherwise I have to pay 1200 some $.
Switters:
You may need to check with your S to see if he get this letter also. The letter saying multiculture student have to have insurance, if no, have to buy from Cooper …</p>
<p>Amazing how the night owls are still that way wherever they go. D pulled lots of all-nighters at MCAD, and when she got home, decided to keep “normal” hours. However, that hasn’t worked yet. She spends the weekends at her boyfriends house and sometimes sleeps for long stretches there; he doesn’t want to wake her up (smart guy!!). Then she gets miffed 'cause shes spending the whole time sleeping instead of doing stuff with him. The next 10 days they are house/dog sitting for a friend of theirs, so they will be together 24/7 pretty much. Hell cook and shell do art. She’s been working on a couple of commissions and a book for her grandmother for her birthday so she’s been busy. Revamping her website is on her to-do list as well. I like the idea of the resume for applying for scholarships and what not. She doesn’t have one now (that I know of), other than the list of stuff that she used as a cheat sheet for all the on-line school apps. Something to definitely work on. She has her garden going again, and of course the skull finding/cleaning that goes on. </p>
<p>Last semester she broke her glasses (rolled over them in her sleep) and luckily knew where her spare pair was right off the bat. A couple of weeks ago, when H went to get his new glasses, he took them with him, and I was hoping that the lenses could be saved as only the frame was cracked - she had glued them back together as a temporary fix. Her lenses are over $200 with everything that goes on with her eyes. Optician (who is terrific) said there was about a 30% chance of finding a frame they could be put into, and if we left them with her, she could try some frames in her spare time. So when we were there today ordering her new ones, I took out the broken ones to leave them see what she could do. She tried a few frames my daughter had already tried on, then rummaged around in a drawer and viola, found a frame they would fit in. So we got those too and until her new ones come in, she’s back to only last years prescription instead of a 2 year old script. When her new ones come in, she will have 2 spare pairs - very important when you are legally blind without them. It’s a case of gotta have your glasses to find your glasses!! She also got a new phone yesterday so between the ophthalmologist (for her cornea edema) and the optometrist (refraction exam and glasses), it was an expensive day!</p>
<p>Gmom a friend of mine at work has an adopted (at age of 6) daughter who is in high school now and has been emotionally/educationally challenged. She recently got a horse, and we were joking about a horse college major. Then I remembered a LAC brochure we got, Cazenovia College in NY, that had just that I was amazed. And I know there has got to be more equine related courses/schools. Perhaps something for Aspie girl to work towards after CC.</p>
<p>Gmom and Famm you cant leave the arts forum we wont let you!!!</p>
<p>Switters! you too? …the scrabble addiction…I grew up playing and continued in college when I got my suite mates hooked. We had a reunion in Vegas a few years ago…1 hour of blackjack and we were bored so went back to luxury suite–3 women dressed to the nines for our night on the town huddled around a scrabble board …not really content for a “hangover” movie …there were no tigers or babies…just a ridiculous room service order for expensive champagne when one of us made a scrabble on a triple word score …</p>
<p>I would LOVE to play Scrabble with all of you. Am reading “Word Freaks”, a book I got from my NPR website. It’s very good, and made me realize I’ll never be a player like that! But it’s fun, and now I gotta get the board down from the closet - in between the free library movies!!</p>
<p>Swit - she has slept with her glasses in bed for years, and this is the first time she’s ever broken them. I think she keeps them there because she literally cannot see without them. Extremely nearsighted due to cataract surgery at 3 years old. She used to have a loft bed where there was nowhere to put them (altho I did get her one of those holders that fit between the mattress and springs to hold such items, but she never used it.) One day she couldn’t find them before class but knew her spare pair were in the drawer. Turns out they had fallen into a bag she had on the floor, and she found them later - would never have found them without her other glasses or help!</p>
<p>Hey…no i phone but the scrabble offer gets me thinking…but then again, I may just stop working to play. I love to play but not too serious…I do have the two letter words memorized but light years away from knowing enough 3s to be really competitive. My suitemate gave me word freaks and I realized that “serious scrabble player” is a lot smarter and has a much better memory than me. Still…I am able to enjoy a good game and a clever word/placement even when I get creamed…</p>
<p>We are upgrading phones this month. The temptation for an Iphone is huge. I have a blackberry from work that I absolutely loathe (teeny tiny buttons, useless for the web) …but the monthly fee is really hurting since I can’t imagine getting enough use out of it.</p>
<p>D just got an iPhone Tuesday 9 (at&t’S $49 SPECIAL), and I am now VERY tempted. I normally don’t like the touch screen, but that one may be better than H’s. I was looking at the Blackberry because they still have the texting buttons instead of touch, but I’m not convinced yet. Problem is, I really don’t need a new phone.</p>