That's right! Adam's back! Saturday was my last day. I've saved up a bit of cash and I'm going back to finish school full time and begin creating art again. I had a lot of fun at my job as the people were wonderful, but the job itself (moving bolts of fabric) wasn't exactly my life goal and it left me with only 2 hours a night to do my own thing, which I managed to get a hell of a lot done, but it's not enough with all the other things I want to do and I had to pass up on a few commercial sculpture offers, which sucked.

So here I am, ready to begin creating things again. Art + fabrication portfolio here I come.

My last day was actually pretty nice. At the end Arman, Pedro, and Shawn tied me up with packing tape and told me I couldn't leave, Angie (manager) was just like, “just don't tape his mouth”. Then I went out drinking and I thought up a new sculpture with while talking with Ryan and I'm gonna use him in it.
After drinks Jessie, Kirsi and me went over to her place and I taught her some Intro mould-making skills so that she could make moulds for dolls heads. I really like teaching.

OH! And among all the other crazy ideas, me and Ryan came up with a Broadway show. In short, it involves this guy that goes crazy and kills people, but all in musical fashion with arm waving and dancing and happy singing. And blood. Lots. We were singing it in the store but then Angie asked us to stop…….
Dunno why……

And 3 new Genpet comments for your viewing pleasure.
http://mrsloquacious.blogspot.com/2005/11/weird-grossbrilliant.html
http://fookthepeople.com/
http://raymitheminx.blogspot.com/

I wonder how to deal with Genpets sometimes. When people email Sales@genpets.com I reply and honestly tell them that Genpets is an art piece. I feel that leading them on any further would be ‘dishonest'. I want to be clear that it's an art installation with a message, not some form of hoax.

But Crystal rented the "Yes men" documentary for us last night and it, along with many other performance art I've seen, makes me wonder.

There are many artists that play it up and push it as far as they can. For example, the yes men gave a talk in Australia and impersonated the world trade organization and announced that the WTO was disbanding as it put business above people and needed to rethink it's actions. All of a sudden this news was being announced in the Canadian parliament and all over the world. And they didn't get in trouble. It just made it that much better. It made their point stronger. So should I tell people its art?
a google search will come up with sites explaining genpets as art, so do I need to? I'm not sure any any feedback is welcome. no one likes to be lied to, but soemtimes you have to in order to get across a message.

Haven't seen any updates for awhile eh? That's cuz I've been slowly learning css and PHP and designing Portfolio Version5. It still won't be fully w3-validated code, but it'll sure look nicer and be a step up from this mess. Time to begin organizing this mess. I've spent more time on other peoples websites than I have on my own.

My only goal right now is to split and organize until this mess is more easily organizable. I've now got 4 sites to run and as it's not a full time job, I need it to go faster, thus, over the next few months I'll be waiving good bye to html.

For now the basic design will still look very similar to the current for the other pages outside of the portfolio.

The journal is my big pain in the ass right now, as it always has been. This website has grown too large to manage with simple html, and yet for the journal, I don't really want to use wordpress or some other premade system. I'm going to try to convert it over to simple css tables for now and use the php include command where I can as a band aid solution until I convert the entire thing to a MySQL database. That should also allow far faster page loads.

I'm also done the bulk coding for Crystals Portfolio site and I'll post a link to that once she chooses her images and I upload it. (Internet explorer and it's lack of standards though is messing up some of the css so I need to still fix that... I luv you firefox...)

You might have seen posters all over Toronto for the Toronto Alternative Arts Festival International, (and you also might not of) but if you went, you might of seen Genpets (if you followed the white rabbit,-- I mean bleeping). It seemed to go over ok and it was cool to be invited to participate. Thanks Belinda!