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The central train station in Florence, Santa Maria Novella

La Loggia

A sketch from La Loggia, just outside Palazzo Vecchio, near the Uffizi... the same place as Perseus and Medusa.

Sketchbooks

I've done a lot of drawing over the last two months here... Florence is an incredibly inspiring city, there's an unreal amount of artwork here, and just walking around here I want to draw everything. Anyway, I finally got in to use the scanner in the design lab, and got all my stuff on my hard drive. Let's start with this one!



It's from probably my favorite painting in Florence, found at probably my favorite church in Florence, Santa Croce... I feel dumb because I wrote down neither the name of the painting nor the name of the artist (duh)... guess I'll have to go back!

I flipped the subjects... the Virgin Mary should be above the angel, who is hoisting her up.

EDIT: It's L'Assunzione della Vergine by Bezzuoli.

demoWAR

Here's one for the "stuff" part of Art and Stuff.

I've been working on a new music blog with Ryan Dowd, a battle of the bands of sorts...

Crank your speakers. it's...

Winter Star

You need to have flash installed to see it... otherwise, it's on YouTube. Also, the preloader isn't working right, so you have to wait until the page loads completely to see it, otherwise you'll get a white screen... :/

I wrote this song a few months ago, and decided to make a video for it. Voila. The quality isn't great, so if you want to see it clearer, click here! (It'll take a minute to load)

Finally an update!

One of the classes I'm taking is a Flash class... it's got me really excited, we were supposed to come up with banners for a website but I did this in the meantime. I have an idea for a longer animation, but who knows...



He's a little gangly, but it's not bad for a first animation if I do say so myself.

Busy busy busy

I swear I've been drawing since I've been out here in Firenze... the big problem is that I don't have very easy access to a scanner, so I have to wait for a point in the graphics lab when it's not busy. Someday soon I'll scan all my stuff at once and start putting it all up. My Florence Sketchbook class is great, last week we went to the Accademia and I did a drawing of the David that my teacher referred to as "the size of a candy bar." Coming soon!

In the meantime, I've been updating my Flickr account like crazy... so check out some photos and see what I've been up to!