Ha

http://www.mathcats.com/grownupcats.html

some site about interdisciplinary art and math instruction
lesson ideas....we'll have to see if they are any good

Poland

Polish Bboys kill that shit hardcore.
I think most of it has to do with the music they listen to. I mean you can't really argue with Polish Funk. It's funk made for bboys.

Favorite crews thus far:
Ruffneck Attack
East side Bboys
Funky Masons

still investigating.

anyway, super style. super routines. Some creative and awesome ass shit.

If you watch polish battles you'll notice very quickly how funky all of them are...it's pretty heavenly.

Dubstep

I've been recently getting into a kind of music called dubstep.
i have reason to believe it originated in the UK but i've only really been listening to it for a week or so....
any way, i just thought this would be a good place to keep some artist names for myself. If you don't like the feeling of dirt and grossness you might not like dubstep.

benga, skream, d1, digital mystikz, distance. caspa, rusko
check out Distance--Mistral.
widdler, him, headhunter, n-type, the regs.

i don't know if boregore is dubstep but he's pretty baller

Lady

I could see the sun
when i was so disposed
to the weight of paper.

Curious conditions
and strenuous circumstances
sometimes surrender sweets.

Those tender visions
now haunt me
in a historically hurtful way.

Why do i?
Why am I?
Fuck.

James wu is a stupid, stupid lemon

Art education articles

http://www.uic.edu/classes/ad/ad382/sites/AEA/AEA_index.html

there's some nice articles here....a bit heavy at times....

a bunch of stuff from o. gude!!

Bastard

tonight, i may never forget you.
Joe's as always.
Some guy was trying to get fresh with this girl that i notice all the other guys are also checking out. Sad though, she was pushing him away. even her friend was trying to get him off.
Me on my white shining horse.
ha.
as if i'll ever really have one. It would have charcoal on it somewhere, maybe some ink....
but i told him, stutt-tt-tering-ly, "hey, i don't think the lady appreciates that." (funny i can't even quote myself correctly, but you get the idea, Noble shit).
He starts yelling at me telling me i should go do my thang since i stepped in already.

I thought he was chill until we all take a second to settle and he begins yelling at one of my boys, Keith who has just started dancing. I don't know what the dude's problem was but he was saying, "what the fuck you say about me? Say it again!"

So none of us know what's up. But Regulators take care of the Regulators family and he just stepped to a baby brother in the family business.

So big papa (hope Okan doesn't get offended for me calling him That) steps in and takes care of business.
Then we're chill again. And another one of my boys is all up on the lady. ;)

Psych music

http://www.exiledrecords.com/shop/
ask for reccommendations for music

les rallizes denudes

the flower travellin band

Artist

Rico Lebrun. Check him out.
also, Wilfried "Sätty" Podriech

Tweeter

I think the funniest part about twitter is that I signed up about 6 months ago. Last post was....six months ago, yet, i keep getting email notifications about people who are suddenly following me on twitter.

I must have been a pretty profound individual six months ago

Shit on my life....

I started working at Home Depot about four weeks ago...of course that meant a lot of training. I started just before the school year and right now it has started to become Waaaaay too much for me to handle. this week i had to work 28 hours....

now, you may be thinking this guy is so fucking lazy, because people definitely work longer hours than that for a week...
but remember, GRAD School is happening for me right now. On top of the 28 hours of work i had 22 hours of class, about 44 hours of classwork that i'm (supposed to be) doing for class, two clubs that i'm "president" of and not to mention travel time, approximately 14 hours i spend eating each day and make time enough to sleep for about 5 hours each night....max...

Thats a lot of shit. maybe too much shit.

but anyway, i have plans for remedying this.
get rid of one of the clubs. 3 hours taken back.
request less hours. 10 or so hours taken back.
stop going out/seeing anyone. 2 hours taken back.
sleep less. 20 hours taken back (given that my body doesn't collapse from exhaustion)

so i've got another day in the week....
let's just hope that i can keep sane.

Connection Made

So...
I....
posted a missed connection ad.

And made a connection...

Not like that you dirty kids.
Brandon (Milteer, not Wallace) and I were chillin like we usually do. Y'know playing video games....shopping for video games....talking shit on everything. In any case, we wanted to go to gamestop because I had a stack of trades, and Little Big Planet was on sale (as much as $40 can be counted as a sale...).
So I asked Brandon which one he thought we should go to (because in KY, there has to be one place, at least, that has two gamestops, instead of two starbucks, next to each other. Believe me there were four places like that once upon a time {i WOULD be the one to know}). So we went to the one he thought we should go into.

As I entered I immediately noticed the cashier. A divine light must have shown down from the hole in the ceiling, they have been meaning to fix. It would definitely account for the flock of doves flying by and the mysterious angelic chorus perched on the roof. Anyway, she was a cute girl with (fiery) red hair and a pink shirt.
I don't really know how to describe people too well, so I'll let your imagination run wild with that broad, generalized description.

We walked in, stack of games in tow and did what every young man in the presence of a pretty woman would do...ignored that fact that I noticed her.
She took my games, told me I could look around while she tallied up the trades and i did so.
Of course, me, being me (is that the right amount of commas? Maybe, I should add more, perhaps), couldn't help but dance around the store like I have my own theme music.
I spend a little time looking for the right game to accompany Little Big Planet keeping in mind what I assume will be my trade amount.
So I pick up Little Big Planet and Skate (because i haven't picked it up yet and i liked the demo) and scoot right along, with a sidelong kind of smile as the cashier (i've spotted her name, Rachel, on her nametag) returns it.

I tell Brandon in the car that I think the cashier is cute.

He probably didn't think anything of it.
Too bad he didn't know I was just weird enough to post a missed connection on craigslist.

So i put up this ad and immediately i get a reply.
A mysterious message from a certain "goddess5566". I play along because the email is signed simply with an "A".

I get on aim, find her and the first thing she says is, "you got any pics? I got some right here" (there was a link to it)
It takes me immediately to a webcam dating site.

So i said "fuck that shit" and forgot about it.

Until about 23 hours later when I get another email. this time from a Rachel, subject line identical to my craigslist missed connections post.

I open it, a little skeptical. But sure enough she found the post. From one of her coworkers who sent it over to her.

She is already spoken for.


No less, i have learned a lesson. Whether there is any value...probably not.
"even weird people can believe they have won, briefly. But in the end....no"

Health care

So, i've been looking into the news lately and I just came across this entire Health Care reform debate. I don't think anything has made me more sad than this entire debate and the current american system of health insurance.

There was a town hall meeting with POTUS and he was asked about the plan he was proposing and why the single payer plan (universal healthcare) was taken out of the argument entirely.
Not to demonize Obama, but he said america had a "tradition" of private insurance coverage and a "history" with that kind of plan. It is not, according to him, viable because we are not a country that is building itself from the ground up....
i say that, neither of those should be excuses that anyone should have to stand up for.
But then i heard his plan and thought about it for a second. President Obama is proposing a requirement for health insurance, whether by current enrollment or by a government plan (that is if you can't get health insurance otherwise). The government plan, i am understanding to be kind of like single payer, where you enroll in this program, probably make some kind of payment but you are covered by the government. Now, depending on how this is planned out (and if any one knows me i am critical of the POTUS about his lack of planning) it could be part of a slow evolution into a full on universal healthcare plan.

Think about it this way, if health insurance is becoming too expensive and even companies are having a hard time paying for their employees, perhaps the costs will become too great and then after a long long time everyone will be on the government plan....

that's where i hit some potholes....i feel that the transition from that point will be the same as if we transitioned to a universal healthcare plan now.

Single payer would entail something subversive like a raise in taxes or prices of groceries. we may pay $4 or $5 for a loaf of bread but we wouldn't have to worry ever about being in need of medical aid.

That's the only thing about this entire situation that gets me down. that our system is run based off profit. i don't want to say doctors are bad people but is there no mercy in any provider's soul? If a person needs help aren't we in any way moved to try to help preserve a life?

If the majority of society finds abortion so abhorrent then why is it that we don't even take care of the living? If a life is a life, the why is it that we could give two shits about someone who NEEDS a procedure when they can't pay?
I guess it's the same reason we take a life to attempt to preserve our "morals".(if anyone is behind on the news, i'm talking about the murder of Tiller, and abortion doctor)

I'm just so disgusted that something so dire wouldn't call into action more drastic measures. Ugh.

i lost the sheet that has the titles of each of those little card pieces....so i am doomed to forever not know what i originally wanted to title those pieces...

Mats cut

And also, for anyone who might need it

i am planning on starting up a mat cutting service.  Custom mats.  

i do a pretty good job if i do say so myself.  I also won't shortchange you on quality.  nice clean cuts all the time! 

hit me up @ wubott@GMAIL.COM

oops, hit the caps lock....

but anyone who knows me can hit me up and i'll cut you a deal ;)

"Newest"

So those last pieces were part of the newest work that i have.  I think it's going to be a lot of stuff i do in my free time, not really "work" so to speak...more like, investigations.

i've got some more magazines so i can harvest them accordingly and i also have a lot of centerfolds.

Super Sexy

this was a flier i designed for a jam at johns hopkins

i also printed it....then later hand cut it but that's a story for another day....

sorry the right side of the picture got a little janky with the light....

i need to post work up again soon....
you need to buy it....

Frustration and the upcoming

graduation is horrible. unnecessary.
i had the worst time dealing with it...that entire weekend was horrible.

too much really to talk about but some lowlights....
1) some asshole snuck in the print shop and ruined my prints....my baby, the largest piece i was doing for this line of work, "taking abstract expressionism and shoving it up pornography's ass"
I'm super pissed still and if i find out who did it they better hope i cut out their throat first.

2) n0 money

3) mom's in town and i have no money to show her around town in grand fashion

4)no celebrating bc of no money

5) unnecessary frustration from having a graduation and worrying about looking all pretty and shit

finally,

6)moving out from studio and apartment immediately, leaving no time to actually do anything but pack and clean....

fuck me.

i'm just glad to be home...

on a lighter note, there were probably only two things i am counting as great that happened....going to see Janice, a long lost friend, in New York and going home with mommy.

I'm really glad Janice and I got to hang out...it's been four years since i'd been able to. She was always a blast to hang out with and it was especially fun this time because we went to her senior ball, had a few drinks, stole a glass from a fancy place and then hung out with her cousins

as for now, i'm just trying not to lose my head....


i'm looking into politics and things now because of my summer studio thesis for Masters of Arts, Teaching.....
I want to make some work about our fucked up world right now. there's some fishy shit going on....
cheney, no explanation needed...
death threats on filmmakers....
disproval of new directions in US...
dems thinking like GOP and vice versa....

I think there's just so much happening that i was so out of touch with....

(my days now are like this
wake up about 10 oclock,
tidy until dinner, ish
eat, clean some more until late,
do research for about two or three hours in the news .....)

The little bird likes to fuck with me...

I hear a lot through my friends and sometimes its not the best info....

like junior year....prom....the surprise prom....

not good info....

or even what might seem good.  It's just a curse, but that's what you get sometimes when you're an over achiever.  There can be too many rules and there can just be too much bullshit...

anycase, make a note, must learn how to talk sweetly to beautiful strangers

This last week

I'm always tired and hoping for things I can never have.

This upcoming is the last week of school.  I haven't been so lazy in all my life.  

I know that there is a lot of work to do but for some reason I can't bring myself to be a diligent student.

So I had a suspicion that I might be narcoleptic, so i did some research.  

I still think i might be.  Well, mostly, narcolepsy is characterized by interrupted sleep patterns so instead of the usual NREM sleep for an hour and a half or so and then REM, REM sleep can occur immediately after falling sleep.

My habits as of these last two years would certainly provide me the condition for developing narcolepsy.  I mean, sometimes, I fall asleep and have a dream and wake up and it's only thirty minutes later.  And I've been monstrously tired a lot lately....lots of naps, even after a good 8 hours of sleep.

Only thing: I don't remember my dreams that vividly...at least nothing comes to mind when I think about anything that might have occurred recently.

Anyway, between that and trying to wish myself into favorable situations, I haven't gotten any work done....FUCK....ME.

The worst part about right now is not having someone to be with every night.

and I know that I now sound like a bitch but it's true that sometimes you just need someone.

God knows I've been trying but we know where that takes me.

Sad...I do better when I'm not trying.  I now know that this is a recurring theme for my life and not just for my dancing....

problem is, I don't know how to not be passionate about what I'm doing

The .... slug?

I feel like everything is passing me by very quicly and I am too slow to even catch up in this lifetime.

I think I fucked things up in one day.  

And Mr. Apathy is here, but I'm not sure it's just the rain that brings him by.

Bit o work

btw, here's a taste of my work:

girls girls girls

In a bind....not a bind but .....there's a lot to think about.  It's the end of the year and i'm just having a lot of trouble trying to motivate myself to be of any use.  I can only think of one thing.

It just keeps getting more and more complicated and i also wish i wasn't such a dickbag.

i fucked up a lot of things so .... we'll just have to let it ride like always.

but man...like a twig.

Birthday weekend

This last weekend was my birthday....i usually feel very lonely on my birthday even with lots of people but this time felt a bit different.  it was comfortable.

i spent time with some people i cared about so it was good. . .Tha'ts really what its about right...thats why i usually tell people it's not my birthday when it is.

There was a girl from the past that was there, which made me happy.  

But overall, i hate parties centered around me.  Too much pressure.

....btw....

i just lost the game

New to the game

I tried keeping a journal when I was really young but my brother made fun of me so it's never been something i've really been into.  It's always been something i've been interested in though... especially now that the days pass by like weeks and i end up forgetting everything i've ever done....

Anyway, i guess i should introduce a little bit of myself....

My name is James Wu, I am currently a full time student....soon to be a....full time graduate student.  I am a printmaking major at MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art {less prestigious than it sounds, but then, everything is when you're there too long}).  I like to think i have a decent sense of humor.  I also dance in a poppin (notice, i did not say pop-locking because that would be incorrect) crew.  

So that's an overview....i guess....i can start out with today.  You'll probably get any important information later on....it'll be like a Tarrantino film or something but less bloody and less exciting by as much percent as anyone can possibly conceive.

I was late for work again.  It doesn't seem to matter so much but there is still htat worry.  I mean, what if there was a class that needed to work immediately?  I guess i would be balls deep in panic because everyone would be waiting on me.

Well, in my position it really wasn't so bad.  I'm more worried about the work that i have to do elsewhere.  I've been putting it off too long and it's come to a head.  Good news is that i just got that motivation to do it all in the last ....let's say 36 hours.

Today i saw the Evergreen house.  it was one of the most mind bogglingly beautiful places i've ever seen.  That is of course coming from a lover-of-super-tacky-things background....

there just sort of happened to be a bunch of people in my apartment now...so more in a little while....