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So it's been a while since my last post. Been very busy with my work experience module for uni in animation, and it has been fantastic so far! Just want to make a brief post that I am still about. Tomorrow (or later today) I begin another 2 weeks of work experience at another studio based near Bath. Check out their website, Complete Control. It's very fun and interactive, even thought it's mainly aimed for kids. I am extremely excited as well as nervous, but I know I will enjoy this.
Peace out for now!
OK, recently I've been bitten by the 'busy, I want to do creative stuff' bug. I've been looking at opportunities left right and centre, I am being proactive, and things are starting to be looking awesomely positive! There's a few potential paid commissions I could be working on soon, and also planning to enter a competition, but I won't say too much about it yet until I know I will definitely enter. I've got till the end of January to produce a couple of paintings, and I will be sure to let you guys know what happens in the end.
Also, for my uni, we have to learn how to 'brand' ourselves as creative professionals. I am dead excited for this because I really want to make a great impression with what I can produce in terms of a flashy artsy website, a business card, and some kind of logo to represent my name, who I am. I am also feeling a bit stressed at the same time as I am going to have to learn a lot of software stuff along the way, but this is the time to do it...not after I graduate, NOW!! So yeah, apart from the boring side of uni (ie: writing stuff...hate writing really, lol) I am really excited about learning to promote myself. I am also going to be doing some work experience hopefully at a couple of animation studios here in the UK next semester. Lots to do, lots to doooo...and also, very excited to be going back to Colombia next month for Christmas and New Year's, been over a year since I last saw my family there, but before that, MUST COMPLETE SO MUCH! I hope this is enough consent and motivation for me to get my arse in gear....yay!!!
Watch this space dudes and dudettes!!
I have to say I have never been interested in politics or wanted to be involved, but the current American presidential election has grown on me. For once in my life I wish I could be an American citizen now and be able to vote and help make a difference in this history-making election. I totally back Barack Obama 100% and wish him all the best. I've been glued to BBC's online live coverage of the voting results and have felt even emotional about this, bit strange for me, but I feel something special will happen if Obama becomes the next president. Although I am technically British and I live and study in the UK, I had a large part of my life/childhood in the states and I know a little from experience what this could mean to the country. I luckily lived there during Clinton's presidency and left not long after Geroge W. Bush's first term, thank goodness, lol. But I feel for my friends back in New Jersey and the surrounding states, I hope that they took part in this voting opportunity and hope for great philosophical and phundamental change in America's government.
Well, this is all I wanted to say for now. Amazing I am even talking about politics....Obama has really reached so many people in so many ways...people like me who are frankly inactive in politics, so that already has to say something about him. Bring on the change!!!!!!!
Just a quick update
about this summer. Yes, still here, just been lazy and busy at the same time. Been working on a very exciting project/book called Vintropedia, which is a price guide for vintage computers and retro game consoles. Check the website here
I'll hopefully make another post with more details on everything. Bye for now!
Alright alright, I realise it's been a couple of months or so since I last blogged...gosh I am horrible at this! But nevermind, I got a few good things to announce and give links to them too.
Firstly, I would like to congratulate myself (how ego-centric do I sound? lol) and my sister (Muriel) for finally getting our Stuff On My Cat picture posted on their site!! The direct link is here for the actual picture we submitted about 5 or 6 months ago on (August 2007) but I'll also insert the image itself here in case you people can't be bothered going to the linked site, lol.
(the cat didn't have a real name, but we baptised him Alejandro, he was the local cat at my auntie's house by the beach on the Colombian coast)
On another note, I've also been busy launching my new personal website! It's still quite unfinished, very much under construction, but you're all more than welcome to take a look at what's there by clicking on my name: Arianne Wolodarsky. The domain name (url address) will also be changed soon once the site is fully completed, so bear that in mind in case you bookmark the url (not that anyone in their right-mind will! hahaha) ...it will change in the near future so it will just have my name instead. This is the very first time I've embarked on such a task, building my own website. I am no web master or genius, but the hosting service I am using makes it really easy to make really nice professional looking websites that people of all web knowledge levels can use, and so, I've decided it was important for me to get my art out there and have a site to give to potential future clients who may wish to have art works done by myself. This website essentially is my online portfolio for all my art, to showcase as well as to sell. Please feel free to leave comments on the guestbook which is fully functioning. =) I would like personally thank my boyfriend who's pushed and encouraged me to get this project underway, and thanks to him, I feel I've got more control over my own work, and have a real purpose to do what I love doing best.
I've been such a busy bee of late I've even become a volunteer for Bristol Zoo, which is something I should have done ages ago to be honest, as I have a great passion for wildlife and its conservation, and what a better way to spend my days off from uni than at the zoo?? For one, I get to volunteer flexible hours and invigilate the children and visitors, making sure they do not feed or touch the lemurs (I'll be working in the lemur area, yay!). So for a couple of hours, I stand there, which I don't mind, get to see lemurs jump about and probably would have to talk to kids, hehe...and help out in the talk when the expert talks about them. I love learning about animals, and I would love to get to the point where I am allowed to feed them and help out in the talks. That's just the start, I also get free membership to the zoo, meaning I have free access to it and all its services and facilities for free all year! How awesome is that! Also, if I work there a minimum amount of hours, I believe I can invite 6 friends/family for a really low price. I'll have to double check on that. Another positive is, if I turn out to be a reliable, long-lasting volunteer (I see myself volunteering till I finish uni here in Bristol at least...I hope to!) I may eventually be a paid volunteer, which is just a bonus, which is great! I do hope I make some good friends and contacts within the zoo, to get to know the animals well, and to offer my artistic services to the zoo. I'd love to make a calendar for them, for example, with the actual (animal) residents of the zoo featuring in it. Maybe make cards and t-shirt designs, all sorts of things, that can be sold in their gift shop and potentially in other retail shops. This could be an excellent way to get my art out there and earn a bit of money out of it too. Heck, why not right? First step's first though, and that's doing my volunteering bit and being on time, need to build a reputation for myself. I'll hopefully give you progress updates as time moves on. The zoo is also an excellent place for me to sketch animals and people from life, something that would be of fundamental use for my animation course, which is essentially learning how to animate people and animals realistically for my module, and what better way than this. So really, it's a win-win situation for me here. Tomorrow is my first shift at the lemur walkthrough, I cannot wait! Then I shall spend my day sketching the animals, let's hope the weather holds up as it's been so beautiful of late.
Well, that's it from me for now. Can't promise you any entires soon, but keep watching this space!!!
