Naming Posts Isn’t Always Easy
Man it feels good to be done with last week. I’ll post some new images soon, since I scanned a lot on Friday. I’m still really busy, but nothing like like week. Today I’m going to go apply for my passport, repair my firewire drive, work what I didn’t get to do last night due to the fact that my firewire drive was not working, plan my new shots that I need to do for my video, come up with an idea and thumbnails for a book cover/collage project that I need to start tomorrow, find textures to scan for that project, register to select classes for next year, get a refund of my room deposit, buy some illustration board, and begin work on my cows (3 ads for Ben & Jerry’s).
The reason I am doing 3 illustrations this time is due to something I’ve discovered about my teacher. No, it’s not that he’s an idiot, I already knew that. It’s that for him to like what I do, I have to do at least 3. If I only do one, he makes me redo it 3 times. If I do 3, he hates two and says that one of them is only “satifactory.” See, he grades me differently than the rest of the class. If I paint a cartoon bus driving off a cartoon cliff with cartoon children in the back, he demands that I have a photo-realistic George Bush driving the bus. If someone else in the class draws a caricature, anything with hair and two eyes is acceptable. If I draw a black guy wearing a Russian hat to advertise “Black Russian” flavored ice cream, it’s a stupid idea. Yet he praised how creative my classmate was when he showed him his excellent idea: a black guy wearing a Russian hat. If there was any doubt that he was treating me unfairly it vanished after that incident. I’m not all that unhappy at this. It’s frustrating, sure, but I don’t get half the guff from him that a lot of other students do. Everyone knows that he plays favorites and that he picks his favorites out of a baboon’s ass. And even though he picks on my work a lot, the extra work is making me better and that’s always a good thing. And while he picks on my work, he is not mean to me at all. Whether or not his criticisms are unfounded is a matter of opinion, but he’s always been as nice to me as he is to people he likes. It’s just part of the enigma that is Thiel, I guess.
I really hope I can get my firewire drive to work on the Macs again without having to reformat it. I could lose 45 gigs of stuff and, well, that would just bite. And I really need to get it to work again soon because I have a ton of work to do. Most people are making videos that are 30 seconds to 2 minutes long. Mine will probably be 6 to 10 minutes long… :-\
Eric says:
On the other hand, Theil likes -me-. That never stops him from telling me something I did sucks or an idea sucks, but he does like me. And yeah, sometimes he does seem to have completely nonsensical judgement and taste for illustrations. That I cannot deny. But those are the times you can fight him on something. Next time, call him on it. Say ‘he has the same idea I do. Why is mine wrong?’ and he’ll either come up with an answer or admit that you’ve got him and let you do it if you really want.