Tomorrow is my last day of cosmetology school. It's been almost exactly 13 months since I started school. I'm very ready to be done with school and move on with my life but I'm also a little melancholy to leave. I will miss so many people, though half of them have already graduated, and the other half will be graduating soon after I do. Still it's been pretty damn interesting. And I have really enjoyed learning how to be a hairstylist. PHOTO DUMP SHALL WE?

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Desperate Stereotypes el oh el!

Not that ABC's Desperate Housewives is the ultimate example of the way mainstream society thinks...but I have a feeling it's pretty close.

I only watch because it streams off of HULU and when I run out of shows I actually like I do need something to play int he background while I sit at home alone. The characters are pretty simple and the story lines are absurd but I can't help but feel there is in honesty in the way they behave and rationalize. And when I say that, I mean there are people in this world who never bother to find out more, let alone the truth about pretty much everything. They hear a joke on Late Night, they see a reference in Desperate Housewives, they watch someone on Jersey Shore rationalize based off of those two same things they also saw and then suddenly "everyone" agrees that that is really how things are. So I'm going to share what I'm talking about and that is the mainstream stereotype of "artists".

So I had to laugh watching this weeks episode. Laugh and also be irritated because I know the reason the storyline was written is because all the writers either agreed it was honest or because they knew their audience would see honesty in it.

So Susan, who has been doing art for years, wants to take a painting class with some painter who is well known in the local art community. In order to get into the class she must present her portfolio to said painter for review. Now Susan is an experienced illustrator and has had her artwork published in many successful children's stories. So she brings in examples of her ink and water color illustrations. Check out those bunnies! Awesome. I mean this illustration is pretty great, there's a lot of talent in whoever actually drew this! However big cheese painter guy chastises her for the lack of pain in her illustrations and tells her it's not art. Rude. So desperate Susan returns home to paint a dead tree on a hill in an attempt to force something cold and dark out of herself. Again big cheese painter guy chastises her for painting something symbolic and shallow. So then Susan freaks out on the guy in a scene in which everyone knows she's now proving her worthy artsy fartsyness with the exception of her. She grabs a handy canvas that was just leaning up against the wall in the guys studio. She grabs a conveniently uncapped large tube of ANGRY black paint and throws it on the canvas. "You want ugly??? I'll show you ugly!!" She declares. She grabs some magenta paint and continues to rant about ugliness.







Oh my not only is she going CRAZY and not even using a paint brush!!! Now she's rubbing her hands in the paint!!! THIS SHIT IS BANANAS!!!
Oh man this girl is being soooooo artistic!







Oh snap no way!!! Now she's ripping the canvas?? Damn this shit is getting REEEEAL!





Painter guy watches on as true art is born! Susan starts sobbing as I assume most people do when they're birthing REAL ART.



Suffice it to say Susan stomps out of the studio to go home and stew about how she ruined her chances of being in the super cool art class. But what's this?? Big Cheese Painter guy calls to tell her she has been accepted! So glad Susan learned how to be a real artist!!

This probably wouldn't have spurred a blog-mocking but I also discovered today there is a reality TV show called something like...A Good Work of Art? Whatever, it's a contest style elimination show in which artists of all different mediums compete to make better pieces of artwork than the others. Then judges sit in a room Top Chef style and judge who made art and who made crap.
I don't even know what to say about such a show. They might as well be basing their eliminations off of...uhh...nope. I can't think of anything more subjective and random than what they're already basing them off of.

GEEK GIRL CON

Oh what a rad time it was. Sean and I were able to snag a table in the exhibition hall. We sold small commissions alongside a comic book Sean made a owl charms that I designed and got printed through a great little printing company called printsess.

We have been out of the convention circuit for so long that we ended up becoming very nervous about whether or not we'd be able to make enough money to break even, let alone score a profit.

Thankfully we underestimated ourselves and we actually did pretty well. Sean sold all but 2 of his comic books and I sold over half of my owl charms. Not to mention MANY small doodle commissions. Mine ended up being incredibly cute (oops that's not very humble?) so have a gander at some of them: