Train lands on building!

Downtown Portland Received and unexpected landing of a train supposedly "Thrown" from the depot located near Se 18th and Holgate. Rumors are flying like spaghetti in a food fight that a large figure was seen bowling over rail cars and violently whipping around industrial cranes like an irresponsible mother with her newborn. When asked what he thought caused this event, one stupified conductor mumbled, "I know it were a big green thing...probly one of them Gott-damned Ninja turtles". Regardless of what caused the 60 ton train to arrive in the middle of Broadway and Alder street, clean up has begun and is wagered to be finished by the end of the year.

Self portraits ahoy

So, it has been a little while since my last post, If there is anyone looking at this thing then I think it's cool that you are. Here is a set of self portraits. One of them is in oil and the other two are done in photoshop paint. The Photoshopping ones are for a "Young and old" themed assignment. The old needs some work because i think it still looks like i am young. There is another version that makes me look a lot like Burl Ives, which I actually kinda like. The oil painting was just for fun, I tried to blend the paint in that one because I usually don't, blending is like trying to hide brush strokes and seems more like illustration. I like being able to clearly see a brush stroke but then when you are not looking for the stroke the painting itself looks right on. Today was a really solid day, I got plenty of work done and didn't complain about shit.
I spoke with the dean here at school again. She told me a story about how she died for a few minutes and came back. She said she saw people she knew that were gone and places she had been. She said after that experience, "I don't have shit to complain about". That is the way it always is but it can be easy to forget that, i said.