Alexandra Nason

WhazzzaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAaaaaa.

ok, so long week huh? but not so much, cause its going by too quickly and ima-leel-scared.

no, not scared. totally excited to see what everyone's doing for the final, i feel like there are alot of videos, which is interested because the number of people doing videos seems to be going up, and they are a total blast to watch, technical glitches aside. anyways, i am also one of the people doing videos (get scared folks), and im having a great time with it, to the dismay of my suitemates due to the smells of rotting meat and octopus...sorry guys!

although the octopus deal is actually for Regan's drawing project, both relate to the idea of animation using stills. ive got to say that Imovie can be intensely frustrating---but there are some pretty sweet aspects to it if you play around. apparently you can add "rain" effects and like, lightening bolts and stuff. it was hard for me to resist...but i did. or maybe i didnt. guess you guys will all have to find out on THURSDAY you lucky monkeys.

hmm--i really dont want to speak too much about the project i did for body and architecture coming up, though i will say that i feel like the departures i found myself taking from the last project are crazy, and also crazily connected to my last project. what i mean by that is that there are connecting elements---the themes were born from the ideas in my last project relating to color and movement---but i am really interested in the way our ideas lead to such new and different solutions each time. this one is definitely different than the last, and i feel like a lot of people are experiencing the same freedom of creativity and process which is really cool.

this afternoon found a sleepy, dehydrated Alex wandering the banks of the Arno, octopus in hand. yellow kitchen gloves, CHECK...tripod...CHECK...absolutely nauseating octopus STANK? absolutely CHECK.

completely marvelous, ill make octopus snacks for everyone with the remaining carcus. its marinating in Arno juice in the fridge, so save up your appetites. or maybe not...im kind of attached to Japetto.