day six

A photo of an animal you'd love to keep as a pet

I was going to go with a Shiba Inu picture that I conveniently saved onto my desktop last week, but as I already have a cute little Bichon and a dog is too commonplace (sigh), here is my real dream pet:

(My photo, found here: click!)

I never really knew that you can own toucans as pets, but found out on YouTube (haha) one day when I was browsing through recommended videos. Apparently they cost a fortune and only live about 15 years (seems long, but Macaws live up to 50 years...), so I'm not sure how tangible my dream is. Maybe if I'm a multimillionaire and live in an Apple-esque apartment flat. How could would it be to have a couple of toucans (all loved dearly, of course) wandering around a white apartment? So cool.

But despite, um, the aesthetics of the bird (how come this is such a reoccurring theme in my blogs lately?), I really love how sweet they are. And also assumedly neater than parrots. And they don't actually bite, since their beaks are actually weak, which surprised me...but makes sense; look at the size of that thing compared to the bird's actual body.

Nonetheless, my answer: a toucan.

day seventeen

An art piece (painting, drawing, sculpture, etc.)

How appropriate: art, the bane of my existence (this week). With Scholastics due on Monday/technically this Thursday, and the awards I receive determining my midterm grade, this is by far one of the worst weeks of the year. Complete with cramming, wringing out the remains of any possible creative juices, bouncing ideas off classmates, and wishing you had picked a more vague concentration, art is all I've been thinking about. Good thing I managed to pull some photos+a sculpture together to make the eight necessary pieces a probable happening. Gotta work on my Parachute piece tonight.

Nonetheless, here's something I did recently:

It's "finished" (although I was supposed to make corrections a few weeks back), but this was the driving idea behind a switch from my "something's missing" concentration to suspension.

Andddd hopefully by this time, it's clear that the bird is a marionette...yup.

But all right, going to do something unproductive and then take a nice, long nap. I love when teachers accidentally don't give any homework. Mmm :)