Art History

I'd love to have posted more today, but I've been working on my paper and annotated bibliography for my art history class. I have to compare two works, of completely different cultures, during the same century, with something in common.

I chose a Greek (Euboean) skyphos (wine cup)

and a Fou (bronze wine container) from the Zhou dynasty in China.
SO EXCITING.

MMMM candy!

I got a super duper amazing package from my parents! yeah! it's got candy in it! and a really cute card!

In other news, I keep avoiding my homework and going out instead. Antichrist last night was crazy, I highly recommend it. Though I didn't watch the famous "clitoris severing" scene...I looked away for that second. But it was a good movie. Crazy. Crazy good.
I've been watching movies all of today, and saw The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Itty Bitty Titty Committee, SLC Punk, Prom Night, and Matilda. I then went out to a diner, even though I had already eaten dinner. OH BOY. I should really start that homework...

Top 3 Languages Heard at Parsons

1. Korean
2. Spanish
3. Not English

Sorry I didn't post yesterday-I was working pretty much all day and then got in a fight with my roommate. She isn't really talking to me now, but no more on that.

Lots of work this weekend, and I'm about to go to the new Lars von Trier movie Antichrist with Gaby and her boyfriend, Kevin. We'll see how that goes!

Dinner Tonight: Pesto without a Food Processor

I got this recipe from 101cookbooks.com*
I love it because I don't have a food processor-only a knife and my dreams. Actually the knife is my roommate's...

1 large bunch of basil, leaves only, washed and dried
3 medium cloves of garlic
one small handful of raw pine nuts
roughly 3/4 cup Parmesan, loosely packed and FRESHLY GRATED
A few tablespoons of extra-virgin olive oil
Special equipment: large mezzaluna for chopping
Start chopping the garlic along with about 1/3 of the basil leaves. Once this is loosely chopped add more basil, chop some more, add the rest of the basil, chop some more. I scrape and chop, gather and chop. At this point the basil and garlic should be a very fine mince. Add about half the pine nuts, chop. Add the rest of the pine nuts, chop. Add half of the Parmesan, chop. Add the rest of the Parmesan, and chop. In the end you want a chop so fine that you can press all the ingredients into a basil "cake" - see the photo up above. Transfer the pesto "cake" to a small bowl (not much bigger than the cake). Cover with a bit of olive oil, it doesn't take much, just a few tablespoons

They suggest using a mezzaluna instead of a knife, but I don't have one-like most college students-so I use what's available.


*http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/001570.html

3D

I enjoyed making this. Mostly. I based it off of Johannes Kepler's theory of the solar system, which was the idea that all these polyhedrons-which fit inside each other-correlate to the planets in the solar system. Now we know that was a heap of crap, but it's still interesting.

I thought it came out pretty well, though A's and B's are given out in comparison to other people in the class, in which case it suffered a bit.

Like the little window?

-----------------------------------UPDATE-----------------------------

What I said before about grading in only half true. Really we're graded on craft, concept, and our presentation board. I got a B+ on the craft and board, and an A- on concept! WOOHOO! Go me!

Cute Drawings

cute drawings I made that are hanging on my wall

Brooklyn Day

I spent a lot of the day in Brooklyn, since my brother lives there and it was his birthday. We had a Halloween party last night, so I slept over in his apartment and we went to the aforementioned birthday brunch at Stone Park in Park Slope. I don't think I had ever eaten their eggs before, but with the famous biscuits and gravy, they really hit the spot...MMMM! Before actually leaving the apartment though, we got to cheer people on in the New York Marathon. I didn't get up early enough to see the elites, but I cheered on some runners who truly needed the motivation and hopefully made their run a little easier.

I went back to finish homework and other boring stuff, but by night I was back in Brooklyn to another Park Slope restaurant, Al Di La (apparently the Italian word for heaven, or purgatory, I'm not sure. That's just what an Italian girl told me once). I ordered the Malfatti, which was of course delicious, and then hobbled back to the subway station.

I swear the train took an hour to get back to the city! But I'm home now, and ready for class tomorrow...ugh.