MichaelCarpenter

How we grow old.

2009-07-12T15:24:00.000-07:00

I'm not sure i can insist upon the fact that anything i have ever done had a good intention. That's stupid.
I know i can reassure anyone, who questions the actions of why i do what i do, with the actions of what i do.
My thoughts are not my own. But neither are yours, until, of course, you look at mine.
My sisters gave me my first sword; no, this isn't one of those Freudian slips, don't be an asshole.

I've seen many Unicorns, and i have hunted them. I would not just sit there and look at it. Only those who cannot handle themselves or have a lack of swords cannot consider to hunt one. It would be those poor bastards, who can only look, most likely masturbating all the while.
As i have stated, my sisters gave me my first sword. I could not end existence for any such creature, of course, but it tipped my existence.
I can stand the thought of getting my hands dirty, but only when my pleasure's wont be found trickling down my arms and into my eyes.
Being my age, i am not tall enough to evade gravity, so as you would imagine, my eyes became pools where that fluorescent liquid would collect, and needless to say, i did fondle every particle i found in those pools. No one told me of the repercussions. Reasons being somewhat obvious, i guess. Who would really want to have that many awkward (or at least i hear it is) conversations with a child. Perhaps i should have been given a book on what is taboo, rather than a cow jumping over a fucking moon. All one would have to do, is provide appropriate implications for a child to understand. But then again, that would take, just too much time.
My first Unicorn came in kindergarden. I saw it sparkling in the dark, the rest of the kids were to fucking clueless to notice one, at least in my world. I've met a few kids who have seen the Unicorns when i have, i got rid of them, but, in a passive aggressive manner so that my actions would not be noticed by to many. Its the ones who notice what i am doing that i can truly have as my friends. "Recess" just started, no better way to make sure a unicorn wasn't killed than to throw the entire class into a domain where we could do anything we wanted to, except, of course, everything we really wanted to do.
I didn't hesitate, the moment i had no eyes on me, my feet carefully and softly made there way to the realm where the Unicorn was. My intention, all the while was to just give it to my mother, I found no harm in this. But, in the end, i was given up by the bitch security tower(which by the way, always consists of a large female figure who seems to have little to no idea on how to really watch over young children, unless you call yelling and throwing junk food at kids a valid way of maintaining order), who's responsibility it was to make sure i didn't do anything out of the ordinary from the moment i left school until my parents came and picked me up. A lesson learned. Next time, instead of sharing my secret, ill take some marbles and put them where i know they will be blindly stepped on and hope from anywhere between, sort of bad to holly shit.

Ted Videos- Such good stuff

2009-07-12T12:55:00.000-07:00

I remember seeing a video from TED.com a few years ago, but, at that time in my life, being pessimistic seemed to be a cooler way of thinking about things, rather than getting engaged in something worth while. I feel like irony and pessimism have grabbed my generation by the balls, and is not letting go with out a fight. Maybe this happens to everyone, or every generation. I'm not really sure yet. But, i do feel that those two states of mind are sucking the creative life force out of a lot of the people i have met. I know that before i took time off from school and was able to look back and see what i have been doing for the past few years, i was very much a negative little bastard, granted, it was punctuated by amazing surges of positive energy and experiences because of what i have been studying, but none the less, negativity remained a current theme in my state of mind.
The people i am talking about all come from generally the same place as i do. Or at least, we have all come to the same place. Which is, a private art school where we learn basically anything we are interested in. With this privilege running parallel along side the accessibility of knowledge due to the internet and other developments in technology, it seems that there isnt enough responsibility being taken by the people who spend hours on end absorbing information from their computers. And really, being on the front line of all these things taking place with learning and the internet and not really knowing what the repercussions will be yet, how are we to know what to do?
I'm really not sure. I think as more people and organizations take it upon themselves to organize the mass amount of information on the net we might be able to make the internet a more useful tool. Rather than just something that is supplementing T.V. and other forms of media in a negative fashion. Before this point, i think it was or would have been valid to say that the power to fully teach ourselves remained somewhat out side of the individuals grasp. But as more and more information becomes accessible and more people are able to gain access to that information, i think that pessimism and irony will hopefully fall from their relevance in our day to day lives. Really, there are just way to many interesting things out there.

This is some stuff from figure class, i will have som sculpture stuff up soonish i hope. busy busy school days.

2009-03-05T20:57:00.001-08:00

new blog

2008-03-24T22:56:00.000-07:00

new blog

MichaelCarpenter.blogspot.com

Contain it show.

2008-01-27T11:10:00.000-08:00

Hey guys sorry i have not posted in a while ive been pretty busy with all that fine art jazz. Here are some pictures from a show i just had in Dunedin, it is the first real show i have had. It was all installation based and i couldn't do anything to the walls, i pretty much had to keep the pod in the same condition as i first saw it. It was a good time and a really good experience. woot woot yeeeea shapes.

Conatin it show in Dunedin.

2008-01-27T10:57:00.000-08:00

Degas aster copy for figure class

2007-12-07T08:07:00.000-08:00

painting for figure class.

2007-12-07T08:02:00.000-08:00

sketchbook stuff

2007-11-05T20:25:00.000-08:00

these are some random things im working on for little giggles. im open to addin things or takeing away.

2007-11-05T20:02:00.000-08:00

thhiiiiiis is for my mom, so she can see my room. sweeet.

2007-11-05T19:55:00.002-08:00

here is what the original trip looked like.

2007-11-05T19:55:00.001-08:00

here again is another piece that im an playing around with, im trying to let things happen rather then have a set goal. heeeelp.

2007-11-05T19:47:00.000-08:00

second port of the trip for pratt.

2007-11-05T19:43:00.000-08:00

this was the first part of the tri for pratt.

2007-11-05T19:41:00.000-08:00

this piece has no deep meaning it is pretty much me playing around with different media, im not finished so any help would be nice

2007-11-05T19:34:00.000-08:00

here is a bunch of sketch stuff word.

2007-10-01T18:03:00.000-07:00

word.

2007-09-30T14:46:00.000-07:00

here is a bunch of stuff from pratts class most of it is unfinished or has changed a bit i will try to get up dates rollin soon and some sketch book.

2007-09-30T14:44:00.001-07:00

here is some of the finsihed work i did and some figure drawings. the drawings are 15min long and was based on trying to get the full shape

2007-07-14T16:02:00.001-07:00

and some more sketch stuff

2007-07-14T15:55:00.000-07:00

here is a bunch of sketch book stuff. I love sketch books they can be vary personal and help you explore you're thoughts.

2007-07-14T15:50:00.000-07:00

2 40min oil sketches of summer

2007-04-30T20:41:00.000-07:00

tight sketch for new illustration on the "TIN DRUM"

2007-04-25T00:12:00.000-07:00

best of Ringling painting

2007-04-23T20:04:00.000-07:00

painting of summer that got into best of Ringling.

thanks volkertron

2007-04-22T14:58:00.000-07:00

adams photoshop drawing that i painted on.

2007-04-17T23:04:00.000-07:00

quick drawing of summer with some wax on it yeeeea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2007-04-17T23:00:00.002-07:00

1hr painting of jezzz

2007-04-17T23:00:00.001-07:00

figure class

2007-04-17T22:57:00.000-07:00

fewwws

2007-04-17T22:55:00.000-07:00

bad painting day so i busted out the pallette knife. sorry for all you people who like good proportion

2007-04-17T22:52:00.002-07:00

2007-04-17T22:52:00.001-07:00

sketch

2007-04-17T22:51:00.001-07:00

sketch sketch

2007-04-17T22:48:00.000-07:00

detail of a quick painting

2007-04-17T22:47:00.000-07:00

liiiiiindsay quick sketch

2007-04-17T22:46:00.000-07:00

good ole larry

2007-04-17T22:45:00.000-07:00

2min gestures

sketch page

2007-04-17T22:34:00.000-07:00

2007-02-28T20:41:00.000-08:00

sketchbook

2007-02-28T20:40:00.004-08:00

sketchbook

2007-02-28T20:40:00.003-08:00

sketch book

2007-02-28T20:38:00.000-08:00

figure class

2007-02-28T20:37:00.000-08:00

asian fever

2007-02-28T20:34:00.000-08:00

john

2007-02-28T20:33:00.000-08:00

sketch page

2007-02-26T13:44:00.000-08:00

heres a better scan

2007-02-26T13:43:00.000-08:00

geisha-acrylic, tar and oil

2007-01-28T17:52:00.000-08:00

painting of summer-never really got finished

2007-01-25T19:56:00.000-08:00

color block in

2007-01-25T19:54:00.000-08:00

fews nude

2007-01-25T19:50:00.000-08:00

2007-01-25T19:48:00.000-08:00

2007-01-25T19:47:00.000-08:00

2007-01-25T19:44:00.000-08:00

2007-01-25T19:42:00.001-08:00

2007-01-25T19:42:00.000-08:00

2007-01-25T19:41:00.000-08:00

2007-01-25T19:40:00.000-08:00

2007-01-25T19:38:00.000-08:00

sketchbook

2007-01-25T19:36:00.000-08:00

first illustration-acrylic with ball point

2007-01-25T14:56:00.000-08:00

china girl water color

2007-01-25T14:45:00.000-08:00

red barron-oil rub

2007-01-25T14:41:00.000-08:00

pen and ink

2007-01-25T14:40:00.000-08:00

2006-10-16T18:53:00.000-07:00

2006-10-16T18:47:00.000-07:00

2006-08-01T16:38:00.000-07:00

here is a close up of the armm sorry for the glare

water girl

2006-08-01T16:34:00.000-07:00

Here is the start of the master copy of this guy i forgot his name ill post it with the other stuff thought, its coming along its fucking hard trying to get the colors right from a poster but im having fun with it ive done more ill add the other ones soon

buffalo soldier

2006-05-24T16:06:00.000-07:00

this is a page from my sketch book, i think im gona illustrate the song buffalo soldier by bob, so i started with the typical buffalo but im not sure where i could go with it i have some ideas but if u people have any suggestions throw them out

stuff from new york, it might be kinda hard to see i dont have a scanner i had to bust out the camera

2006-05-24T16:02:00.000-07:00

woooooself portrait

2006-04-29T16:22:00.000-07:00

yea so the pink wasnt the best idea but come on its pink

2006-04-29T16:09:00.000-07:00

this was the young black woman who had a little baby in her tum tum

2006-04-27T20:27:00.000-07:00

first oil , or first good one

2006-04-27T20:24:00.000-07:00

sketch work

2006-04-27T20:21:00.000-07:00

2006-04-27T20:18:00.000-07:00

sketchwork

2006-04-27T20:10:00.000-07:00

6 hour figure painting, its the first figure painting ive done but throw me a bone i need the help

2006-04-27T20:03:00.000-07:00

Its a 3 hour drawing of larry that never got finished but boy...hes old and he makes me sweat