day 1/365

well here is my yearlong blog where I get to tell you about all the amazing events (and some not so amazing ones)  and you get to find out all about my life and its contents.  no secrete will be left untold here because no one reads this anyway.  (not that I dont appreciate you 3 people that go to my blog each day) even when Im writing this I burned dinner a little bit so I had to go run off.

anyway this is colin’s untold but then told story or maybe I should just go with untold story any way.  how this is going to work each day is under day Ill tell you basic things I did during the day.  under love life Ill tell you deep secretes about me and how thats going more detail later.  under Psyche Ill tell you my mental status it verys day to day some days I feel great some days I dont.  and Ill add more when I think of more to tell you.  there will also be an aftermath my own personal thoughts this after all is ecenchily a manuscript about how I am.  dont pay any attention to it if you dont want to your choise but since you somehow found your way unto this funkiefied blog might as well enjoy the stay.

day one the day is march something I dont know exactly when but I know its the Saturday before spring break ends.

disclaimer: by reading this you agree to the throw out your right to judge prosecute and shame me for any use of language, actions or things I discuss:  yes you  are entitled to your own option and I understand that is why you can leave comments just no spam because I am god on this board and this false god treats spam with the ultaminte punishment he can administer on this page.  also you may not copy this blog on any site article or anything  what so ever unless you get permission from me directly by email comments or even phone call.  although the first two are more likely.

Day:

I woke up late today because the night before I was playing half minuet hero on my psp and the time just flew bye “oh already four a clock ummmm 5 more minutes.  its kind of a bad habit I have been working up lately but Im trying to get better about it lets face it last night I was weak.   so I woke up and it was 12:00 noon and I was like F U C K not aging.  this was not the first time this had happed this week but I suppose its better than feeling like shit all day.

I had this great idea to go swimming today.  It getting close to be hot in Lubbock so I wanted to swim before the Texas sun got blistering once aging, like it does every summer.  I bought a new swimming suit the day before so I was pumped I was like lets do this! but the problem with this is it was an underground pool and the water was way too cold so I tried to tread water for a bit but my body was like no way is this happening so its sad to say but it did not last too long.  I was kind of bummed so I sat in a long chair out in the sun drying out before I headed back in the apartment but the sun kept getting in my eyes.  So I pushed two beach chairs together raped my towel over them and made a make shift shade and after a few trail and error I finally found a way to make the towle stay on the chair without the towel being blown off by the sun and my make shift shad design was a success.

after that I went back to my apartment kind of bummed that I did not get to go swimming  and I watch Doctor Who on Netflix though my PS3.  I made some beef strogenogh for dinner.  not the good kind the hamburger helper kind but you know it was quick and got me full.  all in all it was an uneventfull day so far but there is still more.

Love life up to this point.  this will probably be a long one since you dont know me very well so get ready. to quote Austin powers “I dont bite, hard”

up to this point in my life I have been largely unsuccessful at finding love now over the years I have kept been saying no too and my standards have decreased somewhat I would say.  now I will tell you what I like physically in women in a minuet but first I want to do the other mental aspects and personality traits that I find particularly attractive.  Well for starters I like a smart women if you dont have a big sexy smart brain for me count me out.  that one thing that I truly value though is knowledge, almost to a psychotic level.

I might be a horrible person but I have done this before but I have made drinking games out of the times that a hear a speech pattern and I here the word “LIKE” in the course thought talking with someone.  I realize that no one is truly stupid because we all have our strengths and weaknesses in areas but if I cant hold a regular conversation with you without hearing the word “LIKE” 15 times then I start to go a little crazy. (Its like the knights who say NI for me)   anyway this is besides the point Im getting sidetracked here but let it be noted that what is said cant be unsaid in this blog.

So now your probably thinking ok he likes smarts what else before that long rant about the word “LIKE”

well I like a girl that is easy to talk to and easy to keep a conversation going with.  because lets face it Im not very good at it and the easier she makes it for me the more comparable Ill feel around her.  also she has to be fun to be around.

now for the physical features now if a girl ever tells you they dont care much about physical features they are lairs everyone is atracted to certain physical features even if they wont admit it.  (caution its about to get mildly spicy you might want to take your antacid pills now).

the debate:  well the way I see it there are two kinds of guys (obviously we are talking about strait guys here no offense if your gay or anything).  There are guys who likes boobs and guys who like buts.  while boobs are nice for me there not a requirement I look for on my check list (no I dont have a check list) so this must mean I am a butt guy.  while its embarrassing to admit this I do like them booties.  its nice if the girl I like has a nice but thats defently a plus for me.  another thing I find attractive is red hair.  I like gingers I guess I know everyone is like “OMG look Colin this blond chick is so hawt” but its like ehh its not that I dont like blonds or anything I guess Im used to them since all of my all of my siblings had blond hair so it does not get me hot and bothered much.  I also rate brunets at a close 2ed.

Love life pt 2 subtitled ——— Colins Sad and Lonely Existence on this Earth is a Sign of the Fall for when he Actually Succeeds in Getting a Girl Friend it can only mean a sign of the end of days—————————- subtitle 12/12/2012 (what the myans where really talking about when they talked about the end of days)  but no Im really not that conceded.

well to tell you the truth I never really had a girl friend before and thats what that extremely long subtitle is about.  and the other half of it is that every time I have asked a girl out on a date they always said no in one way or another.  there is the less nice I think your weird and creepy *not true by the way* to the I think your a nice person Im not ready to be in a relationship to the I want to get back together with my old boyfriend *which I now (refure to that certain person as Envy Addams ) to the did I tell you already I had a boyfriend.

well my most resent encounter and by encounter I mean asking a girl out was with this one girl I liked her name I wont say due to respect but we where out one night she invited me to one of her organizations meetings so I thought maybe she does like me after the meeting would be a good time to ask her.  I thought she was giving me signs all week but no aperantly she thought I liked her roommate. ..  and about a week later I found out why but that is a story for another time.  but I was really disipointed because I thought Id finaly get that one YES. this was about 2 weeks ago and at least we are still friends Im relived for that at least.  but I think I fell into the friend zone and thats why she doent want to go out with me.  anyway I was not in the right zone to ask her so she said no I guess.  Ill tell you more about my love life next time I have to finish this blog up.

S3 mentality state

today I feel like Im falling and I need to grab ahold of somthing to claw my way up of the dark hole I have been folling into and that why I wanted to start a blog like this maybe if I express myself in a way I could never talk to someone about I could start climbing my way out of this endless darkness that I find myself in.  I feel as if I hit a wall almost it sucks I just have to keep pushing though and find  someway to overcome this wall.  its that or maybe Im just a little bummed because I haven’t accomplished anything in the last week.

well thats all for today hope you join me for tomarow when I talk about my day and more about myself.

lets take the blue pill together and see how far the rabbit hole takes us.

law post #1 (its about alaskan law)

my professor this time gave a scenario and asked us to respond to it. I shall post both on this blog.

“You will remember that Alaska Law essentially says a person can commit Second Degree Murder if:

(4) acting with a criminal street gang, the person commits or attempts to commit a crime that is a felony
and, in the course of or in furtherance of that crime or in immediate flight from that crime, any person
causes the death of a person other than one of the participants.

This is what happens. Joe is a young man and has joined a local street gang. Joe’s gang is called “The Bad Guys”. The Bad Guys arrange a rumble with the rival gang “The Posse.” While fighting Joe sticks his knife into the ribs of a member of The Posse. Even though the Posse member did not die Joe has committed the felony crime of Assault I. Now, a police officer comes on the scene. The officer is relatively new on the force and gets overly excited when he finds himself confronted with a full blown street gang fight in process. The officer pulls his gun and fires randomly in the direction of the melee and hits and kills a street derelict who is huddling behind some trashcans. Further assume the officer had violated Department Policy on weapons usage. In other words the officer should not have fired his gun at that particular instant.

The question is: “SHOULD JOE BE HELD FOR SECOND DEGREE MURDER UNDER THE LAW? FURTHER, DO YOU THINK THE LAW IS FAIR IN THIS SCENARIO? Would you change the law – how? AND LAST, IF YOU DISCOVERED THE OFFICER SHOT THE DERELICT ON PURPOSE JUST TO GET SOME OF THE GANG MEMBERS CONVICTED OF MURDER, WOULD THAT EFFECT YOUR OPINION?”"

 

my response starts here.

I think not only joe should be responsible for second degree murder but everyone who was involved in the gang fight.  They created an unsafe environment for the citizens of the town and when the cops showed up the cop shot the guy behind the trash can.

while Joe did commit assault in the first degree by stabbing a knife in the other man.  and under Alaskan law in that situation he would be charged of 2ed degree murder with circumstances like that. but to prove this is somthing entirely different.We would have to have legal cause to convict him of murder in the first place. The way we determine this is by asking the four questions about legal cause in the lecture seven. which are

1. Heinousness of the conduct;

2. Whether the conduct was criminal;

3. the temporality of the conduct to the harm caused; and

4. was the result

For the first question was the original crime heinousness. I say yes indeed it was, stabing someone is a very heinousness. was the conduct of stabing someone criminal.  and aging I have to say it was criminal because Assault in the first degree is a class A felony.  the third askes if the crime caused harm.  I would say the crime caused harm in more ways than one.  First stabling someone causes physical harm and not only that.  It causes emotional harm to the people around them by issuing a constant threat.  now what was the result while the person that he stabbed did not die the officer felt threatened enough to shoot and innocent bystander got killed.  was that predictable for creating a brawl like that in the street? I certainly think it was.  It is totally rational, to think that some other person getting hurt in the violent peoples recklessness.

Now as for the police who shot the guy I think he should be charged with murder as well. I don’t think that just because he was new, he should go that far, if his own life was not immediately endanger.  If I were to change the Alaskan law or law in general I would change it so that the person who killed another person as well as the person who comited that crime should be charged separately for the appropriate degree of murders, instead of the police man getting off scott free.  At the very least even if the state douse not convict the police man I believe he should be fired and striped of his gun and badge for taking that unnecessary shot.  this theroy stands if especially if he shot the man on propose too.

 

I would love to here your opinion on this matter too so comment if you feel like replying.

Hello colinman is back season 2

hi everyone I took a break for a while but now I’m back in business and ready to rumble.

I have disided to talk a little about law in the next series of posts.  Since my future profession is going to be a lawyer.  good time to start early I say.

If your looking for any of my art posts click the handy little art tab at the top of my page and if you want to see just my law posts, which at this point are non at this point click the law tab.

last month I got 400 visitors which is 4 times the amount the month before so I hope this blog will continue growing and being visited by more people as time goes on.

Good news everyone

With that futurerama joke behind me, let me tell you it is indeed good news.

My word prosseser is back up and running so my next blogs will be better than ever.

if you are having trouble with Microsoft word of late.  problems like its crashing when I exit it or I cant click the mouse button I have your solution.

go to start, all programs, accessories, run,

then type in regedit then click on the files H_K Current User/software/Microsoft/office/12.0/Word

now in this folder you will find a file named Data rename that to Old-data

its that simple, now try to open word and see if it works.

now you know not only do I talk about art but computers as well.

any way see you next time!!!

blog #8 non-western-art, african artwork

Hello fellow bloggers and readers alike and for those new to the series subscribe and get all the latest updates on my blog.  Now that formalities are out-of-the-way…

Today on Colinman’s blog I will be doing part 2 of a non-western-art work.  So after a little while I came across an interesting piece of artwork by the African artist Fikru G. Mariam.  Most of Fikru work involves women faces panted in elongated and abstract ways on an oil canvas but the work I have chosen for today stands out among all the rest.  Why does it stand out so much you ask? well the painting below is what 70% of his work looks like, but the piece I choose has a very different style to it.

—-Together,2004, canvas oil painting—(what most of his work looks like)

The painting above is not the piece I will be talking about today, just so you know but rather the painting below because I found it quite interesting.

Adewa, woodcarving, 1996

The piece I choose is titled Adewa and it is a wood carving made in 1996 by Fikru G. Mariam It stands out so much from the other work that it looks like another artist carved this.  Getting off that topic; now I want to talk about this piece.  First off, the detail on this piece of work is truly staggering.  The horses in there reigns have a very detailed mouth piece and on their lower body jewelry and emeralds to boot.  The people in this painting are all carrying something to defend themselves like bow and arrows, and shields which leads me to believe that this painting is about a great general controlling his army.  Now the contrast of light and dark used in this painting I find most interesting because it gives off the illusion of depth.  I also really liked the sun and the mountains carved in the background.  This carving uses the lights and dark’s so well that it gives off a really cool effect.

Now like I said before the person who carved this was Fikru G. Mariam.  He was born in 1973 and has been practicing art since he was 11.  In 1995 he graduates from the School of fine arts and he then dedicated most of his time to painting.  At that time he painted mostly about religion and different African themes.   These days Fikru spends his times in Addis Abeba and Paris.  His work is despaired all over the world including italy, the United States, Canada and the Netherlands.

thanks for reading Even know this is my last blog that Im required to write I will still continue writing things on it.

this has been colinman saying I’ll BE BACK.

really, I will.

sources

http://www.fikru.fr/Bio.htm

www.nevinkellygallery.com/artists/fikru.htm

Non western artwork blog #7 (a different kind of work)

Today I will be talking about a very different piece of artwork from before.  Its a non western piece that almost everyone should know about.  Yet, the reason it is so different today is because I am not going to talk about a painting which would be my usual choice.  So keeping my promise, I am going to talk about the massive artwork and structure The Birds Nest.

Birds Nest Daytime

The birds nest was built as a chines stadium to hold the 2008 Olympics and was a collaborative effort by Herzog, DeMeuron, Ai Wei Wei, the outspoken Chinese artist, and the former Swiss Ambassador to China.  This was not a simple task either , like the sang goes Rome was not built in a day; this structure was by no means either.  It took almost 5 long years to build this stadium, they started construction on it in December of 2003 and opened up in 2008 just 2 hours before the Olympic opening ceremony started. The stadium can sit 91,000 people

When the stadium was undergoing construction the stadium had a retractable roof and while designers of this structure wanted to hide the support beams for the retractable roof so, the architectures decided to make add on more steel to blend those support beams in with the structure.  After the collapse of the roof they had to modify the building which helped to reduced costs and to keep bad weather out of the viewers heads.  Even know the nickname for the building is the birds nest and kind of looks like a birds nest it was first used by one of the designers Li said that, “In China, a bird’s nest is very expensive, something you eat on special occasions.” this goes to show the name Birds nest can be taken many different ways from different cultures. After the Olympics in 2008 the Birds Nest’s designers had plans to turn itself into a tourist shopping mall.

The Birds Nest at night

Now that I have told you a little about the birds nest I want to talk about it from an art standpoint.  Now I think that the Birds nest is a technological wonder It took years to make as any great artwork and is a huge building that is well designed.  It kind of shows you how far technology has gotten over the ages.  For The Birds Nest design it simple yet intricate at the same time.  The crisscross beams and supports to make a building that is 258,000 sq m in size and it looks like a actual birds nest from an birds eye view.

birds eye view of Birds Nest

Now all civilizations have their buildings that marvel the world, the egiptions had the pyramids and Rome had colusems.  Now the Birds Nest can become part of that history.  the only sad part is it is being used as a tourist shopping mall currently.

inside birds nest shopping center

This has been colinman see you next time. .

sources

http://www.creativeclass.com/creative_class/tag/olympic-stadium/

http://en.beijing2008.cn/venues/nst/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing_National_Stadium

gallery time; watercolor paintings #6

Today I will be talking about watercolor paintings.  Why?  You ask.  It is because watercolor is one of the hardest mediums to use out there, and, if you can master the art of working with watercolor paints, well the way I see it is, there is not much you can not do in the art world.  I have chosen some paintings that show off the true spender of what watercolor can really do because, I enjoy the colors and how artist use these colors to show off everyday places that have transformed due to it. We have to start somewhere right?

The first set of paintings I would like to show you were created by the painter Barbara Nechis.  Barbra Nechis lives at Nappa Vally located in northern California. She has served as a juror for American Watercolor Society.  She also holds a Bachelors in history and fine arts from the university of Rochester as well as a Masters degree from Alfred university.  She has also written many books about watercolor one of those books is titled Watercolor From the Heart.

So the first painting Is called DVD floral by Barbara Nechis.  The reason for the DVD in the title  is because this work was going to be shown from start to finish in a DVD that Barbara Nechis was going to released latter this year.   You can see how she uses the null-space, empty white space, in each of her painting with color in the middle of that null-space to create the illusion of extra petals in the painting.

This painting is called Rock and Water by Barbara Nechis.  The water color brushstrokes are brilliantly though out  in this painting to create the illusion of glassy water.  At first glance the painting at whole looks beautiful it has the illusions of light hitting water reflections and shadows against the rocks which add depth to the painting.  As you look more closely at the painting you can see the actual brushstroke taken to create these effects.  Let it sink in for a moment as your imagination runs wild with these vivid paintings.

The next set of watercolor paintings I want to talk about is from the artist Zoltan Szabo.  Zoltan Szabo was born in Hungry.  He emigrated to North America before the Hungarian Revolution and worked in Canada for about 30 years .  In the mid seventy’s he moved to Arizona and moved aging  in the 80s to North Carolina.  Zoltan is author of several books which include Zoltan Szabo’s 70 Favorite Watercolor Techniques and Zoltan Szabo’s Color by Color Guide to Watercolor Painting.  When Zoltan died his last request was that his books and videos were available to all of his friends.

The first work I would like to share with you is called Peace of Silence by Zoltan Szabo.  You can see, compared to other works, how this style is very different from the previous artist That I have showed you.  There are a lot more darker colors in this work as well as lighter colors to contrast the darker ones.  This painting is like night and day in the same painting.  The lower half is nighttime while the upper looks like a sunny day.  that one reason I like the painting above.

This work is titled Little Haven by Zoltan Szabo . This painting is depicting a little house in the wilderness.  This place is kind of like where I live right now except less muddy but the middle of nowhere part seems right.

Well we looked at some great paintings today but we are not though yet there is still one more artist for today.  The last artist I want to talk about today is Catherine W Smith.

Catherine Smith started painting when she could barely pick up a brush.  She made the choice to become an artist when she was very young. When she won the American Academy of Art competition scholarship it helped kick off her carer as a young artist. she herself describes her art style as “loose realism” and she has been teaching the watercolor art style for more than 20 years.  She and her husband live in Elgin, Illinois.

Night Song by  Catherine W Smith.

Summer waves by Catherine W smith

well that is all for today I have hoped you enjoyed this artwork as much as I enjoyed writing about it.

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sources

http://www.zoltanszabo.com/

http://www.barbaranechis.com/AboutArtistPage.htm

http://www.catherinewsmith.com/Resume.htm

http://www.nvopenstudios.com/artists/47/224/

blog #5 surrealism

A note to all my loyal fans and viewers– I am sorry it has been so long between my last blog.  My word processor was down and with many attempts to fix it, but to no avail, I am now working on a different computer.  From now on I pay more attention to my computer and the schedule I’m trying to set for myself.
Now without further to do. The original blog.

The painting below is called L’Ange du Foyer, (1937) by Max Ernst who mainly worked on two different styles of painting.  The fist style that he painted was called dada style which was born as a protest to world war I or more specifically what the painters thought was the root problem of the war. So to sum things up the dada movement was a protest against nationalist and colonialist interests.  However born out of the Dada movement was the  Surrealism movement which is also the style of painting the picture is below.  The surrealist movement was a movement was based on the idea that rational thought was in the subconscious and since most actions were controlled by that subconscious, it should be praised.  They did this by painting things with creativity and beauty.  It was all about how the artist wanted to express his or her subconscious mind.

Now the painting above is quite interesting now when I chose a painting to talk about today I wanted something completely obscure.  Now my first thought was to do something on the painting scream, which for your viewing pleasure I included below, but when I realized it was an expressionist painting rather than a surrealist painting I then had to begin my search anew.  When I got on track this painting immediately caught my eye.  The colors so where so vibrant and light I knew I had to talk about it.

Now at first glance this painting looks to be something like a chimera, an animal that is combined with another animal, but the painting is more abstracted than that.  Upon closer inspection it looks like the elements of earth are seen thought the painting.  The ocean furiously ripping its waves in the sky,  the wind as a rag in blowing and ripping in the air.  Its light colors give me the impression it is wind.  There is also a giant stump like shape that plummets its way towards earth which I believes represents the trees or the forest.  There are also many other elements the dog like figure on the side the red lava boiling the clouds.   Now in the center of the picture lies a predominately bird like head.  I wondered about this and apparently Max Ernst, the painter, became fascinated  with birds mid way in his life and you can see them in many of his paintings.  There are just so many different ways to look at this work its hard not to be intrigued by the mere site of it.

Thanks for reading.  This is colinman see you next time.

that is if I am still alive.

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sources

http://www.huntfor.com/arthistory/C20th/surrealism.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Ernst

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Thanks to all of you visitors and classmates alike,  I will continue to improve this blog to make it the best out there.

This has been colinman saying see you in less than a week.

Impressionism, Post-impressionism also poll #1

The impressionistic art style, how I love it, it has elegance, radiance, and fun use of colors.  There a certain thing about these paintings that makes most people goes crazy about them.  But you may be wondering what exactly an impressionistic painting is.  Well, impressionistic paintings are characterized by their small and thin brush strokes, open composition and depiction of a changing of time by the use of light and the illusion of movement to the human eye.  Most if not all these things can be seen in the painting below The Boating Party, painted between the years 1893-94 by the painter Mary Cassatt painted in Allegheny City.

You can see how the illusion of motion catches your eyes and makes you think that the current is moving along.  Another reason why I liked the impressionistic paintings is vivid and bold use of colors.  There is kind of a personal reason for this really and that reason is because I am color blind.  And to answers your next question yes I can see colors just not the ones you see.  I see my world in a whole different way than the rest of the non color blind populous so when I see something that goes together well and other people can’t well that’s just me and I love using my strange taste talents to shock people much like the impressionist people shocked the rest of France, and latter the world with their paintings.

Short after the impressionistic age came the post-impressionistic age the painting below is one of my favorites it was painted by Vincent van Gogh and is called The Café Terrace on the Place du Forum, Arles, at Night, and was painted in 1888.  The reason I like that painting it is because it is of the night sky perfectly contrasting with the city life below it’s the perfect balance if you ask me.  Now while the post impressionistic paintings and impressionistic paintings are similar there are some differences between the two eras.  The main differences are the artists are more inclined to emphasize geometric forms, to distort form for expressive effect, and to use unnatural or arbitrary color in their painting than earlier in the begging impressionistic paintings.  These are the reasons I like impressionistic paintings.  This has been colinman see you next time.

sorces

http://www2.hawaii.edu/~ncarol/cassatt.htm

http://www2.hawaii.edu/~ncarol/artists.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressionism