Something I've been playing with as of late...

How do you represent the hardest thing a person can possibly represent, themselves? The problem is, I want to make myself a website that is sort of a collection of my own work...weather it be because I want to use as a resume site, personal site, or something else entirely (I think I just want a piece of real estate in this world with my name on it, virtual or not.) I have tried many designs over the past what I would say nine years if you included the ones thought up with Taylor..All of them were scrapped save one which ended up as the idea for Dave's site ( www.davidgroseclose.com ) And again I am plagued with the question of how I should represent myself. I have to say that I am sort of digging my logo, which was on here before and can be seen in the SCAD work folder. So this summer I have been playing around with yet another idea. I am not going to show you the entire thing, just a little sample of it. A few details on the site is that it would be completely done in Flash, inspired by Rauschenberg (probably way off on spelling of that), and consist of the idea, "me, in some form." The following image is just a clip (scrap, piece, fragment) from the final still of the opening keyframe. Again this, like the others, would probably hit the cutting room floor...But I figure hell, might as well share what has been floating around my brain.

hate to admit it...

but, here goes...

i just watched "camp rock". and i kind of liked it.

it wasn't hsm, but it couldve been a hellofalot worse! haha

anywho, speaking of disney (it's a stretch, but you see where i'm comin from) im going this weekend! i'm called it a "girls weekend"- me and my gay husband steven are meeting there! AH! i havent seen him in three years and ive missed him so much. we don't keep in touch as often as i'd like, but i have a feeling we'll pick up right where we left off.

funny story for those who don't know- the first time i met him we were on the dynamic bus heading back to the college program apartments after our first day of "traditions class" at disney university. he offered me a disney fruit snack pack, and i totally thought he was hitting on me (i have terrible gaydar, ask anyone). i ended up pretty much living at his apartment.

words cannot express how excited i am to see my long lost husband! it's been far too long.

oh, and i got my car fixed. the check engine light had been on for about 8 months, and my dad pretty much grounded me until i got it fixed. seriously, he grounded me. someone needs to explain to ME how i let myself get grounded by a dude who's 3000 miles away from me. obviously he won, since $300 later, my car is fine, and i'm "allowed" to go now. i would've gone anyways, i might have just commit grand theft auto (is that even the term, or just a game?) and taken rylan's car. but no felonies were commited and im going to disneyworld!

adios.

growing up, some of my favorite movies were "blue hawaii", "south pacific", and "beach blanket bingo" so naturally i felt like i would be the ultimate beach bum when i was older. but let us not forget that i was born and raised in a desert, and spent 23 years of my life in said desert. i feel like a fraud admitting this, but i, chelsea parks, am not a good beach person.

well thats not true, but yesterday was just not my favorite day at the beach. it was hot, there were bugs, and god help me there was a crying baby about 20 feet from us who would not shut up. we only spent about an hour there, then we went to get some really good pizza.

then we went to sam's club and got a membership. we're card carrying members of adult society now! so i went a little nuts and bought an iTouch. if i could figure it out, i guess technically i could be updating this from that, but well, im not. haha

more news from our kitchen. we bought an ice cream maker! we've made peach ice cream (which was more like soup... but still yummy) and vanilla. that turned out much better than our first attempt. we bought a ben and jerry's ice cream recipe book, so hopefully deliciousness will ensue!

tonight we have steak. it's been a very long time since we've had it, due to lack of funding on the grocery front, but my god it was so good. even the dog benefitted from this- her bowl was overflowing with the scraps.

and now there's orangecicles in the freezer!