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Stuck there, posted on a wall. City through my lense.
Filed Under Mar8
This piece excites me soooo much!! I can’t efficiently describe it with words. Basically, pieces like these challenge me to think more freely and not restrain myself to one medium. I have not done any pieces lately because well… fashion school IS fashion school. Everything I do there revolves around my pattern cutting, digital imaging, fashion illustration and textile classes. It all reverts back to me continuing with studying fashion design next year but with my spring break (which is ONE MONTH LONG!!) coming up I am going to try to attempt some pieces. Those primary skills in painting and drawing always need to be kept fine tuned when in art school, but I want to continue with doing so even after I am done with college.
Thank you Alberto “Sting” Russo, your portfolio has inspired me.
I represent honeys with money, fly guys, and gents
Jan30
Let me address this first because I have been getting backtracked emails about my website. So I did not forget to renew my website, this is not shutting down and I do not have “beef” with my host haha. One person seriously asked if that was why my website was not working. Made me laugh pretty hard. I love my host, it is just that I am switching servers to my own private one (which I haven’t done just yet) and my host took a bit to renew the domain name for me.
Next on the agenda is…. what happened to updating this thing? hahaha That is my fault. College transfers are wrapped up but my portfolio website and hosting site are not up yet. Besides that, I have a plate full of projects to take care of and those come first since I am getting paid for them. Fashion school is expensive and I have got to pay for the cloth, pins, needles, swatches, embelishments and miscellaneous art supplies! In the end it is worth it because it will result in a fashion career eventually. Graphic designing has become a source of income for me now so I am not going to say no to a potential client. So that is what is up with thatttt.
One last thing. SOCIAL NETWORKS. NO, I do not have a Twitter. I have gotten emails about that. Reason being because I like having my life being private and will only share so much with the rest of the world. Nor do I have a MySpace though my portfolio contains a large portion of work done on there. I just know how to work with their CSS/HTML and do not have a personal account. Personal choice of mine soo yeah. I do have a Facebook but unless you want to run a search on my name, I am not going to be giving it out just yet.
I leave you with something a bit more light-hearted. Lyrics should give you a laugh if you haven’t heard the song before.
Meaning I’m on vaca chilling on a big yacht
Jan13
Life kind of got in the way of this website. As you can see haven’t exactly been active on this site for a good month or so. Last blog was November when I got dumped with crazy amounts of homework for school. Then winter break came and I went back home to Boston from London. Not being home for several months was hard so I was trying my best to treasure the time I had there. This site might be down soon seeing as I now own Oh-Word.com and am switching hosting for this site under that one. I mean Oh-Word.com is going to be a hosting site anyways and I don’t see the point in hosting CheckTheMentality under a different server. Hmm.. I thing I have found the definite direction for this blog. Might possibly be getting a separate domain for my portfolio as well.
Bare with me while all of these changes are going on throughout the site. If you have any questions feel free to contact me via email. Whether it is for this site or questions about hosting under the new domain. And YES subdomains will be free, I will just implement regulations to ensure that you are fully capable and willing to manage your subdomain on your own. It will not be necessary to have knowledge of graphic design seeing as how there are great programs like WordPress and B2evolution where templates may be used. So please if you want to be hosted as soon as possible on Oh-Word.com do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you very much.
01/14/2010 UPDATE! UPDATE! UPDATE!
I have realized my online portfolio has become massive and there is still more to add with all of the new work I have done so far in the past year or so that I still have yet to put up. Because of its massive size and the fact that its stretched over so many categories (Painting, Illustration, Graphic Design) I will be moving my portfolio to a new website all together, keeping it separate from CheckTheMentality.com. Also, note that because I am/have submitted the URL of my portfolio for college transfers that the portfolio will be getting my utmost attention from anywhere between two weeks and a month before I turn back to maintaining this website. Reason for this being I have already submitted a portfolio URL some places and need to work quickly. The listing for my network of websites will be:
CheckTheMentality.com – personal website & blog
Oh-Word.com – free subdomains and low cost hosting
Lastly, my portfolio. Have not decided on a name but will soon!
01/19/2010 FINAL UPDATEEEE!!!
THIS site has been working on and off all day yesterday and today. I am just transferring hosting seeing as my domain name expired and everything might get deleted inbetween. Sorry for the inconvenience! Especially if you are here to use resources and anything like that.
P.S. My portfolio site is going to be MissJanssen.com! Joining my network of sites including this one and Oh-Word.com. 
I said REVAMP.. but..
Oct12
I couldn’t see my website this weekend? Wierd. I could access everything else like my WordPress and FTP programs though? Anyways a new theme is coming. Coding it tomorrow after class, after homework and on Wednesday. It will be a two day project fer sure. I was trying to do the theme first but then what happened was that it said something did not exist on my page, so I had to delete the revamp page I had up to see if some things worked. COMPLICATED. I know. I will stop talking about it.
It is 1:03am, no early class tomorrow. Psyched. Sorry that her tutor displaced her knee. OUCH! But that means I get 2 hours more sleep. During one of my two classes, I am going to try to start on coding ideas. Need to come of with some new and exciting things. Plus it makes decisions quicker once I pull up notepad.
Uhm.. oh yeah. My last entry was up for like a day before I put up that Gaga sign about the revamp. I have been working on the vamping up part! Got tons more stuff for the portfolio. Learned new things to make tutorials for thanks to my photoshop class. Taking down the shop. Sorry no more time for it anymore! Will be setting up the subdomain for graphic design requests, but I am still trying to figure out a way to make it so I can inform people of days I can not do any? Like I don’t want to post up my class schedule or nights I go out haha, but something. So people can see why I am taking long to respond back?
Besides that, still have school. Loads of work. But for once I love it. I am currently studying fashion, for those that do not know at London College of Fashion for the year. Yeah, that intro thingy on the side is def wrong. Need to update haha. There is nothing “academic” about it. I love it. Except one thing. This does not have to do with fashion, but I have a yearning to do math all of a sudden? Like english whatevs. I can write an essay on anything any day. Look at the notes section on my iTouch. But math?! It has gotten to the point. When I can not get rid of this craving, I look up algebra problems to do. I would do precal too, but haa don’t have a graphing calculator! Sad though. I must have no life OR maybe my high school prepared me too well?
p.s. To my affiliates!! Sorry for the abrupt hiatus I took, tell me how you’re doing in a comment :]
/*EDIT*/ I put this Nicki theme up already. Tweaks are done. Opinions? Adding pieces to the portfolio in graphic, mixed media, maybe illustration. Took the shop down. Music is up. Think that’s it. Starting next entry will be changing the blog up a bit.
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