New Page 'School'

Hey guys,
So I've added a new page to my blog titled 'School'. This is where I'll post obviously about school and some of the things I do. But I also plan to post some of my school work, for three reasons.

1. It will act as a sort of internet USB for me. So if I don't have some of my work on me that needs to be handed in, it will be posted on here.

2. When exams come up I can use this page to revise (and so can you).

3. To possibly give you guys a helping hand with different things, or at least try to teach you things.


I am currently in year 11 this year and studying: English (Unit 1 & 2), Literature (Unit 1 & 2), General Mathematics - Further (Unit 1 & 2), Legal Studies (Unit 1 & 2), Art (Unit 1 & 2) and I'm also enrolled in a VET course Technicial Production.


Yours Truely,
whothefuckiseh?
xoxo

Top Arts Excursion

Yesterday I visited Top Arts in the city of Melbourne. as an excursion for my art class.
Top Arts is an art gallery displaying the top 47 artworks from VCE students the previous year. (So I saw last years VCE finals).

We spent an hour in the gallery looking at their work. Some artworks were absolutely extraordinary. gave me some great ideas and looked like a lot of time and effort had gone into them. Some on the other hand, I don't quite get why they're considered art, as they don't look like a lot of time and effort have gone into them.

After looking through the gallery we went upstairs to a room with two long tables and the folios of the students artworks that we'd just looked at. We had to wear gloves while looking at them, because having so many people daily, turning the pages would eventually ruin the folio. It was so surprising to me to see just how much work had gone into these folios. I'd been told doing a folio subject in VCE required a lot of work, but I didn't quite understand that until I looked through these books. Some kids had filled up to three folios with work. That's not the part that surprised me too much though, it was the annotations. Students wrote pages and pages of annotations which sort of stressed me out, as my annotations in my folio are absolutely nothing compared to theirs. I'm trying not to compare my work to theirs as they are at a year 12 standard, whereas I'm only in year 11. And these students are the best of the best in my state.

We then went to a lecture at the gallery where a lady spoke to us about some of the artworks and how they came together. It proved my thought of the time and effort put into the artworks. It was crazy.

If you're currently studying art, studio arts or visual communication I highly recommend going to Top Arts and having a look around as I've found it has motivated me to work harder in art. Art isn't as easy as I first thought it would be.
Something I plan to work more on is my annotations in art. Here are a few websites that could help you if you're looking to improve your art annotations too.
http://www.studentartguide.com/articles/a-level-art-sketchbook

http://www.artcoursework.com/Annotation.pdf

https://getrevising.co.uk/forums/topics/how_can_i_make_good_annotations

http://www.gosford-hill.oxon.sch.uk/page-content/documents/1434012949-ArtHowToImproveGCSE.pdf


Yours Truely,
whothefuckiseh?
xoxo

Which Rimmel Powder is best?

Rimmel Lasting Finish 25 hour powder foundation, or Rimmel London Stay Matte Pressed Powder?

That is the question. They're both very good products from Rimmel London.

Firstly, Rimmel Lasting Finish 25 hour powder foundation. I bought this product about a month ago, after having used Rimmel London Stay Matte Pressed Powder for a few years, I felt maybe I should branch out and try a new pressed powder.. yes I know I didn't branch out far with the brand, but it's still something slightly different. I got this powder in the shade 001 Light Porcelain, which I find to have a slight pink tinge to it which I dislike, but I can deal with it. The first thing that disappointed me was it has got less in it, with only 7.0g, and is also more expensive (I purchased it for $14.99 at Chemist Warehouse). I like that this product comes with it's own mirror, and sponge. However I don't use sponges for powder, I prefer a brush so I guess it's a bit of a waste for me personally. I am quite disappointed with the coverage of this powder, and I find that I have to apply a far amount to my brush in order for it to do anything. In a pervious post where I review the liquid foundation of this powder, I said that I use powder to lighten up the foundation I use, this product doesn't exactly do that for me because of the pink tinge and it's difficulty with application. 

Now Rimmel London Stay Matte Pressed Powder, I get this powder in the shade 001 Transparent and I am 100% satisfied with this shade. As I said above I have been using this product for a few years now, in actually fact, I've been using it ever since I first started wearing make up. I chose this product due to it's reasonable price of $9.99 (at chemist warehouse). Unlike the product above, this contains more powder, doubling the other product with 14g. So you get more for a better price which is already a thumbs up. I am incredibly impressed with this powder, with it's great coverage of acne spots and elimination of lines on my face. I honestly can not rave more about this product, it is really an 11/10 kind of powder, especially for a product you can pick up from your local chemist / pharmacy. I highly recommend this product to everyone, and would hands down chose it over the Rimmel Lasting Finish 25 hour powder foundation.

Yours Truely,

whothefuckiseh?

xoxo

Beartooth's New Singles

So for the past couple of weeks one of my favourite bands Beartooth, have been releasing new singles including “Aggressive”, “Loser” and “Always Dead”. This is just a little bit about what I think about the new songs. 

Beartooth are one of those bands that you either love or hate, there isn’t really an in-between (no pun intended). The same goes for their songs, individually, you either love or hate it. On their album ‘Disgusting’, I can definitely think of a handful of songs I really love (e.g Beaten In Lips, One More, The Lines, Body Bag), but there are also some songs, I will without a doubt, skip every time I hear the first riff play in my earphones, for example Sick & Disgusting, Ignorance Is Bliss, and I Have a Problem. That’s just me personally, and by all means i’m not saying you shouldn’t listen to them. I guess music is all about personal preference at the end of the day.

So another example of the love and hate of Beartooth songs are their three new singles ‘Aggressive’, ‘Always Dead’ and ‘Loser’.  

“Aggressive” starts off with the singer sounding quite exposed, very similar to their song Sick & Disgusting. Over all this song just reminds me a lot of Sick & Disgusting- (keep in mind I said I don’t like that song above), -although the chorus doesn’t so much. The choruses are  catchy and sound very classic beartooth which I love. So I love the choruses in this song, but the start and versus not so much. I’m undecided on whether I classify this song to be in the love or hate pile as of yet. I have to listen to it a few more times, I think i’ll be leaning more to love though.

“Always Dead”, jumps straight into the song with no mucking around, it’s almost a little overwhelming, don’t get me wrong I love heavy music but this song is a little too crazy. I find it to be a little bit all over the place, I can’t depict a definite structure while listening to it, and all in all it’s very aggressive, with the repetitive lyrics ‘Dead! Dead! You’ll always be dead to me!’. In saying that, there is an aspect of the song I don’t mind too much. Starting from 1:55, there’s a more instrumental part to the song, with the inclusion of shouting the word ‘dead’ every so often. This is probably the only part of the song I actually really like. And considering the song goes for 2 minutes and 18 seconds, that’s 23 seconds of the song I actually like, so It’s best to just say overall, I don’t like the song and I wouldn’t include it in a playlist of mine. It’s one of those Beartooth songs I can’t love. 

Now to get the negativity out of the way, their new song "Loser", is a really catchy, classic Beartooth song, and kind of reminds me of their hit song Beaten In Lips. Similar to Beaten In Lips it also has a very personal message in the lyrics that can also reach out to its audience in a very emotional way. Unlike Always Dead, it’s not as jumbled up and all over the place, the riffs in this song are really great, and quote my best friend “make us want to head bang, ‘It’s a real headbanger’”. This song is a really good one by Beartooth and I’m certainly impressed with their newest single.

Make sure you check out Beartooth and let me know in the comments what you think of them, and what songs you love or hate.

Yours Truely,

whothefuckiseh?

xoxo

School Stress

Today I wanted to discuss school. Which I know I do mention in my blog posts from time to time, but I want to talk about the emotional impact school has on teenagers.

So I am currently in VCE (for those of you who don't know what that is, it's my final years of schooling that isn't university). Leading up to my final years of high school, I have not been prepared. School was a breeze until now. I actually kind of enjoyed it, the work load was manageable and I loved going to see my friends and what not. Now though, school is far from an enjoyable place for me. My friends are stressed out, I'm stressed out, I have homework coming at me like it's going out of fashion and the kids are just horrible these days. I guess kids have always been horrible, but I just don't know how to deal with it on top of all the stress from the workload.

It's by far the most stressed school has ever made me, and next year is apparently worse and I'm seriously dreading it. All this stress goes towards the rest of my life, my future job. And everyone keeps reminding me of that like it's going to make me feel better. The way I see it, if I don't do these next two years really well, that is going to effect my future which creates even more stress. But doing well these next two years is extremely hard to manage for someone like me who's just sort of your average student. I'm also struggling with the amount of time I have to devote to school. It's not your usual six hour day anymore, no. I'm quite often, still doing homework until after dinner time and sometimes I do it right up until I go to bed. I'm just running out of time to spend on doing things other than homework. And some days I decide to just have a break and enjoy myself, but that always gets me behind in my homework which is even more stressful. 

Teachers and parents just don't really understand how damaging school can be to someones mental health, and I guess physical health to some extent as well. I know it's just a short term pain for long term gain situation, but I'm struggling a lot with school, and I don't even know where I'm going with my future, so I have no motivation at all.

If any of you have any advice is dealing with the stress of VCE, I would love to hear it. Because I'm at the point where I kind of just want to stay in bed and never go to school again. 

Anyway, sorry for the rant. I'm sure I'm not the only one out there feeling like this though. 

Yours Truely,

whothefuckiseh?

xoxo

My Anti-Meat Experience

So a couple of weeks ago I had a kind of strange experience. I was invited to one of my best friend's house for a party. From what I understood it was just one of those random parties people decide to have, just cause. When I got there however I discovered this wasn't the case.

So my friend lives in a place where she has a bit of property, like enough to have some animals, but it isn't a farm. These animals have names and they're their pets and we play with them and have watched them grow up. So anyway, this girl has really strange parents who decided to have their pig Babe and one of their goats Joey, shot in their paddock. This would be totally understandable if they lived on a farm, or I guess if they, I don't know, maybe sold the goat or pig to someone else to kill, but no. This party was the celebration of the death of their two pets, and by celebrating, they ate Babe and Joey. Obviously I was mortified to arrive at her place and smell these adorable animals I had played with, being cooked on a spit. 

So I watched everyone at the party eat them, while I decided not to. Before this I was a big meat eater, I'm extremely fussy when it comes to food, but I'm usually fine with meat until now. I think the party was about 4 weeks ago and since then I've eaten meat on two occasions, one was a sunday roast and the other was lasagne and I felt as though I was going to throw up afterwards and mind you I didn't eat very much of it, I just didn't enjoy the taste. Part of me wishes I'd get over this and go back to eating me like I used to, but for the time being I'm struggling to even deal with the smell or the thought. 

So anyway, there's my story about why I haven't been eating meat lately. For all you vegans and vegetarians out there I'd love to hear your story about what experience caused you to suddenly stop eating meat. Make sure to leave it in the comments below.

Yours Truely,

whothefuckiseh?

xoxo

Colour meanings

In my art class, I have decided to develop my knowledge behind colours. I wanted to use them in my final artwork, just randomly, but my teacher suggested developing my knowledge behind colour theory so that the colours in my artwork have some meaning.



Different colours can have different meanings to each individual person, by the way they affect that persons emotions and moods. The meaning behind colours can also have something to do with the viewers past, and what experiences they associate colours with. This comes into play when a colour can have two possible meanings, but are somewhat opposite of each other. For example, some people may associate the colour red to love, while others may associate it with anger. Some of the things colours can represent are listed below:

Red - Power, passion, desire, love, aggression, danger, violence

Orange - Balance, enthusiasm, energy

Yellow - Joy, optimism, happiness, hope, imagination

Green - Nature, environment, youth, jealousy, envy, generosity

Blue - Peace, harmony, unity, trust, confidence, loyalty

Purple - Nobility, mystery, wisdom, royalty

Grey - Safety, intelligence, dignity, maturity

Brown - Earth, comfort, endurance, stability

Black - Power, sophistication, elegance, wealth, fear

White - Reverence, virginity, cleanliness, peace, innocence, precision, humility


From studying the theory behind colours, I've decided for my artwork that I want each of these colours to represent a different aspect of me and my life, and how each of these thins have shaped me as a person and given me hope. (The topic for my artwork in hope).


I'd be very interested which things you associate with each colour and if there's a reason behind it, feel free to leave a comment below.

Yours Truely,
whothefuckiseh?
xoxo