solastalgia

So, my IB results came back a few weeks ago. I got a 5 (out of 7) on Visual Arts, which was a bit of a bummer. I initially felt a little crushed because I had worked so hard on Art and it was such a source of pride for me. But then I realized, that pride didn't come from a score, it came from what I had accomplished. In two short years I've grown so much as an artist. That's what I'm going to take away from IB Art, not what an examiner thought of me. At the end of the day, a number score on a paper is not going to direct the way I think about myself and my own work. I can't lie, it bothered me at first. I'm pretty sure I was knocked down fo

My tablet is a piece of crap. It's a Wacom Bamboo Pen and Touch. I got it a few months ago and was super excited about it because it was an "upgrade" from my last tablet and it was Wacom and blah blah blah. From the first week it was already giving me issues. The pen would lag all the time. It would rarely move smoothly, just jerk around and make tiny movements rather than the sweeping ones I wanted. Sometimes unplugging it and replugging it would make it work well, but that didn't happen very often. When it worked, it was wonderful, but so rarely did it actually work that I found myself getting increasingly frustrated with it. Then, Photos