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Artemesia

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About Me

I love art (as da Vinci said, "It is my life."), photography, reading, going to museums (Metropolitan Museum is where you'll find me alot). I have an unnatural adoration for pirates. I'm currently working toward my MFA at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and then my doctorate in art history. My motto is "Be true to your work and your work will be true to you." Its the school motto at Pratt and I try to live by it. Oh and I LOVE NY.

My Interests

art, pirates and too many more to name.

I'd like to meet:

Orlando Bloom, Johnny Depp, Hunter Thompson (unfortunately he died), Napoleon (he's dead too), Jon deMartin, Paris Latsis, any creative person in the arts (Michelangelo, da Vinci, Bernini, Rubens, writers, composers etc.. ) and probably a dozen other people living and dead. Oh and anyone with a lively sense of humor.

Music:

ooooooohhh I like lots of music. Some of my fav bands are Good Charlotte, Liz Phair, Evanescence, Howie Day, The Killers, Matchbox Twenty, Collective Soul, Bowling for Soup, Snow Patrol, Jet, D.H.T., Black Eyed Peas, the Gorillaz, and Blink 182. I also play the piano a wee bit and like classical as well.

Movies:

My favorite movie is Pirates of the Caribbean. Troy was good and I like Tarantino films too Pulp Fiction and Reservior Dogs are great. But I like the old classics too with Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Joan Crawford etc. I also like Eddie Murphy movies, Harlem Nights is excellent. And Monty Python's Holy Grail is one of my favs. Just about any movie (with exceptions to scifi) gets my approval.

Television:

Friends, Beverly Hillbillies, Andy Griffith, and just about any other show on TV Land. All those old cartoons like The Flintstones, the Jetsons, the Smurfs, Hanna Barbera stuff, The Family Guy, etc... I also like shows like the Cold Case files (I love mysteries) and alot of stuff on Comedy Central. Oh and how can I forget my British comedies such as Are You Being Served? and Dr. Who, and the one with the Buckets...can't remember the title (the British have an odd sense of humor and I love it!)

Books:

I read all the time and I like all kinds of books except scifi. Mostly historical fiction, biographies, art, art history, but I also read stuff like Ovid (I'm fascinated with mythological tales), Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and Hunter Thompson (the Rum Diary is one of my all time favorite books). Also Sir Thomas More's "Utopia". Its a hard read but worth it. I'm partial to poetry by Byron, Sir Walter Scott, Wordsworth, and Percy Shelly. I guess I'm a Romantic at heart (Dr. Fred Green would say Romantic with a capital "R"). Oooh Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" too. "A Venetian Affair", "The da Vinci Code", "Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling", "The Agony and the Ecstasy", "The Three Musketeers", "Quicksilver", Paradise Lost", "The Count of Monte Christo", "A Pirate of Exquisite Mind", "Athenais", The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci", "The Painter's Daughter", "Under the Black Flag", "Casanova in Bolzano", "I Am Madame X", "Touched With Fire", "The Rape of the Masters", "Heloise and Abelard", "Breakfast At Tiffany's" and "Girl With A Pearl Earring" just to name a few. If I don't quit listing them now, I'll be up all night! I like keeping up with current events so I usually scan through a newspaper, my favorite comic strip is Pearls Before Swine.

Heroes:

Hmm.. Michelangelo, Mr. Brian Barr (my art professor from Ga.), George W. Bush (LOL I'm sooooo kidding about that one). My other heroes would be Captain Jack Sparrow and Captain Henry Morgan (the pirate not my rabbit).

My Blog

EXTRA EXTRA!! I'm an Author!!! Read All About It!

So I'm an author now with a book published through Blurb publishers. Its a chronology of my artwork from the past several years. Its available for purchase online right now through Blurb Publishers bu...
Posted by Artemesia on Tue, 05 Dec 2006 11:42:00 PST

Operation: Art Exhibit (Mission Successful)

So my art exhibit last night was a complete success and there were probably 150 people who came (none of which were you guys from Myspace). Thanks alot, your support was greatly appreciated as well. C...
Posted by Artemesia on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 02:14:00 PST

I'll Be On For......

So the Sony doctors are rushing my laptop in for a keyboard overhaul (this makes either number 4 or 5) and since they won't be able to send a technician out to my house, I'm having to mail my laptop i...
Posted by Artemesia on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 05:39:00 PST

Sweet Home.......Alabama?? Part II

In addition to the rancid smells invading my nostrils and killing the fragile cilia in the lining of my lungs, obviously the people occupying Alabama can't be creative either. We passed over numerous ...
Posted by Artemesia on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 05:07:00 PST

Sweet Home.......Alabama??

This weekend my boyfriend and I decided to drive to Tunica, Mississippi to enjoy several days of gambling and relaxing. But on the way we had to pass through this stench state often referred to as Ala...
Posted by Artemesia on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 05:32:00 PST

Mr. Opportunity...

...must have lost my address because he's not knocked in ages.
Posted by Artemesia on Tue, 15 Aug 2006 09:23:00 PST

Artwork Promotion Campaign

Check out the three pictures I've posted of my artwork. I've given it the tentative title of "Dead Men Tell No Tales". I have a prospective buyer (God willing he'll take it). I don't lack too much oth...
Posted by Artemesia on Tue, 01 Aug 2006 10:17:00 PST

E-Exile

So I'm back from this e-exile and hopefully the witties will start rolling again just like they used to be (well I thought they were funny at least) So to kick off my witty fest I thought I'd compose ...
Posted by Artemesia on Wed, 12 Jul 2006 08:19:00 PST

"...Riding Around In My Automobile.."

I had been looking forward to tonight for quite some time. There was an art show in which my former professor was showing some of his work and I love to take advantage of any opportunity to view his m...
Posted by Artemesia on Sun, 30 Apr 2006 10:59:00 PST

A Year Older and Not An Hour RIcher

As another birthday comes and goes and I find myself a year older, I have to say, what I say every year, that I find myself a year older and not an hour richer. Its at times like these that I find mys...
Posted by Artemesia on Wed, 26 Apr 2006 09:47:00 PST