Day 12

So The internet went out last night otherwise you'd already know that, Shepar Fairey has been spotted in Venice. Last night when my friends Cristina and Alyssa went out on a run they met Shepard Fairey. That's right ladies and gentlemen Shepard F***ing Fairey. 

Today we had class blah blah... THEN! we went for a walk (not to self my short shorts in Venice attract much unwanted attention). Found the second Shepard Fairey mural, and hoped to see the man heimself... to no avail, but we did take some scraps of his work left behind...mwahahaha.  We peaked in at many pre-biannale art parties non- of which we coudl get into, but Cristina and Annie Lucky found invites to some swanky party...luck ducks. I did find a Yoko Ono Poster for her art show. It's a giant picture of her boob and it's deffinately goign to be hanging in out dining room.

PS I found a Pirate bay balloon, so they are totes goign to be here.

Day 10

Well the last todays have been fun filled days of class. We Critiqued our scrolls and it was nice seeing our porfessor Ed excited. I guess he's been afraid we weren't having fun, but now that he's seen how wee feel about our "journeys" in Venice he feels better. Dominicks was funny because up until recently he hasn't enjoyed Venice. He has been really homesick and just isn't fond of Cities, pigeons and especially Gypsies. lol

We are going ot turn our scrolls into Codexes. Mines goign to be a serpintine pages book with a non-adhesive cover. I'm pretty excited about it It's going to communicate the meaning of the imagery very well. Pics later! We also started mono-prints in Intalgio I kinda like it. Though I still need more practice.

I'm realyl starting to warm up to Ed. At first I thought he was kidn of mean but I find he is just a crazy old man with no tact. But he can be really kind as well. He is genuinely interested in his students, and if you talk to him there is kidness hidden beneath those silly New York Jew Yiddish terms and Stuck in the 60s art opinons.

Day 4

Well woke up at 8:30 this morning and took a shower then had some breakfast, as usual. Today however did not start with class. Our assignment instead was to get "lost". So Cristina, Annie, Alyssa, and I went and grabbed some authentic Italian cappacinos and the continued on our way. We wandered about and found this adorable little campo and decided to draw there. The main point of persuasion was the benches shaded by trees. I thought this cute little calle off the campo was adorable so I drew that. It had a clothes line which are all along the lines of ideas I have for some projects here. The drawing of the Calle itself will be for a print I'm making tomorrow. 

Then 12:30 rolled around and we wandered off in the direction we believed would take us to our apartment. Then we noticed the San Marco signs stopped. So we were like WTF? we check our maps and realized we had walked much further than we thought and to the Realto Bridge across the Gran Canal and then just walked to class since we were almost there and had lost a lot of time wandering in the wrong direction. 

It was very crowded adn very touristy, but we made there. We took a stop for lunch at this deli and then took it to class and ate with the 15 minutes we had left before class. Thus began binding the sketch books we made. We'll finish them tomorrow we ran out of time all I have left to sew is the cover. 

We stopped at the grocery store the Billa on the way home for dinner. Tonight we made a delicious Penne with tomato sauce. In the sauce (which you can only buy plain in Italy apparently) were mushrooms, garlic, balsamic, pepper, olive oil....mmm.. Topped with parmesan. Good eats. 

I went upstairs to hang with the other half of the gang on the trip. For a while. But class bright and early tomorrow. We begin Printmaking which should be interesting since I've never done it before. And then more book binding or maybe caligraphy I don't remember. And after I'm going to make a journey for my project. 

Ciao

Day 3

Today I woke up at like 5AM and I don't know why... I think it may ahve been goign to bed at 10PM so I'm goign to try and stay up until midnight tonight. We're going to go out and do some night drawings later! 

Once 9AM rolled around we headed to our Orientation at La Scuola Internationale Della Graphica.  It was cool, but I don't know anything about printing, I'm curious to see how this turns out. Later was bookmaking and we started by making covers for sketch books we are going to bind for tomorrow using a Criptic Binding technique. 

But the REAL fun began this even because at 6:30 there was an art Opening at the Guggenhiem! That's right THE Guggenheim and I went!

 We even had to wait in line to get in! I felt super special. Once we got in there was a DJ, drinks, and Ea'douvears to taken in 

(while they lasted peopel were grabbign them left and right). I know, I know...I came to Venice to eat jalapeno poppers and tuna? Psh whatever it was delish. At least 

I weas like those crazy Italians that once a new tray of pork sandwiches that the cateres were carrying over their heads to 

the table. The Italians started jumping up grabbign them right form the tray! HA! I Was laughing so hard. Then these Italians infront of me were laughing too and turned to me and commented about the specticle we both just witnessed in Italian. I of course 

had no clue what they were saying so I just laughed and nodded.  

  There was lots of crazy cool art including Picasso, Pollack, Dali, and so many more! It got so crowded too. It was deffinately the happening place in Venice this evening. And I was part of it. I'm living an Venitian Fantasy.

 

Ciao!!!

Day 2 - Photos

The clock tower in San Marco Square!

    

San Marco's Cathedral

Making Dinner

Le Gran Canal

Where they fix the Gandales

Day 2

Today I woke up to the sounds of church bells  a ringing, though Venice has never really been a religous city in Italy. It was different. haha! But I still got a full ngihts sleep. As I got ready this morning I heard the music in the Vivaldi museum playing across the campo and people singing behind us. Ed later told us there is a music school in the area thus all the music, but it was rather pleasant to hear. 

Some of us met up at 11AM to go on a tour to see where the grocery store and art supply store. Along with other points of interest. We hung a talked during the Dormentia or Ceista. We Then bought some groceries. On the walk back I indulged myself in some Gelatto. nom nom...We got some good preices on the gorceries. 

At 5-ish we made dinner. Katya was our main chef, spaghetti noodles, Balsamic, onions, garlic, and bell peppers. It was delish! 

Then A bunch of the people from our aparment wandered around. And we saw some cool sites!

Day 1

We arrive in Venice much earlier than expected. The flight was expected to land at 9:05 AM, but rather we landed at about 8:30 AM not to mention we started 30 minutes late! So our pilot was booking it. Overall the flight took about 8 hours. Customs was a breeze, stamp and we were done. Pick up our luggage and realize we have 7 hours until we could meet Ed at the Apartments. So we started our journey through Venice carrying out luggage in tow.

We got our tickets and took a bus to Pizzale de Rome. The plants

here are a wierd combination of plants you

see at home and down in florida. The houses and apartments are old and colorful with tile roof tops! So gorgeous. The bus took us to the heart of Vencie and there we got on a Water bus to Giglio.  

We got a little lost trying to find the campo where are plaza was and traveled in the completely wrong direction for over an hour. it was hot, and our luggage was heavy NO FUN! But we made it to the apartments then by noon-ish and waited for three hours for Ed. And other joined us along te way.

All of us are here except for Mollie of course. We got ot know each other pick our rooms and Then at 7 seven we enjoyed a delicious Pizza Dinner with some delicious wine! This is the Italian life. We walked back and got some Gellatto. I ahd Coffee and Mint chocolate ship, mmmm. I will have more pics now that I'm not schlepping my luggage around. 

Chiao!

More photos: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=1881&id=1711770129&l=c74589fd71