With the Midpoint Review at AAU coming up in a few weeks, all of my time as been in writing the proposal and preparing for the presentation. A bit confusing, but I'm getting my act together slowly. Going through two years of classwork was a chore. Some of the work from my earlier classes were damaged and unusable. The paper itself requires a lot of work. I'll be glad when its done.

I've been looking at the Wyeth's recently, especially Andrew's interiors and window scenes. I'm trying to see how I might incorporate some ideas from Andrew's work. My final project, series of paintings, is coming together, albeit slowly. I'm considering creating my own world, a world that combines the earthy "underworld" look of Odd Nerdrum, the metaphors of Andrew Wyeth's countryside, and the allegory of Dante's "Purgatorio", Part 2 of his Divine Comedy. I see these paintings as kind of a "Dante meets Nerdrum meets the Road Warrior and Wyeth on Mars."

A drawing of N.C. Wyeth I did today.

Google Plus is a Big Minus

I use Google. But when they began this Google+ crap to compete with Facebook my experience has been just one big cluster frick. I've set up numerous Google accounts and all I want is to use email and store files.

Fat chance keeping things simple.

I've spent the last hour setting up a new account. I uploaded two photos using the Picasa app, which was a chore because I had to fill out Google+ forms to view them. What a joke. It's all so confusing: Google, Google+, Google Drive. Getting all these things to sync up is anything but user friendly. Do I really want to spend hours trying to learn all that is required to navigate the Google maze of applications and storage bins?

Let's face it, Google. Your Google+ is a joke. I know you want to rule the world, but to do it you need to KISS.