Archive for February, 2008

my superbowl sunday

I am so lucky that my boyfriend hates watching sports as much as I do, instead we watched artsy films like Six Degrees of Separation.

handbag dielma

I love my clutch, I wear it with pretty much every outfit. I get compliments on it all the time, people always ask me if it’s an antique, and I love that. But, it’s a clutch, which means it’s small. It barely fits my phone, wallet, keys, a pen, and small tube of lip gloss.

(Please don’t laugh at my very crappy cell phone made in 1975, I don’t want to spend money on a new one.)

I want to start carrying around my sketchbook and small box of colored pencils, because I really need to be drawing from life everyday. My blog drawings are wonderful and fun, but it’s not the same kind of practice as drawing from life. So, I was thinking of getting a large handbag, I have a couple of bigger ones, but I don’t love them as much as I love my clutch, and the thought of buying another big handbag breaks my heart a little as if I were betraying my lover. Instead, I’m going to look for a sexy laptop bag, which can also hold everything. It would be perfect for work! The only problem now is that all of the larger laptop bags I see, that I like, are a lot more expensive than I thought they would be. Apparently I’ve been living in a dream world where everything only costs $30.

“Oh, you’re a pretty one, I could totally see myself with you… HOLY CRAP! $495??? WHYYY GOD WHYY?”

Having expensive taste and hating to spend money is a very bad combination.

do I know you?

I was at a restaurant this weekend, with David, when our young, (gay?) waiter guy kept looking at me and smiling, A LOT. This was more than the average waiter/restaurant patron exchange and it weirded me out. After I paid the bill he smiled and said, “Thank you, Ms. Vaziri!” Yeah, I know my name was on my credit card, but do waiters ever do this? It had never happed to me before. And he pronounced it correctly, not that my last name is at all difficult, just say it as you read it. Still most people manage to put the letters out of order or add in mystery letters in the pronunciation.

My first thought was that omg, he must read my blog. I don’t know that for sure, but it increased feelings of creepedoutedness.

No matter how many page views and visitors I have to my blog according to Google Analytics, I still don’t think of them as real people. Every time someone new, like at work, or MY DAD, tells me they read my blog, I just laugh nervously. “Oh! ha ha ha, cool!”.

In less than two weeks it will be my blog’s first year birthday. Will I feel less overexposed with more time?

unfinished

• I’ll be judging the High School VASE art competition again this year, on Saturday. It’s fun to be on the judging side of the competition after having participated all four years of my High School education. It will be nice talk to some up and coming young artists.
• In handbag news, I decided on a feminine laptop bag that will keep my baby nice and secure while still looking stylish.
  
• And there are funny blogs on the internet that are good to laugh at. Like this one about white people, which made me realize that even though I’m not technically white. I am REALLY REALLY WHITE.

soft launch of tinavaziri.com

The redesign of tinavaziri.com is not complete, the flash version of the site is not live yet, BUT I uploaded the HTML version so that you guys can wet your pallets on its delicious flavors.

The HTML version will be accessible to anyone even when the Flash goes up, and is made for those who don’t have Flash capabilities, are on mobile devices (the iPhone and iTouch don’t have Flash yet, boo!), or just want the simpler version.

http://tinavaziri.com

Check out the new work in the portfolio!

art contest, scuba bee

The first of many art contests begin today, here at tinavaziri.com.

Your Objective:

• Print or Save the image
• You have one week to color it in any way that you would like (You can use any method or media; color pencils, photoshop, MSPaint, photo collage, etc), add your own flare
• Post your completed artwork in the comments
• The most creative image (extra points added for cuteness and humor), as judged by David Poe, will win a Tina Vaziri original!
• Everyone should give this a shot! The submissions will be judged on their ideas not technical skill.

The prize for this contest is an 11″x17″ acrylic and color pencil painting on bristol board.

The winner will be contacted by email and the artwork will be shipped to them after their address is provided.

happy birthday blog friend

You are now one year old! We’ve had a great year together, you, me, and Mr. Bee. You have kept me drawing regularly, and I’ve loved every minute of it. I met some really great people through you, and I made really nice friends. Let’s make this next year just as wonderful!