Stumble it!So I know it’s been a minute since I last posted, and maybe I should give some kind of summary of the absurd events I experience on a daily basis, but I won’t. Alright maybe a taste.
1. I did a three week run of a dance show that went VERY well, and had an awesome time doing it.
2. I had a brief affair with a member of the company that involved amazing sex and sneaking around his girlfriend (meh).
3. I’ve been asked to work on multiple animation projects, which is pretty cool.
4. I was an RA for a high school summer program that was probably the most traumatic experience of my life (outside of actually being in high school).
So, those are the highlights.
On Sunday, I woke up and decided I would take some initiative, take my professors’ advice, and go to the zoo. As an animator, life drawing at the zoo is a key exercise in developing your understanding of movement, as well as being able to draw quickly and efficiently. Of course, being a college student and all, I wasn’t thinking about what day of the week it was, and arrived early Sunday afternoon with a long line of irritating families in front of me. Once I got into the zoo, I spent the rest of the four hours there either trying to see around fat heads or having people gawk at my sketchpad over my shoulder. Granted, I can’t help but snoop at someone’s drawing if I see them sketching, but I guess it was just particularly annoying in the crowded space.
But these minor impedements on my drawings weren’t even the worst part. I arrived at the orangutan section, enthralled to see one of the adult orangutan’s chillin right at the front of the cage. He couldn’t have gotten any closer or been any stiller. So as I milked the opportunity to add some detail to my animal studies, this Spanish-speaking family rolls up (there were strollers involved) to cheerily marvel at the orangutan in all his splendor. Then one of the men (presumably the dad) begins throwing food at the orangutan, which he of course, picked up and ate. Then whole damn family started laughing and cheering. It’s an animal. If you throw food at it, which a number of signs clearly say NOT to do, of course it’s going ot eat. If we locked you in a cage I bet you’d eat food we threw at you too.
Then they started throwing little sticks and blades of grass at the primate, so it started throwing sticks and grass back towards them. Of course the whole damn family starts laughing and cheering some more. Meanwhile I’m trying hard not to drop kick the dad and tell him what asses he’s raising his children to be, by teaching them to mock animals in cages. It’s bad enough that they’re locked in there - you don’t have to taunt them to make matters worse.
I suppose I can’t be too high and mighty since I paid to go into the zoo and take part in exploiting the animals. But at least I wasn’t taunting them too.
With Alotta Love,
zee zee cakes
PS Sorry for the amazingly crappy scans.
Tags: drawing, sketching, stupid people, zoo
