WB Pictures

Here are pictures from the Warner Bros tour

College and Stars

Today, was busy, busy, busy.


First, I had my first official college visit at Loyola Marymount University (LMU).(We passed the offices for Electronic Arts on the way there)
It was a very nice campus and our tour guide was sweet. Though, he did not seem to always know what he was talking about. "In the Science program we have this really great thing. It..does something really cool and...it's rare that a school would have such a thing."

Basically, a good school. I would probably have liked it even better if I was unsure of what school I wanted to go to.
As we were walking around the school, we kept noticing signs that said "Dexter" and we had no idea what they meant until we were on our way out. We then saw that an episode of the TV show "Dexter" was being filmed. My mom just about had a heart attack.

After the tour, we were starving. We found the nearest Denny's and went to town.

Then we, surprisngly, went to Warner Bros. and took the VIP tour.

We saw a TON, Including:
-The ER set
-A Cold Case episode in pre production.
-The Watertower. Too bad the Animaniacs weren't home.
An episode of "Pushing Daisies" being filmed. (We were feet away from KRISTEN CHENOWITH.)
-A lot of empty backlot sets
-The set of 2 and a Half men.
-And a very cool room with a ton of cars from different films.

Then we went to a special tour only museum that didn't allow cameras. There was some CRAZY stuff in there:

-Costumes from Sweeney Todd, Willy Wonka, the old Batman TV show. As well as many Harry Potter costumes on the All Harry Potter floor.
-An actual set piece and four original puppets from "The Corpse Bride"
-Props from Sweeney Todd. I kind of wanted to eat one of the pies.
-A model of the new Bat mobile.
-There was a lot of other stuff from older films I didn't recognize.
Upstairs was all Harry Potter
-I was sorted into Gryffindor by the sorting hat.
-The Goblet of Fire and the Triwizard Cup.
-A puppet of the giant spider (The name escapes me)
-A lot of costumes from "The Goblet of Fire". Interesting note, the female costumes were fitted to the, very skinny, mannequins. When we saw Hermoine's dress from the dance, we almost died, unsure of how anyone could fit in that. Then we found out that no one did.
- The Marauder's Map
and a lot of other stuff.

Then the tour was over and I got a Marvin the Martian key chain.

Unfortunately, I was not able to see Hellboy. The cinema near our hotel was only playing it in one theatre and it was Sold Out.
So, I went to McDonalds and got another Transformers toy. Ratchet this time. It seems that I keep getting the ones that focus on the vehicle mode, and don't really care about the robot mode at all.

I'll just have to deal with the Hellboy book until I get back from CSSSA.

Which, by the way, starts in mere hours.

Travels

Ok. I lied. We actually drove to Lompoc today, not Valencia.

We drove for about 5 or so hours and during that journey I experienced my first...

In-N-Out Burger. It was simply delicious.

Finally, we spent some time at my Great Grand Father's. I was actually surprised to find some very healthy trees in his backyard.

An Apple tree
A Tangerine tree
A Pear tree
A single-fruited orange tree

And..

An Olalaberry bush! Quite delicious!

Then I suggested dinner. Of course the place wasn't actually open when we went. So, we took a little side trip to Solvang, a little Dutch tourist town about 2 minutes from the restaurant.


Finally, we ate at "Aj Spurs". I had salsa spilled on me and everything was way to big. But I got a free rootbear float at the end so it was good.

Today is also the last day in my Divine Mercy Chaplet Novena.

Tomorrow, I have a college visit at Loyola Marymount. That should be fun. If all goes well I will also being seeing Hellboy II.

CSSSA starts day after tomorrow!!

3 Days....

Until CSSSA!

I'm in Stockton, California now and I'm driving to Valencia tomorrow.

I did get a mini Transformers haul today.

Here, we have Sunstreaker and Galvatron from the Robot Heroes line. I have to admit, some of the versus match ups this line has are pretty funny. Like Optimus Prime vs. Ravage.
Joining them is the amazing McDonald's kids meal Bumblebee. He's a beast.

I've also been reading the novel version Hellboy II: The Golden Army. I really glad I'll get to see that film before camp starts. Unfortunately, I can't say the same for the Dark Knight.


I'll leave you with some fun fanart sketches. Unfortunately, I have no scanner at the moment, so these are horrible photos from my phone.
Some Portal Sketches Hellboy sketches


I promise to update more during CSSSA

Maybe I will actually post here now....

who knows?

Hopefully my recent acceptance to CSSSA will help things!!!!

Yep, little old me in little old Indiana will be one of the 20 out of state students at the California State Summer School for the Arts this summer. What's even better? It's AT CALARTS!!! WAHH!!

For now, I'll leave you with this


I strongly suggest attending the tale of Sweeney Todd while it's still on tour. Tis amazing. I mean, how many of you can sing, act, and play 3 or 4 instruments in one show?

Figure Class 1and 2

I am back from the dead and I have started a figure drawing class-

here is my most presentable work from week one (not the best quality)









And class 2






Enjoy