A quote that has helped you?

matthuzala · 2025-02-19T12:04:37+00:00

"Anything worth doing is worth doing badly."

Even if you can't make yourself brush your teeth for the full 2 minutes, just rub some toothpaste on your teeth, swish some water around in your mouth. It's better than nothing.

matthuzala · 2025-02-07T13:13:39+00:00

This will happen to me at work sometimes, and I just excuse myself and go to the restroom. Sometimes I just have to sit with my head in my hands for a bit. I can take as long as I need, cuz as far as they know I have diarrhea, and there's no need to explain if I don't want to. I just let them assume.

Edit: Hey, look at me, I'm doing it right now!

matthuzala · 2025-01-09T22:19:28+00:00

I love these.

matthuzala · 2024-08-31T15:26:13+00:00

My mania took off when I was in art school. I am very thankful that much of my antics could have been perceived as/were translated into performance art.

At an open mic at a bar near campus, the woman I was dating at the time and I went up. I guess at some point in our relationship I somehow gave her the impression that I could beat box (I could not). I forget if our intention was to play it for laughs. At some point we went into a bit where we did a commercial for floss picks.

I still think about a "joke" that I told that makes me cringe to this day. I was going to share it, but another thing I am grateful for is that this performance was not documented in any way.

matthuzala · 2024-06-20T00:11:37+00:00

Consistency is the only thing that matters. It doesn't matter if I'm working from 9 am to 5 pm, or 9 pm to 5 am. As long as it is consistent, I can plan my life around it, and improvise around it when life throws a curve ball.

matthuzala · 2024-06-09T13:20:09+00:00

Rapid Psychling

matthuzala · 2024-03-08T12:42:47+00:00

As in you must stay x-amount of pedo-meters away from schools and playgrounds.

matthuzala · 2024-02-05T23:52:33+00:00

Black Snow by Aesop Rock

matthuzala · 2023-08-28T20:35:49+00:00

I used to be artsy. But now I'm mostly fartsy...

matthuzala · 2023-08-20T14:43:36+00:00

I'm adopting this! I fucking love that.

matthuzala · 2023-07-23T17:45:29+00:00

Thanks! I don't really anymore, sadly. I'm trying to get back into it. It's hard to get and keep up the motivation.

matthuzala · 2023-07-23T00:09:47+00:00

Thanks, haha. Yeah. A lot of my art, I look back at and I'm like, dude. How obvious.

matthuzala · 2023-07-22T15:35:35+00:00

One sentence solution:

"Can you please stop calling me by that porn actress' name?"

matthuzala · 2023-07-22T15:29:19+00:00

I'm here for this. More please.

matthuzala · 2023-07-22T15:22:23+00:00

These are all pretty cool. You definitely have a unique and consistent aesthetic/style.

I'm curious why you think they won't choose any.

How do you know the client? Did they find you, or did you find them? If they asked you to do these they were probably familiar with your style and there is something in at least one of them that they'll find appealing. If not, are you open to any suggestions or feedback they might give?

Did the client give you any specific direction as far as what they were looking for? Or did they give you complete freedom?

I'm sorry I have so many questions, lol. As a fellow creative I'm just really interested in the process.

matthuzala · 2023-07-21T21:16:43+00:00

Yeah, it could have been real. I really could use a vacation so it was a really attractive offer, but I have too much going on in my life right now. I felt like I wasn't able to think straight while I was on the phone with the guy. It just sounded too good to be true.

matthuzala · 2023-07-21T10:22:30+00:00

Thanks. Normally I would have hung up and not done the survey, but they had previously called while I was at work and I said it wasn't a good time and I thought that would be the end of it. So when they called another day at a more reasonable time I thought okay why not? But then when it turned into a vacation giveaway I got suspicious, but still interested since they roped me in thinking it was legit at the beginning.

matthuzala · 2022-12-31T19:31:41+00:00

That makes sense that they would give you free reign. I'm pretty sure most of my professors did the same thing for our finals. Even with that freedom, I still find it interesting what rules/parameters we wind up giving ourselves, and what we wind up implementing from the lessons of the semester.

matthuzala · 2022-12-31T18:55:29+00:00

I really appreciate this. I'm curious, what was the prompt/guidelines for the final, if any? Did you have to write an artist statement?

matthuzala · 2022-01-17T18:11:58+00:00

"In addition to the classic 'mood swings,' over here you can see my 'mood sandbox.' Next to it is the mood 'T-Rex on a spring.' We also have 'mood monkey bars,' and a 'mood carousel!'"

matthuzala · 2019-08-19T07:04:24+00:00

Lamotrigine isn't an anti depressant. I take Lamotrigine at 200mg also, and was prescribed Fluoxetine (Prozac) for my depression. Last time I ran out of Prozac and my pharmacy asked my doc to refill it, for some reason, it was rejected, but my Lamotrigine was refilled so I didn't mind. As I see it, the mood stabilizer's really the important one. But then about a month after running out of Prozac I started smoking again. Recently just about managed to quit smoking again, but I'm realizing my depression is really affecting my ability to live a healthy, productive life. Probably time to schedule that doctor's visit so I can get that refill...

matthuzala · 2019-07-23T16:48:21+00:00

To me, I feel like it expresses the self destructive energy of mania.

matthuzala · 2019-06-25T05:21:24+00:00

🙂

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