Alright, here we go. My name is Holly Axelrod, and I was going to be a film major here at Columbia, but I found out I'm not pretencious enough to make a sucsessful a career out of bullshitting. Im very passionate about music and art and I hope to make it in life while having my dignity and a hopefully all my limbs. I say the limbs part because my first day here i was chased by a dude in a wheelchair for a good block and a half down wabash street. I wish never to become that man that i so fear.
I wanted to come here because i was simply done with the high school role play of being the one 'Freaky" looking kid in public school. Now that i got to Columbia i feel my surroundings arn't as sugar coated as they were in high school.
A little snipp-it about me is that i absolutely love writing songs and lyrics. I have been doing it since i was very young and i have continued it through out my life. Now I am extending more on the musician side of things by learning guitar and hopefully drums in the future. As for now I'm in a make-shift all girl's funk/metal band call: Beat the Dead Horse, with my current roommates.
I have always loved drawing (Hence why I'm Switching my major to illistration or studio arts) It's always been my passion and i have done so much through art that i couldn't imagine a world where i couldn't pull out a piece of paper and draw whatever i wanted. Last year I wrote and drew an entire graphic novel called : 'The Kingdom of Sawdust'. I'm trying to get it published, and have been for quite some time. It's kinda my pride and joy as far as work is concerned.
I have always enjoyed writing and I really am looking forward to use it a way that i can express my thoughts creatively. I've been in a creative writing class in high school and i made some of my very good friends there. I love hearing peoples opinions and i think writing is a dandy way to see some of that person that doesn't always come off when you first meet them.
Here is a video that i wrote and acted in. Pretty sure it got me kicked out of Emerson when they asked for a piece of my work in film.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jO2OmsyDf0
Hey, Holly.
ReplyDeleteLove your voice n' can't wait to see what you do with the memoir! Don't worry about being the "freak" at Columbia--a lot of the students here are genuine artists, completely comfortable in their oddities and uncontrived in their mediums.
The graphic novel sounds fab! Feel free to include illustrations into any of our papers! I love to see subject matter expressed in two forms--text and image. Sometimes mixed-media can open all sorts of creative avenues that working in a single medium disallows.