Gush
So I have no idea how it got to be Friday… that was weird…
I’m procrastinating right now, and my file of all my blogs was open so I found it and I remembered that I keep forgetting to keep up with this now because I haven’t in a while. I wrote only 2 or 3 posts last month. But anyway, this is PERFECT because I can catch up on two fun days no problem and procrastinate all at the same time!
So I didn’t go to the gym yesterday or today, but that’s okay because I did fabulously with eating well this week, and I had a good reason yesterday and I went Wednesday before yoga, which I don’t normally do. Hey okay so I got completely distracted from even this haha, I guess this is just an internet surfing, procrastinating, distracted night. I was looking at classes for next semester, I had my advisement meeting today, but we’ll get there.
So yesterday I went to the print fair for my silk screening class. Check out the website, www.ifpda.org, because it was frikkin AMAZING. It was this giant warehouse full of prints! Silk screens, etchings, lithographs, etc. etc. and some were contemporary, some were ESHER or DURUR or other awesome famous people, some were hella old, they were all EXPENSIVE and all way cool, so were really realistic, some were abstract, it was GREAT. I absolutely loved it, and I want to go back. They had these awesome books that had every station listed because about a million places were showing the work they had, so when I found stuff I liked, I marked it down so I can look up the galleries and artists later. It was sooooooo coooool I can’t even explain. It was even cooler than a museum because it just had a million prints that I could look through. No way I even got through 5%, it was great. I’m definitely going to try to go back, and I really have no way of explaining this to you, I wish you were here so I could take you. It was awesome! I wrote down all the best ones and I wish I could just have a book of them… Dad’s right, I would be really good at being a gallery owner or a museum curator, because I really do enjoy searching through art to find the best work, and I feel like the best work just all goes together inherently because it is the best work. And obviously I’m not arrogant, but I really do think I have a particular eye and a very sophisticated way of seeing, and I’m really good at choosing interesting and pleasing images, I’m just drawn to them. However, I do realize that I have a particular aesthetic, which consists of realism, nature, and romanticism, colors, and subtle little twists, but a general overall warmth, and that this isn’t everyone’s aesthetic. I really can’t get into modern stuff, and only very particular abstract pieces interest me… so I just wouldn’t handle that part of the museum! Or if I had a gallery, I’d have a certain kind of work that I dealt with. :D I love art! That’s why I’m in art school! How cool am I? How cool is this? Cool.
Anyway, then I came back and finished up my hyper digital project. The crit today in class went well, I think he liked my work, but he’s a hard grader and it’s hard to tell sometimes. I had a lot of fun with that project, I’ll try to post those soon, but I want to post the files I have, not pictures of them, because since I have them color corrected, why would I bother putting them up not color corrected? Next week we’re going on a field trip. And for black and white too! That’s three field trips in a row! How cool. The semester’s closing in on us, and I only have 2 more official projects for digital. One is the breakfast pictures, and the other is just a final showing of what your work is to you, what you do, what you want to show, tied together, but not necessarily the same. I’m excited, because that’s already what I’m doing, duh, I shoot what I love! And I’m taking pictures for color and black and white, so it’ll be easy peasy to do it at the same time. I’m excited about the trip next week, I don’t remember where it’s too right now. A printing lab. We’re going to make digital C-prints, and I only today was taught what that even means! It’s actually the coolest thing EVER. Basically, you take a digital file and send it to a printer that exposes normal color darkroom paper to light in it’s special magical digital way, so you get a print on color photo paper instead of digital printer paper, but it’s from a digital file. How cool is THAT?! He picked one of our images from today and we gave him the file, so next week we’ll print those and be able to compare. Neat, huh? I’m pretty juiced about it.
So after that, I hung out with Tudor and we watched The Bicycle Thief. Apparently it’s a classic that you all should have heard of. It was made in like the 40s or 50s in Italy, under the new genre at the time, Italian Realism. It was sad, about the harsh life of being poor. But not so blatant, like oh pity us we’re so poor. It was very unbiased, just showing what happened and how much a family’s life could depend on this one bicycle that was stolen. One simple bicycle, and they have nothing left. Anyway, it was neat to see, but it was an okay movie. Tudor’s a film major, he loved it. Hehe.
Today after Digital I had art history. Same old. I have this frikkin paper due in two weeks though… ew. Then I went to my meeting with my advisor to get my classes approved. I register on the 26th. It’s funny cause the website has a countdown. Anyway. Okay I just went away for a good hour because I was talking to mom about all sorts of exciting things! I guess this is what I would have ended up talking about anyways.
So next semester I’ll be taking:
Color Photo II
Advanced Black and White Printing
Studio Photo I
3-D
General Science
World Civ II
Yoga
20th Century Art History
I am NOT excited about world civ. or general science, but whatcha gunna do? I am THRILLED about color, studio, black and white, yoga, and art history. 3-D is in the middle. I have 6 credits of studio electives that I transferred in, so I have less studio electives to deal with and more liberal arts electives, that’s why I decided to take science. Also, they don’t offer a single good science course here (I doubt they offer a sign good liberal art in general…) so I’m just biting the bullet and taking it now. Oh, and by the way, this is my intended schedule… the way I know the Media Arts department and my school functions… who knows? But this is what I’m supposed to take and how I want it. I’m also unsure of when and teachers, so right now I have it set up with what they have listed, though more options may become available. I don’t actually register for classes for another 3 weeks, and even after that, I can switch. So we’ll see, I just have it how it works for now with good or decent teachers.
But moving on to AWESOME. Have I told you that I’m going to STUDY ABROAD?! I know, I haven’t because I haven’t been keeping up with this thing! Well, I am. The logistics? Still getting started on those… first off, where. Hehe. But I’ve made some progress. First of all, I met a kid named David in my silk screening class who went to Amsterdam last semester. The problem is that my school just doesn’t have much to offer in the way of exchange and study abroad programs. So. He proposed his OWN and after 6 months of hell, it happened and it was awesome! So he gave me a copy of his proposal, and I plan on doing the same. And when I asked my advisor about it today, she pretty much told me to do the same thing. So, neat. Hard work, but neat! Really, I don’t know where I want to go yet, what I want to focus on studying, which will also help decide where I go, if I maybe want to go for 2 semesters or only go for one, and I gotta write my proposal and get everyone to approve it and all that jazz. Basically, I’ll let you know when it gets rolling. Right now, it’s still in the mind-stage. BUT what’s linked to that is this…
Me and Allison want to do what every college kids dreams: backpack through Europe for a month (or more!). we realized that we’d be perfect companions. I don’t know how to explain that better… but I know as well as anyone you can’t just go to Europe for a month with anyone, and me and Allison would just fit so perfectly! So we were like yeah! This summer! But that’s probably not actually feasible. Also, I was like… can I do both? Abroad and summer trip? The answer is yes, actually, because going abroad is actually cheaper all around than going to school here at Pratt (fun fact I learned from David) and I have a plan for the summer trip. Right now what I’m thinking is that I’ll go abroad in the Spring next year (so not for a whole nother year) and then as soon as I was out of school, or Allison was out of school, she’d join me, and we’d be off! That way, I’d already be comfortable in Europe and be settled there, you know? So it would just be so much better than going before I went abroad! And that’s why I’m thinking Spring semester, too. Fall just seems lame (I mean, not seriously, Europe with NOT be lame!) because if I go in the fall, then I come back to… Pratt… yay… haha. You know what I mean? But if I go in the Spring, then it leads into an awesome summer. Also, planning on backpacking through Europe two summers from now is brilliant because I most certainly need to work this summer. C’mon, I don’t have money! And I need to work this summer anyway, so it would be perfect because I could start saving up. I also want to maybe get a job at a bakery (something that’s been on my mind for a while…) maybe fall semester next year, and that could save up money too. I don’t have time for a job this year, 18 credits both this semester and next, but this summer I’ll work in the café again! And next year I’ll find a job around here because I will hopefully be taking fewer credits. I have to work that out though, what I still need to take. But anyway, at least I’ll work all summer, and I like the café job.
OOOHHH which reminds me! Because I was thinking the only thing about the café job is that it can be boring a slow sometimes, so I’d bring a book. And I remembered I wanted to tell you about this neat thing I found and got addicted to! It’s this thing on facebook which is called “visual bookshelf!” You can list what books you’re currently reading, what books you’ve read, and what books you want to read, and write your opinions on them and stuff! So once you have a good list of what you’ve read, it’ll recommend books to you! So I spent a few hours just browsing books it was recommending to me like I’d do in a bookstore if I had time to get to one! So now I have a hefty list of all these books I want to read and it’s AWESOME! Because I LOVE reading and I’ve been wanting to read a good book for a while but I don’t have time to chill in a book store and find one, so now I have a list and I can just go out and get them, or even order them online, and vuala! So yeah, that’s pretty exciting! I have a lot of exciting things on my mind right now, what with the print show, Europe x2, books, good projects, did well with eating this week, etc. Yay.
So I was thinking I’d work the morning shift in the café if I could, because it is the best thing ever to wake up before the sun rises and see it rise and have all the morning people all cheery on a bright sunny day come in and get breakfast! And then, yeah you’re tired, but you can go take a nap, and still have the rest of the day ahead of you! And mom already found out that my old boss would love to have me back whenever I was back around to work. Sweet! So I’ll save for Europe yay! I can’t wait to tell Allison!
What else? Okay that might be it, though I could gush about all of these fun things forever! Tomorrow I’m finally going to see Paul’s show (my photo teacher from last year) with Sam and Nikki after I go to yoga. I’m really excited it’s going to be so cool! And Sam might need to go to the ICP (International Center for Photography) for one of his classes, so why wouldn’t I tag along, c’mon now? I love looking at the stuff, I love it… all right, so I’ll go now and probably not work on either of the papers I should be working on, but that’s okay. This weekend I have to get working on those and print color pictures for the project due Monday. Yup. Okay buh-bye!
I’m procrastinating right now, and my file of all my blogs was open so I found it and I remembered that I keep forgetting to keep up with this now because I haven’t in a while. I wrote only 2 or 3 posts last month. But anyway, this is PERFECT because I can catch up on two fun days no problem and procrastinate all at the same time!
So I didn’t go to the gym yesterday or today, but that’s okay because I did fabulously with eating well this week, and I had a good reason yesterday and I went Wednesday before yoga, which I don’t normally do. Hey okay so I got completely distracted from even this haha, I guess this is just an internet surfing, procrastinating, distracted night. I was looking at classes for next semester, I had my advisement meeting today, but we’ll get there.
So yesterday I went to the print fair for my silk screening class. Check out the website, www.ifpda.org, because it was frikkin AMAZING. It was this giant warehouse full of prints! Silk screens, etchings, lithographs, etc. etc. and some were contemporary, some were ESHER or DURUR or other awesome famous people, some were hella old, they were all EXPENSIVE and all way cool, so were really realistic, some were abstract, it was GREAT. I absolutely loved it, and I want to go back. They had these awesome books that had every station listed because about a million places were showing the work they had, so when I found stuff I liked, I marked it down so I can look up the galleries and artists later. It was sooooooo coooool I can’t even explain. It was even cooler than a museum because it just had a million prints that I could look through. No way I even got through 5%, it was great. I’m definitely going to try to go back, and I really have no way of explaining this to you, I wish you were here so I could take you. It was awesome! I wrote down all the best ones and I wish I could just have a book of them… Dad’s right, I would be really good at being a gallery owner or a museum curator, because I really do enjoy searching through art to find the best work, and I feel like the best work just all goes together inherently because it is the best work. And obviously I’m not arrogant, but I really do think I have a particular eye and a very sophisticated way of seeing, and I’m really good at choosing interesting and pleasing images, I’m just drawn to them. However, I do realize that I have a particular aesthetic, which consists of realism, nature, and romanticism, colors, and subtle little twists, but a general overall warmth, and that this isn’t everyone’s aesthetic. I really can’t get into modern stuff, and only very particular abstract pieces interest me… so I just wouldn’t handle that part of the museum! Or if I had a gallery, I’d have a certain kind of work that I dealt with. :D I love art! That’s why I’m in art school! How cool am I? How cool is this? Cool.
Anyway, then I came back and finished up my hyper digital project. The crit today in class went well, I think he liked my work, but he’s a hard grader and it’s hard to tell sometimes. I had a lot of fun with that project, I’ll try to post those soon, but I want to post the files I have, not pictures of them, because since I have them color corrected, why would I bother putting them up not color corrected? Next week we’re going on a field trip. And for black and white too! That’s three field trips in a row! How cool. The semester’s closing in on us, and I only have 2 more official projects for digital. One is the breakfast pictures, and the other is just a final showing of what your work is to you, what you do, what you want to show, tied together, but not necessarily the same. I’m excited, because that’s already what I’m doing, duh, I shoot what I love! And I’m taking pictures for color and black and white, so it’ll be easy peasy to do it at the same time. I’m excited about the trip next week, I don’t remember where it’s too right now. A printing lab. We’re going to make digital C-prints, and I only today was taught what that even means! It’s actually the coolest thing EVER. Basically, you take a digital file and send it to a printer that exposes normal color darkroom paper to light in it’s special magical digital way, so you get a print on color photo paper instead of digital printer paper, but it’s from a digital file. How cool is THAT?! He picked one of our images from today and we gave him the file, so next week we’ll print those and be able to compare. Neat, huh? I’m pretty juiced about it.
So after that, I hung out with Tudor and we watched The Bicycle Thief. Apparently it’s a classic that you all should have heard of. It was made in like the 40s or 50s in Italy, under the new genre at the time, Italian Realism. It was sad, about the harsh life of being poor. But not so blatant, like oh pity us we’re so poor. It was very unbiased, just showing what happened and how much a family’s life could depend on this one bicycle that was stolen. One simple bicycle, and they have nothing left. Anyway, it was neat to see, but it was an okay movie. Tudor’s a film major, he loved it. Hehe.
Today after Digital I had art history. Same old. I have this frikkin paper due in two weeks though… ew. Then I went to my meeting with my advisor to get my classes approved. I register on the 26th. It’s funny cause the website has a countdown. Anyway. Okay I just went away for a good hour because I was talking to mom about all sorts of exciting things! I guess this is what I would have ended up talking about anyways.
So next semester I’ll be taking:
Color Photo II
Advanced Black and White Printing
Studio Photo I
3-D
General Science
World Civ II
Yoga
20th Century Art History
I am NOT excited about world civ. or general science, but whatcha gunna do? I am THRILLED about color, studio, black and white, yoga, and art history. 3-D is in the middle. I have 6 credits of studio electives that I transferred in, so I have less studio electives to deal with and more liberal arts electives, that’s why I decided to take science. Also, they don’t offer a single good science course here (I doubt they offer a sign good liberal art in general…) so I’m just biting the bullet and taking it now. Oh, and by the way, this is my intended schedule… the way I know the Media Arts department and my school functions… who knows? But this is what I’m supposed to take and how I want it. I’m also unsure of when and teachers, so right now I have it set up with what they have listed, though more options may become available. I don’t actually register for classes for another 3 weeks, and even after that, I can switch. So we’ll see, I just have it how it works for now with good or decent teachers.
But moving on to AWESOME. Have I told you that I’m going to STUDY ABROAD?! I know, I haven’t because I haven’t been keeping up with this thing! Well, I am. The logistics? Still getting started on those… first off, where. Hehe. But I’ve made some progress. First of all, I met a kid named David in my silk screening class who went to Amsterdam last semester. The problem is that my school just doesn’t have much to offer in the way of exchange and study abroad programs. So. He proposed his OWN and after 6 months of hell, it happened and it was awesome! So he gave me a copy of his proposal, and I plan on doing the same. And when I asked my advisor about it today, she pretty much told me to do the same thing. So, neat. Hard work, but neat! Really, I don’t know where I want to go yet, what I want to focus on studying, which will also help decide where I go, if I maybe want to go for 2 semesters or only go for one, and I gotta write my proposal and get everyone to approve it and all that jazz. Basically, I’ll let you know when it gets rolling. Right now, it’s still in the mind-stage. BUT what’s linked to that is this…
Me and Allison want to do what every college kids dreams: backpack through Europe for a month (or more!). we realized that we’d be perfect companions. I don’t know how to explain that better… but I know as well as anyone you can’t just go to Europe for a month with anyone, and me and Allison would just fit so perfectly! So we were like yeah! This summer! But that’s probably not actually feasible. Also, I was like… can I do both? Abroad and summer trip? The answer is yes, actually, because going abroad is actually cheaper all around than going to school here at Pratt (fun fact I learned from David) and I have a plan for the summer trip. Right now what I’m thinking is that I’ll go abroad in the Spring next year (so not for a whole nother year) and then as soon as I was out of school, or Allison was out of school, she’d join me, and we’d be off! That way, I’d already be comfortable in Europe and be settled there, you know? So it would just be so much better than going before I went abroad! And that’s why I’m thinking Spring semester, too. Fall just seems lame (I mean, not seriously, Europe with NOT be lame!) because if I go in the fall, then I come back to… Pratt… yay… haha. You know what I mean? But if I go in the Spring, then it leads into an awesome summer. Also, planning on backpacking through Europe two summers from now is brilliant because I most certainly need to work this summer. C’mon, I don’t have money! And I need to work this summer anyway, so it would be perfect because I could start saving up. I also want to maybe get a job at a bakery (something that’s been on my mind for a while…) maybe fall semester next year, and that could save up money too. I don’t have time for a job this year, 18 credits both this semester and next, but this summer I’ll work in the café again! And next year I’ll find a job around here because I will hopefully be taking fewer credits. I have to work that out though, what I still need to take. But anyway, at least I’ll work all summer, and I like the café job.
OOOHHH which reminds me! Because I was thinking the only thing about the café job is that it can be boring a slow sometimes, so I’d bring a book. And I remembered I wanted to tell you about this neat thing I found and got addicted to! It’s this thing on facebook which is called “visual bookshelf!” You can list what books you’re currently reading, what books you’ve read, and what books you want to read, and write your opinions on them and stuff! So once you have a good list of what you’ve read, it’ll recommend books to you! So I spent a few hours just browsing books it was recommending to me like I’d do in a bookstore if I had time to get to one! So now I have a hefty list of all these books I want to read and it’s AWESOME! Because I LOVE reading and I’ve been wanting to read a good book for a while but I don’t have time to chill in a book store and find one, so now I have a list and I can just go out and get them, or even order them online, and vuala! So yeah, that’s pretty exciting! I have a lot of exciting things on my mind right now, what with the print show, Europe x2, books, good projects, did well with eating this week, etc. Yay.
So I was thinking I’d work the morning shift in the café if I could, because it is the best thing ever to wake up before the sun rises and see it rise and have all the morning people all cheery on a bright sunny day come in and get breakfast! And then, yeah you’re tired, but you can go take a nap, and still have the rest of the day ahead of you! And mom already found out that my old boss would love to have me back whenever I was back around to work. Sweet! So I’ll save for Europe yay! I can’t wait to tell Allison!
What else? Okay that might be it, though I could gush about all of these fun things forever! Tomorrow I’m finally going to see Paul’s show (my photo teacher from last year) with Sam and Nikki after I go to yoga. I’m really excited it’s going to be so cool! And Sam might need to go to the ICP (International Center for Photography) for one of his classes, so why wouldn’t I tag along, c’mon now? I love looking at the stuff, I love it… all right, so I’ll go now and probably not work on either of the papers I should be working on, but that’s okay. This weekend I have to get working on those and print color pictures for the project due Monday. Yup. Okay buh-bye!
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