Wow. This weekend was a handful. What happens when Kate actually goes and meets with her TAs, and asks for HELP? Well, I guess it's good to ask for advice. And it's good to ask what they want from you. But sometimes, just sometimes, they heap on way more than you can handle.
As a result, this weekend I: Wrote a play (first draft completed in 4 hours), had a 5 hour photoshoot, processed all of the film resulting from it, disposed of the personally constructed props and 8 mannequin heads with corresponding hand-made wigs used for said photoshoot, and wrote a term paper on the tactics used in National Geographic to legitimize colonial claims of power in Mayan culture.
And now it's Monday. A new era. Deep breath. Supress the rising panic. And.... GO!
Monday, March 31, 2008
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Art School
I think that there is a very difficult balance in secondary education, between the skills needed to function in the real world and the skills to think independently purely for the sake of the "concept." Both are important. Both are hard.
Sometimes I find myself getting frustrated that a course (especially art) always wants us to have a "concept" for our projects. Sometimes I just want to make something for the sake of making it: because it looks nice, or it brings someone joy, or it wasa technical challenge. When art teachers want you to have political charges behind everything you do, it quickly becomes inaccessable to the rest of the world, the people who are, in fact, your ACTUAL audience once you get out of school.
That leaves me mediating a (sometimes) unpleasant conversation between the practice and "art." It is hard to believe that art teachers (in my experience) have such disdain for things that are pretty and nothing else.
That being said, I still like ART. And I still like theory. And I still, pretty much, like my art teachers. The trick is listening to them, hearing them (which can be an altogether different thing), and then transforming it in your own head. Once we can do that, we can all me millionaires! Seriously.
Sometimes I find myself getting frustrated that a course (especially art) always wants us to have a "concept" for our projects. Sometimes I just want to make something for the sake of making it: because it looks nice, or it brings someone joy, or it wasa technical challenge. When art teachers want you to have political charges behind everything you do, it quickly becomes inaccessable to the rest of the world, the people who are, in fact, your ACTUAL audience once you get out of school.
That leaves me mediating a (sometimes) unpleasant conversation between the practice and "art." It is hard to believe that art teachers (in my experience) have such disdain for things that are pretty and nothing else.
That being said, I still like ART. And I still like theory. And I still, pretty much, like my art teachers. The trick is listening to them, hearing them (which can be an altogether different thing), and then transforming it in your own head. Once we can do that, we can all me millionaires! Seriously.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Friday, March 14, 2008
Issues
Go to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmLHOGT0v4c
And also watch everything related to it. I guarantee you will enjoy. That is all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmLHOGT0v4c
And also watch everything related to it. I guarantee you will enjoy. That is all.
Go On...
Intriguing. I've a blog. And as a side note, it is officially impossible to make a blog look cool.
Kate's Day:
Arise: 5:45
Public Transit: 6:40
Study: 7-9:00
Class: 9:30-2:00
Rest/Strum on Guitar: 2:30-4:30
Transit again
Work: 5-midnight
And now... this. Cause lord knows I can't go to sleep yet. Basically, I realized that I haven't been doing a great job of keeping up with Alex. So this is mainly for her. And anyone else in the interweb who is mildly interested in my interests. I will do my best to keep my daily play-by-plays to a minimum (the above being the only breach). High level banter, low level journaling. A good goal, at least.
So Al, for starters:
1) Go to www.questionablecontent.net.
2) Get Mom/Dad to buy you "This Year", "Color in Your Cheeks" and "Dance Music" by the Mountain Goats
3) Read 1984, and then A Clockwork Orange
4) Wear the red shirt I made you for Christmas
5) Cuddle with Toby
That is your assignment for the day. More tomorrow.
Kate's Day:
Arise: 5:45
Public Transit: 6:40
Study: 7-9:00
Class: 9:30-2:00
Rest/Strum on Guitar: 2:30-4:30
Transit again
Work: 5-midnight
And now... this. Cause lord knows I can't go to sleep yet. Basically, I realized that I haven't been doing a great job of keeping up with Alex. So this is mainly for her. And anyone else in the interweb who is mildly interested in my interests. I will do my best to keep my daily play-by-plays to a minimum (the above being the only breach). High level banter, low level journaling. A good goal, at least.
So Al, for starters:
1) Go to www.questionablecontent.net.
2) Get Mom/Dad to buy you "This Year", "Color in Your Cheeks" and "Dance Music" by the Mountain Goats
3) Read 1984, and then A Clockwork Orange
4) Wear the red shirt I made you for Christmas
5) Cuddle with Toby
That is your assignment for the day. More tomorrow.
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