Keith Richards: Eileen
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Normally I would be slightly embarrassed (yes, only slightly) to post this photo of myself on my blog… but not today. Though my week has been extremely stressful full of things that I’ve absolutely had to get done, no excuses, it has also been a happy week.
Saturday I won the Advanced Western Horsemanship class at the show my school put on, and Sunday I won Novice Western Horsemanship Regionals… I think I’m more excited about the fact that I won a belt buckle instead of the fact that I won regionals. But whatever… the buckle is sitting on my windowsill so it can sparkle in the sun… a little.
I also got my itinerary for my Australia trip this summer, which can be read by all here. Basically I got excited about the fact that we’re trekking through the outback – a part of Australia I never saw the first time I went. Southern Australia will be cold in the mornings and afternoons in July, but that’s okay – I’ll hopefully end my trip in Brisbane where it’ll be warm and sunny.
I got a phone call from my summer bosses who run the horse show photography company asking me if I wanted to work fro them this summer. Basically I freaked out and said “Hell Yeah” while typing an e-mail to them with my summer schedule. Seriously, that summer job is better than your summer job.
OH! OH! AND DON’T FORGET! I’m running my first stoneware firing on Sunday. It’s an all day job, and I’ll be hanging out in the clay studio for, like, 16 hours while this thing goes on, but I’ve persuaded friends to come and visit. This and I’ll have time to work on my paper due Thursday. But yeah… clay firings are awesome and expect to see photos up during the day from my phone here and on facebook.
Well, that was an overloaded entry for not writing in such a long time. I guess I’ll head back to doing what I’m actually supposed to be doing and actually get some homework done.
P.S. That photo was taken after an intramural soccer game.
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Whoa…
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
What can I say? The semester is reaching it’s halfway mark. Two weeks from Friday a friend and I will be leaving for Savannah and Florida for a week. What I want to know is this: how did this semester suddenly fly by?!
I’ve been working… a lot. While I’m making decent money for a full time student, I’m also going just slightly crazy – two jobs (one of which I’m a supervisor for) while writing two papers (one of which is a for serious thesis) while going to class and getting good grades while on the equestrian team is really showing my limits. I think that when I’m old and have a real grown-up job one of these days, I’ll always be able to look back at this semester and be like “Danielle, don’t be lazy… you did more in college than you’ll probably do ever again.” Or something like that.
I’ve been going so incredibly crazy that I’ve had no time for art, despite the fact that I’m in two or three (I really can’t remember right now) studio classes. I really hope to get some stuff completed and up as soon as I possibly can.
So… in preparation for the upcoming trip to Florida and Savannah, here is a picture my cousin took of my friend JC and I while we were visiting in September last semester.
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Don’t Judge
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
If anyone really wanted to get me a present, for some strange reason, and really wanted me to like that present, then I suggest you look at this:
Not only would you make me incredibly happy, but your present would get displayed in a very honored, cherished, and always viewable part of my living area.
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Weather…
Friday, February 5, 2010
What I want to know is how this much rain can be going through Georgia once a week when one to two years ago, we were in a HUGE drought.
Weather Channel, please change the weather predictions so it is warm and sunny in northwestern Georgia.
Thank You.
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Pottery and Photography in One
Thursday, January 21, 2010
My friend slash former pottery teacher sent me a link to this guy a few months back. Steve Irvine lives in Ontario, Canada and works a lot with photography and ceramics, but what got my attention were his beautiful pin hole cameras. Since we’re starting with pinhole photography in my light media class, I thought it might be fun to follow this step-by-step guide and try to make my own pinhole camera.
Now actually finding the time to do this will be difficult. Yesterday I was in the art studios almost, and quite literally, all day long. It’s fun though since I get to hang out with fun people, help and tutor students, and play with the materials when I’ve got the spare time. Basically, the best job any college student could ask for.
Posted at 09:42 in Ceramics, Photography | 2 Comments
First Weekend
Saturday, January 16, 2010
I signed up for one of those tumblr accounts this morning. I’m not sure how long it will last – probably not long. I mean, I would rather write and post here instead of put in little blurbs and millions of photos up on that thing. But I figure, may as well give it a go, even if it is deleted in a week. There are just too many things the internet offers now-a-days that create an almost never-ending checklist of things to update.
Now that I’m back at school, it feels like Christmas break never actually happened. Bizarre. However, I am now student supervisor of the photography and ceramics departments in the art building, I’m taking athletic photographs at various points throughout the semester, I’m trying to throw stuff that I can sell this spring at the student sale, and I’m just generally running around trying to do fun things outside of class.
A preview for the semester, as of now:
College Health Topics: EASY EASY EASY! We had class the first day, but our actual teacher (the soccer coach) won’t be back ’till next Wednesday. So yesterday there was nothing, and Monday is MLK Day so no classes then. And the fact that it’s the first seven weeks makes things THAT much better.
Abnormal Psychology: I’m already fascinated by this class and we’ve just started the very beginning of intro stuff. People are weird and people’s brains are weird. I’m honestly excited to learn about all that weird stuff. And my professor looks like Barak Obama.
Light Media: I’ve been doing this stuff for, well, forever. But there are new techniques that I will be learning, new processes, and other fun stuff. Really, I’m excited to start working in the darkroom again while also taking a class.
Digital Imaging: Well, I’ll learn how to make legit digital things on a mac. Some projects seem cool, but like Light Media, I haven’t received a syllabus yet.
Early 20th Century Art: A required class, but I get to write my term paper and do my presentation work on architecture, design, and photography (mostly photography though). Oh – and basically if we’re all good students, we won’t have to take the final exam, just write the term paper. This is nice.
Oh – and Friday I get to have my intent to graduate interview thingy with the registrar. Um… what happened to my college life?
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The Post Before School Starts
Monday, January 11, 2010
I’ve been reading a bunch of blogs today and a lot of people have posted about their just being back at school. Tomorrow I drive three hours (after two days of driving – see part one previous entry) back to my university in good ol’ Rome, Georgia. Oh goodie. Classes don’t start until Wednesday, but when they do start I’ll be all “OMG!” On my plate so far: early 20th century art history, Irish art seminar, digital imaging, light media, college health topics, abnormal psychology, 15-20-hour work weeks for the art department, photography for the athletic department, and the equestrian team. Let’s play a game and see how crazy I am by finals week in May.
Driving long distances will cease for at least a month after tomorrow – I think my car hates me for being driven SO much recently.
I realized that I haven’t initiated this blog with my travel map yet (GASP!). But there it is above… hopefully more countries will be blue in the future because that would be nice. I might go and see if there are some travel agencies in my town in NY who might want to hire someone – that’s probably the only office job I could do: spend other people’s money organizing trips. HA!
Posted at 17:11 in School, Travel | 2 Comments