Classes… again.

by Matt | Sep 21, 2002 | Imported Entry

Well, I was wrong about history class. It seems like it’ll actually be a great deal of fun. A good teacher can make all the difference. Especially when your teacher happens to be a yonger version of John Cleese. I kid you not. He’s Brittish, insane, and funny as hell.

For example, his very first words to us were the following:

“Good morning class, my name is Jon, not professor Fields, not Mr. Fields, just plain Jon. I suppose we should go over the rules and safety procedures of the building. Actually, on second thought, screw that. If you haven’t read them before, it’s your own fault. In case of a fire I suggest that you all run screaming to the nearest exit like little children.”

Now, make sure you imagined all that in a Brittish accent. THAT is my teacher.

My other class (Commercial Photo) went as I had planned. We got an extremely vague description of our first project and then were allowed to leave. That’s about it. I’ve already dropped $200 on books and various nessesities and haven’t even ordered photo supplies yet. You can see how broke this semester will make me. Regardless, I’m feeling good about it and I’m looking forward to getting back to work.

Today I’m doing a bit of research for my Buisness Practices class and trying to think up ideas for my first Commercial shoot on Thursday. That’s about it.

Classes

by Matt | Sep 19, 2002 | Imported Entry

After having “Buisness Practices for Photographers” yesterday and “Commerical Photography” and “20th Century Art History” today, I’m starting to feel confident that this semester might not suck. Well, the art history class is going to suck… a lot, but that’s to be expected. There’s nothing worse than sitting in a dark room for 2 1/2 hours looking at sides of dead peoples work. I have no ambition to do it. Sure, I can give you reasons why it’s important to learn about the history of art, where styles came from, who the “big names” were, but I’d be full of crap. I just simply don’t care. It’s not that I think that I shouldn’t learn it, it’s that I don’t WANT to learn it. If someone handed me a 700 page hard cover text book and a camera and said “here, choose”, which do you think I’d pick? That’s the problem, I have two other classes that are so cool, it’s going to make 20th Century Art History look like high-school French. As for the other two classes, they are the shit. Buisness Practices is probably the most important class I’ll ever take here. No joke. We cover everything from finding a job to fixing up your portfolio to how to make self-promotional marketing material. It’s cool. Even more important than that is my Commercial Photo class. This is the bread and butter. It’s what I want to do with my life. I’d better enjoy it or else I’m screwed. Luckily I have the class with a whole bunch of friends and a good teacher. Plus we’ve gotten new equipment for the studio. This should be great. Well, I’m off to find something to eat before class. Later.

oooh… link to course descriptions.

Planning ahead

by Matt | Sep 18, 2002 | Imported Entry

It’s not something I do very well. I’m a “last minute” sort of person. I don’t plan ahead, weeks in advance, for activities I might like to do on the weekends. No, I just do them. If I want to see a movie, I just go to the theater. I don’t sit and wait for movies to be released, pre order tickets, and get to the theater 2 hours before hand. Same goes for college and same goes for boredom. Boredom is a product of school. For example, an assignment might be given to me over a weekend. By Saturday night I’ll have it finished because I just went ahead and did it. So what do I do on Sunday? I have a wonderful girlfriend to spend time with, computer games to play, movies to watch. But what happens when my girlfriend is busy with projects of her own, I’ve beaten all my games and I don’t have any movies left to watch? I get bored. So, what do I do with my free time? Usually waste it. I browse the web, play a game or two, read a chapter or two in a book I’m working on, something like that. But those aren’t really constructive activities. I SHOULD be printing photos for my portfolio, scanning negatives, shooting more photos outside of class for fun, anything but what I’m doing. Sitting on my ass isn’t getting me anywhere and it’s not helping my moral. I hope to make a concerted effort to be more constructive with my time but it’ll be hard. I’ve become quite well set in my ways of slacking. Plus I have to finely balance being bored and being busy. I don’t want to be so busy that I don’t have time for the things I do when I’m not bored. I’m not sure that statement makes sense, but I’ll continue anyway. So, the reason I’m writting all this is that, yup you guessed it, I’m bored. But at 3 I’ll no longer be bored, because I’ll be in class. I should probably not make assumptions about my levels of boredom quite yet. Especially given the fact that I’ve yet to really start any classes. I’m sure by this weekend I’ll be bitching about having to much work. Oh well. I suppose I might as well enjoy being bored, at least for the time being.

Media Overload

by Matt | Sep 18, 2002 | Imported Entry

Well, it’s been a landmark day in terms of entertainment… at least around my house anyway. This morning Lauren and I made a stop at BestBuy and purchased the new Ani Difranco double live CD set. I also purchased the new DropKick Murphy’s CD “Live on St. Patricks Day: recorded live in Boston.” Both CDs are a must have for fans of either band. Jason, my roommate, not to be outdone, decided to go and purchase the latest Vandals CD. From what I’ve heard its pretty good as well. I also put my preorder in at EBWorld for Unreal Tournament 2003. They’re running an online special for $39.99. That’s $20 cheaper than in the store and $10 cheaper than Amazon incase you’re keeping track. Actually, Amazon’s price is $45, but then you add shipping costs. After that Lauren’s roommate Brittney decided to go get Monsters Inc since today was it’s DVD release day. We watched that this afternoon. What a great day.

I should also mention that classes start tomorrow. Thankfully I won’t have to give up my sleeping-in habit since my first class doesn’t start until 3pm. Ah, the joys of being a Senior in college. Which, by the way, is really starting to freak me out. I’m 3 semesters away from being in “the real world.” Shit. I’m not ready for that. I want to fuck about and not have any responsibilities for at least another decade. Hell, I just pre-ordered a video game. Does that seems like something a “responsible adult” would do? (don’t answer that)

Oh well. At least I have classes I’ll enjoy this year. With the exception of two semi-annoying history classes, everything I have left to take until I graduate are electives. I can take just about anything I want. That in itself is a great feeling.

Anyway, I should probably get some sleep. If you haven’t gotten the UT2k3 demo yet, I suggest you do. I need to have someone’s ass to beat senseless if I’m going to have the game on my doorstep on release day. Ah the endless joys for preordering. ‘Night.