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Okay, so I’ve started this new Graduate Photo thing and I have to admit, I have no idea what I’m going to shoot. When I look back at my old photos, I notice that the best ones (in my opinion) are the ones that involve people – the ones where I had a model and I set up an emotion for the model and then just let them do whatever came to them. I’ve never used real models, I’ve always used my friends and they came out fine. I wasn’t looking for picture perfect people, I was looking for real people. But back when I was shooting my friends, I was never doing more than 5-10 shots. 20 photos that will (hopefully) start stringing together into a larger body of work, my friends are going to get old. Plus, and no offense to my friends, we’re not as young and athletic as we used to be.

And to top it all off, we haven’t even had one class day and I already feel like I’m behind. My shooting time is going to be restricted to primarilly the weekends and I’m only going to have one or two of those before our first barage of crits. At least I got online last night and found a paper that might be just the weight and lustre that I want. I just hope my little photo printer at home can produce the quality I need. If not, there’s always the über printer over in the photo building. I’ve heard it’s finicky, so I’m not sure what to expect.

Another dilema I realized yesterday, is that I used to not crop my photos when I was enlarging them… I exposed them full frame to show that I was composing through the lense – but with digital, thats not really going to be an option. there’s nothing but photograph. No film edges, no sprockets, no nothing. I could digitally add them, but that would defeat the point. I’ve got some ideas I’m monkeying around with, but most would be more trouble than its worth.

Well, it’s class time now, so I gotta go.

w00t!

Ah HAH! I finally figured out what the (CW) stands for right before the TB on the back of my GBA-SP. I’ve been wondering that for over a year and now I know. Question is, can you figure it out?

Okay so I jut had my first class in like six years… it sounds longer than it feels. sheesh.

It wasn’t really a class but more of an orientation to what it is to be a Photo Grad Student. What it boils down to is a hell of a lot of work. I don’t want to sacrifice too much to do this, but it’s going to take some 1337 time management skills. I don’t want to stop playing D&D. I don’t want to stop playing WoW. But I also don’t want to fail at being an MFA Student.

I’m actually concerned that I won’t be able to NaNoWriMo as a result of this. That project took a HELL of a lot of dedication. Maybe instead of NaNo this year, I’ll dedicate November to editing my last novel. I really wanted to do NaNo again this year, I had a lot of fun doing it last year, but with 60 perfect prints to produce this semester, a research paper, and everything else I need to do, it just might not make it.

Maybe I can write a 50,000 word research paper in the month of November. 😉

Blah.

Posted by: peloquin3 on Buzznet

Students will lock their bikes to any damn thing
Be careful not to stand in one place too long, you might get a bike attatched to your thigh.

If you look closely, you can see there are more bikes attatched to anything other than a bike rack. You know, there are bike racks on campus.

It takes a lot longer to install Windows XP on Virtual PC than on a real PC.

That is all.

By the way, the “No Gas” Buycott is coming again, and as usual, it will be a big waste of time. Don’t fall for the foolishness. People think by not buying gas one day out of the year, it will make the oil companies realize we don’t need them. It stupid because the people who actually try to support this boycott are just filling up one day earlier or one day later. The oil companies are going to see the same proffit for the week/month/quarter as they would normally. No harm no foul.

More details here: http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/nogas.asp

If you really want to make a difference – carpool, ride the bus, ride a bike, walk to work, don’t go anywhere. Not buying gas for one day ain’t gonna do jack!