Wednesday, July 2, 2008
photos 1 of several
So blogger is being ridiculous and has been pulling errors for two days now. Im going to try to post a few more times because I want to put up some photos. So I might have to post a bunch of single images...bear with me. Anyways, so some sort of weird weather system rolled in the other night and here are some night time photos that I took of the outer perimeter of the campus immersed in a very very creepy and pretty cool fog bank. I don't think I'll do anything with these photos but maybe posting them here will count for something.
Sunday, June 29, 2008
The wildlife of Maine
I'm not in super talkative/type-ative mood right now so here are some pictures of a museum that I went to today. I use the word museum loosely as it was more just an eccentric persons house.
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Skowhegan15
Friday, June 27, 2008
Skowhegan14
So it's been a couple of days since I posted anything due to both me being busy but also the frequent storms that knock out the internet here/force the computer lab to close. Yesterday I worked with Fresco for 12 hours straight. It's a strange and unruly/antiquated medium that very few facilities in the US are equipped to teach. I liked the fact that it was a new skill that I feel I can use if necessary but don't really see myself getting too involved with. I don't have any photos of it but I will in the coming days so I'll post em' when I get em'. Instead here are some photos of the other night when i got invited (only a handful of people get invited) to a post-lecture reception which I went to following the really great lecture by Harmony Hammond. The post lecture receptions are held in the very secret and isolated "red barn". Its a very amazing house built in the 40s with wood and other building materials from barns and other recycled parts which make the place feel like it's from the 19th century. It's definitely haunted too.
One of the participants is a bonified palm reader she read all of our palms and it was actually pretty amazing. For most of the reception I just hung out on the porch with the staff members whom after chatting up my knowledge of bad movies promised me they'd smuggle me out with them when they goes see Batman when it opens. I am very much excited about this.
One of the participants is a bonified palm reader she read all of our palms and it was actually pretty amazing. For most of the reception I just hung out on the porch with the staff members whom after chatting up my knowledge of bad movies promised me they'd smuggle me out with them when they goes see Batman when it opens. I am very much excited about this.
Friday, June 20, 2008
Skowhegan 7
So i guess it has been officially one week since arriving here. For 5 of those days it's been pouring on a pretty regular basis. I don't actually mind too much except I've been pretty isolated in either my studio, dorm, or cafeteria which doesn't make for great photography/blog. 
Though, the other day I did get a chance to loaf around Skowhegan the town for a little bit, mainly to visit a bunch of different thrift stores, which was a nice change of pace to both the school campus, and to Walmart, which seems to be the only two areas in Maine that I've seen.
Ive decided that a good way to describe this place is to compare it to Hogwarts. Actually, it's just like that except for the fact everyone here is basically 30+ and makes absurd things (including myself) rather than spells. And Honestly I would probably put money on the fact that someone here is working on spells. I guess that would make me what's his name, the big guy with the red beard in Harry Potter.
Last night was the Charles Gains lecture and today will be our lecture. We all have to present our application portfolio to all the other participants for exactly 5 minutes. I think that they actually ring a bell to get people to stay moving. There are a lot of participants so it looks like it will go from 2 until approximately 1030 at night. At which point there will be some form of large party which we all will get together and revaluate our opinions on one another. Actually I'm sure that won't happen but we've all been joking about the social restructuring that will occur around campus as we find out what each other makes or does as an artist.
This is what the front of my studio looks like at night. At night the area that my studio is in on the campus vaguely reminds me of a David Lynch film.
Though, the other day I did get a chance to loaf around Skowhegan the town for a little bit, mainly to visit a bunch of different thrift stores, which was a nice change of pace to both the school campus, and to Walmart, which seems to be the only two areas in Maine that I've seen.
Ive decided that a good way to describe this place is to compare it to Hogwarts. Actually, it's just like that except for the fact everyone here is basically 30+ and makes absurd things (including myself) rather than spells. And Honestly I would probably put money on the fact that someone here is working on spells. I guess that would make me what's his name, the big guy with the red beard in Harry Potter.
Last night was the Charles Gains lecture and today will be our lecture. We all have to present our application portfolio to all the other participants for exactly 5 minutes. I think that they actually ring a bell to get people to stay moving. There are a lot of participants so it looks like it will go from 2 until approximately 1030 at night. At which point there will be some form of large party which we all will get together and revaluate our opinions on one another. Actually I'm sure that won't happen but we've all been joking about the social restructuring that will occur around campus as we find out what each other makes or does as an artist.
This is what the front of my studio looks like at night. At night the area that my studio is in on the campus vaguely reminds me of a David Lynch film.
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