That constant sleepy feeling...

This semester has been interesting thus far and although I'm enjoying some parts of it, I have to say I am lacking that extra drive to get up and do things. That along with the fact that I haven't been excited about the majority of my projects doesn't help. I really don't know how to get back into all this or how to make myself excited about this semester and I think until I figure somethings it's going to become more and more difficult to get work done.

Video Project *sigh*

I thought there was no way I could dislike a project as much as I disliked our sound art project but of course I spoke too soon. Video- to say the least I'm not enjoying this project. I enjoy editing so I imagine once I finish the shooting process I won't mind putting the project together but my main issue is I can't come up with an idea that isn't going to be lame! Plus I don't really know what the criteria for the project is really, I know that my idea for a video is going to be completely different than the next persons. So I've settled on what I want to do and, surprise surprise, I went back to my original idea which was to make a music video for a friends song. Justin Hickey is my best friends boyfriend and is extremely talented. So I got a couple of his tracks and choose one and recently convinced my roommate Heidi to act in it for me. And frankly that's my idea and if you don't like it, tough ! My main goal for this past year is to make art that has a purpose for me. I want to make pieces that I'm satisfied with and that I want to share with more people than my classmates. Out of my four years here I have more artwork that I'm not happy with than pieces that I'm proud of. And I believe that the reason for that is that I'm going by more so what my prof wants than what I want. But the thing is in a year when I've graduated the only person I'm going to be making work for is myself so why listen to them now? I listen to the things that they each say when it comes to technical issues and suggestions about the content but I simply think that just because they don't "like" the final product doesn't mean it's not good.

Well there is my rant about my video project that more so turned into my rant about teachers and my art !

What Is New Media?

"New media is a broad term in media studies that emerged in the latter part of the 20th century. For example, new media holds out a possibility of on-demand access to content any time, anywhere, on any digital device, as well as interactive user feedback, creative participation and community formation around the media content."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_media)

Honestly the term new media is something that tends to be a bit complex. I've just started reading this article and so far it seems like the author has a lot of issues with the term. New media encompasses art made with the help of a computer. For me, as a photographer, digital artist, and printmaker, I've used a computer in the majority of my work and see the benefits of the resource.

My main issue with this article thus far is I'm seven pages in and all I've read is basically a history lesson on how the computer came to be. Honestly I never enjoy reading articles for a class because they always tend to be extremely long and I never enjoy reading them. So I'm through the first 10 pages and I'm taking a break for now and enjoying the rest of my night without reading the rest of this !

Auxiliary Meeting

Well I've officially had my first auxiliary meeting of the semester and thankfully it seemed to go okay. I spent thanksgiving at home and spent quality time with family and friends while also getting some shooting done. I spent Sunday with Bradley who drove me around some pretty narrow streets in St. John's so I could get some panoramas of the harbor and the downtown area. And Monday was spent with my Dad driving me around Pouch Cove and down the "cape." So needless to say I had a pretty eventful weekend.   

Since I've been back I've been doing a lot of editing and of course once I start I cannot seem to stop. I'm glad that I picked something for my forth year work that I enjoy doing because I don't think I'd be able to force myself to spend a lot of time on something that I wasn't having any fun with. 

However I have been running into problems (as you can see above). Because I've been working with HDR panoramas it's more difficult to stitch them together. Because of the file size I've been having issues taking the photos into Photomatix. I've figured out a way to stitch each separate image into an HDR file with the same adjustments but it does it in a way that I cannot see them so when I go to put them together in Photoshop there are parts of the image that don't look right. I've come to realize that this is not going to be very easy so wish me luck!

Midterm Break

Midterm Break is here already. It's hard to believe that it's almost Thanksgiving already. It feels like the semester just started. One thing I'm beginning to see is how difficult it is to write 2 blog posts per week. As you can already see I've started to fall a bit behind because to be honest nothing exciting is going on with me right now. My life revolves around school, work and sleep. The only time I think about blogging is when something bothers me and I feel like I shouldn't use this blog as simply a way to vent because well no one wants to read that.

We had our first critique this morning on our sound projects. I still haven't fallen in love with sound art. I think that there are people doing interesting work but it isn't something I would chose to do. I think that it can work along with other pieces but it's simply not my cup of tea. I've started thinking about my video piece. And well I thought sound art was difficult for me now I have to come up with a video idea? I've been considering doing a music video for a friend but that's a lot of pressure! Considering I watch a lot of television you'd think I'd have some ideas of things to do but I can honestly say I'm stumped.

I'm leaving to go home tomorrow morning and although I am looking forward to it I have a huge amount of work to do while I'm home! Fourth year photo's, personal photo's, video piece, all in five days and add in a wedding and attempting to spend time with everyone which basically means next Thursday I'll be even more exhausted. I thought the point of mid term break was to take a BREAK? Ha! That never happens.

I think I've officially run out of patience...

Well I think it's actually happened, I think I've officially run out of patience. I thought that this would happen a long time ago but audacity has caused me to want to rip my hair out. I think the program simply doesn't like me. I've been trying to put the rest of my sound piece together and it has crashed and I've lost it now three times. As if I wasn't frustrated enough with sound art...

I think I really just needed to vent about this so I am going to take a deep breath and try again.

Ken's Salvage Yard !

Leanne and I spent our Saturday afternoon twacking around Ken's Salvage Yard in the ran and I couldn't be happier about it ! My HDR work has been going well and I thought that an old dump would be the best location to find some great colors and textures. And I was right ! Below is one of my favorites and I glad to say I'm starting to build my portfolio. I'm going to be heading home next week and I plan on getting a lot of photo's taken then too.

On a side note I've started watching Boy Meets World again ! I used to love watching it as a kid and so I thought I'd watch it from the beginning. So that is currently what I'm doing while I edit my photo's. I get really addicted to editing once I start which I guess is a plus.