Third Semester at RIC
I dropped my Western Lit. class today! It was the first time I've ever done that, but I was looking at a semester of sci-fi movies and philosophical cheese. Between work, and four other classes I don't see a lot of time left over for bad movies and goofy WebCT assignments.
I'm actually enjoying art history this semester. Today when Peters said, "This will be the last thing we look at today," I was actually sad. "Aw, class is already over!". Seriously. She's pretty good though, she's a good speaker and actually puts together good power point presentations - no cheese ball effects, just good high resolution images of the work, and usually from multiple sources. I pretty much got torn apart really quick in 2D synth, which is what I hoped for. I'm happy to have a professor who isn't spiteful or mean, but isn't shy about criticizing work either. Destruction of ego, it's been a goal of mine for a while and this class should help. My music of non-western worlds class is great - it's perfect: low stress, informative, and talking about an art form that goes against most conventions of 'good' or 'art' or whatever bullshit ways people have of talking about art. Photo III is going to be my chance to produce a serious body of work - all semester devoted to one series. I need to solidify my idea, until then I don't want to discuss it.
All in all I have my work cut out for me this semester, and I just couldn't see taking some core class (western lit) that was extremely biased - and the prof. is good, and admitted his class was unconventional, but I'll admit I'm not interested in devoting time to movies like 'The Matrix' or 'The Devil Wears Prada'. I know enough about film to know there's better things to waste two hours on (not counting the work that goes along with them).
I'm actually enjoying art history this semester. Today when Peters said, "This will be the last thing we look at today," I was actually sad. "Aw, class is already over!". Seriously. She's pretty good though, she's a good speaker and actually puts together good power point presentations - no cheese ball effects, just good high resolution images of the work, and usually from multiple sources. I pretty much got torn apart really quick in 2D synth, which is what I hoped for. I'm happy to have a professor who isn't spiteful or mean, but isn't shy about criticizing work either. Destruction of ego, it's been a goal of mine for a while and this class should help. My music of non-western worlds class is great - it's perfect: low stress, informative, and talking about an art form that goes against most conventions of 'good' or 'art' or whatever bullshit ways people have of talking about art. Photo III is going to be my chance to produce a serious body of work - all semester devoted to one series. I need to solidify my idea, until then I don't want to discuss it.
All in all I have my work cut out for me this semester, and I just couldn't see taking some core class (western lit) that was extremely biased - and the prof. is good, and admitted his class was unconventional, but I'll admit I'm not interested in devoting time to movies like 'The Matrix' or 'The Devil Wears Prada'. I know enough about film to know there's better things to waste two hours on (not counting the work that goes along with them).