pensions essay break
i was thinking today that i felt my creative side was TOTALLY being cramped by college. i haven't fully devoted myself to something creative in a long time. in high school i used to sing. i was good too. i sang for a good 6 years. then i lost interest when i started playing trombone. that was great. but b/c i didn't own one, i didn't play when i got to college. then when i felt creatively unfulfilled (tho blue chips was still fulfilling, but just not too creative) i started going to figure drawing.
ok, so i initially went to figure drawing to see a (hopefully!) naked girl for only 2 dollars (supplies and my share of the model cost). but then i started really enjoying it. i never did anything with the "visual arts" before, but i was having fun making something, getting the perspective set up, screwing around with the charcoal trying to get the shading right, etc... i still sucked ass, but i was getting better and it was fun... plus i saw the naked girl usually, so that was a plus...
then, after being in london for awhile, i realized i wasn't doing anything creative. so, right before i left for spain during winter break, i bought an old manual SLR camera and have been going nuts ever since (ask jared!). i got some great shots that i'll scan and add later. but, b/c i have to wait for developing and such, there isn't much immediate gratification. so when i'm bored, i just start screwing around with photoshop. now i'm having so much fun with it. i can barely use it, but i'm learning, and now i'm getting more and more ideas on what i can do. i've been messing around with photos -- my first attempts, with marobertin's much appreciated assistance:
now i've been screwing around with sequencing images, as you can see from my new buddy icon (don't worry -- the dizzy guy is still staying up as my default). now if it was only black and white, and had those specs and thin lines that old movies have... then this sequence of photos would be really dramatic! ah well,soon i'm gonna get that morphing thing all squared away for alex, and then life will be CHERRY.
ok, so i initially went to figure drawing to see a (hopefully!) naked girl for only 2 dollars (supplies and my share of the model cost). but then i started really enjoying it. i never did anything with the "visual arts" before, but i was having fun making something, getting the perspective set up, screwing around with the charcoal trying to get the shading right, etc... i still sucked ass, but i was getting better and it was fun... plus i saw the naked girl usually, so that was a plus...
then, after being in london for awhile, i realized i wasn't doing anything creative. so, right before i left for spain during winter break, i bought an old manual SLR camera and have been going nuts ever since (ask jared!). i got some great shots that i'll scan and add later. but, b/c i have to wait for developing and such, there isn't much immediate gratification. so when i'm bored, i just start screwing around with photoshop. now i'm having so much fun with it. i can barely use it, but i'm learning, and now i'm getting more and more ideas on what i can do. i've been messing around with photos -- my first attempts, with marobertin's much appreciated assistance:
now i've been screwing around with sequencing images, as you can see from my new buddy icon (don't worry -- the dizzy guy is still staying up as my default). now if it was only black and white, and had those specs and thin lines that old movies have... then this sequence of photos would be really dramatic! ah well,soon i'm gonna get that morphing thing all squared away for alex, and then life will be CHERRY.