Book...Finally!

I've been in a bit of a funk lately so I've been absent. Sorry.

We got our books back from one of our teachers today. Turned them in the other week in a very anti-climactic day. He just put them into a box and we did Flash tutorials with the promise to talk about them soon. That was two weeks ago but they are back! It was the first time we got to take our time looking at them and talking. Overall I liked what we did. There is room for improvement on many (including mine) but we are students. There will always be that. It was a tough project. We're working on a typeface design in this class now.

We also got our posters back today with our grades. We talked about them the day we turned them in so it was no big deal. In the middle of a super boring tide chart for this class. Only one and a half weeks to go.

Tomorrow is a crit for my studio photo class. We shot reflective stuff and it was hard. We also find out where our location shoot is going to be next week.

Pumpkin Beer

I had a pretty hellacious week and it is going to be a long weekend so I did what any sensible person would do. I went out for pizza and beer. J* and I went to BJ's and they had some new stuff on the menu. One of them was a Mediterranean Pizza which had pesto, tomatoes, olives, artichoke, pepporchinis and chicken. It was pretty good despite my dislike for non-traditional pizzas. The other was a pumpkin beer which they made for October. It sucked. It tasted like a slightly spoiled pumpkin pie in liquid form. The server said they toned down the pumpkin flavor for this year. Not sure it helped. Maybe a little more would have helped? Or some more hops? It was sorta in the middle of the taste range...Didn't taste like pie, didn't taste like beer, so it was just plain bad.


I had this afterwards. Much better. Nothing beats a good stout. Not many people like a filling beer like this, but I see it more as a 'dessert' or 'winding down the night' drink and I love it.

Hmm, looking at these I really need a small camera that is decent in low light. My cell just doesn't cut it...but it is more convenient to carry around than my SLR.

Chalkboard Heroes

We've been going a little insane with projects lately. I did one all-nighter this week and am planning a semi-all-nighter tonight. Ugh. We finally got a keycard lock on our classroom so people are moving in and spending the night on campus again.

When I came in the other day a few people had been there all night and I guess they went a little nuts. These are all our teachers drawn in chalk on the blackboard. For scale, that little orange/yellow spot on the left is a set of Crayola markers. The drawings are pretty big!

I guess they were just going to do one or two but got carried away and did all of them with super powers. This is what happens when our little minds start to crumble...

Pitbull P

I don't want to drag politics into this blog, but this picture popped up on campus last night. In the vein of most political cartoons it is ridiculously over the top, blindly one sided, and made me laugh. Poor Palin really is getting a lot of jokes aimed at her.

My digital teacher.

Bored, bored, bored. There is nothing like a digital lesson to put me to sleep. Rather than go into class and actually listen to a lecture I get to spend the next 2 weeks doing CD and web based modules. Read, read, read then answer some banal questions. It is bad enough all we do in the class is watch movies and answer the same set of questions for each one.

The topics aren't too boring for me. I love history, watching old film clips, photos, talking about effects of things on society, etc., but training modules like this always drives me nuts.

One entertaining thing is that when he does lecture, all his notes are in a word document using 36pt comic sans. I find this eternally funny for some reason.

Speed Domo

In case you haven't noticed, Domo-kun is popping up everywhere since Target has started using him for Halloween promotions. He's nothing new to the otaku crowd so it is kinda interesting to see him suddenly springing up everywhere. A few other bloggers and myself find his sudden popularity a little baffling. Not that I'm complaining mind you.

I've seen this bike parked at the college a few times now. I always wonder if the owner knew about him before or if it is because of Target. Will he be around after this month? What about his friends coming stateside? I guess only time will tell.

Bored students

There was a critique for the lower classmen on campus today. It was in a room I haven't been in for a few years. Apparently there were some really bored people in the back of this class. The paper covering the table had drawings all over it.

The koala-bird gives me a good idea whose class this is. We had to make animal hybrids in it. Good times.