Tuesday, April 22, 2008

TUESDAY - Get down to business

This is a picture of rainy Dublin, from someone's car, taken July 8 2006. I've no recollection of taking it. However, Last night as I was looking at a book called the World's best photographs published around 1938 which belonged to my father, I realized that I have loved rainy window pictures since I was a child.


Still feeling thankful for yesterday’s session with Cliona and the other students. I found it very helpful, especially the complementary remarks regarding my idea of doing a self-portrait with objects. Think I may include that book of my father's in my project.

I feel much better, and regard this as something do-able, and which I will enjoy and have fun with – playful as Cliona constantly says.

Cliona suggested that I might like to add a voiceover to the experimental piece I am doing in After Effects.
Even as I mention this software, I can feel the tension rising inside me, and become aware that I am trying to gobble down too much too quickly of the banquet set before me.

Thinking of this makes me wonder if I should even forget the idea of working in the community for next year, and just concentrate on the software – but then that would seem such a waste of college time – after all, learning software is something I could probably do with time and patience at home, whereas college is supposed to be about the application of the software to my creative activity and production – with the emphasis more on activity than on production, even though some kind of end product is important.

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