honestly, interim is driving me fucking nuts already.
i got into linworth a little over a year ago, halfway through my sophomore year, so i kind of had to hop to it. i knew that because my main passion in life is art, and because art is a very independent trade, i'd want to do an independent study, and so i did. i chose to plan and begin to make a comic. that went okay.
this year, i need to have a mentor. and i have no idea what to do. i'd like for chris to be my interim advisor once again, seeing as how he is the teacher i'm most comfortable around at linworth, and the one i feel that knows me the best. the fatal flaw in this plan is that he will not take on any student in his interim group until they know exactly what they're doing.
well, shit.
at this point, i have two possible routes.
i have an acquaintance of mine by the name of nick meyers, who is 25 years old, and has a deep passion for electronic music or "techno". his work is not what you would consider generic "techno", "club", or "trance" music, it's definitely a little more on the eclectic, minimalist side, although still quite danceable. electronic music has always been an interest of mine, i listen to anything from rave to grime to new wave to trance, etc. and i've always had an underlying interest in creating it. i attempted to do so a summer or two ago, when i had the free time to devote to learning various programs and such, but i failed miserably. because nick has lots of experience doing this, as well as an array of professional equipment and programs, he'd be the guy to teach me if i wanted to dedicate a week to trying my hand at this.
my other option is that i've always kind of wanted to create a short film documentary about the dance game culture. i have no experience with video editing programs at all, but i've been itching to make a documentary about this underground scene, which is why my whole story about the community basically got word-barfed out into a blog post a few weeks back. i like to talk about it, and i like to tell people about it, it's not something that a lot of people know that i'm involved with, and it's not something most people know anything about whatsoever. i want to tell our story, if that's not too cheesy to say, haha. the community goes waaay past just hanging out at the arcade on weekends. i think this is a project i could genuinely be passionate about -- i just need to find someone who could mentor me with using video editing software.
yeah, i haven't really complained about my interim issues yet, so i figured i'd go ahead and get on that, since we can write about whatever, haha.
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interim is coming up quick. I still find it funny how like half of our school hasn't found an advisor yet. I think Wayne is going to go crazy.
Interim is coming up real quick this year.
Larry exploded on someone recently who came to him late looking for an interim advisor. It wasn't pretty.
Yikes, I feel sorry for that kid that went to Larry at this point in time. Wayne seems a little worried about interim as people have yet to decide what they want to do, and when I spoke to Josh he seemed to be having a fit over it as well. I don't blame them. Laura I think the video documentary is a great idea. What kind of programs are you looking at using? From what I've heard the complicated programs like Adobe Premiere or Final Cut Pro take quite some time to learn, but I know several people that make real professional looking movies through programs like Windows Movie Maker and Apple iMovie. If your goal is to create a documentary, it may be more efficient to use a user friendly program, while if your goal is to learn how to professionally edit videos then it would be beneficial to learn how to use the industry standard programs. I'll keep my eyes open for people that know video editing real well.
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