Hi all it's been a bit since my last post. In truth not much has happened, we are in that quite period of the semester before everything gears up for finals at the start of December.
I got a few new photos of my roommate and I on Halloween. 
I don't really know what she is but its really cool looking. Here's a photo of one of my sweetmate's in her costume. 
Ok lets move on to the occupy Oakland movement. I have not been in any of the riots, although people in my dorm have been down there. the walk out/strike gained momentum during the day last week on the fourth. there were only three people out of my morning drawing class, but my English (already a bad class so why show up anyway) was down to six people not counting the teacher. My art history class was just over half the people there, witch was kind of nice because it allowed for a very layer back lesson and on a few peoples suggestions, we got to see the start of the movie, The secret of the Kells, because we were just getting to the book of Kells. Here's the movie preview, it tells a loose tail of the book and how it was able to server the viking. I encourage everyone to see the movie its really good and is approachable for just about all ages, the animation style kind of mimics that of the book. anyway check it out. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMPhHTtKZ8Q]
On the classes front
they are ticking along nicely. In drawing we have moved from Characters drawings to exploding view drawings, the class is cattored to the Industrial design (I.D.) and the Design majors (Interior, Architecture, and so forth) so we will be spending some time on this, witch is fine it is interesting. 
the example drawing is one the teacher did during his first few years at art school (He's in I.D) you can just see the edge of some of the character drawings. we each had to bring in a small thing to draw i chose a battery powered pencil sharpener. we had to take them appart and over the next two weeks will be drawing them here's a photo of all the parts of the pencil sharpener. 
In jewelry we are working hard on our sotering projects i am making a brooch its near completion and I will post a photo later. on Thursday we are having a stone salesman coming witch is exciting because that means that we will be starting our project on setting a bezel something i have always wanted to learn.
Until next time.
Katie