MEGA POST with bad dormroom made movies

Hi everyone - so i have hear that there are a few of you i had no idea that so many people read my blog but my stats back me up so that's cool. I really enjoy keeping it, so thank you for reading. OK so on to what you come here to read...

Friday kicked off my exciting weekend I got up at 7:00 to get on the 7:20 free shuttle to the san fransciso campus. let me take a moment to explain a bit about this dule campus thing.

Like so many city schools nothing is confined to a campus, in Oakland a good example of this would be the freshman studio's witch are down the street and the health and wellness center is across the street and behind a curry restrount. so with all that why not hop across to the much more trendy San Fransisco. CCA has three large building in SF (and a upperclassman dorm) and lets face it its what they show off on the website and in all the brochures. Witch i get, SF has a way better reputation then Oakland, however the building are in a very industrial part of SF and Oakland is a neighborhood I feel a bit more comfortable in.  for convenience and because there is not a close Bart station to CCA SF they run a shuttle many times a day but not on weekends and it gets cut back on Friday. The main building is really nice it used to be a grey hound bus station that they have redone quite nice. this building houses all the more modern art major (except for animation) is here like Fashion, and ID. I'm not here much as I am in a classical major. they have a admin. building around the corner and then a grad and senior studio building across the street from this building. one thing to note it this campus is dresser, in Oakland people commonly come to class in PJ's in SF Heels are the norm.

why had I woken up so early and dragged myself on a shuttle at 7:20 on a Friday was for my 4D class, one of my farovet classes this semester most of the people in this class are transure students and they live in SF so the professor made a SF day we reviewed the films we had made  during the past three weeks in one of the computer labs. I am going to post the video's but let me state first that I don't like video cameras I never got use to them so it was a hard project for me. the first is a four minuet day of your life. and the second is the same but you change it somehow to show something else. [vimeo http://vimeo.com/31628041]

[vimeo http://vimeo.com/31938444]

OK now that that's over I hope to never have to pick up a video camera until some major life event happens.

we reviewed everyone's Video's  then hoped a bus and headed to SF MOMA and walked through the whole thing the exhibit we were really there to see was called Less and more the design ethos of Dieter Rams. It was a great exhibit and weird. Dieter Rams was the chef designer of Braun. Here's his Wikipedia page  I would encourage you to read or at least skim it. The exhibit was weird because all these things because all these common if old things were behind glass in a bright room you wanted to pick it up and turn it on and of corce you could not.

After the museum we walked to a movie theater and when to Melancholia, I'm not going to give a full review but it was weird. I liked it the class seemed to be in a split of people who liked it and people found it too weird, or just boring. after a trip back on the Bart I was back to my dorm room.

On yesterday I got up and with a friend, hoped back on the Bart and back to SF this time to the Asian art museum. we got lost found it and spend a good time inside going thought the gallery's we were there for a art history project. It was a cool museum, I will try to get back soon.

my sunday was nice and quiet just the way I like it. coffee in the morning, and then Homework, I did my drawing homework, witch turned out i did half wrong. but my drawing teacher being very nice told me that I had made lots of progress since Wednesday lesson, since I have manged to draw nothing on Wednesday, it was!

Tomorrow I have a cit on my brooch, Witch i finished finally!  Here it is i think it turned out well, I find it kind of creepy really.

I also bought five stones from the stone sales man walking away with only spending $55 witch was way less then what I thought. I'm also quite happy with what I got one or two of these will end up on my next project witch is a ring.

  anyway see you later when something else exciting happens - Katie

Update

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

Welcome to november

Its November first. the month with that weird Holiday called Thanksgiving and thoughts few weeks between Midterms and Finals.  

Halloween is lingering in the large amount of candy wrappers. turns out that Halloween is kind of the school sprite day here, its kind of like the homecoming game, there's even a dace (oh joy) everyone has a costume, everyone goes out and does stuff and just about everyone wears a costume. there were not some many people in the freshman classes wearing a costume cuz' we had no idea how big this would be. also i should mention that, being a art school its sometimes hard to tell the difference from a costume and something that someone would just wear on a normal day...

I went as Sherlock homes (or just some random detective) that I reused from last year. the most memorial costume I saw was this guy who went as capt. Jack Spiro it was really good, I mean how many hours do you think he put into that! it was the whole outfit too, down to the shoes.

the outer good thing about Halloween was that the Jewelry and medal department's (or JAM) had their bridge event. Every Department in the school hold a event at some point in the year for whoever wants to show up so you can get to know the department (or free food). They decided to do a mini golf coarse I have been hearing about this for over a month. they built everything, I mean everything besides the golf balls. the studio manager built the platforms and the cool features on each hole and the teachers made the putters. Sorry all the photos are bad but i took them on my phone and I couldn't see the screen in the sunlight.   This is the first hole, It fits around a existing tree and the kiln lit up when it got dark.

here's hole two you cant really see in this photo but the medal thing is a ring with a diamond on top (witch lit up!) in the form of a loop-d-loop.

Here's the last hole and the hardest. the anvil has a hole on it that (if you can) drops the ball down onto level three where the real hole is, complicating this was a fake hammer that moved to hit the anvil. To my knowledge, only one person got a hole in one on this one - and even he admits it was luck :)

here is my teachers putter that she made for this, and turned out really well, its based on the flamingo putters from Alice and wonderland.

The other exciting thing that is happening this week  is the occupy Oakland/strike/shut down the one percent/walk out thing. I want to say now that on principle I support what seems to be the overall goal of the occupy protests, but I can not get behind this. CCA is a priviet art school we reserve no money from the government and we are ALL paying a lot to be here, so how is it sticking it to the man or whatever to get behind in my classes and piss off my teachers? also how is damaging local business by not going shopping tomorrow helping anyone eather. So no i will not sleep in tomorrow and i will go to my classes and yes I might even go and get my normal cup of coffee in the morning, and i will feel fine about it.

Its been a while...

So its been a while since I have really blogged however not to many important or exciting things have happened.

after I missed my first California earthquake I got to go through two smaller earthquakes, really they were more like aftershocks and very small it felt more like someone had dropped something really heavy. we got evacuated both times for these earthquakes. the second evacuation happened near midnight on Thursday. Standing out in the cold was not as much fun as you would hope.  oh well.

over the weekend, homework was done, room was cleaned, food was bought.

Monday was exciting all my normal classes happened, I had a midterm in History which went fine, in drawing it was announced that we will be moving into using color, there was much rejoicing in the class, as we have been only using black and wight. I'm not sure how I feel about this but the teacher has taught me so much I'm going to set my skepticism aside. the most exciting thing on Monday tho was the guest speaker from the Jewelry department. His name is David H. Clemons he's a very interesting artistic and has lead a interesting life. here is there web sight http://davidclemons.com/home.html he does lots of mixed media stuff and you can see that is his back ground. He originally when to study per-med however you can tell that did not stick but you can see that in his art and of course his race (he's African American)  has influenced him greatly. I think my favrout piece by him is his remembrance rosary. you can check it out on his website. witch has been linked to above.

In jewelry i finished my Silver band ring i really liked the way it turned out, and I really liked the process. here's some shots of the ring

I also have a old piece to post, as it was a gift when I made it. I thought it was cute so I'm going to put it in, even thought it was something i did in my spare time, so its not ground breaking

Sorry its a little blurry :)

Erthquake?

there was about 2 hours ago a 3.9 earthquake in SF that you could feel in Oakland. I Missed It. How do you miss a earthquake? i have no idea but i did - i tracked back and at the time i was at the gym and was on the wall, so what i did not notice the wall moving? maybe the earthquake wasent felt there? maybe the building has great ground support? well whatever, I missed my first California earthquake.

This last week

So this last week was quite busy we are in the middle of midterms (they last two weeks) and family was in town twice! First off I finished my nightlight and sat through my first crit. CCA runs on a Critical format meaning after about every porgect you will have some kind of review with the class, this one was not to bad and was  interesting to be part of one after hearing all about them. I think the night light turned out well for a first project i think that if it did it a second time it would be a bunch better and i would make some real changes but its still cute. then on Tusday Gramah and Grampa Edgerton drove down for a visit. they are on a trip visiting relatives all through Oregon and California. I was the first visit on there trip. we spent the day having lunch at the good Indian place on college and running a few  that i had not gotten to cuz it was hard without a car. Then we when to Berkley we walked around and when to a after lunch tea at a little tea shop. Then then doped me off and when on there way to Modesto to see more family. It was wonderful to see them and get to spend the day with them. they have since arived back home.

then on this Saturday my aunt and cosine were in town. It was James birthday on Saturday and so we had fun in SF before going to a little town on the water called  Sausalito where the wedding my aunt was going to was being held. It was lots of fun and again great to see people from back home. Might post more on this later but for right now back to work!

so mutch to talk about...

I'm going to go day by day Thursday) My life is revolving around this night-light I'm making that's due Tuesday, I have so much to do, plus i have to start on the next project making a silver ring. I am just at the point where I discovered that I am running out of wire and will not have enough to finish and am about to go into full on panic when all the lights go out... there is some streaming we are all worried  about everyone on power tools - everyone is fine -  the foreign kid asked whats going on we tell him its a black  out then explain what that is, although it seems obvious to me. turns out it's not just our building, or campus but about a 6 block radius up college, the next morning we find out that a terminator box exploded. it was kind of fun navigating in the dark and it forced me to take a step back and panic about something bigger, whall realizing that there really was nothing I could do.  everyone when to bed early and then was woken up by the lights coming back on at 11.

Friday) class all day nothing exciting

Saturday) I found a Gym! more than that it's a Rock gym! it's only a 15 minuet easy bus ride away! the gym right down Broadway on 20th street and is really easy to find because there is a huge smoke stack coming out of the building, its smaller than stone gardens at about half the size they have a bouldering side and then the top rope side they built the walls around the smoke stack which is cool. there's an upper level too that they turned into more of a normal gym with treadmills and such they also have a yoga studio. one cool they do is loan out ipads for when you are on the cardio machines with supplications to Hulu plus and such scene they do not have a tv. here's a photo of the outside of the building

It was really great to work out but now i am so sore. oh well I will be talking my parents into letting me get a membership!

Sunday) had coffee like every Sunday, when to a place called bittersweet up a ways from School its a cute coffee shop with really good pastry's and dose tones of stuff with chocolate. here's a shot of some of the choclates in the case. 

there seems to be some kind of fair happening tonight on college (the street near us with all the shops and such) so I'm going to try to get all my homework done so I can go see what its all about this evening.

these nest two weeks are going to be full - Midterms are starting and go on for two weeks :( but on the bright side some family is visiting so that should be fun:)

de Young and update of projects

This Saturday I finally got out of Oakland and made it to San Fransisco, on a first year trip to the de Young Museum. The Building is super impressive and is panned all in copper. here's a few photo's  all the exhibits were good the building it self is a bit confusing with different wings and the tower. on the top-level of the tower is a viewing deck with amazing views of the whole of SF  the across the street in the museum of natural history, I hope to get there someday it sounds really really cool.  

Update on School work

In 4D we have been working exclusively in Illustrator and so far I have finished two info graphics - I have really enjoyed both these two projects, the researcher, the planing out and ideas along with getting to know the program better. the first one is a chart about PepiCo and the three Company's and there history's that make up this one larger company

The second project we did was so post to involve our social community so I charted all the people I have talked to in one way or another over the last month. It's not quit right but it's really close. What do you think? feel free to give me thoughts or ideas.

In other classes I have now written three essays, and am going to have my first quiz today in history - so we will see how that goes.

In Jewelry I'm still working on my nightlight and its starting to come together. here's a photo nothing is put together and none of the pieces are finished yet but you can start to see the idea.

Sorry its sideways It wont let me save the image the right way around...

Meet our mascost

That's right we have a mascot. I don't know why, we have no sports teams, and what good is a mascot if you can not make up rhymes with it and force some poor person to get shoved into the costume? I think they just wanted a thing to call the student leaders and an excuse to hold another contest.

Our mascot is.... Drum roll please.

a Chimera...

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ever heard of it? no well I haven't either.

that's because it does not excess, that's right it's an imaginary creature, as in a myth.

My school planer Describer this as A fire-breathing monster with the head of a lion, body of a goat, and tail of a serpent. an illusion or fabrication of the mind. according to Wikipedia it's a Greek Myth of a creature that lives in Asia minor in a place called Lycia.

here's a photo of a plate with one painted on

So every year they hold a contest for the best one, and so every year it changes this is the current design.

If you want more information on this strange creature check out the link to Wikipedia above.

Enter Monday

starting on my fourth week of school (well the first was orientation but still) All my classes have moved onto their main criuclium, and are fully under way. In drawing we just got started with two and three-point projection, took me a bit to get the hang of each because I kept wanting to do one point (think that road that disperses into the middle distance) Here's a simple two point and here's a sample of three point. 

In English I have written two essays on a song...I really hate this assignment but it seems that the whole classes is based on this and so I'm stuck.

In history we are still in the ancient world and watched Hero (yep that's right) and some Bollywood film (yep) to compare two similar kings, we only watched clips and I'm glad about this. In Jewelry we have started on the night-light I was not happy with any of my ideas but I had a late inspirational wave and now if I can really pan out this design she may let me change it.

In 4D I'm working on two things in illustrator, one is a complected graph of Pepsi Co. the second one being an info graphic of my social networks, I might post them after they are done.

Some notes on my Sundays 

It rained all day... ok it was misting but still it was almost rain!

Photo of the Day (well several days ago) 

I have seen lots of these, and have dubbed them water drawings. people make them by taking a plastic water bottle poking a hole in the top.  then just drawing with the water.