Thursday, January 26, 2012

..and it begins!

The 2012 spring semester has officially started at CSN on Monday.  Normally, the first week of classes are pretty slow.  Apparently, not this semester.

I took Commercial Illustration with Randy Becker on Mondays and Wednesdays.  On the very first day, we get our first assignment, which is a group photo.  Luckily, my friend Ryan is in town for a flooring convention called Surfaces.  That's right!  The exciting world of carpet, tile, wood, stone and everything you can think of that would possibly go with it.  Ryan's company comes up from Georgia every January for this event.  Perfect for my assignment.

I went down to Mandalay Bay Hotel yesterday to meet up with Ryan and his business partners.  Since my computer is out of commission, which is a whole different story, I will be going down to the print lab at school to process, print and mount tomorrow.  Photos to be posted in a later blog.

As for my second photography class, I took Intro to Large Format Photography, also with Randy Becker and Charles Lohman on Tuesdays.  We get to borrow a lovely and large ToyoView 45CX view camera for the semester.  It definitely gives me the motivation to buy a new tripod as my tiny cheap old one is falling apart and can't really hold the weight of my Canon either.

I'm excited for this semester, it looks challenging and fun.  Even my IT classes aren't too bad.  I'm also taking Database and Web Database.  I won't get into that or this blog will be a giant wall of text.