I fell in love with photography about two years ago, in college, during Photo 1 (mandatory "introduction to photography" course you have when you do arts&lettres). That course gave us (in 37 hours) phototheory, the rules of shooting using black&white film, negative processing and photo printing. That course was total heaven. I loved spending hours in the dark room or hours roaming the streets, looking for subjects that would fulfill the requierements. i just loved it to bits. But, as is inevitable, the course ended (i got a great score in that class, actually :D) and i went on with life.
Back in early April, about a week after i had left my job at the factory, i went through a bit of a blue phase. I harboured the idea of fleeing to New York, to see a friend that i missed a lot at that moment. Upon thinking this idea through, i realised that it wouldn't be a good idea and that it just wouldn't help the situation. Instead, with the money, i bought a Nikon SLR. I rediscovered my love of photography. Since early April, i can often be seen with my camera, just shooting.
With love of photography coming back, i started hunting for other photographic tools to bring visions to fruition. Two days ago, in a thrift store, i came upon two total jewels. First one, a "Time" camera. It's a total plastic camera, that shoots 35mm film. I gather that it was given to Time Magazine subscribers as a gift. It has a 50mm lens that seems rather dodgy, and four aperture choices with descriptive icons (5.6 (cloudy), 8 (partly cloudy), 11 (sun shining, but not too much) and 16 (sun!!)). It was 2$CDN, so i bought it.
Second jewel, a not-so-dated Polaroid One Step CloseUp camera. It shoots 600 film and it was 5$. SOLD!
I loaded the Time camera with Superia X-Tra 400 film. I still have twelve shots to go, so i'll know in a while what the beast can do. As for the Polaroid, it's just marvelous. It works great.
So voilà, two great thingies for 7$ Gotta love thrift shops!
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fields, endless fields
I'm kinda going through a blue period. Once again, i wonder what i'm going to do with my life, what am i gonna study, where am i going, etc. For a while, i thought that film studies would seriously end the evergoing questionning of what i want to do. Problem is, i will get in film studies only in a year and i'm already thinking: gee, i'm not sure i want to do that...
The best thing would be to find something that would merge all my major interests: photo, video, graphic design (and object design) with some form of a textual. In that respect, going to study either studio arts OR graphic design would probably be two viable solutions (if i can get it, that is).
In sculpture class, back in sherbrooke, i was always trying to speak without words. Studying visual arts put my brain in an entirely different mode, where instead of having flashes of poetry or of other type of writing, i would get visual flashes, for sculptures. Instead of jotting down ideas for verses, i would sketch down ideas for installations. In some respect, this worked very well. But the program wasn't very stimulating and the rest of my life there was hell, so i just did one term then came back here (go through the archive, i'm sure i wrote the whole story somewhere in here). When i left, the advisor of the program was shocked that i would even consider leaving visual arts. "You belong here," she said to me. "You have something to give, you have potential in the field." And when i was in Sherbrooke, before things got real bad, i was envisioning my future this way: 1. Finishing the certificate, 2. At the same time, do the prerequisite math course to get in Industrial Design, 3. Study Industrial Design. And now that i've been back to hometown 7 months now, i wonder, where has my plans for industrial design gone? I still love idea of it, i still love design, so i figure, why not? uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
so i guess everybody's right. once i chose a field, i will not question anymore and just go with it.
the thing is, you have to chose a field first.
The best thing would be to find something that would merge all my major interests: photo, video, graphic design (and object design) with some form of a textual. In that respect, going to study either studio arts OR graphic design would probably be two viable solutions (if i can get it, that is).
In sculpture class, back in sherbrooke, i was always trying to speak without words. Studying visual arts put my brain in an entirely different mode, where instead of having flashes of poetry or of other type of writing, i would get visual flashes, for sculptures. Instead of jotting down ideas for verses, i would sketch down ideas for installations. In some respect, this worked very well. But the program wasn't very stimulating and the rest of my life there was hell, so i just did one term then came back here (go through the archive, i'm sure i wrote the whole story somewhere in here). When i left, the advisor of the program was shocked that i would even consider leaving visual arts. "You belong here," she said to me. "You have something to give, you have potential in the field." And when i was in Sherbrooke, before things got real bad, i was envisioning my future this way: 1. Finishing the certificate, 2. At the same time, do the prerequisite math course to get in Industrial Design, 3. Study Industrial Design. And now that i've been back to hometown 7 months now, i wonder, where has my plans for industrial design gone? I still love idea of it, i still love design, so i figure, why not? uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
so i guess everybody's right. once i chose a field, i will not question anymore and just go with it.
the thing is, you have to chose a field first.
rejoice!
hola peeps,
i hadn't updated this little hunka love in about two months, but i was changing isp and wasn't feeling very chatty. but i'm back here, rejoice!
i have started working on a personal site now. so in a little bit of time, i'll have my little house under the net, featuring photos, drawings and other crap. rejoice!
so i shall leave you at that (whoever is reading this!) and expect plenty for the months to come!
i hadn't updated this little hunka love in about two months, but i was changing isp and wasn't feeling very chatty. but i'm back here, rejoice!
i have started working on a personal site now. so in a little bit of time, i'll have my little house under the net, featuring photos, drawings and other crap. rejoice!
so i shall leave you at that (whoever is reading this!) and expect plenty for the months to come!
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