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College is weird!

Journal Entry: Fri Sep 10, 2004, 9:50 AM
Today was my 3rd day at college. The first day was pretty pointless in my opinion. We just went over college rules, guidelines, options etc. My tutor group is strange. There are only 9 of us. They're nice people, but I don't know any of them... which wouldn't be so bad except they all seem to know each other. So it's just awkward. I had to spend the whole of the first day with them, but now I only see them for 30 minutes each week at tutor sessions.

The second day I had 2 hours of maths, and (what was meant to be) 2 hours of photography. However They cut photography short since it was an introductory lesson and cancelled today's lesson because they want all their classes to have the introduction this week so they can start teaching them all next week. Maths is good since I'm with someone I know ( ), plus I had my first opportunity to make some new friends.

Photography looks like it's gonna be pretty fun. The lecturers are really funny and seem to be good both at teaching and relating with the students. The other people in my class all seem nice, friendly etc... And the course looks fun too. We started by seeing examples of other people's work... some very cool stuff. Aswell as the darkroom there is quite a bit of work on the digital side of things, with photoshop etc which I didn't know about. They supply great scanners and computers. A very cool manip entitled camera-eyes Reminded me of something that would have acheived high manip appraisal on deviantart ;)

The units that the course is divided into sound cool. There's an 'urban landscape' type project, and a more introspective 'human portraits' unit, which seems to yield more gruesome pictures. I forget the other units beyond those... but they sounded good to me too. I am aware though that the course isn't just taking photos. There's a lot of theory and, of course, analysing other pieces of work aswell as your own. I think that'll take up the bulk of my time. That and research.

My english lessons don't seem too bad... but they're certainly not as good as my last school. They're fairly dumbed down and a lot of my friends got into a different class.

Still have physics to come. On the whole, I think college is pretty weird. After being at school for so long, it's like a splash of water in the face. We all have to do a lot of growing up pretty quickly. It's good though. I think I'll enjoy it.

Devious Information

  • Current Age: 17... I'm an old man! :(
  • Current Residence: UK
  • Interests: none of interest
  • Favourite movie: Monsoon Wedding, Angels in America, Donnie Darko
  • Favourite band or musician: I'm not fussy. Scissor Sisters are good.
  • Favourite genre of music: Anything. But not pop.
  • Favourite artist: Too many to list
  • Favourite poet or writer: Donna Tartt
  • Favourite photographer: Diane Arbus, Nick Knight, Joel Peter Witkin, etc etc
  • Favourite style of art: Nature, expressive and experimental photography.
  • Operating System: windows 98/xp
  • MP3 player of choice: Winamp 5
  • Wallpaper of choice: Hi-Fi
  • Skin of choice: Avenger light version
  • Favourite game: any of the FFs... lots of retro games too (chrono Trigger in particular).
  • Favourite gaming platform: ps2, SNES, Sega
  • Favourite cartoon character: Dilbert
  • Tools of the Trade: Camera (digital + SLR), psp7 (my favourite) and ps7 (though I don't use it much)

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~Char-Izzi-Elle:iconChar-Izzi-Elle: Apr 6, 2005, 12:51:34 PM
Thanks very much for the devwatch! :D

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~Chloe-Brody:iconChloe-Brody: Apr 4, 2005, 5:37:21 AM
You nearly have the same name as my friend shrewb.

I like you.

*waves*

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~l32:iconl32: Jan 2, 2005, 6:49:25 PM
thanks for the fav on waterways :)

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=fangy:iconfangy: Sep 13, 2004, 2:09:24 AM
Hey I like your gallery! Nice photography ya got going for yourself!

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~littlepiggyslasher:iconlittlepiggyslasher: Jul 5, 2004, 10:47:08 AM
You can't have my icon!!!! It's miiiiiiiiine!!!!!!!

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~kiik:iconkiik: Jun 10, 2004, 1:15:04 AM
touching comments dude, thanx so much. I'll have to watch ya!

ben

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~vollmond:iconvollmond: May 28, 2004, 8:51:19 AM
thaaaaaank you!!!! :hug:
You've just made my day happier :D
`centaura:iconcentaura: May 28, 2004, 1:51:26 AM
Glad you like the Random Deviant Box concept :w00t:
You will be into the box for next updates too
Wellcome! :)

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*technoghost:icontechnoghost: May 26, 2004, 8:48:55 AM
thank you once again for the very good comment...
`neom:iconneom: May 23, 2004, 7:19:40 PM
Thanks very very much for the comment - Very very kind of you, I appreciate the support.

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~blo0dyfaeries:iconblo0dyfaeries: May 22, 2004, 7:29:32 PM
Thanks for the comment on gnihtemim. :] Very reassuring. lol

-hugs- Take care.

and nice gallery!

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~magickk:iconmagickk: May 21, 2004, 10:36:04 PM
mmkay :)

thankee! :D

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*Bitterkawaii:iconBitterkawaii: May 21, 2004, 4:55:19 PM
lawks, another GCSE-d under person...good luck, it'll be fine
love, a random Uk deviant :)
p.s. love your photography too ^^

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~rjupiter:iconrjupiter: May 21, 2004, 8:38:22 AM
thanx very much for the comment :)
~jtl:iconjtl: May 21, 2004, 7:59:31 AM
you're welcome. :)

you have a impressive gallery aswell.

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~magickk:iconmagickk: May 21, 2004, 1:38:12 AM
wad brings you to my humble page?
thanks anyway, comment helped. :)

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~epik-arts:iconepik-arts: May 20, 2004, 8:15:32 PM
thnx for comment. :blowkiss:

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*WickedNox:iconWickedNox: May 20, 2004, 7:31:28 AM
thank you so much for the wonderful comment :hug: :blowkiss:

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~dewi:icondewi: May 19, 2004, 3:11:20 PM
thankyou for stopping by. I'm glad that you like my work. :)

I just think that an initial welcome might help someone want to take part in deviant a bit more.

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~markus71:iconmarkus71: May 19, 2004, 9:45:21 AM
Thank you for your nice comment on "Porcelain Tears" and sorry for deleting it. I want to rework the whole image a little bit, because i am not completly satisfied with it.
~coolie:iconcoolie: May 19, 2004, 8:13:16 AM
I really like the photos you have here!=)
Looks gr8! keep up the good work!
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~sacredhideaway:iconsacredhideaway: May 19, 2004, 7:06:35 AM
Thanks for the comment! :D