Closing Up Shop... For Now

      Well, here we are. Finals are done. Things have started to wind down around the college, or at least they have for those fortunate enough to have early reviews scheduled. Critiques went well, both personally and for the class as a whole. I really was quite proud of our group and our project. I like to think that studio projects are never really finished, and that they just go in to a state of hibernation until you look at them when you're making your portfolio and you ask yourself "just what was I doing?' and then decide that they are awful, but I'm not going to worry about that right now. I feel extremely good about the body of work that we produced this semester. In fact, I would say more so this semester than any other before it.

     
      I won't say that every thing went off without a hitch this semester, or on Wednesday afternoon, for that matter, but all things considered, it was a great Fall. I think I valued and enjoyed almost every thing I did, with the exception of the cardboard couch swing. Shudders. Of course I enjoyed some endeavors more than others, but I was able to appreciate and learn from the vast majority of them. I view that as the biggest success of the semester.

     
      Here is where I spent most of the days. In this building, in this room, under that Dinosaur. It is a pretty awesome assembly. Sorry, Steve, but this guy is cooler than you. Good thing I wasn't there when its head slipped off. Greg:1 - Gravity:0

      Thank you to everybody who has read these posts through the months. I hope you've enjoyed reading them as much as I have enjoyed writing them. Thanks to you all, I have now achieved world domination!

    
      I seriously doubt the validity of these statistics, but I'm just going to run with them. Perhaps the next iteration of my Resume should include "International Blogging Phenomenon".

      This may be the last post here for quite some time, but I've enjoyed having this page as an outlet for my thoughts. I hope to keep this up in some capacity, but this would appear to be the finale for this page in particular.  À la prochaine.

Post-Turkey Day Ruminations

      I was thinking that I'd like to write a blog post this evening. I then proceeded to open up Blogger, saw that I hadn't posted anything in several weeks, and then proceeded to feel guilty and ashamed. My apologies. The days really fly by this time of year. They have a tendency to do that, between the holidays and impending final presentations. I'd like to take a little time to bring everybody up to speed on what's been going on in studio.

      Final presentations are just around the corner. About 36 hours from now, I think. At this point, our studio project really is all over but the crying winning. Seriously, though. This time of year is often reserved for despair and last ditch efforts to save your ass, and then more despair as you realize your ass is beyond saving, and so on. I'm very happy to say that I've not fallen victim to that cycle. It's easy to spend a whole semester digging your way in to that grave, if you're not careful. As I've mentioned before, I really do like the way our project turned out, and we've put in the work up to this point so that I'm not running around like a chicken with my head cut off here in the final productive hours of the semester. That's not to say there's no more work to be done between now and Wednesday afternoon, but my head is securely intact. I'll give a report later this week on how things formally wrapped themselves up.