Rose Parade Float Decorating
Happy New Year’s Eve! Long time, no write. I figured I should write something before 2010, especially since I haven’t been writing anything here for at least a month.
So, I hope everyone is having a good holiday. I passed all my classes, even though there were some grades that I did not expect – both positively and negatively. My Christmas was alright, nothing special, since my family doesn’t really celebrate it, but I did get a delicious home cooked meal from my mom before she went to her friend’s place to eat. And now I’m not doing much on New Year’s Eve. I just watched the New Year countdown for Taiwan’s Taipei 101 Tower with my mom, and it was awesome. Other than that, I also hung out with some of my friends on some days, even though it is not as much as I would’ve liked, but it’s fine.
Last Monday, Sophia and I went to Pasadena to decorate rose floats for the Rose Parade. I thought it was kind of silly to go with her because she was signed up underneath Cal Poly Universities, and I don’t go to either of them. Oh well. At least I go to a California State University? Haha.
When we got there, they put us to work to separate the wood bark. The thin ones are the good ones, and the thick ones are the bad ones. It made me realize that if you were allergic to something that has to do with nature, then maybe rose float decorating isn’t made for you.
The wood bark are used for the monkey, which is on the left side of this photo. Haha, can you imagine the detail work on that? It’s pretty awesome but not as awesome as…
G’mo’s Night Out!
Last Thursday Kanie said that the Geronimo’s, which is the dorm’s cafeteria-style restaurant, was giving out free food. We weren’t sure why, but free food is always nice (just as long as they don’t poison us). We went there early like around 7:30 p.m. and they were just setting up. Then a lot of people started showing up after 8 p.m. when it began.
Survive the Night (Soundslides)
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You all probably forgot about MEND and Survive the Night already since it was about a month ago, but Bodhi and I finished our Soundslides presentation and turned it in last Monday to our JOUR450 Advanced Photojournalism class. I wrote all of my experiences on here, so this entry will be about the Soundslides instead.
First, I actually liked the length of this Soundslides more than I did on my CSUN Student one because it’s just longer, and it makes the watchers absorb more of the story instead of having it all rushed. Second, I liked the two songs we chose in the Soundslides as well. The only problem I have with them is that they seem to pop out too randomly, and I can’t believe neither Bodhi and I realized that until we saw it in class. I did thought that wavelengths that was on GarageBand were too sharp, but Bodhi and I thought it was fine when we listened to it. I guess we were just so tired since we were working on this until 4 a.m. that we didn’t really hear it carefully, and I normally have my headset on when I do my own work. Haha. Anyway, the song “Sunshine” by The All-American Rejects could also be louder in the end because it was indeed softer than any other audio. Last but not least, and I thought of this as well, people wanted to see and listen more about the former homeless people. The only problem was we didn’t have many photos of them. I wasn’t sure to just leave one photo and have it stand there for over a minute long with the audio. Would you listen if it were like that?
So, those were my self critiques on that. I think what I don’t like the most is just the audio popping in and popping out randomly because it’s just tough on the ears. When I listen to any audio, I love to have it flow in my ears. Ah well. Bodhi and I will just have to see what Todd grades us in the end. Professor Blumenkrantz gave me a 17/20 on my CSUN Student one, which I guess it makes sense because I do feel like I could’ve done so much more on it.