Mid-Semester Summary

The first part of the Semester has been very interesting.  As I am sure I have said before, I had no idea what to expect from this class from the initial description we received over the portal.  However, we have not done one thing that I haven't enjoyed.  The underlying theme/topic of time is one I can not say I ever devoted a lot of thought to, but it is very engaging and very easy to spend a lot of, well, time thinking about.  I won't summarize everything we did (that would make the entries prior to this one on this blog a bit pointless) however, sifting back through what we have done so far, some of the things I would like to highlight include:

• Actually creating this blog- I thought keeping a blog for the class was silly at first, but documenting what we do every week is actually kind of fun now.  It is also proves very helpful when it comes to a task such as this one- a faulty memory will have no hand in hurting this entry.  I also liked changing the design of the blog, the CSS involved to change the settings was not too difficult and I had fun coordinating the colors to match the background I made, etc.

•  Speaking of a faulty memory- I particularly liked the "first memory" sketch and the topic of memory in general...not more than time in general, but thinking about how one's memory might in turn affect numerous other aspects of their lives is a little mind boggling... 
   
• I've really enjoyed all of the projects we have had so far, in and out of our sketchbooks!

As far as more topics that I would like to "integrate" into my work, I figure I will just go with what comes to me when I make something...I like planning a bit ahead, but not that far ahead.  This probably sounds lazy, but I really don't like committing too far in advance, especially if doing so is not necessary.  I'd rather just let the ideas happen :)

On a completely different subject-I've uploaded some of the pictures I took on the way to mailing our postcards.  I didn't go through to edit any after-wards, I just changed some of the settings on my digital camera as we walked.