This was one beautiful weekend. <3
6/27/11
6/21/11
more work stuff
I don't get much opportunity to be creative at work, but I did pull this together a few weeks ago. It just got approved so I decided to put it up. Can't say I'm really proud of it, but its neat that we'll be printing it and sending it off anyhow.
Graduate Programs and Online Education
Recently I've become aware of new Masters programs at OCAD. They are strongly based in digital media, and have sparked my interest immensely.
However, I was disappointed with OCAD the first time through (this is not solely their fault I will admit). I'm quite wary of their ability to deliver what they promise, and I have what may be a romanticized idea of graduate school. Full of research and deep intellectual conversation. I'd also hoped for that in undergrad and its lead to my rather disdainful view of my first four years of university.
At some point in the future I may apply to one of these new digital media programs but for now I intend on taking a different path. Not long ago I came upon a political science major's website dedicated to how he learned everything his graduate curriculum would have offered, for a fraction of the cost. It was his thinking that in many fields the letters after your name aren't terribly important when set next to your world experience, so he looked carefully at what his program would teach him, and then went and sought it out on his own. Developing his own personal research assignments and travelling around to get more perspective.
This is my general goal, I know that art & design skills are gauged by your portfolio and so I've been looking around at what various design graduate programs offer and intend to self-direct my learning in these areas over the next couple years, while I work and develop my personal body of work in this manner.
So far its mostly been about research, I've got a nice stack of books at home I've begun to grind through to fill in the gaps left by my undergrad's light workload and if any like-minded folks out there are interested in joining me on this I'd be happy to work in a way that can help everyone out. In fact that would be ideal, given that the programs I would be most interested are about social and digital media, an online work group is right on target.
This feels like a good moment to mention Salman Khan again. This is a man with a fantastic idea. Not unlike Wikipedia it is his goal to make education more accessible, and he has begun doing this through youtube. He has posted a massive number of video lessons in all sorts of subjects and his concept for the future of education is this:
Students are given homework which involves watching his (or any) video lessons online, and they are then able to come to class the next day and ask questions and expand on the ideas with their teachers. Doesn't that sound ideal?
However, I was disappointed with OCAD the first time through (this is not solely their fault I will admit). I'm quite wary of their ability to deliver what they promise, and I have what may be a romanticized idea of graduate school. Full of research and deep intellectual conversation. I'd also hoped for that in undergrad and its lead to my rather disdainful view of my first four years of university.
At some point in the future I may apply to one of these new digital media programs but for now I intend on taking a different path. Not long ago I came upon a political science major's website dedicated to how he learned everything his graduate curriculum would have offered, for a fraction of the cost. It was his thinking that in many fields the letters after your name aren't terribly important when set next to your world experience, so he looked carefully at what his program would teach him, and then went and sought it out on his own. Developing his own personal research assignments and travelling around to get more perspective.
This is my general goal, I know that art & design skills are gauged by your portfolio and so I've been looking around at what various design graduate programs offer and intend to self-direct my learning in these areas over the next couple years, while I work and develop my personal body of work in this manner.
So far its mostly been about research, I've got a nice stack of books at home I've begun to grind through to fill in the gaps left by my undergrad's light workload and if any like-minded folks out there are interested in joining me on this I'd be happy to work in a way that can help everyone out. In fact that would be ideal, given that the programs I would be most interested are about social and digital media, an online work group is right on target.
This feels like a good moment to mention Salman Khan again. This is a man with a fantastic idea. Not unlike Wikipedia it is his goal to make education more accessible, and he has begun doing this through youtube. He has posted a massive number of video lessons in all sorts of subjects and his concept for the future of education is this:
Students are given homework which involves watching his (or any) video lessons online, and they are then able to come to class the next day and ask questions and expand on the ideas with their teachers. Doesn't that sound ideal?
6/14/11
6/13/11
6/10/11
6/6/11
Pretty Unrelated
Awesome weekend sailing on the SL2 with the lovely Niki and the rest of her awesome bridesmaids.
6/1/11
Oh the humidity
Story of the week:
All this rain is not only making my hair unmanageable and frizzy - its destroying our printing also.
With Toronto getting 100% humidity for what at least feels like the last two weeks, our climate control of balancing AC, humidifiers and de-humidifiers is really struggling.
More than anything else the black ink in our prints is causing grief. While our room is mostly kept at a humidity that prevents the inks from bleeding out as they hit the fabric, the rest of the building is not so lucky. The lower levels, where the fabric is put through a chemical wash to make it light/colourfast is very damp and as a result we are getting a lot of rejected prints.
As of today I've cut out 5% of the proportions in the black, as per our colour guru - but we'll have to wait a day or so to see if that is enough to really fix the problem.
All this rain is not only making my hair unmanageable and frizzy - its destroying our printing also.
With Toronto getting 100% humidity for what at least feels like the last two weeks, our climate control of balancing AC, humidifiers and de-humidifiers is really struggling.
More than anything else the black ink in our prints is causing grief. While our room is mostly kept at a humidity that prevents the inks from bleeding out as they hit the fabric, the rest of the building is not so lucky. The lower levels, where the fabric is put through a chemical wash to make it light/colourfast is very damp and as a result we are getting a lot of rejected prints.
As of today I've cut out 5% of the proportions in the black, as per our colour guru - but we'll have to wait a day or so to see if that is enough to really fix the problem.
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