Another week slips by and so much has happened. Even though I am in my fourth year of university, I am still amazed regularly on how it seems like each week is so long, in terms of how much happens, yet so short, in terms of how quickly it goes by. Since my last post, I have:

• Finished my CHMA training
• Passed in an assignment
• Gone to a party for CHMA
• Filmed a lonely part
• Filmed another short
• Shot 1 roll of film (only :( )
• Developed 1 roll of black and white in the lab, and got two rolls of colour back
• Hosted my first radio show
• Presented my first photography assignment (projecting 20 slides)
and of course tons more.

In terms of the photos I just got back (colour) I can share some with you because I had them developed to CD so here are a few of my pictures:





That's the MTA library!





and then that tree reflected in a lens




The assignment I passed in was actually one of the most enjoyable assignments I've had to write since I came to school. It was a shot analysis for "Reading Films." So I had to choose one single shot from a movie (that means one single take from the camera, so no switching angles, or cuts of any sort), and analyse the shot for it's technical and creative elements.

On Saturday night Amy, Steve, Marianne and I ventured over to George's Fabulous Roadhouse for the annual (??) CHMA party. This party was quite a success as there were several of the major elements that are necessary for a fun party:

• Cheese
• Chips, and various salted bite size snack things (bugles!)
• Fruit and veggies with dip
• Pizza
• Music
• Guitar Hero (a game I had played once prior to Saturday)
• Karaoke
• Trivia
• Prizes

The food is self explanatory, except a shout out goes to whoever bought Bugles, cause they rule. Mark Brownlee (music director at CHMA) provided the music, and it was awesome, I was especially excited about Mark playing the new National CD, as I hadn't heard if yet. So yeah, Guitar Hero, I'm sure you are sick of hearing about it, but I had a lot of fun playing it for a wee bit, although I can see how the game might get repetitive eventually. Oh yeah! prizes! I won a sweet t-shirt for answering the trivia question "was Bambi a boy or a girl?"

In other CHMA related stuff, I hosted my first radio show which went rather well and was quite fun, but something I am currently more excited about is the volunteer work I am going to be doing for CHMA, in the form of reviewing new CDs for explicit content, and good tracks. This of course means I get to hear a bunch of new stuff, which is always great!

On the subject of new music, some music I've been pretty excited about in the last few weeks includes:

Pinback - Autumn of the Seraphs
Ulrich Schnauss - Far Away Trains Passing By
Kill The Lights - Buffalo Love
I'm From Barcelona - Let Me Introduce My Friends
and
Au Revior Simone - The Bird of Music

Finally, I will leave you with the lonely part I filmed. Generally skateboard filming involves two people, the subject and the filmer. Generally I'm the filmer, and so when I want to film tricks of myself I have to hope there is a filmer nearby, this is not usually the case. So because of this I decided to try filming myself using a tripod, it turned out really well. So check it out!

Click the image to watch the video in a new window.


As always, if you have any questions, email me at:
jzstrsf@mta.ca