Questions and Answers

How many questions do we ask per day? 

How many questions do we ask ourselves per day?

These are very different things.

The questions you ask fellow humans (or even animals) are one thing.
But the ones you ask yourself are in a completely different league.

Can you ask someone what the time is? Sure.

Can you ask them how they are? Definitely.

Can you ask them why we persist and persist at an existence that on the surface doesn't even cover 1% of what we truly want to achieve and that ultimately this ride we call life will be over in the blink of a bloodshot eye rendering all effort and progress gained utterly pointless? ...yeah you can ask that, but don't expect a prepared and positive answer.

There are curiosities we should probably keep to ourselves (with the exception of a very patient friend or family member). They could be mundane dilemmas like what paint to use when making a piece of work, or whether to use audio in a video piece or not. But as we all know these dilemmas may take a lot more than a few seconds of pondering....

Like:

"Should I even be even ATTEMPTING to paint?!"

or

"Wtf am I doing on iMovie?! I don't even 'get' what I'm trying to create!!"

These worries and brief attacks usually pass... But the point is that you ask them in the first place.

I'm not a particularly high strung guy. I stay positive the majority of the time and don't get too hung up on the small things. Nonetheless though, I ask myself questions all of the time. From the trivial to the terrifying. What I have realised is that these questions are what keep us creative types going. Even if we give the wrong answers, it's not the end of the world. Plus, what even is wrong? We'll figure it all out at some stage.

From here on out I vow to ask as many questions as possible.

(I'll try to keep the weird, awkward and panic inducing ones to myself.....maybe)

'Work Version 2'

Gave 'Handmade: Glass" a watch after Niall recommended it in class just the other day. A truly beautiful 29 minutes worth of considered camera angles and phenomenal skill.

Afterwards, I was working on some stuff for one of my units and I felt inspired.

I had a record playing in the background so currently shiteing it that YouTube will pull copyright theft and remove the video off their site, so fingers crossed.

Blogger, it's been 2 months since my last confession...

Since I last posted on here I attended my interview at Edinburgh College! It was a great experience, I was able to mingle with fellow hopeful students and get to know a bit about each other before we were taken in individually for our 10 minute interviews.

I was asked questions like;

1. Why do you want to do this course?
2. What was the last exhibition you saw?
3. What do you think the strongest piece in your portfolio is?

My lecturer had helped me the week leading up to the interview with the portfolio itself, mounting photographs, drawings, prints etc. I had explanations at the ready for each board of work but was only able to convey these through my answers to their questions.

It was great to see their facilities and where I will hopefully be studying for the next 2 years. I was able to ask them a few questions of my own at the end of the interview. I enquired about how much freedom and flexibility we will have as students when it comes to projects, also I was eager to find out about life drawing classes and how regular they would be.

The interview panel told me they really enjoyed looking through my work and especially watching the video pieces I included on a disc for them to view with the portfolio.

I was told we would here back from them later in May. So until then the pressure is on regarding our current units: Papermaking (due in this Wednesday), Surface Pattern (due the Tuesday after) and Info Graphics and Final Major Project sometime around that time too! I still have bits and pieces to get together and sketchbook work to polish off but apart from that everything is on schedule!