this past week has been more than amazing. I finally got all my work done and had my first class critiques. They went amazingly well. Both teachers loved what i had done! I'll get pictures up soon of my work. its nothing too exciting, but its a start. for my foundation class, our entire course is centralized around the concept of the grid...so its a bit dull but it makes sense considering we all want to be designers and design in based on grids haha..yea see it makes a lot of sense. otherwise, my classes have been great. i adore my type class, my teacher is great as i've said before. our first assignment was to great a 27th letter in the alphabet for the typeface Bondoni. my sketches were actually really funny, i drew this one that looked like a pregnant lady, (its the second one in the picture on the first row) so after that everytime i raised my hand to see what the teacher thought, he would just laugh. after a few hes like "wow i guess this is how they do it in canada!" haha anyways, i finally came up with one and i'll try to take a picture of the final one later today.
otherwise, this week was the start of fashion week and Fashion Night Out. http://www.fashionsnightout.com/ this is the link that explains what it is..basically it was in 11 (i think) different cities and it was trying to stimulate the economy and trying to get people to buy and get into fashion. I went out with my coworker David (from the teenflo head office, who was in town) and it was more than glamorous. All of the flagship stores..actualy basically all the upscale stores had parties; you walk in and there's champagne and a dj and you're surround by people that are important in the world...it was such a scene. we saw rachel zoe, the stylist, the designers of proenza schouler, the designer of rag and bone and after a long long wait with crazy children, teenagers and diva's ...we saw the olsen
twins, i don't even think i'm going to get into that because i might rant on for a bit haha
but it was something to see! haha after that we went to the most amazing place for dinner
called Zamba in the meat packing district, it was very montreal, exposed brick wall and
amazing tuna tartar..which was just amazing in comparison to cafeteria food...i slightly
died. anyways it was a great night, the streets were hoping and it was really something
to see.
friday i had my first photography class and loved it. Im so excited to start using film again.
i dropped my photos off yesterday so they should be ready by monday, but meanwhile i'll
post up a picture my friend took of me.
Friday night i went to something called Rooftop films (http://www.rooftopfilms.com/summerseries.html)
basically this organization that shows short indie films throughout the summer on rooftops...with my
friend Garret that i hadn't seen in two years. The films were amazing. However, it was raining so we
didn't get to see it on a roof, but it was great regardless. Daniela i couldn't stop thinking about how much
you would enjoy it. They had, i think about 10...a mix of documentary, animation, animation just with music
and some with a story line and then short films. This is one of the links to one of the animations i LOVED.
http://www.bitterfilms.com/ it was called I'm so proud of you. It was really funny and just great.
Otherwise, saturday i went to the richard avedon exhibit....it was AMAZING. i almost cried ..AGAIN, in a
museum but i held myself back to stop myself from looking like a lunatic. It was really cool because last
summer i got to see his Great Depression/Dust Bowl stuff when he went throughout middle america and
did his series of portraits of mundane people. This exhibit had all of his fashion photography. Most of the
photos were from paris and it made me miss it so much..but they were so glamorous and after having my
photography class, it was great to see his technique..and it just made me that much more excited about
everything. On the way home..it wasn't very nice it was raining and really grey outside so i got a hot
chocolate..i know this is random but i do have a point. So, in the morning on my way to work i get a coffee
or tea...like any new yorker right. and in this case yesterday a hot chocolate. so i've adapted to the fast
pace of walking...but the thing that you dont realise..it how hard it is to walk FAST with starbucks coffee...
so i'm walking yesterday..i take a sip and it EXPLODES in my face...but through the little hole..i felt completely
incompetent haha and then the other day it kept on exploding and squirting up the top and getting all over the
place..so i decide to try to drink a lot ..but it still does it. so...i'm not truly a new yorker..because i do not know
how to walk with starbucks coffee yet...
last but not least, i found a Macaron place (Jeanne and Alex :) ) yesterday! i'm pretty sure the women was french..
they make them all in the store...so i gave in a bought a few...and let me tell you they are FIERCE competition with
La Durée...they were amazing..and the store is right around the corner from my place :) hourayy
anyways, i don't have many pictures but i'll post up a few soon
12 days till montreal!
xoxo
bisous
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