Well I'm finally getting that familiar feeling of too much to do, not nearly enough time.

Still, this is a good thing. The only thing worse than having too much to do is having too little.

And I do love my illustration class here. It's about as different from Pratt as you can possibly get.

The teacher continues to emphasize doing things in an "unnatural" way. He feels that too many people have a complete seperation from the physical aspect of their work these days, and so tries to force us to feel that connection again.

for instance...




yesterday we put up another giant sheet of paper, and then proceeded to draw ourselves at giant like stature with very unwieldy sticks.

This might sound completely ridiculous, but I found myself surprised at some of the lines I was getting, and in the end the results were very impressive, or at the very least amusing.

I've also been working on a series of interlocking cube things in another class as well. Have yet to take any pictures of the chaos that is that room, but I'll try and remember to do so today.

um...



I've also decided I want a macro lens. It is *way* too hard to take photos of tiny things with a zoom lens, and there is a ridiculously large amount of spiders around here.

I MUST CAPTURE THEIR SUBLIME BEAUTY.




also... clouds! Just taken while wandering around the Musabi campus. Because of work I've been a bit restricted from going into the city. But, oh well. Maybe I can be a good boy and get a bunch done today?



And this big beautiful building is also a part of the Musabi campus, (again, this place is huge), but I really have no idea what's inside of it.

Clubs maybe? A gym? I don't know, but I like it.

ALSO!

haha, almost forgot.

So the japanese LOVE festivals. I mentioned it before and I'll mention it again. THEY LOVE THEM. So it's not very suprising that Musabi has a big ol' student art festival just for itself every year. No real reason, they just do.

The big art event that Pratt has every year is survey. And that's only really for a part of the school as it is. And it only takes up one building. And it's all very academic. But still, we get to look at other peoples art work, and that's a pretty cool thing.

And it is completely put to shame by what Musabi does.

According to students here, musabi's art festival is HUUGE. It takes up every single room in every building, has over *500* completely seperate galleries all with at least three or four students in each one, all with original work.

They have lightshows (use to have fireworks but the cops kept getting called), parades, wrestling matches (apparently sometimes nude...), rows and rows of alcoholic venders, rows and rows of food stalls, a huge student run and made fashion show, esteemed famous japanese artists come in to give speeches and again, more original artworks that you can shake a stick at.

Over the course of THREE SOLID DAYS.

And all of this is not only allowed by Musabi, but both teachers and students collaborate to bring it together each year.

needless to say, I'm quite excited by the whole thing.

it happens at the end of october so it's still a way away though.

Ok. well I've got work to do, so ja ne and whatnot!