With the Yes/No Referendum coming to a climax today, and general lateness with construction of all types, the department seems a little disorganized/unprepared for this first week. Our studio still isnt 100% ready, and we haven't been given the much needed explanations of the goings-on of the semester. We're only about 3 days in, so by itself this wouldn't really be an issue. But compounded with my unfortunate hotel situation and my general unfamiliarity with upper-level UK art schools, this has lead to some stress.
That, and the program is far more self-directed than I originally thought. Again: not bad in itself, but very overwhelming considering how //bad at drawing I think I am//, and also how I'm not used to classes/smaller tutorials being used solely for enrichment. My big fat master's project will span most of the year, and will be *informed* by smaller projects and other work. It is in fact the only thing that is graded, albeit graded in many ways, at many different times.
But it's all OK. Overwhelming though it may be, I have a lot of ideas that I think would work really well. If it's going to take some initiative to get the most out of this program, that's fine. It hasn't stopped me in the past from being an academically assertive fool.
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In other news, there's some Silent-Hill level spooky shit goin down in this city. There's fog so thick that entire castles have been obscured from view, so there's know way of knowing where the gargoyles are, or what they are plotting behind their curtain. The kind of fog that M. Night Shyamalan would put in his movies if he had the budget anymore. Check out the skyline this morning:
And here's one of a big ol castle (that you're just going to have to take my word for):
Crazy stuff.
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