Wednesday, May 11, 2011

My Summers ambitions

Summer has arrived again and like most summers I don't really have any plans but hopefully something interesting will happen soon.  I'm quite enthralled by pottery thus I would love to work on pottery all summer.  I just need to find somewhere I can accomplish this at.  I've already checked Odyssey Ceramics which is the biggest pottery studio in Asheville.  At Odyssey you can take classes and they offer positions to enthusiastic potters such as myself.  I originally tried applying for a summer residency which they only have two openings for and would have netted me a number of benefits such as 24 hour access to the studio but they already found two people... That was really depressing to hear, I was so looking forward to it.  So now I'm trying to find something similar, I want to be able to work in the studio all day and start seriously producing and bettering myself.  I've considered apprenticing with a potter but I've heard that's hit or miss.  Sometimes you find people where you can create a lot of stuff with and other times you just do exactly as they say and just wedge a lot of clay, etc.  I was also hoping to just have the studio experience so I could work freely without any creative restrictions set upon me.
I'm really bored... I fear this summer might continue on like this.  That would sadden me.  I bought the Lord of the rings trilogy not long ago after I had read the Hobbit for my first time.  It was during the Spring semester and finals so I didn't really have time to read it.  Since then I started watching anime and got really into it and now I'm to the point where I'm just waiting for more episodes to be released from Japan.  It would seem now is an excellent time to read LOTR but I'm feeling anime, even though I was all about LOTR a few weeks ago...  I'm SOOO confused.

6 comments:

Hilary Michelle said...

hey. another question: what photography instructors would you recommend at AB-Tech? (yes, i am attending it in the fall)
thank you for answering my questions! it is very appreciated!

Hilary Michelle said...

oh, one more thing: you like anime? AWESOME! which ones do you like?

Joshua said...

Eh well you don't have too many options there but I would go with Leigh Mitchell. I would also recommend taking film photo rather than digital if they are offering it. In terms of anime, Gurren Lagann, Soul Eater, Naruto, Samurai Champloo, Death Note was pretty good and I liked Bleach for a while although it's gotten out of hand now in my opinion. There may be others that I'm not remembering. Have you seen all of Miyazaki's films?

Hilary Michelle said...

it turns out out that i can't take a photography class...they all conflict with my work schedule...TT_TT thanks anyway! I love Death Note! severalof the ones you mentioned are ones that i have been wanting to check out for a while now...i recently started watching Full Metal Alchemist and am enjoying it very much! I agree: Bleach HAS gotten out of hand, as has, in my opionion, Naruto. I have not seen all of them, but i've seen alot. My sister has most of them and we wanted to watch them together, but then she got engaged...and all her time is consumed by wedding planning...Probably my favorite is Princess Mononoke, tho.

Joshua said...

Just watched Princess Mononoke for the first time surprisingly enough a few days ago. One of my favs for sure. I forgot to mention FMA, I love FMA Brotherhood. Naruto I felt was out of hand and they managed to reel it back in now. They had far too many fillers though. It's pretty intense right now though.

Hilary Michelle said...

Really? well, i must admit: the length of it rather intimidates me! i would probably never finish it! Oh, where did you watch Samurai Champloo? I can't find the episodes on You Tube (and when i do, they have been removed due to a copyright).
One anime that i would recomend beyond any other is Black Cat. it is EXCELLENT! make sure to check it out when you get the chancem k? you will not regret it!