Finally going home :D

Waiting for the final flight at Schiphol, Amsterdam.

What are your plans for easter break?

Me, I'm going to Rome. And I'm gonna write to essays = 6000 words. yay!

xx/Linn

Work, Work, and 365q

It's Tuesday.  I'm sitting on a beanbag in the hub doing work with my friends before my TV seminar.
This is what I'm working on; a script for a film project (Don't judge, it's pretty shit at the moment).

Week 7 next term, all hell breaks loose. Well, actually, I hope all hell breaks loose a little before that, because that's when everything's due. 2 essays 3000 words each, 1 film project, 1 sound project (both with individual and group reports), and one exam on image and sound technologies. It all comes together at around 13000 words (Minus exams and work done for preproduction for the projects). It's months away, but I'm already swamped. Easter break won't be a break at all :p 

My course mates and I have recently realised that we need to nip this in the bud, and start early, so every day we convene and do about 3-4 hours of work together. It's so much easier to concentrate away from stuffy dorm rooms. And here I am, blogging, NOT doing work. Haha.

My brother came to visit last week, which was nice! Here's a picture of us:

Before I end this post; have you seen http://365q.ca/ ? It's really cool, a guy is taking a photo everyday with inspirational quotes. Here's an example

I like it :)

Until next time,

xx/Linn

Saturday and Precordial Catch Syndrome.

Yooo,


Studying hard on a saturday after a night out and a brunch with about 9000 calories.

Loving it. Also, on friday my Anatomy teacher had a lecture on the pulmanory system (lungs), and I finally got an answer to something that has bugged me for centuries. I and many many many other people have something called Precordial Catch Syndrome. A sudden pain near the heart that lasts for about 1-3 minutes and then suddenly dissapears. It is completely benign, but the cause is unknown. Cool beans.




Song of the afternoon

Massive shop, Poker and Architecture

When you go to the store to do a shop, you have two options.

1. You can buy just what you need that day and maybe the next. 

2. You can buy all the stuff you need for this week, and maybe the next and the next after that.

I decided to go with option 2.

I really like living in the UK, cause that means having access to the greatest store in the world-- TESCO.

Tesco is amazing, people. They deliver everything you need right to your door. This means that you can do your shopping from bed, if you'd like (That's what I did, lol!)  I must say though, all of this food is not all mine, we were about 6 people doing a massive shop toghether, close to 300 quid! Aaahhh I love Tesco <3

Last night the boys and I played a round of poker. We wanted to play in one of these awesome little illuminated pods on the lake in front of the hub.

Unfortunately, we weren't allowed to, sooo we played inside the hub instead. It's a masssssive building that was just finished on the new campus, where I live.

(Notice that I was winning at this point!) Sadly, I did lose though. I get easily bored :p

So I decided to sit upside-down in the sofa, and I captured this picture:

I like the style of this building. It reminds me of a train station or something. And it has a wonderful place called 'the island of interaction'. And you will never know what wonders it holds. :D

Going to do some work now :( 

xx/Linn

Mind is blown

Today, I had two sound practicals. In the first one we just messed around in Pro Tools (Audio mixing hardware/software) and learned about audio clipping (which is when the levels go red and distortion occurs). We made sine waves that we later clipped, and played around with filters. This is an example of a clipped waveform, if you were just tingling with curiosity as to how it looks.

In the second one we got divided into groups, and taken into the foley studio, and the recording suite

It was pretty sick! We did ADR (which is basically what you can call pick-up recording of dialogue) on a scene from Blade Runner. I'd never seen an industry standard mixing desk and all that jazz before, so I was pretty amazed. So many knobs and dials, I wonder if I will be able to remember it all!

Unfortunately there was no time left, so I didn't get to go to to foley today, but I hope I will get a chance at tomorrow's practical. A foley studio looks like this btw:

That is all!

xx/Linn

Doppelganger

This poster has been hanging in the corridor at least forever, and I just realised today that it looks like Alfred

Woot woot!

In other news, I'm finally rid of my flu, and I had cod for lunch. I am currently working on sound notes, which means that I am basically just copying the powerpoint slides from the lecture into my notebook. That's all I'm doing. No original thoughts, or indeed effort, going into it. :3

Currently working on bit rates, bit depth, sampling and anti aliasing filters.

Oh, and I cleaned my room.

MLIA

xx/Linn

Design of everyday artifacts.

Yooo!

Bored reading for my test, so I started brainstorming for my new assignment - Design/redesign an everyday artifact. Our group has not yet decided yet what to do, but we got a handout suggesting we brainstorm certain topics, one of them was money/coins. How to make better coins? 5 minute brainstorm: