Tuesday, September 21, 2004
Climbing and DVD's
Not climbing DVD's though. No, I went climbing and I helped (a little) Dori author a DVD for her class.
The climbing was fun. Different from what I expected. I thought it would be this sort of exhilirating rush to the top. Rather, it was a personal challenege and a bit scary! I would find myself in a situation, where even though I knew I was protected in case of a fall I felt that hopelessness when you realize that you are probably not going to be able to do it. Combined with being 20 feet off the ground, that translates to: scary! The personal challenege aspect is rewarding though. Even though you feel as if you are going to fall, when you actually complete it you realize that it is about perserverance and hope (NOT hopeless!) which inspires me to continue on and better condition my body. Hopefully Dori and I will be climbing together in a gym for the first time tomorrow. It's abit expensive, $15 for a day pass, plus rentals (we don't have shoes yet).
As for the DVD, that was also cool! Dori worked LONG and hard on this. She is creating a multimedia presentation for here class this morning. She presented slides of ceramic work, videos of potters preparing clay, throwing and firing and finally some expressions of cermaics in out lives. It turned out nice! Everything is set to music and there are these wonderful transitions inbetween sections. They look like the transition screens in the B&W movies that didn't have voice tracks! I had to help with a couple minor technical issues, like staying up last night until 2AM to burn the DVD... I haven't heard from Dori yet on how it turned out, but I am excited!
I've also been making progress on the thesis. Just for fun, I printed out what I had. Twenty-two pages! It feels good. That many pages seems like a lot when you're holding it. It's just a rough outline, not even that's been finalized, but it's motivation to keep going. The progress is visible! Of course, now I feel bad for wasting trees, and I just set my coffee mug on it, because it's not really a useful draft, but, well, let's just call it my pet SUV. If some people can drive a hummer, I can print out 22 pages to make me feel good inside!
For the record, I actually have no guilt conerning the trees. In fact, I might print out another copy just for fun....
Ok, well, a little guilt for the trees. But not much. Tiny. I'm saving the big guilt for when I print out all 100 pages several times trying to get it revised....
The climbing was fun. Different from what I expected. I thought it would be this sort of exhilirating rush to the top. Rather, it was a personal challenege and a bit scary! I would find myself in a situation, where even though I knew I was protected in case of a fall I felt that hopelessness when you realize that you are probably not going to be able to do it. Combined with being 20 feet off the ground, that translates to: scary! The personal challenege aspect is rewarding though. Even though you feel as if you are going to fall, when you actually complete it you realize that it is about perserverance and hope (NOT hopeless!) which inspires me to continue on and better condition my body. Hopefully Dori and I will be climbing together in a gym for the first time tomorrow. It's abit expensive, $15 for a day pass, plus rentals (we don't have shoes yet).
As for the DVD, that was also cool! Dori worked LONG and hard on this. She is creating a multimedia presentation for here class this morning. She presented slides of ceramic work, videos of potters preparing clay, throwing and firing and finally some expressions of cermaics in out lives. It turned out nice! Everything is set to music and there are these wonderful transitions inbetween sections. They look like the transition screens in the B&W movies that didn't have voice tracks! I had to help with a couple minor technical issues, like staying up last night until 2AM to burn the DVD... I haven't heard from Dori yet on how it turned out, but I am excited!
I've also been making progress on the thesis. Just for fun, I printed out what I had. Twenty-two pages! It feels good. That many pages seems like a lot when you're holding it. It's just a rough outline, not even that's been finalized, but it's motivation to keep going. The progress is visible! Of course, now I feel bad for wasting trees, and I just set my coffee mug on it, because it's not really a useful draft, but, well, let's just call it my pet SUV. If some people can drive a hummer, I can print out 22 pages to make me feel good inside!
For the record, I actually have no guilt conerning the trees. In fact, I might print out another copy just for fun....
Ok, well, a little guilt for the trees. But not much. Tiny. I'm saving the big guilt for when I print out all 100 pages several times trying to get it revised....
