Camras Scholars New Projects Ahead!

Picture of the Day] Non-existent! We are currently under construction with the website! It will be up soon!

Mood] Motivated

Weather] Slight flurries with a High 20 Degrees F

Currently] In the office

Quote of the Day] "An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come."

I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO excited about the awesome things that I have planned for this semester regarding Camras!!!! We just had our first meeting today and I think it went very well. My future projects for the Scholars include:

1. Camras Book of Wisdome (freshmen will write up a sentence or two about life experiences in their first year of college and maybe tack a picture with it)
2. Student Organization outreach (trying to form relationships with current student orgs and help them with their events that they have on campus)
3. Camras Interview Weekend (OF COURSE)
4. Giving back to former teachers by sending letters and posters
5. Creating videos and photos for Camras events and the campus as a whole

AND MUCH MORE!!!!!
Jaye

Studio Begins

Picture of the Day] My site at Wrigley Field outlined in red!

Mood] Frustrated

Weather] Sunny but freakin' cold! High 19 Degrees F

Currently] In the office

Quote of the Day] "The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself."

So my studio this semester seems like it will be extremely challenging, but hopefully a lot of fun as well! I know that there is a ton of work that needs to be done because I am stretching myself into areas that I have not worked in for a while, especially 3d rendering. For my new studio I will be needing to do highly detailed 3d rendering of the different spaces. This is generally an issue for me because 1) Although I did take classes in rendering, it is not my favourite thing to do therefore it makes it difficult for me to really try and work on. I hope that I will be able to improve! Right now we are working on the conceptual stuff and then moving on to creating floor plans.

The project is a Boutique Hotel, which is basically like a themed hotel that has less rooms but provides many amenities. Our hotel is situated near Wrigley Field up north. There are many elements around the site, like the bars, residential, rooftop bleachers for the games, chain restaurants, and of course the Red Line L. There is a lot to take into consideration!

Excited but scared,
Jaye

School oh school!

Pictures of the Day] New haircut.

Mood] Complacent

Weather] Sludgey...sort of...sleety...

Currently] In my apartment

Quote of the Day] "Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence."

So I have this new haircut, which really is just a manifestation of my hope to keep my hair relatively styled and tamed during the school year as it grows out from its previous punky spunky state. I am SOOO glad I branched out when I was younger and decided to try that short pixie cut! I think it's neat and it's so much easier to take care of!

School so far has been tough already. I have been trying to keep up with reading for psychology and history of landscape architecture already! The studio I managed to score is designing a Boutique Hotel in Wrigleyville. More to come about that in the next post! Suffice to say at the moment that school is well on its way and with it comes responsibilities at work, Camras, and acappella. *sighs* Oh the life of a college student!

Wiped out already,
Jaye

New Endeavor: The Ugly

Pictures of the Day] uegly dolls!!! Mr. Wiggums, Mr. Twinkles, and Miss Boo.

Mood] Inspired

Weather] Pretty warm actually...

Currently] At home

Quote of the Day] "Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long."

So I decided that beyond pillows I might try and work on developing little plushies that my sister and I could sell on our Etsy store. These are my first few versions. They are based off of the Ugly Doll brand of plushies that you might've seen in stores. I think I may need to develop more of a style for them. Right now they just kinda look....weird. So yeah, it'll take some work! Other than that though, it has been fun and it's nice using all of the scrap remains from the pillows that I make. I just wonder if anyone will buy them! I ended up giving these to my boyfriend and sisters. :) I gotta say, this Etsy store thing is exciting but I'm starting to freak out about whether or not we'll actually sell things! I HOPE SO!!!!!! We're going to do magnets, aprons, pillows, and a bunch of random crazy stuff so it doesn't go together, but it's nice. XD More updates to come on the actual store launch/success!

*wiggin' out*
Jaye

Doctor Who Christmas Special

Picture of the Day] I found this awesome piece of paper art on deviantart! It was so cute I had to copy a pic of it. :D I love that site. XD

Mood] Cheery

Weather] Snowy some more. High 27 Degrees F.

Currently] At home

Quote of the Day] "The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think."

So the Doctor Who Christmas special was exciting and not at the same time. For those of you who don't know the show, Doctor Who is a very long running series from our lovely English on BBC. It tells the story of an Time-Lord self-named "The Doctor" who travels through space and time with a companion (or multiple) in a blue police call box and rids the world of evil, saves the day, yada yada through a crazy string of events. It is all good fun with great villains and lots of British humour.

Now currently the series is on the "11th" Doctor, meaning this Time-Lord has "re-generated" 10 times previously (also conveniently allowing multiple actors to play the same role which is why the image above is so. They are mini paper cutting caricatures of all the various versions of the Doctor). So each player can play the Doctor through several seasons, or just one. Currently Matt Smith is "The Doctor" and he is doing a lot better of a job than I thought initially. I am partial to Chris Eccleston and David Tennant, but meh. Now the exciting bit, and this isn't even getting to the special yet, is that the next season will be in AMERICA. WHOO!!!! Previously the Doctors have primarily traveled either out in space or in England/Europe. Now they will be off to America!!! It's gonna be exciting.

So about the special. Every Christmas there is sort of a movie spectacular episode that they do. This year was a rendition of "A Christmas Carol". Truth be told, there was a lot going on and I kind of was confused a bit. I felt like some elements were not resolved, but overall, it was enjoyable. The actor for the young Scrooge-type character was rather attractive if anything. Hee hee. Other than that, there have been other non-special episodes that I would rank higher than this Christmas one, but that isn't to say that it wasn't worth putting it on the DVR. It was rather exciting to be able to record the Christmas special on BBCAmerica ON Christmas. We're finally not getting things a year later! :D

Whew,
Jaye

Christmas!

Picture of the Day] Tree lighting around campus!

Mood] Full

Weather] SNOW SNOW SNOW SNOW!

Currently] At home

Quote of the Day] "I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it."

Traveled to Chicago. Whew. It was tiring. Happy Christmas everyone! :D I hope you have an awesome holiday and new year! ^_^

Exhausted,
Jaye

MSI: Muppets

Pictures of the Day] Pictures at MSI of the various awesome things!

Mood] Tired

Weather] Burn your face off cold!

Currently] Home

Quote of the Day] "Fall seven times, stand up eight."

So my friends and I made a fun trip up to the Museum of Science and Industry and managed to catch the awesome Jim Hensen Muppet exhibit. Unfortunately, they did not let me take any photos inside. I did however, get some awesome pictures of the various trees they had spread throughout the rotunda and base level. The center housed the most gigantic tree of all with muppet themed ornaments and banners. It was so cute! The presents beneath the tree were even fuzzy and some had eyes! It was hilarious. The rest of the trees were smaller, but still at least 12-15 feet tall and had decorations from all different countries (though I did notice that North Korea was missing...)

Overall it was pretty spectacular. I had a fun time running around with my friends being idiots and little kids again. I wish we had more time though! It's such a big place and although I have been there several times, it never ceases to amaze me. I love museums so much! :D I was really glad we went into the muppet exhibit. It was really interesting because it had original drawings by Jim Hensen (some of which did look like a small child drew them), but they also had some of the muppets there like Ernie, Bert, Kermit, Miss Piggy, and some of the dudes from Fraggle Rock. The best part was looking at the story-boards, which I will be sure to keep in mind when I get on writing my comic some more...yeah...that's still in the works. Heh heh.

Exhausted,
Jaye