Today I went to see the work of Paul Brandejs, a Canadian artist and my Uncle! His stuff was great and he’s a really nice guy, and he’s a graduate of OCA(D).
He makes his own canvasses so he throws a lot more creativity into it. The canvasses are 3-dimensional and push out of the wall. I’ve never seen sculpted paintings before and I was really impressed. I’ve seen photos of his work before, but never in person so I was glad he invited me to his showing. Deffenetly not something you see every day.

Hmmmm, what else. Last night went to the Brunny (Brunswick) to drink and celebrate a big Ukranian holiday. Hyvää. Saw some old friends.
Also finished my first week of school. Looks like it will be fun. The height is my required course with Doug back. It was spossed to be a course on flash and director, which I wasn’t too excited about as I really don’t like computers so much right now,…. But Doug’s teaching it.
Which basically means we’re not doing flash.
We’re learning how to program microchips and build other electronic devices. :) I love Doug.

One confused looking girl in the back of the class asked if we'd learn flash, and Doug just smiled and said, “you can learn it on your own if you want...”
Then she said “but it's in the course outline for this class…?”

Doug 'where?'
Girl "the syllabus"
Doug "welllll, I didn't write that..... so we're going to learn programming."

Doug’s great. And I wanted to learn that anyways. I can teach myself flash I’d rather learn something cooler.

“Because society has given us the time and the means to think, to speculate, to ask questions, to propose solutions, to try things to experiment, our responsibility is that we give back to society. How do we give back? By engaging the audience in important issues of our time, communicating, offering a space of discussion, dialogue, and interaction. It is really about offering audiences something that no one else in society can offer them, not the media or the entertainment worlds, not their professional lives. That is what is unique about what we can do. It is very difficult to accomplish this, but we can take people to places they have never been. I don’t mean physically, but mentally. We can ask hard questions, we can suggest difficult answers. All that is part of the privilege”.
-Alfredo Jaar.