So, metal shop and Two main projects to do. One warm up, one main. So What am I doing for the warm up? I’m no designer, but we need an extra table for the kitchen, and we also need somewhere for the recycling stuff.
Thus, this monster was born. Inspired by Ikea / The 70’s / and my Insanity. I have 2 weeks to complete the real thing.
This is the scale Computer generated model I made; hopefully the real thing will look just as good. Damn computers.

Today’s class was great. Started with sculpting, which, I’m out of practice with… but it felt nice to sculpt a human head. Grabbing and twisting clay, standing back and squinting, while listening to classical music, it felt… traditional. Then Doug backs electronics class, which is worth every penny and damn (!) I wish I could record it. Another 3 hours of non stop laughing. And what’s cooler than programming microchips? No stopping me now. Stanley our flats goldfish is doing well. By doing well, I mean he’s not dead yet. Yet.

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.

Got some of my Smartmedia cards working again. I used my old MP3 player to reformat them. Yes the good old Rio PMP300. Many people complained about the fact that it reformats the cards into a different format than a standard computer. But not me. It allows the Rio to have direct access to many parts of the memory card no other device can match. Thus, no card reader was able to fix my camera cards, but the Rio fixed 3x 32mb cards in 5 minutes. Hyvää.