Saturday, May 17, 2008

INTERNSHIP FINAL REFLECTION

Did you meet your goals?

No, but it is been a quiet nice experience.

What are the most important things you’ve learned?

I have learned that it's important to do what you love to do.

In what ways have your grown?

I think i have grown in area of interacting with people, because throughout the internship i have talked to many people and artsits.

What were the highlights of your internship experience?

Photography class, making a cover cartoon for EA Art school, walking through LES galleries, Cookies + Coffee.

If you can, describe a memorable moment or experience.

I think the first day of my internship was the most memorable moment, because it is like being at the job that you do not like to do and every second you look at the clock and wish for the arrow to be at 4 p.m. so you can get out of here a s soon as possible. Well, i was organizing the shelves with the art supplies. It was hot in the room so by the end of the day i was going dizzy of that hotness and smell.

What challenges did you overcome?

I wish i had any......

What advice would you give a new intern at this site?

Mentors DO NOT bite.

What will you miss about your internship?

DARK ROOM, but i can come back there anytime i want.

Monday, May 5, 2008

ASSIGNMENTS: The week after Spring Break

Interview

1. What is your full name?

Joseph Germain Keehn II

2. Where are you from?

Kansas

4. (If the interviewee went to college)…What was your major in college and what kind of degree do you earn?

BFA ( Bachelor Fine Arts) from Washburn Universtity + MA (Masters of Arts) from University of Kansas

17. Do you plan to open your own business one day?

NO, buisness is not my friend.

8. How long have you worked here?

Almost a year.

16. Do you enjoy the kind of work you do?

Sometimes.

12. What is the best part of your job?

Teaching.

13. What is something you would like to change about your job?

Funding sources ( be more selective where we get the money from), developing partnerships.

11. What are some of the challenges you have faced working here?

  • The beauracracy. Multiple bosses, change of commands.
  • Working with the Department of AD.
  • Definding my job, because i do a lot of small tasks.

18. How has having an intern helped your company or organization advance or progress?

  • Keeps me on my toes, because a lot has to be done.
  • Gets the name of School out.
  • Working environment better.

20. How do you manage your personal and work lives?

Keep personal life from work, but take work life to personal.

19. What advice would you give to high school-aged interns (such as myself) getting ready for college and then the real world?

Just do it! Join the real world, have fun under any kind of circumstances.

15. What do you see as your future with this company?

If i will stay I will be one of the big wigs, but i don t want to be here for long (Not promise). So if i leave I will go work in the museum with the HS students. Also Japan suciety, aslo teaching.

29 Would you like to work with IHS? WHY?

Yes, because it has a lot for HS, but mostly it was founded for immigrants.

99. Anything else you woul dlike to say?

No.

Floor Plan

YOU HAVE IT!!!

Pre-Interview Thinking

Would you like to work with student from IHS in future? Is there anything you didn t like about our intern? What is your name? Do you like your job? What is your favorite book?



Daily post synthesis

OLD: Recycling Clay! I do it everyday. We have a garbage can (big size) with the solid clay that have left over after our artists and also the ceramics unsuccessful pots and all that. I put them into G-can, mix with water. It takes a while for the solid clay to dissolve in the water and become evenly soft. So when it is done now i have to put the clay out of that G-can so it can dry out more quickly. I put the clay on one of the wedging clay tables (we have 3). So when it dries fair enough i wage it and put inside of the plastic bag. And this clay is ready to be used again! =)
OLD: Photography class! I have this class every Tuesday. it is black/white photography. We take pictures, we process film and we print pictures. It is kind of fun. Also we mix chemicals, so you need to know proportions of each chemical and we use different techniques to make our print look fabulous, such as: using filters, changing time, etc.
NEW:
Last week me and my mentor gave a gallery tour in the Lower East Side. There are about 20 -30 small exhibits at LES. They are pretty cool. Each of them is different, and most of them solo galleries. Pictures coming up!!!
NEW: Well, Educational Alliance Art School is getting ready for the Summer Secion. Every secion we distribute cards with the design on the front page and important information on the back. Straight to the point: I drew the design for the front cover. It was like a little story of Art School, what classes do we have, and where is it located. It is cool! Joseph said they ll make 5.000 of them, also you ll find out my name on the back of this card. He gave me some credits for the drawing=)


Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Daily Posts April 14-April 17

Monday: Clay first. Then went downstairs and put some collage work on display. So whoever comes by our building will see those works of Art.

Tuesday: I did clay, then took care of my pictures that i ve printed on Saturday. I straightened them out using hot press machine. Then me and other Intern Neal went to the Pizza place to hang up some of the work that comes from our students at our Art school. And last thing is flyers. I went through China Town passing them out.

Wednesday: Today was one of the Okey days. I came in, wadged some clay ( i do it everyday, first thing to do), then Joseph gave me whole bag of flyers and i went to Burgen street ( not sure) it is on the F line to destribute them. The flyers are about Adult classes that will start in April 22. After my trip i came back and helped my other mentor to prepare stuff for fresco painting. I mixed some lime with sand and carefully placed it on the square looking surface. That was about it.

Thursday: Off!

Weekly Vocabulary April 18


1. Coquettishly
Meaning: in a manner befitting a woman who flirts with men
Context: Coquettishly fanning herself with an ornate oriental fan. (ENG Class)

2. Eccentric
Meaning:
different what is normal
Context: Oh, don't be so proud of yourself, Benni - just because you look eccentric. (From the play we are reading in ENG class)

3. Scrutinize
Meaning: to examine in detail with careful or critical attention
Context: This word i found interesting while i was reading the book called "The Consolations of Phylosophy".

4. Unequivocal
Meaning:
not equivocal; unambiguous; clear; having only one possible meaning or interpretation
Context: SAT words

5. Marinade herrine

Meaning: "Fish in souce"
Context:Have you ever been to American wedding?
Where is the vodka, where's marinated herring?
Where is the supply that gonna last three days?
Where is the band that like Fanfare.
Gonna keep it goin' 24 hours
Ta-tar-ranta-ta-ta
Super taran-ta taran-ta ran-ta ta
(one of the Gogol Bordello songs)

Monday, April 7, 2008

Midpoint Reflection Questions


How has the internship been the same as and/or different than your expectations?

The only thing i didn t expect that it will approach me so abruptly. Before actual Internship i have been worried, where am i gonna go, how is it going to be, all kinds of questions. And now i am there have no difficulties and having fun from time to time. So, my expectations were pretty correct.

What is similar and different about the culture of the school environment versus the workplace environment? What new skills have you learned that apply to the workplace?

The culture of the school environment versus the workplace environment is very different. I like it much more then school. I get to work with passionate people which don t yell and jump around the work place. It is more calm over there. I get to make myself some coffee and enjoy it with cookie or something. I mean i have freedom of action and choice while in school we are like in prison. Moreover at my internship i actually learn how to do something, i try new things with my hands. This way i learn the best. I never liked school, papers, homework and exams. Also i learned how to do things in completely dark room, using only human sences ( no sight tho).

What kind of relationship do you have with your mentor and co-workers? How have you grown as a result of interacting with professional adults?

I have a pretty good relationship with my mentor and co-worker. Sometimes they think i don t get something because i am an aloof person, but they know that i am cool i am no fool. For me it is kind of hard to see a growth, because i feel that i have fited perfectly and they are the ones who is growing.

What challenges at the internship have you faced that you have overcome and how did you overcome them?

Well i dont have certain example but whatever they give me to do and i am confused and not sure how to do it i go back and ask them. I reasure that i am doing it right way or the way they want it.

What challenges have you faced in school as a result of the altered schedule and how are you handling them?

Well, i know that the internship is bringing my class grades down littel by littel. It is not only internship but also SAT Prep classes, Photography class. Now i am doing work from all the places, but i am trying to manage my time so i can sleep a littel too. So like as the week starts i already can tell how is my week is going to be and when do i have to do what. One week lasts as one long night mare. Sometimes i don t know is it night or day, but i am trying to give myself a littel respect and instead of doing hw for A i do it for A- or even be and just trying to do things i enjoy, like giving my guitar a strock.

What goals are you working to accomplish during the remainder of the internship?

Right now i am working on a cartoon which will be plaaced on 5000 card which will be send to the artists and other people who is interested in our classes. So it s kind of a big thing. Perhaps make more connections with people that would me push for somewhere. I don t really want them to push me in art area but somewhere. Also while i am there i want to give apportunity to every one who would love to go to the dark room and develop and print their pictures, use me to do stuff have some benefactor from me and the fact that they gave me that INT.

What new things have you learned about New York City?

I learned that there s bunch of free shows, galleries, and exhibitions out there. Also in each office work regular people either it is a dentist office or immigration office and there s no reason to be scared to go there and interact with people that work there. I always been scared of this offices and stuff, now i am basically playing that role.

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Weekly Vocabulary April 4

1. Green

Meaning: Environmental

Context: As we were going from the paint store with those tanks i asked him why do we need them, and he said I am trying to be green about it. Because all that dirty liquid had to go somewhere else but not the regular sink.

2. Apron

Meaning: a garment covering part of the front of the body and tied at the waist, for protecting the wearer's clothing

Context: I had to wear it.

3. Phonetics

Meaning: the science or study of speech sounds and their production, transmission, and reception, and their analysis, classification, and transcription

Context: Talked about this word on SAT prep class.


4. Decorum

Meaning: dignified propriety of behavior, speech, dress, etc.

Context: From SAT prep. I like that word.

5. Charlatan

Meaning: a person who pretends to more knowledge or skill than he or she possesses; quack

Context: From SAT prep.

Daily Posts March 31-April 3

Monday: Today I didn t do much. I came in me and Joseph went outside to the paint store to get tanks. We bought 4 tanks. Back to paint studio with 2 tanks. I had to dump all dirty liquids from containers to those tanks. Liquids comes from the artists that used it. Also I helped to organize the cards. I neatly put them on the table. Then went to ceramics studio and punched holes in the clay so it dry out more quicker, adn for the rest of the day we talked about English pronanciation. At the end of the day he gave me some application for the job during the summer. So will see how it will go. Forgat to say, i also organized out art supply closets. =)

Tuesday: Nikola went to check up on me today! While they were talking i went upstairs to spray some paintings. I also cut the film and put the pieces into the sleeves. After that i went wadging, got all dirty and finally had my photography class. So tired today=(

Wednesday: Day off!

Thursday: Today Walter brough me about 20-30 photography books. I had to find out the Title, Publisher, Author, Year it was printed and condition of the book. After i finished it we went online (ebay) to see how valuable those books are. Some of them were like from year of 1763, but it didn t cost much. Next thing i did is found information about Larry Fink. He s exhebitions and what he does, stuff like that. Right after that i had to go set up Zen's painting studio. More over i delivered some files downstairs and last thing i did is organized pile of files. I had to brake them down from one big pile to several small groups.

Weekly Vocabulary March 29

1. Floccinaucinihilipilification
Meaning: the estimation of something as valueless
Context: I do not know, it just randomly came up by accident.
2. Wedging
Meaning: to thrust, drive, fix, etc., like a wedge
Context: On thursday i had to wedge the recycle clay and put it to the bags so people can use it again.
3. Fresco
Meaning: The art or technique of painting on a moist, plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture.
Context: My 2nd edvisors e mail contain word fresco so i asked if that word has any meaning.
4. Panning
Meaning: In photography it is basically keeping background or like a moving person or anything acute.
Context: It was one of the words that i didn t understand in Tuesdays photography class.
5. Hunch
Meaning: to thrust out or up in a hump
Context: My mentor said to me once that i am hunching.

Daily Posts March 24-27

Monday, March 24: Abscent.
Tuesday, March 25: Abscent.
Wednesday, March 26: Today I did four things. As soon as i came in they gave me 30 flyers and i had to put sticker on each of them. The flyers was about adult art classes, when it starts and e.t.c. Then I went through the pile of old pictures and envelopd that contained pictures inside of them and wrote the names and adresses down of the people who these pictures were belong to. After that i had to find a film Kodak tx400, because somebody told us that they have lost their film inside of the dryer. Well, i went through some envelops with the film and found it. That was pretty much it. they didn't have a lot of work for me today, so i had a chance to do my HW.
Thursday, March 27: 1. Wedging the clay 2. Set up the chemicals for the YAP photography class 3. Set up the painting studio for Zen's class and rest of the time i was putting stamps on Educational Alliance Art School cards. The card were about classes that is going to start soon.
I want to add that i have been working there on Saturday for about 4 hours and also got 2 ex hours on Tuesday form photography class!

Monday, March 17, 2008

Super Duper Slideshow!

Weekly Vocabulary!

1.Collage
Meaning: a technique of composing a work of art by pasting on a single surface various materials not normally associated with one another, as newspaper clippings, parts of photographs, theater tickets, and fragments of an envelope.
Native Language: комбинация разнородных элементов
Context: Our art school offers a Collage classes, also i have seen couple of collage works at my site

2. Twitch
Meaning:
to jerk rapidly
Native Language: подергивание, судорога; резкое вздрагивание; конвульсия
Context: My mentor said that his eye is twitching, b/c he have been working for the past 9 days without a single day off

3. Welding
Meaning:
To join (metals) by applying heat, sometimes with pressure and sometimes with an intermediate or filler metal having a high melting point.
Native Language: сварка
Context: As i was walking through the hallway at my art school, i seen a very bright light in one of out studios. My mentor said that we also provide a welding classes.

4. Aperture
Meaning:
an opening, usually circular, that limits the quantity of light that can enter an optical instrument.
Native Language: отверстие; скважина; дыра, дырка, щель
Context: In photography class we learned that certain buttons responsible for the size of the aperture. Aperture is responsible for how much light get into your camera.

5. Shutter Speed
Meaning: is the length of time a shutter is open; the total exposure is proportional to this exposure time, or duration of light reaching the film or image sensor.
Native Language: интервал времени, в течение которого затвор фотоаппарата открыт для получения кадра (экспонирования кадра). Выдержка задает время воздействия световых лучей на фотоматериал.
Context: I have been taught in the class that shutter speed is like our eye blinking, it can be long or short one. And that is one of the reasons why your picture is not the way you wanted.

Friday, March 14, 2008

Third Week Assignment

Describe One Significant Activity Or Project That You Have Completed Or Are Working On Currently.

Developing film is one significant activity I am working on currently at my internship. Let's start with Developing Film Process:

  1. Developer: 9-12 minutes. Agitate every 30 seconds for 5 seconds, and tap the container to eliminate bubbles.
  2. Stop: 30 seconds. Constantly Agitate! No tapping! Save the stop.
  3. Fixer: 5 minutes. Agitate every 30 seconds for 5 seconds. No tapping! Save the fixer.
  4. First wash: Wash with water for 5 minutes.
  5. Permawash: Agitate 2 minutes, no stopping!
  6. Final wash: 3 minutes.
  7. Photoflo: Let film submerge for at least 1 minute.
  8. Carefully hang your film.

I already have done it 2 times and developed 5 films. Now, all i have are negatives from those films. For example let's take the film that i have been shooting in Philadelphia. We all know shooting process: focusing, aperture, shutter speed etc. When the film is finished it is time to it be developed. So before i take the film out of the camera we need to rewind it, so it will not expose to light. Once we ve finish it i take it to the dark room. Here i have my film, tank with things inside to put film in, seassors and the thing you open your beer with. Lights go off, im completely in the dark. I take the beer thing and open the film like a bottle, then pop out the film. Now i have film in my hands. I take the seassors and cut the beginning of the film like 5-7 cm. It is besically the first shoots that were exposed to light. As i got this right i start to put film into the thing that wind film. There is a littel hole where film gotta be and then things will go easy. So i wind it and wind. At the end of the film i cut the stem out. So now pure film is on the winder, and i put winder to the tank(container) and close it up. I make sure that it is closed good so light won't get it. I turn on the light and ready to develop it. The steps of film developing is provided above. Well, working with chemicals is cool, but the process itself is kind of boring.

Next week i m going to make a contact sheet, to see which picture i would like to make and finally i ll bring it to life. Like we see any other pictures in the stores.

Monday, March 10, 2008

SECOND WEEK ASSIGNMENT (Part 2)

What did you do during your second week?
As our "Wired" exhibition downstairs were closing i have helped couple of artsits to pack their works of ART. We have talked how is it to be an artist and it didn'd sound that good. They all complained that they not making enough to live. I think they just not a good artists. After all peaces were taken down by me, i had to fill in some holes, then sand them, and paint walls is white, ( I still do it now, on my 3 rd week). Moreover i were making copies of the paper that tells whats our exhibition is going to be about and it is a faculty one. I also cleaned cyramics and give em price, so at the exhibition they will be on sale=) Also Erikas Pots. Then Black and White Photography class. Besically we developed film using dark room. ( too much to say) Also, I ordered some art supplies that carried upstairs today. So in the following few weeks i ll be working on putting the exhibition together.


How was it different than the first week?
Now, it's more like home. You know where to go, what to do, codes to locks and stuff like that. Also I start feeling the power being one of the teachers or whatever, like part of the school that actually tribute a lot to that school. You know....=)

What is something that you really like about the internship?
Ummm, hard to tell. Job is the job. For now i like when teachers have a meeting on our floor and then leave a lot of food behind....

What is something you dislike about the internship?
Nothing. Maybe lack of food, but i ll work on it.

Who else's blog have your read and commented on?
Emmanuels and Arturs.

Sunday, March 2, 2008

THE END OF THE FIRST WEEK OF INTERNSHIP!


What is it?
The Educational Alliance Art School

What kind of business is it and what kind of work do the professionals do there?
The mission of the EAAS is to be the leading community resource for people interested in the visual arts. We ahve conducted classes, created scholorships, organized exhibits, hosted classes and leny artwork to exhibit in offices.

Where is it?
197 East Broadway, New York, NY 10002

Tell a little about your mentor.
His name is Joseph and he is from Kansas. Used to be interested in music and then in college he changed it into art. Very nice guy!

What happened on the first day?
Meeting! We have talked about different kinds of rules.

What kinds things have you done so far?

  • Black/White Photography
  • Getting art supplies from 34 th street
  • Seen Joseph advertising our place (classes)
  • Posting art works on the wall
  • Seen Wire exhibition
  • Researched on artists
  • Cleaning (arranging art supplies)
  • Copying stuff


What were some of the highlights of the first week? (Memorable moments, cool things...)

How GREAT my internship is!!!


When do you leave school?

11:50

How long does it take you to get to your internship?

50 min


When do you arrive at home?

5:00 and Tuesdays 7:00

What is your schedule? (What days do you work and for how long each day?)

Mon, Wed, Thur - 1 to 4, and Tuesday from 1 to 6


Who are the two people that can sign your time card? (Your mentor and the additional person)

Walter and Joseph

Friday, February 15, 2008

WELCOME!!! (Internship info)

-What did you learn in the junior internship seminar class up to this point?

  • How to make resumes.
  • How to prepare for an interviw.
  • College stuff.
  • What s the internship like.
  • Different majors/jobs.
  • Also had some visitors and they taught us about discrimination and all that.

-What is your greatest fear about internship?

  • Working during Spring Break =/
  • Doing stuff in vain
  • Getting nothing out of it

What is your greatest hope for the internship?

  • I hope to go through it.
  • Getting good letter of recommendation
  • Work for them during the summer for 15$ per hr minimum. =)

What is your internship site and what are you going to do there? If you do not know, what do you think you will be doing?

  • It is the art school in downtown Manhattan where Erika takes her classes. I will help out with many differen stuff, such as: distributing flyers, making small exebitions every month from pieces that our students will produce, clean up, and loads of boring stuff....

What will you miss about going to high school as you normally did for the last 2.5 years?

  • Nothing!

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