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.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
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.
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.
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!
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
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.
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:
Developing film is one significant activity I am working on currently at my internship. Let's start with Developing Film Process:
- Developer: 9-12 minutes. Agitate every 30 seconds for 5 seconds, and tap the container to eliminate bubbles.
- Stop: 30 seconds. Constantly Agitate! No tapping! Save the stop.
- Fixer: 5 minutes. Agitate every 30 seconds for 5 seconds. No tapping! Save the fixer.
- First wash: Wash with water for 5 minutes.
- Permawash: Agitate 2 minutes, no stopping!
- Final wash: 3 minutes.
- Photoflo: Let film submerge for at least 1 minute.
- 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.
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
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