Week 3,4, & 5?

Oh god I am the worst at blogging! Which is not good because I miss updating and keeping any projects I do at CalArts "on file."

Firstly, my trip to Mexico! Photos scrambled:

So, I decided to drop my CG class which makes me sad because it was something I was really looking forward to to learning this year but I realized that I would fit in better with the Experimental Animation CG class and after being sick from my trip from Mexico for HALF a month, it seems impossible to catch up. Anyways goodbye CG for now, long live the one ball bounce test I did.

This weekend was the CalArts Halloween Party and I was uncreative this year and went in NO costume but I did wear a black and orange dress so please appreciate some of my effort! Here are some pics of my BF and I :) 

And these are pics of me at the CalArts Halloween photobooth with Grace and Quique. Here you can see the progression of a guy bumping into me and completely spilling my wine everywhere:

And this week, animator David Daniels sent over my friend Maddie a piece of clay for strata-cut for our class to cut which is super nice and amazing of him! For those of you who don't know his work he is basically the creator and god of the strata-cut technique. Here's all of us cutting a slice and a link to one of his vids:

https://vimeo.com/6523587

I had so much fun!!

And now progress on my work, in my Manual Mechanical class, our first assignment was to create a Crank Shaft, here you can see my two cats jumping and Hi-5ing as well as two bells being hit. This is a present I made for my friend Daphne :)

The second assignment was working with Cams which are these circular devices that allow things to spin in circles or fall in place, in mine I have a spinning disco ball, and two cats on the side "dancing" and also spinning:

and last but not least, I have fallen in love with music programming! I need to figure out a way to make mp3's out of my songs so I can post them on here.. But I feel super cool when I write out code.

And this weekend my work will be screened at the Hugely Tiny Festival in Pasadena and the Women's Independent Film Festival in Los Angeles! Thank you so much for accepting my work. I feel so flattered that anyone would like what I do! 

ambar

Week 1 & 2

I am back to posting on the internet. I haven't had much to blog since usually I like to post cute pictures and show work in progress but i've just been settling in back to CalArts. There was some trouble deciding what classes to take, and I would post my schedule but because I am the worlds most undecided person am adding/dropping classes still to this week.

I will say that lately i've been interested in getting back into fashion, I felt I lost myself a little over summer but now with my new haircut, nails, and some wardrobe items, I am starting to feel a lot better.

I also need to get back in the habit of watching movies, I think i'll watch the original TRON tonight, and have started watched the complete Sopranos! So exciting.

There's been a lot going on but I think it's finally time to start working from my room and get a little break but the Butler building (which is the stop-mo desk area) I'm sorry! I love you Butler!!

This is what as been happening lately: BFA 1 party at my place, drinking, getting nails done for first time, getting haricut for the first time since I was in the 8th grade, learning CG, learning how to program music with code, daydreaming about my film, making a mini secret documentary that will come out of nowhere, decorating my room, and deciding to be home more than at school.

We'll see what happens! and my film this year will be crazy.



ambar

BFA-2

Tomorrow classes start and I am spending my last Sunday here organizing and decorating my room.  I feel anxious and nervous, and am also starting to work on campus as the film/video office girl.  What exactly does the film/video office girl do? Answer phones, fax things, answer questions, and wear cute mod dresses and pretend she's in Mad Men.  Okay maybe I added in that last part.

I'd say my room is started to come out pretty nice, I will be decorating more throughout the school year.  I have been obsessed lately with the idea of making gifts for special friends, and plan on starting to possibly make a gift a month to give out to someone who I felt helped me out in a time in need.  Hopefully these little "gifts of the month" will work out because it's something I really want to do!

I had rough summer where I didn't enjoy being back at home except to see my kit kats (my two cats) and teach an animation class in Austin which I will be posting the final projects once I do sound design.  (Ugh I hate sound design!!)

Anyways here is my room and I have been having a great week, i've seen friends every single day including a birthday party, 2 romantic girl dates with a friend in Los Angeles and Venice, running errands, movie nights, my own get together and a housewarming party where I experienced my first hangover.  Thanks college.

ambar.

'Nice' photos of my Toy Theater assignments

I finally had the chance to take some nice photos of my installations, no more bad cell phone pics! Although I do have an iphone 4S now.  It has already been dropped twice in the 1st week :(
Anyways, here they are!

Black Theater Box

Miniature Pet Shop

Stress Home

Class is wrapping up, and i'll be in LA in 5 days! I'll also be able to make it to the Rookie Mag Roadtrip meetup! Can't wait! 

Ambar