{"id":730,"date":"2009-05-19T01:40:39","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T09:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tahnee.org\/wordpress\/?p=730"},"modified":"2009-05-19T01:40:39","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T09:40:39","slug":"one-year-down-three-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tahnee.org\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/19\/one-year-down-three-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"One Year Down, Three to Go!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CalArts, you are awesome.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-731\" title=\"goldenglobe\" src=\"http:\/\/tahnee.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/goldenglobe.jpg\" alt=\"goldenglobe\" width=\"420\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tahnee.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/goldenglobe.jpg 420w, https:\/\/tahnee.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/goldenglobe-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><br \/>\nBesides being an excellent work environment with excellent people to be inspired\/work with\/goof off with, there were all sorts of shows I made it to&#8230; Peter&#8217;s Shadow (puppetry\/theatre), Lost World (Theatre), Pure Grit (Theatre\/Puppetry), the World Music Festival (Javanese Gamelan, African and Indian music&#8230; involving a robotic Indian set of drums), the Balinesian music performance (involving a robot that played gamelan&#8211; yes, robots are taking over the music department! Aaah!) two dance performances, the Open and Producers&#8217; Shows, and probably a few other things I missed (those are just performances from the past month or so)!<br \/>\nI am proud of this:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-732\" title=\"lunchboxendoffreshyyear\" src=\"http:\/\/tahnee.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/lunchboxendoffreshyyear.jpg\" alt=\"lunchboxendoffreshyyear\" width=\"420\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tahnee.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/lunchboxendoffreshyyear.jpg 420w, https:\/\/tahnee.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/lunchboxendoffreshyyear-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><br \/>\nGranted, that&#8217;s with all the 2&#8217;s, 3&#8217;s, 4&#8217;s and up&#8230; but STILL! 11 full minutes of pencil tests&#8230; yay \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>Anyway,\u00a0 I thought this would be a good opportunity to put together a list of things I&#8217;ve learned at CalArts, either by observing other people, classes, lecturers, or personal experiences.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don&#8217;t, under ANY circumstance, open up a refrigerator that doesn&#8217;t belong to you or a close friend. Especially if it&#8217;s by the pencil test machines by the windows.<\/li>\n<li>WORK HARD<\/li>\n<li>Sleep every night.<\/li>\n<li>Freshmen, prepare to survive off of a maximum of 4 hours of sleep your first semester. That translates into getting as much sleep as you can NOW!<\/li>\n<li>Freshies, ALSO prepare to lose all social activity, spare yelling over your cube walls. Sounds harsh, I know, but if you want to get your work done, you&#8217;ve got to focus on working more than partying.<\/li>\n<li>Shower at least three times a week. Don&#8217;t end up all greasy and gross!<\/li>\n<li>Exception to last rule: during Crunchtime, deodorant and perfume might get you by.<\/li>\n<li>CHEWING GUM IS YOUR FRIEND! It&#8217;ll keep you awake when your eyes start seeing double and you&#8217;re supposed to be focusing on deep philosophical thoughts for class.<\/li>\n<li>Recycle animation paper!!! Any bad scenes get ERASED and REUSED!<\/li>\n<li>Col-Erase is your friend for roughs. I learned this TOO late in the game.<\/li>\n<li>Callouses between your fingers from flipping is a valid source of pride.<\/li>\n<li>The bench by the cubes\/main gallery door is cold and will suck out your soul if you try to sleep on it.<\/li>\n<li>The life drawing teachers know your names, so participate for at least an hour if you can.<\/li>\n<li>Choose your critical studies by talking to upper classmen and hearing who the coolest teachers are!<\/li>\n<li>Cubing by the main gallery door = DOOR MONITOR DUTY!<\/li>\n<li>Avoid the flat noodles in the cafeteria.<\/li>\n<li>Order chicken tacos WITHOUT sauce. It&#8217;ll burn your tastebuds off and you&#8217;ll be breathing like a dragon for an hour!<\/li>\n<li>Monday-Friday from 11:30-1:30 = SANDWICH BAR. Wheat bread + mayo + mustard + roast beef + pickles + onions + tomatoes + provalone = DELICIOUS!<\/li>\n<li>Get away from your department every two weeks if you can. Go see a music performance in the ROD! Go on a Grand CalArts Adventure! Go chill in the subfloor!<\/li>\n<li>The best Thursday Night is the Character show. Boooooooyeah!<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t microwave an aerosol can.<\/li>\n<li>Multi-functioning cameras = FRIENDS! (Sound\/video\/picture recording!)<\/li>\n<li>Moleskins are awesome for drawing on-the go. 11&#215;14&#8243; sketchbooks are awesome for drawing in class and in the cube \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li>Get your story settled and animatic&#8217;d by the 2nd week of the 2nd semester at the VERY LATEST! Then it&#8217;s worktime \ud83d\ude1b<\/li>\n<li>Flash = lean mean animatic-makin&#8217; machine.<\/li>\n<li>Make friends! You&#8217;ll be stuck with all these people for the rest of your life!<\/li>\n<li>PC laptops don&#8217;t even BEGIN to compare with Macbooks.<\/li>\n<li>Be nice and use the library&#8217;s printer to print up long documents&#8230; save the NICE paper for artwork!<\/li>\n<li>Valencia&#8217;s weather has severe ADHD.<\/li>\n<li>The catwalks in the Mod are scarrrryyy!<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s a dragon that lives under the school and breaths warm breath at night.<\/li>\n<li>Cramming ~20 people into a dorm on the 4th floor will get security from the 2nd floor to tell you to be quiet (as it&#8217;s the &#8216;quiet hall&#8217;)&#8211; even on Halloween.<\/li>\n<li>Popcorn is a perfectly valid dinner.<\/li>\n<li>&gt;Especially when the cafeteria serves smelly green kinda-leafy stuff!<\/li>\n<li>Pirates are SOOOOO cooler than ninjas!<\/li>\n<li>Every animator says the word &#8220;wonky&#8221; at least once in their lives&#8211; and certainly during guest lectures!<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s a haunted staircase that goes up to nowhere and somehow sprouted grass. Don&#8217;t ask me; it&#8217;s art school.<\/li>\n<li>Play-Doh bounces off of walls when you throw it hard enough.<\/li>\n<li>4 AM is a perfectly regular bedtime.<\/li>\n<li>Ukuleles are popular.<\/li>\n<li>Eating is not a priority, projects and animating is.<\/li>\n<li>Sleep is optional on occasion.<\/li>\n<li>If you&#8217;re sleeping in your cube, sleep on your desk and not the floor. It&#8217;s cozier and you&#8217;ll have more room&#8230; and then hope your friends will offer you a cot \ud83d\ude1b<\/li>\n<li>Bring shorts for the Spring semester&#8211; else you&#8217;ll melt.<\/li>\n<li>Bring jackets for the Fall semester&#8211; CalArts likes to cryogenically freeze students with the air conditioning.<\/li>\n<li>CalArtsians will = your closest friends!!!!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s all I can think of now. I may add more in the comments&#8230; feel free to comment whatever you learned at CalArts! \ud83d\ude00 Annnd a BIG CONGRATS &amp; KUDOS TO THE GRADUATES OF &#8217;09!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CalArts, you are awesome. Besides being an excellent work environment with excellent people to be inspired\/work with\/goof off with, there were all sorts of shows I made it to&#8230; Peter&#8217;s Shadow (puppetry\/theatre), Lost World (Theatre), Pure Grit (Theatre\/Puppetry), the World &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/tahnee.org\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/19\/one-year-down-three-to-go\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[206,18,8],"tags":[595,354,561,353,181,591,594,593,592,547],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tahnee.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tahnee.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tahnee.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tahnee.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tahnee.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tahnee.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":733,"href":"https:\/\/tahnee.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions\/733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tahnee.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tahnee.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tahnee.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}