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petroniaI won't be able to finish all the mix CDs, of course. ^^; I got 25 requests and will have 5-6 ready to go tonight - I won't be able to mail them until Tuesday, though, since I have to buy bubble mailers and make it to the post office. 10-12 should be manageable but after that it gets dicey since they still have to wend their way through the snail mail network. Will probably start on cards for the rest. Anyone else for cards? Post is here. Don't assume I have your address! ^^;
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getbacksubrosa's guessing deadline is in three days. Don't forget to submit your guesses - only a few people have done so thus far. I'll post to the comm too but I figure this is the only way I'm reaching GB-fan flisters who don't have it friended (I know there's a few :O).
Real life stuff: went to the Montreal Contemporary Art Museum (free Wednesday evenings), saw the Vic Muniz - Thomas Hirschhorn - Karel Funk exhibitions. Really loved the Muniz, although the dude's work is easy to love - I mean, what is there not to love about a peanut butter and jelly Mona Lisa? XD Or a cloud painted using... cloud trails (from a plane). Or pictures that appear to be pencil sketches from afar until one realizes they're photographs of installations made from twisted wire, or thread looped around pins. I'm into technical virtuosity and playful formalism, so. XD In comparison it was hard to respond to the Hirschhorn installation as visual art - it wasn't precisely intended to be beautiful, and felt more like an imaginative pedagogical aid for the Global Leftist Agenda (tm). This isn't to say I didn't spend ages reading the pages of Nietzsche, Chicago Bulls fluff, academic exegeses of 90s fashion etc. pasted on the walls, just that I prefer art installations in principle when they don't require one to read. Karel Funk was also virtuosic, but ascetically so. I did like the echoes of Renaissance portraiture.
After dinner Erin and I went to GAMMA 256, where we met Ced and a number of other friends and acquaintances. Goes to show what people are into. XD The music was a lot more compelling than I expected, at least when they were DJing 8-bit techno and not plain old indiedance - sort of as if someone had completed the thought and mashed up "MDMA" with the Dr. Mario fever theme (note: am constantly surprised this is not a real bootleg). Of course, the real stars of the night were the games; we just walked around for a couple of hours playing this or that for five minutes at a time and watching others play. They're all up for download here but I can't remember which one is which anymore. XD;
Thursday - made yoga class, finally. Friday - in-house case competition practice. I quote: "North Pole Workshops is skating on thin ice when demand for one toy suddenly surges and another goes from 'in' to 'over' in a blink. How can the team avoid disappointing customers - without a crippling increase in costs?" Harvard Business School, you so wacky. orz Did not place, in part because we took it too seriously - I blame lack of sleep.
In general, the brilliance and horror of team case competitions is how much convincing BS can be pulled together by five people in two hours or twenty-four, backed by solid figures and pretty Powerpoints. The process is utter insanity, panic, and raised voices, but the final result miraculously comes together (at least, it has so far). One can't even allow oneself to think about it when it's happening, or one'd be crippled by performance anxiety. XD;
Still, Extreme Powerpoint Creation needs to be a business tools course. >_>
Friday night was the winter party - basically, dressing up and going out to a chi-chi Italian/Asian-fusion type dinner around Prince Arthur and St. Laurent, followed by nightclubbing. I'm not sure why we keep going to Ballroom Bar but at least 1) they play proper house music on Friday nights and 2) there was bottle service and I didn't personally pay for it. XDD Had a couple of hilarious interactions with classmates I'll reproduce when I get up the gumption to talk about the people properly and give a bit of context.
Also on the announcements front,
getbacksubrosa's guessing deadline is in three days. Don't forget to submit your guesses - only a few people have done so thus far. I'll post to the comm too but I figure this is the only way I'm reaching GB-fan flisters who don't have it friended (I know there's a few :O).Real life stuff: went to the Montreal Contemporary Art Museum (free Wednesday evenings), saw the Vic Muniz - Thomas Hirschhorn - Karel Funk exhibitions. Really loved the Muniz, although the dude's work is easy to love - I mean, what is there not to love about a peanut butter and jelly Mona Lisa? XD Or a cloud painted using... cloud trails (from a plane). Or pictures that appear to be pencil sketches from afar until one realizes they're photographs of installations made from twisted wire, or thread looped around pins. I'm into technical virtuosity and playful formalism, so. XD In comparison it was hard to respond to the Hirschhorn installation as visual art - it wasn't precisely intended to be beautiful, and felt more like an imaginative pedagogical aid for the Global Leftist Agenda (tm). This isn't to say I didn't spend ages reading the pages of Nietzsche, Chicago Bulls fluff, academic exegeses of 90s fashion etc. pasted on the walls, just that I prefer art installations in principle when they don't require one to read. Karel Funk was also virtuosic, but ascetically so. I did like the echoes of Renaissance portraiture.
After dinner Erin and I went to GAMMA 256, where we met Ced and a number of other friends and acquaintances. Goes to show what people are into. XD The music was a lot more compelling than I expected, at least when they were DJing 8-bit techno and not plain old indiedance - sort of as if someone had completed the thought and mashed up "MDMA" with the Dr. Mario fever theme (note: am constantly surprised this is not a real bootleg). Of course, the real stars of the night were the games; we just walked around for a couple of hours playing this or that for five minutes at a time and watching others play. They're all up for download here but I can't remember which one is which anymore. XD;
Thursday - made yoga class, finally. Friday - in-house case competition practice. I quote: "North Pole Workshops is skating on thin ice when demand for one toy suddenly surges and another goes from 'in' to 'over' in a blink. How can the team avoid disappointing customers - without a crippling increase in costs?" Harvard Business School, you so wacky. orz Did not place, in part because we took it too seriously - I blame lack of sleep.
In general, the brilliance and horror of team case competitions is how much convincing BS can be pulled together by five people in two hours or twenty-four, backed by solid figures and pretty Powerpoints. The process is utter insanity, panic, and raised voices, but the final result miraculously comes together (at least, it has so far). One can't even allow oneself to think about it when it's happening, or one'd be crippled by performance anxiety. XD;
Still, Extreme Powerpoint Creation needs to be a business tools course. >_>
Friday night was the winter party - basically, dressing up and going out to a chi-chi Italian/Asian-fusion type dinner around Prince Arthur and St. Laurent, followed by nightclubbing. I'm not sure why we keep going to Ballroom Bar but at least 1) they play proper house music on Friday nights and 2) there was bottle service and I didn't personally pay for it. XDD Had a couple of hilarious interactions with classmates I'll reproduce when I get up the gumption to talk about the people properly and give a bit of context.
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Date: 2007-12-03 08:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-04 06:17 am (UTC)well, I'm still at around this stage. XDDDD These things are usually subjective anyway; judges favour certain styles, ratio of fact to factoid to nice sounding BS, etc. There's always next year?
And dammit, GAMMA256 and all the awesome Canadian events are swaying my heart from an exchange in Europe to one in Canada/the US.