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A blog by Julia Felix about experiences on the CAMS New Media in NYC and Europe study abroad program.

Friday, October 13, 2006

A fun filled night of Haribo Starmix and ghost stories

Hey everyone. Sorry I didn't post yesterday, but I seriously was busy from the moment I woke up until the moment I went to sleep. Here's how it went:

As I mentioned in my previous post, Stacy and I were assigned to make a review of the Frieze Art Fair for a big audio project our group is making for Resonance FM. It was technically due at 9pm that night, so that Terin could get started on putting it together. The pressure was on. I had stayed up late the night before, so I didn't wake up until about 12:15 the next day. Stacy and I were supposed to be at Frieze at 1:30 or 2:00 so I spent most of my time up until that point getting ready and picking up audio equipment.


Stacy and I were still trying to figure out how our mini disc player worked right up until we got in the door, but it didn't matter anyway since we ended up having to give it to Caitlin (she was doing a creative response and Stacy and I were doing a sort of talk show like thing, so we didn't really NEED it). We weren't really sure what we were going to review, so we just kind of wandered around looking for anything that interested both of us. Eventually we came across this piece that was just some text on a canvas, and thought that we should discuss this "text art" for our portion of the program.

After wandering around and looking at all kinds of art for another hour or so, we came back to ISH and got a microphone from Karina. Then it was time to record! We played around with the microphone for a good two hours "learning the equipment," which basically meant us messing around and recording weird noises into GarageBand. Our microphone sucked really bad and recorded pretty much everything except for our voices (you could hear us, but you could also hear someone coughing in the next room just as loud), so we had to kick Rachel and Jenny out of the room and then set up a "sound booth" by putting our comforters all around the bottom bunk of Stacy's bed.

It reminded me of those little forts you make when you're little. Like that time Talia, Lanning and I made a fort out of umbrellas to hide from Zara Kriegstein's self portrait during a lightning storm. Pretty soon, Stacy and I were all giggly like a couple of middle school kids, and we recorded this very long radio program that not only went into this text piece by Fiona Banner, but also into Contemporary Art in general. We discussed Andy Warhol and....some other guy....and we talked about art being for the people or for artists....it was all very deep. But this deep and philosophical discussion was also interrupted by the fact that Stacy and I are both.....not very good at expressing our thoughts, shall we say.

I think my best moment was when I said "because I don't usually understand...............words....." and Stacy's best was definitely right after we had messed up on something and had to stop recording and then start again. She began by saying "I agree with Julia that.............." and there was this really long pause and then she just made this weird squeaky sound. Oooh, it was beautiful.

Unfortunately, most of it isn't in the actual finished product. After cutting out most of the awkward pauses and bits of us just pausing and thinking for a whole 30 seconds, our discussion was about 15 minutes long. I set to work editing out any unnecessary parts.

2 hours later, it was down to 12 minutes. About another 2 hours later, 10 minutes. Then 9, 7, 6, and finally, after cutting out a lot of my favorite parts, I got it down to 5:15, which is just a little longer than it was supposed to be. By the time this happened though, it was about 5:30 or 6 in the morning.

I must have woken up at around 10:45 this morning to the sounds of most of my roommates running around. Apparently, the alarm (I guess we only have one) hadn't gone off, so all of us were late for our 11:00 class. Stacy hadn't even woken up to this, and I was fully concious but too tired to move, I guess. All I remember is hearing someone say "Should we get up Julia and Stacy?" and someone else saying "I don't think they're coming." and then I fell asleep again.

Stacy and I woke up at around 12:30 to the sound of Russian mades yelling to eachother while changing the trash in our room. We did our morning getting ready type stuff, I cleaned up our talk show a little bit more, and then we exported it and gave it to Terin.

At around 3pm we went to an Architecture school to learn about Unit 15, a program where Architecture students learn to make beautiful things using programs like Adobe After Effects. We watched a whole series of short films by students there, my favorite of which was by a student named Peter Kidger. I can't find it online anywhere, but if I do, I'll definitely put it up. It's beautiful.


Afterwards, we had a discussion with the professor of the class and the students. I think a lot of us felt a little intimidated by what they were doing, and weren't sure how to go about talking to them about it, or ask them question about it. Or at least I was. But we still had a good time. I think the best/worst part was when John said "but I do think a lot of times a person has to be mediocre to be successful. I mean, look at you!" and everyone just went really quiet. John, of course, was joking, but it's one of those things where it only works if everyone laughs, and no one laughed. So we were all a little embarassed and were laughing about that for quite a while afterwards.

Nothing really happened after that. We got dinner, watched various short movies and TV shows in our rooms, etc. Actually, Caitlin got tricked into going on a date with a french guy she met in the cyber cafe. Basically, she had gone into the cyber cafe with Joe, Kristen, Jeremy and Rachel, and they were all sitting around talking. There was some random guy staring at them, and after a while they decide to wave. Not long after that, he came over and sat with them and started talking to Caitlin. Figuring he must be trying to practice his english, she talked to him for an hour or so. I came in around the end of it and listened to them talk for a while about politics in France and the US, and Lance Armstrong taking steroids. Then the conversation suddenly turned.
Pierre (that's actually his name): Well, I go to smoke now. You smoke?
Caitlin: No. But it was nice to meet you. I'll see you around!
Pierre: Yes, nice to meet you too. Are you going to be here tomorrow night?
Caitlin: Yeah, I hang out around here sometimes. I'm sure I'll see you soon.
Pierre: Ah, what time you think you'll be here?
Caitlin: Oh, I don't know. In the evening sometime...
Pierre: Ah, maybe I see you at 9:30?
Caitlin: Uh, sure, I can be here then...
Pierre: Okay, I will meet you at 9:30. Maybe we go to pub or something. See you later!
Caitlin: *Look of confusion as she realizes what just happened*

Sadly, Caitlin isn't really too interested in this guy. We're hoping we can pass him off to Jenny, who speaks french and apparently is desperately looking for a man, because I don't know why anyone would want to hit on a guy they haven't even met yet.

The night ended pretty well though, when Tom, Andy, and Terin had a party in their room. It wasn't so much a party as it was people sitting around drinking beer and talking, but it was still pretty fun. We talked for a long time, then decided to turn off the lights and tell ghost stories. The stories progressively got worse and worse until they were just kind of depressing ("My great grandmother got hit by a semi truck while crossing the street to go to Dairy Queen!"). Then a few of us hung out with Terin and played around on his computer, and then everyone realized it was almost 3:00am and decided to leave.

And now it's even later and I'm still awake. At least tomorrow is a free day.

22 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

That picture of a huge face freaks me out, but I'm not sure why. Or at least, I can't explain it with words. Or thoughts. Or anything.

9:59 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

That French guy only wanted to go out with her because she's American, and you know what they say about American girls...

2:46 AM  
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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Does anybody know if anyone before Yoko Ono did much text art?

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Oh, here's a place I ask you go if you get the chance, so I might live vicariously though you: The Cittie of York pub. 22 High Holborn, in Holborn (London.)
It's a pub that dates back to the 15th century and it was the original setting fror the 50 page long party scene in "Pins and Pomade" before I changed it to he fictional Peruke Tavern. I hear the don't offer too wide a drink selection, but maybe you could buy nachos there or something.

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Blogger peterkidger said...

I'm glad you liked the film. It's great to hear that people appreciate it. Will post online once my website is up and running, along with some more recent stuff.

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