So going along with my recent Beatles kick... here is a guy playing "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" on a ukulele. He doesn't really get into it much until like 2 or 3 minutes into the video. I would start at two minutes I think.
I also just really like this. "Open your mouth and say words." A good statement I would say.
I had my last final this morning which went as well as it could have I guess considering that I have missed the last like seven weeks of class. I just went over the powerpoints my professor did. There is also a paper I had to write for the final, so I'm hoping that they will balance each other out if it didn't go well... but I think I'm fine. Now just one more photo class to sit through (which is really unnecessary. But I like photography.)
So, I really love a lot of the music video segments in Help! but this one is especially lovely from the colors, composition, position of the Beatles and so on. I also really like the man playing the flute, who was apparently one of George's friends... I think. I remember my dad telling me something along those lines. I'm trying really hard to push through and finish my last few things for finals (I have two exams and a paper left...) but I am having a hard time. I packed up a bunch of my things to store with Christine, she is being super awesome and letting me leave a bunch of things at her home while I am at the castle. We finished with deliberations today... so seven weeks later I am done with the jury. It was really hard to give the verdict which I was not expecting, but while it was being read I just wanted to sob. I didn't cry though. But it was hard not to. After I went to the Omni Parker Hotel with some other jury members to get drinks at the bar there, The Last Harrah. They served me without carding me which was lovely because I could participate. I got a espresso martini in the end. One of the jurors, Leslie (an architect) was a little tipsy... on the drunk side of things and had a hair appointment on Boylston and had about an hour to kill so I took her home with me. We chatted about life and such. I really do like her. It was a strange but good chain of events. After she left Rita, Molly and I went to Maggiano's to have a last little roommate date. It was very tasty and a good night out. Katie and Amy came by and we watched a movie and snuggled around. And now... I am pretending to be working. I am going home this Wednesday and am very excited to be back in Colorado for a while.
I went to the most wonderful exhibition at the MFA today for my photography class. It was a show of Harry Callahan's prints. I chose the on up there to write about. I also had to sketch it as part of the assignment (we had a worksheet.) He has other things as well, colors prints, double exposures, textures, and interesting landscapes. I really really like his work. It was a wonderful place to spend time.
Also, on the way out I stumbled across a "contemporary" exhibition that featured artworks of bands... album covers by a certain photographer, great prints of artists by another. I only got to look at it briefly due to the fact that I was on my way to the T with two people from my class but it was a good thing to see. Especially the Richard Avedon Beatles prints.
Last night I went to Films From the Margin's screening of Andrei Tarkovsky's The Mirror. It was very beautifully shot, there were several scenes that resonate with me. Also. I've just registered for classes at the castle next semester. I am taking:
Intercultural Communication Topics in Literature: European Literature History of Photography History of Western Art: Modern
So that should be lovely because I am basically just studying art. [and Intercultural Communication encourages traveling and relates topics in class to our adventures.] I'm really quite satisfied. That said, I do have a lot of "cleaning house" to do. I've been thinking about my final photography assignment and think that I would like to do a series of people undressing. I need ten prints and have the next 3 and a half weeks to accomplish it. So basically... I should be doing that now. I'm just trying to get everything else in order in the meantime. There is also the issue of finding models. I think I would like one boy and one girl at least. Rita has offered to do it which is fantastic. She is quite a nice little one. I think I want to just show the torso... but I may play with that as time goes on. I also was considering a series of lamps, or something to do with lamps. I've been drawing them lately for whatever reason. I think it started because I am gaining a fascination of light. Cinematography is basically good lighting and composition. I would like to take a drawing class, as I may have mentioned, because that also looks at the way light is falling on objects among other things. It is something that is overlooked, but once you start thinking about it light is really amazing and lovely. We like certain times of the day because of light and it can play tricks and make things beautiful or interesting or sinister. The other day I came out of the T and saw light dripping down a building. Finally, there are two exhibits in New York that I really want to attend: one and two. I think a day trip, if nothing else, is in order.
