Present Joys

Day 20: fri, 27 sep 2013. Presentation day in the CCAD MindMarket starts early, while morning light is still breaking.

• Turned in my first jewelry assignment and had a crit about it. This, plus a very drawn-out tour of the reorganized jewelry lab, took up virtually the whole class time.
• Spent the entirety of our back-to-back 12:30–6:30pm Mohr classes actually in class. That’s a long time!
• Had a very sweet, thoughtful portfolio review then spent the other two-plus hours of Portfolio talking to Anna, Jen, Julia, Haley, and Audrey about life. Is all of senior year going to be like this?
• Had a dull wednesday morning in Branding, then crashed at the library to have lunch and do some work.
• Watched Fritz Lang’s M in History of Cinema. It was great, albeit a literal pain in the butt to sit in the Canzani auditorium in the dark for so long.
• Had a nice, laid-back thursday morning carving wax models of rings, then met my dear friend Chris for lunch at the Hills Market. A welcome diversion!
• Enjoyed another full thursday afternoon with back-to-back Mohr, though it was hard to get any real work done. Spent most of my time chatting with friends and half-heatedly working on sketches.
• Used the last two hours of Portfolio in the Canzani gallery listening to Vivien Goldman and Toby Mott talk about punk.
• Had a dysfunctional friday morning Branding class; the teacher was gone pretty much the whole time and left loose-cannon Brian Spain as his deputy. We pretty much ran the class ourselves and brainstormed with giant sticky notes.

Day 6: wed, 4 sep 2013. Writing a creative brief over lunch with Jen. Note the crunchy celery.

Today was my first day of school. My first day of senior year. To celebrate, and to appease my nostalgia-loving future self, I am trying something new. EVERY DAY of senior year, I will post one photographic snapshot from the day. That is my promise to you, internet.

Today’s senior snapshot: a spirited friendship lunch at the Hills Market.

I saw Dawn McCarthy and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy play the Wexner Center last night (2 aug 2013). (back in Columbus for the second time this year!) It was not difficult to get my usual front-and-center spot. The band consisted of Will, Emmett Kelly, Cheyenne Mize (who mostly played bass this time, with a bit of violin), drummer Van Campbell, and Dawn McCarthy, seated around one room mic. It was quite peaceful! I believe this was the first show I’ve ever seen where every performer was seated for the entire duration of the show.

The show was really fun. I’m still not completely sold on the music of the Everly Brothers, but I enjoyed the music-industry backstory that Will was able to share about a lot of the tunes. And the songs all sounded great; I really enjoyed Will and Dawn’s tight harmony, especially since they both have such kooky voices. But the highlight of the night, in my opinion, was the scattered bunch of The Letting Go songs: Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy originals, lovingly and wildly performed. If memory serves, we got to hear “Then The Letting Go”, “Lay & Love”, “The Seedling”, “Cursed Sleep”, and (best of all) “The Seedling”. They were so rockin’.

It was a fun experience. I was still a little woozy from tonsillectomy painkillers, and I was alone, and I met some interesting, talkative middle-aged men while I was there. Another great show at my favorite venue in town!