Too Hot Again
10:10am CET
Teacher’s late. His train is "late", which apparently means he missed it. And I can’t find the stupid apostrophe on this keyboard! I had to copy and paste it from Wikipedia! FRUSTRATING!
10:21pm CET
OMG we did stuff today! We watched some more videos and then we went to the photo studio and made our own PikaPika movie. PikaPika is making a drawing with light using flashlights and cameras set to take photos on long exposure. It’s a really cool technique. First we saw how to do it, then we spelled out NABA SUMMER SCHOOL 2009. Then we made some random moving shapes and some circles getting closer to the camera and then Pac Man. It was so much fun. Here are some examples of what we did. After break we talked about our project. We broke up into groups of three and we’re going to be making a one minute animation using various stop motion techniques. My group, composed of the three of us from WVU, are going to propose an animation starting with a PikaPika animation of a ball bouncing and landing on a tack, therefore deflating it. Then we plan to switch to pixellation (stop motion using a live actor) where one of us picks up the now-real flattened ball which is actually a balloon and blows it up. Then we switch to paper doll style cutouts of the girl floating away into the sky. We all like the idea and hope the teacher will too. Came home and took a nap. It broke 100 degrees today. It’s just so hot. Almost all of us went out at 7pm to the same bar we went to the first day because we had coupons for 3 euro drinks plus free bar. I had a strawberry margarita and we chatted for a while when Marko, our teaching assistant, dropped by. So he joined us and we talked for a while when the fashion photography class’ TA came. She joined us too and we all talked. They asked us about American stereotypes like they see in the movies. If high schools have the cheerleader vs. everyone else rivalries, if we’re nuts about football (which has no right to be called football because you only kick it maybe 10 times per game), how easy it is to get guns and how smokers are treated. It was all fun stuff. The best part was when Marko said "wazzuuuuup" and I was almost in tears laughing. He’s from Slovakia and speaks all kinds of languages, but it was just so funny to hear him say that. Came home and now I’m sweating on my bed. I can’t believe how hot it is. You have no idea.
