26-28.09.2011- My course starts- Summer Project ,Spaghetti tower..Football tryouts

Ye , I gonna write this time for the all 3 days together ,rather than making 3 separate posts , cuz I have  kinda fallen behind for 2 days  :D

This is going to cover a lot of information , you don't have to read it all at one time , split it , come back later , but please read it , its interesting , I promise :D ( ye even the ending( actually the endings are usually the most interesting :D ))

And anyway they were kinda the same... My course finally started ( sorta :D ) , I had plenty of welcome and induction talks ...again .... but at least this time they are  a bit more connected to my course so they are not that bad... except today when I had the same speech I had last week :D...

So more importantly -my course started ... It meant basically that , we met all up in our studio ( 3D modelling studio (that's gonna be our home for the next 3 years :) ) ...
so Monday when everyone came , they had with them the summer projects .. i didn't bring mine and was was chilling ,cuz I thought we didn't actually have to bring it on Monday , but on Wednesday ( cuz or schedule said that Wednesday is gonna be for induction projects ( so I thought that those are gonna be the summer projects ( ye I know induction and summer is not the same word :D )))) anyway , of course it was the right day to bring in you summer projects ,and as I found out the induction project was something completely else :D... But ye so I basically sat in my place , when everybody else shyly (or cocky ) took out their project and put them on table... then a bunch of important people( tutors and lecturers ) walked around and took pictures and stuff... but I just sat there miserably and extremely mad at myself .. Of course I asked if I can bring the thing in tomorrow and they said of course you can... but its wont be the same , I knew that ... however ,luckily I wasn't the only one :D , some didn't bring the thing that day or next , or the next .. Of course not me ... after that I straight away went to my room and started a 8 hour long modeling work run to finish my piece and add some  details( :D , ye I didn't quite had it ready for the Monday anyway :D ,so even If I knew I would be able to bring it in ( although I was sure I wont need it until Wednesday and so i didn't rush the production of it :D ))) So ye i had to struggle with some thing about how to make it all together , because I had made the letters and I had decided to make the Iron throne...

Ou , I should probabbly explain what the summer project was all about :D ..
SO I gonna just copy paste  the briefing :

SUMMER PROJECT: “Make your Name”
Start: Summer 2011
Finish: You need to bring the finished model with you on Monday 26 September 2011 - your first day at the University of Hertfordshire.
This is a simple project designed to encourage you to think three-dimensionally.
It is an opportunity to say something about yourself, to show your ability to make neat, accurate, clean models. It should also demonstrate your creative abilities and illustrate your interests and passions, whether in art, design, architecture, film, TV or any other media.
What you have to do:
Make a name for yourself, which will fit comfortably on your new workbench in the Model Design Studio. It should be a three-dimensional form, which can be seen from the entrance of the studio.
A flat cutout rendering of the shape of the letters is not what is required.

Ye I know it says , with you on monday 26 :( ( shame on me ) :D 

Anyway , ye so I gonna just show what I basically did : 

1. First what I wanted to build was this: the Iron Throne from the Epic books :A song of Ice and Fire  (aka Games of throne) ...

So I wanted to make it just like they did - using only swords, of course i had to make it from paper swords...

2. So secondly I cut out a loooooot of swords ( I guess about 300 , at least , It was actually quite interesting to figure out how , to cut out that many swords, in not time period that is, well forever :D

3rd I glued them all together , just like this :) , ye it took quite some time but it was fun.... 

I still doubt if it was the right decision to make them from two colors , i know why I did that though , but you know It was impossible to test how will it look when made only from one colour ... so basically i did 2 colors because I thought if one colour it will be hard to tell the shapes of the swords and it gonna just look like a mess ( well it looks like one now too , though :D ) , but anyway , and I thought it gonna fit my black and white theme more ...

4. ye I guess i left out the part of the making my name which I decided is gonna be O S C A R , just for the convenience :D 

So it like a Letter man , he  hold C in his right hand and he has S in his stomach and R is his crown and A is his hand that holds the sword ..

So ye there it is , finished piece :) .. I thought a lot about how to arrange the letters and stuff , should they be scattered , or all in the O stomach , or just to the side ... and I could quite test how its gonna look , cuz I only hade a super glue , not skotch :D . Anyway I think I came up with the best solution ...

Well this is just a small picture of how the 'masters' workspace looks after his work is done :D ( ye it actually still looks the same :D , I just don't what to trow so many good paper leftovers away :D )

Sooooo , I took it with me on Tuesday ... As I already predicted no one made any notice of it ( at least as much as I saw ) I talk more about the tutors , though... the other student noticed , and a lot of them said they liked and you know the usual polite stuff :D  , still that was at least comforting... 

I still just left it there , hoping that some day they gonna come in( the tutors ) and see it ...

Actually yesterday( Tuesday ) one of them with camera came , when we were listening a speak about Disability support ... When I saw him approaching my work , with the camera, my heart was pounding hard , I mean I so hopped that he is going to notice and take a picture of it , like he did on Monday of everyone's else work .... :( , but he didn't :( , he instead took a picture of one of the works , just behind mine :D ( so I felt bad) maybe he thought he had taken picture of it on Monday , maybe he didn't notice it , maybe he didn't like it ... OR , maybe he did make a picture of in , some other time that I wasn't around to see :D ( lets hope for the last one) ...

Anyway . So it was Tuesday and our first year tutor John ( don't remember last name ( that's prob a bad thing )  decided we do the induction projects straight away....

So he gave us 5 packs of spaghetti and a 5 packs of jelly candies ... So we had to make a huge spaghetti tower , that would be at least 2 m high :)

So ye that's what we did for 2 days :) ... We were divided in groups , rather , we divided ourselves in groups ... UI had quite good team :D why good? well they basically allowed me to be in charge :D , and I am the kinda guy who wants sometimes to be allowed to do what I wasn't , especially when it comes down to building stuff :D.... But don't think I was like lets do that  and that ... i am never like that ... I achieve what I want in different ways ...that I will not  reveal you...(ye cuz maybe I don't know , how I do that , but all I know is that the ending piece of works looks like I wanted it to look :D :D) ... ok just to not sound cocky - Its probably not always a good , thing , cuz I am bad leader , maybe, or more correctly - bad supervisor - I just like to take everything in my own hands and get on with it ... Well this was the later...

At the end of the project we were only two guys left building the thing , ( ye maybe because we were the tallest , or maybe cuz we just really enjoyed it , that seemed not to be the case for some of the other team members ) .... so we did build or thing- tower , and guess what????

WE WON!!!!, ye our tower was the only one that actually stood :D , and didn't break or collapse :O , I actually thought that everyone's gonna do it , cuz it was not that hard ... And our tower was almost 3 meters :D ... Cool ...Another team made they tower just above 3 m but their tower collapsed the moment they all backed away :D... SO ye there's a picture of it , they are not very good , and I am doing something weird , but still u can see the structure :

Ye so that's cool I guess ... I took a lot of spaghetti back home :D , (BTW  those bastards wanted to destroy it , so they did :( ...  so this picture is the only real proof of the towers existence :D ( ok I have 2 more , but there are random people in them :D )

So ye but whats my conclusion ? Someday I gonna make a HUGE building of spaghetti , it was so fun , and it was like LEGO , you could just add more and more ... of course the structure is very important, and its essential that you figure out how to drain the weight and pressure  :), that I think I got figured out ... 

So ye that was fun , and I think I got myself some recognition :) ..  I am definitely not the loudest or most talkative person , so I need this kind of recognition :D , cuz I want my work to speak loudest that my 'words' ( that probably suck :D )

 Everyone kinda has their own table , and there a like 46 tables together  , so the 6 is going to be a group usually , but to be honest , I didn't like my group that much :( ... So I gonna probably try to find myself a better place... I just want to sit with people that just enjoy spending time doing  , for example , this kinda stuff , or just any that is asked of them :D ( only 1 guy was like really enthusiastic , like I , and we even discussed the possibility to really make something big somewhere else :D )

Ok so wrap up about my course:

Most of the students are girls :D like 2/3 

A big age amplitude ...

A lot of people with a work experience , in this sphere ...

Actually there are no style freaks :D ( I saw one , though, walking around campus , but I don't want to be judgmental , but that was really creepy ( not gonna describe the picture to you :D , you don't need to know this exists :D )

So my course basically takes place in the same studio and 2 workshops for the 3 years...
I have only one lecture  every week in like a auditorium ( that's something called C & CS - critical & cultural studies) ... So what that means is that I DONT have any exams , only 1 essay each semester about the C&CS studies and just my project works :)

          Well that sounds nothing like school , AT ALL ... So I gues Bye Bye good school year , I gonna really miss them... 

Still I hope I am going to be able to do some optional things ( like drawing n' stuff ) ... 

And the C&CS include 18 courses ,that we have to choose one from, which we gonna learn next semester , so I gonna probably take : Introduction to Film ........

anyway , apart from course and study stuff...
Today I went to cinema :) :) :) , and that was cool , I liked it the , teather was really nice , cuz the seats were comfortable and the quality of the screen was SUPERB :) ans was the sound quality ...

So ye that was actually  the firs official time I have been to cinema in England listening to movies in their official language with no subtitles :D ...It felt good , I am going to visit the cinema very often I think :D, to boot , they show all the newest movies :)

So ye what did I see? Well I and Deb( I guess we are bonding kinda well , shes a nice girl and everything :D...)  went to see the Crazy,Stupid,Love  with Steve Carell and Emma Stone and Kevin Bacon ,and Ryan Gosling ( hes the new hit actor I guess, hes in every movie) ...

So the movie was good actually, it was OK almoust trought all the movie when suddenly at the second part of the movie it just went CRAZY :D ... IT basically really was CRAZY, sometimes the thing the carathers did was stupid , but most of all it was about love ... So nice movie , Steve Carell good as always , Emma stone was good as well ( I doubted that before :D ) ...  Actually the movie was completely unpredictable , which is kinda rare for the movies nowdays ... So I recommend everyone to see it  ( more because you damned people can see it for only 2 Ls , but I had to buy the ticket for 6,50 Ls :( ) so go and see good movies !

Ok so that's gonna be enough for the 3 days :D ...

Ou one last thing : the Football couch pasūtija mani trīs mājas tālāk ( showed me the doors , I guess could be the equivalent of that saying (sorta) ) , he kept saying me ,that the level of football I am looking for is different that Uni standards ,so I should go and talk with that guy in the other side of the hall :D .... Well of course I tried to say to him that I am good n' stuff, I even told him that I am school league champion :D :D , he was ,like , where? I was like in Latvia ... m....h.... he was like I have no Idea where that is :D (he didn't actually say that ,though, but there are times when you can just see that in people faces :D ... Ok , it wasn't that bad in the end , the place where he sent me (and a lot other guys) was just a guy saying that they form teams that play against Uni teams ,instead of playing against another Uni's teams , and if u are really good in those games , you can get picked up for the Uni team... That actually sounds even better, that going straight to the Uni team :) , cuz there is no pressure straight away in the tryouts ... ye so now I just gonna wait till some more information show up on their facebook page ... Ye another thing , when some of the  people signed , they were 1.British , 2.second years and 3.most of them had played in some cool club ( I suppose , at least the names of them sounded professional :D )

Anyway besides that I signed up for athletics and track :D , I mean why not ... for 100m sprint ... Dunno lets see if they gonna want to see how I sprint :D , I dint have professional track shoes , though, :D ...

Ok now I really go , thanks , and be back :) 

Have a good time , and take care !