Youtube Artists

I've been familiarized to some great musical artists on youtube recently. I thought I would share them with you all. Lindsey Stirling is a hip hop violin performance artist. She dances while she plays and it makes the violin look like a fun instrument. It's pretty difficult to make a classical instrument fun; especially when most of the time, it's played in an extremely formal setting.

Peter Hollens is a vocal artist who utilizes his voice for every part in the song. If there was an instrumental part, he uses his voice to make the sound. He's a great singer too. He and Lindsey did a collaboration doing a Skyrim cover. In addition to it having great music in it, it also has a great skyrim-centric story with it. The video was done by Devin Graham, who is a dynamic video maker. He's done some crazy things as a super-tramp videographer.

The other artist is Eppic, a youtube rapper who is actually very good. All of these artists make fantastic music videos to go along with their music. It's very hard to stop listening to them.

First year of college reflection

As the first year of college is coming to a close, have any of you taken the time to reflect on what you have accomplished your first year away from high school in a accumulative way? It's actually pretty high up there. Now, I may not be that great at writing and english, but that's not one of my strong points.

Progress

Well, this week is going smoothly, which is very nice. I got a project done today, scheduled my classes for next semester, and finishing up another project for tomorrow. It's one productive day I would say. All I have to worry about this week is a test and portfolio meeting on Friday. I can't wait until finals week. Everyone's going to be so busy while I'm just taking excessive naps and planning my summer. Good luck on finals everyone!

Finals Week

You would expect finals week to be difficult right? Well, mine won't be so bad. Half of my classes are over with this week actually, so this was my busy week. What's cool is that I got so much work done yesterday, so I don't have to do much of anything until the end of this week. It should be a smooth sailing end to my first year in college. I'm looking forward to it.

Early move out

I moved out most of my room yesterday. My futon, refridgerator, and cabinet is now gone. The only things remaining are my microwave, desktop, and various school items. My side is now very empty. The good thing is that now I can get out of here pretty much as soon as I finish my last final. Pretty sweet, huh? Some lingering class assignments that I had forgotten are now creeping up on me and I need to get focused. Oddly enough, my busiest week will be the week before finals.

Lax Week

I've got nothing big due this week, so I actually have plenty of time to work on immediate homework and not have to worry about anything else. It's nice. Being productive is always a good feeling. And for some reason, it's easier to know if you're being productive by how much free time I have after finishing my class work. I even got an assignment done that's not due until next Monday. It was about 6 pages on different artworks and my interests in them and describing them with references to style, period, and the artists themselves.

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Today in Intro. to Computer Art, I learned html coding. It's pretty cool stuff. If you have TextIn, a program for making websites, you can learn it pretty quick. We also learned some CSS coding to make the design look decent and such. It kind of reminded me of the MySpace years back when facebook wasn't as big. Now that you think about it, if you had a myspace, you could've made a website, however crude it was.

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