To Infinity!

I’m laughing at my inability to update this blog through almost an entire year. Yeah, great job, Christine!

I see the header up there needs a little update, too – I’m almost nineteen years old now, unlike when this blog was created (and last updated). I’m not going to go much into what has happened the last year, because even though it represented huge steps for me personally, it is nothing particularly out of the ordinary. I wanted to write a little about what I’ll be doing in the future, though.

15 days from now, I’m moving 5,100 miles from Oslo to San Francisco, to attend California College of the Arts. I’m majoring in graphic design, and I’m nervous, excited, scared, and absolutely thrilled.

I was accepted into three schools total, out of the four I applied to; my application to School of Visual Arts in NYC fell through because I didn’t include enough observational drawings. Of California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, CCA, and Savannah College of Art and Design, the hardest choice to make was between the two former.

Fuck, I pondered the pros and cons for a month and a half, before I finally decided on CCA. The decision was based mostly on money and location. I’m still not sure I’ve made the right choice. I guess I’ll find out soon enough.

I’m hoping to get more use out of this blog over the next few months (years?) as I adjust to life on the other side of the pond. More to come.

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..granted there wasn’t much for her to take.

See, I went on Easter vacation to the mountains, what, 3 weeks ago? And snowboarding full speed down the hills – a fantastic feeling by the way, I love snowboarding – I fished my camera out of my pocket and recorded a tiny clip. Somehow, I then got the idea that the moment I got home, I’d add some music to the clip, change the hues and contrast a bit, upload it to youtube, and then post it here with the subject “this is life”.

Now, this never happened, as you might be able to tell. When I got home, I discovered that Premiere Pro hates me. At least, I was unable to successfully import that clip while keeping the right frame rate, resolution, etc – apparently, it turns out that PP wasn’t exactly made for editing home videos recorded with the Olympus Mju’s film function, haha.

And since then, I’ve just been really really busy. I’ve got a bunch of emails in my inbox marked “REPLY TO THIS”, as well as a fantastically long list of things to do. So if you’ve sent me and email during March or April, and not received any reply – please stay patient, I’m getting to it! Eventually! I promise. :)

Right now I’m working a series of three posters for a school project, where the task’s to create an advertising campaign for Ikea’s series of Billy bookshelves. It’s surprisingly difficult. :( (and I’ve come to realize that my concept isn’t nearly as original as I thought it was, so because of that I’m not going to be posting it online, boo.)

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Okay, I am definitely really really bad at this blogging thing, haha. Sorry about that.

Update on last post: The guy called again today, and my dad answered the phone, threatening to report him to the police if he didn’t stop calling. Jeez dad, way to overreact – poor guy. I’m glad to have the matter off my hands, though.

I’ve been looking at several universities lately. All American ones, actually. And all art schools that offer a program in graphic design. The schools that look most interesting are California College of the Arts, California Institute of the Arts, and School of Visual Arts. If anyone know of schools with similar programs, or have any experiences with the schools listed, I’d adore it if you could tell me about it. :)

The only issue is really the extreme cost of going to university in the states. I get a lot covered by the Norwegian State Educational Loan Fund, but only for the last 3 years of a Bachelor. Freshmen students aren’t eligible as European Bachelors only go over 3 years, not 4, so the first year is considered superfluous.

And even with the financial aid, I’ll still be knee deep in student loans when I finish. Yeah, I’m looking forward to that.

Again – if you’ve got any tips related to college application in the States, experience with being an international student, a story about that one international student in your class who was a freak, or a friend of a friend who almost got into an art school – I want to hear it!

In completely unrelated news, here’s my Super Mario ringtone for iPhone. It’s cropped to loop perfectly, hurrah. To use it for non-iPhone purposes, rename the file to mp4. That should make it act like a normal audiofile :) For the more quiet kind, I also found the Kim Possible beeper tone, which is great for text message notification as well as a short ringtone.

• Super Mario Bros. ringtone
• Kim Possible beeper tone

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