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Arrrgh! I've been meaning to blog, but this year is so busy....I think I'll do blogs more in bullet points than long paragraphs like last quarter....otherwise, I don't think I'll get a lot done. I have things to say, but I don't have enough time to say them.

A quick blog on the STAC trip:
+ My picture theme was Escape/Freedom. It was a little hard getting shots of those, but I mostly focused on people/things leaving and going. I think I forgot to take some pictures in landscape orientation. Whoops! I also took some videos....
-When walking with my group, I saw some muslim vendors praying on their prayer mat. I wanted to take a picture of it, since that would be escaping the world to pray, and freedom of religion, but we had to keep moving...
-In the Guggenheim museum, I took a lot of pictures of doorways, or blank spaces (the freedom to do something there)

+The giant mobile in itself was impressive. I liked a few parts of it, but most of the images were....disturbing.
-I liked how you could
-The image of the giant foosball table, the multi-colored "z" squares, and the giant tree were some of my favorites
-The images of people hanging, death and that large statue....I didn't like that as much. It was depressing, and I was already feeling incredibly sad.
- I got in trouble for taking a picture because I didn't see the "no photo" sign (whoops >__>)
-I met up with my intended group (John, Jon, Mairead, Ellen, Jess, Emily, Julian and Julie)on the way back down the ramp.

+Group
-We managed to see the tree in all of its enormous glory. (I find myself thinking: where's the giant menorah?)
-After that, we more or less wandered around....went to Times Square....
-We went into the Sam Ash guitar store by Times Square. It was neat! There were all kinds of guitars...Mairead showed me some more chords....I have to ask her to show me again, because I sort-of forgot them by now .__.
-Then we trained it down to Barrow st. where we ate at 5 Guys. I know that it wasn't exactly the best place to eat, but we did have interesting conversation for the hour or so that we stayed there. John B. brought up this interesting movie: In Time.
It was about a world where time is used as currency.

+Play
-Luke summed it up: A soap opera
-I saw many parallels to Romeo and Juliet, but I'm glad that it had a happy ending.
-The dialouge went by fast, so some points it was hard to hear/understand/process what the actors were saying.
-It was very vibrant, and it allowed you to use your imagination (especially during the last scene, when everyone was changing costumes so fast!)
-The second half had more action
-So far I see that a lot of Shakespeare plays have themes of misunderstandings
-I doodled some of the actors/actresses. I also practiced drawing the differences between men and woman torsos using them as reference....
(I will now write down what I wrote in my notebook:)
-slingshot as a sign of sending messages was neat
-the actor of the servant has a very familiar voice (I think he sounds a little like the guy who reads the harry potter books on the recordings....?)
-ffff they put dirty jokes in there....was it because they knew that there was going to be a highschool audience?
-dawn (?can't read) the ravens eye
-lights under the eyelids
-neat how the shakers were used for the door, but also for the music
-the beginning, when they were all singing, WAS LIKE METAMORPHOSES! They even had the part about unwrapping your candy!
-Using a song to pass the time
-accidents can be good, but it may take a while for the good to work
-the war scene reminds me of STOMP (the very beginning)