1 week in the can

And I finish my first week of class with another blog posting. What I learned this week: I should have a favourite photographer.

I am guilty of not knowing more about photography, its history and its important contributors. So I already have a book on Cartier-Bresson and I will be doing a lot more research. I'm happy to say I've met some really cool people, made a couple good friends, and am looking forward to working and learning with each one of them for the next 10 months. I'm having a ball!

Tuesday night I saw a live show of band #3 of my top 5 current favourite bands that I would like to see live. So far I've seen Sigur Ros, Patrick Watson, and Tuesday night was Mutemath. I now need to see Sufjan Stevens and Wintersleep live and I will have completed my goal of being to each one of their shows. The Mutemath show was incredible, as I expected. It was in a small venue and I was right up front - enjoying all of the sounds and sights. The lead singer is such a performer. Definitely added even more life to their set. They also were projecting random moving images on their backdrop - which was cool - but not as cool as I once thought before I started seeing this sort of thing too often at shows. When I first saw the Absent Sound do this at a show a couple years ago, I was enthralled. Now its glamour has kind of lost its luster, but I still give them an A+ for intent.

I wanted to buy a t-shirt but I'm too poor. All I have is memories... aaaawww....