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beandelphikiI was just at a presentation this guy gave:
Robert Semeniuk
It was amazing. This guy is the real deal, and for that, he's risking a lot. He got up in front of a bunch of college kids and passionately swore about how he'd like to hit every Hummer-or-SUV-owning asshole in the back of the head with a piece of wood with a BIG LONG NAIL in it. (His words, not mine.) I kept sneaking peeks at our instructors, worrying if they were going to try and shut this guy up at all, but they didn't. Thank Bob. (Now I have a Bob to thank, too!)
He's a documentary photographer, living on practically nothing. It's sort of what I want to do. Something REAL, whether it's writing or photography...something real. Something that involves REAL people with REAL problems other than, say...whether or not there should be a ring road installed in the south end of the city. (Our last assignment for News Writing, which I didn't do.)
I don't want to be writing about TRAFFIC PROBLEMS for the rest of my life!
Now, part of my problem with the program is the volume of work, and the sheer amount of self-organization that I have to do, and CAN'T...and thus am struggling hugely with. I have to keep bugging the counselor at our school to get those Alberta Works people off their asses, because if I don't get ADD-related help soon, I'm probably going to flunk out.
But...I've been spending the past few weeks raging about how much I hate this program, and how badly I want to escape this whole situation, and I think that the biggest part of the problem right now is a crippling lack of interest in what we have to do for grades. Who gives a flying FUCK about the ring road, seriously... I sit down to do assignments and end up surfing news sites in frustration, and writing small rants and diatribes around the internet about the things I think are important and not getting enough coverage.
And it's not getting me anywhere. It's so frustrating.
The recent assignment for Jim's web writing class was one that I actually had fun researching - which I took over the option to check lj - but it bogged down in the writing. I was trying to be fair to the situation, but I know what my opinion was, and as the icon says, I don't want [to write] balanced news, I want to know [and write] what the fuck is really going on.
In a way, I suppose photography is easier, because the images say what they will, and it would not be my job to massage the images into whatever shape I was getting paid to make them take.
Just a thought.
Robert Semeniuk
It was amazing. This guy is the real deal, and for that, he's risking a lot. He got up in front of a bunch of college kids and passionately swore about how he'd like to hit every Hummer-or-SUV-owning asshole in the back of the head with a piece of wood with a BIG LONG NAIL in it. (His words, not mine.) I kept sneaking peeks at our instructors, worrying if they were going to try and shut this guy up at all, but they didn't. Thank Bob. (Now I have a Bob to thank, too!)
He's a documentary photographer, living on practically nothing. It's sort of what I want to do. Something REAL, whether it's writing or photography...something real. Something that involves REAL people with REAL problems other than, say...whether or not there should be a ring road installed in the south end of the city. (Our last assignment for News Writing, which I didn't do.)
I don't want to be writing about TRAFFIC PROBLEMS for the rest of my life!
Now, part of my problem with the program is the volume of work, and the sheer amount of self-organization that I have to do, and CAN'T...and thus am struggling hugely with. I have to keep bugging the counselor at our school to get those Alberta Works people off their asses, because if I don't get ADD-related help soon, I'm probably going to flunk out.
But...I've been spending the past few weeks raging about how much I hate this program, and how badly I want to escape this whole situation, and I think that the biggest part of the problem right now is a crippling lack of interest in what we have to do for grades. Who gives a flying FUCK about the ring road, seriously... I sit down to do assignments and end up surfing news sites in frustration, and writing small rants and diatribes around the internet about the things I think are important and not getting enough coverage.
And it's not getting me anywhere. It's so frustrating.
The recent assignment for Jim's web writing class was one that I actually had fun researching - which I took over the option to check lj - but it bogged down in the writing. I was trying to be fair to the situation, but I know what my opinion was, and as the icon says, I don't want [to write] balanced news, I want to know [and write] what the fuck is really going on.
In a way, I suppose photography is easier, because the images say what they will, and it would not be my job to massage the images into whatever shape I was getting paid to make them take.
Just a thought.
