188/365 | Saturday - February 20th, 2010

Re-Cast as a ShadowAs expected, most of the night was a monotonous exercise in graphic diagrams.  I spent most of the night in studio, along with a majority of my classmates, laboring over the details of our project.  It was a start contrast in liveliness and fun when I compared this late night studio session with so many that happened last semester. Maybe people are enjoying the project more this semester, maybe it's the group work, or maybe it's just that last semester's studio load and guilt laden expectations just brought everyone down and left them in a late night trance of deep depression and silent working.  Whatever the cause, it's actually nice to be able to work late in studio and have people around making light conversation and making the most of the given circumstance.

We all worked until about 11:30 PM, I think more people had the idea of working later, but I probably spoiled their expectations by bringing beer and wine back to studio to celebrate Mishkat's birthday.  Not only did people stop working for about 30 minutes to sit around and socialize, but a majority of the people seemed to decide that there was little chance of them sticking around to do work after a few drinks.  I felt the same way.

I did head back down towards the marina though, there's a bunch of old warehouses down there that are prime for exploratory photography sessions.  It's a bit nerve wracking down there.  It's mostly dark and empty, aside from a few random cars and transients wandering about.  It kind of makes me re-think the entire thing when a car drives by slowly and I'm not really sure what's going on, but I don't ever really feel too unsafe around here.  Even a lot of the crazy homeless people seem to be pretty nice.  Anyways, in the midst of all these dark streets, this body shop had a bright spotlight that cast the longest shadows I've ever seen after sundown.

What I'm Listening To: The Postal Service - Nothing Better

Miles Biked: 5.2 / 586.6