About a week before leaving school for vacation, I blindly signed up for what I thought was a Friday 9:30am- 12pm shift as a computer lab monitor for OIT. I'd forgotten to give my boss my hours for Wintersession so I had the last pick, but in addition to a Monday 9am-1pm shift I thought I had gotten lucky. I couldn't imagine why no one had signed up for such a sweet Friday shift.
A few days later, my boss forwarded the official Lab Monitor shift schedule and I realized my mistake: I had signed up for the Friday 9:30 pm- 12 am by accident.
Needless to say, I was pretty pissed with myself but I didn't want to drop the shift because that's the coward's way out and the pay is too good. But what to do?
"Wait, 2 1/2 hours is just long enough to watch a movie," I thought.
So, I decided to create the "Six Movies and Six Weeks" project. Each Friday, I'm gonna watch a movie I've never seen and then do some little illustration stuff for each film. It seems like a pretty good exercise considering I'm only taking a Liberal Arts this Wintersession.
With the help of some of my friends I've created this list:
- The Virgin Spring by Ingmar Bergman, 1960 (1/15)
- The Battleship Potemkin by Sergei Eisenstein, 1925 (1/22)
- Rashomon by Akira Kurosawa, 1950 (1/29)
- Fitzcarraldo by Werner Herzog, 1982 (2/5)
- Band of Outsiders by Jean-Luc Godard, 1964 (2/12)
I'm gonna post the drawings and illustrations for Black Orpheus in a day for two, I would have done it earlier but I've been sick and sleeping all week. After The Virgin Spring everything should be caught up.
I hope everyone had a great vacation and that all my friends are having a challenging and rewarding spring term and I hope all my RISD bros are having a wonderfully lazy Wintersession/ mind-blowing time abroad.
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