paul habeeb. blog.

July 24, 2006 to October 25, 2007

1848 Total Calls: 48 hours, 42 minutes, 44 seconds
604 Received Calls: 19 hours, 20 minutes, 16 seconds
1243 Dialed Calls: 29 hours, 21 minutes, 36 seconds

Don’t ask me why it doesn’t add up correctly.

Old stats here.

First batch of stats from the 30D. Old stats from the 20D here, here, and here.

• Days with 30D: 84 (July 25, 2007 to October 16, 2007)
• Months with 30D: 2 months, 23 days
• Photos taken: 4281
• First photo taken: IMG_1293 (thanks to not formatting the card at the beginning)
• Latest photo taken: IMG_4265
• Average photos taken per day: 51
• Average photos taken per month: 1547
• Gigabytes of photos taken: 34.75 GB
• Number of times the 4 GB memory card has been filled up: 8.7

I’ve been saying the same thing for the past three hundred entries: I don’t have time to post, I’m so busy with school. That trend is not going to end with this post. I dropped a class [I can't remember if I mentioned that earlier, and I'm too lazy to check], so I only have fifteen hours now. The loss of that one studio class allows me a nice amount of extra time to spend making projects for other classes better than they would have been.

Today in Photo 2 we had the second half of critique for our latest project. My work didn’t get to be critiqued in the first round, so I went today. In general I would say I didn’t learn anything about my project - I all ready knew the problems and why they didn’t work and how to fix them - and for some reason that disappoints me. Both critiques of my work in that class have felt very open and shut, like I wrapped everything up into a ball before the class could say anything about my work. I cannot decide if that’s a good or bad thing. I just feel like people don’t usually have much to say about what I’ve done and I don’t know why they don’t have much to say. Is my work boring? Or are they just not sure what I’m trying to say? Or are they shocked at what I said? Or do they just not care? I honestly cannot figure out what it is about my photographs that evokes that response (or lack of one) from my class. Perhaps it is just the dynamic of the people in the class itself that causes it.

After class I met with my professor and asked how I could “step up the game”. All he told me was to take the three images I had made for this project and up them to twelve, and for our final project to also turn in twelve images. He also said that he doesn’t think I’ll have a problem getting into the photo major, but it isn’t guaranteed since he isn’t the only person who decides. That was good news. It made me feel less nervous about the whole process, since if I am not accepted, I do not know what I will do.

Next year I will hopefully be studying at Goldsmiths in London. I have wanted to study abroad since high school, and I love travel so it should be a good experience for me. I’m still waiting for a grade to change from DFR to the actual grade. Until then my application will be incomplete.

That’s all I can think of for now. Now I plan on going to rent Elephant from That’s Rentertainment.