On Art Class

Am taking a Japanese Art class. It's the class i'm enjoying the most right now, and it looks set to be even more fun. We're starting studio work next week.

Bet roacheee will be so jealous :) What we're doing is waaaay more fun than what she's stuck with in lasalle. heh heh heh.

Ths girl in the pic is Susan from Texas, USA. Very nice gal to be around ^-^ loves cheese and dresses a rather like roach does. Wasted the pic is so blurry.

Sat in on a NOH acting class. Look very hard to do... the teacher kept stopping the student [pic] to tell her that her head was tilted about 3 degrees too much to the right, or that her hands should come up vertically instead of horizontally... WOW.

A picture of the NOH stage, made out of cedar wood. All noh stages have the same dimensions. whil a performance is being acted out, the stage is supposed to encompass a dimension. like the stage is the world of the perormance... :P i can't explain it well, but i'm sure you smart pple will get the idea.

Went to look in on a nihon buyo class, looks very fun and interesting to learn [It's a lot more accessible than the NOH performances] You apparently have to start from 6 yrs of age to be any good at it. Female performers have two names, their stage names and their real names. The stage names are comprised of the names of their tutor/school i nthe place of their family names. to aquire the name of their school, they have to sit for and pass the school's examinations.

And just because the pic above was so blurry, i decided to post another one.. this one shows the teacher instructing / correcting the performer's dance moves.

The rest of the pictures are brought to you by courtesy of Eric... dunno why he looks worse in photos... who'd have thought he's not that photogenic? He's from Canada, not bad looking, ncie, friendly and with a killer accent to boot.[Interested Delly?]

This is our prof. Kosugi who's explaining how firing is done. Pic is taken in the pottry studio, as one can prob see from the background. He's a very nice/ good humoured fellow. nice^-^

This is a student's desk in the urushi studio, it's a kind of traditional japanese craft, where the back ground is black, and the designs are done in gold and silver paint. [the simple ones anyway.] I'll probably be holed up in something similar for the next two months, seeing as urushi is my choosen field for studio work.

A really blurred picture of an urushi art piece... haha not my fault ok! Eric took the pic lors.

[Right]This is the dyeing craft studio- the student in the picture is doing her course work.

[Left] Metal work studio.

OK. i've been putting off my hw and studying for tests, GTG! -_- [chances are i WON'T be doing my hw or studying after i'm finished with this, hee hee, but who's to know? :D].. i dunno why my tagboard is down -_- *getting irritated*