{"id":1005,"date":"2013-12-07T02:21:59","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T08:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rickspicscorner.com\/blog\/?p=1005"},"modified":"2013-12-07T02:21:59","modified_gmt":"2013-12-07T08:21:59","slug":"the-decompression-chamber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/the-decompression-chamber\/","title":{"rendered":"The Decompression Chamber"},"content":{"rendered":"

This semester went by very slowly and very fast at the same time.\u00a0 The amount of work I did this past semester exceeded my expectations (and initial cost estimates).\u00a0 At least I had football to keep me grounded.\u00a0 The UH Cougars went 8-4 while the Houston Texans…\u00a0 well, let’s just say they’ve seen better seasons.<\/p>\n

The semester, at least for us art school undergrads not in a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) or Art History program, ended this week.\u00a0 I turned my final video project in on Tuesday, while my Portfolio Development course effectively ended for me on November 20.\u00a0 On the day prior, I submitted my portfolio for review in seeking acceptance into the BFA Photography\/Digital Media program here at UH.\u00a0 I am happy to report that I have been accepted and will start those classes in approximately 6 weeks.<\/p>\n

I know I should avoid hyperbole, but the pace at which my activity level picked up in the month prior to the review seemed exponential.\u00a0 Each day for the 2 weeks leading up to the day found me at the photo lab 5 nights a week taking care of things for the review.<\/p>\n

So here I now find myself just bleeding off the stress.\u00a0 Soon I’ll be rested (sleep was not a priority in November) and ready to start, what I am told, is a much more demanding series of course.\u00a0 To this I say, “bring it on!” Just let me get some sleep first.<\/p>\n

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It’s the day after my semester ends, and I still can’t seem to stop studying.<\/p><\/div>\n

For other viewing pleasures, the following was my submission for my final video project:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/vimeo.com\/80902751<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This semester went by very slowly and very fast at the same time.\u00a0 The amount of work I did this past semester exceeded my expectations (and initial cost estimates).\u00a0 At least I had football to keep me grounded.\u00a0 The UH Cougars went 8-4 while the Houston Texans…\u00a0 well, let’s just say they’ve seen better seasons. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010,"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions\/1010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artistrichardcuster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}