Life Obscura

Busy day yesterday. Spanish class, meditation class, US foreign policy class, lunch/early dinner...and then back to my room to nap.

Then at 5pm I went to a lecture about women's health around the globe, and I had to sneak out early to be on time for my student fellow interview at 7pm, where I raced to the UNICEF invisible children screening at 7:30 (got there at 7:40), when that was finished, I dashed over to another dorm for my MICA meeting at 9. My friend emmy and I left the meeting early because we were so tired, and I got back to my dorm around 10.

So. Busy day. I have an even more busy day today...but luckily I don't have that much homework to do, just org stuff and meetings.

After I got home, I spent some time uploading the photos from a group project this weekend. This was for my media studies class, and it was to create a "Camera Obscura Image" which was basically the first interpretation of a camera that we can see. It involves having a window, covering it in black tarps, cutting a tiny (1/4 inch) hole in the tarp and then hanging a clear pastic sheet behind it, so when you turn off the lights inside, the light from outside is refracted onto the clear paper upside down, sort of like a shadow. The pictures included are one of the real view from the window, and the second is the camera obscura, flipped upside down to see it properly.