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Most of last week was spent on this lovely little invention called ‘Design Thinking Camp’. It was situated on Cockatoo Island, so the commute there daily was a decent bitch, but hey, total isolation. 3 days, 2 assessments, 1 group.

The first assessment was easy enough, map something we found on the camp. Naturally this lead to a lot of walking around the island and sitting around doing nothing. In the end we decided to map the windows and the negative space around the process of looking through a window, talking about the different kind of windows we found and the historical significance of them all. Given we had about 10 hours to do it, by the time Jenny got to photographing them our mobile-like display started to collapse, but you can see it a bit there.

The second assessment was by far a lot more fun. We were given a kit of materials and were told to construct a service or function to assist the inhabitance of the island in the case of which we became stranded. Some groups did bars or robots or services to function daily life, wereas other groups constructed society values – emperors and such. We did something along those lines and made up a new version of Christmas (on the grounds that most people need a holiday to keep happy) – basically an excuse for me to wear my mouse onesie and put mouse ears on Chris. It was heaps of fun to make up our own nativity while other groups had to build tables.

I don’t think our group took camp all that seriously, but hey, that subject is now over for semester and I have two more projects to finish up. Gettin’ shit done, yo!

I feel like I start off every blog with a description of how busy I am, but it’s basically the only thing I can think of when I think about my week.

Uni is full on. Every night I’m working well into the morning to achieve the expected level of work and man, it’s intense. Even the photos above correlate to my Spatial Language course – I had a task to traverse a part of Sydney and document findings. At least Chrystal was up from Bathurst this weekend and bored that day and joined me! We had a very adorable lunch at a gourmet burger place.

Besides uni work, and trying to maintain a relatively sane social life, there isn’t room for anything else. It’s dull and draining but y’know. At least there have been some upsides to keep things in balance. But like, secret upsides. The mystery continues.

Florence and the Machine – Only if for A Night

Things are busy. I am a few days and a few modifications off finishing my final major project on my father’s home business’ website, meaning I’ll get to stop working for him. This makes me happier than anything. Sooner or later I’ll need a proper job but MAN this is good news. I have also been accepted into University. I’ll be going to the University of Technology (Sydney), to study a bachelor in Interior and Spatial Design. Excited as hell. I got my first preference at the university I’ve wanted to be at since I was 12. I have friends in that course too so I’m excited.

What else? Been going out, the above photos are from Friday night. I’ve cut my hair too, again. Clearly I need to fix my roots but I’m avoiding further damaging my hair from all the times I dyed it last year.

I’m also getting back into sketching, and hope to get a few online sooner or later. My current trend thing is so mash-up old sketches so who knows. Might get a little collection going.

Exciting life and times.

So once again, we’re faced with a new year. Every new year people start to have hope for a new future, change, all that kind of stuff. Personally, I don’t really care. But January 1st is always a good day to look back at the past year and remember all the experiences – 2011 being a very hectic, emotional, draining, busy and generally fun year.

Last year I was (un)fortunate enough to be home on New Year and posted a reflection of 2010. This year I’m a bit luckier and will be celebrating that Saturday, so I’ve queued the world’s longest blog post to go over the past year and some of it’s highlights. It’s crazy not only how many things happened, and not only how often my hair changes, but how different it was to 2010 and how much I’ve grown up.

So here we have it, my friends, 2011!

Aw, look at me, so nostalgic. 2011 was immense. 2012 will bring a lot of firsts too – university, (hopefully) new friends and many of great new experiences. But more importantly, how was your 2011?

Teenage Crime – Adrian Lux

The photos above are from about a week ago. You may remember how I had my art presentation night, last week my friend Clinton had his school night, inclusive of both drama and visual work showcases. Clinton’s work is the top left, and bottom right. It was a fairly decent night in all, spend my time with Samantha, Clinton, Jenny and Vincent. It was a nice way to break up my trial exams.

Those exams are now over and back to normal school (which is incredibly cruisey until we get results back). Its basically been a bit catch-up these past couple of days because exams felt like holidays in terms of how often I saw everyone. Its kind of weird because there’s a sense of gossip back, now that every assessment is over and we’re nearly graduating, gossip is back. I don’t know. Personal life is just a bit all over the shot, y’know?

My hair is all over the shot, too. I’ve dyed it bright ginger twice now, but its still a dark murkey red. I don’t like it very much – its no where near as lovely as the photo suggests – but y’know. Not much I can do about it.

Anyhow. To add to graduation stress, teenage stress, and body image stress is family stress with my step-grandfather’s health. So basically a massive anxiety-ridden few days. But y’know, lets hope I can channel it into productivity.

Before I end this kind of weirdly-written blog; do any of you guys still use the visitor resources that are left up here? Thinking of taking them down because I don’t really update it and its kind of a waste.