#summer break
Hey do you want to start making your books into real life books that look really nice? And getting smarter about comics? If you have a bunch of free time this summer and you’re going to be in NYC, then PEOW (more specifically Peow boss Patrick) and some secret guests will be teaching a class on comic production, at SVA’s risoLab. We are still really excited to be teaching this class, because, coming all the way from Sweden to share all the stuff we learned at Peow is a magic thing! The pics above are work that last seasons students made (last season, we had the pleasure of co-teaching with @krismukai, who also has made a lot of nice course material for the class)! So cool!
It’s a 10 week class and you can make as many comics and prints as you have time to make (you’ll also have access to the risographs on your free time) and level up so many levels in printing and book design, and its like 645 dollars. Look look here!!
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End of the School Year
My body clock has been extremely messed up lately. Not from shifting time zones (which does take a minor toll), but seasonally. For the past couple months I have been convinced that Winter, and more specifically, Christmas, will be coming soon. Unfortunately this is not the case, and in fact the opposite is happening. Each and every week it is getting hotter- scarily close to the 50 degrees centigrade (122 fahrenheit) point where it will likely remain for all of June, July, and August.
The main reason for my seasonal confusion is simple, but it is bolstered up by various minor factors. The big part is that though I’m now in the ‘real’ working world- I’m overly accustomed to the school calendar. School finished when I graduated in December, whereas the end of the “year” celebrations, the “school’s out for Summer!” parties are, you guessed it, usually reserved for the Summer months. Further confusing myself- I did, in effect, take a Summer break after graduating! I spent time in the pleasant Caribbean and then two months in Southern and Eastern Africa- where it was Summer. So when all of that ended and it was time to get back to being productive, I felt like my Summer break was coming to an end, and thus it must be September (though it was really March)! Seeing as that this was all two months ago, now (May) would seem to really be November- and therego, my seasonal confusion.
The minor parts that perpetuate the feeling come and go. Today was particularly bad however. For one thing, it was an unusually cool day in Cairo. Having just arrived yesterday from hot Dubai, I thought to myself. “oh it is getting colder- must be Winter coming.” And though this was a particularly cool day, this is a weekly happening- weekends in the warm UAE, and then the week in Mediterranean Egypt- always feels like Summer moving to Autumn / Winter. Then, this evening, while in the office, somebody opened a window and suddenly the smell of roasting fire wood came in. We weren’t sure what it was from- but even a colleague of mine said, “ah it smells like Christmas” and starting singing “Chestnuts roasting on an open fire. .. Jack Frost nipping at your nose…” of course that meant I had to play that song on my Ipod (the Justin Bieber ft. Usher version, duh).
So here we were, moving from hot to cold weather, smelling a wonderful wood fire, singing Christmas songs, AND two months separated from a “Summer Break.” And though quite misleading and possibly disappointing (when the present do not arrive), I’ve decided that it is nice to think Christmas is around the corner. It gives me a cheerful attitude, makes me appreciate things a bit more, and at times provides a nice retrospective lull to take over.
Christmas is wonderful. Christmas time is better. This year, I’m happy I get a bit more of it than usual.
Summer break is working out well for Tosh Tudor. Maximizing every hour of daylight on a Hawaii vacation with dad.
Daniel Russo
Me during summer vacation!
Now that the new term begins after summer vacations you cannot wait to tell your lads about the day you found the Art’s teacher taking photos with her boyfriend at the same beach you were spending the day with your family.
She looked stunning and in spite the time you spent ogling at her you thought she had not noticed you.
However, reading your only name on the first report for detention of the term, has to have an explanation and being her the teacher who has reported you without even having had your first lesson with her, makes you clearly work out one.
Who knows, hopefully after the summer break, the Headmistress has lost a bit of her swing with the cane after a few months without practice!
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![ca. 1880-1900s, [tintype portrait of a relaxed and smiling young lady]via Jeffrey Kraus Antique Phot](https://64.media.tumblr.com/8cb77ab5a25a1385b4d7111371292e8c/tumblr_nph7drsSLs1qa51rdo1_1280.jpg "ca. 1880-1900s, [tintype portrait of a relaxed and smiling young lady]via Jeffrey Kraus Antique Phot")
ca. 1880-1900s, [tintype portrait of a relaxed and smiling young lady]
viaJeffrey Kraus Antique Photographics, Tintype Collection
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Mazatlán Centro - Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico
✨My grandfather and great-grandfather’s old home✨San José del Cabo Centro, Baja California Sur, Mexico
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When the swim trunks come off, you know Alfonso is over his alcohol limit.
Summer break has started! The students cleaned the school (hey me too!) and now I desk-warm for a month. Well at least I’ll be going to Okinawa in a few weeks. :) Now that I have a lot of free time I’ll be sketching more.
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