bendrago

So, school ... well ... what can I say ... except that I am having a blast, being surrounded with people about as odd as I am, who are armed with immense creativity, imagination and skill ... it's a heaven on earth :-D there are no classes as such, everything is completely work orientated, we get projects from all around finland from theatres, operas, museums, etc ... at the moment I am working on props, scenery, gadgets and masks for my local museum, Savonlinna operafestival, the Finnish national opera and the Finnish national theatre ...

 

The only downside is that I have at the moment no income what so ever, it's been over a month since my last paycheck and thanks to the glorious bureaucracy I will have to wait for a few weeks more before my paperwork and applications concerning my studies are prosessed and I get my study allowance ... otherwise that would not be a problem but I am supposed to buy quite a big load of fabrics for my cosplays, and as you all know fabrics are quite expensive :-D oh well ...

 

But my captain hook is progressing anyways, I have all the patterns ready (and boy were they a pain to make) and I am staying at my school after regular hours doing guns, swords and trying very hard to more or less forge the hook :-p

I will be doing, well at least trying really hard to make two more cosplays this year ...

First one will be Vincent Valentine (sort of Dirge of Cerberus version) I have three reasons to make him, firstly I am not good at all at sewing so I decided to learn and improve my skills and Vincent will be the project that I will use to do it, secondly I actually quite like the character and thirdly I want to see the look on my friend 's face (who happens to be probably the biggest Vincent fan in the whole universe) when I get it completed ^__^ (yeah, I am very evil at times xD).

The second costume will be my "main" costume this year, I will be doing a version of Captain Hook, I will not do a perfect copy of any existing version of him tho I will take heavy inspiration from the 2003 Peter Pan movie. I am waiting for some accurate patterns of 1750's clothing to arrive from the good old U.S. of A and use those as a starting point. My kids will probably accompany me with some pirate costumes of their own, and I will try my best to recruit some of my friends too to form a random pirate group for Tracon 8 (14-15.9 in Tampere).

And as other projects I will do most of my Shunsui costume anew, work with my preddie costume and build a few props for my friend on the side

It looks very much like I will spend the following two years in school (yay !) and will have more or less free access to all the resources they offer outside school hours and that makes me one very happy camper ... well ... cosplayer

Oh, one last thing .... *** VACATION ***

Right, to revisit this topic ...

I visited the school, had a nice chat with the teachers, they wanted to know why I was intrested in the school ... so I showed them few pictures of my cosplays ... and after that they informed me that I must apply to the school o.O they wouldn't let me leave the premises untill I had promised them that I will do my apply the same day :-D

Got some mail from them yesterday, it informed me that I am very welcome to the entrance exams ... I have only one thing to comment about that : AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

In other news I will try to attend mimicon in Mikkeli (18-19.5) with my hopefully by then completed Kyouraku Shunsui, during the summer I am probably unable to attend other con's because my spare time will be going towards organizing a somewhat large wedding (no, not mine !) so I am aiming to Tracon (14-15.9) with my this years "main" cosplay.

Perspective of your own life is a good thing, altho personally I might not recommend gaining it the way I got it today ... by having a truck trailer ramming into the bus I was driving, luckily I was fast enough (yay, old man reflexes ftw) to react and got my bus stopped and avoided a bigger accident ... have to say that a rain of glass (and other small bits) is not a fun thing to be in >.<

So stop for a moment, enjoy the fact that you are alive

Right, I am off to nurse my very sore neck and a terrible headache :-/

For quite a few years now I have been thinking about going back to school, I am a person who needs something to challenge my creativity and intellect, otherwise I start to suffer, I get bored and then somewhat depressed after that >.<

I have the possibility to go and study theatre technique (making props, stages, lighting, stuff like that) and that would really intrest me, problem is that the school takes three years and while I should have no problem getting a leave of absence from my work my income would fall quite a lot for the first two years and even more for the third year, otherwise that would not be a problem but as I am divorced and have kids I also have obligations towards them ...

I'll go and visit the school tomorrow at noon to talk about various possibilities how I could manage it, so we will see if there is anything I could do to make my return to school possible.

To make things a bit more complicated my boss went all quiet when I said to him that I might bugger off to school for a few years and after a few days he offered me the possibility for a promotion of kinds, he suggested I stay in the firm and study to be a foreman while working, that would only take two years and I would get my normal paycheck.

That would mean I would have more or less stable working hours (something I have not had in ages) so I would have more time to do something creative, or for example take an evening course in something intresting.

Right, I'll go and bang my head against the wall some more ... and try to figure out what I should do

Peace - Out