loneliness & alcohol

3LAU & Bright Lights - Down For Life.

I went to SCAD. This wasn’t everyone’s experience, but it was similar to mine and a fair few friend’s of mine. 

I saw this article on twitter, and the thread is really revealing. 

I’ve had people ask me if the experience is just a “SCAD” experience. It’s not. It’s Ringling, RISD, LCAD, MICA, CCAD, DigiPen, and on and on–it’s all the private art colleges.

Just do the full soul search before making the decision to go to these schools. That’s all I ask. 

I have debt I’ll never be able to pay off, and I can’t bankrupt out of it because the loans are private, as the school intended. That’s the world of art colleges. 

Unless your family is affluent enough to pay out of pocket without feeling any hurt, I can’t in good conscience recommend art college to anyone. 

All the knowledge you need can be found online today, and nearly all of it is free to access via youtube and blogs. You can even ask artists/professionals about their process and their jobs, ask to interview them if you feel nervous to just ask off-hand. 

I will likely NEVER see a day that I am without debt. No one told me that coming in. So I’m telling you. I left with such extreme burn out that I barely made any artwork for a full year because I would devolve into shakes and panic. It’s taken nearly 4 years to overcome my PTSD with drawing. That’s why I paint so much, go figure. 

PLEASE, please, if you decide to go, go in with a full-understanding.

And she DID IT. She didn’t give up busted her ass and danced until her feet bled (literally, she had to not be carried off the set after filming “Good Morning”) and she held her own alongside two of the best dancers in Hollywood then or ever and she smiled through what by all accounts was one of the most physically demanding movie musicals ever.  She worked through her self-doubts and met the challenge and made history.

“The director of the first film, Andrew Adamson, was very focused on preserving real emotion, on seeing things for the first time, and having, like, a real sense of wonder.“ 

“So he didn’t actually show me the set of Narnia where the lamppost is until we shot it. I was blindfolded and guided into my place, and he told me to just walk around, that the camera would follow me.”

“And so I turned around and I saw it for the first time. It was in a studio but it was ri-dic-ul-ous-ly real. I couldn’t get my head around it. And so what you see is my real reaction to everything. It was incredible.”