1992: What I Did and Music

On 07/15/2015 at 04:27 PM by KnightDriver

Turns out I remembered wrong in my 1991 blog. I was still in New York in 1992, but that summer, I returned to live in Pennsylvania. I had a few credits remaining to finish the college I had left early in '90, and took them at a school in my hometown. I took pottery in the first semester and was told I should stick with it. I still remember the homage I did to Dante's Divine Comedy: a maw swallowing many small human figures. I still have one piece I did, a rendition of the American Indian style meeting house (I forget the exact name for it) we had at the summer camp I went to in my teens.

As for music (and I'll get to the other media types when I do the research - which is taking longer than I want it to), I believe I bought one CD that year. It was They Might Be Giant's Apollo 18. A couple favorites that I might have bought that year, or the next - I forget really - are: the soundtrack to the TV show Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego featuring Rockapella, King Crimson's '73-'74 live box set (lineup: Wetton/Bruford/Fripp/Cross) The Great Deceiver, The Indigo Girls' Rites of Passage, and Jethro Tull's A Little Light Music, a great, mostly accoustic, live album covering songs from their whole history - Jethro Tull Unplugged, you could say. Bands I liked on the radio that year were Soul Asylum, Stone Temple Pilots and Barenaked Ladies.

Matt Snee Staff Writer

07/15/2015 at 04:49 PM

I always thought sculpture was a truly high art. I fussed with it a little in high school, the peak of which was a bird I made that got into some art show, but then I got distracted by writing and music.

KnightDriver

07/15/2015 at 04:54 PM

I really like being hands-on with art. That's why I'm a little bit miffed at digital photography right now. I used to love the dark room and then framing and matting afterwards.

07/15/2015 at 05:01 PM

yeah I'm kind of missing that too. I write on a computer, so it's all very digital. With music though it's a little better, as I play keyboard and guitar. That's kind of what is missing from writing, is that physical sensation and hands on quality.

07/16/2015 at 03:56 AM

I'm ok writing on a computer. It still feels like typing. I still carry a note pad around though and sometimes write freehand on that.

Super Step Contributing Writer

07/15/2015 at 07:38 PM

That was my least favorite part of the photography class I took in high school. Could never figure out what I was doing in there.

07/16/2015 at 03:58 AM

To each his own. I was lost for hours in the darkroom and always smelled of the fixer chemical. Ah, glorious fixer.

07/16/2015 at 04:44 AM

I remember that smell!!!

07/16/2015 at 04:14 PM

I lived in that stuff. My friend Mark and I would make jokes about it all the time. I had a darkroom in my parents house all my teenage years and then lived in one during college as well. I even worked in a lab briefly in the early 90s. Speaking of which, I just saw yet another photo store go under. Are there any left at all now?

07/16/2015 at 06:02 PM

some people still use film. some people always will. but whether stores will help, I dunno. But with the internet anything is possible.

07/16/2015 at 07:31 PM

Film looks great in HD. I was blown away by what TMNT II looked like on Netflix. There are at the very least a few film directors left I think. And people do use film for photography still, my ex-girlfriend having been one.

Also, I realize now that the "darkroom" isn't what I had a problem with if we're talking about the red lights and liquids. That was cool. What I was talking about was the pitch black room you had to get the film out in before it got exposed to ANY light (including red).

07/16/2015 at 07:47 PM

oh yeah! I forgot about that part of it!

Yeah, I like the look of film for cinema too. I believe Abrams is shooting the new star wars on film as opposed to lucas, who shot the prequels digitally i believe.

07/16/2015 at 07:54 PM

Lucas definitely shot those digitally. Hadn't heard about Abrams shooting on film, but that's cool. You wouldn't think the images would hold up as well as they do considering film itself is kind of flimsy.

07/17/2015 at 01:25 AM

That digital look is really getting to me lately, or maybe it's CG graphics, like the Ant-Man trailer or Jurassic World. It just doesn't impress me anymore.

goaztecs

07/21/2015 at 01:58 PM

Was this around the time of Runaway Train? Man that song was everywhere. I used to watch MTV in the morning and that was always on. I dug those classes in college and since I was an art major I had to take them. You went with a mature piece while I made a duck that held pencils.

07/22/2015 at 03:47 AM

Yea, Runaway Train. I remember getting so sick of that song. I heard it again last week and it's a fine song - just not after you've heard it a dozen times or more.

I also made a bowl of cereal and cereal box. Very artsy. Ha ha!

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