The Opening

Yes I do realise that the title doesn't really open the blog since this is my second one, but this one is about the opening of the Shep Festival. Coming from the Bundoora campus and driving 2 hours to Shepparton is a long distance. However I love driving so it's okay.

The opening to the Shepparton Festival was fascinating, seeing how a community can join together with their interest in art. As I stepped into the court yard of  'The Aussie', I found myself out of place and lost, not knowing who to talk to. Fortunately I found my subject group. The only downside I found in the speeches is the Mayor of the town, reading the script word for word like he never seen it before.

The rest of the night was quite impressive. Watching a birds eye view of the whole town of Shepparton and fruit/veggie boxes stuck onto the wall. The music to the video was too quiet then too loud. The decibels didn't seem to be all levelled. My curiosity was mainly focused on the boxes though. It seems that the artist is linking this art work to be online and when you click on the box, information about who's farm the box comes from. I loved this one mostly because its connection from the paddock/orchid/ vines all the way to the plate. It's not only mapping the farms but linking everyone to each other.

Since I had work the next two days I was unfortunate to miss out on those days of the Festival so I had to drive 2 hours back to home.

SHUT THE F*CK UP AND WRITE

25 minute of no voices... 25 minutes of scribbling and the tap tap tap of fingers to keys. That is the power of 'Shut up and Write' in the La Trobe campus of Shepparton in room 1. The best selling point of this little group is that you can easily focus on your assignments without any distractions from home such as... the fridge, the television, the laptop, phone or any electronic items. Unless you need the laptop to write with but I struggle with writing on laptops and computers because of the temptations of social media and PC gaming. So this time I wrote on paper. I pushed through the cramps in my hands. I focused on the words flowing in my brain, down to my arm and into the pen as I watched my hand messily write the words onto the paper changing tenses and using terrible grammer (intended). Depending on how fast you are, it is easy to push out 100-300 words onto paper or computer. If I can easily study at home I would definitely implement this way of studying into my assignments and work load. However I do prefer driving to my work on my days off, buying some food to get a discount on it and also free coffees while watching Uni lectures and listening to music on Youtube.