So yes, It’s been FAR too long since I’ve blogged. I’ve been meaning to since I came back but just… haven’t… Anyway I am now! So first off you can see that I did a bit of house cleaning on my website, and my blog! Woo! So I think the new site looks much more professional, and it’s a lot easier to update and organize. And as for the blog: I was setting up a second blog on my site for something else*, and noticed the new updated interface (administrator panel) and I loved it, so I found a way to update my blog, and then I decided What the heck, let’s get the user’s end lookin’ shpiffeh too!” And so I did! Also, provided everything worked right, you can now access this page by going to http://blog.jdipierro.com (no www.) Yaay sub-domains!
*The details of this will be discussed at a later date.

So enough of the techno-babble and onto the gibberish, I mean news-update.

The past few weeks have been awesome. We learned how to work with models from one of my favourite teachers we’ve had, and I’ve been waiting for that class for a while. The first week was shooting week, we had a bunch of models come in from Models Club Inc. and had a great time photographing them. The teacher mixed up the groups a bit from day to day and that was a refreshing change, I got to work with people that I normally wouldn’t. Week two was photoshop week and was also great fun. I pretty much knew a good amount of what we had to do, but I did learn a few new techniques and the photos came out looking amazing if I do say so myself!

I’m signed up on Model Mayhem and I’ve wanted to get some models and do some cool shots but I’ve never known how to start, or how to work with them, but now that I do, I think it would be great to get together with some of my classmates and get some models into the studio on the weekend or something.

This past weekend Keith and I attended Vericon 2009 at Harvard University. It honestly wasn’t much of a con, but I got to meet Kris Straub, author of one of my favourite webcomics Starslip. It was pretty awesome to meet someone so funny, and awesome, and ‘famous’ online, go out to dinner with them, and understand that they’re just lookin’ to have a good time like the rest of us. They’re just comedic geniuses

And now we’re back in class, Photo Illustration Fundamenals, a class about photo compositions, and things of that nature, a great class, a fun activity, and a great way to make money.

Until next time – Justin

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The Waltham Winter Fowl:
So the ducks in Waltham are very religious, they don’t believe in Darwinism, because they don’t fly south. Maybe I’ve just never noticed this back home, but I’m pretty sure ducks are supposed to fly south… and I know for a FACT that geese are… and THEY’RE still here… Stranger yet… THEYSLEEPONTHEICE! I kid you not, I’ve seen them NESTING… ON… The ice…

Every day I walk over the bridge and see them and it baffles me that they don’t just freeze into ducksickles and sink to the bottom, how can they survive swimming in ice-cold water? This is not natural.. am I correct? Is this some strange phenomenon I have never witnessed?