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Journal Discover my school 5 Notes ♠ 26th Jan

It’s the open house // Journée porte ouvertes at ECV Aquitaine! (shy) Imma skip all my lateness excuse and jump into the real topic! So it’s the time of the year again. I haven’t been visiting for a while. Since my classmates called me up at the very last minute about unsubmitted work, I thought I’d go and take a look at how my works have been show cased (yes)

It seems like they have changed systems about having open house inviting people to visit and explore works from students. I think there’s an open house event every 2 to 3 months, which i’m not quite well informed off.

One of the gadgets that my school is most proud off, motion-sensor device. Apparently ECV Aquitaine is the first design and animation school to be equipped with such high tech materials for students to explore around throughout France. Congratulations students of ECV (yes)

On the second floor, works from Master Two students, meaning ME (gangnam) HAHA it’s one critical point to understand that having your works selected for exposition is a highly anticipated way to show that you’ve done well in school :D Spot my Taiwan Edition Travelogue magazine on the top // as well as my music direction poster of Sophie *_*

I didn’t expect this, but our work from the week of Type creation’s magazine got exhibited too. Oh yes, the very first one is done by me and my perfect teammate // Typeface labelled Ace of Spade (drughappy)

One of a mise en situation for nude drawing, but obviously not nude to scare off some visitors. Just look at that 24″ Cintiq!! It’s my dream *_* Future ECV students, sorry to break your dream, but there’s only ONE ever 24″ Cintiq available in school where only top students are allowed to use, especially my awesome buddy Isabelle. But who knows, maybe they will decide to add more to the ECV gadget collection! But i won’t have my hopes too high!

Typography with materials! I’m jealous, I mean why didn’t I get to do that when I was younger? LOL

Oh yes, huge bias spotlight on my perfect teammate’s solo work on an innovative tee shirt packaging! Mind you, it may look like a simple tube, but the way you open the tube is highly intriguing that it doesn’t only make it a tube. Plus after destroying the whole thing, it becomes a garland for decorations :D

Last stop, the multimedia classroom. Oh I do miss this class =3 Thou you are small and hot, after being inside for 2hours, it gets all stinky but lessons were fun chatting with our logic-says-it-all teacher ;)

Voila, that’s it. ECV Chartrons. Future ECV Students, if ever you’re reading this. If you decide to embark on an ECV journey, it’s a contract signed with blood. You’d lose your social life, sleeping hours and maybe even eating hours and pee times. Maybe that’s too much but you get the idea, especially first years, they’d drill you like mad for constant submissions. And I made it through! Plus, attending ECV, i’m only living 21hrs everyday because the remaining of the time is used up for travelling from home to school! And I made through, I’m in the LAST and final MASTER TWO! So good luck to future ECV students =3 If ever there’s any questions, feel free to ask me! I’d definitely tell you everything and anything!

A little side note. I bought a cheap polarizing filter on ebay to play. Somehow, some of my photos ended up with 4 darkened corners. My bad (whyu) so opps, I’m still playing around! :D

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  • http://ethetica.net/ Liv

    The only thing I thought of when looking at these photos is that your school is so much prettier than mine. Our Manhattan campus is actually fairly nice but the main campus is NOT. The main campus that everyone loves because they are a bunch of country hicks who have never seen old apartments.

    I actually don’t think you were exaggerating. No social life, sleeping hours; showering time is a major one though I never failed on it. But I do know people who have, or show up to class not having brushed their teeth because they are lazy dormers. Yesterday I gave up eating for 20 hours in exchange for sleep, and I only had about 700 calories the day before. I actually think I sleep too much and should spend more time on work.

    At my school I had more time in freshman year because it was an art-based curriculum, rather than design/business + science/social science. I also live with 21 hours because I spend the rest traveling – wait no, most of my travel time is spent waiting for the fucking subway.

    EIther way you are my life twin Carol.

    • http://the-exquisisticbox.com/ Carol

      hello Liv! I haven’t been active lately ;S

      Well, i’d say that this campus is much nicer than the other one. The best thing is that they recently installed not one BUT TWO HAMMOCKS!!! It’s the battle of the hammocks whenever I’m in this campus! XD This campus is nicer too because the building is a mix with those beige Bordeaux stones that makes the whole place feels a little more artistic :D

      And I was mentioning it today that I don’t have any social life which sounds so sad. I kinda needa train my alcohol tolerance! >< Since it's a private school, there isn't dorms available but i know that some seniors used to live in their specific classrooms. But sleep time is precious :D Oh mine works in the opposite way, being in the senior year, my timetable is less packed, but our free times are suppose to work on our final year project yet school adds in last minute workshops that lasts the whole day for a few days. I'm deprived of my sleeptime again -.-

      it shouldn't be a good thing, but it's nice to know that a nice friend is almost in the same situation to share the same thoughts! I'd tour around soon Liv! ;D

      p.s. Happy Valentine's everyone!

  • http://sky-song.org/ Misaki Li

    Omg, the photos look so good! Your school looks amazing! :) All the works look absolutely amazing.

    And congrats in getting through – was it very hard? How often do you have to submit? Did you ever feel design blocked?

    • http://the-exquisisticbox.com/ Carol

      helllloooo~~~ thanks! Nah, this campus only have 4 classrooms, one computer lab, one photo studio and another photo developing room. that’s it! And there’s eum- say 500 of us or maybe more. During the first year it’s a weekly submission, but in the final year the shortest work time given is one week!

      oh course i do! depending on the subject/theme and the encouragements that teacher’s give it can affect my mood and ideas totally ;( when i get blocked, i’m realllllly blocked. can’t get anything done in a few days until i have my fill of dramas of animes :X

  • http://geekyposh.com/ Jenny @ geekyposh.com

    Wow, the pieces on display all look really amazing! And it’s awesome that your work got displayed, kudos to that :D