Madness!!

When I applied to OIART before acceptance they give you plenty of warning as to how much if a commitment it was and how it essentially consumes you. Also Stefan who had taken the program two years prior would constantly say how dedicated he was in that year. I must say I wasn't really feeling it until this week. We have 11 courses and the exams for the courses were only spread out between 5 days. My life this past week has been really messed up, I stay up studying all night write two exams a day nap for a bit after and come home and study for the next two. With all that said I love it! I am having the time of my life here and wouldn't trade it for the world! In the small amount of free time, I am writing a bunch of new music! Check out the Myspace if you get a chance and let me know what you think :) This weekend I am off but I am going to be soooo busy doing production sound/editing/scoring a film with Cristina for the 48 Hour Flick Fest I should be studying for my afternoon computers midterm!

Thanks For Visiting

Listening to:

Postal Service B-Sides

JP

Empty Your Mugs

Time for another post.. I am trying to be more diligent with my posts but let's face it, I like to procrastinate. I am just on lunch at school and forget to bring one so I will blog to forget about my hunger. The last four weeks have just flown by! Every so often our teachers will make recommendations of extra curricular activities to aid in our learning.. ie. Volunteering for festivals and shows, certain movies that have been acknowledged as having good sound design aspects etc. One in particular that I took a liking to was a project the BBC is heading called "Save Our Sounds". It's a site where people from all over the world send in audio clips of sounds that they want preserved for future generations and give them a chance to maybe experience a sound that will no longer be around. The first thing that came to mind when I was going through the sound bank was that awful sound that we all cringe when we hear.. Dial Up Internet :s I recommend you check it out and think of some sounds to send in! http://bit.ly/nwOF7 I have been talking with the Producer of the whole project and she asked for my help with getting more funding for the project! If you're reading this please tell other people about the site and see if we cant get more sounds sent in from the Canadian front.

I have been writing a lot more and just posted a couple new songs to myspace http://www.myspace.com/johnpatricklondon The one track is title empty your mugs because it has been fueling me lately and it seemed like an appropriate title. I think the only person that loves coffee more or as much as me is Crustina haha god I miss her!!

Currently Listening To:

Dntel - Dumb Luck

-JP

Back to School

So things have been a bit crazy since I've gotten to London. Classes started and I haven't really been able to concentrate on anything other than that. Today was my fist kind of day off.. I had a 9 - 11 am class and now I'm off for a couple of hours til I have to go back for an 8-11pm lab.. To me this is considered a day off. We have been introduced to a lot of avenues of audio that I really didn't think were possible outside of the obvious. In classes like acoustics were learning the physics of how and why sound travels. Math were learning how MIDI, computer programs, and synthesizers are all programed through binary. Of course on the other side of all of that we're learning the practical aspect of it and how to apply it.. All super exciting stuff!! To me anyway. One of my teachers who's class I seem to enjoy the most recommended we take a listen to the movie 'Wall.E' and note the importance of the audio and the creative use of it in the movie. The genius behind that movie was Ben Burtt A very famous sound designer who was also behind the audio for 'Star Wars' and 'Indiana Jones'. Right now I am working on a submission for a global project that the BBC is working on called Save Our Sounds. Its a project to preserve sounds that future generations may never get a chance to hear or experience. I'll post my submission when I finish it.

So I pretty much forgot that this blog existed and I haven't really had a use for it since I came home from Vancouver. Having a cup of coffee and writing a blog go hand in hand... I have felt kind of weird this whole summer, and I think the reason is that I am so excited to start school in the fall I want the summer to be over. This is a feeling that I'm not used to. I have a lot of ideas for how I want next year to go but the truth is I have no idea what to expect or how its going to go down. Devan and I have been tossing around a lot of ideas that we hope to get off the ground this fall which I will keep you posted on. Right now I am finishing up the a mix/remix of 'smooth criminal' for a good friend Sarah Catalfo. She is a very talented designer based out of Toronto and is hosting her first show this Thursday entitled 'Bandits & Bows' http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=106404395228 I am very bummed out that I am missing it, if you're in Toronto I promise you wont be disappointed. So my coffee is almost done so I will wrap this up, check back soon because lots is happening!!

JP

Waterfalls att

Kady is six years old and can eat as much as I do! She ate a 12 inch pizza sub yesterday haha

BBQ after surfing

First morning in tofino

Soooo Stoked!!

Moving day!!

Brothers

<3

This was the coldest water I have ever felt!!

There were signs everywhere with peoples names who died jumping off of this suspension bridge into the water.

Inukshuk

Almost fell in for this picture

Whistler

I feel like all I have been doing for the last week or so have been hiking to different waterfalls and taking pictures in front of them as you will be able to see from my pictures I'm uploading today. I have been so bad at blogging because with my sisters move I haven't had internet. I am sitting in a coffee shop and they handed me a 15 minute internet ticket. I am trying to update this as quick as possible... I am pretty sure it has been longer than 15 minutes though. So much has been going on, my brother got married on Monday so we hopped back on the Ferry and headed to the Island to celebrate. Went out for dinner and met her family, they all live in Courtenay. There Isn't much to say about Courtenay, it reminded me a lot of a small town like Essex or Belle River. I am in Whistler now and it's actually a lot of fun because we are staying here for my dad's municipality conference and we are staying in his hotel and sneaking in all of the banquets and getting free food and drinks (keep that one between you and me though). We leave tomorrow for Calgary to visit my aunt and we fly out from there on Wednesday.

Fiesta night

Rapids

Enjoying the ice cold glacier fresh water

Notice the fog in the back, we were surfing in that the previous day. Apparently you can still get a sunburn through the fog

They had no water so we took cups of water and poured it on them the save them all

Hidden beach

Kate

Wet suits leave nothing to the imagination