Socrates' Café Audio number 4:
After checking the blogs of the other participants in this discussion, I find that I am the only person that thought "if it won't let me upload audio, I'll just make it a video".
No, really. You didn't think about checking to see if it worked? Don't you know how to blog?
Okay. Here's some tips.
Don't use chat-speak on Blogger.
I get it. I use it. But Blogger is... too professional. (Blurgh.) And, most of you viewing this are doing this stuff for school. (Blurgh x2) So yeah. Keep your grammar in check. I am the grammar slammer. Here to check your typos.
Check what you wrote.
The audio doesn't work on Blogger. You... you actually didn't check, some of you. You just. Didn't. I'm kinda floored. You didn't even think, wow, lemmi see the masterpiece/utter crap that I wrote.
So yeah, that's my two cents. Not a penny for your thoughts, because two points = two pennies.
ONTO THE SOCRATES' CAFÉ.
I really think that dividing the groups into college types would have been beneficial. Art college debates would have been especially thought provoking! I honestly think that I got next to nothing from the talking this time around. It was disappointing.
I understand that for others, medical college and other fields heavy in the "knowledge" category would be required to go to college, or pursue an underground career otherwise. But art colleges are a lot more tricky.
When I think about art college, "dying in debt" is an honest to goodness potentiality.
People say it all the time. You've heard it in and out of the art world.
"Starving Artist", "Useless Career", "Impossible".
And sure. It differs. Fine-Art in this day and age is a hard road to walk. But animation is in demand. Well. Depending on the animation.
How often do you watch 2D movies in theater anymore? But you've seen 3D ones.
You've seen Frozen, How to Train Your Dragon 1 and 2, Brave, Tangled, Rise of the Guardians-
(Please, please, please watch this movie, and just look at the detail. You can see the stitching, the veins in the skin, Jack's eyes look like snowflakes, there's a whole animating program just for the sand, it's so gorgeous. Please watch Rise of the Guardians. It's not about Christmas.)
But all the cartoons are still 2D. Thank goodness for small blessings. Oh, but that's pretty hard to get into. I mean. You've gotta be pretty good to get with the bigger studios. Disney, Cartoon Network.
So. It going to college to learn animation techniques to possibly get a job in the animation field worth the potential 10, 20, maybe 40 years of debt?
Crippling debt, because I have very little financial support for college. My grades are pretty bad, and my art, while being better than average, isn't amazing.
Ugh, this is getting too long winded and personal and a little bit upsetting. I'm gunna stop here.
But yeah, the conversation would have been a lot more fulfilling if the... audience? Um. Selection was more selective. Dunno. Anyhow.
I'd say 6/10. Wasn't that bad, but honestly. Could be a lot better. :I
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