CLT visit

My excitement steadily rose throughout the visit to the AT&T Center for Learning and Technology (CLT). At first, I thought it was going to be about technological information that I would neither understand nor be interested in learning, but I soon learned that there are a bounty of artistic opportunities in CLT. My excitement aside, CLT is the home of TLearn, TrinTV, and the new lecture capture system. It has a full time videographer, a help desk, training lab, video/audio editing computers, and production/photoshop computers. Room 101V has a protools rig and should soon be open for audio recording with a keyboard. Documents can also be brought it for OSR scanning. Digital cameras, video recordings, and mp3 recorders are also available for checkout by permission. The best part about everything is that it is open when the library is open and it is free to use! Obviously, use of material supplies will cost money, but I would feel like I was stealing if it did not.

I know I will check out a digital camera for use in Computer Skills Class, but I plan to use CLT more. I have already played with Photoshop and created a multi-layered picture combining two Egon Schiele gouache paintings. I cannot wait to do more projects like that, especially with my own artwork. I plan to use the printing machines in the art building to print digital images on high quality paper. I have seen this done before and it gives the images a professional look with warn-in character. I hope that I have the inspiration to/my life becomes organized enough so that I have the time to take advantage of the music recording options in CLT. I have always wanted to write/produce songs. I want to make both an acoustic sounding piano song as well as a funky dance type song. This may be out of my talent range but it would be fun to try.