My First Solo Exhibit

Last month, I had the opportunity to display my work to the public via a solo exhibition in one of the university buildings. The exhibit was held through the month of March but it's still conveniently up there for some reason. I'm not complaining.

The title of the exhibit is Washington in Winter and the pictures were taken from my trip to Washington DC last December. The Arts and Programs Director who works in the same office as me saw my work from my Pbase website. She contacted me and told me that I should have a gallery up in the lounge and the rest is history.

As getting proper frames and mats were really expensive, I had to frame the pictures myself. Yep, everything was custom cut with the kind assistance of a kind soul. So the grand total for framing came to a reasonable $14 and an audacious 8 man hours. But the results were pretty presentable...from a distance.

There were a total of seven pictures on display. I really should have gotten more, but the effort I was putting into framing was a major turnoff. I should be a lot more hardworking. Those were some nice pictures, but not my best work. However since they were requested by the A&P Director, I acquiesced.

It's a pretty awesome feeling. But the only downer is that the comments booklet has yet to be filled. Grrr....

One solo exhibit. Hopefully more to come.

Jumping Ship

After a while dealing with the clunkiness of Internet Explorer, I decided this afternoon to switch over to the Gen-X, yuppie-rated, Rebel-fronted Mozilla Firefox browser. I just couldnt take the multiple windows opening everytime I wanted to download a single file. Clunky clunky.

So I downloaded the program, installed it an ran it. I like the whole tabbing idea. Makes things better organized and saves so much space on my desktop toolbar. I also like the fact that there are all those cool bells and whistles that you can download as extensions and add-ons.

Call me a slow starter. The last time I changed browsers was from Netscape to IE. Yep, I was one of the early adopters back in those highschool days. Us computer club geeks were sticking it up to the jolly blue giant of Microsoft by going Netscape. Then MS pulled a fast one on Netscape with the ability to load faster (no stupid splash screen). I had to switch.

The funny thing is after I installed Firefox and loaded all my settings, IE refused to work. Everytime I launched the program, it would appear in my toolbar as an opened program but the window wouldnt show. It's as if it was hiding off-screen, cowering in fear of its nemesis. Ah well. Change is always good.