Shortwaves is a compilation of miscellaneous thoughts forwarded to Influx Magazine by people in the Emily Carr Institute community. Shortwaves is intended to function as a forum for concerns on any matter people feel motivated enough to write to us about. Acknowledgement of authorship is a condition of having your submission published, but when space permits this condition may be waived for items of innocuous writing. LAS ae .wor7ieem Drawing: Sean Clancy From |.P. Freely 1 800 fuck you From lan Wilson The name Influx sucks, it’s too Why was there next to no input from students in the pretentious. The content of the last issue was brutal. Where did you get your design skills, ECIAD? Name the paper hippy monthly with fresh vegetable tips and recipes. changing of the media program. No students were sitting on the curriculum planning and priorities committee when the new program was discussed. To the best of my knowledge, students in the intermedia program were not consulted with regularity as to what other 30 go? freshly painted nails heroin chic: Gap facial piercings National Post corporate art hi-tech Western Front Students’ Union dead white guy art beards Concept and compilation by Harald Gravelsins might be of benefit to them and what aspects of the program are outmoded. With the elimination of the interschool film and video courses what type of access will non-media students have to the facilities and equipment? The School of Media has constricted the space of 60 students per year into 30. Where will the From #ero, Sacha and Friends WOTZ HOT/WOTZ NOT Wotz Not Wotz Hot culture culture jamming expensive cheap bureaucracy anarchy surfing the net surfing TeV: not T.V. Disney D.LY. (do it yourself) globalization world economic collapse techno soul trivial profundity profound triviality being late transformer watches Bridges Arts Club on Tuesdays Medina Pacific Boarder Value Village Salvation Army fresh paint under nails rehab chic Gap sales body piercings National Enquirer temporary art lo-tech your local laundromat ECLA souvenirs From James Muir It is Saturday (December 12, 1998 - classes ended yesterday). I’m so glad the school is open so I can get some work done. I hope the A/V room is open, I need to print some negs. It’s not. Bummer. Oh well, it’s cool, I can work on my studies. I just need a few photocopies. Error. Error! Shit! I need these. Panic, frustration setting in, anger building (but repressed). I’ll work on my frames. Nope. No shop. There is nothing I can do. I sit here and stare at my work and think about the three-week summer course | took, and the frustration I felt when I hadn’t been able to be at school, despite the fact that I was there for class and way beyond, at a moment when the shop was open. So I still had no frames to paint on AFTER 1 WEEK OF 3. I ad libbed, but I resented it.I’ve been sitting here quietly for a while now looking at this painting about bridges and obstacles. About aspiring for more, and finding a way to achieve it. This is my idea and this is my action. I really appreciate being a student at E.Carr, and I’m grateful for the opportunity and the people (faculty etc.) that make it all work. Sometimes, however, I think it could be better. And I have some ideas. I see obstacles, but I also see bridges. I know you want to help. Help us (the students) devise the bridges we need (to help ourselves). My painting (installed here today) is called Evolutionary Aspirations. It’s about aspiring for something beyond, but vaguely conceivable. Thanks for the voice. From David Carter When is a curatorial teaching laboratory (aka the sideburns Concourse Gallery) a place for the presentation of ) ] shortwaves excruded schlongs? When the walls come white. From Jason McLean From Carlos Mendes Run away red bunny, run away to the city. I think we need to begin a Lost side salad, mess in your face, struck by lightning a bit nit skin mitt fry pan and late noon hour soccer league. And we should think for ourselves more often when being taught. nature walk talk frame lock see your sister like a twister fish face human race you’re a bunny act like Fremond Monday like me like you, you go #2 freight train goina rain hard better check your shorts for the stain hard luck blues train frame little whistle Scotland’s thistle pig in the mud downtown rub, bowery row grow a new toe. Funny later human drain grator. Luck on sunny $5.00 Monday nun like to run, run, run red bunny you are low. 34 Influx: Magazine February 1999 shortwaves Concept and compilation by Harald Gravelsins From Carlos Mendes I think we need to begin a noon hour soccer league. ‘And we should think for ourselves more often when being taught. 34 Shortwaves the Emily Carr matter people permits t From lan Wilson Why was there next to no input from students in the changing of the media program. No students were sitting on the curriculum planning and priorities ‘committee when the new program was discussed. To the best of my knowledge, students in the intermedia program were not consulted with regularity as to what might be of benefit to them program are outmoded. With the elimination of the interschool film and video courses what type of access will non-media students have to the facilities and equipment? The School of Media has constricted the space of 60 students per year into 30. Where will the other 30 go? and what aspects of the From Hero, Sacha and Friends WOTZ HOT/WOTZ NOT Wotz Not Wotz Hot culture culture jamming expensive cheap bureaucracy anarchy surfing the net surfing, TV. not TV. Disney D.LY. (do it yourself) globalization world economic collapse techno soul trivial profundity _ profound triviality being late transformer watches Bridges Arts Club on Tuesdays Medina Pacific Boarder Value Village Salvation Army freshly painted nails heroin chic Gap facial piercings National Post corporate art fresh paint under nails rehab chic Gap sales body piercings National Enquirer temporary art hitech lo-tech Western Front our local laundromat Students’ Union ECLA dead white guy art souvenirs beards sideburns From Jason McLean is a compilation of miscellaneous thoughts forwarded to Influx Magazine by people in Institute community. Shortwaves is intended to function as a forum for concerns on any feel motivated enough to write to us about. Acknowledgement of authorship is a condition of having your submission published, but when space condition may be waived for items of innocuous writing. From 1.P. Freely 1 888 fuck you ‘The name Influx sucks, it’s too pretentious. The content of the last issue was brutal. Where did you get your design skills, ECIAD? Name the paper hippy monthly with fresh vegetable tips and recipes. From James Muir It is Saturday (December 12, 1998 - classes ended. yesterday). I'm so glad the school is open so I can get some work done. I hope the A/V room is open, I need to print some negs. It’s not. Bummer. Oh well, it's cool, I can work on my studies. Ijust need a few photocopies. Error. Error! Shit! I need these. Panic, frustration. setting in, anger building (but repressed). Il work on my frames. Nope. No shop. There is nothing I can do. I sit here and stare at my work and think about the three-week summer course I took, and the frustration I felt when I hadn’t been able to be at school, despite the fact that I was there for class and way beyond, at a moment when the shop was open. So I still had no frames to paint on AFTER 1 WEEK OF 3. ad libbed, but I resented it.I've been sitting here quietly for a while now looking at this painting about bridges and obstacles. About aspiring for more, and finding a way to achieve it. This is my idea and this is my action. I really appreciate being a student at E.Carr, and I'm grateful for the opportunity and the people (faculty etc.) that make it all work. Sometimes, however, I think it could be better. And I have some ideas. I see obstacles, but I also see bridges. I know you want to help. Help us (the students) devise the bridges we need (to help ourselves). My painting (installed here today) is called Evolutionary Aspirations. It’s about aspiring for something beyond, but vaguely conceivable. Thanks for the voice. From David Carter When is a curatorial teaching laboratory (aka the Concourse Gallery) a place for the presentation of excruded schlongs? When the walls come white. Run away red bunny, run away to the city. Lost side salad, mess in your face, struck by lightning a bit nit skin mitt fry pan and late nature walk talk frame lock see your sister like a twister fish face human race you're a bunny act like Fremond Monday like me like you, you go #2 freight train goina rain hard better check your shorts for the stain hard luck blues train frame little whistle Scotland’s thistle pig in the mud downtown rub, bowery row grow a new toe. Funny later human drain grator. Luck on sunny $5.00 Monday nun like to run, run, run red bunny you are low. Influx: Magazine February 1999