10 Planet of the Arts / October 1996 Cards+ Letters E-Mail from Pratt Institute Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1996 17:21:51 From: Carolyn Ashmore To: Planet of the Arts Even though I swore up and down you wouldn't hear from me until I got a daybook... I hate to belabour this, but I don’t know what date it is. But, to the matter at hand. You want to know about NY. I've had a teensy bit of insomnia since I’ve come out here, cause who want's to sleep in NY? So I’ve been reading literature to do with the place: Ragtime, Rosemary’s Baby, Breakfast at Tiffany’s. And it’s all true. Everything you’ve ever heard or read about the place is true. What can I say? I was in Manhattan for two weeks, jumping from one sleazebag residence hotel to the next (each of those places and it’s inmates are a whole different story, perhaps more suited to the Christmas issue) and now reside in a Brooklyn Brownstone, round the corner from a coffee shop, then kitty corner to the campus (meaning, in effect, I can get up at ten to nine to make it to my nine-o-clock class with a hot coffee in hand). The campus itself is made up of ancient buildings, cracked, chipped, vine-covered, a cobble-stoned square with fountain, huge trees, grass to ramble on, I kid you not. The exception is a monstrosity called the ‘ARC’, kind of looks like the Kildonan Park Pavillion,( if any one there is familiar with Winnipeg ) or, like a mad king’s crown. That houses, among other things, the gym (COLLEGE! RAH RAH!). There are teams of sports minded people here, it really is quite amusing to . ...continued from page 8 watch! They have a lot of school spirit. Security here is at a high level. Basically, you have to prove your identity with papers every time you come out of the can. There are little security mobiles that zoom all over campus, to be sure we students haven’t got cornered by any shady characters or just plain arm flailing wackos (both in abundant supply). On the flip side of this, you can pretty well attend any class you fancy without being registered, or register for a class you don’t have the prerequisites for - nobody cares! I was approached by the senior/4th year video teacher and asked to join his class - I don’t know why, and neither did he, really. All we get to do is use betacams, gosh darn it! I’ve been haunting Manhattan. There's a coffee shop in Rockefeller Plaza I’m mighty partial to, and it’s right near the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) where “Pratts” can see movies for free; I’ve been using that priviledge a good deal. Central Park is strange and surreal, but I’ve only been there in the rain, so that may have added to it. Greenwich Village is such that I could sell all to live there: it’s cobblestoned, complex and winding, artsy but not overwhelmingly pretentious. It was in the East Village where I went two weeks ago to see Raging Bull at a neat art house theatre. The place was packed, and anticipation was building. I was surrounded by NYU film students, (who did not sound nearly as devoted as our own EC filmies) and they all began to notice that the film was ten minutes late. Then a man took the stage with a mike, and said, ‘Guess who we have here in the audience tonight?’. Well, I don’t mind telling you my heart stopped. It was Thelma Schoonmaker, the academy award Qi Gong e relieve stress 12:15 O-@- e maintain health e strengthen body + mind e increase flexibility and creativity © and much more... FREE TO ALL ECIAD STUDENTS! Wednesdays + Thursdays - 1:15 Room 269 For more info contact Josh Aronovitch via his student mailbox Tai Chi winning editor of the film, and a hero of mine.She wasn’t there to see RB, but had been at the earlier Cassavettes flick, and they had nabbed her. She spoke some about ‘Marty’ and Cassavettes. It was an incredibly special night. That’s NY - if something unusual doesn’t happen, now that’s unusual. I spent some time in Chicago on my way down here. I met an ancient songwriter named Dutch, who took me to a private piano bar and introduced me to Mafioso (so he said). I can only wonder how JJ Wise is doing there. Hey, I gotta get to work here! Love to - you know who yow:are. Live from NY, CGA. Carolyn Ashmore is a 3rd year Emily Carr Film/Video student on exchange at the Pratt Institute (New York) do you do? I'm I'lyears Helle e Be esecert Now 1 90 to-hiah school. After That, T am going Yo go working holiday to ; Canada. Vo you know the gystem’ TET go there, L would bbe lonely: Co-l want +o make Some Criends Canada before Tigo there. P\ é se introduce. me ‘to Some yout students. I'm looking Leeward To hearing yon Canadian Crends V TI Tell you Some of myself. 1 like watching American gctton movies, listening to Japanese Hymnusic , [earning Toreign calfures ; and avimals. 1 also like Fashions. Well © trink L must Stop here. Equipment Failure ...continued from page 6 lum and events to the public, as well as exhibitions, public lectures, and more participatory community events. But can we market ourselves effectively if we ourselves are not completely sure of what we're all about? Dean of Studio Renée Van Halm thinks that “we must first figure out what our goals and objectives are as an institution,” on any sort of marketing campaign. Renée feels that “there isn’t . a consensus of what is important to us.” She thinks that in order to clarify our mandate to ourselves, “we have to have a bottom line \_ that isn’t about money... to sit down and come to some level of understanding of how Emily Carr is distinct and different from everybody else, and be able to articu- late that. After we figure that out, all the other decisions will become easy because they'll all fall into place.” “@ Thank you Sov reading. Ag %% Free New Equipment! “No strings attached” Cymbolic Sciences Corporation donated $200,000 worth of high-end state of the art computerized digital- photography equipment to Emily Carr this summer. The only thing we have to do to satisfy Cymbolic is show them that we're being creative. There has been dialogue about the pros and cons of committing ourselves to this equipment. Following are some pros and cons that we might consider: Pros © access to, and training with, indus- try-calibre equipment ° anew ‘tool’ with which to explore artistic expression keeping up with the digital age some indirect, high end training and perhaps industry relationships that may lead to secure jobs for stu- dents in their fields of study before embarking Cons ¢ high cost of ‘support’ equipment (purchases of 3rd party hardware or software required to run the free equipment) that may cut into other equipment budgets potential for curriculum to stray too far towards technical instruction, thus weakening emphasis on cre- ative development The potential clash between the free expressiveness of students and a corporate agenda that may be unsupportive of this expressiveness, resulting in a breakdown of the donor-benefactor relationship. Illustration: Lars Cuzner 10 Planet of the Arts / October 1996 Cards+ Letters E-Mail from Pratt Institute watch! 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