art art art

Today was a long, frustrating, and fantastic day. This morning on the
way to breakfast I decided to get some cash out from the ATM by the
west gate. As soon as I put my card in the machine, it shut off
completely, as though someone had pulled the plug. You can imagine
that this was distressing because I'm a bit low on cash right now and
that card has most of my savings on it. After some panic, stress, and
a lecture from Ackbar Abbas, I talked to LingLing and found out that
her husband works at the bank that owns the ATM that I lost my card
in. She and her husband were incredibly helpful, and my card is
waiting at the local branch of the bank to be picked up tomorrow.
Thanks Lingling!!

After all that was solved, Professor Mu, the head of the
cinematography department, came and gave us a lecture. It was
fascinating, probably my favorite guest speaker so far. he talked
about the art of cinematography as well as the relationship between
the director and the cinematographer. Professor Mu was part of the
Fifth Generation of Chinese filmmakers, which means that he is good
friends with Zhang Yimou. He discussed Zhang as well as the Fifth
generation and Chinese cinema as a whole. It was quite fascinating.

Following Professor Mu's lecture, Yomi invited a few of us to visit a
performance artist's studio while he interviewed him for a newspaper.
It was absolutely wonderful to see this artist's space and work and
while I didn't understand most of the interview (it was conducted in
Chinese), just seeing the artist's work was worth the trip.