This past month I have been studying in New York City at Parsons The New School of Design. I took their summer program last summer for Fashion in Paris. Once again, I have had another amazing experience with them.
This summer I took the pre-college Graphic Design program. We worked with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Final Cut Pro. I've always been familiar with these programs, teaching myself, but this course helped my skills improve 100 times better.
In class, we designed an Album Cover, Personal Logo, Magazine, Movie, NYC Alphabet Book, Coney Island Picture Book, Illustrated a Children's Book Cover, created a Cultural Print, designed Stamps, and illustrated a map of New York. It was quite an intense month filled with class Monday-Friday, site seeing on weekends, and stalking Gossip Girl on my lunch breaks (they were filming in the city). I had the time of my life, not wanting a second of it to end.
During my time there, one of the many projects was to create a short film based on our experience in New York. It took me a week of shooting and 5 hours of editing to pull this video together. One of my favorite clips is the time-lapse of the sunsetting. A lot of the clips are out of focus displaying the way I saw the city through my eyes. New York can be a very beautiful place from a far, but up close, I'm not that fond of it- so I tend to blur my mind of the unattractive parts. I got some amazing footage from on top of the Empire State building. It was my first time up there and I never saw so many lights in my life!!!
It's been another amazing July filled with memories I'll never forget. I've learned more about myself, and grown more as an artist. Now I just have to take these skills and run with it.
Ta-taa for now,
Arianna
So amazing. I wish I had the kind of funds to to a Parson's intensive. Financially, did it fulfill your expectations?
ReplyDeleteHello beautiful! I love your blog and was so excited to hear about your New York excursion. Will you be attending Parsons this upcoming year? If so, we will be pretty close in distance! (school wise) I am on Madison Ave.
ReplyDeleteStay fabulous and classy!
I'm going into my senior year of high school this upcoming year, but will be applying to Parsons College soon and hopefully be attending in 2013!
DeleteHey!! am atending to Portfolio Development this summer! Can you tell me a bit more about the program? how is the housing? did you make friends? thank you°°
Deletesuch a cool photos! so glad you had so much fun :)
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The video is amazing, especially he time-lapse! :)
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parsons sounds amazing. how lucky are you???!
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OMG! Sounds like you had a lot of fun! Next summer, I want to go to a summer fashion program in New York City. It would be a dream. Do you know any good ones that have scholarships?
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The Parsons Summer programs do offer scholarships! Just go to their website and it will have all the information!
DeleteWow. Sounds like a lot of work...but a lot of fun as well! Did you manage to catch a sneak peak of any of the Gossip Girl cast while you were there? My brother is in NYC for a finance program right now...I'm so jealous of the both of you! Glad you hear you learned a lot though! Can't wait to see your fashion purchases! (P.S. Crazy welcome home present -- saw it on Instagram...lucky you!)
ReplyDeleteI did get to see Dan and Georgina filming their scene in Central Park! The one day I wasn't running around the city trying to find them, I just happened to be walking right past the set!
DeleteOne word - WOW! What an amazing experience, I'm very jealous. Your video is amazing, it makes me love New York even more! It's such an amazing city! I would just love to hear more posts about your time in New York. xx
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AMAZING. Your video is incredible and very creative :) That's absolutely FANTASTIC that you got to see Penn Badgley, btw... I would have died!
ReplyDeleteWhat an exciting experience! Makes me look forward to my move to NYC even more :)
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Congratulations! That is such a treat! I hope you are having an amazing time in NYC, and finding lots to do:) It's such a great city.
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Omg I'm jealous cause all I got out of that was Gossip Girl lol you're really pushing for your dreams and I admire you for that...what specifically do you want to do in the fashion world? Also I'm a upcoming senior and now how hectic its going to be applying for college. Do you think applying to Parsons summer courses will increase your chances of getting accepted? JUst curious because a talented male friend of mine applied to both Parsons and FIT but only got accepted into Parsons.
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Very nice blog.^^
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thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI absolutly love the video you made! I keep watching it and wishing I could go to New York one day! What was the music in the video you used called? xx
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Thank you! The music is by Swedish House Mafia, called "Save The World Tonight".
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