11 months go to. The first two months here have been mind numbing – most of the classes I have taken have been boring, review-style sessions I should have tried to test out of. Fortunately, I escaped with very good grades in all of the courses, which is the only thing that I can hang my hat on. The real motivator is my upcoming course schedule – finally, something that will keep my interest. One of the classes is going to still be a slight review from AIA (Computer Graphics) – which is mainly an intro class from what I gather. We’ll be learning Photoshop, Illustrator, After Affects, and Flash.

Nothing too crazy, but maybe I will pick up a thing or two from new instructors. The class I am looking forward to is the Design Art Theory class. The main reason is that one of the books we were given was written by Hillman Curtis, who is one of the more popular ‘new media’ artists around today.

I’ve read some of his books before, and I’m sure we’ve all seen his work before (the Adobe web site comes to mind). He’s a brilliant guy, so any advice I can get out of his books will be a welcome addition. I’m looking forward to get into the material that I came here to study. Going from my major classes @ AIA to these Gen-Ed courses has really driven me nuts.

But, it’s over now, and the real fun can begin. Mainly, I’m just looking forward to moving to a new building that’s closer to my apartment, and a classroom that will be missing some of the friendly recording students. These kids all are aspiring rap stars, and it’s really starting to get to me. So, being separated from those guys will be good for me. I don’t know how many people noticed, but I made some subtle visual changes to the site.

One, I’ve added a php script that will automatically change the banner image on every page load. The source code can be found over @ A List Apart. Also, I’ve added a little drop shadow to the main window.

I had originally done it differently, using PNGs for everything but IE… But again, MS had it in for me. The original version looked a lot nicer, but I’ll just go with the gradient GIF for now. Let me know if you Windows IE users see any weirdness over on your end. I took a look on a Windows machine @ school, but didn’t have time to really sniff around.

Anyone want to buy me Virtual PC