Assignment 1

I'm Taylor Radelia and I'm from Orland Park, IL which is in the southwest suburbs of Chicago. My interests include, skateboarding, music, taking photographs, traveling, riding my bike, camping, caring, and feeling sounds. It's really difficult to name one favorite artist, but as of right now my favorite artists are Avey Tare, Henry Wessel, William Eggleston, Stephen Shore, Jason Lazarus, Joseph Kosuth, Harmony Korine, Alec Soth, David Lynch, Larry Clark, Cy Twombly, Chris Johanson, and Daniel Everett.

What I do for fun is practically anything. As long as I'm with fun, genuine people in a stimulating environment I'll be stoked. Long conversations with cool people is some serious fun though. So is responsible psychedelic drug use and doing things involving mountains. There are many things that lead up to me deciding on Columbia. Firstly, it's been on my radar for forever, my dad is alumni here so he was excited to hear I was interested in coming here. I have friends who are studying here and have had some really great things to say about their experiences and the academics. Also, due to problems in high school I didn't do anywhere near as well as I am capable of, and Columbia's open admissions policy was sweet. Columbia is also on the cheaper end when it comes to private art schools. Still, +$20,000 tuition isn't cheap by any means. The medium I feel most comfortable working with is photography, I've been exploring the medium long enough to feel confident about transferring my ideas through a lens and onto a frame of film. Though I don't wan't to or like to limit myself to just photographs as a way of releasing things from my brain. I like to dabble in practically everything I have the option to try my hand at.

I'm really excited to use different mediums along with text to explore a place of my choosing. I think that our semester long project will really help me in the future at Columbia when I am enrolled in photojournalism courses and I can use what I have learned this semester in order to explore a group or place with strictly photographs. As of right now I don't have any fears for this class besides blogging. Doing homework on the internet is an easy was to become distracted through other parts of the internet, it's a big, fun place!