Project ron saks final

The tradition of the Mirror Lake Jump.
Every year, hundreds of thousands of ohio states students, strip down their clothes and jump into mirror lake the Thursday before the last game of the year, which is always against Michigan. The rivalry has been going on for years, but not one person knows the actual root of the tradition. Years before the actual jump started, upperclassmen would always throw the freshman in to mirror lake as a tradition. So, it has always been a tradition of initiation. When asking senior, Phil Rocci, about the tradition he said, " First thing that comes to mind is mind-numbingly COLD, but besides that, i'd say overall it's great to see a campus unite over a common love, BUCKEYE FOOTBALL! While my memory may have been hazy due to excessive alcohol intake, I vividly remember a grand sense of camaraderie and enthusiasm. "
Every student who I have spoken to who has done the jump has all said the same thing, they feel really proud to be a part of something that everyone else is so proud of.

The reason I did my project on Mirror Lake, is because this year I moved from CCAD campus down near OSU campus, and I have noticed a HUGE difference of pride between our students and theirs. We are very proud to be CCAD students, yes. But we don't have anything to prove it. No traditions, no banners, no blankets, no paraphernalia, and to be frank, when you tell people who ask you where you go to school that you go to CCAD, most people will say, where? When I moved here, I felt like there was a sense of belonging. Even though I do not go to Ohio State, the mind set here, is if you are a buckeye fan, than you are a friend. You could walk down the street with a jersey on and five people will yell out O-H to which you will respond I-O! without even thinking about it. Why do we at CCAD not have a chant to each other? When we walk down the street and notice someone is our student, we should be high-fiving and chanting and being PROUD of where we are. Everyone should know where we are from and what we do!
The poster I made is a poster that you would see on campus on a telephone pole or in a bar, or on the side of the road in car windshield wipers to get students ready for the next years "Michigan Week." I chose those photographs because the students were making the legendary O-H-I-O's with their bodies. mostly everyone had at least one letter up in the air at one time, all over the place.So I made sort of an advertisement out of the 277 photographs i took that night, these four were my favorite, they were all so genuinely excited to be there.

so that's what I have.
this is my proposal to CCAD.
lets show our pride for our school! out loud! and like we mean it! Yes, we're all tired all the time, but there is no reason to not shout it out loud to the world that we go to the greatest art school ever in one of the best cities in the country.

Final progress post for project Ron Saks

So i have my final 10 images that I think that i'm going to use for my project.
The reason i am doing this project is because I really believe that even though the environment is so different at Ohio State, CCAD kids should really go out and experience what campus has to offer. Who says us art kids can't enjoy football, beer, and 29 cent wings? I say that we definitely can. When I decided to move to campus, I was super nervous. I was nervous that no one was going to like me because I didn't go to OSU and I didn't know their traditions and ways of life. But on the contrary. I have met so many friends here and i feel incredibly welcome. I've been thinking of ways I would display these photos, and I was thinking, why not make them into flyers that I would put on telephone poles? Telephone pole ads are all over the place on CCAD's campus AND OSU campus. It is the way everyone can see what is going on that week all over Columbus. I would make the black and white xerox copies that I will post on campus(ours and theirs).
SO I am basically finished. :)
it's a Christmas Miracle!

O-H-I-O

Some CCAD students find Ohio State football to be obnoxious.
Others find it to be intriguing and enjoy it.

Ohio State students on the other hand, consider it to be their life.



These are some of the photos i may use out of the 300 I actually took the night of the jump.

I did a documentary on Ohio States traditional mirror lake jump. Happening every year the Thursday(or in this case a Tuesday due to the holiday) before the Michigan Vs Ohio State game.
Students get wasted and take their clothes off in the thirty degree weather just to participate in this tradition. As a bystander this year, I thought it was hilarious. I love how into football Ohio State students are. This year I really became a buckeye fan when I moved to Ohio State campus with my roommate. I love it down here, the atmosphere is always so lively and fun, especially on Saturdays during the football season.
It would be really great if CCAD students had some sort of tradition to hold on to. It gives the students a sense of family, even though there are thousands of students who go to the school.
Now that I've taken the shots, i'm going to talk to a few people who did the jump themselves and ask them about there experience and why they choose to do it every year.
I plan on going next year, will i jump? absolutely not, but i will definitely be there taking pictures.

Right now i have no idea what I want to do. I am thinking of doing color photographs, but not digital, I would like to do color film and print them myself on 11x14 paper. I have been thinking maybe redoing a fairy tale in photographs. I'm really completely undecided on this project. I will post more this week once I maybe figure out what I really want to do. but for right now, i'm still undecided.


sorry:/

so after MUCH thought, I am going to do my project on traditions of Ohio State University students. I will focus on the traditions of jumping into mirror lake and get stories from students who bleed Scarlett and Grey. It's interesting that we go to CCAD and our students are not as die hard about our school as OSU students are about their school. Between the morning drinking, jumping in ponds in 30 degree weather, and other traditions. It will be interesting to take a look at a school, much bigger than ours and hear their stories.

PROJECT JFJ FINAL

We are the creatures in your mind
you can not sleep for fear of our arrival
you do not know if we are real
or fake
but we're in your head.
and maybe we're under your bed
or are we just in your dreams
your fear is bursting at the seams.
When you hear music
you'll know that we're coming for you.

Project JFJ

I have finished shooting for this project and I am excited for it. I have added onto the writing that i did last week so maybe now the idea will be a little more clear, but if it's not that's okay, because it's for our imaginations to run wild.
basically I wanted to do a project that reminded us of our childhoods. you know when you're alone in your dark room at night your imagination runs absolutely wild.
I am going to post images of things that I was afraid of when I was a kid in the dark.

1. the dinosaurs from Jurassic Park.
I was always afraid that these guys were hiding in my bathroom. I'm not sure why.

2. The beast from beauty and the beast.
Most people probably think that this is ridiculous, but i was petrified of beast coming to get me when i was a kid. I would hear things and think that it was him outside of my door.



3. the poltergeist/getting sucked into a TV.
Since I was a kid I've been scared of ghosts. Believe what you will, but I know for sure that they exist. The thing about them is that no one knows if they are really actually real or not. It's all up to the believer.




lets all remember back to when we were kids and what we were afraid of.
are you still afraid now?



Now I may just stick with what i posted last week, I really like the direction it went in. but there will probably be more updates as the week goes on.

Project JFJ

We are the creatures in your mind
you can not sleep for fear of our arrival
you do not know if we are real
or fake
but we're in your head.
and maybe we're under your bed
or are we just in your dreams
your fear is bursting at the seams.
When you hear music
you'll know that we're coming for you.

As a former student of the great John Fergus-Jean, I am super excited about this project. He is one of my favorite instructors at CCAD, mostly because of his dry sense of humor and his vast knowledge of everything under the sun.
I want to experiment with something horrifying just in time for the upcoming holiday, which is my favorite.

Project Helen

Project Helen has been a big adventure for me. First I had a really hard time figuring out what i was going to do or even how to comprehend what I could possibly WANT to do.
My final product is a diptych depicting my conflicting emotions about home and about Columbus. I am a very different person when I am at home. I am very to myself and bored all the time. the first image shows that. It is a self portrait of me composite with an image of the Appalachian Trail which is my back yard and basically the only thing to do or go to during the summer. the second image is my bathroom in my apartment in Columbus. Although my bathroom "screams" Jersey, I am screaming because I am finally going "wild". When I am here, I go insane with school and work and being very involved with school activities. My apartment is the one place that I can feel calm while i'm here, btu still being in a crazy world. It also shows how where i am from is a lot more calm and nature-y and Columbus is much more "exotic" in a way.

mid photoshoot right now. Not going particularly well considering the equipment isn't cooperating and im sitting here painted up like a zebra, but i figured i'd update while i'm trying to trouble shoot the issue. Dear profoto mono lights- why are you being jerks? i think it might be my camera to be honest. but yeah. the look on my face is a pretty accurate description of how i feel about this and in general! stressed and stuffy.
Off to blend into the background, will update more later.

-britt[neigh]
get it , like a zebra?

Project Helen

Project Helen has been one hell of a journey for me already. At first I was confused, because for me not having an example of something really kind of scares me. But after many conversations with Charlotte, I am finally excited for this project. I decided to do what I do best and stick to photography. I really love taking portraits and I also really love lighting and studio portraits.
So to describe the spaces
Panel one is going to be a self portrait within my bathroom. my bathroom is covered in Zebra print. One would describe it as, "snooki inspired." Hell, maybe it's the Jersey in me, but i think it's fun. So, I am going to do a self portrait in the bathroom and i will camouflage myself into the "patterns" of the zebra. For the second Panel. I will be in a field of grass, I will also camouflage myself into the grass. These two panels will be symbolic of how i feel about home and Columbus. Columbus, being the exotic part of me, and New Jersey being the more calm part of me.
So that's my idea and lets hope it goes well because i'm excited now!