Images from Amanda

This week’s post features the thoughts and images of WSP graduate Amanda Hibbert.  In her blog, entitled A Photographer’s Journal: The Emerging Photographer Experience, she shares some of her steps along the way  from beginning to experienced photographer.

In her most recent post, she shares images taken with a point-and-shoot digital camera on a trip to Europe:  http://amandahibbert.wordpress.com/

Scroll down to the bottom for some of her previous posts, such as Movies Which Inspire Creativity, How to Find Photographers to Assist, and Still in Love with Film After All These Years.

Thank you, Amanda, for sharing your thoughts, and for the lovely images!

Come on Out to the Twist and Shout

Well, the walls are finally starting to come down around us, and taking a little piece of history with them.  If you look out the windows of Classroom One, you’ll see a white building next door, being torn down to make way for new construction. Most recently, it housed a liquor store (which was handy when we were stocking up for a gallery opening), but a while before that, it housed a music venue known as the Twist and Shout.  The Twist and Shout closed in 1998, but not before entertaining folks in Bethesda for many years, and being popularized by Mary Chapin Carpenter in her song “Down at the Twist and Shout”.  “Saturday night and the moon is out / Gonna head on over to the Twist and Shout…”

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/sy-14246977/mary_chapin_carpenter_down_at_the_twist_and_shout_official_music_video/

Or, if you prefer the Zydeco style, check out this final performance at the Twist and Shout before its closing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7U_B5ki_fw

And finally, for an article about the demise of the Bethesda music scene, check out this page from Bethesda.com:  http://www.bethesda.com/article/0211/bethesdas-live-music-scene-magical-to-moribund-by-chris-shaffer-bethesdacom-staff-writer-.html

So, change is a-comin’!  Details of WSP’s move are still in the works, but classes are going on as usual at 4850 Rugby Avenue for now.  And I’m told that the construction noise (er, make that, destruction noise) isn’t even as noisy as you’d think.  So grab your camera and come on out to class!