The second cultural event I did was this acrylics lecture I went to at West Georgia, mentioned and suggested by the teacher. This was actually a pretty cool lecture. I've experimented with acrylics before, though without professional training. I suspect my stuff will turn out even better now, what with all the interesting new things I learned. Particularly some of the most interesting things I found in the lecture were the things on ingredients for old acrylic paints, all the different types, and storage/shipping/care need-to-knows on acrylic works. For instance, did you know that if an acrylic painting gets too cold, you can shatter it? Or if it gets too warm and/or placed on an odd texture such as bubble wrap, you'll be able to see the permanent imprint in the painting?
While we didn't get to do any real painting ourselves, there were plenty of examples and stuff passed around. My only issue with it is that not all the stuff got circulated to our side of the room, so we didn't get to see everything...but still a good deal of stuff. ^^; And best of all, we got our own set of free acrylic paints afterward! (A picture of this shall be coming soon.)
The third cultural event! The Dragonball Evolution movie-the horror!
...Okay, so I'll admit. It wasn't that bad. If a person that had never seen the series for it, it would probably be fairly decent (if not seeming vaguely reminiscent to...Power Rangers for some reason... o.O;; ). My dad went to see it with me, and not being a fan he mentioned that while it wasn't horrible, he wouldn't pay full movie price to go see it. Being a former fan of the series Dragonball/DragonballZ (yes, yes, I will admit to that...), again, I had to confess that it wasn't 'bullet-to-the-brain' bad like I'd heard another fan describe it, but...I just had to wonder where they got their ideas from, since not a whole lot of it seemed accurate with the series...at all. I'll rank it at maybe thirty percent accuracy (drop that to twenty-nine, because at the very least they could've given Piccolo antennae.)
Even so, it ranks with otaku culture and shows a bit of Japanese culture, what with their continuous references back to ki (which also tends to be known otherwise as chi, chakra, ect., and coincides with martial arts and Zen practices.) I don't quite have a picture of me at the movie to go with this on-hand at the moment, but...I'll see about getting one soon. It was taken with another camera, so yeah...
So those are my top three cultural events. *nodnod*
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