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"Andrew Audrian"
# Statistics
Favourites: 69; Deviations: 12; Watchers: 9
Watching: 24; Pageviews: 3050; Comments Made: 249; Friends: 24
# Comments
Comments: 63
Hey Andrew,
I just dropped by to personally say thank you so much for the fav and watch. The support really means so much to me.
By the way, lovely gallery. Digging that photoshoot--please upload more!
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Yes I will, probably soon.
Thank you for looking through my gallery
Your photos are awesome and incredible, are you a fashion photographer?
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You are most welcome and thank you again!
Hehe no I'm not a fashion photographer--- but I hope to be! I'm currently building up my portfolio so I can get on my way to being one.
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Hmm. Well my parents bought me a dSLR end of my freshman high school year... and now my sophomore year in college will start in 2 weeks, soo... I would say 3 years? Of course the 1st year was like just playing around and stuff. This year I am starting to take it seriously as a job.
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oh wow cool! 3 years? that's awesome! so what are you majoring on?
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Err just getting Associate's in Photography at a local community college, should be done by end of Spring 2012. I didn't really want to go to school, my parents (Asian) forced me to and it took them a while to accept my ambitions. They support my work but I think it's too much to just completely drop out of school--the past 2 terms I've taken classes, I learned absolutely nothing in photography, nor anything else in generel -____-
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wow, that's awesome! Yes I find that true, my parents are also asian, and they force me to go to uni, after haggling for a bit, they agreed to me just getting a diploma in an art school instead. Like really nothing? what did you learn there?
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Hehe I can imagine parents are much more stern about schooling in Indonesia than America.
I could say that art schooling is more valuable in other countries other than America. Art school (or art, art in general) in American is one big consumerist scam. Roughly $80,000 USD (dunno the Indonesian currency sorry) for 3-year tuition to get a master's in photography (which in reality, in the art field of things, degrees mean nothing--people [OF SENSE] will ask to see your portfolio, never your degree. Degree only means "I paid THIS much and sat in classes for this many hours to get this pretty piece of paper"). Can you say BIG RIP OFF?
Also take into consideration that the most successful artists have either dropped out of school or never went to school for art.
I have not learned a single thing from my classes--I've taken beginning, intermediate and advanced photo classes as well as multimedia, 2d design, and 3d animation for the past year and I have not learned anything NEW. Everything that was taught in these classes were things I've already taught myself before.
I'm very against art school because of the fact that art school can only teach you technique, but never can it teach you style or creativity--that comes from yourself and your own personal experiences. Of course, more prestigious schools promise you very good jobs at the end of your schooling but you still walk away with the mindset that money compensates for school (at least that is the theory here in American schools).
I honestly believe art school is overpriced and a big scam--a lot of the material they teach you can so easily be researched on the Internet (I am all self-taught, the only benefit of being a photography student is having access to a studio, but everything to my knowledge is self-taught). Why pay so much money for knowledge you can teach yourself?
That's just my beliefs
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Yeah, totally, my parents were like If you don't go to college what will you do for a living?
Yes, I agree, 80,000 dollars for 3 years, that's a lot of money, You can buy a whole lot of equipment for 80 thousand.
Really? Creativity should be found, not studied, and also style, so I guess not going to college is a better choice isn't it?
I really hope I wasn't born asian.
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Hehe, not trying to put you down for going to college! Of course the benefits of going to art school is that you will learn techniques instead of having to fish around the Internet for them. And you will have better chances at landing a job after you graduate.
Yeahhh Asian parents think way to conservative 
Just follow your heart!
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I know! Well, the choice is engineering or phsychology or economics or art school, I choose art school! Plus it's a chance to network and build portfolio.
Korean parents are worse, a minimum education for them is barchelor, they even have barchelor of knitting...
You too!
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Bachelor in knitting !?!!?!!!!!! Wowowowowowowowowow I can't imagine.... XD
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Yep, i got this scholarship in korea (that I threw away), in engineering (I know, BOOORING). And I did research.. And yes THEY HAVE KNITTING, and a few cute other things, but KNITTING XD!
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Thank you for the comment on my picture, I agree with your opinion and will asap bring the chain saw out and give it a new try next winter
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why not use a very wide angle lens instead? so you can also get the sky and more trees.
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As you surely understand, I think your advise is good and will try to imporove by using it. However I'm always trying to turn things in to jokes... Thats where the chain saw came from.
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oh all right, it's just... scary to picture someone cutting off trees
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oh okay!
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On the Swedish east cost, 100 kms north of Stockholm.
On google maps:
[link]
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oh wow! I would like to go there someday.. I hope
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Hey there, i have featured your nice work here: [link] 
Have a nice day!
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Thanks for 
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