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I don't know who is interested, but I think I'm going to make a couple of posts about:

~ what my last job was (since some people have asked me, and I still feel guilty about having not kept in touch with my ex-boss because he was rad)

~ and also about my experiences at art college (because I allude to it, but I've never written about it before, and I've been ranting about it to my mum recently).

This is a heads-up so you can kick me in the arse in a month or so when I still haven't written it.

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I'd be interested in that post about art college. I almost went to an art school myself but ~~was too lazy to do a portfolio required for the application and~~ applied to a university instead.

I've never made a portfolio in my life, and have only vague ideas of how to do it. Which, you know, was a skill the college tutors could've done to have taught all of us (esp the degree level students) but noooo. It was a fun place.

I think all art schools of any level in Finland require a portfolio of some kind when applying. Here are the requirements for two of the schools that I considered back in the day:

http://www.tamk.fi/documents/10181/21787/FineArtsPreTask2015.pdf/0a53beea-876c-4c1c-bbbf-ba0393b5f976

http://www.aalto.fi/en/studies/admissions/arts/masters_degree/programme_specific_requirements_arts/

I'm pretty sure the portfolio requirements were much more detailed then, though. Stuff like "make a video about your favourite food that's exactly 37 seconds long" and "make a watercolour painting using only the colour red" :D

Ahhh. Some places do in England, and some don't. Mine was just a local college, so nothing fancy, but if I'd wanted to go somewhere like Goldsmiths or St Martins then yeah, I would've had to have an all-singing, all dancing portfolio.

I think those sorts of requirements are for the better, because they force you to think outside of your comfort zone (unless your comfort zone is painting entirely in red ;) ). I wonder why they changed them?

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