Computer Science is Philosophical...

Hand dying silk

This guy works with dyed squares of paper or tape strips

This entertains me so much, considering it's similar to Will Lentz's work and people actually like it.

Potter

Metalworker, who has gone to China with her work before.

 So, yesterday was awesome. Alexa, my host, acted as a tour guide and we explored the River Arts District (depicted above) and downtown Asheville. I was so excited to be able to meet artists who are doing what they love and making money at it. My excitement over this made me realize how much I still love art and want to make it. And I came to the realization that I can handle living in Conway for a while. Working at Fuji's isn't the worst job, it covers my bills and gives me free time to work on my artwork. I've also decided I want to take a glass blowing class. :D I think that would be the coolest thing to learn how to do, second maybe to pottery. I'm slowly coming to terms with the fact that I might not get a great job that pays lots of money, but I can have ok jobs which pay just enough and then make money on the side doing my artwork, which I will actually have time to do. It was a pleasant realization.

Awesome Street Musicians

Walking downtown

Beautiful Climbing tree

We continued to explore downtown and then went out to look at Beaver Lake. Alexa took Paul and I to this awesome tree down one of the walking trails around Beaver Lake. Then we went back to her apartment for dinner, deep discussions, french music and movie trailers, hahaha. It was great. Later we met up with Sky at a dive bar kind of place called The Get Down. The band his friend was playing in was pretty good, but the screamo music afterwards might have left me a little deaf. At some point in the night we come to the discussion of Computer Science being philosophical. Paul assures us that if we read the right material and know programming languages that we would see computer science is philosophical. I'm still not convinced, especially since my friend, Michael,  knows these things and disagrees. It was an amusing conversation though. I adore couchsurfers because I have the best conversations with them. It's like meeting ASMSA kids all over the world and having informed discussions without judging anyone for their opinions. One thing I dislike about living in Conway is it limits the number of people that I have these types of conversations with. In all, Asheville has been a blast so far and three days seems like a lifetime.