Very Busy and Excited…

I’m over 10,000 imagesHypermodern – Pete Ippel on Flickr, and was up all night uploading. I have a lot of tagging and geotagging to do so they can all be linked up on the trippermap at the bottom of every page.

In other news I’m super excited about the Fulbright, I really feel like I’m on a great path, what I’ve been learning over in City College with professor Jordan is really valuable, especially in relation to the “Leyenda Negra“. I was so thrilled todaywhen I was able to apply the history from the Roman conquest all the way to the present, and how it’s displayed in the De Young Museum Exhibit on Chicano cultre.
I also purchased the catalog today.

After the museum, I walked over to Hayes and Clayton to the Common Grounds Coffee Shop, and read a bit more of Carlos Fuentes’s Espejo Enterrado and chased it with an expresso float (the Italian name rhymes with Avocado) and a HUGE Colombian Coffee…so I’m pretty wired, got dinner at Papalote, and a 4 pack of ROCKSTAR for the next couple of days. I have to have the essay finished by Sept. 20.

I’m tutoring Felix tomorrow in Spanish, 8am at Perk Cafe, teaching from 9:30-12 and then rushing to a model appointment at Di Pietro Todd…and then likely over to SFAI to talk with the advisors there…

Whew…

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Pete Ippel, the son of a dancer and a musician, was born in Oak Park, Illinois and has been surrounded by the arts since birth. He moved to Morris, Illinois in 1989 and started to participate in athletics rather than dance. After high school, Pete attended Cornell University where he received a BA in psychology and a BFA in photo / digital art making. He continued to follow his sporting dreams in the high jump, which culminated in a school record leap of 7 feet 1/2 inch in 2001. In May 2004 he attained an MFA degree in the New Genres department of the San Francisco Art Institute. Presently Pete is a practicing artist whose work is in numerous private collections and has been exhibited in New York, California, and internationally. Mr. Ippel resides in Working Artists Ventura, a sustainable artist community in southern California. In addition, he teaches art, is a web developer, an active blogger, and still high jumps from time to time. As a passionate problem solver and a pragmatic optimist, Pete’s art and his life are full of exciting challenges.

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