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FINALS!!
These were my final projects for my 2D Design class in my first semester of art school! They're just concept sketches, and nothing fancy. The entire point was just utilizing very specific elements of design that we had worked with previously in the semester, while also making our projects relate to what we want to do with our artistic career. I want to be a visual development artist more than anything, so I made this (not as good as I would have liked) concept art for stories that I haven't done anything with yet.
Art school was genuinely a good decision, I'm quite happy :]
#digital art#digital illustration#art major#art school#college#first year#csulb#illustration major#concept art#skyrim fanart#altmer#high elf#fantasy art#paint tool sai#clip studio paint#csp#huion kamvas 13#loyal huion fan
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Trend Alert: Headphones!
Today, consumers are more connected than ever. Trends come and go as fast as water flowing through a river and CSULB students are keeping up with what is going on out there.
After the incredible introduction and popularity of wireless earbuds (Ex. Airpods), it appears that young consumers are now shifting back to the classic big headphones. Why is that? We asked students from various majors about their opinions on the matter and for the majority, it is all about the look and comfort.
Some students agree that this big shift has come from major influencers they follow. Companies like Apple and Sony, leaders on leisure audio technologies, have launched brand new wireless headphones perfect for the modern consumer. If wireless earbuds were the big thing in 2018, it is time for the wireless headphones to shine. But is everyone going wireless? NO. Interestingly enough, this new wave is coming with headphones of various brands, colors, sizes, and as you expected, WIRES. Turns out it all depends on personal preference and accessibility.
Recently, style and fashion are all about being unique and showing off your personal style. With headphones coming back into the picture, young people have found ways of incorporating them into their style and daily outfits. It is now not only about music quality for some, it all depends on your style! Walking around the hallways and courtyards of CSULB, we noticed that students tend to customize their headphones with covers, stickers, art, and anything you can think of (yes, even toys). It all depends on the student and the image they want to portray. As a junior year student said “if you want to know a little bit more about someone’s style and interests, look at their headphones!”.
Stephanie Padilla
All photos by Stephanie Padilla and CSULB students.
#campus life#fashion trends#fashion#headphones#styleblogger#styleoftheday#college fashion#trending#fashion inspo#campus#csulb#csulbfashion#csulbtrends
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Promise Yourself
To be so strong that nothing
can disturb your peace of mind.
To talk health, happiness, and prosperity
to every person you meet.
To make all your friends feel
that there is something in them
To look at the sunny side of everything
and make your optimism come true.
To think only the best, to work only for the best,
and to expect only the best.
To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others
as you are about your own.
To forget the mistakes of the past
and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
To wear a cheerful countenance at all times
and give every living creature you meet a smile.
To give so much time to the improvement of yourself
that you have no time to criticize others.
To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear,
and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.
To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world,
not in loud words but great deeds.
To live in faith that the whole world is on your side
so long as you are true to the best that is in you.
Christian Larson - Your Forces and How to Use Them
photo by me @ Cal State Long Beach
#promises#christianlarson#book#csulb#calstatelongbeach#longbeach#trees#flowers#poems#positivity#quotes#reflection#photography#art#scenery
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How Long Beach State prepared for Bronny James' debut and won
Sunday, December 10, 2023 8:14PM
Long Beach State tried to stay cool.
The Beach were about to play the biggest college basketball game of the weekend, thanks to Bronny James, who was set to make his Division I debut for USC five months after suffering cardiac arrest during a workout in July.
The lines outside Galen Center -- where the school announced a sellout on Friday once the freshman star's debut was announced -- snaked down the street. Tickets on the secondary market had sold for hundreds -- and in some cases, thousands -- of dollars. LeBron James, Bronny's dad, was rumored to be attending. Still, the Beach believed they had settled down by the time tipoff approached.
As the national anthem echoed through the speakers in the arena, however, the Los Angeles Lakers superstar entered the building, and the entire roster turned their heads.
"LeBron is about 6-foot-9, 240 pounds. … Of course we all noticed him," LBSU junior Jadon Jones, who finished with 18 points and eight rebounds after LBSU upset USC 84-79, told ESPN. "The crowd erupted as soon as his face was on the jumbotron. We saw Rich Paul there."
When Bronny entered Sunday's game early in the first half, the crowd cheered. The USC fans rose to their feet whenever he touched the ball. And they roared after his chase-down block on Jones. He followed the play with an assist to Vincent Iwuchukwu, his USC teammate who had also suffered cardiac arrest in 2022 during a team workout.
And just like that, the Trojans fed off the energy and entered halftime with a double-digit lead.
Facing Bronny & Co. in that building was going to be more difficult than Long Beach State had imagined.
"We just didn't fight early in the game," said longtime LBSU head coach Dan Monson.
Nearly 72 hours earlier, Monson forgot he was in a room full of Gen Z kids. He told his players that they weren't "the Washington Generals."
He was, of course, referring to the old nemesis of the Harlem Globetrotters, the flashy assembly known for its trick shots and dribbling maneuvers in the 1960s and 1970s. The Generals rarely won when the two teams played. Monson's point was that Long Beach State had a chance against the Trojans.
There was just one problem.
"None of them knew what I was talking about," Monson said.
But he also reminded them that Sunday's game could be memorable.
"There are a lot of games that come and go and you're not going to remember them," he said he told his team. "This is one of those games, for good or bad, you're going to remember the rest of your life because of the circumstances. You have to play with emotion, but you can't be emotional."
When he tried to revive the Washington Generals metaphor again at halftime, his team finally seemed to get it, and returned for the second half with renewed energy. Then Bronny made his first shot: a 3-pointer from the wing with 13:10 to go in the game.
All the talk about staying focused and poised seemed to disappear with the crowd on fire.
As the Beach looked around the arena and heard the noise, they realized they had entered an environment unlike anything they had seen in the past.
"I had to call a timeout," Monson said. "I had to settle that down a little bit. When he hit that 3-pointer, the crowd was at a decibel level few arenas will get to this year."
As play continued, though, he also noticed a strange change come over his team's opponent.
In the first half, the Bronny hype had driven the Trojans and fueled an emotional charge. In the second half, however, they began to show signs of fatigue. Maybe the pregame pageantry had been a lot for USC, too, he wondered.
Just like that, the game started swinging in LBSU's favor, and regulation ended with USC -- a 13.5-point favorite entering the game -- heading to overtime with the Beach, a stunning reversal.
"Our first thing was just to stay calm," Jones said about his team's comeback.
The Beach understood the crowd would be large and the atmosphere would reflect the moment. At the same time, they weren't really worried about Bronny, who finished the game with 4 points, 3 rebounds, 2 steals, 2 assists and 1 block in 17 minutes off the bench. The Beach figured it would take time for him to adjust in his first college game. Veteran Boogie Ellis and freshman Isaiah Collier, the projected No. 1 pick in ESPN's latest NBA mock draft, were the bigger threats.
"To be honest, Bronny wasn't our biggest priority in the scout," Jones said. "He's a good young player. But he's still a freshman in his first game."
Ellis and Collier tried to carry their team through overtime, but the game ended with Long Beach State pulling off the upset and winning its first game at USC since 1987.
Monson didn't focus on the result as he went through the handshake line. The game, he said, was a celebration of Bronny's recovery more than anything else.
"I told Bronny after the game, 'Congratulations,'" he said. "What he's been through is way bigger than this game. To see him back out there and his proud dad there and his mom, that's way more important than anything else."
Once they finished celebrating the victory, the Beach showered, got dressed and hopped onto their team bus for the 40-minute ride back to campus, thinking about the way they had played spoiler on Bronny's big night, and how they could use the win to fuel success the rest of the season.
"They got ahead of us quickly," Jones said. "But we were able to calm the storm."
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Angels lost tonight but still had a good time at the game especially at the bottom of the 9th got interesting.
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Sunday, 1/29/23. Today, a dream came true. I got to see one of my former students play baseball. He was invited to come play in the alumni game at our alma mater. We had a good time and I didn’t get too emotional until after we’d said our goodbyes.
#365#hi gramma#school daze#all is well and all will be well#long beach state#dirtbags#csulb#blair field
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Found an old slide of a collab art project from college. I made the calaca and my classmate made the heart. Sadly, my piece was broken after having lived in our backyard for years. #csulb #calstatelongbeach #artclass #sculpture #calaca #goBeach https://www.instagram.com/p/CnOLggbLu1M/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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One more finals post-
I also did tradtional art, I had to take a foundation drawing class. It was not. easy. But I did my best and improved a lot over the course of the semester and that's what mattered.
#art school#art major#finals#finals week#traditional art#drawing foundations#art student#art college#csulb#school of art#sketch
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Reason’s first board
2004
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Today’s #moustache celebrates with #deanmonica at the year end work party #todaysmoustache #mustache #csulb #chhs (at The Grand Long Beach) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdhapzSLGpM/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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How a book spurred Long Beach State’s transformation into a volleyball powerhouse
How a book spurred Long Beach State’s transformation into a volleyball powerhouse
BY THUC NHI NGUYEN
MAY 3, 2022 5 AM PT
Long Beach State’s national championship trophies greet everyone who enters the school’s volleyball offices in Walter Pyramid. Alan Knipe, who has helped the men’s volleyball team put three gleaming prizes on the table a few feet away from his office door, may soon need to clear some more space.
Three years removed from back-to-back national championships, Long Beach State is on the cusp of another successful chapter. The top seed in the NCAA tournament at Pauley Pavilion this week, the Beach (20-5) begins the quest for its third national title in five years Thursday in the semifinals against UCLA or Pepperdine, which play in Tuesday’s quarterfinal.
After winning one NCAA championship in the first 47 years of its program, Long Beach State is now a perennial power. Beach won back-to-back championships in 2018 and 2019, ending a 27-year NCAA title drought for the program on the back of a vaunted senior class that included All-Americans TJ DeFalco, Kyle Ensing and Josh Tuaniga.
In the COVID-19 pandemic’s twisted reality, Long Beach State’s coronation as a men’s volleyball powerhouse feels like a lifetime ago. Two pandemic-interrupted seasons following the last title make it feel like the roster changed over in an instant, Knipe said. But changing from a veteran-laden team to a squad with just one senior hasn’t dampened expectations for the Beach.
“People don’t come here to play for second, right?” junior middle blocker Shane Holdaway said.
The championship repeat was the culmination of a rebuilding process that began in 2013 when Knipe returned from a three-season hiatus. After coaching the U.S. national team during the London Olympics, Knipe felt like a new a new coach.
The only person to be involved in all three of Long Beach State’s national titles, Knipe is as familiar as anyone with the program. He starred on the 1991 national championship as a player, moved to the bench as an assistant and took over the program in 2001. Spending almost all of his adult life in the same place made it difficult to make radical changes from within, Knipe said. The national team opportunity brought a fresh perspective.
One of the first things Knipe did to establish a new culture of trust, open communication and accountability was assign team reading, handing out copies of “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team,” a book that identifies things that plague even successful teams and how to address potential problems.
A junior on that team, assistant coach McKay Smith looked at the assignment with a skeptical eye. It only took a few pages for him to commit to turning the page on Long Beach State’s culture.
The book addressed how teammates can communicate, trust and confront conflicts together, setting a foundation for players and coaches who could then use valuable practice time to focus on on-court performance. The reading exercise has expanded to include different books for each class, including Malcolm Gladwell’s “Outliers” and “Legacy,” which focuses on the All Blacks, New Zealand’s national rugby team.
“Our culture is by design,” Knipe said. “We work at it. We build it. We talk about it.”
Each year, players present their takeaways from their books to the team. While the books can stay the same, Smith, who is in his fourth year as an assistant, notices how each group’s impressions change. It reminds the coaching staff of how important it is to embrace the current chapter of the program’s success without comparing it to seasons past.
“We’re not trying to be the 2019 team or the 2021 team or the 2023 team,” Knipe said. “We’re only trying to be the 2022 team.”
Knipe tries not to get ahead of himself when looking at the trajectory of his program, although he could be forgiven if he’s caught smiling at the prospect of building on the success of this year’s underclassmen. Setter Aiden Knipe, a redshirt sophomore, is playing in his first full season after the pandemic altered the beginning of his college career. The head coach’s son is third in the country in assists per set with 11.08.
Big West freshman of the year Alex Nikolov leads the Beach attack with 4.6 kills and 5.56 points per set, which rank third and second in the country, respectively. The son of former Bulgarian national team captain Vladimir Nikolov, Alex is, by his head coach’s estimation, a “generational volleyball player in college volleyball.”
While the talented 6-foot-8 outside hitter had opportunities to play professionally in Europe immediately after high school, Nikolov was interested in the unique combination of academics and athletics offered in the United States. He hadn’t heard of Long Beach State until about two years ago. He quickly learned that, despite its lack of international name recognition, it was a force in men’s volleyball.
The 18-year-old intends to keep Long Beach State at the top in the coming years.
“I came here to win four national championships,” Nikolov said with a smile.
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