"Tryon the California Life"
Written by Elon Phoenix on 12:37 PMEmily Tryon of the Elon cross country team is spending her summer in Los Angeles as part of the Elon in L.A. program. Each week, Tryon will share her experience with the Phoenix nation in her blog “Tryon the California Life.”
Week Two
Well, this has been one of the more interesting weeks of my life. It started off with a trip to the Howard Fine studio where I took an acting class for four and a half hours. As a biochem major, I've sat through my fair share of reeeally long labs, so I was prepared to be bored. On the contrary, the time passed pretty quickly and I was surprised when Marilyn (our teacher) told us it was over. I did a "personalization" exercise. It was...well at least for me...a fantastically nerve wracking experience. We were told to come to class armed with a song that we had strong emotional associations to, a personal object that we would "grab first if our house was burning down", a prepared monologue (scary!) and a favorite poem. I chose to bring "Monsters" by Band of Horses, my sketchbook, a monologue from The Taking of Miss Janie and Mirror by Sylvia Plath. The personalization exercise involved standing in front of the class while our song was playing and doing whatever the heck we felt like doing. It was very personal (obviously) and I was ridiculously nervous. However, I did it without crying or hyperventilating, which means that I'm already exceeding expectations!
On Tuesday, I drove to Santa Monica with my suitemate, Lauren, because she had an interview at Nickelodeon. (fun fact #1: Nickelodeon and MTV share a studio in Santa Monica) (fun fact #2: Santa Monica is the greatest place in the entire world)
Let me just describe Santa Monica as succinctly as I can because I could really go on about it forever. Ok, if I could imagine heaven, it would be Santa Monica, California. Why? Wel l…
· No. 1: There were points in the day where I was actually chilly and needed my sweater (its JUNE!).
· No. 2: There is every store that I could ever want to go in…Urban Outfitters, H&M, American Apparel, along with adorable boutiques (I'm pretty sure I had a miniature seizure out of excitement!).
· No. 3: There are fountains that are part topiary/part metal sculpture in the shape of dinosaurs. They spurt water out of their mouths. It’s kind of the coolest thing ever.
Anyway, I could really go on forever so I'll stop myself at the fountains. I'm going to be spending a lot of time in Santa Monica because I found an internship there at a place called Galerie Anaîs. It's a small art gallery in a place called Bergamot Station, which is this area that has a bunch of art galleries. I've been doing things like designing email blasts, updating their Facebook page and designing postcards. I've been learning about how an art gallery functions and about the art itself. I'm kind of in love with my job.
Other than going to my internship and running on the ridiculously steep, hilly roads (my legs still aren't used to it), I've been exploring L.A. one bit at a time. I just got back from a taping of the Jimmy Kimmel Live show in Hollywood. It was free and Jessica Alba was a guest (I would probably care more about this if I were a boy). The studio is much smaller than it looks on the show. Before the show started someone got up in front of the audience and told us that we should laugh even if the joke isn't funny but it sounds like its supposed to be a joke, and told us to applaud really loud or else the show would be lame.
On Tuesday, I drove to Santa Monica with my suitemate, Lauren, because she had an interview at Nickelodeon. (fun fact #1: Nickelodeon and MTV share a studio in Santa Monica) (fun fact #2: Santa Monica is the greatest place in the entire world)
Let me just describe Santa Monica as succinctly as I can because I could really go on about it forever. Ok, if I could imagine heaven, it would be Santa Monica, California. Why? Wel l…
· No. 1: There were points in the day where I was actually chilly and needed my sweater (its JUNE!).
· No. 2: There is every store that I could ever want to go in…Urban Outfitters, H&M, American Apparel, along with adorable boutiques (I'm pretty sure I had a miniature seizure out of excitement!).
· No. 3: There are fountains that are part topiary/part metal sculpture in the shape of dinosaurs. They spurt water out of their mouths. It’s kind of the coolest thing ever.
Anyway, I could really go on forever so I'll stop myself at the fountains. I'm going to be spending a lot of time in Santa Monica because I found an internship there at a place called Galerie Anaîs. It's a small art gallery in a place called Bergamot Station, which is this area that has a bunch of art galleries. I've been doing things like designing email blasts, updating their Facebook page and designing postcards. I've been learning about how an art gallery functions and about the art itself. I'm kind of in love with my job.
Other than going to my internship and running on the ridiculously steep, hilly roads (my legs still aren't used to it), I've been exploring L.A. one bit at a time. I just got back from a taping of the Jimmy Kimmel Live show in Hollywood. It was free and Jessica Alba was a guest (I would probably care more about this if I were a boy). The studio is much smaller than it looks on the show. Before the show started someone got up in front of the audience and told us that we should laugh even if the joke isn't funny but it sounds like its supposed to be a joke, and told us to applaud really loud or else the show would be lame.
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