By Jacob Bates

Hello, I’ve been at Lane Community College for almost two years taking the Multimedia Design program. I really enjoy photography and movies, and I like to take pictures on my film cameras. I like the physical process of buying a mechanical camera, loading it up and being selective with how I take pictures. I haven’t been getting out much lately to take pictures though, as I’ve been inside a lot listening to music and playing video games.

I really like collecting older video games and consoles and I’ve been playing a lot of Animal Crossing: Wild World this week. I’ve also gotten back into skateboarding, and it’s very nice to get outside and be active more often lately, especially while listening to an album in my headphones. I have listened to a lot of Ween and Talking Heads in the last month, I enjoy finding new and unique music a lot.

After I’m finished with this program I’d like to become a freelance photographer, or help work with editing on production crews for movies/shows. I may also go into music as I have a lot of friends that play instruments and I think I would like to have a creative outlet like that as a job for a long time.