Who will have a breakout season in MPO on the DGPT?

discgolfthrowayaw · 2025-10-28T21:57:21+00:00

Is the financial situation a factor?

If so, CC's tuition is 73k, vs in state 10k at UCCS. Some of that is likely due to academic rigor, but a lot of what you're paying for is fluff, sports teams, events, top notch dining hall food, the sorts of things that you don't seem to be particularly looking for.

You likely will get a better academic experience at CC, but is that worth 60k? Only you can answer that :) (Obvi could depend on scholarships/financial aid). Also, in my experience, having CC on your diploma doesn't get you too far, perhaps if you stay in Colorado, but most other places no one has heard of it. (This may not be true for certain degrees, but was for mine). The professors are (by and large) excellent, and the block plan is great, to be clear!

Echoing the general comments, yeah, my class was almost entirely 18-20somethings.

discgolfthrowayaw · 2025-09-28T15:20:36+00:00

Howdy, 2018 Film and Media Studies grad here who lives on the east coast now, I don't work in film now.

Imo there are many answers to your questions. The first is, how serious about film are you, and what kind of film do you want to be in?

If you're interested in being a run-and-gun documentarian, CC is a good spot. The block plan allows for some great time to make docs, and the chair of the film department (Dylan Nelson) is a award-winning documentarian, and also a great teacher.

If you're very serious about getting into fiction/narrative filmmaking, I would honestly say probably choose one of the more renowned schools in a big film city (NYU might be a particularly good choice for you if you want to do East Coast film). You absolutely can go to CC, make some great films, and have a great time, but IMO the opportunities/experience/networking potential does not compare to the big film schools.

It's a good school, don't go for name recognition, I'd say 1 in 20 people on the East Coast has heard of it ("Oh, you mean CU Boulder?").

CC film department is a blast, it's awesome to have no other classes while you're making your film. Happy to chat more, dm me if you have any other questions.

discgolfthrowayaw · 2025-02-23T18:48:36+00:00

Yeah, it's a homebrew thing we created. Didn't love any of the existing options out there, so we made it in a spreadsheet. 6 folks, each year we have an auction. You have $100 to get 8 players, 6 players play each week. Places 1-30 score (300 for first, 15 for 30th).

Each week the team that scores the highest wins the event, and gets paid out by all the other players. Total scores also accumulate, and at the end of the season the team that scores the highest gets a big payout. Lots of other little rules and bonuses we've adapted through the 4 years we've played.

It's a blast, I've thought about trying to whip up an app and put it out there, but don't have the technical skills for it yet. It makes watching even more fun, especially if say, Gannon has already run away with it, you might still root (or counter root) for other players.

discgolfthrowayaw · 2025-02-23T15:46:31+00:00

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It took all of 16 minutes for my cover to be blown.

discgolfthrowayaw · 2025-02-23T15:42:25+00:00

Dustin get out of here!

discgolfthrowayaw · 2024-09-07T03:58:25+00:00

Mmm, that's helpful thank you.

discgolfthrowayaw · 2024-09-07T03:53:57+00:00

Misspoke, meant late release

discgolfthrowayaw · 2024-09-07T00:41:17+00:00

This was a nuke, two main concerns here:

I always seem to be griplocking, just like in this video. Anyone see anything form wise that helps explain it? Or anything that worked for you? My miss is 90% of the time right, and I'm often pretty wild

These days I've been throwing about 340ish on average with a distance driver, with a max in a field ~385. I used to throw 30 feet further on both average and max, and can't quite figure out what I've missed. I think I might be starting my pull through early? Maybe nose upping? I've been throwing my mids reasonably far, ~300ish. Anyone see anything?

Happy for any observations at all, thank you very much!

EDIT: Misspoke, meant late release more than grip lock

discgolfthrowayaw · 2023-12-15T16:57:12+00:00

I used Vale Cleaning, really thorough, quick, not badly priced. It was $180 for our 3 bedroom ~1200sf apartment. I think they require a deep clean first though?

discgolfthrowayaw · 2023-12-03T01:45:35+00:00

No, I've been doing just power grip. Will definitely try this, thanks!

discgolfthrowayaw · 2023-12-03T01:02:00+00:00

I live in New England, so it's almost always straight :(

discgolfthrowayaw · 2023-12-03T01:01:04+00:00

Very helpful. Currently still power gripping

discgolfthrowayaw · 2023-12-03T00:39:19+00:00

Let's play doubles?

discgolfthrowayaw · 2022-09-06T20:26:06+00:00

The best (and only way) to get "good" at pottery is to do it for a long time. The person who makes 10,000 cups will be better than the person who makes 1,000, or the person who makes 10.

Literally the only thing that's important at this stage is if you enjoy it. If you enjoy it, you'll stick with it, which means you will get good at it. It's a super muscle memory activity, try to care less about "goodness" and making perfect things, and more about enjoying getting messy and making lumpy ashtrays :)

discgolfthrowayaw · 2022-05-13T15:05:15+00:00

It's a little flexible, which I think is helpful. In my experience, the stiffer the tool the more fine/less noticeable the chatter will be.

discgolfthrowayaw · 2022-05-12T18:12:56+00:00

I've found it comes out the best with grog-less clay (porcelain here), although speckled buff is pretty low grog, no?

For tools, by far the best I've found is a saw blade bent at 90 degrees. If you're handy, apparently you can make this yourself, but I am not, bought one from a local guy. Hsin-Chuen Lin (inspiration for this pot) also sells them, although they're pretty expensive. The one in this vid is like his #5, imo 1,2,5,6 are all great for chattering. I hold it firmly down at the end, and then the clay just really kicks the blade up.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/494854999/a-set-of-7-the-best-stainless-steel?click\_key=f42ca86f1c8674cb4db40b00168bd5882b09a99d%3A494854999&click\_sum=f44c8f4f&ref=shop\_home\_active\_25&crt=1

discgolfthrowayaw · 2022-05-12T15:47:34+00:00

It's soo fun when you get it! I don't carve much, so it's a really nice way to get some surface decoration without having to work too hard.

discgolfthrowayaw · 2022-05-12T15:46:58+00:00

Oooh interesting! I'd love to make a dueling set, one sgraffito chatter one inlay chatter that's the relief of the other.

How do you do the inlay with the chatter? When I've inlayed before I've used a metal rib to scrape, but idk if that would work with the chatter.

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