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Image: Cicada Design/Diamond + Schmitt Architects

Remember Makeout!? You can see what happened with the roomful of 200 people smooching at the Ryerson University Film Festival. This weekend RUFF will showcase films by about 40 graduating Image Arts students from May 10-12 at Royal Cinema.

After finishing a year of schooling, there can't be anything better than plastering the walls of your collegiate institution with anything you want.

Happy Groundhog Day! Wiarton Willie, Shubenacadie Sam and Punxsutawney Phil did not see their shadow this morning and thus we should expect an early spring. Should we trust our weather report to the groundhogs? The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change seems to agree with our furry friends, also predicting hotter climates and sea level rise.

Some cram for exams and stay up all night drinking Red Bull writing essays. Art school kids have to get their stuff together and do thesis shows. Like Memoranda, the U of T Fine Arts thesis show opening tommorow night 8 pm at 30 St. Clair West (running until the 15th). There's also Descry, the Ryerson Image Arts student show at the Steamwhistle gallery until the end of the month. We'll keep our ear to the ground for any other end-of-term shows but honestly though all the cool kids have their thesis projects online. Like Ahmed El-Khuffash of Envision Toronto, which happens to be his 4th year Image Arts thesis project and really really awesome.

"Hey hey. Ho ho. Ashlee Simpson is a no-talent goat."

Ryerson University has got to find some more space for their artists. Take the more than 40 artists showing at the School of Image Arts 3rd Year Show which runs until Feb. 3rd at the Ryerson Gallery. The 100+ works are crammed into every imaginable space. Photos are hung on top of one another, on pillars, behind desks. Travel photos are squeezed right next to portraits, intimate still-lifes compete for your attention with expansive landscapes. At times the show seems to devolve into visual clutter.