lovely

currently listening to: alive and kicking, simple minds

currently craving: a clean desk
currently, currently: wearing all of the same color

i've been browsing more design blogs, and happened upon websitesarelovely. i think he is lovely, truly. he is the author of jetpac magazine, which is "a free pdf culture magazine, featuring photography, illustration, design, comedy, poetry, interviews, reviews...basically all that is good with the world." if i'm not mistaken, there are 3 issues currently out. i love it!!! especially the font choices he's made. his blog is also fantastic, and i feel i have learned so much already.

i also found this fantastic photograph tool titled tiltshiftmaker. it easily transforms your photographs into these images that give the illusion of a tiny-scale model. i edited 4 images i took in NY. it literally took me 3 minutes to make these....try it!!!

2010 alumni

currently listening to: the ceiling fan

currently craving: honesty
currently, currently: watching TCM

all done! finished with school....forever. i don't understand it yet. i just don't know what to do. do i look for the same kinds of jobs i've always looked for, or now that i have a (incredibly expensive) degree, do i pursue a real career? i know what most people would say to that, but i think i'm afraid. i know i'm ready, but where do i even start...

speaking of, here are my new business cards! fresh off the press tonight, actually...

there's a speed-networking conference at the bloomington campus for the 2010 alumni coming up on the 14th of june, which i am a little too enthused about. i'm getting over being shy and just learning that putting yourself out there can be really beneficial.

here's some shots of the day!!!!

final stretch

currently listening to: silvia, miike snow

currently craving: a crazy, much needed thunderstorm
currently, currently: thesis show at macalester (it was sweet! i really loved their gallery space)

good news..i am surprised with how focused i am!? with about 2 weeks left of school, then i'm done FOREVER!!!!!! i have my art show in art-a-whirl coming up on the 14th, and the opening reception on the 6th. also, i got two of my pieces accepted into a juried show called raspberry monday that opens on the 1st, which is really exciting! here is my latest poster 'series' we'll call it. we needed 4 posters to hang up advertising the 4 events starting next week. this is possibly my last project!! it is cool up close too :)

i told you i loved shapes. here is a sneak peek of my final project in digital imaging. i don't know what it will turn into. any ideas??

any & all prayers you have for me to get through the final stretch are needed and appreciated.

herring

currently listening to: generator ^ first floor, freelance whales (aislyn remix)

currently craving: task party
currently, currently: sitting in the gallery

well well well. the last few weeks i have had some pretty cool opportunities. first off, a few of us has lunch with oliver herring. if i told you how down to earth he was, you wouldn't believe me. probably more than you or i. he was so genuinely interested in my life and had such sweet things to say about us all, even after knowing us for only a few days. bethel and mcad in minneapolis are teaming together for tonight's TASK party, which is bound to be a BLAST!! if you haven't heard about what TASK is, read it here. it is an improv collaboration between herring and a group of people that provides a complex, messy, open-ended outlet for creativity. people use things like cardboard, string, tape, and foil to interpret different tasks that those people make up, such as "hug a hipster" or "start a revolution" or "you are an alien, create your ship." i can't wait to see what we get to do. oh, and i'm working in the gallery, and see this sculpture? yea, i'm sitting right by it ;)

i just finished reading the novel "in the land of no right angles" by daphne beal. i don't think i've ever talked about what i've read before, but i guess this is as good as ever. essentially, it is the memoir of a woman living in nepal, who got away from her mid-western lifestlye and got mixed up in an awkward mess of a relationship between a previous professor and a nepali village girl. it includes her stories about how the girl, maya, came into her life, abruptly left, and reappeared in the red light district of bombay, & how the main character tries to save her. it ended horribly. horribly to me is an ending that makes you feel like you read the entire book for nothing. it literally ended with nothing. i don't need the hope of a series, or the main character to triumph, or even a real page-turner to enjoy reading a book; i just hate ending something with the thought, "that author sold themselves short. that ending meant nothing to me." ok ok, i did love reading it. it was so jam packed with culture and vivid imagery, and i loved the messy love triangle, and the characters were also really well developed, but whyyyy daphne did you have to leave it like that???

my latest: the spring banquet. cutesy isn't it? i drew it all! except the font. it is weird that i will be done in the marketing dept in a month. i have had the greatest opportunities in BSA over the last three years, and hopefully i can go out with a bang.

i found a picture that i loved today. well no, i found a quote that i loved. here is a picture of a quote that i love. i wish i could say that i came up with it. sorry this may be kitch-y, and i may or may not have stumbled across this on someone's tumblr page...but seriously. that is my favorite thing. take me ANYWHERE i have never been, and it will be the best day of my life. explorer at heart.

new land of crazy

currently listening to: redline flights, mischna
currently craving: a massage
currently, currently: covered in white paint

check it out :) the gathering! my latest

i found some of my new favorite images!!!!! I LOVE STAR WARSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!

this is a lithograph print i made; most of my prints are made in series of three's. i love doors and not knowing what is within them. also i think they just look sweet & i love wood grain.

last weekend a friend and i went to the closing ceremony at the soap factory in minneapolis for "the new land of milk & honey." if you haven't heard of this already, prepare yourself for something crazy. i'm all for being innovative and experimental, but this.....this was too much. late one night in february, i was flipping through channels and a bald man with a head piece and a lady on a segway dressed as dr. seuss praising a tetrahedron. i'm serious. i did some research and found out this is not just a performance thing, it is a real community of people. i wasn't shocked, i was closer to being disturbed. i wanted to find out for myself if this was truly real. yep. they all live together, grow their own food, dress 'different' (i have to be safe here) and are into things such as "electronic sleep, ley/tectonic farm acceleration, solar wave exchange, cryptoceramics, and chronobiology." they had a "trance tent," tye-dying, a tarot card reader, and a video presentation that was, to me, nothing more than neon 90's microsoft graphic-style blurbs and flashing lights, with purposefully weird music. we couldn't restrain our laughter, i'm sorry. people are into what they're into, but when they hand you a flyer on "the ritual on the metamorphosis of solids," you just have to say "really?" maybe you just need to take a look at it yourself, and honestly, i would LOVE to hear what you think: ummm yea.

intercession

currently listening to: cosmic love, florence and the machines
currently craving: sun & lake calhoun
currently, currently: hgtv

something pretty neat is happening soon in my life, and i would like to invite friends and art-lovers alike to my senior thesis art show on may 6th! me, along with about 24 other seniors, will be presenting at the thorp building in NE minneapolis during art-a-whirl throughout may. its a new experience, thinking about the things i create going into a gallery. ideally, i wouldn't put them on a white wall, or a pedestal; i'd rather see them in people's hands, in a hallway, on a t-shirt. maybe that is glorified too, who knows, but i like to see them being touched interacted with. this is my third group show, and its definitely a different approach to design.

senioritis. i think it is safe to say, i may have come down with a case. even now, i'm stealing glances out of the corner of my eye to my window, where its all sun and birds and breezes. i have less than 2 months left, and i'm already somewhere else in my mind. on another note, i'm working on the marketing for the last official coffeehouse in the underground. its called "the gathering," and they're having couches on stage, with a group of performing artists all sitting together playing for the audience. i'm really excited to create a design that will draw people to this relaxed atmosphere....and free coffee :)

these are some of my latest inspirations. i really love the pink design, and the packaging design of "lintar," a croatian brand of olive oil, which was designed by tridvajedan - you can check out their site here. the bottles are all handpainted on brown glass. i really like this "brachia"design of theirs too, but i can only guess that it is some kind of soap...their site is written in all croatian?

yum. something on my brain lately. in the mornings i have been reading the book "my utmost for his highest," and the phrase "intercession" and "interceding" has come up several times. i know what it means, and i understand the concept, but i can not remember the last time someone actually talked about it, or even the last time i heard it at church or in any other book. intercessory prayer is the act of praying on behalf of others. Christ is pictured in the NT as the ultimate intercessor, because our prayers are offered to God through Christ, and because of this meditation, we can intercede in prayer on behalf of others. one thing i am struggling with: is all prayer intercessory prayer if it is for someone else? does intercessory prayer have benefits beyond that of "regular" prayer? "For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus" 1Tim 2:5. i come to God very much as a best friend, and usually speak to him without structure or formality. one thing i think i have never before considered, is that i can only do this because of Jesus' death & resurrection; before he shed his blood on my behalf, i would never have been allowed to do so without sacrifice, as in the OT. i take this for granted 99.9% of the time. honestly, i have screamed, thrown tantrums, asked for things thinking i deserved them, and knowingly sinned without remorse to Him throughout prayer. wow. i know i am not alone. in order to be effective standing "between" a righteous God and sinful man, we must first stand before God to develop the intimacy required to fulfill this role. numbers 14 is a great example where Moses developed the depth of communication i desire!!

waterrrr...

currently listening to: dirty laundry; bitter:sweet
currently craving: water

currently, currently: have i really not gone to bed by 7 am?

I AM HAPPY TO ANNOUNCE!!!! ta-da! my (official) online portfolio. you may call it my website, yes that is fine. click on me!! tell me what you think.

here is an oldie. this was the only thing i had up for a while. although i still like the design.

here is a REAL oldie. i think i spelled "dimensional" wrong? i may be embarrassed of that one...

my cargo account got deleted. it was such a great web-hosting site for artists, and its safe to say i'm PRETTY ticked i don't have mine any longer. you have to apply for an account to get one, and now you have to pay money for it? ughhhh. i'm cheap.

and i said i was done with my computer over sb...hah. real life; here it is.

throwing chapstick at a fan

currently listening to: no turning back, gui boratto

currently craving: a better movie

currently, currently: empty dunn bros cup

i just watched the informant, and let me just say, i had no idea what was going on, at any point in the movie. maybe if i took some finance classes, or a business class, or even knew anything about business i could have kept on track with the plot. maybe i am just part of a small percentage of people who couldn't keep up, but i had a perpetual crease in my forehead, the kind you get where one eyebrow is up and your head is turned to the side...you are completely lost and feel pretty dumb. well i admit it, all i knew was that someone was getting in trouble and i couldn't keep anyone's name straight.

to make up for sounding pretty dumb, i will tell you that i did start reading the secret life of bees, which i remember hearing alot of fuss over a schwile ago. i remember hearing about it being on some top-selling charts, or an oprah reading list of some sort, and i found it in my basement on a bookshelf. i really like how its written, so smooth and creamy-like. i asked my mom about it and found out it was made into a movie? i had no idea. back to feeling dumb again.

also, i am on spring break. my plan? try and stay away from anything that has to do with art. i mean it, i have an art migraine...i'm just left thinking, "well now what i am i supposed to do?" while scratching my head. so far, i have gone on a day trip to osceola wisconsin to look at a car, threw chapstick at a fan for an hour with kyle, accidentally painted my nails lime green, and got lost watching matt damon. i am perfectly ok with not having a real plan. a feeble, yet quite serious fist in the air to all you cancun-ers. so sorry no design posts, i'm sure you're all disappointed ;)

you know what i will share? a picture of my niece. i get to brag, and you get to read. tell me she is not a doll. she looks just like my brother...in a cute girlish way :)

i do hope that you love and appreciate the music of the talking heads. but did you know they made a concert film titled 'stop making sense' ? i just found this out and watched most of it online. i didn't even know what i was missing!!! david byrne is so crazy entertaining to watch perform, i was smiling the whole way through :D :D you'd be doing yourself a favor to watch this!!!!

steal, don't borrow

currently listening to: speaking terms, sui generis

currently craving: getting paid

currently, currently: tummy ache :/

found this pretty interesting concept while minorly stalking some band members, of a band that will go unnamed! the main point of this site is to "send and receive anonymous questions, and learn more about people you find interesting by following their answers." i know not having a twitter and deleting my facebook is very intentional. i don't want to have so much of myself exposed, although most of it is controlled by the user. however! for some reason, i was really intrigued by this concept; the anonymity of the questions makes it kind of exciting :) so humor me, and maybe ask me a question or two. i'll see how this goes for a little...

my latest design gig. here's a poster i made for a show at the underground with bands like take cover, all the right moves, hyland, and the avenue. i'm actually pretty excited to go to this too :)

here are a few images that have inspired me lately...do not be surprised if some elements are used in my new work! i once heard a wise artist tell me "good artists barrow. great artists steal." i can't help but to agree.

i loveee shapes!! now go, and steal away!! just not from me...:p

rainbow stache

currently listening to: angel echoes, four tet

currently craving: a little nature walk

currently, currently: cold coffee

first glimpse of green moss today!!!! :] :] :]

HELLO SPRING!!!!!

gpoyw.

i saw this picture today, and the amount of time i spent laughing...!!!! ahahaha

and this!!! what theeee!!!

changethethought. i have gotten so much inspiration from this site. i don't even know what to call it, but it has errything from 3d graphics, to politics, to graffiti, to type. i love it, and am reluctant to share it, but its too good!

their poster series "type specimen posters" is really similar to what i'm working on right now! i like where they're going with these, & i want to see more. mine is the second one; not quite the same idea...but obviously both influenced by lawrence weiner, whether we think so or not.

designer nick tassone made these sweet stephen king poster series that i was immediately drawn to. i think he's pretty young, but i would definitely say up & coming! so sweet.

visual slash audio crack

currently listening to: majik, 10-20

currently craving: a vacation alone :)

currently, currently: inhaled too much cologne...

you know what i thought of today! the more time i spend by myself, the happier i am! i mean it. i noticed that i allow people to affect me negatively...i know i allow it. i just can't figure out how to stop it. and until i do, spending time alone, with myself, is the happiest remedy. i really had a great day! browsing art catalogues online, sifting through my own work, documenting life, rearranging my room. either i'm pathetic, or i'm happy. i'll choose to say "i'm happy."

i also think that i like being alone in other ways. i can not tell you how much better i feel now that i've allowed myself to be free of relationships with men. either this is a hiatus, or i am actually maturing, its too soon to say. i mean, being able to walk around school, go out at night, day to day activities, without having to wonder if i will meet someone, or if i am presenting myself the right way. maybe it just took me this long to figure out what normal life is like, who knows. what i do know, is that i am going to travel as soon as i graduate, and not having a deadline of going back to school, or a man friend to miss puts me at ease. i like this alone thing. although this isn't entirely accurate, i like this drawing nonetheless :)

i love & spend most of my time online frequenting design blogs from some pretty respected people out there. this site, ISO50, a blog by artist scott hansen provided some GREAT ideas for an artist stuck in a creative rut. this guy interviewed 52 designers around the world, and posted their answers. trust the advice from the best :}

i have found one of my FAVORITE new blogs. music. art. design. music. movies. music. oh man. in need of a new wallpaper? kitsune noir has legit artists designing new ones erry wednesday; its called "The Desktop Wallpaper Project." here, you can find (21 pages so far, i checked) one suitable for any [design-savvy] desktop :) here are a few screenshots of some of my fav's:

ready for some visual slash audio crack? holy #$%!! you have to CHECK THIS OUT!!! the director used over 400 painted blocks, black light, and 4085 photographs in stop-motion to create one of the coolest videos, for one of the coolest sounds i have ever heard. if you're into psycho-electronic music with a beat that will break glass, check out 'nobody beats the drum; grindin.' you will NOT be disappointed. insanity. i can't get over this...

ke rn

currently listening to: sumiregusa, enya

currently craving: a coffee date

currently, currently: hot laptop on my legs

so i found this site, and somehow i have wasted many many nights searching through the archives and creating my fantasy wardrobe. here is one i made. i feel 12 again....but with more expensive clothes.

i also found some jewelry that i found hilarious. enjoy. and someone buy this for me:

i was browsing a favorite design blog and found an image i loved. i've been trying to create designs using colored smoke and incorporating dancers/figures into the image similar to this image [although this far surpasses mine.] little did i know, this band is brilliant!!! delphic, an alternative dance/electronic band from the UK released an album very recently (2009, and singles in 2010) that are worth checking out. loveee euro bands.

and i really like this light sculpture by artist james clar & associates, who is now working out of Dubai. this piece is interesting because it speaks of the dynamics of relationships. there are 9 ballasts that hang from the ceiling (device that maintains the current in a circuit at a constant value by varying its resistance), with wires that support and provide electricity to the fluorescent bulbs. i can't tell if it is commenting on the fact that other people are there to provide a constant flow of support for "me," or if "me" is the most important contender in "you and me."

interestingggg....