Buttons!

We have buttons! I'm totally in love with this little machine. Anyone want to buy me one?


In true fashion, we started attaching them to everything. I think the Ninja liked hers. Looks super cute on her bag! These were quick mock-ups that I made to test the machine but some of them turned out pretty nice. Look for more when we get the show running.

In your mailbox.

After weeks of drama the posters for the show have been sealed, labeled, and mailed. It felt really good to get them out. One step closer to being done!! If you didn't get one send me your address and I'll drop one in the mail for you. We start setup for the show Monday and I'm pretty jazzed to see how it all turns out. One week exactly 'till it opens.


We also got in our class shirts. Fuck yeah! Another thing that took us a while but was totally worth it. Funny side story...L* stabbed her index finger with an x-acto knife the other day and had a bandaid on it. This shirt was a prophecy!


I also helped de-install the Image and Idea show. It was pretty nice to see my work in a gallery and have people reading one of my books. Got some pretty good response to it. I loved the images and my concept for it, but I don't think I'll do a book that big again. It lost some of it's intimacy even though it let me be really expressive with some of the pages. And, if you were wondering...Yes, I sewed the images onto the page and gave the edges of my pages the treatment. Sometimes doing the needlework is my favorite part.

Hurricane

Had this come up just now when I had my playlist on shuffle. Still a good song after all these years, but you already knew that. Just thought I'd share the nostalgia.

P.S. The bassline is really easy...Anyone know the guitar part?

Chronicle

Whew. After a week or so of constantly working on it my portfolio is off to Chronicle Books to try for their design fellowship. I hope I get it, but you never know. I think my work is good but there are a few problems with the portfolio itself. Always amazes me how many times you can look at a page and not see the giant, glaring mistake until you're in line at FedEx. Oh well, nothing to do about it but fix it for the next one and wait to hear back from them.

Today I have to finish my book for the photo exhibition, write my artists statement, finish a draft for a banner at our BFA show, and work on my website. No pressure, no pressure...


This is part of the aftermath of me making that portfolio. So much scrap!

The little door

I stopped by the library to get a book on bookbinding really quick for putting together my portfolio. I was in a hurry so I took the elevator down instead of the stairs...and I got the elevator with the Alice in Wonderland door. And I had my camera for once!

Kinda made my day...

Saying Bye.

The Boss took off for NY to start his new job last weekend. That means time for a dinner meet-up! A couple familiar faces and a few new ones showed up to see him off. Good food, good drinks, and good times were had for all. Unfortunately I was super tired that day so after one drink I was ready for a nap and not a very good conversationalist at all.

This time we went to El Zocalo's in SF for pupusas. Mmmm...So delicious. I just had my first one the other month so I was totally ready for more. I got the beef soup, a chicken pupusa, and one that had some sort of flower in it (?). I don't know...I didn't recognize what it was on the menu so I ordered it. Pretty good stuff. They're basically just a stuffed tortilla/pancake thing.


After food we started talking a bit more. Here is his bran-spankin' new DSi. The last GameBoy I had was a GB Advance so I'm pretty far behind now. This one looked pretty neat tho. He was saying that the electronics were OK, and having the 2 cameras was a little odd. I don't remember exactly. But that doesn't matter, what is important here is that Super Robot Wars was inside. Spent quite a bit of time talking about using a Gundam to smack Shinji around and the like...


He also had on this shirt, which I thought was Uniqlo, but it isn't. It is from Yamamoto Naoki's old band. Never heard the music but damn that shirt was pretty distracting.

Workin hard?

Poor blog, how I miss you. I basically cut myself off from the internet for a while to work on school. Still have a TON of stuff to do but I need to get back to the blog!

Basically, I'm graduating this semester and getting ready for it is driving me nuts. Making my portfolio, photographing and modifying old work, business cards, resume, etc. while also planning/designing our BFA show, participating in a photography exhibition, taking an art history class, eating, sleeping 2 hours...you get the idea.

The picture is of a book about the galaxy I did. Not going to use it though because it was too blurry but I love that book. Need to re-print and bind it before the show starts. I made it last minute so the construction was pretty darn poor.

I'm also super worried about finding a job after graduation. This isn't exactly the best economy to be entering a competitive field in. Everyone says I shouldn't worry, but it is my nature to do so.

Still, I'm trying to relax. I normally take an afternoon/day off every week and go have fun. This week it is going to be in SF. The Boss is headed for NY to do great things so he organized a little going away party. Pupusas! I had my first one the other month after Compost Modern and have been craving them since. Can't wait to see the M.C. crew again and have some drinks. It's been too long!