Nola's

Went to AIGA's traveling lounge tonight. Really wish I was at ComiCon but tonight was fun none the less. Caught up with friends, handed out business cards to complete strangers, and drank way too much also. Good times! What made it even better? Yeah, that's right, Nola's has a painting of none other than Robert Johnson. Not a stellar painting but they get bonus points in my book. Off too pass out for a while..

My SelfControl broke.

Well, my personal self control has always been broken, but I'm talking more about the app. I downloaded it some time early this year and it helped out quite a bit. This program lets you create a blacklist of certain websites then start up a countdown timer for how long you want to block them. I had things like facebook and various chans on mine.

They recently updated the program and I got the new version, 1.2. It had a bug...got an error the first time I ran it but didn't think much of it. The next time it loaded I couldn't set the time, edit the blacklist, and it wouldn't block anything. Guess there was a known bug in it and they updated to version 1.2.1...but you can't just delete the app and re-install.

Anyways, contacted the guys that wrote it with the issue. They sent me over a SelfControl killer, I d/l'd the new version, and it is working again! Good stuff.

So if you use the app be sure to grab 1.2.1. I got it from here but you might be able to find it other places as well. OK, back to work.

Fanime 09 part II

I've been running here and there lately. Keeping up with friends and trying to find a job. Sent out plenty of applications but nobody has called back yet.

Today Pat and I went out for some Chinese style beef noodle soup. It was really good. I guess the waiter asked Pat (in Chinese) if he should make it less spicy for me. Hell no. Bring it on! At the end of the meal they brought out these little things. They were fried pastry filled with red beans and looked like mice. I almost didn't want to eat them, but they were too delicious to pass up.


Still lazily going through pictures I took over the last month. Here are a few more from Fanime. Cosplay this time around. First up is someone from Kuroshitsuji. I think...


The video game version of Haruhi.


A convention isn't complete for me without at least one Rabi-en-Rose sighting! But I am seeing fewer and fewer people dressing as Koge-Donbo's characters at Fanime so she was the only Rabi I saw.


This guy was pretty cool. He had a machine gun backpack that when he squeezed one of his gloves it emitted steam out the pipe in the top.

That's it for now. Back to being lazy.

Fanime 09

Slowly catching up to present time with these posts. But not really...These pictures are from our semi-infamous Gainax Suitcase Sale Incident where we partially cleared out a meet-and-greet with Kanti figures. The Gainax staff was all at Fanime last year and many of them wanted the figures. I guess you can't get them too easy in Japan since they were a US made product.


Anyways, they saw them at our booth and quickly bought all the ones we had. Shiz found more and brought them up with her on the plane. We took them to the party and ended up selling the last of them...out of a suitcase, on the floor, in the hall. It was all very shady looking but the staff was happy to get them.


I had my Yashica A on my that year so I snapped a few pics. This year some of the staff was back so I printed these out and gave them a copy. I wanted to give them a for-real print but never got around to it during the semester. grr.


I went to the party again this year and was actually let inside this time (Thanks everyone!). Being the dunce I am, I only showed up with my camera and no sign boards. After a few moments of debate Dee and I ran down the street to Walgreens where I picked up a cheapie sketchbook. I got this cute Yoko sketch during the party as well as a few signatures.


Afterwards Shiz took my sketchbook and got this super cool drawing of Nia. I'm contemplating taking them out of the book and mounting them to boards so I can put them out like my other signboards.

I took more pics with my Minolta this year but have been too lazy/busy to develop the film yet. Maybe later this morning?

And then it was over.

The show is over, I've graduated, Fanime is done, family has gone back to So. Cal. I guess it's time to start real life now? I've been trying to finish up my site and work more on my portfolio lately. AIGA's portfolio day is Saturday then it is full time job search! I've done a little of it so far but still don't want to put my website out there until it is more complete. Soon....

More Action^3

More pictures from the show! Last day is today so if you haven't seen it, get your butt on down there!! This is the area where we show the movie titles that we made.


Tide charts.

The amazing spinning obelisk of doom. This was to display our 3D timeline. A lot of us didn't want to re-make them and were worried about how much floor space they'd take up so S* came up with this idea. Plywood with stone texture and lazy susans to spin each section. Then the pictures are on hinges so you can lift each one up and 2 more views of the work. Quite cool. Thanks to Bob for leding us his amazing carpentry skills!

Our experimental type books. We weren't allowed to use any pictures in them which is why this says "We want more words." 150 in Wonderland and crew printed out and pasted down pages from the books then cut them out to make those letters.


Our identity books and part of the portfolio wall. That type at the top says "Show me the money" A little play on the economy of course. Also a play on how much branding firms make on each identity. It was a little shocking to hear when we took that class, but once we saw just how much time and energy it takes to make a good, comprehensive identity it all made sense. That red line continued all the way across the gallery.


The infamous whale poo wall. Really, what more needs to be said?


Finally, 150 in Wonderland's Alice typeface packaging along with Sinatra and Mariah Carey.

I think that covers all the displays now. Maybe I'll post some more individual work later? Closing party tonight, Graduation Saturday, then we take it all down Sunday and Monday. Oh my...

Action Action Action Open

The show is open and the opening receptions have come and gone. Everything went over great and I'm really happy. Lots of hard work from everybody that paid off in the end. I took a bunch of pictures of the space with my Canon but forgot it at the gallery so here are a few snaps from my little Sony.







We're keeping it open until next week so be sure to come by if you're in the area.