ANY suggestions AT ALL please?

D.A.N.C.E.

what do you think??

Lines? more lines? no lines?

Inspiration of Wed-nes-day.

It all began when I saw THIS photo!

crazy awesome.






So then I peeked around and discovered the prize.....

This brought up way to many ideas:

1. 3D letter made out of staples - protruding from the wall. From a stark white dorm wall. Our studios' walls.

2. what could I hang off of each and every staple? Ribbons....have a fan blow them like hair, or ripple like water, or on the ceiling so that i could have the image protrude towards the viewer when they look up.

3. that must've been extremely tedious and I wonder if he stapled himself at all.  I wonder if you could stand back with a staple gun and shoot at the wall so that they stick.

I also found a photo of a technique I saw once on a field trip with my SVA class in the city the spring of my junior year of high school.  We'd been roaming around Chelsea going to different galleries, and this one had a huge slab of sanded down magazines up on the wall.  Much bigger than the one in this image.  I thought it was a really great technique though because it resembled a topographic map, and could be used to interpret many different concepts.  I like the idea of the holes (in other images they broke through the back page), but when I saw the technique in real life it was 'whole' all the way through the piece.

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Edited...

Push my buttons?

Play my buttons. Pause. Stop.

Campaign buttons....that play music?

How does this even happen?

Adorable. No Doubt. Yet how does this.....2nd grader?....have such a trendy style sense??
Looks up to his NYC peers....or does his mama pick out his clothes for him. A fedora....on an 8 year old. At what point is it a little much...

Play*Pause*Stop

   This is my updated version of my first drop-cap.  I still struggled with making the button look 3D on Illustrator but I'm going to try out some other versions over the next week.  It was really convenient to be working with these four specific letters because they each embodied a similar shape that I could keep consistent throughout the logo.  I think it's more readable when paired with "LAY," so I want to work on the "P" standing alone.  I'm also not too sure how I feel about the weight pulling down on the left side, I don't really know yet how much it bothers me.

"Play, C'mon play that song, Play it all night long, Just turn it up and turn it on..."

   This is my first Drop Cap for Type II, I wanted to "Play" around with the symbols used on music devices, to create a logo or letter that could be used for a record label or any other musical company.  I thought a lot about the Ipod and it's simplicity in design and color, so I tried to emanate that user-friendly interface.  I combined the play symbol, pause symbol, and stop symbol to create the letter "P."  I am cautious about whether it is readable or not, and I feel like it would stand more successfully alone, even though it could be altered to include other text.

Lomomomo m o mo mo o

My current favorite. I was a little disappointed that my last roll on my Lomography Actionsampler camera (http://www.lomography.com/) did not come out as expected. I was still experimenting with timing, since that's what this camera is mostly about. What I discovered through my failure was that there is much more to timing than what changes in the actual content.

This photograph has been dubbed my current favorite because it has practically the same exact content in each frame, but because of time and change in light, each image developed differently. I love the 70's-esque glow in each shot, and how even though there are four separate frames, there is still a strong focal point in the top right. A very happy accident.

why are beautiful people, friends?

Do we think it was on purpose?

Planned by their managers?

Or did Johnny Depp and Kate Moss truly catch each other's eye and spark a substantial conversation?

They really do look like quite the pair, it's very hard to say.

Japanese Binding

My japanese bound book is a mix of different papers I collected and printed on in the Raven Press at UD. I included the test-print I made for the cover of my accordian book, where the rower print is really crisp and the gold stands out perfectly against the chocolate brown paper.

For the front and back covers of my book I printed my favorite stamp from the Raven Press, a metal copy of a concerto. I was really excited to finally use this stamp and am really happy how well the gold showed up on the deep red paper.

Accordian Style....

My second model was the accordian style. I used sketchbook paper with teared edges, and folded them so that one half was slliiiiiiightly longer than the other half. This way the pages layered on one another so that they extended out to the side, instead of piling up one on top of the other. I almost made the cover, two hard covers that could pull the book out, but I decided to do one long cover instead. I used gold ink to print a rower on the cover, and used the breyer on the cover, back cover and the inside spine.

Book Models!

Meet "Polka," the polka-dot book. She one gold endsheet and one B&W polkadot endsheet. Her pages are blank but I would love to title some of the pages with pin-pointed letters.

Oh she's just fabulous.

M.A.D.

When spending a very rainy day in New York City this past fall, me and my fellow VC students were trying to make it to every next museum as soon as we could in order to save our soaking shoes and drenched jeans. We found ourselves at the Museum of Arts and Design in Columbus Circle, where there was a fantastic exhibit on cut paper. The work was extremely meticulous and in unfathomable proportions for what the labor required. Many of the cutouts were floral designs, scenes or intricut patterns. I believe everything in the exhibit had been cut with an Xacto knife. (Being an experienced Xacto knife user, the detail and cleanliness that these artists exhibited was astonishing).

Me, as well as several of my friends, bought this same exact card in the book store downstairs, because of it's adorable message, as well as beautiful cuts.

Can we

Shall we?

One day very soon

Let us go away...

Together just you and me. Call in sick and go

to the sea, and hold hands

all day. Eat our sandwiches

on the train. Get drunk on

fresh air and come home

tired and never tell

anyone...Ever.

-Roger la Borde

Collecting Work

I really like how these two etchings look together. I have them overlapping one another on a shelf in my room and the way the geometric shapes of the building and the direction of the tree, compliment the delicate creepiness of the hands is great.

The etching of the hands was one I created in my Intro to Printmaking last semester. I traced a photograph 3 separate times to emphasize different wrinkles and highlights on the hands. I struggled slightly with the acid biting the plate too much because it took out more zinc than the seconds I planned for it to stay in the acid.

This other etching is from another student in my class. She asked me for a copy of my print, and I thought it would be great for us to exchange. No matter who we turn out to be in the future, we will have something that we created on our own from the past.

DogFish

From the same Uncle who brought me my lomo camera.....I present, DogFish