Design + Crew = my life, Spring 2010

 I love looking at photos of our races and the photographer at Knecht Cup two weeks ago took individual shots of the rowers.  Of course I look at each image like a designer, taking in the angles, contrast and what not. But it's really interesting to see the emotions caught in each image because I know how it feels to be rowing up to the start or in the sprint of a race, and I wonder whether the photographers know that they are capturing much more than just a race.  The thoughts that go through a rowers head in a race are either bazerk and rampaging, or the rower is basically blacked out; the coxswain does all the thinking for you and you just have to think about pushing and the pain.

We're in our last 2 weeks of the season and as much as I can't wait to be able to sleep in, stay out, calm down, etc., I know I'm going to miss being on the water so much.

Decode: Digital Design Sensations

For this project we used analog to create a grid for our digital posters.  I wanted to use the geometries of digital artwork, found in pixels, printing, vectors, etc.  so I focused on the hard angles from my grid and used a white layer to create a window to see one of the pieces in the exhibit and all of the information.

ACL Music Festival

My posta....yes, I did take advantage of the fact that my name is a state and I bolded it.

Process/Album.

I really enjoyed this project! It was a fun process even though I struggled a lot initially. Biggest I've ever printed? First time to the GCC on South College....love those ladies.

Inspiration of Avril

So many things have been delightful lately.  I think because I'm getting less sleep with waking up at unheard hours for crew practice that I am just constantly overtired.  This, though, is not always a bad thing.   That overtired giddiness that we've all experienced is my constant state of mind. It actually makes me appreciate lots of little things that I find in my daily routine.  Do I really want to end up napping? Or would I rather stay awake and find everything hilarious and ironic?

For this week I have found inspiration in these photographs I found of different weather conditions.  I like the "natural compositions" created by Mama Nature herself.

I once saw a storm that was just in the clouds and it is still one of my favorite nights of nature.  The lightening beams horizantally and you feel like you're watching something disasterous take place just in the sky.

WOOPAH

Inspirational Poster

Being an art student is fun.  Anyone think of any other words or quotes that could go with this??

Griddy

 I wanted to work in the name of my favorite album, Strawberry Jam, so I'm trying to act as if it's the concert debuting this album. I don't know what else to include because at this point, if you don't know the band and the album, this poster doesn't convey how Animal Collective sounds. Any ideas?

Better?

March Twenty-Sixth, Two-Thousand Ten

??what do I like today??

-LOVE the shirt. Crisp white and big black buttons. Plus a thick gold chain within the collar. Not to mention the blazer and pocket cloth. Love love love.

3D vs. 2D

Battle it out.

??Where can I get one??

hahaha go veet!

I love this photograph on the left.  The colors and her lipgloss and the frame. So cool.

I just love Grizzly Bear every day.

WHAT.

http://thenextweb.com/lifehacks/2010/03/24/blow-sneak-peak-photoshop-5/

like what? amazing.

Inspiration: Typography.

  Not only is it an awesome way to use letters and muted colors....but it's a stamp! In reality it's soap. I was googling "soap molds," "shaving soap," and "molding soap" for a drop cap....but came across this!  I think it's adorable and would be obsessed if this was in my bathroom.  In addition to making me clean, it would be awesome to use this as a stamp.  The rounded edges could allow you to roll the bar over and over to make stripes and change direction midway. Awesome.

Random Composition #1

Is it random enough??

could I be starting a collection?

http://www.culturelabel.com/Products.mvc/Details/1258/robot-3-camera

     After getting my Lomography Actionsampler I've been getting back into film photography.  It's pretty exciting to get the phone call from Camera's Etc. saying that my prints are ready.  (I almost got kicked out yesterday when I stood there for ten minutes while I looked through the roll and took up too much space at their counter.)  I've been thinking about the other types of cameras out there that have this "pictorialist" sense, where the photograph is more of an art in itself, than just any photograph.
     This camera is similar to the one I have but instead of having 4 frames it has 3.  I think this would be really interesting to use to sports or architecture because of the way information is distributed on the print.  I feel like the viewer looks at the two smaller images and can wonder what is happening on the rest of the field, or behind that building, where this camera then reveals more information in that third frame.

   

Progress: Please FEEDbaack!

 This is progress on my radial poster after it got chewed alive for (not) being a Christian band.  It's electronic dance music, i just don't know why the cross is their trademark.  ...but Do either of these titles work?

    

 Does it feel like Christian rock? or rock n' rave, nyc concert? 

InSPIRa-tion: Wearable Drop Cap

at the end of winter session one of my roommates came in after a very long day, screaming,

"BEST FRIENDS FORVER!"

as she walked up the stairwell.

Now, on a good day, someone is bound to say it.