retrospect

Thoughts from spring 2015 semester, now that it's waaay in the rear view mirror.

*Now, I notice type, logos, & packaging on everything. I can't tell if I love that or hate that. No, wait, yes I absolutely love it. I just have to remember that literally only other graphic designers get excited about those things. Every one else gives no shits.
*I have no idea how I would get anything done without social media. I know the internet gets a bad wrap for being a distraction, but after this semester, I have a new appreciation. There were so many times that I needed to get in touch with somebody from class and I just looked to see if anyone was online. It really made me remember all those times I stayed up on AIM in middle school.
*Also, that social media thing is a double edged sword. Sometimes I dream about going dark and cutting ties with the internet, but it would really hurt me because I couldn't get in touch with anyone I need to for school.
*I am constantly struggling to be creative. I want to keep the vigor going from the semester, but I also want to slow down because the semester was crazypants.
*I'm completely scared to graduate. Last semester felt so real. I was and still feel completely unprepared. There are so many things.

Here are some arts from my favorite professor's classes:

As far as I could tell, we were allowed almost free reign on our projects. They had to be based on a piece during the art period we studied. Otherwise, anything. Any art medium. I made A's in all his classes so I guess I did it right. Every single one of these, I put on the back burner and finished them at the very last minute. Almost all of them turned out so much better than I could've hoped and probably even better than anything from any of my other classes.

My first project from Dr. J's class was this cactus guy. I have him sitting on top of a shelf in my room and every time a newbie walks into my room, they comment on how creepy he is. It's not his fault. He's a Cactus Man! (Based on Redon's Cactus Man.) He's the only one of his kind. He is just lonely.
The other is a master copy painting of a Mondrian that I can't remember the name of and some sugar cookies I made based on another Mondrian. I spent a lot of time making the sugar cookies and then I was worried that Prof J would be displeased with the medium of baked goods so I hastily painted the other piece.

I know I already posted this one, but for the sake of continuity, here it is again. '2 Hearts'

These two are the same painting. Based on a still from Repo Man.

This skeleton finished up my personal skeleton theme I had going last semester. It's a super poorly done master copy of De Humani Corporis. I am actually super embarrassed about these two because they are so crappy. The vader one is a simplified movie poster. 

 My De Palma pieces. A stationary package for Swan from Phantom of the Paradise and the birthday cake from Sisters. This was another case where I wanted to just use the cake as my project, but since I just bought the cake from a bakery, I wasn't sure if it would count so I just threw together the stationary package. When I got to class that day and showed my project, Prof J was like, 'why did you bring 2 things? You could have just brought one.'

Hello old friend

I am making my triumphant return to blogging. I have missed you so.


Recently at a party I went to, someone that I met brought up that it's weird how close graduates of Bob Jones still are. Are all graduates of BJHS this close? Is it just 2009? I wouldn't say we are all as close as we were in those days, but I wouldn't hesitate to invite any of my high school friends out to eat, or to a party, or anywhere really. This guy should be so glad that we BJHS graduates are so friendly that we would be friends with the likes of him, or something.
I noticed at parties that people like to ask who you know at the party and how you know them. And at this particular party, because I didn't go to college where the rest of them did, my only connection is BJHS. Like I know, who cares that we all went to the same high school.
I was snooping on a friend's text conversation and the person he was texting had asked "Pharmacy people?" and he responded, "A family friend's party." And unless my spy skills are pretty bad, (& they are so take this observation with a grain of salt.) he was referring to the party that he was at and why didn't he just say friends from high school. Is it really that taboo? Apparently it's a big faux pas.
This observation is really of no consequence to me. What else am I going to do to escape my little brother while I'm at home? Make new friends with strangers? Ha.

There was another dude at that party that apparently graduated high school with the rest of us, but I definitely felt like I was meeting him for the first time. He was like, yeah! I know you! we had a few classes together! But I did not remember this character at all. So it's not all bj graduates that are connected. It's just the people like us who spent so much time with each other during those 3 years.