Here's an article I came across a little while ago about this sketchbook thing that I love. WOW it is so cool. In my daydreams, I'm very organized and put together so this technique really gets me going. I'm totally going to use this for that random stack of recipes I have and I may even venture into using it for my other notebooks that I drag around with me everywhere so that I don't forget stuff. I'm all about digitizing, but notebooks are just so much better at recording things that are spewing out of your brain too fast that you just can't type fast enough. Also, notebooks are so much more true because they can't be edited without trace of the previous version. Except now that I'm thinking about it... it's hard to edit things once their out in the internet, too. So maybe notebooks aren't more real... Just real in a different way.
I read this other thing recently that said if you want to grow your followers on your blog you need to have a clear idea and topic for each post and then I stopped reading because I was like, "Ha, no."
Friday, October 30
Thursday, October 29
my brain is on it's own
I'm having one of those days where everything makes me cry. I almost cried in class, like, 4 or 5 times. Thankfully we were having a video watching day & the lights were dim and nobody could really tell I hope. It's a combination of menstruation and lack of sleep, which if you didn't know, is a lethal emotional cocktail.
I did that thing again where I'm too much and it weirds the people out that I really want to like me. It's kind of a masochistic compulsion.
I also keep doing this thing when somebody praises me repeatedly where I can't handle it and I feel like I have to disappoint them to make things even again. I can't recognize that it's happening until I've already done it so I haven't figured out a way to stop the demented cycle.
I probably need to see a doctor.
I did that thing again where I'm too much and it weirds the people out that I really want to like me. It's kind of a masochistic compulsion.
I also keep doing this thing when somebody praises me repeatedly where I can't handle it and I feel like I have to disappoint them to make things even again. I can't recognize that it's happening until I've already done it so I haven't figured out a way to stop the demented cycle.
I probably need to see a doctor.
Monday, October 26
eureka moments
I was reading Swiss Miss and could not resist clicking on this tea towel because it says "cooking as therapy" on it. And then I had an epiphany.
One of my professors keeps bringing up this idea of introspection (or maybe that's not the word he kept saying, but that's the only word I can think of right now). That phenomenon where you're doing something that is physical and takes only a little bit of brain power, like when you're driving on a long stretch of highway that you've been down a zillion times before, and you think of a great solution to that problem you were having.
Anyway, that day in class, I said that my thing is probably knitting and baking and my prof was like well there's a different kind of thinking that takes place when you're baking and I argued with him for a couple seconds and then the conversation changed to something else, and that was that. While I do think that there is a bit of that relaxed, introspection that can take place while habitual baking, I didn't realize until I read that tea towel from earlier that what definitely happens for me is therapy. I like the give and take when baking and cooking. It's something I can control. And that's nice because I've been slapped in the face lately with the fact that I'm a control freak. I'm not super thrilled about it because I'm caught up with the negative connotations. Oh, the graphic designer blues.
I haven't baked in a while and I realized that I really miss it. I think I'll make some cupcakes this weekend. Just in time to celebrate my favorite holiday.
One of my professors keeps bringing up this idea of introspection (or maybe that's not the word he kept saying, but that's the only word I can think of right now). That phenomenon where you're doing something that is physical and takes only a little bit of brain power, like when you're driving on a long stretch of highway that you've been down a zillion times before, and you think of a great solution to that problem you were having.
Anyway, that day in class, I said that my thing is probably knitting and baking and my prof was like well there's a different kind of thinking that takes place when you're baking and I argued with him for a couple seconds and then the conversation changed to something else, and that was that. While I do think that there is a bit of that relaxed, introspection that can take place while habitual baking, I didn't realize until I read that tea towel from earlier that what definitely happens for me is therapy. I like the give and take when baking and cooking. It's something I can control. And that's nice because I've been slapped in the face lately with the fact that I'm a control freak. I'm not super thrilled about it because I'm caught up with the negative connotations. Oh, the graphic designer blues.
I haven't baked in a while and I realized that I really miss it. I think I'll make some cupcakes this weekend. Just in time to celebrate my favorite holiday.
Saturday, October 24
life RIGHT NOW
I wish I could find somebody to pay(not with money, because I don't have any money) to do my figure drawing assignments for me. It's not that I don't want to do them, I just don't want to spend valuable time on them when I could be finishing something, anything for graphic design.
I feel very overwhelmed by the amount of work I should be producing, but am certainly not producing. I say all this while I'm writing this blog post. Very counter productive. I could be spending this time right now actually working towards completing something. BUT isn't there something to be said for taking some time for yourself to do exactly what you want to do and not what you have to do. I'm trying to make my life better here!
One of my profs told us the other day to be proud of everything that you present to clients. If you're presenting your work to someone and you're like ugh I hope they don't pick that one, it's the worst one I did, then why the heck did you give them the option to pick the worst one. I really liked the idea of that, but I also understand that sometimes I can only come up with crappy ideas and that's all I got. Sometimes I just hate what I make. Sometimes it surprises me when people enjoy what I make. So I dunno.
My pinterest is full of typography and food, which makes me so happy.
Currently, I'm doing a brain dump and writing down everything that is on my to do list and things that I just want to do. I'm trying to organize my life hour by hour so that hopefully I can be ahead of everything instead of way behind like I currently am. I feel doubtful that I will know how to pick times accurately, but I'll have to try. I cannot continue to pull all-nighters multiple times a week. From what I understand about life as a designer, I won't be able to cut them out completely. I just want to sleep. I love sleep. It's one of my favorite parts of the day.
The cool and also terrifying thing about life is that you can sleep for an entire day and life will still continue. You can work harder than you've ever worked in your life and the world will continue on. I'm having one of those mid semester crisises where I don't know what I'm doing or why I'm bothering to be so stressed out about it. I am stressed though. So so stressed.
The movie Snowpiercer fucked me up.
Here's a thing that happened. In one of my assignments from class, we had to submit the design to cottonbureau.com at the deadline as a part of the assignment. And my design got picked! It's very cool and exciting, but the shirts are really expensive. Also, I feel like they really make designers do a lot, but maybe their shirts are really high quality. But 13 people spent $33 because they love me very much. And that feels pretty okay.
knit or die 4ever
I feel very overwhelmed by the amount of work I should be producing, but am certainly not producing. I say all this while I'm writing this blog post. Very counter productive. I could be spending this time right now actually working towards completing something. BUT isn't there something to be said for taking some time for yourself to do exactly what you want to do and not what you have to do. I'm trying to make my life better here!
One of my profs told us the other day to be proud of everything that you present to clients. If you're presenting your work to someone and you're like ugh I hope they don't pick that one, it's the worst one I did, then why the heck did you give them the option to pick the worst one. I really liked the idea of that, but I also understand that sometimes I can only come up with crappy ideas and that's all I got. Sometimes I just hate what I make. Sometimes it surprises me when people enjoy what I make. So I dunno.
My pinterest is full of typography and food, which makes me so happy.
Currently, I'm doing a brain dump and writing down everything that is on my to do list and things that I just want to do. I'm trying to organize my life hour by hour so that hopefully I can be ahead of everything instead of way behind like I currently am. I feel doubtful that I will know how to pick times accurately, but I'll have to try. I cannot continue to pull all-nighters multiple times a week. From what I understand about life as a designer, I won't be able to cut them out completely. I just want to sleep. I love sleep. It's one of my favorite parts of the day.
The cool and also terrifying thing about life is that you can sleep for an entire day and life will still continue. You can work harder than you've ever worked in your life and the world will continue on. I'm having one of those mid semester crisises where I don't know what I'm doing or why I'm bothering to be so stressed out about it. I am stressed though. So so stressed.
The movie Snowpiercer fucked me up.
Here's a thing that happened. In one of my assignments from class, we had to submit the design to cottonbureau.com at the deadline as a part of the assignment. And my design got picked! It's very cool and exciting, but the shirts are really expensive. Also, I feel like they really make designers do a lot, but maybe their shirts are really high quality. But 13 people spent $33 because they love me very much. And that feels pretty okay.
knit or die 4ever
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