Got two design jobs on my agenda this week. I love outside work relating to my major :) Now I hope for some more of that in the photography area. Maybe I should advertise free portrait shoots?
Okay, so today's critique in 104 wasn't that great. Kim liked my design, but not my craftsmanship (ugh I thought I paid careful attention to that...). So I will not reward myself. Instead, when I am happy with these two designs, I will reward myself.
edit: goodbye blogspot! www.twilight-promenade.tumblr.com
Monday, November 22, 2010
choppy
The waters are choppy going back since I'm paddling back up the river. Hopefully my canoe can make it back.
Sunday, November 21, 2010
shopping
So Black Friday is rolling around and I have no idea what I want to get...
except that I just spent a good amount of time doing some online window shopping instead of writing my essay :D
1.
USB dynamic recording microphone, $33.58 free shipping, on sale.
OMG I WANT
OMG I WANT
2.
ASOS double buckle leather wide belt, $48.27 -__-
I've been looking for something like this for a while. It would look better in a softer brown, though.
I've been looking for something like this for a while. It would look better in a softer brown, though.
3.
Modcloth jumper. Perfect over a ruffled white/gray blouse!! Out of stock though.
Maybe I'll try to make something like that. -_-
I'm a super super super picky shopper, so it's amazing that I'm in love with these.
EDIT. okay i'll make a deal with myself. If I do well on tomorrow's critique for 104 AND write a stellar essay for AAS, I'll buy myself one of these.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
ten pee pole
10 different people thing.
1) Stop trying so hard to contact me; I gave you so many chances to prove that you aren't the conniving, lying weasel you were when I first met you. Seven years later, things haven't changed, no matter how hard you try to deny it.
2) I like you as a person, but sometimes you're too competitive and blow yourself up in your mind. And then you don't hesitate to put others down. Other than that, you're someone who's really cool to hang out with.
3) You're trying hard to grow up--and I commend that-- but your hard effort is the average person's lazy attempt. And you don't even realize it--or do you?
4) You're not the typical nice guy on the outside, but on the inside there's something genuinely sweet and caring about you. I hope I'm reading you right.
5) I haven't seen nor talked to you in a while, which is probably why I've been blogging a lot. Time for a visit!
6) Honestly, you're skilled in technical terms, but I think you're not as good as you think you are. So stop putting me and my work down, and deflate your big head. You'll attract more bees with honey than vinegar.
7) I've always wanted to try playing with you, but I need to get better first. I don't want to bring you down.
abrupt end bc i can't think of any more people lol
1) Stop trying so hard to contact me; I gave you so many chances to prove that you aren't the conniving, lying weasel you were when I first met you. Seven years later, things haven't changed, no matter how hard you try to deny it.
2) I like you as a person, but sometimes you're too competitive and blow yourself up in your mind. And then you don't hesitate to put others down. Other than that, you're someone who's really cool to hang out with.
3) You're trying hard to grow up--and I commend that-- but your hard effort is the average person's lazy attempt. And you don't even realize it--or do you?
4) You're not the typical nice guy on the outside, but on the inside there's something genuinely sweet and caring about you. I hope I'm reading you right.
5) I haven't seen nor talked to you in a while, which is probably why I've been blogging a lot. Time for a visit!
6) Honestly, you're skilled in technical terms, but I think you're not as good as you think you are. So stop putting me and my work down, and deflate your big head. You'll attract more bees with honey than vinegar.
7) I've always wanted to try playing with you, but I need to get better first. I don't want to bring you down.
abrupt end bc i can't think of any more people lol
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
november update
seriously only one more month left of school????? geez this semester passed by like nothing. i still feel like the first day of school wasn't even that long ago.
i've been doing lots of designing lately...
1) fliers/signs for jeff (yay stuff for portfolio!)
2) a whole bunch of grid designs for 99... i had like 4 different designs. not 4 variations of one design, but rather 4 completely differing designs. good practice though.
3) after struggling so much with the 3rd project for 104, i think i've got it down. i wasn't thinking outside of my panels. like, i would constrict one panel to being red, and the next to being creamy-beige. but i realized that the idea is to break OUT of the panel construction, and so i obliterated the distinction between each panel.
i realized that my favorite color combo is red+cream+black. oooooh that's like my go-to now... but i really should mix things up :(
for next semester, i'm hoping to get into 105. perhaps with connie... i wanted to get miller, but today kim was like "you guys shouldn't stick with just one 'mentor,' but rather select a variety." i also want to take lighting (photo), arth70c (UGH not more art history...), aas33b (ugh more general history), and maybe a flash class at SJCC if i can fit that in. i got into an upper-div honors seminar on tuesday afternoons, so hopefully i'll find that class interesting. supposed to be about global citizenship and U.S. issues. i really need to be enlightened in that lol.
so, time for a grades analysis!
dsgd99: i keep getting A-'s on my projects. and usually for the stupidest things, i.e. using double-sided tape instead of spray mount, or having too tight letter-spacing for an author's name when that issue wasn't even brought up in any in-progress critiques -___- well let's hope i do well on the next projects because i will be pissed if i get an A- in this class -____-
dsgd104: i don't feel like kim spends as much helping me as he does everyone else in the class. like, i actually have to press him for help, i.e. today when he pointed out one thing to change, and he seemed like he was going to walk away. then i was like, "is there anything else that you would like me to change?" then he pointed something else out. like, if there's something he doesn't like in my piece, i'd rather he point it out during an in-progress critique rather than in the final critique, when i wouldn't be able to change it. but yeah anyway, i've been getting A-'s too. geeeez i've been trying really hard to get a solid A but it is difficult :( there'd be just ONE tiny little thing that he wouldn't like, but he wouldn't mention it during an in-progress.
aas33a: uhh i need to start working harder. lol. period. not really motivated, though... i think i either have a B+/A-. sigh. hate being on the crux!
color photo: too easy... i think everyone got A's on the last projects. really not worried abot this class at all lol
web design: ehhh. i don't care about my grade. i just want the knowledge. and honestly this class is really boring.. i just download her powerpoints and follow along with them, instead of with my professor.
...
soooo, ranking from most-need-to-work-on to least:
aas, 99, 104, web design, color photo.
BUT if it were a matter of priority, 104 and 99 would take it hands down.
i've been doing lots of designing lately...
1) fliers/signs for jeff (yay stuff for portfolio!)
2) a whole bunch of grid designs for 99... i had like 4 different designs. not 4 variations of one design, but rather 4 completely differing designs. good practice though.
3) after struggling so much with the 3rd project for 104, i think i've got it down. i wasn't thinking outside of my panels. like, i would constrict one panel to being red, and the next to being creamy-beige. but i realized that the idea is to break OUT of the panel construction, and so i obliterated the distinction between each panel.
i realized that my favorite color combo is red+cream+black. oooooh that's like my go-to now... but i really should mix things up :(
for next semester, i'm hoping to get into 105. perhaps with connie... i wanted to get miller, but today kim was like "you guys shouldn't stick with just one 'mentor,' but rather select a variety." i also want to take lighting (photo), arth70c (UGH not more art history...), aas33b (ugh more general history), and maybe a flash class at SJCC if i can fit that in. i got into an upper-div honors seminar on tuesday afternoons, so hopefully i'll find that class interesting. supposed to be about global citizenship and U.S. issues. i really need to be enlightened in that lol.
so, time for a grades analysis!
dsgd99: i keep getting A-'s on my projects. and usually for the stupidest things, i.e. using double-sided tape instead of spray mount, or having too tight letter-spacing for an author's name when that issue wasn't even brought up in any in-progress critiques -___- well let's hope i do well on the next projects because i will be pissed if i get an A- in this class -____-
dsgd104: i don't feel like kim spends as much helping me as he does everyone else in the class. like, i actually have to press him for help, i.e. today when he pointed out one thing to change, and he seemed like he was going to walk away. then i was like, "is there anything else that you would like me to change?" then he pointed something else out. like, if there's something he doesn't like in my piece, i'd rather he point it out during an in-progress critique rather than in the final critique, when i wouldn't be able to change it. but yeah anyway, i've been getting A-'s too. geeeez i've been trying really hard to get a solid A but it is difficult :( there'd be just ONE tiny little thing that he wouldn't like, but he wouldn't mention it during an in-progress.
aas33a: uhh i need to start working harder. lol. period. not really motivated, though... i think i either have a B+/A-. sigh. hate being on the crux!
color photo: too easy... i think everyone got A's on the last projects. really not worried abot this class at all lol
web design: ehhh. i don't care about my grade. i just want the knowledge. and honestly this class is really boring.. i just download her powerpoints and follow along with them, instead of with my professor.
...
soooo, ranking from most-need-to-work-on to least:
aas, 99, 104, web design, color photo.
BUT if it were a matter of priority, 104 and 99 would take it hands down.
Thursday, November 11, 2010
ten more miles
All the reasons in the world for me to turn around, but why can't I? I keep paddling, but I'm deluding myself. I think to myself, maybe a mile more and I'll turn around. But ten more go by and still I'm pushing forward. Well, this time I really will do it. I just need to find an area large enough to turn my canoe so I don't scrape the sides and possibly overturn.
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
this wasn't supposed to happen again.
Never would have thought.
Let's say you're paddling down a creek. Up ahead, you see a branching-off of the creek. The other way looks more lush and promising, with beautiful scenery. You think, okay. I'll try it out. The branch-off of the creek is a little bit angled, so you're not going the same way you were.
Then you realize, as you paddle further along, that while this second creek seemed so scenic and tranquil at the fork, the beauty is actually tainted with buzzing wasps and mosquitoes. You grimly continue on, hoping you'll emerge out of the cloud of insects. After all, you don't know how much longer they'll endure. But that's the problem; they could stay for a couple of minutes more, or even the duration of the trip. You just don't know. And sometimes they'll fluctuate; you'll break into an area clear of the insects and breathe easily thinking that the worst of them are gone, but then there'll be another buzzing cloud just around the next bend. And then it hits you: the environment of this creek is actually what's drawing the wasps and mosquitoes.
So, what to do? Backtrack? Waste all that time and energy you just spent paddling down this beautiful creek that you YOURSELF chose? Is it worth it?
Would your original creek actually have been the right choice? Or would it just finish off in the middle of nowhere?
Let's say you're paddling down a creek. Up ahead, you see a branching-off of the creek. The other way looks more lush and promising, with beautiful scenery. You think, okay. I'll try it out. The branch-off of the creek is a little bit angled, so you're not going the same way you were.
Then you realize, as you paddle further along, that while this second creek seemed so scenic and tranquil at the fork, the beauty is actually tainted with buzzing wasps and mosquitoes. You grimly continue on, hoping you'll emerge out of the cloud of insects. After all, you don't know how much longer they'll endure. But that's the problem; they could stay for a couple of minutes more, or even the duration of the trip. You just don't know. And sometimes they'll fluctuate; you'll break into an area clear of the insects and breathe easily thinking that the worst of them are gone, but then there'll be another buzzing cloud just around the next bend. And then it hits you: the environment of this creek is actually what's drawing the wasps and mosquitoes.
So, what to do? Backtrack? Waste all that time and energy you just spent paddling down this beautiful creek that you YOURSELF chose? Is it worth it?
Would your original creek actually have been the right choice? Or would it just finish off in the middle of nowhere?
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