Grad Show Saturday April 24, 2010

This was my first official grad show. It only took me 4 terms before checking it out. Now I have been to the GPK area during Industry night but I never really checked any other areas out or been on the actual graduation night show. I noticed week 13 that the halls were starting to fill up with sketches from Transportation Design. Then I realized it was the school's 80th birthday. ACCD was going all out for it's 80th.!

Saturday morning I woke up around 10 and promptly decided to go back to sleep. I finally decided to get out of bed around 1:30. I didn't sleep that late because I was tired but only because I could. I cooked my self some food and then cut my hair and showered up. By then it was around 4:30 and the graduation ceremony was underway. The graduates were being announced around then. This is the first term that I have actually known people that were graduating. Kelsey is someone I met through friends, she was in Illustration. Miguel I introduced myself to because I saw that he was friends with an old friend from SD that I worked with back in the day.

Screen captures from the webcast

Kelsey


Miguel

After the ceremony was over I relaxed some more before getting ready to leave for the grad show. Jesse and I headed over to the Rose Bowl to park but weren't able to find any place that was designated for Art Center. We headed over to school to see that everyone was parking there. Art Center FAIL! After parking we headed over to see Kelsey's wall. She wasn't there but her set up was pretty cool.


Kelsey's fabulous wall.



After walking around the Illustration area we headed on down to Photo Stage 1 for the GPK area. I have to say that I was kinda underwhelmed by the work as a whole. It's not that the work wasn't good. There just wasn't a lot of it that was shown. After walking around and talking to friends we left to go get some food. We heard there was a party going on at a bar in Korea Town so we wanted to make sure we were ready to drink.


Nice school like Art Center, Why wouldn't they have a table full of chips.


Cool project.


Miguel and Lilly.




Interesting way of showing a poster.




Environmental piece by Jenny.






Nik and Steve "borrowing" some ties from security.

Jesse and I headed over to La Estrella before Picking up Frank and Brett. Around 9 or so we made our way over to Frank's before heading out to K-Town or as I was calling it GPK-Town(since it was a Graphics party(Graphics is known as GPK at Art Center)).

The spot we were heading over to was S Bar. When we walked in it was as it a slice of Las Vegas was hidden in an office building in LA. We definitely stood out as this was a locals only type spot but that didn't matter to us as it made for an even better night.

Eric was our source of info for this party. It was Jane Ro's party, who I had met a couple days before when I was helping Miguel set up. There were a bunch of other GPK'ers there too. Here are a couple pics. Make sure to check out the rest here.


Eric getting comfortable on the floor.


Jesse getting comfortable in Eric's glasses.


Kevin and Jesse looking totally sober.

After spending a couple hours there it was time to call it a night and head back to Pasadena. All in all it was a great night, but I am sure you can tell from the pics.