The way Monday started kinda sums up my week. I woke up around 9 so I could finish up Com Design before class. Since there wasn't a Big Picture Lecture I had an extra hour to work. I got ready and left for school. Since I had to send an email out before I left I was kind of in a hurry. I left a couple minutes after I should have and as I got closer to school I realized I was going to be late. Parking towards the end of the term gets bad and while the sculpture garden wasn't open the parking lot was almost full. As I was walking towards school I checked my phone to see how late I would be. I figured that I would be like 5 minutes late. I was hoping that Sean would be late or start class late as he had the past couple of week. As I checked my phone I couldn't believe it. Instead of being 2:05 like I thought it would be. It was 1:30. WTF I was actually 30 minutes early and not 5 minutes late. It was that kind of morning. Class was pretty much the same as the past week was. Individual crits and then leave way earlier than we should.
When I got home I started working on my print for Printmaking. I am really liking where this project is going and have high hopes for it. Tues is class Tony convinced me to do some color in my print. It ended up looking really good. I did a layer of roses in a pattern. Once I was finished up I went home and did nothing.
I attempted to take a nap. My plan was to sleep from about 8-9:30. When I woke up it was about 1. I didn't want to get up and then be awake until early in the am before going back to sleep and then wake up a couple hours later for school. So I laid in bed tossing and turning. When I finally checked the time it was 2. I knew I had to get up as I wasn't going to be able to go back to sleep. I figured if I was going to be awake I better at least work on packaging as I still had to start on my process book since the final project was due Friday. I ended up getting about 90% of it done. I finally stopped around 6:30 to lay down for a bit before I got ready for Art of Research.
Since I wasn't able to get an in person interview I didn't have anything to turn in on Wednesday. After class I went to talk to Nik about the Berlin Brand Lab. I was planning to apply and wanted to get more info. After talking to Nik I was really excited about the study abroad class. Its a pop up studio for an old sunscreen brand in Germany. The project is to cross brand this product with urban beach's popular in Berlin. We will see if I get selected to go.
Somehow the weather this week sucked!
Tranquil Sinclare Pavillion
Berlin info meeting
Since I had to submit an application and a small portfolio of work for the Berlin class. I got to work on that right away. I also started to finish up my packaging that was due Friday. So Wednesday and Thursday was spent working on that. The application was due Friday. I needed to get it printed at Kinkos since it was a double sides booklet. Anyways after a trip there and back, my file decided it only wanted to print half of what it should. I was done. However when I got home I noticed that they gave me two prints instead of one and thus charged me double. So after another trip back to Kinkos I was finally done, but lost a hour and a half. I wonder how much of my life has been spent at a Kinkos. Too much!
Friday morning was Modernism and I can't wait for this class to be over. I just hope I can pull something out of my ass for the final. It would really suck to have to take this class again. After Modernism I needed to go back home to finish off my packaging and get back to set up for the presentation. I was the first one to set up and the second one there. I got a prime spot right as you entered the door. I was also the first one to present and was very pleased with how my project turned out. I need to finish up 2 small booklets for the the final presentation that will be done week 14. For the next and final project I plan on doing bottled water. Hopefully it turns out well as I have a bit of a challenge as I plan to make my own container.
Friday night I decided I wanted to install this cool sounding app. It turns your iPhone or iPad into a secondary display. Sounds cool right. WRONG! It totally fucked up my computer and made it pretty much impossible to use. The display settings got all fucked up. I ended up going to sleep around 12.
I woke up bright and early around 8:30am. I tried to fix my laptop but wasn't successful. So I braved through the fucked up display and created my last layer for my La Virgen print. After figuring it out I headed over to Kinkos. After getting my print I went to South Campus to coat and then burn my screen. I had forgotten to bring the gloss overprint ink that I was going to use for the last and final layer of my print. I needed to add some white to it. Once I got to the house I ate lunch, got the ink and then headed back to South Campus. Once I got there my screen was ready to burn.
Since I wasn't going to be sitting behind a computer all day I decided it would be a good time to finish my La Virgen print for Printmaking.
Setting up
After I finished my print I headed over to South Campus to clean my screen.Once I was done I headed back home. Since I still wasn't able to fix my computer I headed over to the Apple store to buy Snow Leopard. I figured that hopefully that would fix my problem. I wasn't able to find my copy of OSX and needed my computer back badly. After installing Snow Leopard my issue still wasn't resolved. So after some digging I was able to find my restore discs. After about 6 hours and a long nap I was finally back up and running.
Sunday I headed over to Charlene's house out in Simi Valley to do some design work for her. Other than that my Sunday was pretty mellow. Eric Hu came over to screen print. Him, Jesse and I chatted a but before he took off. That capped this hectic week off.
Random Pics of The Week
Grown Men's ish!
