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.

WEEK 14

What a week.

Monday started off well. I had picked up my final for Com Design 4 from Kinko's the night before. Of course they fucked it up and it needed to be redone. Anyways I headed over to school a lil early and got to class with some time to relax. Class went well and I think I did well. Nik came in and did his usual critique. Soon after that class was done and I was on my way. As I was leaving I saw Jesse hanging outside of the cafeteria. He was waiting for Dom so I didn't head out quite so quick. After a while Dom was finished with his Com 3 final. We headed over to the parking lot and braved the jungle before leaving school. Once I was home I worked on packaging before calling it a night.


ACCD Jungle


Stopped at this place on my way home. Definitely not recommended but simply because of the price. The food was ok.

Tuesday's Printmaking final was pretty lax. After Tony talked for a while we were done. I immediately took off to go down to Commerce to Royal Paper Box to get some oversized SBS Board for my packaging final. I was able to get what I needed and headed over to hillside. Miguel needed some help in setting up for grad show. I didn't do much but I guess even a little help, helps. I was there for a couple hours before heading over to Kinkos. After my print was done it was printmaking time. I needed to clean and burn a screen. I was able to get the screen auto hazed and then coated. Unfortunately I didn't allow the screen to dry all the way. When I was cleaning off the emulsion I blew out what I had just burned. It was late so I wasn't able to do anything else and I just cleaned off the screen and went home.





Wednesday was going to be a busy day. I woke up around 10 and was out the door by 10:45. My first stop was at Midas to get a smog check. My registration was due in a couple days and needed to get that done asap. After about 30 minutes I was back on the road. I headed over to hillside to take some pics of Jesse's Info final for him. After a couple hours it was time to run some more errands. Jesse needed his Editorial final bound and didn't have time to take it to A1 so that was my next stop. Before I could do that I needed to cut down the SBS Board that I had gotten the day before. I also had to head over to the library to check out some books to help with my Modernism final. Then it was off to A1. After dropping that his book I headed home.



While walking around school I find Jesse and Erik recreating a scene from Indiana Jones.


That was for Eric's Info final so he could project on.


Jesse's dog food packaging in the gallery.


Miguel getting some gallery love to before he blows this pop stand.


Grad show set up.


Catching a sneak peak of Kelsey's wall.


Jesse setting up his Info final.


Some jumped over it.


While others walked over it.


A couple of illustration teachers asking him what he was doing.


Jesse's final was about Orphan's in Iraq because of the war.

I was pretty tired and as I was pulling up to my place Lizee called me. She wanted to grab a bite to eat. After laying down for a little while she showed up. My back was starting to kill me but we went out to eat anyways. By the time we got to Rubio's it was really hurting me and I knew I was done for. I took a Vicodin hopping that would help but it didn't and after dinner I took another. I ended up passing out. I woke up around 1:30. Gurkin messaged me around 2 that he was hungry and wanted to know places around us that were open late. After he got food he came over and hung out for a little while. We ended up watching Justified since he hadn't seen it yet and he was hooked.

Thursday morning I woke up in a lot of pain and immediately downed 2 more Vicodins. Since I wasn't able to get out of bed I just waited for the warmth to take over and I passed out. I woke up a couple times through out the day but pretty much slept the whole day. I ended up getting out of bed around 10 and was hungry. So Jesse went and got us some food. I was able to get out of bed but I didn't' think I was going to be able to make it to my packaging final the next day. Unfortunately my Modernism final was a big casualty because when I attempted to do that I found out that I really needed to be in the library and since I was out of commission I wasn't able to get that done. Fail! Oh well I didn't put any work into that class so that's what I get and deserve.

Friday I woke up and was in better shape but I was still at maybe 40% which was better than the 1% I was at the day before. Since I was feeling somewhat better I decided to try and make it to my packaging final. I needed to print up some presentation boards and head over to Kinkos. While at Kinkos two people from my packaging class came through, Ben and Jeff. You can almost always count on running into someone at Kinkos no matter what time of day it is.

After getting a quick oversized b/w print done it was off to packaging. I showed up and had my table set up pretty quickly despite my back. Class was long as usual and I know I did good. Dan even asked me if I was taking Packaging 2. I told him probably not but he really encouraged me to take it. Doubt I will but who knows, the thought is now in the back of my head.


Friday of Week 14 hitting hard!


Two in one class

Later Friday evening there was a party at Mentone. There was also a gallery opening for David Choe in Beverly Hills. I just discovered him and am really hyped on his stuff right now. So Chris and I headed over to the west side to catch the opening. When we got there the place looked closed. After parking and walking over we found out that it was indeed closed. The gallery closed at 8. For normal hours I can see that but for an opening…thats nuts. We were both hungry so we decided to find a spot to grub at. Chris through a couple spots out and one really stood out. Soul food. He called them but they were closed. It was about 9:45-10. The next idea was Oaxacan Mexican Food. That sounded good to me, and it was off to Venice. After driving around for a bit we were on the street next to this taco truck. Chris ordered this pizza looking thing. I decided to get a torta and some tacos. I have to say this truck was pretty good and I will definitely go back when I am in Venice. After grubbing there was still plenty of time to head over to the Mentone party. We ended up getting there around 10:45.




Be on the look out for it.


My torta and taco.


Oaxacan Pizza as Chris called it.

The party was in full swing and there were a lot of people in attendance. There were even some fire eaters. I didn't bring my camera since I didn't plan on attending. We ended up taking off around 12:30 and heading back to the pad. Frank, Brett and Eric came too. They all got Jack in the Box and hung out for a little while.




Eric adding multiple status updates to Jesse's Facebook.

Saturday was grad show but that deserves its own entry. So head on over here.

Sunday was clean up day. Well sort of. I did laundry and cleaned up my room a little. It didn't need that much cleaning up I straightened some things out. Jesse did dishes and cleaned up his mess in the living room. I cleaned up my stuff from the work table. The house needs more work when we get back from sd.

After cleaning up I started to pack and get ready. We were both going down to San Diego. A woman who teaches at our old school asked us to give a lecture. She didn't teach when I went to San Diego City College but I know her through AIGA. At the Y Conference she asked Jesse and I to give a lecture on process and multipage documents to her class. Sounded like fun so we said sure. You can see how things went next entry.

Anyways before heading down to SD, there was a party going on down the street that we had to make an appearance at. Bridgette and Erik were throwing their end of term party at Bridgette's house. Her place is pretty big and the front yard had a three lane slip n slide as well as a bounce house and dj set up. I was immediately greeted with a Margarita from Erik. We hung out for a couple hours before making our get a way to head on down the coast. This was defiantly a great end to a busy term. Make sure to check out the Grad Show entry as that day was an adventure in itself and the rest of the party pics here. Until next time!


I love this pic of Crystal!


Slip n Slide


Grace pretending to be asleep.


What's a party without the cops showing up?