WEEK 7/8

As it gets later into the term. Blog entries usually stack up. Its going into week 9 and its time to catch you up on weeks 7 and 8.

Monday the 1st of March. This was my sister's 29th birthday. After talking to her online I rushed off to school. Com design was more of the same nothing new to report other than I am pretty pleased on where my project is going.



Tuesday was printmaking with no progress on any projects.

Wednesday was AOR and more of the same as well. On the way home this lovely old man decided he wanted to hit my car. There wasn't much damage other than some rash on an already rashy rear bumper cover. No harm no foul. How old was he? I checked his driver's license and he was born in 1924!

Thursday night there was a lecture by Margo Chase in LAT. This term there have been a lot of lectures and that's a good thing!


Margo Chase


Some of her work

Friday was Modernism and Packaging. I didn't have much to show for packaging but that's nothing new for this class.


Doing my packaging homework before class

Saturday Bryant and a friend of his came to town. I was going to go to printmaking but instead played host and showed them around LA. We first went over to Hollywood and drove down the blvd. The Oscar's were that Sunday so past Highland was blocked off. We drove down La Brea and then Wilshire. We ended up at Pink's. It's one of those classic LA staples that you must have at least once.


It started hailing.


















Even Pink's has the fever


Bryant enjoying Pink's


Phil Frost billboard


Drive-by photos!

After that we headed over to Venice Beach and walked around before grabbing a beer. That weekend was the worst to come to LA since it had been raining. It wasn't to bad at the beach but after a while it started to get super windy and then the rain came. Walking to the car in the rain wasn't the best but it was nice to get out and brave the elements like I used to in jr. high.


kid was getting down!

After getting home Bryant and his friend ended up leaving. It was good seeing Bryant. I haven't seen him in a couple years. He's out in Las Vegas being a dad and husband.

Since I had wasted the day not doing any school work I thought hey why stop now. Jesse, Frank, Brett and I all went over to Lucky Baldwin's for dinner and drinks.



Sunday was work day spent mostly on com design. I did go over to school to take some pics of a gallery piece for a friend of Jesse.



Monday was the usual Big Picture Lecture Series, then Com Design then home.

Tuesday I woke up late and ended up getting to printmaking about 10 mins late. When I got to class Tony asked me if I had eaten breakfast to which I replied ,"No." When I asked why he didn't say anything. A little later someone else came to class late and he again asked the same question. After talking for a little while longer he then asked if someone knew where Shaker's was. The person he asked said no but then someone else said yes. To which Tony replied, "Ok lets all go there." Tony decided that we didn't need to work right away and that breakfast was more important. So he took us to Shaker's and treated us to breakfast.







After breakfast it was back to South Campus and work. Since I still didn't have my next project, 3 layer screen print, ready I went home and took a nap. After waking up it was time to get started on my AOR homework. It didn't take as long as I thought it would and I was able to get a decent night's rest.

AOR was pretty boring. Our teacher decided to play a video to which he prefaced that it would probably bomb. For some reason he thought playing a video on interviewing that happened to be in German with subtitles would be a good idea. No one was watching it. So when he came in decided that it was a waste of time and let us go early. However since he was doing individual crits I still had to stay longer for that. I hung out in the cafeteria with Bianca for a lil while before going back to class and then leaving for the day.

After class I headed over to Whittier Court House. I failed to receive a ticket in the mail and now I have to deal with going to court. No bueno!



After court I went home and started on packaging so that I could hit the laser lab before the 3x3 lecture. Once I got home I had to get crackin on Packaging. Since I had yet to make any 3D mock ups I had a lot of work to do. After getting things ready I got to work and was ready to go back to school.


Every one was lovin the cardboard guns.




Pre-lecture shenanigans

That night there was a 3x3 lecture at school on the business of design. These are usually pretty good and this was no exception.









When I got home from the lecture I had this waiting on my doorstep.



It was time to expand my digital storage. I bought two 1.5 tb segate drives and SATA to IDE adapters for my hard drive tower. I think I have around 7 tb of storage now. I am a digital hoarder and proud of it!





I also finally got a business card holder. I found one a couple years ago but never got around to buying it since my business cards are an odd size.



Thursday I headed off to school to do a little more laser cutting and stop off at CMTEL. I had gone in on Wednesday but Marshall wasn't there and the lab techs couldn't find what Marshall had shown me a couple weeks before.



There are times when I cannot tell if Jesse is home or not. I woke up around 12 and then left. When I came home Jesse's door was still closed. I sent him a text and this was his response.



Friday was a long day. I ended up being at school from about 8am to 8pm. In Modernism it never fails that I get sleepy. Watching slides in a dark room does not promote alertness. Because of this I guess I make faces. Anyways the teacher thought I was reacting to what she was showing and saying and asked me to share my thoughts. Luckily I can think on my feet and gave her a good response.

Since I had actually done a lot of work for packaging I was eager to show Dan my progress but not before I designed the outside since all I had was the inside. He liked my direction and wants me to combine my ideas. I don't know how that will look but we will see.



After class I still couldn't go home. I had to head down to Costa Mesa to pick up some wheels. My tires are bald and I need new tires bad. I went to a couple places getting pricing on new tires and the consensus was that I needed to spend around $800 for new tires. Now you might ask why $800. The genius that owned my car before thought that 18" rims would be a good idea. I never liked the rims but not enough that I changed them out. Last time, which was the first time that I needed tires for my ride I was able to get them for a decent price. So changing out the rims wasn't going to be cheaper. However this time it was. After searching on this element owner's forum I found someone local that was cheap and exactly what I was looking for. A couple hours later and I have new rims and tires that are waiting to be mounted.



Saturday was printmaking day. I woke up about 9 and was at school by 10. I needed to coat and burn my screen. These were some pics taken throughout the day. I will let them speak for themselves.






Hu getting down in printlab

Random Photo of the Week


AOL Spam emails? Really? Who still uses AOL?




Louvered RX7

PRINTMAKING

I took some quick snaps of my prints so far.


Intaglio Line Etch Print


Intaglio Line Etch/Aquatint Print


Intaglio Soft Ground Two Plate Print, Black with a Red Top Rolled Yellow Plate

WEEK 6

Sunday I had woken up with a slight sore throat and by Monday it had set it. I quickly attacked it with my trusty Airborne. It's rediculous how many empty bottles I have kept.

After finishing up my com4 homework I headed to school. I thought I had the lecture series today but was wrong and I ended up coming to school an hour early for nothing.

I stopped in see Elias in admissions. He had called me to do a flyer for them. After talking with him a bit about it, I was on my way to class. Class went well but during class I started to get a runny nose. I was also drowsy and a bit sore.

Since I knew Tony was going to be giving the silkscreen demo I thought there was a chance that I would miss class. Anways I ended up sleeping til noon the next day and missed class. After waking up I needed to go get some things that I might use for my next printmaking project. I went and got some Krink Markers and some streakers. I was like a kid in a candy store at this spot I went to. I restrained myself though.



Wednesday I had planned to go to Art of Research but when I had realized that I kept snoozing my alarm it was too late. I went back to sleep and didn't wake up til 11. Then I had to head over to South Campus. I needed to get my business cards that I letter-pressed last term cut. I was also going to tip the edges but I needed to go home and sleep. I will eventually tip them.


Gloria cutting my cards down.


It says, "I cut where I cut, Sayeth I"


My Oh so pretty business cards!

Thursday I ran some errands. I also went to school to check out the Seymour Chwast lecture. It was pretty boring. It was him basically showing images from his book. That evening Deja and Bianca came over and chilled for a minute.

Friday I decided on skipping too. I was better but was still feeling somewhat weak. I ran around LA all day. I went to Samy's to get my sensor cleaned and look into getting some strobes. After leaving Samy's I saw this sick F Body. It was a resto-mod. I wish I could have gotten some better pics.







I pretty much worked all day Saturday which I have yet to do this term. Then on Sunday I went to Norton Simon for Modernism and continued the workfest. These pics below are the pieces of art that I will be writing about for my midterm in Modernism.







Random Photos of the Week

WEEK 5

Monday was President's Day and I decided I needed a day off! I didn't do much but it felt good to just relax all day.

Tuesday in Printmaking I completed the assignment for a 2 plate print. I plan, well at least I hope, to do more prints since I really like how they turned out.


Inking the black plate


Yellow top roll on red plate


Print in process


Close up

After class i went home to get started on my presentation for Art of Research. My presentation went well but I expected that it would. Afterwards I came home and took a nap. When I woke up I didn't do much but thats par for the course at this point in the term. Since I didn't sleep the day away I decided to give Lizee call. It had been a while since we hung out and the last couple times she has hit me up for dinner, I was you guessed it. Sleeping! Anyways I called her up. When she got her we decided on going to Gus's in South Pas. Frank had told me about this spot so I had been wanting to go here.





After checking out their website we headed on over. I have to say their site is really well done. After getting to the place their decor was equally impressive. As for the food. It was excellent. I can't wait to go back.


Lizee with her Sweet Potato Fries


Jesse posting his food up on Facebook.

Thursday was pretty much a wasted day. Marian Bantjes was at school giving a lecture and I decided to check it out. She spoke a couple terms back and while it wasn't the same I can't say that it was worth my time.




AIGA thugs


Jesse working


Inside joke

Friday came quick since I missed class on Monday. Modernism was rough getting through it. I kept nodding off and sitting about 4 feet from the teacher wasn't good. She eventually called me out but not in a mean way. I need to go to sleep earlier. Even if I am done with work I still can't go to sleep right away. There was a graphics internship meeting so I wasn't able to go home before my packaging class. I got some good information from the meeting. Hopefully an internship is in my future.

Packaging class was more of the usual. The paper lecture that Dan gave was really good. Class ended early which gave me time to go meet up with the Art Center Airsoft Club. I found out about them through a general school email. I set up to meet with them and get an interview. Was pretty interesting. After that I came home and relaxed before passing out.


Dude was airsoft strapped up

Saturday I woke up pretty late. I headed over to Blick trying to find a portfolio. I didn't have any luck. I think I just may make one out of cardboard. Then I headed over to South Campus and Printmaking to pick up my print and clean up my drawer a bit. While I was there Frank and Eric were heading to get some food so we all went to La Estrella on Fair Oaks. We picked up the food and headed back to campus. I ate and talked to some people before heading out to take pics for Art of Research.





I went down to China Town. Traffic was crazy over there because of something going on. I couldn't really tell, but all the streets were blocked off causing me to figure out how to get where I needed to go. After driving around forever I got to my spot and took my pics. On the way home I stopped off at Printmaking again. Gloria was in Archetype and I talked to her for a little while. I still need to finish my business cards I started last term. Going to need those for Y Conference. Before I knew it was almost 5 and the day was gone. I headed home to relax and watch the UFC fights.

The fights were decent. Jori came over for some help with a project he was working on. Hopefully our chat helped him out. There were a couple more fights left when he took off. I was supposed to go to a party afterwards but I just couldn't make it out.

Sunday I worked on Com Design 3 all day.

Random Photos of the Week



Only at an art school would you find this. Someone's laptop gets stolen and they claim to know who it is. So instead of taking it back, which is what I would do, they design a poster and put them up all over school. The poke your nose threat takes the cake.