WEEK 3

This week went by super fast. Monday was a holiday and I didn't do a dam thing!

Tuesday font design class was nothing out of the ordinary. After class I went home and did more nothing.

Wednesday's info design and bus101 were par for the course.


Errol teaching us how to remember names.

Thursday was another laid back day. Didn't do too much. Went to school to get some face time with Leah for font design. Erik Molano came over to the pad and hung out for a while before passing out like always does.


Leah and Victoria talking to Scott on iChat.


Erik

Friday morning I woke up early so that I could get crackin on my editorial homework. We didn't have class today so I slacked off on doing my homework early since we didn't have to email our work in until 6. I ended up sending my work off at a lil past 6. After that I took a nap and woke up around 7:30. I headed off to the Design in Blank show in Los Feliz around 8:30. It was a cool lil show. Eric Hu, Roy, Bridgette, and a handful of other people were at the show. I was there for a couple hours before I took off to get some grub. Around 12:00 I met back up with Eric and the gang at Black Boar in Eagle Rock. Pretty good time drinking with everyone.















Saturday Miguel needed a ride to the bank. After that we got some grub. Since Miguel doesn't have a car I asked him if he needed to go grocery shopping, since I needed to go anyways. We went to Target. I needed to go shopping badly and needed some kitchens stuff. I finally picked up a rice cooker. I ended up using that Saturday night. I cooked chicken tacos with rice and beans. It was a pretty chill night. Eric Hu came over to grub too.

Sunday I woke up and after cooking myself breakfast I got started on my AGS homework. This week was pretty uneventful which was unlike my weekend. Hopefully this summer can have more of that.

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New laptop stand. Picked it up from Guitar Center. Way better than what is marketed to electronics conmsumers.




Money is EVIL!


Geekin out on environmental signage.

WEEK 2

Hmm what to say not much to report. Monday was pretty uneventful. Class went ok I guess. Don't know if I got my concept through to Clive well. After class Eric, Frank, Jesse and I went to get lunch at Mamma's. After lunch it was a nice nap. After waking up for my nap it was time to get to work on my Font Design homework.

Tuesday's Font Design was cool. I had to take off early because I had to go to court. Back in November I got a ticket for crossing over the double yellow lines to go into the carpool lane which is some bs. Oh yeah and since I got the ticket in Whittier I had to drive way out there. Anyways on top of that I also had a failure to appear because the "courtesy" notice never came to me. So off to court I go. I pled not guilty to both charges. The judge dropped the failure to appear since I showed that the notice I did get once they were ready to put a warrant out on me, since it showed the incorrect address. It's funny that the first notice couldn't find it's way to me but the final once did. WTF! That took care of going before the judge. The judicial system sucks! Why do I need to post bail aka pay my fine if I am taking my ticket to trial. I should only have to pay if they find me guilty. I think this will be a great topic for Information Design this term. Since I was sans money I have to go back within 3 weeks to pay the bail. After court I went for a victory burrito at the taco spot.

On the heels of victory I woke up early on Wednesday so that I could go to school and work on my Information Design and Business 101 homework. I needed to take 15 photos from home to the classroom for Info. So I took some photos till I got to the cafeteria where I made a pit stop for some grub. After eating and finishing up my Business 101 hw I continued my way through school taking pics until I reached the classroom. That only took about 5 minutes before I was back in the cafeteria laying out the photos so that I could print them out. Class didn't start till 3 so I was making perfect time. After a short trip to the computer lab to print I was off to class. This class is pretty chill not like normal classes at least in how its structured. Today's exercise in class was in ways of organizing information. We laid out our prints on the floor in different ways.











After editorial was Bus101. Class so far has been really enjoyable. Not boring at all. Check out these awesome animation stills from Erol's presentations.





After class I went home and relaxed before going to pick up Cristina. She was coming up to LA because in the morning she was going to be flying out of LAX to go to Europe. I picked her up from the Greyhound station.

Thursday morning I woke up early so that I could go to school for the AIGA meeting. When I went into the kitchen I found Cristina cleaning the kitchen. Awesome! After the AIGA meeting I went to try to talk to Leah about my sketches for Font Design. Unfortunately I wasn't able to see her since I had to take Cristina to the airport.

After the airport it was back to the house to take a nap. After walking up I got to work on editorial.






Somewhere in South Central.

On Friday I woke up early to finish up my editorial homework. Class went well and I kinda have a direction to go in. This class is going to be really self motivated and I am going to have to rely on criticism from my classmates.

Friday after class I went to pick up Miguel from work. Afterwards we came back to the house to drink some beers. When we were at the supermarket I saw Maura walking out and we stopped and talk for a sec. I invited her over to hang out. She came over with some instruments and we drank and played into the night.











Saturday was nice and relaxing. I didn't do much just chilled and watched some tv and movies. At night I did my info homework. I needed to find 100 objects of trash that were the same and organize them in some way. I had started a bottle cap collection some time ago in anticipation of this exercise. I was surprised at how little of the collection I needed. The glass jar that holds them was pretty much full after I took 100 caps out.





Sunday was more relaxing and not doing homework. Have to enjoy the little amount of work I currently have, it won't last long.

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Dope all coat on this dog

WEEK 1

Monday started off with a bang in my first class of the term. Term 5 that is and half way done with my career at ACCD. More on that in another post. Anyways my first class of the term is Advanced Graphics Studio or AGS as I will refer to it as from here on out. The teacher for the section I enrolled in, as there are at least 4 teachers in different sections, is Clive Piercy. Clive is British and a hard core ball buster, which going to make for lots of laughs this term. As you get into the upper term classes you get a lot of freedom to do what you want. I hope that my ideas for my project will come far as I am hopefully am going to try to push myself to do things I might not. We will see. Oh and Jesse, Frank, Eric are in the class which is cool too. Class ended early and Monday was in the books which ended with a nice nap.

Tuesday started out bright and early like Monday and with my second class being Font Design. Can you guess what I will be doing in this class? That's right designing a font. Hopefully it will be a decent one. Leah Hoffmitz is the teacher from this class. A lot of the teachers at school have very successful careers and her's is no different. Her claim to fame, the Fedex logo. This class ended early too. 2 for 2!

Tuesday night Jesse, Chris and I were in for a treat. Tonight Massive Attack was playing at the Wiltern. The show was pretty good and it was nice to go out to a concert. After the show we got a nice Korean meal that was a big spread.













Wednesday's classes are Information Design and Business 101. Info luckily is my first afternoon class which will be nice after two morning classes to get through the hump. This class was super short as the teacher was in Europe giving a lecture at a conference. So after roll was taken and the syllabus was given out it was time to go. I headed home since my next class wasn't for about 4 hours. After a nice nap it was time to head back to school for Bus 101. Business 101 is going to be a fun class as it looks like each week will be a motivational speech with business information peppered in.

Thursday will be my off day and I ended up waking up really late and just did laundry and some other chores.

Friday was another late start since my Editorial Design class didn't start till 2. That class went by pretty quick. Should be another good class. It helps that Frank, Eric, and Paul are in the class as well. After class Frank, Jesse, Eric and I headed over to Lucky Baldwins to cap off the week with some food and drinks.


Where is Jesse?



Saturday I woke up and started cleaning my room. Esmelda texted me and ended up getting me to leave the house. We went down to Redondo Beach to catch this band that she likes called Casa de Calacas. This cumbia latin rock type band. They were pretty good and we had a good time. I ended up getting home around 10:30 and left almost right away. I went to Miguel's to pick him up. We went and got some grub before heading over to Alex's loft for his birthday party. The party was cool and nice to hang with some art center heads that have already graduated.


Beautiful Southern California day!


Near the pier.




Getting some grub on Olvera Street.


Miguel and the squirrel shopping cart.

Sunday was work day since I didn't do much work all weekend. I got a good start on my AGS project and called it a day around 2 am.

Oh and for those that care here is the list of my classes and the course descriptions

Advanced Graphic Studio 1
The overall intent and direction of each of the sections of this trio of courses is determined by the instructors who teach them. They, individually, bring different professional interests, experiences, and areas of expertise to each section. However, students can be assured that, as a group, all of these instructors are able to inform, direct, and mentor in a wide range of subject areas. While some instructors may take the traditional role of ?teacher?, others may prefer to act as design director, giving students a professional design office experience.

Font Design
Students in this class will explore classical and experimental letterform design to produce a complete alphabet.

Information Design
This class is concerned with the processes and procedures of understanding and ordering complex data into useful and persuasive information tools.

Business 101
Building a successful career requires not just talent, but an understanding of what it takes to be in business. Business 101 is an introduction to the business side of creative practice. The 14 week course is divided into two parts: general business information, including starting up, intellectual property and money; followed by a second part covering topics specifically geared towards the illustration, photography, or design business, including marketing and self-promotion, pricing and estimating, contracts, and client relationships.

Editorial Graphics
This course is about integrating text and images in sequential applications, such as journals and magazines. Students learn to synthesize typography, color, and imagery to develop a project that addresses a defined audience.

BREAK WEEK 3

This week was a lot more relaxing that the first two. Unfortunately I caught a cold some where and I tried my best to get better before school starts. Monday and Tuesday were pretty low key. I mainly worked on redesigning and building my website. Some coding issues made me put that on the back burner for now.

On Wednesday Katie, Jesse's friend who is out here from NYC visiting came over and shot some of our work. Jesse, Frank and Eric were here for most of the day to get it all done. After about 6 hours we were done. After a break we headed over to Tavern on Brand in Glendale. Frank had gone home and some friends of Katie joined us. We had some drinks and dinner. The food was good but the service was terrible. After a couple hours we headed back to the house.


Katie in action.


Trying not to hit her head.








"Discussing" how we were going to hang the posters.




Behind the scenes.

I was super tired but still had to pack and drive down to San Diego. My final trip home was a short one. I was only going down for the day since my new laptop was going to be getting delivered the next day. Thursday was spent waiting for UPS and watching tv. Oh and I was finally able to wash my car. It was super dirty and in need of a cleaning. A couple hours after my computer was delivered I was back on the freeway heading back to Pas.


My new set up, 15" Macbook Pro.



Friday I went over to Jess's house. She and her roommates were throwing a bbq. It was a perfect day for a bbq too. It was a nice way to end the break.

On Saturday I started cleaning up the kitchen and spent the majority of the day watching tv. Miguel hit me up to go see Iron Man 2. It was pretty good and the fx were dope. We saw the movie at the Paseo theaters which had a makeover. They are now an Arclight theater, which also has a couple bars inside which is a nice treat.


Jack n Coke in hand waiting for the movie to start.

Sunday I finished cleaning up the kitchen and watched more tv. The break went by quick. I wish I had an extra week to veg out. Oh well I am looking forward to this term and the classes I have in store. More on those next post.

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