Today I had a pre-birthday lunch at Plantain Café with some friends. I had a Cuban hamburger and it was very tasty! Pictured in this awkwardly-staged panorama: Colleen, Dana, Kate, Ian. Dorian joined us later.
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What I did this week (19 oct 2012)
- Had a very very good independent study meeting with Mr. Lutz, during which he also helped me brainstorm for my ad project.
- Passed the midterm point in Marketing, which means the lectures are shorter and more laid-back. That is nice.
- Spent a highly unnecessary amount of time discussing résumés.
- Finished the planar ring I was making, polished it one more time for good measure, and turned it in!
- Worked at Sew to Speak on wednesday afternoon, which was kinda weird to do in the middle of the week. (But it was very nice, too!)
- Combined our ad class with Mr. Lutz’ next-door class. Lutz and Burleigh both drew on the board at once and we generated a giant mind map about Coleman camping gear. It was extremely fun to be with a bunch of people I enjoy and to do mind mapping like old times.
- Saw Jason Clary teaching perspective drawing on the quad. He has an even bigger beard than he used to, and he is as great as ever.
- Experimented with different copper patinas. None of them worked satisfactorily. I’ll polish instead.
- Did lots of homework. I am very busy.
What I did this week (12 oct 2012)
- Started our second project in package design. We are designing a bar of soap and its packaging.
- Received a guided tour of Mr. Hazlerig’s soap collection, which is expansive and very smelly.
- Got confused about an assignment and wrote a four-page paper monday morning in my package design class.
- Narrowly made it through a “feminism and gender stereotypes” lecture in my comics class. That is all I will say about that.
- Took home the marketing midterm, completed most of it on monday night, and turned it in tuesday afternoon.
- Had a woman from Career Services come talk to our ad class about the Internship Fair next month. She tried to be relevant by calling herself a geek and making annoyingly-contrived self-deprecating jokes.
- Wrote 40 company slogans for copywriting. Spent both classes talking about slogans. My head is spinning.
- Picked up a piece of molten copper and burned the fingertips on my left hand. Ouch.
- Got to school early to pick up a drawing from last year that Boryana had been storing in AMF.
- Had major chill time in Burleigh’s class. Spent pretty much the whole time doing homework and chatting. It’s nice to have a little break after all the frenzy of last week’s finals.
- Finished socks I was making for my jewelry teacher and delivered themto her. She was quite pleased!
- Finished making my first ring. And I used the polishing machine with no major injuries!
- Started thinking about registration, which is stressing me out a lot.
What I did this week (5 oct 2012)
- Turned in finals for package design; had a short crit and got out of class early!
- Did homework in the cafeteria before lunch. I was the only person there besides the staff. I did homework and silently rocked out to Transcendental Youth.
- Ran into M Stillion and talked to him for a while. A dream come true.
- Had a really nice independent study meeting with Lutz.
- On tuesday morning, presented the final for my first ad project. I created a new brand for a local hardware store. Glad to be done.
- Looked at wordless ads in copywriting.
- Made little progress in jewelry class but had a ton of fun. My teacher gave me a little piece of sterling silver to use for my project because I was having too much trouble corralling nickel.
- Went back to school tuesday night for a roundtable discussion on Art Spiegelman’s Maus (a sort of kickoff event for CCAD’s Mix 2012 comics symposium). It was ok. I sat with Dorian and Colleen and had fun with them.
- Watched more ad presentations on thursday morning. It would have been more enjoyable had the projects actually been good, but it was relaxing nonetheless.
- Drove back to school thursday night to watch In Search of Steve Ditko on the big screen with a very small handful of other people. It was lots of fun!
- Went to school friday afternoon to see a panel on “indie comics”, then I walked around with Dorian.
- Watched Chris Ware deliver the Mix 2012 keynote talk. He was great.
What I did this week (28 sep 2012)
- Made pretty good progress in package design; I think I’m finally up to speed. The final project is due next week.
- Ate some too-salty soup in the school cafeteria. For the second week in a row.
- Talked about Jimmy Corrigan in my comics class; got let into the Canzani Gallery to see some of Chris Ware’s original Jimmy Corrigan line drawings, which were stunning.
- Didn’t have my independent study meeting with Lutz because I was so busy with other stuff. I know, I felt pretty delinquent.
- Hung out with Audrey K. monday afternoon; did a fair bit of grumbling about the marketing class we have to attend.
- Tried to hunt down Barb with Audrey so we could say hi, but she was running kinda late to her own class and we couldn’t wait around for her.
- Got a reprieve from Burleigh on tuesday morning: the process books and presentations for our final project aren’t due until next tuesday. Phew, that’s a relief.
- Spent all of copywriting looking at stuff under the opaque projector. On tuesday we examined real-life text-only ads, and on thursday we read the text-only ads my classmates had written.
- Got to wear my giant trench coat and orange rain boots on thursday. It rained all day which I enjoyed a lot.
- Had a good old fashioned knit-n-crit in Burleigh’s thursday morning class; we went over our finals for the rebranding project. I’ve really missed doing critiques like that and it was highly enjoyable.
- As I mentioned, in thursday’s copywriting class, we looked at text-only ads written by students. Of particular enjoyment were a series of hilarious, extremely violent ads about gun ownership.
- Experimented with lots of new techniques in my jewelry class. Did some more welding and a lot more cutting. I’m getting a little better.