Charity Water, final project

Here is a pic of our piece. I'm actually pretty happy with it, though it is a bit flimsy.

This is our chandelier, which is surprisingly beautiful when it is turned on. We envisioned something a bit more "art nouvelle," but it is what it is, and it is ours.

I was interested in the shape of the silhouette of the snowman, and the waves of the ocean.
Same as above with some copy.
A little variation with top hat.
This was the final prospect, and the one concept that was in love with, as far as the idea that the pump is a stand in for a Christmas tree, with the idea that the "presents" are underneath. As a stencil, I dropped the lights part, and it really worked.

Thank God

I downloaded this just in case.

C

Rant on Helping people

Cross posted on other blog:

I think a lot of people confuse "volunteering" with "community service." Sure, when most people think of community service, or volunteering, they think of cutting oranges in soup kitchens, or picking up trash on the side of the road, or any other thing that...well...sucks. At my university, there was a huge community service component, but it really focused on developing _and_ deploying a plan. So, you noticed that a local organization that gives free blankets to kids during the winter time but you hate children? Make them a website that solicits donations and hooks up corporations with the organizations. Local homeless shelter needs help but you have have a strange fear of homeless people? Use those InDesign skills and make a kick ass newsletter. Sure, people will want to dig ditches more than they'll want to spend their precious XBOX time thinking about how to best service your community and neighbors, and there's nothing wrong with that. I just think you will get more out of, and have a better experience with, service to your fellow citizens.

Also, to those people that bitch and complain about being forced to serve your community as part of middle school and high school curriculum and otherwise self-first: can you imagine what kind of networking skills you get by helping out a non-profit? I mean, ask people that have summer jobs in college that they can pick up and leave when they want to return and they've usually received it from someone they met or knew in church, or as part of volunteering.

"Work smarter, not harder!" -S. McDuck.

Ten for Wilde

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

Drapetomania—a disorder that makes slaves flee captivity.
I can understand that this is somewhat a strange one, hard to understand in context. It's neat, nonetheless.
"She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses," cried the young Student; "but in all my garden there is no red rose."
Katie purchased this small good luck cat at a convenience store because it was beautifully kitch, and keeps in next to her sociology books, including Emile Durkheim's  Suicide.

I went to gorge, to an out of the way refuge, one nice day last week. They have wonderful wildflowers, but this time of year many things are dead and the wind is furious. Not many people are out. So, I made a panoramic view of the gorge and split it into panels.

My three favorites

Here are my three favorite compositions with my reasons for each.

I really like the above for the simple reason that this is the first time I've ever trusted drawing and design by hand, and then digitally manipulating it to appear as though it is nothing but organic.
Again, same as above, but with a design I used while messing around with wonderful brushes.
There is a color and depth here that I'm unfamiliar with, that was outside of my color vocabulary and runs into something that came from somewhere inside that I'm completely unsounded by. It's a strange little design, but a fun one.

Assignment 5

I'm now deeply involved and infatuated with anatomy texts, so I'll need to work that out of my system.

There are some variations, that I'm trying to play with hierarchy without getting prussian and "clean" and angular. This first one is a warm up.

This is play on some events I noticed, and some variations on play. I wanted to inadvertently evoke mathematics, play, and games.  
This is play on some anatomy texts I've found at the National Institutional of Health.
And another.

Assignment 4

I feel like I phoned this one in tonight as all of my time and energy went to the other project in 120. No excuse, but there it is.

There was one that came out of this set that is still making me chuckle: Galactus:

This one has some alterations with it.