Computer Illustration

This is it!

Justine Beat!

Here's my vid for the music video project!!

I have a crush on Lynda Barry

Hey mom, I have a new girlfriend and this is her book!

But really how great is Lynda Barry?! It was the best lecture EVER. Oh my god, I think I'm in love.
Most people who come to lecture talk at us about their lives OR WHATEVER, Lynda kept everyone engaged in a dialouge. Not only was she entertaining (which is actually really important, most people don't realize that public speaking is performing but that's WHAT IT IS) but she's super smart too! I loved the way she thought about things FOR EXAMPLE: Creative Concentration or Play enacting an entirely different part of your brain and how deeply rooted "breakthroughs" or "ideas" are in anxiety. I think that's a really good explanation of art school. AN ANXIOUS PRESSURE COOKER. I don't know so much how I feel about her artwork I mean she calls her self a cartoonist (and a comic book is great but it's a comic book AM I RIGHT GIRLS?) But her work that she showed us asked a lot of interesting questions about memory and the creative process (whatever THAT means). I really enjoyed her story about how she spent 10 years trying to write a book on the computer and she just couldn't do it, but then she wrote it on paper with a brush and it only took her 9 months! The idea of distilling thought into motion to access writing more easily totally makes sense to me. That's why I love working manually so much and kind of shy away from work on computers (sorry Sam!!).
Okay, that's it <3 you Lynda!

Put your sister where your art is!

Ever wondered what would happen if my sister got into my pastel drawing? WELL NOW YOU KNOW.
Second Photoshop attempt with pictures that I have taken of my sister put into a picuture of a pastel drawing I made. I thought it would be interesting to change the original depection of still life into a landscape for my sister. Can you find all five of her?!

Alright let's try again.

After coming back from break I decided to take another crack at this whole Photoshop thing. I put a fence on top of my previous Mexican Present War LET'S TAKE A LOOK.

Okay Photoshop, you win.

Alright so this project is meant to be an image manipulation assignment, you know changing photos on photoshop. SOUNDS EASY? no it's not.
I choose this picture related the drug wars in mexico going on right now, and in the original the man was guarding a pile of brown packages (drugz) so I made them... presents. Is there really a rhyme or reason... WOULD I LIE TO YOU (yes) no. So there it is. The media lies it's really a PRESENT scandal. or something.
Sorry Sam.

Going fishing!

I took this picture of fish in a fish tank in the front window of a fish MARKET in Chinatown a few weeks ago, so I decided to use it as a basis for my free illustrator project that is due tomorrow! Guess who's early?

Me: the illustrator edition

Here I am, coming at you in full color, plaid shirt, blond hair and everything. I can't even say how long this took. But I will: MILLIONS OF HOURS. I've been working on it everyday for the past week for about 3-5 hours each day. I HOPE YOU HEARD THAT SAM FRITCH.

Hot Child in the City!

First Computers Proj!

This was our first adventure into ILLUSTRATOR. We used text to create representational, non-representational, and expressive word compositions as well as a Warning sign for ourselves. I'll let you be the judge which one is which!

slideshow of my lyfe!

Some super h-o-t-t pics from my adventure with Calvin!

He got married at 102!

I watched this TED talk by Marc Pacher about his work on an interview series called 'Living Portraits' . He decided to only interview elderly people because he thought it was interesting to see what a person says when they already know how the story turns out. How the most important party of an interview is not their youthful energy (which is what our culture feeds off of, but their life-force (that's what the title is about, this guy whose life-force, Marc says, is so powerful that he gets married at 102). He talked about creating empathy with the interviewee and yada yada yada. But what I thought was most interesting was that his main job was to convince people to allow him to ask the question that they've been waiting their whole lives for someone to ask. The answer that they have never really revealed. I thought that was facinating, that the purpose of the interviewer is not to get their questions answered but to ask the interviewee's questions for them. Anyway here's his pitcha!

Okay so there was this adventure...

And I don't want to talk about it.


BUT ALL SQUIRRELS ASIDE.
It started out on a subway, like most computer assignments do. I tried to be super slick and take a picture of these guys on the subway, but allegedly they knew about it. (which means according to Calvin)
We got out at Lombard-South and before we knew it we were on an adventure! We walked past Harry's Occult Shop and a copious amount of African Hair Braiding and Rastafarian storefronts. Calvin counted 3 'Yvette's African Hair Braiding"s alone
Not one, not two, but THREE Yvette's!
Meanwhile, my toes were getting cold, so we stopped off at Wallgreen's to get some good sock lovin' AND BOY DID WE. I got Valentine's socks for $1.99 which have hearts and say 'I'm too sexy' on them. And now, with these socks, IT'S TRUE!
So that was one great thing, another was we went to the Magic Garden, whose incredibility= unexplainable!
This crazy Philadelphia guy basically just liked mosaics and decided to make one, only EVERYWHERE.
It's ridiculously cool, it has all these crazy bottles and bike wheels and tiles embedded into the walls and there are multiple levels and mirrors everywhere, and boy just get your hot little hands on 4 dollars and head on down there because it sure is great. The only thing was, this guy was legit crazy, like he went to an insane asylum actually crazy. Which makes all his nonsensical, compiled-of-all-different-things, kind of raunchy art building make a little more sense... but not a whole lot.
Anyway, so after that we wanted to go to AIDs thrift, only I couldn't remember where it was so we got lost. But then it was fine because a woman heard me mention it and showed us where to go! (which may or may not have been a block and a half in the other direction and while we turned that way I may or may not have almost gotten run down by 2 seperate bikers... but who knows for sure?) In the end, AIDs thrift was a really great idea because I got a pot holder for (count it!) 12 CENTS. And Calvin got a really ugly tie (?) BECAUSE it was supremely ugly (?!?)
Men.
So then we limped back to the subway (after and only after I got some 3 dollar mittens to keep my handses warm) and here I am today.