mock ups and ideas

peace cranes!

these are so great. i have them in my room too!

skins and skins

holiday times are on the way!

Rue Magazine: Marshmallow World from Shark Pig on Vimeo.

i want to work here!

Lip Dub - Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger from vimeo widget on Vimeo.

short but so sweet

quiet from tal hertz on Vimeo.

doodles oooh

かくまく　／　KAKUMAKU - drawing scene or septum from chihiro on Vimeo.

chalkboards are great! and so is this!

Firekites - AUTUMN STORY - chalk animation from Lucinda Schreiber on Vimeo.

animation YAH!

Between Bears from Eran Hilleli on Vimeo.

the title...

God and the Girl from gmtv on Vimeo.

cool things!

i like the sleepytime tea :o)

uke love

i got myself a ukulele for my 18th birthday last year. i thought it would be cool to learn except i really didn't learn. but this is cute so here is some uke love.

little doodles

i have been drawing a lot more lately. and i have been getting more and more distracted but this artist is cool. i like her style. so visit her site and see for yourself!

picture time!

another cool blog

this site is really neat! check it out right here or here

RandomShit

website called random shit they have some really cool artists though

this guy is pretty cool

Reflections and shit

i already posed photo reflections so here are the rest. they are pretty boring i would not read them.

Typography Reading Reflection

I found the parts of a letter reading very interesting. This project made me more and more interested in type and how it is used as the project went on. I think that it is interesting that even when we were looking at everyones individual word collages together during Monday lecture, people could tell when it wasn’t futura. There was actually a guy who stopped my group, when we were walking with our big letters, and asked if the font was futura. I thought that it was interesting that some random guy could identify font styles just by looking at them and it made me jealous. I wanted to be able to do that. This reading definitely helps with that. You start to notice things that you wouldn’t other wise, like if the bracket is curved or angled. I have pretty messy hand writing but it really bothers me when font styles are wonky. I can’t stand it when a lower case letter goes over the base line like when looking at the x-height, it really bothers me that rockwell and futura go over the base line. The only terminology I knew before this reading was tail and stroke, so this reading was interesting in the since that I had never heard of a lot of these things before. 

Word Collage

When I was told we had to pick a word and not have any preconceived ideas about the word I knew what I was going to do. I wrote them all out and drew out one. That was the only way that I was going to be able to not have ideas already in my head as I looked over the words. I drew out support and had ideas flood into my head. That first day of collaging proved to be so much more difficult than I thought. I came to a stand still at one point and it was really hard to keep moving. But after looking at other people’s ideas and my definition again I started to come up with more. Then I really liked coming up with more and more. I was stumped again when it came to color. It proved really challenging. I ended up just making a ton of color variations and picking from that. But I really like how they ended up.

Big Type on Site

After constructing the letters and painting them it was really cool to see them outside and in a totally different environment. Trying different environments was fun. I learned a lot about placement. I also thought that the letters were going to be too big but they were perfect. If anything it was to small but I thought for my groups word, extend, the size was just fine. We chose to paint ours blackish gray because we thought that it would stand out against nature without being too obnoxious. We wanted to keep a classic look. I think that we achieved a timeless look. Everything went really well until we had a letter stolen. We had everything set up for the tromp around campus and we were ready to go. Then I got a call from Lindsey saying that our D was stolen. I found it really funny but the rest of the group didn’t. We got it back so that is good but it was not very nice of someone to steal a letter.

ex·tend

–verb (used with object)

1.

to stretch out; draw out to the full length: He extended themeasuring tape as far as it would go.

2.

to stretch, draw, or arrange in a given direction, or so as toreach a particular point, as a cord, wall, or line of troops.

3.

to stretch forth or hold out, as the arm or hand: to extendone's hand in greeting.

4.

to place at full length, esp. horizontally, as the body orlimbs.

5.

to increase the length or duration of; lengthen; prolong: toextend a visit.

6.

to stretch out in various or all directions; expand; spread outin area: A huge tent was extended over the field.

7.

to enlarge the scope of, or make more comprehensive, asoperations, influence, or meaning: The European powersextended their authority in Asia.

8.

to provide as an offer or grant; offer; grant; give: to extendaid to needy scholars.

9.

Finance . to postpone (the payment of a debt) beyond thetime originally agreed upon.

10.

to increase the bulk or volume of, esp. by adding aninexpensive or plentiful substance.

11.

Bookkeeping . to transfer (figures) from one column toanother.

12.

Law .

a.

British . to assess or value.

b.

to make a seizure or levy upon, as land, by a writ ofextent.

13.

Manège . to bring (a horse) into an extended attitude.

14.

to exert (oneself) to an unusual degree.

15.

Archaic . to exaggerate.

16.

Obsolete . to take by seizure.

–verb (used without object)

17.

to be or become extended; stretch out in length, duration, orin various or all directions.

18.

to reach, as to a particular point.

19.

to increase in length, area, scope, etc.

20.

Manège . (of a horse) to come into an extended attitude.