LYNDA BARRY IS WHAT IT IS!

Our lecture last Tuesday was done by Lynda Barry, who Illustrated the book "What it is". It took her ten years on the computer to write it, but she felt she wasn't getting very far. So she chose to hand write her book and start working with her hands. Lynda talked a lot about what makes up an image, the whole book is about trying to define what an image is. She also discussed a lot about thought processes and how your mind works. I almost felt like I was in a Psych class but it was really cool because I enjoy psych. She said that using your hands helps you problem solve in your head, I thought this was very interesting. She was a hilarious speaker and I even got to meet her after the lecture! I asked her what her secret was to singing without moving her lips and she told me how to do it. I waited in line for 40 minutes so I could receive a free copy of her book last week and she signed it. Here I am with the book that she signed for me.

Photoshop Project 2

This time the project was to combine five of our own pictures together to create a new one.

The main face was from my profile reflected in ink. The background is of NYC in central park, the teepee is from a Juicy Couture window display, and the other face in the bottom left is of a sign from South Street.

Photoshop Project

The assignment was to take a photo and change it by placing another object into the image to change the meaning.

patterns&textures

Textures/Patterns

Adobe Illustrator Scanner Smoosh

Computer Projects

The assignment was to create a warning label for myself, then an expressive word, non expressive word and an abstract one by using Adobe Illustrator. My warning label took a lot of time to create the rabbit because it had to be made with a bunch of shapes. I took so much time doing this one that my other few projects weren't as well done. I just messed around and made a cat and a frog out of the letters that make up their words.

Snow

Thursday night I had to leave right after my 3D class to go to a concert and realized that my key was gone. That was really fun running around retracing my steps while my friend's mom was nice enough to drop me off at the concert. I never found my key ah. So now I get to pay 100 dollars to get my lock replaced with a new one and new keys made! Oh well on a better note, I did get to see Minus the Bear at Croc Rock. It was awesome! A lot of violent pushing and such, especially for calmer music like Minus the Bear, but it was definitely worth it.

After watching the video of Chinatown in class, I was pumped to go see the new year festivities in person last weekend . . . and then Philly was buried in a bagillion feet of snow. It was weird seeing that much snow in the city. Philadelphia almost didn't know how to deal with it. There was this group of people outside of their building on Broad clearing the snow away. Which wouldn't be such a weird thing except it seemed that every single employee was outside. There must have been about thirty of them all trying to shovel at the same time, but getting in each other's way. It was pretty funny to watch, more so then the supposed snowball fight on Liacouras. A mass text message was sent out, supposedly every dorm for themselves on Liacouras at 2:30 pm. It consisted of about three people messing around, I was disappointed.

Mondays are usually not so great but I just found out that my 2D class is cancelled for today!!!!! woo hooO!