A shift in the winds

Let me explain my hiatus...it has been creative crunch time.  This means I have slept like I slept back when I was a college athlete and eaten in the same way, without the working out, and just staring at a computer screen and a light desk.  Not a good combination.  However, I learned a lot about myself.  I really don't think it is my calling to be an art director.  After realizing how much time I spent researching these ads and trying to find insights, and at the encouraging of both my professor and critiquers, I am an account planner. What does this mean for my life?

1. I will hopefully sleep a little more.

2. I get to explore and learn about people

3. I can't as easily get away with wearing pajamas to work.

This seems like a good compromise...so bye bye Leo Burnett (though still cool guy), hello Stanley Pollitt!

Magnum Opus

You know when Charlotte is about to die and she tells Wilbur about her "magnum opus" Well, baby this may be one of mine.  The assignment was to draw a guitar in illustrator.  And I think I tore that bad boy up.  And I made it my own with some Reba and pink.  All of this is with the pen tool.  And yes, my ego is a bit inflated.

Is it your day, month, week, year?

We pause in this creative session to bring you an update.  I am no longer a Friends virgin.  I know what "The Rachel" is, the definition of "nubbin", and am frequenting coffee shops, and I dream of "smelly cat." This is exciting.  You see, I have been rather ill lately, and my roommate had season one, and it was all downhill from there.  Friends is great.  Though, there is too much sex for my taste (I'm still a disney kid) I can't stop watching it.  And I have the peculiar urge to swim in fountains.  I may only be on Season 4 (no spoilers!) but I have learned so much.  Your friends are your family, follow your dreams, it all works out.  These are such simple lessons but I think that I take them for granted.  So I offer you this pledge:

On my honor, I will try

To be carefree like Joey

Open to new experiences like Phoebe

Love like Ross

Follow my dreams like Rachel

Laugh like Chandler

And Clean like Monica (I said try)

But most of all, I'll be there for you.

Addictions

I have discovered that I have an incredibly addictive personality.  This is a problem, or is it?  It seems that I am always chasing one hobby after another just to decide which is "me."  My latest hobby?  Rollerblading.  And yes, there is a story: In elementary school I was a "baller" rollerblader.  I was that first grader that was beating all the fifth graders at the skate parties.  Then, I learned about boo-boos.  My friend Jill broke her wrist in the 3rd grade...rollerblading.  My empathetic self was devastated.  So I quit.  But lo and behold.  When I was packing for my new apartment, my Dad's old skates turned up, and I stole them.  So today I decided to be adventurous.  Did I fall? Yes, but once.  Will I go out again soon?  I hope so.  There is nothing like the rush of a new hobby.  Sewing out, athletics in.

Beans, beans

This assignment was fun.  Why?  Because I did it in a coffee coma, and it was about coffee (yes, my humor is still in the coma).  One thing that I made special was the coffee beans in the cup instead of coffee, still, I wish I could make it look better, it looks a little too "photoshoppy" for my tastes, but it looked even more weird when I cut out the beans.  There is only so much manipulation one can do.

KABAM!

So with my dabblings in the adobe arts I have landed myself a graphic design job, which I love!  And I made this application for an upcoming event.  Check it out!  This is photoshop/indesign.

Square Effects

So this production assignment was one that really threw me for a loop.  And also caused me to be openly ridiculed by my professor due to my file size.  Why was it 4X bigger than my classmates?  I think I will just call it "creative genius"