Blog is back!

After much consideration, I've decided to resurrect my blog. I think I had let it die because I found it difficult to post with all the craziness of school and the idea of an online diary started to seem weird to me. I mean, everyone can read your thoughts which a lot of times I didn't think about and started to seem creepy to me. But my New York Design Study Tour class has been keeping a blog for several weeks and it's peaked my interest in my own blog once again. Since its the class' blog, I can't post random thoughts...they've all got to be connected to new york and the class. So my blog is back! I think I'm going to open up the topics to more design and art subjects and post visual examples of things that I like.

Events coming up:

On April 27th, our campus will be hosting the Helvetica documentary for all of Los Angeles. For those who don't know, Helvetica is a very popular typeface that came about 50 years ago, which is why the event is in celebration of its anniversary/birthday. Helvetica is used everywhere basically. If you haven't noticed, designers are very nerdy people, but I've embraced that and acclimated to the design culture. As members of the AIGA student board, we've gotta go to the screening and work, but that's ok with me because afterwords they're having a cake that spells out Helvetica and a cool afterparty.



Due this tuesday is the Key Art Awards student submissions. The key art awards honor film designers and they offer a student competition where they send out images of 3 films from that year and you make either a trailer or poster. I decided to make a trailer because I'm crazy. But I'm interested in editing and really wanted to practice making trailers, so if mine sucks and I don't win then at least I can say I've had the practice. The 3 films are Walk the Line, Brokeback Mountain, and Pirates of the Caribbean 2. I chose pirates. I am putting the finishing touches on my trailer today and tomorrow, but I like the look of it so hopefully it'll do well. I'll try to post a version here if I can soon.

I also went to the senior seminar art show last thursday. It was cool to see everyone's work up in a real gallery space, but I did feel a little left out because I took senior seminar last semester and we didn't get to put our work in a show. Although we did do a lot of work on professional preparation which I found to be a pretty good tradeoff. I guess there's not time to do both.


Try to find me in this photo. It's in front of one of the gallery spaces.


Designers, hooray!