I’ve been spending farr to much time on this site: Red Universe. I found a camel running around, but then it went away pretty quick. If anyone finds it, let me know. My nephew really loved the “game”, however, I was less than impressed with the actual work shown on the site.
I’m still trying to grasp the implications of what happened to me in the last 12 hours. But let me start at the beginning.
I’ve ofter reffered to 6th quarter as shitty. The amount of work was at times insane. I had serious doubts about my skills as a designer, and whether or not I belonged here. I’ve always kind of had them, but they never were this strong. I did find comfort in Media Arts, and I was considering a full on switch. The main problem was the ridiclous assignment Nicole Riekki gave me. It made absolutely no sense to me, and I wanted out. I went and talked to Hank about media and Nicole’s class. He wasn’t going to let me out of the class. No way. But he agreed that media was a very viable option.
After Mason layed down the law, I got my act together and started producing some work I am extremely proud of, all the while getting more frustrated with Nicole’s type class.
Monday night, I presented my work for Technology as a Creative Medium. I was a great critique. Best ever. My future as an interactive deisgner seemed more secure. I rode this high horse into my print critique. I kind of didn’t care. If it went bad, it wasn’t going to bring me down.
It didn’t go bad. My book for Nicole’s class came together in the final week. I showed it to the panel. I turned through the massive 24 x 18 spreads in total silence. Anne Elser said she almost cired. Gary Weiss said he wished he had created it. Mimi came up afterward and gave me a hug. Even Pretti, who’s class the essential style for the book came from, told me that even my widdows looked great.
Apparently after that, word got around. As Hank was leaving school, he told me that he had heard that I had a great critique, that my book was amazing. We talked briefly about Roger going to Pentagram, and then his last words were “we’ll talk.” A lot to think about.
I had my first critique Monday night. It went super-duper. I’ll post the presentation up here, just as soon as I add some words to it. Otherwise, you might not get it.
Printing sucks. It’s taking me about 20min to print out a single page for my type book. I went with a matte paper, GORGEOUS. I’ve always gone for gloss or photo paper, never again. In fact, I would like to find a way to better bring in matte elements to a screen.
The model’s coming together. The main structure (walls) are almost done. Just need start decorating.
One more thing, I got my plane ticket to L.A. today. I also got one back to ATL. What are the odds? I’ll fill you in on the trip later. But for now, I’m looking forward to heading down to P-town (Pensacola, for all you jerks) on Saturday.
The idea for the widget came from Tim, my buddy from college. He used to listen to this song called 5 O’clock Somwhere. My first attempt was rather Margarittavile-ish. This time, I made it more in what is apparently my “style.” I found a rather drab pic of an office full of cubicles, my idea of a prison (be careful how you put something like that). I saturated the image further to make it look even more depressing. It’s a fun and stupid alternative to the dashboard clock.
Thanks Dashcode:
Wow, it seems like I’ve posted a lot on here this month. I and used to think blogs were just for nerds…
Logos:
Michael Johnson pointed out the other day that I had made a comment in his blog shortly before creating Big Smelly Robot:
If that were the case, eventually we’ll all be taken over by big smelly robots.
I admit, this was the conception of Big Smelly Robot, on his blog. Kind of dirty, isn’t it. Save it, Mike. It’ll be worth money some day.
In 3-D:
In my research, I found infosthetics.com. It’s got some pretty cool shit. Check out this video about Bush. Even if you like Bush, check it out. It’s slick, even though it’s totally got that Adam vibe.
It’s an animated game. The scene changes from day to night based on when it’s played. The villian’s dialogue is based off of news headlines, and the number of bad guys is based off of number of words found.
Here’s a sketch:
Tell me if you get this, so I can know if I need to kill this before I run off too far.
Too vague, maybe?