Help!

Part of the reason why I started this blog was to learn more about creating websites through html and just the basics of how a simple page works. So keeping this in mind, this page will be a random list of postings with time to time design changes. Just experimenting. I know. I am really late in the world of creating websites. Maybe that's why I don't have a myspace page. I hate myspace. That being said, I am having trouble deleting the box border around the title! This is supposed to be really simple! Yet I'm having trouble finding it. talk about computer illiteracy... you must think I'm an idiot.

Ripe Fruit Sticker

Dude! REally??!!! What the crap! Why, oh why, did I not invent this? REally! I could have been a billionaire princess living in a gianormous castle in Wales by now! Why!!!!! It's moments like these where I feel like a complete failure! A sticker! A stupid little measly sticker that can tell the difference between ripe or unripe! Gah! Too bad it's already patent pended! Grrrrr!!!!! Meh.

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Chuck Close

Urg. In a few more hours, it will be Monday. I'll be back at work, doing the same thing every single day of my freaking life. Weekends pass by way too quick. Well, I have nothing much to say today, I think I will turn this into a link blog about anything and everything that I find interesting. Probably won't be of any interest to anyone else. Oh well. I probably have 0 readers. Ha. And I'm right again.

If anyone reading this blog happens to find out that the Chuck Close exhibition is in your town, I highly recommend going to see this exhibition. His work is amazing, you get to see his painstaking, super long process of printmaking, from etching to lithography. I was thoroughly amazed at his process and how much planning he has to go through to get a print. Every second counts, down to the nanosecond, if that exists. He plans it all out with massive time charts and blueprints of the prints themselves, with huge, monstrous copper plates that are etched. They say it takes him sometimes about 2 years just to make a master. Take your time going through the exhibition, it's very interesting. I enjoyed the fingerprint portraits and also the torn paper portraits the most although those were probably the easier ones for him to compose. Really really magnificent show. I have great admiration for his enduring process and technique as an artist. A+
Chuck Close: Process & Collaberation
Interview with Chuck Close, May 14, 1987


detail of Georgia (torn paper technique)













Franny (thumbprint technique)

School is not cool.

Hmmmm... Sorry if these postings are a little too sarcastic at times. I'm a "Debbie Downer" for now and you'll just have to deal with it cause this is my blog. haha. Anyway, more rants! Yay! My rant for today is about school! School is not cool! It seems like anyone these days can do graphic design. Just go to a technical training school for a couple of weeks and "waa laa" you're an instant graphic designer! yay. So basically I wasted 4 1/2 years of my life in college to get a job doing something that anyone can do as long as you have money to get some training in some programs. what joy. really. And I'm not even doing any design at all, I'm doing instruction manuals, I have no training in this at all. wow. this is a-m-a-z-i-n-g kids! So remember, the next time you're reading instruction manuals, you might just find a subliminal message IHATEGRAPHICDESIGN that I wrote and some badly worded instructions that make no sense whatsoever.

Subliminal message t-shirt time.
"I'm awesome!"

Tough cookie.

I love cookies. Don't get me wrong but cookies are all based on the same basic formula. Sugar. Flour. Butter. etc. This is your basic cookie. Production design is just like that cookie. Production design really is not design at all. Basically it's a factory line. You have a template, and you just follow that template...for the rest of your "designerly life" that you had no idea that existed. and you know the chocolate chips and the many flavorings? Those count as the many stickers, callouts, starbursts, you know what I mean. I know you've been there. You're boss wants 15 million callouts, starbursts, banners because, "Why is there so much white space?" "We need to fill it in as much as possible." "I'm not paying for empty space!" And now, you can't even see your product after you're done. Yessss... It's a cookie cutout world and you're just another cookie...with a "Now 500x more nuts!" banner across you.

More or less...I think so.

Hello. I have a neurotic love/hate relationship with graphic design. Most days are more hate than love to tell you the truth. I'm burnt out with this profession and yet I just graduated not too long ago... Did I pick the wrong profession? I am still contemplating this...