Trade Secrets....

Because I didn't think either of these things were good enough, so I decided to upload BOTH.

For the first secret...did I even spell that right? I'm so freaking tired I can barely concentrate on one thing...we have this confession of HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIR. If there is one style that I have been bombarded with over the past few weeks...months...days...its THIS. I don't even know if this crap has a specific name or whatever but damn it...I love it, I want it, but I can't have it for...VARIOUS reasons, reasons that shall remane with me since they are a little too personal but yes....I wish I had a hair cut like this.

Also, why YEEEES there is a picture of a humanized Rainbowdash in this picture somewhere. I've been seeing people draw her with the EXACT same style that I want that its been driving me insane. Furgh, maybe this should be a finals present to myself but at this point...I don't know.

And now for the second secret....I CAN NOT SPELL!

No, that's not it. Its THIS;

Why can't I just fucking go here? Its not even THAT far from Indy but no. Every time I get a chance to go there, something comes up to rip that chance away from me and, as expected, I HAAAAAAAAAAAATE it. HATE it SOOOOO much. I want to go to New York City to badly that I often worry that if I ever do get a chance to go, it will be too late or some other bullshit. The project I am working on for Capstone is SET in New York City and I can't even go. How fucking sad is that? Its gotten to a point where I would possibly allow myself to be thrown in a duffle bag and sit in a van and endure the trip up there just to see the sights. THAT'S how DESPERATE I am to at least get away and go somewhere I want to go to so badly.

Just...to see something new.

So yes, New York and new hair...I think this is pretty small compared to what a lot of people might share. :I

Garbage in, Garbage Out

So we had to bring in some trash to class and see if we could make art from it. Sound easy enough....or is it?

Well, let's just say that everything began NORMAL.

So after we were out into groups, we had to decide what to do with our trash. For the most part, we chose things that looked cool; an old pot, a pizza book, some old computer parts and so on. With THESE things, we were supposed to come up with something unique and new, much like how trash was turned into art in the film that we saw.

So...what can we do with said parts?

YOU CAN DO THE FOLLOWING!

1. Mercilessly destroy the keyboard! (hardcore guitar riff in the background)
I mean, take the thing and just break it like there is no tomorrow. If there were such a thing as PETE (People for the Ethical Treatment of Electronics) they would have been on our asses in a second. Keys were flying everywhere, the entire thing cracked. By the time it was over and everyone had more or less stripped the entire thing, you would have gone' Keyboard? This was a keyboard?'

2. Take said parts from the broken keyboard and then try to put them back together.
Eh...yeah, this didn't work so well.

3. Construct a modem from a pizza box.
Remember back in the day when laptops were HUGE. What the fuck am I talking about, they're STILL huge. Bad example but imagine a keyboard the SIZE of a pizza box...and it could do EVERYTHING that even the most powerful computers on this planet could do and MORE!

Wait, why am I getting your hopes up? That could NEVER happen....

3. Need a screen? USE A LISENCE PLATE!
Now in 3,000 colors and a cool HOLOGRAPHIC image when you move your head back and forth!

4. A cardboard box from a generic brand of cereal makes for a wonderful earth-friendly monitor!
Except when that earth-friendly stuff doesn't fit into the damn computer. Um, how is a laptop supposed to work when the screen is smaller than the keypad? Um...hello? Anyone?

Add this together and you get one...weird looking device...or something.

:|

Getting all the randomness out of the way, there was a lesson in this and that was working on your toes. We were given all this trash but no real clue as to what to do with it. In life and in your career, you meet head on into things like this sometimes where the only thing you have IS your wits as well as your imagination.

For the last portion of my KIB project with Team Building I felt this way; so I have to make a poster....but I have no real idea HOW to. I think I suck at anything that's related to Adobe but I KNOW I have to use it. Its what my degree is going for and damn it, even if Adobe crashes every time my fingers go within an inch of the mouse, I couldn't let it beat me! So I took the info I was thrown, came up with some ideas...and with some help from Beth and my team members, I was able to create something from nothing and/or tidbits of stuff.

And this was the final result.

So if there is anything I picked up from the trash lesson, its this...you can create things out of random stuff, even if you think its useless. Granted, that stuff you make might not be able to FUNCTION perfectly, but you CAN make something.

Extra Credit

By this point, I am EXHAUSTED. I am so tired of...EVERYTHING that I seriously don't know if I can last three more weeks...but I have to.

Anyway, my role in this newest project is to come up with a traditional media poster for our KIB project. I had some ideas....but they're just not getting there. I know this is supposed to be a mock up before the final draft but god damn does it suck, if only because I'm trying despertly not to do a flat vector for the poster. I wanted to do something more welcoming, soft, and earthy but the end results....just weren't that great. I did some pen experiments for the path and the hills but other than that, I can't get anything, if only because I can't think of anything cool to do with the PATH theme we're working with here.

Here's my attempt to get PAINTERLY with photoshop...and it sucks;

Like I said, it looks like crap and I'm going to try it again before I pass out...again...and again...and again.

Crap, I can't get this to work.

And finally, a real conclusion...

So its been two weeks since I posted my fear assignment when I realised that I could have used something but....but then I realized that would have been WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too personal to share so in the end I am glad I did the entire 'I'm scared of posting this review thing!' idea I had.

Just to let you know, someone commented on it...but it was the only comment on. Nonetheless, there was some disccusion, yada-yada, but we did concluded that entire 'guy gets his head cut off on a roller coaster' thing was the most fucked up and BEST way to get readers into your series.









Too bad its been like....12 YEARS since that and the series is still going on. No shit, I have 40 VOLUMES of this crap in my room right now and the REAL number is 60. I am BEGGING that this man ends this crap because I can't take it anymore! ;3;

But anyway, there is still three final things to do to conclude this project and that is...ANSWERING MORE QUESTIONS! OF COURSE!

Discuss the experience/presentation from class which you responded to most strongly, be it yours or someone else's. 


  1.    What was it and who did it?
Drawing on a person of course! Okay, this is horrible on my part but I felt that of all the presontations that I saw, this really was the one I responded to the most, if only to draw stupid crap on this poor girl. Okay, it wasn't stupid but let's say she had some guts to allow someone to draw on her.

Wait, not someONE. EVERYONE.

I don't know but there just has to be something said about a fear presentation in which someone actually allows others to WRITE ON THEM.

    2.    Why did you respond to it so strongly?
As I explained, mostly because of how we were given PERMISSION to basically make a human sketch pad and encouraged to do so. Also, I just wanted to see if I could make something that looked cute as well.

    3.    How does it impact how you see your own project?
Well, it made me realize that I could have done something other than a text project when I'm sure no one even read (yeah, Goggle alerts me to that so I know people haven't been paying attention to this shit.) All in all, though my project was different there was that same sense of getting your fears out of the way and seeing that it isn't as bad as you think. Granted, I only had to read something in front of people, not have others draw on me.


Pfft, I think my fear project was small potatoes compared to others but considering I lead an almost brain-numbingly uneventful life, it makes sense that my fear is stupid anyway.


I have to say that another fear I had is over though and that was the fear of not being able to complete this assignment. 


DONE.