Going to the chapel, and I am NOT getting married

Hey, early weekend update. I will be headed to the Aug (Augusta) after class on Friday to go to my step-sister's wedding on Saturday. I haven't gotten to see the fam the entire time I have been in Atlanta so I will be excited for the reunion, as well as seeing Ashley get married off and start her own journey. Also, I will be bringing a friend of mine home with me. Her name is Jessica and she will be getting the chance to meet some of my family. I am excited about the weekend. Get out of the city for a couple days, but I will return to the A-T-L saturday night to get caught back up on homework. 

Also, my cut paper poster is COMPLETE! I stuck the text on earlier this week, put the plexi glass over it all and framed that sucker up. Its a bit surreal but it's nice to see my first complete deliverable of the quarter. By deliverable, I mean finished piece that I will take with me into critique at the end of the quarter. 

Hope all is well and more to come!

Seeing the light...

I am starting to see the light at the end of the 1st quarter tunnel. Feeling like I have been here for about a year, these past 5 weeks have been a whirlwind of loads of homework, projects, trips to kinkos, outings with friends and lots of coffee and energy drinks. Oh, and did I mention the extreme lack of sleep I am having to endure as well. All that being said, I am having the best time of my life. The mania of learning in the art world is indescribable and is a great outsource of creativity and emotion. I have worked on some awesome projects, and are still perfecting those. The goal is to be introduced to these projects and spend the quarter creating them, and using studio week to perfect them to make sure they are perfect for critique week. I attached a couple shots of my cut paper poster, which is basically an advertisement for an Aboriginal Penguin exhibit at the St. Louis Zoo. The trick is, there is no ink allowed by any means, it is completely created out of cutting out different shades of gray paper. Basically you become best friend with the xacto knife and you begin to master your craft. The other was based on a tracing of a picture, that went through scanning, a bit of photoshop touch up as well as illustrator work. My logo can be found in the bottom right and the text behind me is some that I wrote in using my Wacom graphics tablet. I also have the New York skyline in the background, as well in my glasses. It was definitely one of the most enjoyable projects since we did it completely in class. With my buds in flowing some Explosions in the Sky, and working in complete darkness, it was a relaxing time for innovation and filtering out some of the stress that has built itself to quite a mass from the past weeks.

We have also had some incredible seminars, which is where the school meets each Thursday mornings at 10 and have a speaker from different studios around the nation come and share with us what they do, and basically give you the idea of possibly working for them if thats where the Portfolio Center path leads you. Frog Design, an interactive design agency based in places such as San Francisco, New York, Amsterdam and Shanghai. After picking my jaw off the floor, I found that this could possibly be a job for me when I get out of here in two years. I spoke with another agency called Brew Creative based in Minneapolis, which have worked with such clients as BMW. Check their site out at www.brew-creative.com. I wrote the creative director an email of just basic interest and showing my gratitude for his presentation, also throwing my portfolio so far in there. You never know what will happen as far as jobs go, and all these agencies know we are basically incubating at this point in our life, and are going to be incredible creatives when we graduate. Alright, all I got for now. Hope everyone is well and I may see some of you soon. 

Pulsing

Hey, still alive. New entries to come, just have been sort of limited on time lately. Things are absolutely amazing right now though so no worries!

Skipping class

Sitting here in Typography Fundamentals and thought what better time to catch up on my blog entries. School is going AMAZING. It's tons of work but it also is a lot of knowledge which is just molding us into better creatives. Some of the time I feel like I am in an advanced summer camp after we have finished working with glue and finger paint, but really the stuff we have made is pretty interesting and gets our minds flowing. It is all about mind expansion. In the future when we're working for whatever company we are employed by, we may have some type of design block and can think back on some of these projects and will probably shoot us right out of our bunch. This class I am in currently basically is 4 hours of font lecture. Although that may sound boring to some of you, which sometime it is hard to sit through at 8:00 am, I find it very interesting and know it will assist in my skills. Alright, that's all you get for this time. We have first quarter party this weekend, which is basically a big house party that the second quarters throw for us. It's 80's theme so it should be a lot of fun, and a much needed stress reliever. Alright, buhbye

Portfolio Center so far...

Hey everyone, long time no talk. Alright, so my experience here in Atlanta at Portfolio Center is nothing short of chaotic and the most overwhelming thing I have ever encountered. But you all know that, speaking from the past entries, so time to look at the positives. I have made a ton of new friends, including people all from my quarter as well as upper quarter people. I have made a point to do some sort of social outing everyday so that I don't go crazy nor get burned out on this stuff. Its hard work, but completely doable and very rewarding.

Friday night I was invited to a drinking break over at my friend Hayley's place, who also lives here in Colonial Homes (the PC dorms basically.) Virginia and Jessica came as well, who are room mates and also live here. As they sipped their red wine and I drank my six pack, we all got to have some great conversation just discussing all the nutty stuff that has been packed into our tight extremely short schedules. As the drinks continued, so did our depth of conversation, which became pretty humorous. But it was really cool to connect to these people who are going to be like family for the next 2 years, and as I can already see really cool and fun friends.

Saturday, went to a party at an upper quarter student's house off of Roswell. This was an awesome opportunity for me to meet some more upper quarter people which really helps from the advice they give us of how to deal with this ridiculous load. After a couple drinks there, I headed home to work strenuously to get some work knocked out. 

Sunday, I ended up working from 10:30 am to 5:30 am straight, except for a friend coffee break from 9-11 that night. I made a deal with myself that I could sleep once I finished all the work from one of my classes, which I did indeed. So I slept from 5:30 to 9:30, feeling great I got up and dove into more work. I can definitely feel my work ethic positively changing and fast.

We had seminar up at school Monday night and had Frog Design come in to speak. They are here recruiting and they are an interactive design company, based all over from san fran, nyc, austin, to shanghai and the newest in Amsterdam. Very overwhelming to talk to people that could potentially hire me and send me to one of those places. Crazy, but freakin awesome.

Anyways.

Tonight we had a party over at Binders, which is where most of my loan money will go over the next 2 years. It is an art supplies store and the point of tonight was to show us around, but I have already been there 6 times this week. 

OOOO, I almost forgot. I tagged along last night on some friend's homework assignment to attend the Claremont, which is the oldest gentlemen's club in Atlanta. To me, that equalled the nastiest sketchiest place I have ever attended. Needless to say, it needs to be experienced. 

Alright, thats all I have energy to write now. I'll update you more later. I have a ton of stuff still to do. Back to class at 8 in the morning

Skippin the zzzzz's

Hey guys, first all-nighter and only a week in. I have a feeling I will be doing this very often this quarter. I have been working straight since 10:30 AM this morning on this particular project besides the 2.5 hour coffee break I had with some fellow student friends around 9 tonight. I am tired yet driven, and I know what I have to finish. Thanks for everyone's support. I should be sponsored by the Full Throttle energy drink, because God knows I have invested plenty of money to their company so far.

Checking for a pulse...

Hey guys, sorry about the length of time since I have visited. I am in a HUGE hole buried in the most intense and quantitative art work I have ever been involved with. I will give a huge update soon of everything I have worked on, just as soon as I figure out exactly what I am working on. Right now its just a jumbled up mess of notes containing vocabulary that is completely foreign to me. I'll surface eventually, but until then, wish me luck. Thanks