one crit. left!

dino

the stop animation done by two friends of mine. MAD PROPS to them.
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bates111/arted/Movies/DinoDone.mov

for fun

http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/9lo59/random_thoughts_from_people_our_age/

a snack and two fun finds

As a unit, my room mates and I all share a common love of pickles and strawberries

He was on a cupcake in a wrestling themed student art show!!!!

Elise found this actually, and it made me smile all day, not at the killing part,
but at the composition as a whole.

TYPE

ecause I love typography I have three links to share.
These links have consumed my eyes and mind space and are quite enjoyable when bored. I particularly love the we love typography website. 486 pages of typography art? AWESOME.


1. the daily drop cap
http://om.ly/IxaT

2. we love typography
http://welovetypography.com/

3. typophile intro



enjoy!

so my very first TYPOGRAPHY assignment was to create 3 separate compositions using only type (futura light in my case). So yeah, pirate, ninja, cowboy all out of type, including the glyphs. The images in the circles/o's just reference what that character does. Ninjas sever body parts for instance, and so forth and so on. This is still not quite done, but should be soon.

Greatest job in the history of my life.

THE GREATEST CUTTY-THING EVER. I miss it

Over the summer I had the most amazing summer job. I was an ASSISTANT PAPERMAKER for my old mentor who was finishing (or attempting to get closer to finishing) an artist book edition.

First and foremost, this was epically awesome because I got to spend the summer with Sarah, who is the greatest.

Second reason this was awesome was because I got to spend the summer working at MCBA, the most awesome place on the planet.


And OH YEAH, MAKING PAPER AS A PAID JOB is the final reason my summer job was epic.

There are many, MANY other reasons this was the best job of my life thus far. I went to the farmers market nearly every Saturday and ate momo's on the steps of the Guthery. I was introduced to 'This American Life' and 'The Splendid Table' on mpr. I now own rain boots that are covered in pieces of chocolate. I know the basics of paper casting and I discovered the HALF OFF shelf in the store !!!


Wonderfully sarcastic jokes were spoken and schedules were decided on a whim. I think I made approximately 300 pure cotton blocks for the pages of Sarahs book. My fingers got pruny, I had elbow aches (yes, they happen apparently) and in the end I got to see them stacked up and beautiful, with the type glued on and I would raise my arms in triumph and say "Yeeesssssssssss!" and be damn proud of myself for about three days after the fact. Then I would realize that I had more to do and the process would repeat its self.

I think I will miss the total atmosphere of my work the most. Especially as I return to food court work here are school.

For those of you out there if you ever need a new place to visit and learn new things or just to go and explore, check out MCBA (Minnesota Center for Book Arts) in Minneapolis .























upper level paper studio where most of my time was spent. BEAUTIFUL room.






















tall tables room MY AWESOME STACKS OF CASTS








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Repeats and the hydraulic press (aka the bane of my existence):

Doodles!

hop

Amazing Pants Dance

fat cat

smudged type notes

Intro to theater notes

As the school year starts up for me, I find that my doodles have improved epically since last year. I think that that is directly connected to the face that I now have a 3 hour womens studies class from friggin 5pm to 8 pm. TOO LONG I TELL YOU! but as I said, at least my doodles ar improving.

finished cards

All right! these are my cards. most were done between 12:30 in the afternoon and 4 am. some of the pictures turned out funny, but I think you can tell what the animal is.

Trading card update

Alright, so this
is my only finished card. As you can see it is a crow and a face and a red thing. The red thing is a piece of road kill that actually flips down over the humans face. The next picture shows it better.



They all get to be eating some kind of scavenged thing that hides the human face.


Ok, here we have the flipped down crow version and two of my sketched out cards. The first card is a marabou stork and the second is, well, a fox.




THESE ARE MY MATERIALS!
(not including the alligator or the soccer ball.)

Choice Amnicon pics

These are some of my favorite pictures from our amnicon trip with LCM (Lutheran Campus Ministry) They are mostly from the tent raising and the canoe trip but theres also a shot of lake superior and the stupidest red squirrel ever.