i’ve never actually used chat roulette. but on these long lonely nights with too much work to do and a waning interest in netflix,

i consider going on chat roulette purely for the company. currently watching all episodes of weeds.. then going back to miami ink. netflix, could you please add dazed and confusd, i’d really like to watch it.

the end of summer sucks. i promise there will be pictures of stuff on here when i start school. to busy now, not busy enough earlier. working on a music video, you’ll see two of them this october if its in the cards/stars/fate/balhblahb

busy social summer. in bellingham visiting friends and working on a music video. more news/pictures/etc soon. school starts around the 2nd week of september so i’ll have lots to talk about then. ttys <3

so after a week of cleaning, i’m sitting here in my new studio/room watching the last episode of lost and enjoying some cookies. (btw, the last episode is SO EMOTIONAL!)

before/after:

so you might have seen this ratsnest of papers on my desk. that’s a project that starts soon, saving all my original sketches/accumulations, scanning as many of them as i can, archiving them, and making a book for my process binders.

normally, i hate pocket change… but i found this much between my dorm room and my room… pretty intense

shadow seems pretty indifferent to it all though

here are some cool things i found while i was cleaning. had a little photoshoot tonight and will put the rest of the pics up at some point

next on the summer to do list is the website, some other projects, and some experimenting. pretty stoked on this room situation

Step 1 – website sprucing
step 2 – clean room/upstairs and unpack and est. My summer studio/bedroom
step 3 – a series of portfolio builders that you’ll find out about before too long
step 4 – stella and my friends every freaking day

so tonight is my last official night at calarts. i’m not even sleeping here. i can’t believe how fast this year went, it’s just kind of been insane.

it’s been a lot of work, and i’ve learned more than i thought i could in this ammount of time… and since spring break it’s just kind of been all day every day doing stuff, and summer is definitely going to be a sharp contrast just by not being here. but i have big plans nonetheless.

last night was REDICULOUS. calarts is it’s own island in all of santa clarita, and graduation shows the world that. there was a freaking WEDDING during the art school graduation. and after hanging in that courtyard everyday, it looks even bigger being filled with all those people and their families. rest assured, the party afterwards was just as insane and probably went on for hours after i left.

today i’ve been on my feet all day moving stuff and keeping busy. this past afternoon SPEAK! came here and i had a little movie shoot to start off my summer project, another music video for the same guy and i’m SO excited to get started on that.

i’m excited to see everyone most of all though! see you soon!! be back in WA on tuesday or wednesday probably!!!

plus, here’s some end of the year screen cappies

so except for one big project, i’m done for the year!! feels so good

doesn’t feel like a year’s worth of work, but there you have it, i can totally smell summer coming

so our reviews are on monday and i have SO much to do. have to finish revisions on EVERYTHING WE’VE MADE THIS YEAR — and print them, and cut everything and assemble process binders and somehow manage to sleep a little before the review so i’m not completely “buhhhhhhahhhhhhhnuwawacuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh”-braindead.

but i’m working on my monkey-book in class right now. i feel a little like this right now

heres more screencaptures… as much as i can show right now as what i’ve been up to. i promise, there will be more updates as soon as this schedule lights up!

so i’ve been busy, you know… building utah:

we’ve been working on this atlas for about 5 weeks now, and as of two days ago… our teacher decided that it was due on monday. this project is a BEAST.

i have a lot lot lot lot lot lot on my plate right now
but i can almost smell summer.

so i have a class called image making on friday mornings per mentioned previously. we pick a subject and do (200?) iterations of it in every medium you could possibly imagine over the semester.

yesterday we worked on linocuts/image transfers/stencils. i used to do SO many stencils in highschool to spraypaint/iron/etc. almost all my patches were done that way, patches i did for other bands, and friends (good gifts! everyone has something that needs patching!)

so i picked “primates” or “apes” and rediscovered my love for stencils. i did it for a while after class too, just for fun. here are some of the stencils i’m working with (miriam or dante if you read this, remember the evorevo thing i went through.. nothing but monkies all day every day. and yetis)

well the monkey madness is back

so on fridays, we have an image making class, and i get so stoked on drawing i draw for a few hours after the class and i’m calling it fine art fridays. heres some stuff i’ve been making

so tonight was the first real all nighter of BFA2. i was working on a timeline for the 1920s.
screenshots:

so school is fully functional now
we’re working on book covers
i chose chuck palaniuk’s choke
this is one of my covers

lots of parties, lots of germs, lots of events, lots of work to do, lots of friends, lots and lots of music.

this is a little risky cos i haven’t given these to everyone yet whos getting them yet…. but i spent a while making christmas presents for a lot of my friends up here. i had the idea of making something where everyone got an equal gift, but they were still personalized. so there was a holiday zine wrapped in a silk screened poster, with room to write individual notes to each person.

this was probably the most diy/ghetto operation i’ve ever done. starting with a 100W bulb in my closet to expose the screen…

workspace before:

workspace after setup:

unfortunatly, the majority of my supplies are in california or missing… and i barely caught the art supply store before it closed, so i was without a real squeegy (sp?). so i had the pleasure of using the other kind of squeegy…

i only had a small selection of inks, so i started playing with mixing them on the screen directly. got some weird results, but also some things i liked.

then it came time to crop them. but i realized i didn’t have an exacto knife either!! full bleed posters brought to you by the swiss army.

then, knowing my luck as of late, it took about 203904820394 years to print the actual zines. it was a 8 page booklet that folded out into two different posters, so trying to figure out imposition/registration/hp printers that were running out of ink and couldn’t handle certain papers or impossible printer jams at 4 in the morning… but eventually i got them printed.

then it came time to fold/cut and staple them. OH GREAT! no saddle stitch stapler or anything, so it required a good hour or more of handstapling for all 25 (i think that was the total).

but then they were “done” ! or at least the majority of the production. then, it was just a matter of writing everyone’s cards (a spread in the zine) and assembling the poster/zine combo. it looked a little something like this:

now i just have to track everyone down and give them theirs! thanks for all your help santa! NOT! ps. our new dog stella is awfully cute in the tub :]

* ps: Amelia showed me the wonders of teuxdeux

it’s been a while since i posted, so i’ll be brief to cover it all.

1. went home for thanksgiving break.
2. met our new puppy Stella, who is the cutest dog on the face of the planet. she’s perfect.
3. went straight to dinner, lots of old friends
4. lots of parties, lots and lots of friends
5. two connecting flights to burbank, homework the whole time, stressing about how much i had to do
6. stressing 7. stressing 8. stressing
9. monday: packaging ideas
10. tuesday: skipped class to work on essay, but slept in late, shot footage in santa monica for a film due on friday
11. started with 5/15 pages of essay at 6, stayed up till four to end with a final total of 26 pages. that’ll keep the teacher busy…
12. wednesday: find out the assignment due today is due next week all of a sudden, good thing i worked on solely that assignment during thxgiving break.
13. thursday: new assignment in graphic design!!! LABEL PROJECT, stay up late working on film/book due next day.

now i just finished my type homework for tomorrow. i have to make sure i have everything ready to turn into my history class. i have more type for thursday that’s getting more exciting, but managable. we don’t have anything new due on friday for video. but i have to print out 16 booklets for a class project about electricity. that’ll be kindof a bitch.

i recently finished an interview with my all-time favorite artist, Marc Bell. You can view it at www.wearefisk.com (a new project recently started in the program here).

also, my friend Lily from up north was down here for a week, housesitting. i got to see her saturday night, and she’s coming by tomorrow to see my school! it’s really nice to see more WA kids down here. now, PICTURES!

Also, on the left here is a rainbow from today in Valencia, CA. On the right, a double-rainbow from WA this summer i think. now apart from the fact that it gets that rainy in WA, i’d say that rainbow is pretty damn amazing. but just a comparison, which do you like more?

finished my real schoolwork this weekend. so i’ve been working on extra-curricular too. tomorrow’s my only class left this week, then i pack, get on a plane, go to a thanksgiving dinner, sleep, finish history reading, work on 923048029384 projects due when i get back. easy… right?

here’s some packaging i’ve been working on

working at amelia’s house tonight. probably more blog action.

periodical screenshots from working on patterns last night.
there will be more tonight, i have 3 styles (6 patterns / 3 borders) to do, and a product/package to follow for the rest of the assignment.

i’m watching grandmas boy… again, which is hilarious. “i want to get you a black cobra… just to wear around your neck…”

(btw, as of november 9th — it has been 20 years since the berlin wall came down)

also, i sent a friend with money to the dollar store cos i’m pretty devoted to being on campus all day everday, and i got a christmas tree

process

finals for tomorrow’s critique at glorious one in the afternoon. idk why every other class has to start at the crack of OMGMORNING

making stuff pretty this weekend