Scissor Quirk.

Here. Yes, here.

Oh, blog. I miss you.

I just finished up the fall semester of my second year of design school while working full-time and I am wiped. I miss blogging. Writing. Having time to sew stuff. In our still life critique in photo class last week, somebody's feedback was ''you should have a lifestyle blog'' to which I giggled at inside..and then realized how much I miss this place.

I feel like I've kind of outgrown the design of it, though, again. lol.
(Que my husband rolling his eyes).

Just wanted to say hello, and I miss you. And I hope I can change things up in the new year, because I feel like I'm on the cusp of something wonderful. :)

Hope your holiday preperations are going wonderfully, everyone!

That secret dream?

At the risk of sounding nerdy (and I'm down with that), I always wanted to design some rad titles for a movie. Like, have that be my job. :) 

I used to think 'casting' was what it was called. tee hee...

It's pretty much a brdige between what I studied - animation - and what I'm studying now - design - so maybe one day this dream can come true? In the mean time, I'll just keep on geekin' out over awesomely designed credits:

Blue Valentine Title Sequence from Jim Helton on Vimeo.
Hello, bokeh.

Art of the Title rocks, too. Seen it? Go, go!

Autumn is Coming.

Just poking my head out from the middle of a midterm storm to say:

1. It's mid term already?!
2. Are these not the most stunning pictures you've ever seen?

 

 

 

 

Daria Pitak's photos, found here.

They make me want a million freckles. 

I'm researching portraits for my next photography assignment...
Do you have any fave photographers? Please share!

I recently found 500px.com and am pouring over it. :)

Analog: From the Viking Ship, II

A couple more film shots from our outing on the big wooden ship:
Bless you, film photos, for being so easy to blog on busy days...

Love my film camera to bits!!

(And, also, the city I live in...).

These were taken on my Canon AE-1's auto setting, and I'm pretty happy with how they turned out! I'm still trying to grasp manual things like understanding what aperture and shutter speed to use when - lol - it seems simple, but my brain hasn't wrapped itself around it just yet.... :)

It's seriously hard to resist the urge to take film pictures of eeeeverything! I'm going to have to limit myself, since it's way pricey-er than digital. Maybe a roll or two a season, when nothing special is going on? that might be fun, because by the end of the season I'll probably forget what's at the beginning of a roll...he he.

Writing About Design.

Ah! Seems I'm about to be engulfed by homework, this week....lol. :)

But seriously - the first big deadlines are looming, and I'm having trouble figuring out when to fit stuff it. That's the hardest part about working so much is the - oh, I have to book a few hours in the woodshop? In the photo center? At the dentist? When the hell am I going to do that?!

Anyhoo - for Design History class, I have to write a little blog - just a few posts over the next few months in line with what we're learning...

You can pop over here to read my lil bit of for-web academia.

Photo sources in original post.

I've been thinking a lot about handcraft vs. the mechanical age, these days.
And reliance on technology.

I wish we all still lived in villages and made everything by hand... :) he he.

On a nerdy note: I've been dying to write about the lack of useful pockets in women's clothing lately (and the societal issues surrounding that design decision), since I often ride my bike and have nowhere to put my keys to get into work because skirts don't have pockets. Drives me nuts! I'm taking all my critical studies courses next summer, so I'm sort of missing essays right now...lol. Funny, but true.

Just a lil bit of what I've been up to!