First thinking-out-loud doodle for Kim. Not so happy with this. I like the odd perspective, but I’m not too happy with Flavia. Rolled up girly jeans made sense to me, especially for riding Gladys- but I can only ever find her in a dress. More doodling required!
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trying spreads again
It helps to see these here; it’s a good record, too. It helped to run in to Hammond Building to scan a few of the sketches. Right now, I’m liking this as a solution. I just have to do more!
after school
This goes before the ones in town. Much closer to what I want.
black point / white point
From September 2012: With a prompt from Taz Tally on lynda dot com I created this file to check the printers I use to find their value range. If you retouch images and try to print them, you might find that regardless of your Photoshop skills, the images always seem to print dark or blow …
design hell – from August, 2010
More old stuff. Opinion, no pictures… Perhaps I should’ve stuck with pictures? My own personal hell would be designing graphics for a committee made up of people who have dabbled a bit themselves with drawing pictures… Socialized art. Socialized design. Shirky describes it in his new book, though he doesn’t use those words. Downplay quality …
Sunday funnies- from January 2009
I think I ran this right after we were told to put a framed copy of the “principles” on the wall. Or maybe I’m confused. Not that confusion is necessarily a bad thing…
the McCloud reading
From November 2010 when our small reading group wrote reaction papers to readings in the New Media Reader. The last reading was a chapter from Scott McCloud’s classic, Understanding Comics and it was in comic format. My response, obviously, needed to be in the same comic format, so I stepped directly into Scott’s work to …
story time…
From June 2008 in direct response to activities in the office I posted this. There’s a popular power phrase that goes something like, “Do it and apologize later.” I take issue with it: it makes your apologies meaningless, and says you don’t stand up for what you believe. Do it. Explain why; and let others …
a children’s fable, with words from Lawrence Lessig
Sadly, my old blog will be going away. As the university transitions from MovableType to WordPress, everything gets dismantled. The files won’t even function as web pages. What to do? Let go, I guess. There are a few posts there that I enjoyed, though. So over the next few weeks, I’ll try to move some …
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pair of socks
Nuts. Yesterday I did errands and completely forgot to stop for black embroidery thread. These things are pretty creepy the way they are.