Concepts

I was really excited today to see that Conceptshare.com finally went live. They have been in beta for quite some time. I think concept share could be a very valuable tool for any designer. To give Team Coleman a leg up on the competition I started a workspace on Concept Share, so for my fellow team members look in your cruiser e-mails for the invite. My team members will be able to log in and look at my magazine design and actually critique it online. You can circle areas and make comments on what needs to be changed etc etc. I thought Team Coleman would be a great project to try this out on.

In other news. Today was Special K's birthday. We went to Kotos to eat, even though I am quite sick of Japanese food.

In Need of the CSS

I have noticed that in some of the web reading that I have done lately, CSS has been mention in correlation with something that designers need to learn. The following are examples:

@ Andy Budd - Look under the Specialise heading -> Middle of the second paragraph.

@ Graphic Push - Look under #3 at the bottom of the paragraph.

It seems that CSS is becoming another skill that designers need to have in order to more flexible in their workplace.

Quadra Lapsis

Had a bit of a off and on day today. Ate lunch with my mom and my sister. I really hate what happened. We went and ate ate Smokehouse, which I usually love even though the service there has gotten quite bad. They brought my food out and what do you know there are three hairs on my plate. Grossed me out. It took forever for the waitress to return so that I could inform her that I had a side order of hair that I didn't order. Really put a bad stamp on the ol' Smokehouse. Because they had to remake my order we were all late leaving so hence I didn't make it to my evening class (sorry Team Coleman) I would have been in there for 5 mins and would have had to leave.

On a positive note, I finished my back page ad for Team Coleman. It's ready to be reviewed by the team members. A.D. is off on a cruise for the rest of the week. Douche. I hope he has a lovely time. Douche. Wish I could have gone. Last night the Deftones played in Winston. I had to work as usual. Pisses me off thinking about it. Sorry. That was negative of me.

Lovely reading for the lovely.

Graphic Push - Resume Tips for Designers

Ghost-folio

I have misplaced some of my mounted pieces. As Lily noted today, I was a bit on the edge. Very straight to the point. I get like that when my list of things to do gets full. I just don't have time to put the nice little emphasis on things like normal. Also wanted to send another thank you to Lily for the movie package. Keep loves it. He's watching it right now.

Thanksgiving action days are coming up. I say this because I will be working 8-9 hour days everyday but Thanksgiving. So I have no idea when I'm supposed to get anything that is important in my life done. The family will be heading to Virginia while I stay back and work and redo our kitchen floor.

As for the good news, Kephren was selected for his grade as the terrific student of November. The presentation will start at 9:15am tomorrow so if anyone from Team Coleman reads this ( I may be late to the 10:00 class). I can't tell you how proud I am of him.

Blocks on string.

Lily made Keph a necklace with his name on it. He loves it Lily, thank you. I found the sketch above today while looking through summer sketches. I had forgot about this one. I drew this from my minds eye, so I guess this is how I see myself, lol. So I scanned it in and added color a while ago. Gots the saggy pants syndrome going on.

What beautiful weather we are having. I came home and opened all the windows, cranked up the music and worked on several projects including English. On a day like today I like to listen to stuff like Duncan Sheik. I've basically ran the new Deftones into the depths of my ears so I need something on the opposite end of the spectrum.

Finished the BOM Ad campaign. Our last GD II project was announced yesterday. I was also grouped with D., Lily, and Loni. Great group. Team Coleman. I'm excited about this project too. The budget adds a whole new element which I love. Basically we have 750,000 for advertising and such. Team Makita has already been talking smack, so the design war has begun. Hey Team Makita, get your own products and stay out of our GRILL.

Winston Philly Creme

Traveled to Winston today. Ate at the Hero house which was good but not as good as in the past. Then picked up a couple dozen Krispy Kremes. Hmm Hmm Snap those are good. Above is a logo I created for Macking. Not sure why but I did and now its done so there ya go. Because you know.... Macking Makes Sense. I want to get a shirt with the M and the circle on the front and then the "macking makes sense" across the back. May have to call screen printers unlimited to see how much a thermal print of that would be.

Hello Koto

Beach Bum complete w/ floaty-tube

Had good times in photography class while we watched and helped other people shoot their lighting shots. I got violated a few times while on the runway but that is to be expected in my line of modeling. Lily gave me madd cash for filling in for her in tutoring. Honestly did not expect or want to take it but she insisted. Thanks Lily.

Hit Kotos for lunch with A.D. and D. and got shafted on the helping of carrots. Broke out my Nikon N80 today but didn't really shoot any. I plan on bringing it back Wednesday and ripping off a few shots. During GD II, Dangerous V watched me manipulate the little cardstock man in some sweet dance postions. I also practiced my Napoleon D. dance moves. I think I pulled a hemmy.

The Village Lunch

Had a great lunch today with Vic, Lily, and Loni. I really like how the air is quite crisp at times. My kind of weather. Received new assignments in photography class. The journalism assignment should be interesting. The other assignment should be cool as well. I just have to some location and subject scouting. A subject or place that will be suitable for a large collage. I have always wanted to print out a series of 8x10's to place on the wall in a collage format to make one huge image.

Some linkage to check out:
Chromasia [great photography]
Newstoday [neat little design/art news area]

Saturday Night Wrist

So here it flows. For the current book project I'm torn between doing a story of my own or Sleepy Hollow. The pics above are some sketches I did for a story that I made up about a kid who does the same thing everyday at the beach until one day he becomes a hero when he finds a lost bikini top in the water. He struggles what to do with the top, in ways that kids would use a garment, such as putting it on his head and acting like a pirate or using it as a bag for sea shells etc. all the while a woman is somewhere in the water topless. In the end he realizes what he must do and is the hero of the day when he saves her from total humiliation. I ran it by keph and he thought it was funny. So what chu guys think?

Also today is very special for me because I gotz the new Deftones album entitled Saturday Night Wrist. The longer you know me the more you will learn how much I admire the 'Tones and their music. They are hands down my overall fav. So far track 3 titled Beware is my favorite track. I'm all smiles with a neck ache from moving around too much.

Brunettes on the Cat Walk

Crazy day today. Lots of fun shooting with the photography crew downtown at the parking decks. Turns out V is like a natural super model and didn't tell anyone. TJ you lucky son of @#$%*. Shot in the lower decks for a while and then we headed out for some deep south BBQ at the Smokehouse. Over lunch the conversation was split between the newly assigned book project and naughty naughtyness of the naughty kind. I was talking about book binding myself. Lily had to leave early for work. I was thinking today how I never get to hang with Lily any more. Miss me some Lily.

After lunch we went to class where we were attacked by a wee man that liked kung fu and river dancing. Freaked me out kind of. He just kept looking at me with this crazed look on his face. Shat started making out with him and so that calmed the wee man down a bit.

We worked in class but it seemed one of those days were you get nada done because everyone was so wound up. A.D. and I ended the class by watching various videos on YouTube. It was a grand day indeed.