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chip Kidd

Chip Kidd was the best lecture I've gone to this far at tyler. His failed attempts were pretty funny, I really liked the fact he could just show them to a room full of people even though they weren't accepted by different publishing companies. I really enjoyed all the stuff from bat-manga, and the terribly awesome 8th-man cartoon. I think what I liked best about chip kidd was that he looks like a super villain you would see in one of the comic books he obsesses over.

Photoshop Assignments

Heres some stuff!

Lichtenstein Style Self Portrait

I'm not really feeling the text bubble, but it didnt seem right without it. The dots were easy but a grid sometimes appears when you view it because its such a detailed pattern that this blog site messes up the image, the grid doesn't appear when you view the image except on blogspot.

Self Portrait

Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein was a prominent American pop artist that rose to fame in the 1960s. Hes known for his comic book style paintings and sculptures. Through the 70s and 80s he worked on surreal are but is still know mostly for his work in pop art.

Waking Life

Waking Life is an interesting film that I feel would work neither as singularly an animated film or just a live action motion picture. The style of the film fits brilliantly with its content: complex philosophies are made understandable through an excellent presentation, simple imagery and stories that any one can relate to. Another movie employing almost the same animation style that I recently saw was A Scanner Darkly, and the plot seemed like it had very little necessity for the animation style that it shared with Waking Life, and it was more of a distraction than what it did for Waking Life.

old stuff

from last week because i was locked out of my account
and all these colors are off and black is missing

kat

Family Illustration

Jille's Websites

1000 journals was the most appealing to me, I've checked out Moleskine's site on sketchbooks before and I really like the idea of these hundreds and hundreds of unappreciated works floating around the internet populating sites like this and flickr.

Ordinary comics is nice in the realm of one-a-day comics. Personally my favorite daily comic strip is achewood.com. I feel like that website has some of the funniest things in the world happening in any type of media, and it has probably the crappiest drawings I've ever seen.

And OSXdaily is cool because it inadvertantly showed me how to rip dvds from tristan onto my cell phone.

Extra Crelvetica

I've seen most of Helvetica before when my friend Perry downloaded it on itunes one day. I like the film alot, especially the way it not only focuses on the font itself and what it did for visual design, but mostly how it showed some great characters in the world of typography. I don't really think I would sit down to watch an 80 minute movie on typeface again, but the way some of these designers are almost perverted in their appreciation of Helvetica is pretty enjoyable. The film was really well paced, and the scenes flashing different examples of Helvetica all over major cities are almost hypnotic. And the score is awesome.


whenever I think of Helvetica, one particular instance never leaves my mind, and thats on the cover of the Chuck Klosterman novel Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0743236017.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

ikea overuses it as well
http://www.adverbox.com/media/watermark.php?src=campaigns/2005/10/ikea_03.jpg

so thats that

Memwires and my thoughts on them

The memoirs project was alright, I really haven't used image editing software that much to make art, and although word had some nice photo effects it didn't really have alot to offer outside the realm of what you can do with MS Paint. I ran into problems with text boxes and some images being unmoveable. Mostly I dont like working with pictures of myself it kind of creeps me out, and its almost impossible to avoid being cheesy with a 6 word quote. It just reminds me of the annoying picnick things that people put on facebook.

Lets go Owls

memoirs of a geisha pt. deux

memoirs of a geisha

i dream of great facial hair.