Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Here are some fun photos of myself over the year I've had this computer.


















I'll move to Paris, shoot some heroin, and fuck with the stars.
You man the island and the cocaine and the elegant cars.





But there's really nothing, nothing we can do
Love must be forgotten, life can always start up anew.

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

I can't believe I've found these.






One night my old roommate Amanda and I went to the bar. Then she decided to jump on anything with two legs.





Oh the places you will go.

Monday, December 14, 2009

If you still had the bones of an idol, you'd be long, long gone.


Victor!



Suzie!



Bujak!



Kate!



Junior!



Hannah!


Celeste!

This is an ode to my recent friends, from May until now.

I realized that something is very disfunctional about girls who are unable to be loyal to her girlfriends. I have met so many spectacular people within the last half of a year. I remember knowing and dealing with those who were less than spectacular. In fact, they were probably the worst people on this earth. Or the worst types of people, anyway. I remembered one thing that got me through upon living with those terrible girls and meeting so many shitty men. I just remember that I am significantly stronger than they are. And that I know how to be a loyal person. I know how to be my age. I know everything that they fail to know.

Saturday, December 5, 2009

I know you are there. I just can't explain it. But I know you are there. Please show me your face.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

I love you I love you I love you I love you.

T-shirt design in the works.

My favorite word.



Sometimes beauty is in the simplest of words.

Thursday, November 12, 2009

The Tower!


My story, Kyle's take on it.

Other people.

So I know I have been super terrible with updating what I've done this past quarter, but trust me! There will be stuff! I am constantly working on projects, projects and projects. But these next two posts are things from my friend Kyle. Observe!

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Chicago.

I have been feeling really great lately. By the way, I have all of these photos that I want to scan in and a couple of drawings that I have worked on. I didn't think I would have time today, but I was wrong! I left them at home, to my dismay.

This term has been entirely academic, even with my more creative classes. I wake up on Tuesdays and Thursdays for an 8 am class, but it is so worth it and I actually roll out of bed for it. Its my Ad writing class with Lauria Locsmondy, a babe and half and probably the most witty, charismatic and intelligent professor I've ever had. She used to have her own magazine, has worked for several different firms, has a tattoo of a lightening bolt on her wrist (though that is my superficial reason for liking her) and loves to have discussion based class sessions even during lectures. She gives us assignments that are packed with creative thought, yet get the point across. I am well on my way to writing nice body copies, headlines, taglines, etc...

In my typography class with Scott Arcinegas (a babe and a half in his own right) I have grown to love and appreciate letterforms. We spent the first few weeks learning solely about the history of typography, but this was very informative. I got to learn why our typefaces are the way that they are, who created them and how things have evolved into what we have now. We designed the 27th letter of the alphabet, in which I will post upon getting it handed back. It forms the "Kh" sound, because quite frankly I believe that we should have a letter for it.

In my Psychology course, I cannot decide whether or not I like my professor Cynthia Bassuk. She is a bit of a pistol, a pill, a firecracker, a something. Sometimes she seems like a piece of fluff that will float away into the distance, and other times she seems to be so comfortable in her own skin and well grounded. Her lectures are boring but when she tells us stories about experiments (for example, like the Milgram experiments or the video clips of the children and the bobo dolls) then I am staying engaged. She is letting us do a creative assignment for our final project, which is amazing. Yet again, once I have this I will be showing it via blog.

Otherwise, my life has been filled with the usual everything. I still party just as much, and I actually make a point to do it no matter what on Friday and Saturday (even if it kills me.) Last weekend, I ended up getting into some crazy shenannigans that involved brazillian people, my landlord, an exboyfriend, pabst blue ribbon and many other things. I currently have really amazing friends, like my friends Hannah and Kate (who is dating Bujak, another chap I've grown to love) from the front end of Fox and Obel. We have this neat little thing called Vag night, which is an acronym for "Very Awesome Girl" night. Last time we drank wine and spoke of scary stories, but this time we've decided to buy an entire roasted chicken for eating. What we will do from there is still undecided.

Amanda is still living on my couch but she is moving out on November 1st. She found some nice roommates on the north end of town. I love her to death, so much that I bust out singing Jonas Brothers just to make her scream. But I am excited to be on my own. I have this idea of how life will be. I haven't been seriously alone in ages, and my recharging time is minimized to my room (and the times when Amanda is at work.)

Brawnson is still a very strong part of my life and we love to play Rockband and drink beer together. He watches out for me, like an older brother. And sometimes I watch out for him like an older sister. I am getting to the point with him where I can just be the person who I am, no reservations and no censorship. He is trying out for some TV show today with my friend Suzie, some chef show I'm not too familiar with.

Suzie's birthday was recently and it was a night to remember but also a night that I wanted to forget. I spent my last weekend without Suzie but have come to realize that I have spent almost every weekend at her house. The Fox and Obel crew has become an essential part to my social life, so I can really understand having intense separation anxiety upon the idea of parting ways with the establishment.

My outlook on Chicago is much different now that I've established myself here.

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Now it is September. It was April. I'm still crying.

Uncanny.

Help, I have done it again
I have been here many times before
I hurt myself again today
And, the worst part is there's no-one else to blame

Be my friend
Hold me, wrap me up
Unfold me
I am small
and needy
Warm me up
And breathe me

Ouch

I have lost myself again
Lost myself and I am nowhere to be found,
Yeah I think that I might break
Lost myself again and I feel unsafe

Be my friend
Hold me, wrap me up
Unfold me
I am small
and needy
Warm me up
And breathe me

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

A great friendship means being able to show someone your bones in your closet while they show you theirs.





My dearest friend, Brawnson, I love him to pieces.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Web Banner Campaign for Match.com.






Think of these web banners being a flash animation. These are the storyboards. And not to be a broken record, but click to see the images at a fuller size!

Billboard Campaign for Skittles







Again, you'll have to click on the images to read it clearer. I am still working on this campaign, for the text is way too small.