I really like the notion of creating a video Zine to document the next few months along with an accompanying series of personal print ones if time allows it.

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Videos to be updated later…

His name is Felipe. He is just cutest little thing.

Another year, another Siren Fest. Some more good times in between. I think it is a fair assessment to say I am developing a style of photography, eh.

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After roughly two months of abstaining from designing under the guise that “absence makes the heart grow fonder” I am itching to make something. Anyone need some (legit) freelance work within the next two months?

I am sitting in the only room in my house that does not an air conditioner on. The constant sound and drastic cool shift unnerves me. I’ve avoided all social networking sites for the most part because the constant temperature updates and complaints that it’s 103 degrees annoy me. I am one of those people who love this weather and have played around with the notion that when I am 70 years old I’ll move to the Caribbean, get a small shack on a coast, and play with sand.

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This is a short photo story involving my father.

I would like the create something new everyday. Wheather it be work on something, so it is closer to done, or a end product, I just want to make something to feel productive.

Just finished:

I’ve had this book for a while and would reference it when mentally stunted. But I actually took the time and read it from cover to cover. It made me like Adrian Shaughessy even more.

Currently Reading:

This book is intense, overwhelming to say the least. It is my mental challenge for the summer.

Will Read:

I’ve wanted this book (and the other volumes) for AGES. I’ve got to be honest, I fell for the cover 1st (I’ll give someone a prize if they can tell me who the designer is) but the content is something perfect for commutes.

My goal for the summer is to just explore other endeavors besides graphic design, so that I may become a better designer.

Here is a photo:

Random thought, but I really like the premise of voyeurism in photography. I think it is funny that the things that cause me the most personal discomfort are the things I find the most captivating. To explore it is my photographic goal, to explore how people behave in their chosen environments. Like the selby, but much less glamorous.

This is what I currently look like.

My laptop is burning my thighs. Nails inspired by Beyonce. IF YOU FELT LIKE BEING A SUPER AWESOME FRIEND. MY BIRTHDAY IS TWO MONTHS AWAY AND I NEED THE COLOR SHE HAS IN THAT VIDEO. NEED IT. its called Nouvelle Vague by Chanel and it needs to be mine:

photo swiped from All Lacquered Up.

…The simple solution is to pull down the ridiculously short summer dress I am currently wearing, and rest my vessel to the interweb on that. Lets see how long I can withstand the burn before that point.

The semester is over, my junior year is over and I have only few months remaining before I no longer have the connivence of education as a guard between myself and the “grown up world”. In less than 30 days I will be faced with loans and leases (APARTMENT!). The thought of debt causes for a rapid breath immediately after. It is more apparent then ever that I am growing up, and I have nothing to offset it. Though I welcome this, I don’t feel as though I am mentally developed enough to be thrown into these situations (most of which I am creating for myself). To add on, I have this period of time later on in the year in which I am packing up to go to another country, something that I can barely contain my excitement for, but cannot help but think that it is one huge pause from reality. Essentially, the more I think about it, the harder it hits; The future is scary. Unbelievably and unforgivably scary.

I am caught between the person I want to become and the person I am. As TERRIBLY cliche as that sounds it is the truth. Though the after tremors of this year are just as damaging as the actual earthquake, I can see the infrastructure being rebuilt. I can look at the pieces I have created for school and see the designer I desperately want to become. It is just the mater of getting there. I became a lot more familiar with my potential and excersizing it. Conversely, I have become inposible to please. I have escaped to bathroom to have panic attacks when I feel that the work I am about to present isn’t up to par, and worse vomiting out of disappointment. There are no more questions or uncertainties about what I want to do, but now there is this new internal pressure of reaching this new goal. This drive to obtain my personal best is filtering my body image. My cravings to run sometimes overwhelm my thoughts in conversation, and the body I’ve always wanted seems to be in grasp if I can maintain personal discipline (Coincidentally, I am listing to disciple by Nine Inch Nails off the slip, an album I have just allowed myself to fall for today as oppose to being in denial about it).

Time to move my laptop.

I lost track of what I was trying to say, which seems to happen a lot on this blog. I guess what I am trying to say is now I know what I want, and it is just a matter of focus. Things are going to be hard because I have never had small ambitions. I want to keep my word to myself instead of settling.

Here is a video of my favorite pieces from this year. You could ignore the odd angle, I am sure I don’t have multiple chins. They are 1) ASPECT magazine for publication design, 2) an Mexican (Elise’s) Invitation for Graphic Design I, 3) Fashion and Textile Studies Symposium (part one of a three part poster series. The other parts are being redone within this year, I feel like I want to document how I make them) for Graphic Design II and 4) Concrete: A Book and Typeface for Advance Typography II.

I am going to pick up the Visual dump in June. Sorry for ignoring it. Stupid finals.