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Me: I kind of hate reading about the condition of the art world for the past 20 years. it's like the only value is originality and the only originality is to question tradition. except we've gone all the way we can with that so now everything is just pointless.
Juan: I think we're starting to question what art itself is though?
Me: Nope. That was ten years ago. we're like post post post post modernist now. even exhausted the question of art itself. thats not an original idea anymore. so what do we do now?
Juan: make beautiful things I guess
Me: no way, that would never be accepted in the art world. to make beautiful things that don't make a claim or a statement or shock anyone? that only goes over on the internet
Juan: it takes a lot of courage to admit that you made something just because it is aesthetically pleasing. but I think we'll see a swing back to that, back to the basics of things that just, look nice
Me: like shapes and colors and good arrangements and stuff. yeah no one would get famous just for painting pretty pictures though
Juan: it's the same in music. you'll be accused of simplemindedness and copying if you just make something that is enjoyable to listen to, even if its in a thousand year old tradition
Me: bucking tradition has become too mainstream
Juan: now its hipster to like Lady Gaga
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Juan: its really just pleasant to sit outside here in the sun and hear the birds singing
March 2012
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Becca's Photography →
also, same little sister is apparently becoming a renowned photographer on the NG Kids community!
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The Moment You Know You're Old
is when your youngest sister points out a cussword written an image on your blog, you apologize profusely and explain that it was taught to make you remember a concept for class, and then she says, it’s okay, she understands, it would work in her classes too.
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So today I finally watched Firefly for the first time, and about fifteen minutes in had an eerie moment of revelation/memory: suddenly this
made sense!
I had totally forgotten about when I was thirteen and going through a phase where I was creating forum banners for my virtual classmates, basically taking orders from people who would give me images and text. I think I used some really early...
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The Hunger Games
(although normally I would hesitate to be so bandwagon-y,)
The Hunger Games really was amazing. When the movie makes you believe more in the book, and the book makes you understand more of the movie, that is perfection.
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Scrabble Typography Limited Edition →
perfection
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Studying googling studying googling
Purkinje Neurons Dmitry Sarkisov GS
This is a composite image of five Purkinje neurons from the rat cerebellum, in the back of the brain. Each has been filled with fluorescent dye through a glass pipette, shown touching the cells. Images were taken on a two-photon microscope. Each Purkinje cell receives hundreds of thousands of inputs through its dendrite, the elaborate tree-like structure seen...
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Viking
There is no time that I feel as powerful and capable as the moments right after a hardcore workout, when I know I pushed myself to the limit and still survived, when the six of us walk out of the gym breathing hard, collapsing against the wall, and grinning. I don’t know what I’m going to do at home this summer without my fellow Vikings-in-training.
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Arvah Faenín:
Dragonborn.
That’s what they call me. But I can’t have been born of dragons. I had a Nord mother, blond as me. And a father, somewhere, with the same two-colored eyes as mine, she said. Green for the land and blue for the sky. Always seeing both worlds. Clouds and ground. I lived at the edge of the sky, moving easily from clear mountaintop to lush valley and never giving a thought to...
Twenty-minute Posters
Practice makes perfect…? Obsessed with Futura & fotografias.
On another note, I’m excited for this lecture!
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Design Life Lesson #2
Don’t give people the InDesign file to make text changes in a poster you just designed. Especially not without the image source files. Especially not when the key element is the careful text formatting. Especially not when they still print it with your name on it. Grr.
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Metro (Microsoft's design language)
Microsoft is finally stepping up its design game: a new logo for Windows 8 and a new design aesthetic, commonly called “Metro.” Metro apparently is based on principles of the International Typographic Style (the first design movement to take simplicity as its foundation), and focuses on beautiful, clear typography (Segoe is the font family Microsoft has claimed). Vibrant colors,...
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New Microsoft Windows Branding (Windows 8) →
“Your name is Windows. Why are you a flag?”
I love Paula Scher.
The end.
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Сергeй Михaйлович Прокyдин-Гoрский (Sergey...
Before color photography had even been conceived of, this guy
had the brilliant idea of taking three photographs of each scene: one with a red filter, one with a blue filter, and one with a green filter. These all were in monochrome, but when projected with the correct light and overlapped, produced a single color image:
So now thanks to his (science + art !!)...
February 2012
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Viral...ish?
One of my friends just showed me that her friend from home reset her Blackberry picture as my art-science-wonder Venn diagram! And I’ve seen it on a few blogs now, too, not just tumblr. And it shows up in Google image searches.
WHY DIDN’T I WATERMARK IT
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Vector Drawing
[shift+c], convert points from curve to straight
[A], go to white point selection arrow
[cmd+J], join two endpoints
[C], cut a line segment
[+], add a point
[-], subtract a point
[P], go to pen tool
and countless other keyboard shortcuts that I don’t know.
Conclusion: Illustrator should just be able to read my mind.
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This is a Disease
Just spent the better part of an hour voluntarily replacing hideous lavender comic-sans drop-shadowed letters spelling out “*STUDENT*LIFE!*” with 630-point Gotham book, NYUAD-purple ones spelling “STUDENT♦LIFE”. Purely because I would have died a little inside every time I saw our brand so badly misrepresented.
Now the bulletin board is on-brand, and I have officially...
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“Printed materials bring information transfer rates in presentations up to that of everyday material in newspaper sports and financial pages, books, and internet news sites. An excellent paper size for presentation handouts is A3 [or A4]…that one piece of paper shows the content-equivalent of 50 to 240 typical powerpoint slides. Thoughtful handouts demonstrate to the audience that...
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Adolphe Mouron Cassandre
Cassandre is my new hero. He created the most iconic graphics and typefaces of the Art Deco period and, in many ways, defined the values of contemporary graphic design. Simplicity, strong shapes, powerful and previously unseen relationships between image and text—even using text as image—and the very idea of condensing an image to its purest elements and most recognizable form.
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Today I learned about the system (chemoreceptors, glomeruli, and neurons) that allows us to process smell.
Also saw this picture of the Carina Nebula.
There’s too much wonder in the universe for me to handle.
(Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology and European Southern Observatory)
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Online Portfolio! →
Starting to look for summer jobs (a little late, I know) at design firms…and now I have an online portfolio! So fancy! Not much there yet, but I’m hoping to at least double the amount by the end of this semester. It’s a little clunky because it’s a desperate attempt to make a blogging platform work like a website for me. Yay free URLs!
Now to update my CV. So...
January 2012
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Learning Photoshop: Clone Tool
In a reprint of my collage (see Expectation & Aspiration below) on high quality photo paper, I reevaluated my design and realized some mistakes:
A horrible water line
Some floating bikini women who were messing up the perceived scale of the photo
A floating palm tree head.
Luckily, I have people around who are more expert at Photoshop than me, and they told me that all these problems...
Wish List
Amazing, ambitious project by company Brusselssprout.
Birthday present, please?
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Productivity
This past single day I think I’ve blogged more than I have in the past four months combined—and that’s even counting double posts as one! I should take January Term classes more often.
Desert Stars: Designing Abu Dhabi Edition: Font... →
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Today I learned what an “ink trap” is: a feature in some typefaces where the corners are excessively notched, to compensate for ink spreading when the type is printed. It has more importance than you might think.
In the mid-1970’s, AT&T had just switched from printing their…
(self-reblog)
