Flores

Here is the preliminary final version of my Guatemala inspired snowboard for my Visual Continuity class. I'm pretty happy with how it's turned out. In the process of doing this I also learned how much of a black hole the computer can be. I sat messing around with it and then looked at the clock and had lost 4 hours of my life without making much progress. I had to pull myself away from it and draw out a battle plan before jumping back in. I need to make a few tweaks here and there, including redesigning the bottom (can it be called a redesign if the first one was just thrown together?), but none of it should take more than an hour or so and it'll be ready to go out.

I was pretty worried yesterday with the whole State of the Union address that we wouldn't get to see American Gladiators, but faith came through and I wasn't left disappointed (except for the cheerleader that couldn't get over the wall on the Eliminator).

DONE

I ran my edition this morning, so this is the final product. Hope you like it. Now I've got to work on my Guatemala-inspired snowboard.

almost done

While there is plenty more I could do with it I'm thinking it's about done. I've really got to concentrate on some of my other assignments.

Anorexic?

Here are some changes I made last night and this morning. I felt like I needed to change the shape of the face a little but now I'm worried that it hollowed me out too much and I look anorexic. Oops.

"MacKay told me to call this There's a Knot in My Neck"

Ok, here is my work so far on my self portrait for my relief prints class. It's just a basic black and white print to get us back into the swing of working with wood. We don't have a due date for it yet but I'll try to post an updated print a couple days a week (Thursdays for sure) until it's finished.

We also talked today about the print exchange that we will be doing this semester. The idea we're probably going to be running with is redesigning a record cover from the year we were born. It should be pretty fun once I find an album that was released in 82.

Nothing to Update

I don't really have anything to update on here. I'm back to school but haven't gotten any of my assignments far enough along to show any progress on them. Maybe tomorrow. I've got a couple self-portraits and a snowboard to design, so I should have some good stuff up in the near future. I've been busy trying to figure out the specifics of screen printing on Plexiglas for my project in Advanced Printmaking, but without much luck.

Anywho, Whit's home from aerobics so I better head.

MOS. 5:15

"...as we become more spiritually mature and increasingly steadfast and immovable, we are less prone to zealous and exaggerated spurts of spirituality followed by extended periods of slackness. Recall the tortoise in Aesop’s fable to whom I referred earlier as an example of steadiness and persistence. The hare, on the other hand, is a classic example of a “spurter”- one who is given to short bursts of spectacular effort followed by frequent and lengthy periods of rest.

"A spurt may appear to be impressive in the short run, but steadiness over time is far more effective, far less dangerous, and produces far better results. Three consecutive days of fasting ultimately may not be as spiritually effective as three successive months of appropriate fasting and worship on the designated fast Sunday. An attempt to pray one time for five hours likely will not produce the spiritual results of meaningful morning and evening prayer offered consistently over five weeks. And a single scripture-reading marathon cannot produce the spiritual impact of steady scripture study across many months. (David A. Bednar, Steadfast and Immovable.)"

So I'm sitting in Elder's Quorum yesterday but my mind's not there. I'm thinking about some recent changes and things I've got coming up and overall not doing a good job of paying attention when something catches my attention and brings me back in the middle of this quote being read. It's been a while since I've had one of those "is this specifically for me?" moments. Nothing that I've heard had really hit home until I heard this quote.
Lately I've been going through some introspection trying to figure out the details for a project for my printmaking class that will deal with a personal revelation, tearing down some of the facades that we may put up in public and finding out what lies beneath. It's been an ongoing inner discussion I've had trying to determine what it means to "live your life" and "be true to yourself." So when I heard this quote it struck a chord and made me feel like this is a big part of what I've been looking for.
Anywho, school's back in, and truthfully I'm somewhat relieved. I've cut back on my hours at work so hopefully I'll not be so strapped for time on my projects at school, though I can already tell that I'm spending too much time thinking about the time we'll spend in Switzerland this summer.

Threadless

My friend Jason showed me this site yesterday. It's called threadless, and designers can upload their designs onto the website where people will vote on them. If the design gets enough votes, they do a run of tshirts and the designer gets $2500. All the tshirts are about 15 bucks, so it's not a bad price to buy either. The style of the shirts is a lot like shirts you may find at Urban Outfitters, and I like that there is such a concentration of different artists and cool designs.