No It Won't

The text for my typographic poster is supposed to be "God is everywhere because He likes you," inspired by a line in the Father Guido Sarducci video I posted below. But first, here's the results of a little Illustrator tutorial Avalon had us do.

 

 

Obviously it still needs work. But you get the idea.

Lagging Behind

This does not look like the blog, or the work, of a serious and experienced art student. It looks like the blog and work of a lazy, jaded student who doesn't give a damn because she's tired all the time. Maybe I'll pull this digital collage together into something cool by Wednesday.

I took the photo in August, at Mount Hood. The line drawing is from a novelty wallpaper project that I did last year. The plan is to combine the two (plus some textures) into a cool, quirky scene where giant squirrels have invaded Mount Hood.

 Stay tuned.

Father Guido Sarducci's Five Minute University

Father Guido Sarducci on Art School

Sounds good to me.

Edit: This video suddenly seems a lot more appropriate now that I know our next ART 119 project is inspired by the work of Sister Corita Kent.

Want some change? Want to shake a wolf's hand? No?

I participated in two "public interventions" that my friend/classmate Megan had to do for her "Making and Meaning" class. These "interventions" were basically just little public stunts, loosely based on the work of performance artists. All three of her interventions were done on the PSU campus.

In the first, I recorded Megan in the space between Neuberger Hall and Smith Memorial Student Union, trying to GIVE people spare change. Not ask for spare change. Give it to them. No strings attached. People were very suspicious and hardly anyone accepted the change from her!

In the second, Megan recorded me wandering around the Park Blocks in a wolf costume, trying to interact with people. Some were unsettled, some were amused, most were blasé. This is downtown Portland. You see weirder stuff than this on a regular basis.

You can see Megan's 3rd intervention and other work by going to her blog ovah heah: meganart203.blogspot.com

Here Goes Something

I assumed you could upload swf files to youtube, because youtube requires Flash to work. I assumed wrong. You know what they say: A-S-S-U-M-E makes an ass of Uma Thurman.

So I threw my Flash file onto keepandshare.com and now I'ma see if you can download and view it properly.

http://www.keepandshare.com/doc/3217211/hummingnoise-139k

The Flash that Wasn't

I completely forgot that our ART 119 instructor is pregnant. Now that she's sent us an e-mail explaining the context, her doctor's sudden order to stay in bed makes a LOT more sense, and is a LOT less alarming. In my defense, I usually only saw her from the back or sitting down, so her pregnancy wasn't apparent to me.

That'll teach ME to talk about my instructors' medical issues on a blog that nobody reads.

I completed my Flash. I'm sure it could still use fine-tuning, especially typography-wise, but today is critique day so what I completed is what you get.

...But guess what? There's an error every single time I try to upload the video here! Ain't life swell?

I'll probably try to upload it somewhere else and link to it later.

Meandering Along

Our instructor for ART 119 (Digital Media & Time Design) is ill and we don't know when she's coming back. That is...alarming. Varinthorn, if you're reading this, I hope you get well soon.

In the meantime our instructor is Avalon Kalin. He's cool. I had him during Fall 2009, my first term at PSU. He taught ART 120 (Computer Graphics/Art & Design). He also advised me when I was working on the Spring 2010 Sophomore Portfolio Review for Graphic Design. Which I did not pass. It must be his fault.

I'm still working on the Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries/Father Ted-inspired Flash project for ART 119. It should be ready by Wednesday. Hopefully it will look like I actually put some work into it, rather than just throwing it together in half an hour.

I chose to use the second quote, the one that starts with "What's your favorite humming noise?"
To see my inspiration for this Flash, watch this Youtube montage of Ben Keaton as Father Austin Purcell in "Father Ted." The quote I used in the Flash begins at 2:18. I didn't quote him verbatim; I cleaned up and simplified the quote a little to take out the stuttering and redundant stuff. Maybe it would be funnier if I left all that stuff in. I DON'T KNOW. Judge for yourself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z88AiJtZpZI