internet hunting: YA-NE-SEN a Go Go

A friend of mine posted a link to this beautiful little video on twitter, and after watching it in awe three or four times I knew had to share it here. The art is beautiful and captivating AND she's an adorable dancer! I'm in love.

working on: Similarly Different

In an effort to completely overwhelm myself with work this term, I've been trying to take as many of the opportunities that come my way as possible. Last week one such opportunity showed up in my inbox in the form of a collaborative project between PSU graphic design students and graphic design students from University of the Creative Arts, Farnham in the UK. Headed up in part by PSUGD's own Briar Levit, each of us here in Portland is paired up with a student from UCA and given a fortnightly prompt. We 'research' our prompt (ephemera, sketches, thoughts, visuals) and email it to our partner, who takes the 'research' and creates a visual piece of art based on it. All final art will be posted to the Similarly Different blog, and each school will host a culminating gallery show.

The project is unlike anything I've ever worked on before, and I'm really excited and interested to see what kind of work it produces, particularly because we're working with total strangers! Sometimes I feel like being a designer in Portland is like designing in a vacuum, so I'm curious to see what this geographical collaboration will turn out. Feel free to follow along with the blog, and I'll try to post things here as they are created as well.

look what i made: a GIF

For part II of our first project in my type class, I decided to conquer something I'd never tried before: make a GIF. My friend Cass kindly sent me the super simple instructions she'd found on the web, and after a little bit of cutting and a little bit of photo-taking, I was done! The most intricate one of the series is still in the works, but I'm pretty proud of these!

field trip: Edmonds, Washington

The weekend before school started I boarded a Bolt Bus for Seattle and the surrounding suburbs, my main goal to meet Ethan and Kaylee's son, Anker. The deal was sweetened by John being in town for a film premier, and Nicole making the drive down from Bellingham like it wasn't no thang.

It was wonderful to do very little of anything besides eat, stroll the streets of sleepy Edmonds, ride bikes with Addy, and pass tiny Anker between us. It's rare these days to get this many of our friends in the same town, what with everyone being strung to the far corners of the earth, so I relished every minute we were able to spend together. Seeing Kaylee and Ethan in their roles as Parents 2.0 was an added bonus.

Hey guys, when are we gonna do it again? i miss you already.