Sorority Anti-Hazing PSA Illustration

Here's an illustration of a sorority girl that I did for an anti-hazing public service announcement. We do a lot of simple vector-y illustrations here at work because most are used to be animated in flash. It would be fun to drum up some work that allowed us to do illustrations with more texture and depth. For now, we'll just have to work on some of those outside of work.

Grisette Logo

Recently I've been dabbling in t-shirt screen print design. Mostly I've been putting designs together for specific events, but I also have quite a few little designs that I created just for fun. I thought I might try and take them around to local boutiques to see if there is any interest. I figured I should put them under some sort of name or label, so I decided on the name "Grisette". There were several aspects of the term that appealed to me and seemed to fit with the type of designs that I am producing. Here's a draft of the logo that I'm playing with for the label. Hopefully soon I can put together a few experiments with my own screen here at home. The process is so interesting to me. It'll be a tight squeeze trying to do anything in the bathroom downstairs, but we'll see how it goes. If nothing else, it will give me a fun project to work on once it starts getting cold outside.

KeepMyTV.com is Live

Well, the Save My Set site went through a few rounds of revisions and eventually ended up here at KeepMyTv.com. My favorite part of this site was retro fitting the design with the translated headers for the Spanish site. Nice job to Mindy, Spencer, and the rest of the web/interactive team on getting it up and running on a tight deadline.

Oranje 2007

My first experience with Oranje was last Saturday. Mediasauce had booth space so I was there helping to set it up beforehand then worked a shift during the event. Oranje was located in a giant abandoned factory this year so there was a lot of open space to play with. Our booth was made up of giant sheets of viscuine that we stretched over the metal poles that formed its frame. We set up 2 photo scenes inside the booth.

The "play" photo scene that a blue sky scene, sod floor, and random props like sunglasses, wigs, bubbles, windmills, badmitten rackets, and kickballs. The "work" scene contained wood paneling, an old desk, phonebooks, old computers, and construction hats. We would let people back into the scenes 2 at a time, grab their email, then let them pose however they were inspired to pose for 3 photos. The range of inspiration was wide!

Another cool thing about the booth was that the photos that were taken were then projected onto the viscuine so that it could be seen outside the booth. I will have to find photos of the outsde of the booth from someone to share.

I think it was one of the more "interactive" booths at Oranje and a lot of people seemed to have fun with it. On Tuesday we launched a website where people could type in the email address that they gave us to find and download their photos. Nate G did the design for the page as well as the "Work is Play" logo that was projected onto the booth. He was also one of the principle photographers along with Mitch M. and Larry L.

Here are 3 snapshots from our group and one from a practice shot during setup:
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I had my little video camera with me during setup, it will show you a little more about what the space was like that we had to work with. You will need to have the Divx codec in order to view the movie. I'll have to add photos of the booth all put together later.

Old Pencil Drawings

Another area of the old HD contained a few pencil drawings of my family that I did many moon ago and the tea diffuser I did in metals and jewelry making. The roof is a lid that lifts off so that you can insert the tea leaves, then you place the tea diffuser into an entire pot of tea. The tea diffuses out of the carvings on the side that were made with a very tiny little coping saw.

Here's a more recent sketch I did for an art swap we had at work.

Old School Work Archives

Very old Photoshop work. (Photoshop airbrushed illustration of Edgerin James, an airbrushed illustration of a girl viewing the streets of chicago from her car window, a collage design using some photos I'd taken around Lafayette, and a scientific illustration of a garden spider)

Old segment intros I did for a college show I worked on called CG-TV. They were created using Illustrator, 3D Max, and After Effects.

An old flash project I worked on for ITaP one summer. Created the characters and animation using Illustrator and Flash.

Tonight I found my old external hard drive from school. I had to search through boxes of cables to find a power supply and cable to hook it up. I found some of my first photoshop projects, an old ITaP flash project, and a couple of little animated intros that I did for this computer graphics tech tv type show we did back then (You can see Alex and Kindari as hosts at the very end of the Tech spot intro). It is so embarrassing to look back at most of this old stuff, but it's all part of the process so we cant just pretend it never happened! Although, I'll admit, there are definitely things too terrifying to see the light of day that will remain on the hd for the sake of anyone actually viewing this blog.

Armadillos are fascinating!

They jump straight up in the air when they get surprised! Unfortunately this seems to be a cruel involuntary defense mechanism to give a creature who needs to cross busy intersections. Poor lil fella.