Present Joys

funkypresident:

#MENSWEAR

Something else that I did this week: introduced two of my favorite teachers to one another. Mr. Burleigh unexpectedly came into my jewelry class on thursday to deliver something to me and got to meet my super-cool jewelry teacher, Chris Hill. This blurry photograph is proof of these two worlds colliding. (It is also proof of how much Amanda and I enjoyed this red-letter experience.)

• Discussed Incognegro in my comic book class. I thought it was atrocious and I told my teacher so. Understandably, this made for a slightly uncomfortable class period.
• Got out of marketing after only 45 minutes. Ready to be done with that class for good.
• Started working on a new project for my ad class while simultaneously continuing on the old one, which I’m doing on WD-40 and which I am pretty bored of.
• Turned in some of my worst copywriting homework ever: ads employing verbal metaphor. Mr. Felton graded it generously and wrote “you’ll live to fight another day”.
• Made a bunch of jump rings in jewelry. I’m making good progress on a necklace project.
• Finished making a handful of extra-special bow ties to sell at a pop-up store later this semester. At a meeting on wednesday night, Mr. Mohr bought one of my ties right then and there. Pretty great!
• Worked off-and-on all week on this darn WD-40 project. Finals are due next tuesday.
• Had a really really fun time in copywriting on thursday making up “testimonial” ads in class.
• Left jewelry really early to go on a road trip to Detroit to see the Magnetic Fields. (More on that later.)
• Followed up on my Internship Fair leads and had an interview on friday. KILLED IT.

fuckyeahgiantpanda:

© Tim Flach, “More Than Human”.

Dude. Pandas.

On November 13, I saw Franklin Bruno play a free in-store show at Used Kids Records on campus. He played a bunch of songs from the new Human Hearts album as well as some old Franklin Bruno solo stuff. And he also played “Some Other Way” from Undercard. I got my Kickstarter’d letterpress-printed limited-edition double-10-inch LP, which is beautiful, and the Human Hearts Art Books 7-inch, and a little freebie 3-inch mini-cd. AND Mr. Bruno was very friendly and even recognized me from my twitter account, which is crazy. I still can’t believe how kind and down-to-earth Franklin Bruno, a living legend, is in real life. How about THAT, tumblr? ASTONISHINGLY DELIGHTFUL STUFF.