Present Joys

Cool, talented, fantastic people, photographed by John Vanderslice during the recording of Heretic Pride.

• Experimented with resin casting in Package Design. I’m designing packaging for a line of solid perfume centered around molds taken from an ornate Victorian doorknob.
• Had a particularly satisfying experience in the school cafeteria this monday. The special, gumbo, wasn’t spicy enough, but even so there were lots of good things! Thanks for not being terrible, cafeteria!
• Received a perfect score on my Draping homework (I made five bodices, all shaped using different dart and gather placements). In class we worked on draping a basic skirt! I’m actually having fun making women’s clothing—it’s a miracle!
• Got into quite a nice groove at OhioHealth. The key to doing the 10-hour work day successfully is taking a very late lunch.
• Started organizing some portfolio pieces and came to a startling revelation.
• Received a fantastically-cute, two-months-late Christmas photo from Amanda with a very sweet message on the back. (#bffs)
• Killed time in Burleigh’s class while we were supposed to be working on our portfolio layouts. Spent a lot of time in the classroom next door talking to John.
• Listened to a non-creative CCAD bureaucrat give a presentation in which she repeatedly used the word “charrette”, causing me to convulse on the floor.
• For my Advanced type class, I set and printed a pangram of my new alphabet, a brushy, midcentury sans-serif caps.
• Milled around and wrote comments on other people’s projects in Advanced type while our teacher skipped out of class to go to a meeting (true story, apparently?). Then I participated in a rare Advanced Type knit-n-crit, during which Amanda and I whispered about classmates we’d like to befriend.

drawpaintprint:

Francisco Goya: Still-Life with Three Salmon Steaks
1808-12
Oil on canvas, 45 x 62 cm
Oskar Reinhart Collection, Winterthur

GOYA.

decoarchitecture:

Hanging Lights
by The Door Store

Selection of Deco schoolhouse and  drugstore lights. More here.

These do a lot for me. I’ll take one of each.

• Enjoyed a typically brief time in package design and then spent monday morning in the fashion lab, which afforded me a serene and beautiful view of Broad Street in the pouring rain.
• Had knit-n-crit in tuesday’s ad class. I was the very first person to give my presentation. Then: I just sat and watched everyone else.
• Watched Cheryl Steele demonstrate front bodice dart variations in Draping! It was tons of fun.
• Did lots of actual work for my internship at OhioHealth. Worked on graphics for a health-related Facebook app; sat in on a corporate-sponsorship meeting. The usual office stuff.
• Dealt with crazy weather all week. On tuesday it was so warm I was sweating in a blazer and scarf; on wednesday it was raining cats and dogs (I had to wear rubber boots to work and change into loafers when I got to my desk!); on thursday it was freezing cold and snowing.
• Gave Amanda advice about her outfit and received equal parts grief and gratitude.
• Bought soup at the Crane Café (my first soup purchase of the semester!) Made a snarky comment about eco-friendly packaging which Richard, the food-service boss man, interpreted seriously.
• Ran into Bob (CCAD’s greatest model and a swell guy) reading the newspaper in Crane and learned the story of his long hair.
• Ended my week the way I started it, in the fashion lab working on Draping homework, with an equally beautiful view of downtown Columbus during snowfall.