I Cant Wait To See The Wind Rises. Not Included Here Is 'When Marnie Was There', But That May Have Been

I cant wait to see the Wind Rises. Not included here is 'When Marnie Was There', but that may have been started after he retired.

The Genius and Wonder of Hayao Miyazaki. 

Uggh, these are wonderful.

Stephanie Brown's Moleskine

Come not between a dragon and his wrath.

I have this reoccurring interest in Lord of the Flies, and a constant interest in pigs, so this was never gonna not happen.

Our paper craft assignment for 2D class. I reversed the image here to what my intention was, since I flubbed it and did it backwards. But yeah, we used an x-acto blade on drawing paper, then used thicker colored paper as a background. The white paper is all connected, and was very delicate to transport. Other than the little nicks and craft issues, I'm happy with how it came out. (Don't do all-nighters with a sharp knife. Do not. No.)

ART 122-01 Week #2 (Typography and a little printing!)

Thus far, we have touched base on typography. Or rather, we referred back to the old ways of communication via wall paintings by nomadic tribes.  Pretty much, writing started this way- and letters seemed to start off as symbols that represented real life things for easy correlation. (A man drawn under a line could be a dead body. Or A round thing with horns and a tail was a cow. Sometimes the paint color clued you in because who the hell wants a nasty green cow? Red/brown = dripping delicious meat.)

    As an in class activity, we had to make our own alphabet or symbols that our own 'tribe' would use for communication. Other people had a good idea- I mean, they used the alphabet that us English speakers know, but made the letters look like sticks because sticks are in nature so.. yeah. Makes sense. Another group had a cool font type that was all like.. I would call it "sassy dragon". Or "sassy dragon, swoosh edition", but that's just me. Our own group actually did symbols for stuff like death and love and sheep and mating and food and sleep- stuff like that, whatever would be important in a community. I think we got a little silly with the alphabet though. Like, 'A' was a line with a dot under it or something, but 'T' was straight up a Tardis from Doctor Who. Despite this, I feel as though we got a gist of it.

   This week, we touched a little bit on printing, watched a cool documentary (I think BBC?) And saw how the printing press came to be, and how paper was made. I wanna make some, is that a thing we can do here? It's like pudding after it settles and paper is like the pudding skin you lift up and- look whatever, it works. It's pulpy is what I'm getting at. Toothy along the edges has weight and all that. I liked our activity where we took the heavy letters and coated them with ink and made a quick thing.

   I think I'm gonna go watch Secret of Kells. I wonder if I can convince the instructor to play that during class one night? Probably not. Or probably absolutely. However 'probably' works.

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