switching it up

sorry blogspot
heading over to tumblr now

spottedfawn.tumblr.com

videos

you tube is a great resource for wasting time and finding terrible home videos. but i love searching for live band videos. so i have "favorited" a lot of videos and was searching through them all last night. these three stuck out with the fact that i think they are all really awesome performances but each one with a different vibe. from the giant crowd at reading fest to anabandoned building to the small crowd and theo hilton using a marker as a capo. the best is being able to watch videos in HD now too.

arcade fire "wake up"

fleet foxes "blue ridge mountains"

nana grizol "voices echo down the hall"

bikes

upon a recent check of their online store i discovered that urban outfitters now sells "custom" bikes.

let the richmond bike kid outrage begin.

now in the past few years fixed gears have risen to the top in the hipster circles, and riding without breaks ups your cool points. and im sure there will be a few people with no interest buying these bikes to help their social climb. but ill add a few of my thoughts to this discussion

should other bike enthusiasts really be mad about bikes becoming hip? i would much rather more people be riding bikes than driving cars. i dont think we should want anyone to stay away from a better lifestyle choice even if they are doing it to be cool.

but i will also say if urban is going to dictate what is trendy i think it is also their responsibility to promote saftey. maybe sell some hip bike helmets while they are at it yeah?

camp

i am finding it difficult to summarize my experience at Camp Firebelly in a blog post.
all i can say is that i know the past two weeks have changed my life greatly and i am so appreciative of that.
i am so motivated now for the little time i have left in richmond to refine my portfolio and pack my apartment for the next step i am taking in life.

bird

there are some dead bird remains that have been on the sidewalk all week and the flies have been eating them all week and i keep walking by and all thats left are the legs, its kinda gross. i keep seeing dead birds everywhere like they are just falling out of the sky

apartment

ok its all clean and rearranged and im happy with it!

relief

does anyone else clean/rearrange their living quarters to relieve stress?
it seems to be my go to.
pictures soon of the new set up

more music

that time

forgot how great she is!
thanks mom for getting into her first!

quirk

weird

kinda freaks me out a bit
but out of curiosity i wanted to see if my lip piercing closed up
i havent touched it since february
but nope its still completely fine and i can wear jewelry in it still

richmond

alley between lombardy and ryland

tonight, sunday night, i was walking home to my apartment and i was approached by a guy with a disposable camera. he told me he was playing a game with his friends and he only had four pictures left to take and asked if he got naked would a take a picture with him...i said no.



there are some things i really love about this city and some things i just cant handle


making a list of goals for the week and taping it to my wall. gonna stick to 'em

desks

found

going to start posting all my saved internet pictures that have their own folder on my desktop. most are from apartment therapy since i got really obsessed with it last summer and wanted to save all my dream home ideas

fresh

came back to greene for the weekend. its beautiful in the summer here.

about to update my resumé and get cracking on my website

but first better late than never....i love M. Ward




peace+love

purge

after the chaos of graduation and still not knowing what is really instore for my life. (except camp firebelly june 22 -july 1) i felt that its only fitting to start cleaning out the unnecessary from my life.

ok i admit it....i have a lot of...stuff.
ive always held on to things for too long in fear that there may be that one moment in time where i will need something so totally random that if i threw it out i would be distraught. slowly over the years i had gotten over this habit. but maybe it returned? i just cleaned off my bookshelf. a simple task at first but now i have so much trash to take out, things to sell/give away. it feels so good though. just looking over and seeing a few shelves of stuff instead of the mess it was before. i can totally be ok with not having so many things anymore (sadly clothes are still a different story).

fun things

now that school doesnt eat away my time and creative energy i have been able to enjoy some other hobbies

painting being one
tim snapped this of me the other day
i hate my paintings and most of the time cover them up and start new ones
we'll see what happens to this one



also, i really love making mix cds for friends
ive made a few for my best friend for special occasions and to catch her up on all the music i have been diggin
the best part is just making the packaging
shes going away for the summer again to colorado and i had a tough time just picking one song by the bands i was thinking about so i went with a two disk set each cd having a different song by the same band
i went all out made a special case for them and it was fun. i'll try to photograph my other ones sometime










if you want a mix let me know, i really have a lot of fun making these!

words

i am not a huge fan of posting lyrics everywhere
but honestly i love these lines by matty pop chart

"and if everyone does it, well everyone does everything
and if that's why you stop, then you'll never do anything"

a few

things that would be perfect right now:
-tree house/sleeping outside
-matty pop chart on repeat
-painting/drawing
-playing the ukulele
-being disconnected from everything
-not having Coca Cola cravings (i'm giving it up)

its feels like all i have done for the past two weeks is work on my portfolio.
oh wait i have!
its all coming together finally.
i covered the box i built and i really wish i could get the supplies out of midair to re do it. summer project for sure

this song is getting me through the night!

a taste

finishing up my application for camp firebelly

i'd hate to give away my whole portfolio here
would much rather people see it in real life
or when i launch my site this summer

color

how i decided on my envelope color




also its 90 degrees inside my apartment right now
heres my mess from making dummies and books and emaline passed out

procrastination

I'm posting here instead of printing right now.
I am pretty much ready to print a handful of my work so I can begin trimming and binding.
But, part of me is so afraid to begin printing. I don't want to run out of ink or paper.
When I think about how much I have spent on printing in my three years in Graphic Design I want to cry.
I am also afraid of doing all this printing then finding a mistake. I think I have been looking at this stuff for way too long. I just want to have it done and not look at it anymore on screen.
Next week I am submitting a poster for an AIGA competition and sending in my application to Camp Firebelly. After all of that I just want to focus on the presentation aspect of my work. My box is almost done, I have selected my envelope color (prepare for that) and the paper to print my resumé on.

carded

hey we got a lot of business cards yesterday!
and i am still content with the design i decided on two months ago!
it was cool seeing everyone come up with something completely different even with the same limitations. go gdes'ers!

inspiration

i finally got around to setting up my google reader the other day. how great it is.
so a lot of new totally inspiring stuff has come my way recently and its just what i need at this time in the semester

check it

1
woodgrain is the best and i freaked out when i saw this print by Bryan Nash Gil.
too bad its $4000! and from an edition of 12





2
grace posted this on her blog via designdaily. i think birds make for bad pets but this little invention just might change my mind



3
these cute little cards by threefold on etsy.



4
david sent me the link to this video the other day and i still cant get enough
thanks david!

The Lost Tribes of New York City from Carolyn London on Vimeo.

5
ive posted about the pink couch sessions before.
ive been in need of new music so i picked up nana grizols cd "love it love it" through itunes.
this cd is so great and the opening song truly reminds me of richmond. somehow i missed out when they played at rumors


6
and lastly on my music soap box
i finally got around to listening to the latest matt & kim cd "grand"
i like it a lot. perfect upbeat sping music

refine

during the week i hide away at night and work on my portfolio

heres some of what i have going on right now

none of these are finished yet

sorry for the image quality

crits welcome!






sample spread from my guidebook


part of my magazine

peace+love

uke!

so i have been trying this thing lately in my life where if there is something i want to do i just do it instead of always talking myself out of it.

one of the things that came up lately was learning an instrument. i have never played music but its been something i always regretted. so i went out the other day and bought myself a ukulele. its not the nicest one but will suffice for learning.

i was partially inspired to do this by hellogoodbye who recently released a three sond demo ep titled "the ukulele recordings"



im glad i decided to just do this. and maybe with enough practice i will get pretty good at playing this really cute instrument!

Pathfinder a way through swiss graphics

i found this book hiding on the design shelf in chop suey today.



this is all stitched on!


free poster that isnt tabliod!

back in the us

getting away was nice.
i think that was the most amazing trip i will ever have in my life.

but now its back to reality, i have a lot of work to get done.
first up, my portfolio. i am refining my guidebook from fall semester junior year.
im keeping the images but giving them some breathing room and getting rid of my typographic soup. yey for Akzidenz Grotesk! but theres still so much to do.

tomorrow its on to my magazine spreads which have always given me trouble. but i finally like the direction they are headed. ill be doing some water colors and scanning and fixing rags!