with hooves always placed on firm ground

Simile
By: N. Scott Momaday

What did we say to each other
that now we are as the deer
who walk in single file
with heads high
with ears forward
with eyes watchful
with hooves always placed on firm ground
in whose limbs there is latent flight

This is a poem which I just recently discovered in my English class, we had to pick out a poem to recite to the class, and I tryed to find something that related to me, after reading through pages of poems this one stuck out, the imagery came right into my head, I wasent even sure what it was about first, but somehow I really enjoyed it. I read it in front of my class, its very short but still has alot of power. I think I want to try and create some type of illustration for it, since the imagery it put in my head is what attracted me to it.
The last two lines are still alittle bit up in the air with me, I have an idea of what they mean, but I could be totally wrong. I tryed looking it up online for what other people had to say, not to much luck yet though.

Here is someone else's interpretation of the last two lines...
"The hooves ready to take flight…you can't work things out if you're always too afraid to face things, if you're always ready to run away…."
It confuses me though because it doesent exactly say hooves ready to take flight.

the dead shall live. the living die.

My friend Brian asked me about screen printing some shirts for his new band Severyn, So the last 2 days i played around with some possible tshirt designs, I had fun with it because it's kind of the first drawings and design stuff i've done since school ended, "which is really bad on my part". So it was fun to get back into some kind of drawing. The things I had to go off of were, A metal/hardcore band, and in Brians own words...something dieing, or someone eating someone. So these are the designs that came from it. they would all be one color prints. we'll see which ones get printed, if any.






My friend Whitney came over to see me when i was drawing, i handed her a piece of paper and a pencil and said draw something METAL! and this is what she drew,haha. its adorable.

the caucus race

I've been working on a website latly for myself, and to put my more done projects up on, as opposed to my blog, where its more the process and me talking about them.
I have a website pretty much done that i finished in my web design class, but i'm not really happy with how it looks, i dont feel like it looks like my work, it's more of a black and white not interesting look. so i'm going to be working on a new site in the upcoming summer, and hopefully i'll have it up by the end of the summer. Here's 2 layouts of what the site i have now looks like.

eat the rich

I went to New York last weekend to visit my sister who lives in Hoboken NJ, it was a good trip, I want to go back as soon as i have time and money.

When we were walking around NY decided to go into Barney's department store to look at the Rogues Gallery stuff that they had, cus I havent really had the chance to see much of our stuff in actual stores. It was pretty awesome to see some stuff that I had part in making, and remember actually sending it off to there, then seeing it in the store, it was a good experience.
That stores so expensive though, its pretty much only for rich stupid people, the tshirts were selling for $90 and other long sleeve stuff was around the $200-300 range, crazy. I didnt even look at the other companies pricing in there.

It makes you think though, why is art so expensive, its usually poor artists who have an idea, and try and sell it for as much money as they can, which makes the market for the more rich and well off customers. I know artists have to make a living to, but the artists dont even get half of that money that the store sells it for, they usually buy the stuff from the clothing company retail price, then make it 2 1/2 times the price they bought it for. this worlds about money, thats all i have to say, its sad.

moving

I'm moving on tuesday to my new apartment with my best friends Sarah and Ally, so i'm packin up.

eat, sleep, repeat

This semester I've been really into making books, I'm trying to think of ideas for my senior thesis next year and what I can do in it, and most of my ideas go back to either screen printing or book making, since thats what i'm most interested in right now, maybe i'll combine the two. Here are some books I made this semester, the first one "red book" is a process book I made for my Information design class, only a few pages are pictured but its a pretty thick process book, I bought an old book from the salvation army and took the cover off and beat it up alot, then used it for the cover of my process book.
2nd is a day planner I made for information design class, I dont really like it, but heres a picture of the cover.
3rd is a book wich has been on my blog before, its my process book for last semester, but last week I made another one of the same book so I could have one for myself since my teacher keeps one copy of it and I only made one copy last semester since it took so long to make.

How to screen print book

This is a book i made for my Information Design class. The project was to show how something worked, or how to do something using information design, which pretty much means that getting the message across is the most important thing, and its not so much about your own style and design. I kind of chose to go away from that though and wanted to make a book right from the beginning, and went with one of my initial ideas to show how to do basic screen printing, I based it alittle off of a screen printing pamphlet i have, which is very cartooney. I wanted to go away from the cartoon aspect and try to make it a very professional looking book, even though when you think of screen printing, you don't usually think of professional, but its my book and that's the way i wanted to make it because I didn't want to just make a shitty book like the one I was basing it off of.
I'm pretty proud of the way it turned out, I love the paper and the colors. If I had more time to spend on the actual layout of the book and the text it would of came out alot better, but time is something i don't have lately to spend large amounts of time on a project. But i guess thas how things go in college, a lot of half ass'ed projects.
All and all I like the book though, i enjoy the actual making of the books more than i do laying them out most of the time.

website number two

I designed another website for my web design class, the assignment was to make a website linking to 10 favorite things, or just 10 things, and have it with the buttons or whatever we may have chose to link to the different things, always on the page, i forget what its called when you do that.
So i chose to do my 10 favorite album covers and booklets.
i'm pretty happy with the website layout and the way or showing the booklets. i love the backround and the way it looks. its a very basic website but i wanted to focus on the way it looked and runs. I'm always attracted to well put together websites even if they dont have alot of flashy things on them. i'm also attracted to websites such as www.misprintedtype.com which is kind of how my last website was based from. i'm hoping for the next assignment in this class to combine the two and have it be a well working website. "website was taken down but here are some photos of the basic layout."

the hawk and the sun

These are some sketches i just did, i want to do something with them eventually but i figured i'd put something up on here, i think i might make a little book and use drawings like these, with really grainy paper.

for an up coming project in information design, i need to display how something works, I have an idea of maybe showing how birds wings work, or something else animal related, i think it will make the project alot more interesting that showing how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
I think i would make it in little book form, like an instruction booklet, but it would tell something new on each page with a little illustration on the next page. maybe like 3 inches by 3 inches would be the size of the book. but who knows, lets see if i change my mind.

oh and sorry if i;m typing weird its very late and in in the computer lab and i have class at 9am. goodnight.

t shirt designs

So I had an assignment at my work, and it was to design around 12 finalized images for tshirts and placement for each of them. I only had about 4 days to work on these because of school, homework, and still working at the shop at rogues. so these are most of the designs I came up with. I definetly like the drawn out ones better than the other photoshop looking ones, and i was told that they look alot better by everyone to. so i'm going to keep working with that kind of sketching and hopefully go more detailed, maybe drawing the out bigger to because i usually work on a smaller scale.
the drawings had to be rogues galleryish style, siince it was for them. and 3 other words I had to work from were...nautical, winter and astronomy. I started out working on wilderness looking ones, looking into hunting, moose and deer. even though I HATE hunting, but i'm really into the imagery right now.
so ya here are most of the images, there all one color prints.