I need critique!!!

I'm going through preview this week and I need people to look over my portfolio.

Download it here.

DONT MIND THESE THINGS:

The blank pages are for the photos I haven't photoshopped to put in yet.

The billboard for Just Skin fucked up in the pdf file.

The quality is rather poor because I optimized the pdf for web viewing. If you want the full version let me know and I'll send it to you!

The rally poster is missing an invitation that I'm adding to it.

Any criticism welcome I have to turn this in Wednesday!!!

More photoshoot pics.

I'm definitely not posting all of them, but here are some goodies.

All are raw files. No photoshop bitch.

I want a Canon Rebel now.

I officially just added photog to my resume. I'm proud of myself!

I made me a supermodel!

Officially my new favorite model.

Mainly because he won't bitch and moan.

But also because he lets me take awesome pictures like these:

And it's the best because he's still a sessy goofball :) through it all

Still my favorite commercial series.

These two commercials from Sprint are still my favorite. Not favorite ever, but pretty damn close.

When I took photo I tried to be a smart ass and recreate the light painting and make a monster on my own car...but it never worked out.

Because it's HARD.

These videos took hours and hours of footage on timelapse.

For the Nascar commercial, Sprint actually had recreate the Sprint Cup cars, vinyls and all!

Ah the joys of advertising.

One thing I do miss...

Poppy fields in Poland. One of my favorite things in the world was to go on walks and find these fields and just lay in them for hours. I don't know, it was...freeing. The smell, the sounds. I miss home :(

I have this weird fascination with fields, almost like it's my safe place. Long time ago, an ex-boyfriend and I would always play these weird mind games, try and get into each others heads. He had a suspension chamber (straps though, not hooks) that I would go into to try and relax. Every time I ended up in a field inside my head. I think the wide nature of a field is what draws me in. Even though it is uncovered, you're safe within its grass and flowers, you can get lost in it. Maybe that's why my joy rides wind me up north rather than south, I'm looking for that safe haven.

Thinking about those mind games, crazy thing is, we got it work one time. Freaked me the hell out! It was one of those where it started with I'm thinking of a cube and it's this color, and he would finish it. He got in so deep so the actually saw the image of me in a field without me saying anything, figured out it was a poppy field and everything. That was the only time I really didn't feel safe. Come to think of it, fuck mind games!

*shutters* The dumb ass things I've gotten myself into. Well, you live and you learn.

Goodbye February.

March is almost here! Which is in a sense a good and bad thing.

Good: Quarter from hell almost over, St. Patrick's Day, Spring, Spring Break!
Bad: Quarter almost over I have so much work to do!!, Preview [AH!]

Don't mind me writing this list, it's just everything I need to finish:
Koi tattoo
photoshoot
website
[possible brochure]
Billboard->put into live surface
Print t-shirts
Print 1 page of temp tattoos
Preview book [photographs]
Eye Anomalies [watercolor, ink drawing, transfer]
Image Archive
Flash e-card
Flash Instructional
Finish After Effects movie [Serious UGH]

I have three weeks.
Throw 3 jobs, promoting, and a car build on top of that.
Can you tell I don't sleep much?

Once this quarter is over though...I am partying during Spring Break!
Well...kind of, I have so much other stuff I need to get done then that I've been putting off, but at least I'll probably be going skydiving! Another thing to cross off!
And I'm going to try and spend that week with my car and riding the SV650 since it'll finally be warm.

I'm hoping with some daily work planning things will go smoothly. I've decided to go about this damn movie in a different direction: 10 seconds a day (which should take less than an hour) instead of cramming doing 40 seconds into a day and reverting to drinking! Should work...right?

Aside from work and school, all I can say is...I'm happy :D
It feels good.

I was totally going to do this...

Pieces by Ramon Lenherr and Florian Brunner via Typography Served but I had this idea too!! For Adv Type I was considering "Living Type" where I would make type of out nature. Something along the lines of that artist that would use time lapse and there would be body silhouettes of where he laid through rain, etc. Oh whatever I forgot his name.

Hmmm...maybe I'll just do this when I take Portfolio...it'll be warmer then.
Oh the ideas are coming now!

I'd wake up to this from my ceiling.

Love these ornaments from Land-Rich. All are nature contained. I would hang them everywhere. Not too expensive and new ones come out quarterly.

Never ceases to amaze.

I came across a post on Oh Joy! on things for Mr. Valentine and saw this zoom lens you can attach to any cellphone. It's available at Urban Outfitters, but come on! People already take secret photographs that sometimes aren't so secret...let's just make it obvious! Hold on let me pull out my zoom lens to really get this. Geez.

The second one, though, is a nice idea. It's only $17 and its a few different magnetic attachments for the camera on the iPhone, including a fish eye. View the post here.

I want a dog.

These are so clever. I wouldn't use these at the dog park though...I'd be running after those damn balls myself to make sure I don't lose them. But a good idea none the less. Kind of vintage Art Deco look to it, which I always like. These were designed by Stitch Design Co. Lots of great work on their site. Maybe I should get into package design? I seem to be most inspired by it.

This totally makes me want a dog now. Boston Terrier. All the way.
I love the way they whine hehe. And it's totally a big dog stuck in a small package!

Be one of the cool kids.

I wish I had these as a kid! Beats any Lisa Frank or Five Star Folder any day! This is student work submitted by Marisa Torres from Mexico City.

"Ecologiks is a line of eco-friendly school supplies. Made with recycled and post-consumer materials, Ecologiks presents an alternative to unsustainable, generic or brand name, or otherwise dull school supplies.

The brand is inspired and manufactured for children. The package offers a full range of products—mainly school supplies. We intend to offer variety packages that include notebooks, pencil cases, calendars, and other stationery."

Supafresh!

So I created this whole blog and now I'm not even blogging. Go me. I need to get back into the rhythm of this whole thing.

15 weeks of school until I graduate. Damn. Can't wait.
I can see people breaking all around me, the pressure is finally getting to them, but I can't really compare...I still gets my shit done and in the end that's what matters.

At this point you pretty much have to be willing to throw your heart and soul into everything you do. I've always noticed that other designers can tell when you bullshit.

Other notes:
Tortoise is alright. I just have to keep an eye on her. They wanted me to run all of these tests totaling up to $500 or just checking her out! Fuck dat. I'd rather just take care of her. So that's that.

I'm starting to see the end of school and the start of my career, and it's kind of thrilling. I like how I'm finally at the point where I can pretty much design whatever I want and use styles that I've always wanted to experiment with and have it look amazing.

Went to see Kyle Cooper with Tracy a couple weeks ago. I didn't realize the expanse of his work, his company even did the HP commercials with the song "Picture Book." Check out Prologue. If you don't know who Kyle Cooper is, he's most famous for doing opening credits for movies such as Se7en, Dawn of the Dead, the Spiderman series, etc. He also did the ending sequence to Tropic Thunder with Tom Cruise dancing...which is amazing by the way hahaha. Learning After Effects and seeing these people use it...I can't imagine it. I guess you need to drive and passion for it because After Effects just makes me want to drink until what I'm doing looks good lol.

I'm planning on going skydiving next month and hopefully a rally course in Florida this summer since it looks as though Poland isn't going to work out...expensive ass tickets.

I'm looking to get another tattoo next week.
I think I'm going to get my rook pierced today.

Life is starting to fall into place.

I'm doing my first photoshoot next weekend...OooOooo. I'm excite.
Should turn out pretty damn cool. I'm taking pictures of tattoos. Yum.

I'm starting to put together my portfolio for preview, I'll post some teasers here and there so you can see!

Song of the day-Heads Will Roll by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs

...and Sanity by Alcarion