Hallo Cubes

Hey fellers, this year has been a bonanza of a bonanza. I made a Halloween card for the club Vox Graphis which is mostly graphic design oriented. I was having trouble deciding if i wanted a 2 pointed hat or a traditional one pointer. So I decided to go with both. 2+1=3!
Valentine is coming up and I'm working on a card for that. I made one for xmas too but it wasn't printed because we didn't have enough ppl to man the table to sell these cards. We're raising money for our Ligature show.

Here's some more projects from last semester. Some cubed fruit/veggies that I didn't plant. Can you see which is what?

Pigs in a Book

At long last, the other dabbler of this long junket is posting! I'm sure you've all been waiting for me, my imaginary followers.

School is now finally out though I cannot say the same for Elena. I'm sure for many others school is still in session and I am sorry that you are not me taking a vacation. Truly I am.

I finally took some pictures of a book I had to make in the beginning of the year. Our project was to make 100 little squares relating to one topic and mine was: PIGS.



The cover's made of soft cotton cloth with cut out piggies. You can see where I put the cut out pigs in the second picture. That's supposed to be the inside cover. The book cover is sealed by buttons at the top of the book so the cover's more like a wrap around. Like a burrito. Like a pork filled burrito.

Onto the squares!



For many I used collages. I had a 10001 magazines in a storage called an overstuffed closet. It was either collages or drawing pigs all over the place.

DONT SQUINT.CLICK. DONT SQUINT.CLICK.

One other technique I really like doing is to drop a bit of coffee or tea and stain a picture or just regular watercolor paper. The result is a grand explosion of abstract and for the toppings, I added a drawing of whatever I saw in that apbstract splash. Of course the drawing is related with pigs. And yes, I just spelled "abstract" wrong.
This technique is actually pretty popular because it's easy to do and always looks nice without looking the same each time. You should try it. Now.

Music, photos and dreams for the summer

Aliana's out of school, but I still have one final left to go. I cannot wait to go, but I am not excited to pack up my stuff and get it into my car, Granny Pearl. I don't know if she'll be able to handle it all.

Besides that, I've been taking the free time before my final to work on my photography and film skills.

My friend, Chelsea, and I recently one "Best Short" at a film festival held at our school. It can be viewed here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byotkgJ9bjM

I also got the idea from my friend, Allie, to make stop-motion films from different things that happen in my day.
Here is "Bubbles":
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lenadeviphotos/4609664265/

I like this one better. It's called "The Rhythm of My Day": http://www.flickr.com/photos/lenadeviphotos/4610093397/
The sound cuts off early on that one and it bothers me. It only does that on flickr.

While I have you on flickr, you should check out my photos. I have decided to extend my photo month to the entire year. Some days are easier to photograph than others, but I am doing my best.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lenadeviphotos/

Now that you're tired from running around to the different links I've posted, here's some stuff I've been thinking about.

I've always wanted to take awesome pictures in the rain, but I could never get things right so that the rain drops are actually visible in the photo. Today is the first rainy day in forever and I have decreed it as the first day of summer. There were just three different rainstorms in ten minutes. When the next one comes, I'm hurrying out to take photos. I rigged up a sort of umbrella for my camera, so I hope that works.

Working on my films has made me realized how little music I know that really fits the style I'm slowly developing. I will spend a lot of time on Pandora in the upcoming weeks researching great sounds. I am always open to suggestions.

I have a lot of fun, creative things on my summer "todo" list (it's "todo" because it's "everything" I have "to do"), so I'm sure I will be posting more fun things throughout the next two months.

I vote Aliana posts something. Just sayin'.

Composition in Clippings and Other News

So, it's been a few months. A lot has happened, many photos have been taken on my part, I've created a short film and I'm sure Aliana has done some cool stuff too. But who is supposed to update this blog? Me, because we're taking turns despite the flawed logic involved in it being my turn now. Ahem.

Anyway, I'm going to shamelessly advertise on this post for my nonexistent readers. I declared April to be photo month at my school. May is technically National Photo Month, but school will be out by then and I wanted people to get involved. So, here's a link to what I've been up to:
www.flickr.com/photos/lenadeviphotos
I'm thinking about continuing past the end of the month. We'll see. Some days are more photogenic than others.

On a non-photo note: If you have any knowledge of the De Stijl art movement, then you've probably heard of Piet Mondrian. Well, I decided to do a Mondrianesque project myself.

I got red, yellow, blue and white clippings from magazines and made collages of each color. Next, I lightly painted over the collages with their respective colors so they would be somewhat uniform in color and cut out a couple of different sized rectangles. I placed these on a poster where I wanted, made different widthed (this is now a word) lines using a very fat permanent marker and cut out white rectanges to fill up the rest. Voila! A project that could be mistaken for Mondrian's own.

In unrelated news, I've been listening to a lot of Coldplay recently (like at this very second), but also The Mountain Goats. If you haven't heard of them before, go listen to "Earth Air Water Trees" and "Dance Music" right now.

At last, Creations: The Rump is Dangerous.

Today I had the liberty of a free day due to one of my academic masters catching the infamous illness, the flu. Though I do consider it an unfortunate event, I found that my Tuesday situation was greatly lifted from a turbulant weight. Today, it was unneccessary to awake at 7:30 am in the morning, lay in bed for several minutes that amounts to ten in the end and that amounts to me being late to class. About 5 minutes late only but a bad habit nonetheless.

Anyway, the point of that previous paragraph was that I had no academic activities today. Therefore, I created.

Here's a previous creation from months ago:


Patchie is now in the hands of a lover of patchwork. He has been adopted nicely. His arms are fun to flail too. I tend to torture my merchandise before sending them off into the world.

Speaking of fun things to torture, this is what i made today!


This wonderous little bundle of squish is swine flu free and full of lovez for every single non-h8tr. He's made of socks. He was very simple to make (about 2-4 hours).

Ingredients
Two Socks, 2 Buttons, stuff and fluff.

The Rump is Dangerous.

And why are these photos so nifty? It's because these Dabblers are supporters of http://www.picnik.com/

I've passed by this fountain almost every day for a good portion of my life and have always wanted to jump into it. In the center of a very large intersection, there would be at least a few drivers to witness me in my snorkle gear as I searched the depths or a sea monster attacking an unsuspecting ship. Hopefully I'll cross into the center of that intersection with my box submarine and climb into the enormous fountain, someday.

Happy first birthday!

Today is the birthday of Epik Stunt Cookie.
Epik Stunt Cookie: derived from 'stunt kite,' Elena's favorite hobby, 'cookie,' our favorite dessert and 'epik' cuase thats wat it iz.
We (there are two of us) are using this blog just to put up random things that we do when we feel creative.
We hope you enjoy!