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Trigger Happy: Photo of Nowhere

Somewhere between Dallas, Texas and Kansas City, Missouri... 

Random Stuff from the 2010 Spring Semester

Quotes of spring 2010:

1-25-10
Kidwell: I am ashamed. I'm going to go home and eat my children or something. Let's get a drink.

Kidwell: Change. Change now. Change now dammit.

Dustin: Its kind of tit-tastic

1-26
Epp: Look at that! *points to a widow* Hollly shit.


1-29
Sean: The point is getting the shit on the wall

2-1
We should all go as someone from batman for halloween!
Lance: I'm going to be Ice Man!
Micah: ... do you mean Mr. Freeze?

Lance: Unice!

2-2
Sean: Mold is a word that I find funny.

2-3
Michael Epp: It would not be smart to say I'm instigating an uprise
Michael Epp: Do what you want to, just keep your clothes on. NakedDesigner.com

2-7
Me: You smell nice today
Micah: Yeah it's this new stuff called soap.

Me: Micah, do you have any spray mount?
Micah: I have to tacos and a frisbee in my drawer right now

2-8
Kidwell: What? I'm just trying to decide what Lysol would taste like.
Cam: Probably not as good as blood.

2-10
Kidwell: Does it smell like Mariah Carey?

4-11
Amanda: It smells like pee down there today.
Kidwell: Well, what kind of pee?

4-12
Amanda: Johnna and I went to get a hotdog and it took thirty minutes.
Dustin: Hahaha that's the funniest story I've ever heard.

Kidwell: Can you tell it's the end of the semester? They're probably watching popcorn pop.

Abby: I'm a bad person and I can't help it.
Luke: It's okay, I got a pocket full of leaves.

Micah: If we come back to take pictures we should talk to each other in sign language so they can't yell at us.

4-14
Kat: Is that her?
Jessica: Yeah, that's her, walking around being all skinny.

Micah: I'm going to make a line of plush kidwells for my senior project. Do you have any idea how much stress would go away if I just hugged a little Kidwell?

4-19
Micah: (while talking about sex with me) It was gay as hell

4-20
Luke: Hey Abby? I googled "trench coat" and I got spiderman.

4-21
Sean: What, do they paint with their foreheads?

Micah: Acme Junior Shrooms

4-23
Dmitri: The phrase "Saltwater doesn't freeze" really bothered me.

Brian/Micah: I can smell the pixels.

Epp: -presenting presenting presenting-
Kidwell: Hey, you gonna give me that remote or not?
Sean: It's his weekend.

Kidwell: Everyone's kind of huddled around you like they should be right?
Epp: In my white robe.

4-26
Kidwell to Tammy: If they sucked would you say that they do?
Tammy: I'm really not sure about that shirt Kidwell.

Kidwell: You're adding too much to it. AKA you're adding too much to it.

Sean: I was very surprised by how easily she moved through this.
Kidwell: So is Lance.

Mo to me: You might be sad if I were gone.
Micah: Or she might drink a cocktail out of your skull.

4-29
Blake: Not only did we take it to heart, but we PAINTED a heart.

Blake: Woah, my arm.

4-30
Epp: What's happening?
Sean: I don't know teacher.

Epp: I hope he gets sick
Brian: He has brain cancer.

5-2
Mo: My mom said Avatar is just like Fern Gully
Sean: And Gone With the Wind. I mean... Dances with Wolves.

5-5
Kidwell: Sorry if that came out crazy. I've been digging in my yard for two days.

Where did you get the idea?
Kidwell: Placemat
Johnna: A restaurant
Amanda:... why did you say placemat?

Kidwell: And it's Do-stan!
Dustin: Can we start?
Kidwell: Hell yeah.

Lance: I think it's pretty well crafted.
Kidwell: For a girl.

Dustin: It's like the Lincoln on a penny if you will.


Sketches from the last week:

Inspirations, Inspirational, The content of a content Abby

I generally get innate compulsions to have strange thoughts the more tired I become as a night progresses. Having finished writing a paper, taking me approximately four hours to complete, and after barreling through a very long day or semi-small amounts of sleep, I have decided to verbalize my list of life-long obsessions. They are as follows: 

Batman

Houdini

Dr. Seuss

Al Capone

Sagmeister

magic

animals- zebras, wolves, panthers, hyenas, hawks, dogs

mobsters in general

quirky, odd, old things

toys, especially action figures or things that are smaller than their general counter part (for example, my tic-tac cars vs    

          micro-machines vs hot wheels)

shark teeth

old keys

old paper dolls

small glass jars and vials

buttons

oddly shaped or colored candles

old perfume bottles

old portraits

Albrect Durer

vampires

Anselm Kieffer

jars full of things

metal binders

the concept of a Marry Poppins bag

random quotes from my mother

stickers
hat pins

foreign currency

old nintendo controllers

sewing/repairing things badly
stickers
dreams
watches as necklaces
playing cards

cages

small notebooks
leather jacket scented crayons

recipes

old pieces of paper

new pieces of paper

random spices in their raw/dried form

$.25- .50 animal toys in little plastic bubbles from one of those cheap, jank-ass machines

The Sundance Kid

pockets

pockets in shoes

pockets on the insides of coats
loose tea leaves

fish- especially when they are placed in containers that don't constitute as a "tank"

why certain words start appearing in everyday conversation more often than others, happening in phases, for example, the

          word "innate"

secret passages

The Brothers Grimm

My green folder of strange stories clipped from an old newspaper magazine.

Chunks of safety glass after a car crash
the differences and similarities between Profanity, Profane and Profound
E.A. Poe
music boxes
weird pieces of wood

I compulsively collect pens and fine-tipped markers... I don't know if that should have made the list or not

interesting that all humans appearing on my list are men.

VisLang: Notes 11-02

communication models

-simplicity/universality

sender > message > receiver (author process audience centered [in order])

sender < message < receiver/ R>S

berlo model- priority: relationship between source and receiver

source and receiver both have same attributes

still one way mode of communication

tv- one source that goes out to the masses

^- encoding-decoding a message Dec- through reading/listening

examples of different skill levels through process of encoding/decoding

-what stylistic choices are you making

-personal bias towards the subject (are you altering their opinion?)

the more equal the source/reciever- the less breakdown of the message

message: How do you structure/code the content? what symbols are you using- decision of the source- how do you select/arrange the content? This objectifies the message

examples encoding/decoding message:

- choice of music? colors? imagery used? lighting... tells the source- for or against

- newspaper vs blog deliverable- newspaper has more credibility- for an older generation? blog- not necessarily professional or credible

decoration?: good if it reinforces the message, otherwise it becomes noise

channel: effects the experience.

-what your client wants/can afford

-what is the best way to communicate?

mechanical- technical (internet/tv)

presentational- physical outlet

representational- photos/renderings/drawings

we have changed the way we operate- texting, to get a message across, you text things differently. Ok. vs Okaaaayyy..... vs OK! lol? jk? adapting our messages

weaver model:

transmitter/receiver

- actual technology (as a designer, what is your technique/talent?)

noise

-the information that comes between your message and the receiver

-alter the audience's understanding

feedback

-originally ignored this is the method now we know our message has been received

-real-time system that allows you to change/rethink your pitch

emmert/donaghy model

priority: contextualization; sender/receiver duality

noise and feedback

environment/context: what is the message? how you're processing it? background of sender/reciever- everything is judged based on context

perception motivation reasoning: both A and B have same things

what type of symbols that you the sender are going to select

message cycle- meredith davis

priority: designed messages impact on culture; design as cultural production:

-culture shapes design, impact of design on culture, design can recreate/construct culture - trends, social networking (has produced culture, it has changed the way we function as a society)

circulation- if endless, circulation becomes a means of itself. becomes different if sucked into pop culture

reception of individual: from friends? from company? looking at social networking as a means of promotion- friend vs tv

consumption by culture: based on past messages, design is a form of culture production, we are designing messages that will stay around and be included in cultures beyond what we intend them for.

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You know you're a design student when:

you start wondering what font your keyboard is in.

you cringe at comic sans.

you know you'd get laughed at for using Rosewood.

you make herbal-essence sounds when you feel good quality paper.

you find ways to kern between individual letterforms in any computer program, including email.

you start worrying about the kerning in your hand writing.

you go to the hospital for cutting yourself with an exacto knife and the nurses ask you if you go to the art school.

you cut yourself with an exacto knife and think, "F#@$, I'm bleeding all over my project."

you know the difference between poster board and illustration board.

you know the benefits of using spray mount over glue stick.

you own at leas one piece of clothing that is CMYK in color.

you're saddened when someone tells you your handwriting is too messy to be considered "hand-rendered type."

you point out ligatures when you're reading a novel.

you congratulate yourself for knowing what type face different things are in.

you refer to non-graphic designers as "civillians"

there are things you can't say to your non-graphic design friends without looking crazy or like a design-dork

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shooting arrows through a bullfrog

pigeons in the park, eating rocks

pages streaked with red and gray, letters on a sheet, ink on a blade

long-distance conversations, cans on a string

you are here, deer in the headlights

everything grins in death, a baring of teeth, wide, sightless eyes

smiling faces and champagne bottles

babies in jugs and jars, lined up on a shelf

the lights blink, fade, change, distort and sway. a bare bulb swinging from side to side

white picket fences gray with age, hard to maintain, effortless immobility