Lighten Up

Altfest's Offical New Look

2009-04-19T23:32:00.002-04:00

The new Altfest site is up. Check it and compare what they paid professionals for verses us.

Altfest personal wealth management

Juried Show Entry

2009-03-10T11:28:00.000-04:00

Play Time

2009-02-27T11:45:00.003-05:00

Smarties

2009-02-15T23:13:00.001-05:00

If this doesn't start working soon I'm going to leave it for dead.

Leave-Behinds... [there has got to be a better name for this]

2009-02-12T16:03:00.005-05:00

so my bright idea was to do a flip book for my post-parting present... maybe with the animation I do of my logo for Paige or the video project.

I found this site:

Flippies
but the minimum batch is 2,500 at 2.75 a piece which equals a coronary inducing $6,875

So now I'm going to try the home-hobbiest edition, which are more in my price range

Flipclips

UNRELATED
while I was looking at flip books I found this guy

Pagegangster

Who will turn your PDF into a flash book for 199 USD....Schäm dich!... why aren't we in on this? Isn't this a feature that the newest version of flash does for you? I don't know much about Flash.. but I know this seems wrong. This could be how the juniors raise money for their senior trip... robbing the less informed.

What I'm working on...

2009-02-10T12:41:00.002-05:00

Logo sheet

2009-02-09T01:10:00.000-05:00

I might put this in that portfolio book Paige is making us do.

Pride Prejudice and Zombies

2009-02-08T19:46:00.001-05:00

Seriously check it

Business Card..

2009-02-03T16:28:00.000-05:00

I changed the opening line.

True Badour

2009-02-03T13:15:00.004-05:00

My logo and business card...

Square Pegs into Round Holes

2009-02-03T00:21:00.004-05:00

So with everyone.... well not everyone.. there are certain projects that no matter how much you rework them they are always disappointing. For me it's that infernal DVD package and the magazine. The sad part is both of them are the projects that I wanted to be the best for me. A total redesign is impossible on both with our time restrictions... so I'll go with the magazine total revamp. Here's the last ditch effort for Haute though.

It's a six panel piece with the first and last panels having small booklets (at max 10 pages each). The panels fold into each other so that all the dark pieces are on the inside and the outside is all white with the logo in black on the front and back. The DVDs slip into a pocked behind the pictures and the pattern on the DVD matches the pattern on the top half of that section.

We'll see if it's going anywhere that is close to acceptable... to be continued...

I'm having an anxiety attack

2009-01-30T21:53:00.004-05:00

Maybe I'm the only one who is even thinking about this right now, but all these things that we make and this portfolio that we are putting together are inevitably going to need to go into something that can be transported... which leads me to the question:

What do professionals carry into interviews?
Honestly, my suitcase is going to look pretty silly (and it's darn heavy). I can't imagine hoisting that around the city.

If you go on a plane do you check it or do you try to sneak it past the stewards and jam it into the overhead compartment. What will happen to your package design when the lady who is trying to sneak four unchecked bags onto the flight crams three of her bags into the overhead because the stewardess is coming close to her and she figures if she just gets them out of sight the flight attendant won't charge her the $45 she should pay for the domestic flight?

Or do you risk the postal service (sorry Brian).

If you're going to be interviewing in a walking based city do you get a portfolio that has wheels... But then you look like one of those small children who's teachers give them so much homework that the doctors have advised their parents not to let them actually carry their BACKpacks on their backs.

How many bags should you be bringing in anyways? .. portfolio case... laptop bag (just in case you have to show a motion piece) .. purse..
If not the purse then where do you put the your girly junk that somehow seems necessary for the travel to the location? Do you find a way to fit the laptop in the portfolio case?
Again, it's the suitcase problem.. you don't want to seem like you're moving in with them.

Then the business card!

Do you get a business card holder so that you don't mess up your $500 print job in your wallet... but what does your business card holder say about you when you pull it out?

Would I be narcissistic enough to brand even my business card holder? Isn't there a point at which you're trying too hard.
Or do you get one of those American Psycho "I'm really into being professional" pissing contest gold plated cases?
Would you go all 15 year old Hot Topic cigarette case and just wear your JNCOs into the interview?

I'm utterly ridiculous... and I'm having a neck spasm...

KAUTE! or however Linda spells it...

2009-01-30T16:04:00.001-05:00

Yuri showed me this video today!

BAAA Door

2009-01-30T15:16:00.002-05:00

This is a little jacked as far as the pacing. But it works better as a swf.

On Air Graphics

2009-01-29T23:38:00.001-05:00

CBS 2008

CBS 1982

Canal 5

Elf Redux

2009-01-29T22:29:00.001-05:00

Neiman Marcus Ads

2009-01-29T22:00:00.003-05:00

Make SMART not look Stupid

2009-01-29T00:55:00.001-05:00

What do you guys think? Is it getting any better? or worse?

Satan Says... vomit 'cuz you're jealous

2009-01-28T23:42:00.003-05:00

Goshi Goshi Debut Reel

Put a Bib On Me so I Can Be a Cannibal

2009-01-23T01:17:00.004-05:00

From Flickr search "Business Cards"

Title Sequences

2009-01-16T22:41:00.003-05:00

I think some people are doing title sequences for their personal voice projects (either for Stan or Paige). I put two links on my "Outside Links" section that are supposed to be completely devoted to title sequences.

From them I learned that

Shadowplay Studio in L.A. did both the Juno and Thank You For Smoking title sequences.

Juno

Thank You For Smoking

Cadbury Touch Up

2009-01-16T00:02:00.000-05:00

On Air Looks

2009-01-15T12:55:00.002-05:00

CNN International

vs.

CNN US

Cinemax South America

vs.

Cinemax US

BFA Invitation Series

2009-01-15T00:02:00.002-05:00

Thoughts?

SCAD is hosting an event

2009-01-13T16:22:00.004-05:00

Yeah I don't really care about the event, but these colors really hurt my head!

Carolina Melis

2009-01-09T21:17:00.002-05:00

Carolina Melis

This one goes out to the juniors

2008-12-02T06:52:00.003-05:00

Best all-nighter music = Bjork.

Why on earth you ask? Because once she starts wailing like a banshee its really hard to consider sleeping through that noise.

I'm sure Death Metal would be similar... so cualquiera.

Liberty Finished... Again

2008-12-01T11:31:00.000-05:00

Sidewalk Toys

2008-11-17T01:29:00.002-05:00

Saab and Typography

2008-11-13T15:28:00.002-05:00

Saab's New "Read the Road" Ad

Done by McCann Erickson
McCann Worldgroup

DixonBaxi

2008-11-08T21:33:00.001-05:00

Identity for five (UK TV channel) by DixonBaxi, a London based design firm

Bikers

2008-11-05T20:51:00.000-05:00

Cure for Ennui=Make a Silly Video

We Are Royale

2008-10-22T22:02:00.002-04:00

We Are Royale in LA

They did stuff for the Daily Show, the new Jet Blue and the new season of the Mythbusters.

2008-10-20T21:35:00.001-04:00

http://www.igloo.com.au/

Top 100 Continued...

2008-10-07T20:47:00.004-04:00

Impossible Pictures

Broadcast Design firm in Denver, CO
Clients:

C-TRL

Broadcast Design with a interest in experimental work or work for fun- Soho, NYC
Clients:Their clients include Getty Images, NBC Universal, Google, Res Media Group, Redbull, Palm Pictures, G-Net Media, Obscura Digital, Ghostly Records & OM Records.

Yuco

LA and Hong Kong
Title Sequences for Enchanted

motion504

Minneapolis MN
Clients: Target and Discovery Channel

The Hours

2008-10-07T14:36:00.005-04:00

This is so awesome I think my heart stopped.

The Hours Music Video

MADE BY: jonas odell

Odell works for Nexus Productions

They've done the grand theft auto Coke ad and some of the BBC 3 ads that Brenton showed me. They are in London and Paris.

The beginnings of the Top 100- Motion Graphics

2008-10-07T14:16:00.003-04:00

Resource to find out about firms
http://www.dexigner.com/directory/

Plus et plus - 133 Fifth Avenue New York

Founded in 2002
Clients: MTV Networks, USA Networks, and VOOM, sonka, redesigned AMC

Principals: Jeremy Hollister, Founder/creative director (interview about him and his process)
http://www.reservocation.com/01_11/index.html)
Judy Wellfare, Creative Director
Zu Al-Kadiri, Head of Production

http://plusetplus.com/reel.html

IDN

2008-10-06T18:28:00.002-04:00

I found a new magazine that I like: IDN

This is a video they had on their site. Awesome!

2008-10-02T20:40:00.003-04:00

So... I get the theory behind this poster, but (ironically enough) don't you think it's hard to read? Maybe it just took me too long to read it, for me to be comfortable. I read B LIN .. thought it was a weird way to abbreviate Berlin and then saw DNESS. Thoughts?

altfest color options

2008-09-24T20:16:00.000-04:00

Altfest's new look

2008-09-18T14:17:00.000-04:00

Logos

2008-09-12T01:51:00.001-04:00

Can you see where my thinking diverged into incoherence?
I think the UFO may have been the low point, but animal cruelty is always high on the distaste meter.

iReport

2008-09-09T15:05:00.003-04:00

I think I'll try stop motion of their points from their speeches on boxes.

Hendecagon

2008-09-08T01:43:00.003-04:00

In geometry, a hendecagon (also undecagon[1]) is an 11-sided polygon. -wikipedia

Altfest has eleven points of financial activity that it can help advise you on, so I made a hendecagon that I'd diecut the center of so that you can see through ideally.

This is my favorite idea so far. (Also, this is used in coinage like the Susan B. Anthony dollar)

man I've got a lot of logos

2008-09-02T14:19:00.002-04:00

logos cont'd

2008-09-02T14:16:00.001-04:00

A page from Yuri-logos

2008-09-02T14:14:00.001-04:00

Blurb

2008-09-01T02:07:00.003-04:00

I made and [finally] uploaded a book to try out Blurb. It will bonus as work for Jeff's class. I'm debating making another because I want the 10x8 landscape for this corporate identity manual, but the book I just ordered was 7x7 because 10x8 won't fit in a dvd package. It won't be in until mid Sept at the earliest, but even knowing that I still think I'll wait a bit.

Too Lazy to make a new Blog

2008-08-25T18:48:00.002-04:00

Here is a site that shows brand redesigns.

http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/cat_finance.php

This was the spirograph logo I like, but it's been rebranded when the company merged.

We're Gonna Make It After All

2008-04-16T01:41:00.003-04:00

I think I knocked out Knocked Up... so one class done! I'd post it, but it is against the rules.

Sara King-Great Typography

2008-04-13T00:10:00.003-04:00

First Pass Knocked Up

2008-04-09T21:37:00.002-04:00

2:11 Pushing Face
8:54 I Got a Promotion
9:00 Let's go Celebrate
14:47 Dancing
15:02 Drinking and Dancing
15:18 Hair Toss Dance
15:21-24 Do you want to get out of here?
15:33 Walking out of club
15:44 Fall into bed
15:52 You're prettier than I am
17:27-32 Morning Hey
17:38-41 Did we have sex? Yes
18:42 "Never do what they did"
23:02 Cells divide
23:11 Interview with Franco
26:11 How did this happen?
26:15 Run in Grocery Store
26:51 Positive wands
27:04 What is this?
31:58 I'm pregnant
32:11-19 With Emotion?
33:39-34:01 Waiting Room
34:54 This is going to be cold and you're next
34:23 You are pregnant
36:28 I think it's awesome
36:53 rear your child
42:46-43:12 Jodi-I heard you were pregnant
44:03 This will be coming out of you in 6 months
48:55-49:18 Where do Babies come from?
49:31-50:22 What do you think of him? Fetch
50:22-51:11 Bubbles
51:30 Do you think she likes you? She's trying
53:24 Do you smoke cigarettes
55:27 Ultrasound
58:24 Will we ever be as happy as baby bjorn?
1:05:31 ultrasound
1:06:40 flash of white ford bronco
1:13:22 ultrasound
1:34:36 I should have read the baby book
2:00:45 Camera in delivery room
2:02:21 Give me the drugs
2:03:34 gonna sneak a peak
2:04:07 I shouldn't have gone in there
2:06:44 talking to the baby

Grid Schematic

2008-04-07T02:47:00.001-04:00

Droog Schematic

2008-04-07T01:47:00.001-04:00

DVD Box set

2008-04-05T01:53:00.005-04:00

Runway Point of Purchase idea for DVD casing. I think I might add Joan Crawford, Audrey Hepburn, Sophia Lauren and Meryl Streep Transparent figures and the runway would be lit from underneath with a row of LED lights and a translucent film over top.

Box Designs that everyone's seen, but with measurements to send to the sculpture student.

Dreamgirls

2008-04-04T21:45:00.000-04:00

Notes on the basic idea of my trailer.

2008-03-24T22:05:00.003-04:00

So I am going to cut a trailer. I have the worst luck with Handbrake. I thought I understood it from when the guys went over it in class, but I spent two days waiting for a two pass encoding to finish on my computer and when it was done only the logo animation from dreamworks had been encoded. I went back to Mac the Ripper to just get it burned and I'll try the Handbrake again now that I know I at least have a copy I can take to school and use compressor.

Possible angles: when you're trying to make it ... who do you trust?

Here is my first pass at catching time codes that I want:

1:49 Walking behind stage
2:21 Curtis smoking
2:23 Hands out
3:11 Boy group slide back
4:20 Turn on Heels Boys
4:23 Light Filter Change
4:25 Mic Coming down
6:49 hands clasped
6:51 All 3 hands
7:21 Orange Silhouette
7:54 Crowd clapping
8:02 Shoes dance
8:47 Hand shake
9:27 Mic and Spotlight
10:13 Girls in bluelight
10:29 "How long have we been singing"
10:55 "You don't need an amateur contest"
12:38 Crowd
13:58 hands hit on
14:16 Hands on piano
15:41 Jimmy
15:44-16 Traveling
16:27 Horn
16:22 Waving in beige
17:10 Grind in black
17:34 Black scream
18:42 leg thrust
18:58 shake towards jimmy
19:26 horn in camera
24:41 lights behind jimmy
25:38 listening to radio
25:51 cake
26:55 light fading on 3
27:45 "We are going to make friends with the most important DJs across the country"
29:09 On Air
29:11 Radio Mic
29:18 dance practice
29:20 Blurry hand shake
29:43 all fall in rehearsal
30:11 red dress silhouette
30:51-52 Lay out
31:01 girls pull back
31:04 arms up
31:33 arms up tambourine
31:48 men shimmy
31:56 curtis on the side
32:05 girls lay out to white
32:08 wheels turn
32:10 needle down
32:11-32:25 Record made
33:08 "Why am I sitting here without a B side"
33:43 outside studio
34:21 Jennifer Hudson
34:55 crowd
34:37 what's all this?
35:07 curtis and deena
36:27 Ef & Curtis kiss
36:47 you promised I wouldn't spend my life singing back up
37:08 You're a real snake
38:47 You can't have it all
40:24 bad wigs
41:01 love
43:04 presenting dreams
43:26 stay here
43:29 "did you say our own"
44:02 "Deena sing lead"
44:09 deena turn to camera
44:37 "Ya'll gonna do what I tell you to do"
45:08 "Deena's beautiful and she's always been beautiful"
46:26 white stage
47:33 hug
47:51 group hug
48:58 run to miles
49:04 hips
49:21 Deena Dream
49:31 Shake no
49:53 feel alright
50:14 "you make her seem like a product"
50:30 arm up
50:46 Lorell
51:26 silhouette dream
51:43-47 Turning dream
51:59 Starry
52:01 Finale Dream
52:04 Dream Applause
52:58 Cameras
53:03 Cameras
53:20 Interview
53:58 54 Mic in Studio Deena
54:45 Ef hitting mic
55:24 dreams in type
56:11 "you stole my man and my dream"
57:43 Deena Jones and the Dreams sign
59:46 Push Deena and Ef
1:04:58 End of You're gonna love me
1:06:19 Crying love me
1:06:43 back silhouette
1:06:58 gold mirrors
1:07:18-22 Grecian

And I've got three pages more, but I'm tired of typing

I'm in love with Stella

2008-03-06T16:38:00.000-05:00

Other than the fact that I'm in love with Stella McCartney's line for Addidas, I like the interface of the website that plays with taking your selection in and out of focus.

2008-03-02T15:45:00.001-05:00

Check this website out. It is an interesting way to add motion into the idea of a catalogue.

http://www.ikea.com/ms/en_US/rooms_ideas/tcb/index.html

I've gone a bit overboard looking at posters

2008-02-24T22:02:00.000-05:00

2008-02-24T21:58:00.000-05:00

2008-02-24T21:55:00.000-05:00

Older QB ideas

2008-02-22T00:54:00.000-05:00

I spent a long time working on this for the QB project. It never quite panned out. It was supposed to be a storybook idea made up of all the paraphernalia that the girls have. When I tried to include them into it I realized that I hadn't composed it so that they could easily be placed in.

"A Few Good Creative Men"

2008-02-21T14:22:00.000-05:00

2008-02-19T02:24:00.000-05:00

2008-02-14T09:30:00.001-05:00

More Pattern

2008-02-13T01:07:00.000-05:00

I'm going to try another color scheme again tomorrow, but is the peppered text working?

No Pattern

2008-02-13T00:58:00.001-05:00

2008-02-13T00:39:00.000-05:00

Great character introduction with the music. He kisses on the "bella"... great.

Revamp

2008-02-13T00:30:00.000-05:00

working?

2008-02-11T13:46:00.000-05:00

I'm not sure this is working, but at least there's one done to show.

Pardon the Language

2008-02-08T01:32:00.000-05:00

Quite snappy editing that really makes this movie (In Bruges) look like it is going to rock or pale in comparison to the trailer.

Colors?

2008-02-06T22:00:00.000-05:00

Do any of you have an opinion of the color?

2008-01-31T12:30:00.000-05:00

I really like how this movie's trailer is cut. It is better than the first trailers that came out for this movie.

Mmm... Pretty... Tasty

2008-01-28T00:31:00.000-05:00

After Effects Tutorial Growing Objects

2008-01-25T11:27:00.000-05:00

http://library.creativecow.net/articles/hansen_jaysen/growing/video-tutorial.php

The man behind the video

2008-01-22T16:16:00.000-05:00

Bryan Louie did the music video for Gnarles Barkley's Crazy

http://www.hellalouie.com/#

2008-01-16T00:19:00.000-05:00

MTV "My Super Sweet 16" Logo/On air graphics

Clueless

Mean Girls

2008-01-10T23:43:00.000-05:00

2008-01-10T23:39:00.000-05:00

Spoof Posters for a Film Festival

Three Posters I really like

2008-01-10T13:55:00.000-05:00

Skinwalkers is a really bad movie, but the poster has a lot of drama.

2008-01-08T14:38:00.001-05:00

http://www.webdesignerwall.com/

The Indie style

2007-12-30T18:38:00.000-05:00

I saw Juno last night, which is a great movie everyone should see. At first I was really excited by the opening credits because they looked unlike any credits I've seen before, but as I thought about them more I realized that I feel that is a style I've been seeing a lot lately when I think of the uber-indie-trendy.

Origami

2007-12-30T18:15:00.000-05:00

Carlo Giovani

2007-12-17T00:47:00.000-05:00

http://carlogiovani.com/paper%20forest/

Check out his work. I absolutely love how he uses 3-d material in his work.
The magazines spreads with Legos and vegetables are extremely creative.

2007-12-06T17:02:00.001-05:00

http://magculture.com/blog/?m=200712

The Grand Finale

2007-12-06T13:04:00.000-05:00

2007-12-02T21:47:00.000-05:00

Alright, I figured out my problem why my audio files wouldn't play. The program that ripped the audio file from NPR ripped it to an m4a file which is not AE compatible. I used Xilisoft to change that to an MP3

http://www.brothersoft.com/xilisoft-video-converter-for-mac-download-59695.html

Whatever will happen when my 30 days are up?

2007-12-02T01:03:00.001-05:00

I don't have a new panthercard, so I don't think I can use the etraining thing. Instead I looked at this website.

http://www.videocopilot.net/basic/ae_titles.html

It had some good stuff and I hope that I can put something together... I feel a bit overwhelmed by After Effects right now.

2007-12-01T14:38:00.001-05:00

I downloaded the free trial of After Effects. At school I could import my audio file, but now I can't. Does anyone know why this would be?

Audio files

2007-11-26T22:22:00.000-05:00

So I wanted a specific audio file from NPR, it is David Sedaris' Santaland Diaries. There are other recordings of it that I could buy, but I liked the music in this NPR version, so I had to figure out a way to download a streaming audio file. I used the iRecordMusic program for Macs and it converted the streaming audio to an MP3. I believe what I downloaded was a free demo, but it served my purpose for now.

Update

2007-11-25T17:45:00.000-05:00

My camera's battery is dead, but I'm almost done with the box. I believe I'm developing tendonitus in my elbow from cutting balsa wood. I'm quite sure that my attempts to make this package are the most inefficient and most painful. I should have know from last year when I cut letters out of mat board that this was not going to end well.

2007-11-19T02:35:00.001-05:00

My friday night
*Not my video

My Thursday Evening

2007-11-16T23:40:00.000-05:00

Check out the light set up at the Smashing Pumpkins concert. I thought I was going to have a seizure.
*This is not my video
**I know very little about the Smashing Pumpkins, I was invited to this show by someone who didn't want to go alone.

2007-11-09T20:14:00.001-05:00

I believe that this kinetic type treatment is my favorite of all that I've seen so far. I like the way he used a texture on the type to make that surface more active and the use of scale. It looks sophisticated.

2007-11-09T19:56:00.000-05:00

I've changed up the colors a bit. I hope the relationship is still working. I am worried that this color palette doesn't feel as nuanced as the last one. I also am unsure if it is too much of a good thing with the front and the back treated the same, but the front is Spanish and the back is English.

Ideas for Moving Type

2007-11-06T19:47:00.000-05:00

And I watched the opening to Romeo and Juliet

"Do you bite your thumb at me sir... do you quarrell sir... blah blah blah

Fun with Crayons

2007-10-30T01:32:00.000-04:00

Here's an interesting 3-D medium. I believe I got this from ReadyMade Magazine a year ago.

2007-10-30T01:19:00.000-04:00

So, these two seemed to be the winners today.

2007-10-27T23:49:00.000-04:00