Late. Late. Late. Again. I am writing this in damn Microsoft word. It is capitalizing everything. Sucky. I like uncapitalizing. Arggg!!! I will live it with it. Typing on the internet is too god damn slow. Feel like I am treading though molasses on the intereweb so hence the evil use of this product that feels that it must correct and subtract my e.e. cumming-ness from my writing. I know bill gates hates me. Oooo…the satanic program didn’t capitalize it’s master’s name. Hehehehe.(man, I sound like I am insane or drunk. I am neither, right now.)

Okay enough bullshit.

I have a lot to catch up on. Two weeks of school and living here in NYC. (will do the first week first and then the next week in the next post.) Lots has gone on and gone down. Grab yourself a beer or juice and be prepared to sit for a while and read and read and read. And read.

Monday, nov. 3: Robbie Conal came for a visit. He is this great crazy poster artists from LA. Does lots of funny/sarcastic political posters. All over the palce in his speaking, but entertaining. Managed to make half the class hate him. I bought two of his posters. Didn’t upset me. Found him funny. www.robbieconal.com/

Showed sketches of my book in my book class.

Tuesday, nov. 4: showed mr. Steve g. my box project stuff. I finished the thumb piano and most of the guitar. He said that I should use the low end cigar boxes in my projects and building a box drum will have to be made of cigar boxes which makes making a box drum impossible so I’ll have to just use available cigar boxes as my drums.

Wednesday, nov. 5: Got up and go my hair cut. I now have a cute short bob. Stylish and neat.

Book cover project for Milton. I redid the cover of a great Russian lit book called WE. It was the book that influence Orwell and Huxley to do 1984 and Brave New World, respectively. He liked what I did. I just need to add one thing and it is pretty much there. He said that he like how well my concept fit the book. (I had people facing forward with black blocks over their eyes with numbers/letters over the blocks. All the people are b/w and are wearing the same clothes. They are laid out in a grid. The last picture in the grid the person is walking out of the frame. The name of the book and author is across the front of the book in a red field. Basically, I was showing how the individualism had left society and this one guy (the one leaving the photo) is braking out. Basically what the book is about. Trust me, it looks better then I described.)


Thursday, nov. 6: got more pieces for my guitar and drum stuff. Drum sales people were nice. Guitar guys were mean.

went to spot co. which is a design/advertising/marketing company that specializes in making and advertising for broadway shows. They have done tons. (ie. Chicago, Wit, Freak, Rent, etc. ) Drew Hodges who is the owner spoke to us. Super smart and together guy. Totally frank and honest. Good stuff.

Then we had mixer with the MFA illustraion department. Drank wine and listened to steven heller (our head) talk/argue with marshall arisman (head of illustration). Funny. Then the faculity left us to bond. We talked, drank, looked at artwork, smoked cigarettes. At one point, a dance party broke out and around 3 am we crashed a party upstairs. It was at this crazy hi-end production company. Ended up meeting one of the editors. I will bug him about his job since I want to maybe do what he does. End the night having hamburgers with Emre (one of the design students from turkey). We talked about Turkey, design, music, etc. All and all, one of my favorite night here. You know when you have a night that seems to come from someone else’s life? You swear it can’t be your life? Well, this night was like that.


Friday, nov. 7: webclass. We stared flash. Worked late at night on projects. Have too much to do next week. Getting stressed. Freaking about about sagmeisters cd project.

Saturday, nov. 8: got up early and went to jeff’s house. I need to do a photoshoot for sagmeister’s cd and he is making me waffles. So nice and cute. The waffles and the company was wonderful. His cats are sweet and the pictures seem okay. Got to see Williamsburg in the sunlight.

Trekked back to manhattan. Worked the design open house. (people looking at the program.) So funny. I came to this last year and now I am one of the people sitting up front answering questions. Weird how life works. Spoke about our show in the gallery. Forgot to talk about that in my past blogs. Was part of the committee to put up the show in the gallery of our free project. We made the gallery look like a store. It turned out great. Everyone was impressed with it. pictures will be up on the MFA design website soon!!

I was exhausted. Went home to eat and sleep. Got up and met jeff. We had drinks at a bar where we ran into friends of his. Then we went to the Dirtbombs show. Good fun dirty rock and roll. Loved it!! Danced my ass off!! Went and got pizza afterwards and then on to another bar with no heat. Talked until late and then went home.

Sunday, nov. 9: got up to work on stuff. Feel sick. Tired and drained. My sinus hate me. Argg!! Not good!! I am freaking out. I need to be well for this week!! Too much to do!! This is what they were talking about the first week. Where you freak and don’t think you can do it! Work though my cold and get most of my book done for class. Doing an imaginary band named pleather. Has interviews with all the members. drank tons of tea and complained alot.

that is it for this week.