Present Joys

Day 83: mon, 10 mar 2014. I have completely run out of interesting things to photograph in this class.

It was a short week because of sophomore review. In motion graphics on monday, I started a new project. One Show being all finished, everybody was a lot friendlier.

I spent most of tuesday and wednesday working on freelance projects at home. I also worked on drawing up final patterns for my Thesis sweaters. Wow! Graduation is approaching swiftly, and I’m not as far along with my sweater-making as I ought to be.

Thursday was a normal day. After a too-long crit during which nobody spoke, I used the rest of class time trying to make a successful resin cast (it didn’t work). La-Neka and I walked over to the fashion lab after jewelry, because I wanted to see her do a couple of things on the knitting machine. After that, we sat through a bunch of presentations in senior ad. I finished this very short week with history of 2-d: the teacher assigned a two-page paper, “due by may 1”; I went home and finished it that night.

Day 82: thu, 6 mar 2014. La-Neka gives me some machine-knitting advice, despite dirty, broken-down equipment.

Day 81: mon, 3 mar 2014. Everybody wants to see cool things in Motion Graphics.

I’ve got a couple thousand photos from CCAD archives on my hard drive. They’ve been surprisingly easy to flip through, so I’ve looked at them all several times, tagging them in Bridge with lots of keywords and ratings. Besides the ones I’ve looked at, there are many more libraries of other old photos: architecture, student work, construction projects, etc. I could spend an eternity looking through everything.

But that’s totally distracting! My plan is to celebrate CCAD by making things. As of now, I’m planning to make a book. I don’t know if the book will ever actually get made, but I’m thinking about it in those terms. Ideally, I’d love to create a list luxurious coffee-table-style book that would be printed in a small edition and sold as a premium item. But I want to be fastidious about the quality of the printing, I know I don’t have time to oversee that. Instead of a physical book, I may opt for some kind of interactive website. Who knows at this point? Time is going by so quickly and I’m feeling stressed!

Leah and I made a list of people with a long history at the school who might be fun to talk to. Some of them I know but many I don’t! I love nothing more than to contact all of them and spend a lot of time in conversation about the way CCAD used to be. I’ll be working to track them down and schedule meetings soon.

What’s next?

Oh yeah, I’m making sweaters, too! I’ll be buying a small batch of yarn soon so I can get started with test garments. Beyond that, I still need to find a mentor. I’ve reached out to some people at Homage, because I think they’ll have some great wisdom about my concept.