Google has come out with two features within the past few weeks: Teach Parents Tech and Google Slam.
Both operate to promote the many services they provide but function for two very different audiences. Google Slam feels more apt for my 14 year old cousin while Teach Parents Tech’s audience is pretty self explanatory. With a mom who has no idea how to text message yet still demanded a smart phone and an ipad from Santa this could not have come at a better time for me. Thank you.
AgNess Loves Noodles (episode 1, season 2) from Lena Dunham on Vimeo.
I discovered this after listening to an interview with Lena Dunham on Fresh Air. From the names to the costumes to the apt delusion, I love everything about this series.
I’ve been teaching EMAC (Electronic Media and Culture) at MICA this fall. I have loved coming up with fun projects for the students to work on and their ambition makes my Mondays.
The second project of the semester was to write and illustrate a one sentence manifesto using typography. The finished illustrations were to be printed twice, one for in-class critique and one to be placed in public with the manifesto’s position in the public realm relating to the content of the manifesto. I promised to do the project along with them so here is my one sentence manifesto!
We are looking at the manifestos tonight, so I will try to post some if I have permission.
I have had the opportunity to work with Trialogue Studio in DC for the past three months on a re-branding initiative to promote affordable housing in Ivy City, a small neighborhood of Northwest DC. Originally settled as a neighborhood for the workers of the B&O railroad, Ivy City offers a foundation of the Old DC that has been left behind. As commerce and industry has shifted so has the neighborhood; our task has been to rejuvenate both the current residents as well as outsiders looking to move back into the city at an affordable cost.
The first two segments of the project include fence wrapping on New York Avenue and a website launching this week in conjunction with The Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project in Ivy City. The next installment of the project will be a water tower wrap as well as property signs and hopefully much more to come in the future!
I have to say this has been probably one of the hardest and most rewarding projects I have worked on in the past four years. We (Trialogue – Ruth, Michael, and Jessie) worked on an extremely tight deadline and – in the end – every stressed filled tear has been worth seeing something I put together in my little studio in Baltimore on the side of the highway in DC.
This chair should come with glow-in-the-dark stars.
Nothing is better than color coordinated notebooks and graph paper.
Tis the season! I WANT.
Most of the time google-ing oneself is a gratuitous time waster, but sometimes it proves to be fruitful.
Take this as an example. I googled myself to see what came up in the image section and found my beautiful business cards done by MICA soon–to–be senior Aron Fay featured on a few blogs, one of them being Card Nerd.
Take a gander:
The eastern textile principle of “phulkari” was introduced to me during a gallery talk with the artist Jenny Mullins last year.
The principle indicates that some mistakes in various textile patterns (mostly wedding apparel) are voluntarily introduced into the embroidery work in
order to protect a bride from the evil eye (”nazar”). Indeed a perfect piece could have attracted others’ jealousy.
I thought about this as I admired the tile work in a restaurant bathroom a few months ago. In a digital world which demands perfection, it’s very humbling to acknowledge and embrace illustrious imperfection.
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