blank ideas

I was less than interested in the class this week. But then again I am less than interested in school this semester sooooo... just ignore my apathy.

When I paired up with Les I thought it was very interesting when I told Les about myself I talked about the present. I live with my boyfriend. I have two cats. I love my major and my job... most days. And Les told me all about his past. My mom is a single parent. I used to be in a gang. I wanted to be a policeman.

I responded with I could tell you that my parents are divorced... but at this point that no longer affects me... I mean it does.... but it is no longer a central theme in my life. I was telling Les about my future and he was telling me about his past. Both parts of our lives we felt most defined us.

I am defined by my future. I will tell you about my present.

It was much easier to define myself with the sheet of paper. I know me. I guess I went generic with the fortune teller. A lot of other people also made one. I don't know it just seamed to fit for me. Especially the blank part. I feel as though I am blank right now. The whole world to write all over me. I don't know what gets to be in my future yet.

me

Inspired to... take the day off

So today in class we talked about inspiration. How you find it... how you lose it... how you use it....

I don't feel very inspired. From the sound of class a lot of people seam to feel this way. I guess that makes me feel better.

I think I need to purge a lot of the things in my life. All of the junk I have collected in my house. I would like to have my office back which right now is over taken with crap.... like the rest of my house. I want to clean and throw away. I need to get rid of a lot of crappy feelings within my friendships too.

But honestly I think I am just projecting my feeling of "blah" onto those things. I don't think I will suddenly feel better once my house is clean... once my friendships are ... fixed. I say "... fixed" because at this moment I don't know what that means... fixed is not back to where we were I know that much. But I guess I should have that conversation here when I have had it with her yet.

I wounder if I had all the free time in the world what would I create. I wish I had the desire to create... but right now ... I don't have anything I want to do... well that I should already be doing. I want to redesign my portfolio.... but I gotta do that anyways.

I think if I had all the free time in the world I would learn instead of create right now. There are things that I feel I should be leaving college with that I am not. I suppose when I am layed up in bed this break I will have the opportunity to read and learn. What if I just want to learn because I know creatively I don't really have anything to offer myself. Who knows it is not like I have time to figure that out right now anyways....

Hoosiers Helping Hoosiers

As a designer it was hard for me to think of a way that I can help the world. I do projects. It is kinda all I do. Work. School.

I finally decided I do need to be assigned a project to be a part of something. I decided to make some flyers to put around campus promoting a food drive for Hoosiers Helping Hoosiers.

I went to the website and created a page based on the information provided. I don't know what I have to do to approve hanging things on campus. But I think it is a worthy cause with the job market the way it is right now. A nice Thanksgiving meal is something that a lot of people take for granted. I know I do. Some years I have gone 3 different place for Thanksgiving.

My contribution is not a lot and I know that. But hopefully if I can inspired other people to get involved... then every little bit helps.

So use some of you free pages from IUPUI and print a few of these flyers. Hang them up at work. Leave them in your classrooms. Make people aware.

And even if you can't get to one of these locations... They are donating everything to Gleaners. As I am sure many other people are doing too.

Check out the website for a list of items they would like to see. I think the next time I am at the grocery I am going to spend 10 bucks on helping someone else have a great Thanksgiving. I hope that you do too!

http://www.hoosiershelpinghoosiers.org/dpp/community/drive_to_live/ColtsFoodDrive_2945826

http://www.nickiwalter.com/seeingsideways/helpinghoosiersbw.pdf

PSW = Bliss

How do I sum up my week? I am still exhausted from the traveling. I feel scattered and messy. But I suppose I always feel that way.

I used my time from class last week to pack since I was leaving my house at 3am Tuesday morning and I had yet to do so. I doesn't take much to make me happy or get excited. My bliss on a daliy basis can come from a song on my itunes, finishing a project, starting a project, a tv show... I try to do the things I enjoy doing. That being said since I had such a busy week I never really took the 3 hours and did something just to make myself happy. I enjoyed my week a ton. I learned soooo much, I won some money (I came home with more than I was expecting, but less than I took out), I took some pictures, I visited my favorite city, I reveled in my geek. So maybe the whole week was mine. It isn't often that I get to geek out with out feeling as though I should be doing something else.

I do plan on spending the this evening blissing out. It is my first night where I don't have to do something. I am going to work on some homework.... but I will probably paint my nails and go to target. That will be fun.

It is funny the week I go to Photoshop World you ask me to break the rules in Photoshop. I just learned all new rules. Well not really rules... but things that make what you do eaiser.

I think my favorite class was the one on Smart Objects. Super cool stuff happening there. Not only can you scale your pictures and bring in vectors but the work like a template. There is sooo much there to explore. You can also now apply filters that you can edit after the fact. Effects on type that is still editable!! I could go on and on...

I have sat and thought about breaking the rules of Photoshop and I have decided I don't want to. I could make you an image with the filter and drop shadows set to auto... and it would suck.... and I would be breaking the rules. I could upscale an image or transform some type... but that has already been done.

What I want to do: I want to break the rules of this assignment and follow some of the new 'rules' I learned this week at Photoshop World.