The Verdict Is In

I'm in!!!! 40% acceptance rate woot!

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Here We Go...

This is going to be one tense weekend for me. I will be submitting my portfolio to be reviewed by a committee of graphic design faculty at Sac State to decide whether or not I will be one of forty people accepted into the bachelors program. I will turn it in tomorrow the 12th and I will pick it up on the 16th and thats when they will let me know my fate.

Already my stomach is in knots just thinking about it. A lot of my classmates are making preparations for rejection but my plan B was to to work on a  marketing minor that I just found out isn't available anymore due to budget cuts. Only business majors can take marketing  classes now. What awaits me next semester will either be oodles of graphic design or German and ancient Greek history. I don't really want to think too much about it. A lot of my classmates are saying that they will give up on graphic design entirely if they don't get in. For me, I really don't see any option other than success. Theres nothing else that I really want to do. Maybe start a chain of pizza restaurants?

Whichever way it goes, I know that I'm going to need a nice long vacation this summer. Something....Disney perhaps?

A Semester of Work

So here is the sum of my semester's work for my final studio class before my portfolio review

Thats all going to be bound into a book tomorrow. You'd never know from looking at it how much time, money and effort has been dumped into such a simple looking thing. I suppose thats one of the things I will have to explain to future clients; just how much work they are actually asking me to do for a simple logo or brochure. Anywho, so theres my fish symbols and then we had to do these color things to demonstrate different color interactions and they were a pain in the butt to find and an even bigger pain to cut out and glue. Then the last page is a layout with text and my symbol.

Its getting exciting!

To Mom:

Rosie O'Donnell

Today I was walking back to my apartment and spotted this sticker in a car window:

Its hard to read but is says "Guns kill people...Like spoons made Rosie O'Donnell fat." 

Beautiful.

Gotta Enjoy the Little Things

Seems like life is always playing small jokes to make me smile. Heres the latest one that I stumbled onto in our "recently watched" folder on netflix:

Hope you guys get it. hehe

71 Days

Seventy one days ago I started a project for school. Today I finally have a finished product. I spent my 4 day weekend wrapping it up, which included an average bed time of 4am with the exception of last night(morning?) when I finally laid down at 7am. I have my completed symbols of a clownfish, both a brave and a skittish symbol, and we are also required to submit a booklet detailing the entire process of how we went through the project. Its basically the "making of" guide. It was a tremendous undertaking in and of itself though. Because it is going in my portfolio to be reviewed in May, it had to be perfect. It cost $20, which seems steep to me, but whatever. Hopefully my teacher wont find any flaws so I wont have to fix it and print another. Anyway...here is my designs, 71 days in the making:

This is what Butters has been up to while I have been working:

Making a fort: 

Napping:

I would have rather done both of those things rather than my homework. She's been a very good doggy even though she has been really bored with the lack of a back yard to roam around and me being so busy. I wish you could plop a dog down in front of the tv like you can with a kid. Now that I'm finished I'll have to start paying more attention to her. lol.