Spring Breakkkk

Today was my last final, and I am now on spring break. Thank god. I get roughly 10 days to jump start on the up-coming portfolio review (at the end of spring term) as well as get some much needed rest, and hopefully get out climbing and riding a little more. The two final projects I had to turn in came out pretty good. The editorial illustration came out nicely after some revisions:



It was for an article on the issues surrounding health care, so I took this interesting approach. In other news, I finished my Jacques Cousteau zine, and have yet to upload it to Flickr, but here is an illustration that made an appearance in the zine:



I forgot to take any photos of the finished zine, but I plan to re-make it anyway. More updates on the work that gets revised in the days ahead.


RB

Sunday, sunday, sunday..

Homework all day today. Yesterday was a good climbing day. My buddy Dave showed me some videos of this guy Chris Sharma - who happens to be sponsored by the company that makes my climbing shoes - and I have since been watching all his videos on the interwebs. They get me pretty excited to climb and make me want to take more risks on the wall. Good Stuff.

MMMusic

Today, after only three days of waiting, my cd finally arrived! It's Tycho - Past Is Prologue and it's awesome. If you are into the ambie-electric genre style, then it is well worth checking out. Some of the few readers out there may know that Tycho consists of Scott Hansen, an artist and musician (obviously), who hails from Frisco. A friend of mine pointed me in the direction of his blog last term and it has since been an influence on how I view design, as well as my playlist line-up.





In other news, I have been working on a zine for design comm. which will be focused on the life of Jacques Cousteau. I have been working on some illustrations for the front and back covers and also a diagram of his yellow submarine, which I might post a picture of later. Thought I might share a little somethin' with you.






And lastly, two final projects due next week and a final. Yay! I will be comatose until then.

Cheers,

RB

Inspired

Jay Ryan has become a huge influence on me since the beginning of this term when I discovered some of his work. Needless to say, I would love to have a style that's half as cool as his. I found out he sells some of his original sketches on Etsy, and this one is being sold for a nice little chunk-a-change. I think it's far past due I start doing my sketches in pencil, rather then starting out in pen right off the bat, at least for some work.

Longer than intended naps.

I just woke up from a nap that went about an hour over schedule, but lucky for me I had no plans after about one o'clock today so the only thing I lost was time. Now I am fighting that fatigue that engulfs a person who partakes in naps that go overtime. The general signs that accompany said fatigue are: funny taste in mouth, slight dizzy/drowsy feeling, inability to determine the correct time, and my personal favorite - bed head. So after slapping on my brand new Cousteau Society beanie to cover up the mess, and thoroughly rinsing with mouthwash, I now feel prepared to catch my o-so-few readers up on the last day and a half.

Yesterday was spent entirely on homework for my Art 210 class which is Digital Illustration with Kate Bingaman Burt. I got in a good solid 12 hours there with a nice sprinkling of breaks and meals and was finished printing by about 1 am. The project was to design a series of T-shirts for Threadless. Kate was kind enough to introduce us to Mig Reyes via Skype, who works at Threadless, among many other awesome things. The project turned out pretty well I would say, but I'll be making some definite tweaks for the portfolio review:




















The series was based on the four regions of Portland and uses various elements many of us are accustomed to seeing in our daily lives. There is a slew of process work to look over on the Flickr account, if you so choose to view the set. I don't think I mentioned this earlier, but on days when I do work more than a couple hours, I generally throw in some good movies (Generally something related to Wes Anderson) or at the very least have Cops 2.0 playing in the background. On this particular Sunday however, I felt it completely necessary to break out the timeless animated series - Cowboy Bebop. You can read about the details if you want, but rest assured it is amazing. After watching it a few minutes, you start to understand how much time was spent in the details like music production, character developement, not to mention the story line and animation. I definitely recommend it to those who haven't seen it (especially those of you that role your eyes at the thought of watching anime).

So I think that's sufficient enough - now to brainstorm on some possible editorials.

RB

The Making of a Fantastic film...

I went and saw Fantastic Mr. Fox a little while ago with my buddy Alex and I think we were both pleasantly surprised at the plot line and overall aesthetic of the film. He mentioned the making of the film looked cool, so I looked it up and thought I should share it with you. Enjoy.


P.S. if you haven't seen it, I recommend you go...now.

Making Of Part 1 (They won't let me embed this one)

Gettin' back to climbing

So today I finally get to go climbing after almost two weeks off. I was getting some serious muscle pains in the forearm and bicep areas that felt a little too deep to be regular muscle pain, and a friend of mine mentioned it might be tendinitis (which would blow), hence the two weeks off. I am going to work shortly, and after five hours of doing nothing, it will be off to The Circuit for me. Wish me luck, readers that are non-existent!

First Actual Blog...

So, I have attempted to blog in the past and I have failed miserably doing so. I think that might have been because of my lack of activity and or random information in my daily life - how much could an 18 year old really say? Well, now that it's been a few years and my schedule consists of school, work and maybe a little eating and sleeping, I figure I am exposed to things worth mentioning a little more frequently. And thus, a first post is made. More to come to fill in the family and friends I see so very little of.

Goodnight,

RB