Collage I made 2/20-2/21. Geography nerd!
and here is a close up:
2/22/11
12/6/10
1/23/10
old notebooks
My first college class ever was History 120: American History. Thus began my college education at George Mason University. It was August 30th, 2004. The summer Olympics had justed ended, and Michael Phelps broke all sorts of records in Athens. For my history notebook, I cut out newspaper articles and made a collage:
I took English 302 my junior year. It was after I quit the forensics team, which was hard. It turned out to be a great class with a great Professor. It was also the time when I stopped wearing contacts and started wearing glasses. I love the class, and I love the notebook I made for the class:
I love the lobster over the ice cream, such a disturbing juxtaposition. I also love the word "kumquats" at the top.
Comm 300: Rhetorial Theory, was a terrible class - only because we had an awful grad student as a teacher. It was unfortunate, because I love rhetorical theory. I learned more about rhetorical theory from Peter Pober, my forensics coach, and giving speeches, than I ever did from this class. But I liked the notebook I made. I like the old bottles of alcohol to the right:
The story behind the last two notebooks was that I had cut all the pictures of food out of Bon Appetite magazines. One day I was sitting on a bench outside waiting for my lit class to begin, and this really cute guy basically came over and convinced my to give money to his frat/buy a subscription to a magazine. Because I didn't want to look like a stupid girl and subscribe to People or something, I chose Bon Appetite. I doubt it impressed him. I never read it. But it did make for some great collages.
Philosophy and Literature was a great class. I used advterisements from my old 1900's Sears & Roebuck catalog that I found at the Fort Belvoir thrift store. Don't worry - it was a reproduction catalog. Very cool, nevertheless. I tried to do a musical theme... They sold some very interesting things back then! This notebook is crica 2005:
I took Comm 320: Media Criticism during the last semester of my senior year (*tear*). This was the best class ever. Great professor, fascinating subject. I loved this class because we didn't use a textbook - instead, we read articles written in academic journals and the like: Andre Bazin, Sergei Eisenstein, Karl Marx, Ghraham Murdoch, Stuart Hall. We watched "Andalusian Dog", "Rules of the Game", "Battleship Potemkin", "Triumph of the Will", "Why We Fight", "The Simpsons", and "Snow White", to name a few. I learned so much from this class, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I think it was appropriate that my most favorite notebook I ever produced was used for this class. I consider this my crowning glory of collages (so far). I made it out of illustrations for The Economist. I love that magazine. Wish I still had a subscription. Here it is:
I took English 302 my junior year. It was after I quit the forensics team, which was hard. It turned out to be a great class with a great Professor. It was also the time when I stopped wearing contacts and started wearing glasses. I love the class, and I love the notebook I made for the class:
I love the lobster over the ice cream, such a disturbing juxtaposition. I also love the word "kumquats" at the top.
Comm 300: Rhetorial Theory, was a terrible class - only because we had an awful grad student as a teacher. It was unfortunate, because I love rhetorical theory. I learned more about rhetorical theory from Peter Pober, my forensics coach, and giving speeches, than I ever did from this class. But I liked the notebook I made. I like the old bottles of alcohol to the right:
The story behind the last two notebooks was that I had cut all the pictures of food out of Bon Appetite magazines. One day I was sitting on a bench outside waiting for my lit class to begin, and this really cute guy basically came over and convinced my to give money to his frat/buy a subscription to a magazine. Because I didn't want to look like a stupid girl and subscribe to People or something, I chose Bon Appetite. I doubt it impressed him. I never read it. But it did make for some great collages.
Philosophy and Literature was a great class. I used advterisements from my old 1900's Sears & Roebuck catalog that I found at the Fort Belvoir thrift store. Don't worry - it was a reproduction catalog. Very cool, nevertheless. I tried to do a musical theme... They sold some very interesting things back then! This notebook is crica 2005:
I took Comm 320: Media Criticism during the last semester of my senior year (*tear*). This was the best class ever. Great professor, fascinating subject. I loved this class because we didn't use a textbook - instead, we read articles written in academic journals and the like: Andre Bazin, Sergei Eisenstein, Karl Marx, Ghraham Murdoch, Stuart Hall. We watched "Andalusian Dog", "Rules of the Game", "Battleship Potemkin", "Triumph of the Will", "Why We Fight", "The Simpsons", and "Snow White", to name a few. I learned so much from this class, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I think it was appropriate that my most favorite notebook I ever produced was used for this class. I consider this my crowning glory of collages (so far). I made it out of illustrations for The Economist. I love that magazine. Wish I still had a subscription. Here it is:
1/5/10
Illustration #1
Today I decided I would become an artist. I've always loved making collages, and I recently discovered that you can actually be a collage artist. Better than that, a lot of children's books are beautifully illustrated with collages. So here is my first illustration for my first children's book.
6/7/09
free donut day
This past Friday was National Free Donut Day at Dunkin' Donuts. I found out about this occasion in the afternoon time, and resolved to stop by on my walk to the Metro on the way home to collect my free donut. I even had to walk on the other side of King Street to get to the store. I was totally going out of my way to do this. The man at the store gave me a hard time about receiving a free donuts. I'm still not sure if the deal was you had to buy a cup of coffee and then you would receive a free donut, or if you were entitled to have a free donut regardless of any other purchase. At any rate, my heart was set on obtaining a free donut, and so I talked the man into handing the pasty over. I couldn't have bought a cup of coffee anyway, since I was riding the Metro home.
All the way home on the train, I was looking forward to enjoying the donut with a cup of milk, or perhaps I would even brew a small pot of coffee to drink with it. The suspense was building. Arrived at Franconia-Springfield. Got to my car in the garage. Drove down the Parkway. Exited. Got home. Place the bag with the single donut on the kitchen table. Proceeded upstairs to change out of my work clothes into something more comfortable. Looking forward to my free donut.
Walk down the stairs. What do I see? Riley's snout in the bag, donut GONE.
Anger. Did Riley even care about the great lengths I went through to get this donut? Did he appreciate my bargaining skills in persuading the man to give it to me without having to purchase coffee? Does Riley have to go to work every day to earn money to buy donuts? Could Riley even enjoy the taste, texture, smell of the donut? NO!
This is coming from the girl who once gave away her credit card information to receive a free medium pizza from Domino's one time. The girls who rejoices over Free Cone Day at Ben and Jerry's. Boy, do I get excited over free food!
I was mad Riley until Saturday afternoon. That dog is just so darn cute and affectionate, it's hard to stay mad at him. You have to wonder though... God uses even pets in our lives to teach us patience, contentment, and self-control. Amazing.
6/2/09
media placement
Saw two McAuliffe ads, one Common Sense Virginia ad (against McDonnell), and one McDonnell ad all during ABC's 7:30-8:00pm prime access slot, "Jeopardy", tonight. It's that time of year!
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