Skate Tag!

First I mounted it but had a hard time bending it in half so I scrapped that idea and just roughed up the edges to add more of a grungy effect. I really dig the look and, hell, I'd buy the blades!

Sk8 Deck & Blade Tag

My skate deck is all ready to be handed in. I got the sticker done at Marco's studio downtown and he did a great job printing it. Looks great and I am very happy with it!






The colours are reversed for some reason. In the jpeg files I uploaded they are normal but the blue and orange seem to be reversed. Anyways here is my design that I am to get printed this weekend. The blue looks pretty cool actually. Hmm?

message from gloria

Makes me wish I did I better job on frosty but I am happy to see it was good for something! Thank you Gloria!

"On 5 Apr '07, 10.15am EDT gloriadawsonphoto said:

Hi Christopher,

I love Frosty! Very funny and smart. I’m working on this environmental website and I think it would be perfect- add a bit of smart humor and all. Would you be interested in having your photo shown there… I could give you credit and link back to your site.

Here’s the scoop with the website:
It’s an environmental website called” The Daily Green” set to launch on earth day April 22nd. It's all about leading a more conscious, natural foods oriented and earth-friendly lifestyle. We’ll have a photography section- photos that show global warming effects, droughts ect but I’d love to add a bit of something else in there- Frosty would be perfect.

Let me know what you think.

gloria"

Toy Package

Well, here is how my box turned out. It not only makes a bold statement on the environment but shows how under-rated barcodes are... oops.






What I think I am going to do with th sk8 deck assignment is this Warhol take on Lincoln. I call it Babe Lincoln. I am going to put some text above the image and the pond 70 logo beneath. Couldn't get the Illustrator file on my computer cause I have an older version I guess.

Whatta day

Last week I took the posters I have printed and made a few collages on my storages boxes. I thought it would look cool to make furniture with ripped up, street poster like collages covering the surfaces. I really like the way it turned out. I found some cool bookstores downtown that sell old 50's Saturday Evening Post mags so I took some cheesy ads and included them. Also found some flower pattern gift wrap at Honest Ed's for a buck. I am gonna do a whole table next and see how it turns out. I will tackle that once I have more posters made so it doesn't look exactly like the boxes.






I almost have my box design finished - I just want to throw on a few small details because I am noticing how packed with detail toy packaging is. There is definitely an art to it and it takes more time then I imagined. I thought I would just throw something together but now I am really getting into it and making something I actually appreciate. I haven't posted a final pic of my snowman so I'll do that. If you read this Andrew: could I use that spray you had on Monday? I wouldn't mind giving it a coat on Monday when I hand it in. It looked like great stuff.




In other news, today I got mugged in broad daylight just off campus in The Village. This black guy bikes up to me with a black bandanna over his mouth and tells me not to move and says that he's serious. He said I better give him my money and my cell phone or he'll "cut my face off" as he shuffled in his coat. I told him that I don't have anything and showed him an empty wallet. He pulled my shirt and said he wants my cell phone or whatever I've got. I said I don't have a cell phone and shrugged my shoulders. I wasn't worried cause I didn't have anything. Still holding me by the shirt he tosses me away like a piece of trash and tells me to get the fuck outta here then. As he biked away he told me I best not call the cops - I did and it was a big mistake. I just wanted to inform people that that was going on so nobody got hurt but 3 cruisers and 5 cops showed up at my apartment to take my statement. I wanted to tell them to get the hell out of here and go find the guy. He apparently robbed a girl in my building too. So that pretty much was my whole day. After the cops left I went to school and there was no class so basically I could have stayed at home all day and avoided this whole mess. Oh well. Good times I guess. The lowlife asshole didn't get anything from me. Glad I didn;t have my Macbook or Nikon D40. That would have sucked real bad. Sorry, no pics of the event!

In class notes [4sk8dek]

Templates - 4x/full size
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Due: blog, time/cost, two pencil concepts

Weekend Update

Well, I'm uncertain as to how this will turn out but. Last night a poured some wax to enhance the dripping effect and I am now coating it with some dollar store acrylic white paint.