The Last Stop

Well the book is done and  I am quite satisfied with the end result. The emotional roller coaster that is life is well documented through the eyes of a graduate. The book gives me the closure that I have not seeked but have forced upon my departure from this paradise. Sarasota has been a good friend which I will miss dearly. I will return a different person as well, soon, and I hope often. Sarasota 

is a wonderful place to grow as an artist and thrive in its delight. Leaving shows me how much growth has taken place and returning will prove to open my eyes once again to the glory that is Florida.I want to say thank you to all my professors who have not coddled me and have demanded perfection along the way, making me a better person, and artist. It's a tough racket out there and no better place to learn that hard lesson then the school that you pay thousands to work your ass off. It has been a huge learning experience of acceptance and power, which allows me to rise to any occasion. I feel like I can handle pretty much anything that comes my way and know that the foundation is strong, providing an awesome platform to improve. I won't let you guys down. I love you all, Thanks again Folks.

P.S. To all of those who would like a copy of my book click on the link below.

The best book in the World  

Cracker Barrel 101

      I started off just going to Cracker Barrel for a quick bite to eat. Little did I know it would turn into my next experience. Walking in I had planned to do a little drawing while eating so I asked my waitress for some paper and pen. She comes back with filled out seating charts for scrap paper and a regular Bic pen. Naturally I start scanning through the different names on each chart and wonder what they may have had to eat. My stomach growls and I start looking for my waitress, who I hope plans on serving me now. Glancing at the wall next to me, I notice some interesting vintage signs with all different kinds of typography while continuing  to read the seating charts and let my mind do the connections impulsively. At the time I tried to make a connection with each chart by continuing the list with another person's name or thing that made sense to me. Mind you all the connections or drawings were from signage inside Cracker Barrel, so I think it came out interesting. It's funny how at the time the connections that I made seemed to fit really well but now that I read it over I don't know what I was thinking. It is the same for design, when we come up with the saving grace or the answer to the problem, we work on it, it looks so good and finished, then we realize the next day how horrible it is. Yeah but that was my baby! Yeah right! One of my professor's back at community college use to make us work on a drawing for four hours at least, then he would come around and shammy every one's baby. Drawing,s of course. I learned quickly nothing is sacred in the art world and sometimes doing things fast with no thought involved create great results.    

Right Where You Are Sitting Expo #1

Write ten things about where you are sitting right now that you hadn't noticed when you sat down. Use your senses. Do it quickly. Do not Censor. Okay, begin.

1. Air freshener is going bad 

2. Fishing rod in my eye

3. Power switch to lights is still on

4. Sand everywhere

5. The girl on the back of Reax is really hot "UNZIP"

6. A receipt from tiger Mart

7. My yellow fishing line

8. White shrimp bait stinks its crusty

9. 2009 Wild Acres Art Workshops

10. 99.5 Country Music

In 1952, a milk truck driver in Watertown, New York, USA, complained to a local chemist about the smell of spilled milk. Luckily for that driver, the chemist was Julius Samann, who had spent several years extracting essential oils from pine needles in Canada. Samann, quickly discovered that putting high-quality fragrance on porous card stock was a highly effective way to make a quality air freshener. He soon sketched the now famous Little Tree shape and coined the name "Car freshener". An American legend was born!

March is Workplace Eye Health and Safety Awareness Month.

70,000 Eye-Related Injuries on the job each year cost American Business Owners    

450 Billion dollars.

Every year, dead car batteries are the cause of more than five million Roadside Assistance calls to AAA clubs nationwide.

The Typical peanut butter and jelly sandwich eaten on the beach contains over 

7,000 grains of sand.

In field tests Macrodactylus subspinosus or the rose chafer, males were significantly more attracted to feeding virgin females than field collected mated females.

From information gathered in 2002 there were 121,446 gas stations in the USA. 

Fishing with a hook and line is called angling.

16 year old Berkley Bedell, in June 1937, started Berkley in his upstairs bedroom by tying flies from his dog's fur and pet chickens feathers. It is now a multi-billion dollar company.

Not going!

Is such a good depressant! 

MY CAT GOT SPAYED TODAY

Let me paint this picture clear, 

I thought I saw her in the mirror.

I heard the sound of her hello,

she wasn't there but what a flow.

The lady at the desk said,''We will call.....

so I sat by the phone all way long.

Grey and White in the corner of my eye,

I had to call the vet just to hear her cry.

Surgery was a success but thats not why,

she follows me everywhere.

I raised her right and thats worth the pay,

Remember it like it was yesterday.

Eyes shut green without site,

Blind from an early plite.

I picked her up without ease,

She ran from me like I was a disease.

Don't know what to say,

I out smarted her in a playful way.

Snatched her up now shes mine, 

Call me if you have the time.

Eyes clear now glass,

The spay was free right to ask.

Heat fear pregnancy,

You should have called to comfort me.

Sherrif said the spay was free,

Find a vet not to worry.

 

A poem explaining the experience I had with the 

                vet while waiting for my cat to come home,      

 while also highlighting the love I have for my  

cat and the way I found her.                    

 

 

Exp. 5 Something about Nothing

Never have I been so scared. Responsibility is such a huge task that it mortifies, squashes, and paralyses every bit of unorganized movement a human can make. What is the fun in that? Doesn't the human thrive on the chaos that is produced by a free fall of human contingencies? As I near graduation I see my life flash before me. It takes me back to my childhood. My father's voice at my bedside with the love of a lullaby, the smell of fresh racked leaves, mother yelling for me when dinner was ready, and the echo salt makes when it hits a patch of ice. You ask what does this have to do with design. Everything. Design is about seeing. Creatives are the ones that have been blessed with the sight to see. We are like sponges, sensitive to everything around us which we then filter to come up with the right answer, or the solution, that changes our outlook, which once was the problem. Isn't this the definition of responsibility, the ability to take all options into consideration while putting your needs aside to create the perfect outcome. This is not childhood, this is adulthood. And that is scary.  

What am I doing

This book is not easy! We started off in the beginning of the semester being told that a preconceived notion of the thing we were doing is not good. Now that I have done some experiences, which have been totally random but have spoken to my heart, I am left with exercises of looking. These exercises have helped me see within myself and do things that will improve my process of growth as a human being. It is hard looking at your self because we are our own worst critics. 

Exploration # 49 Alt. Collect Words You find Interesting

Go out and collect words that you find interesting. This is a study of the mundane so I am sure I will find some interesting relationships. Well, I take that back, words are very interesting but it is the fact that they are words that makes it a little mundane, especially looking through a dictionary. Also I will be timing myself this exploration, which will give me only thirty minutes starting now 7:25 a.m. ...................7:55 a.m. ..................

festoon 

gob

gonad

infuse

in house

man eater

oligarchy

one-way

grumbler

grow up 

brae

blackamoor

black ball

black bass 

black bear 

black belt 

blackberry 

black bird

black box

aqua vitae

annotate

amputate

allowance

acrobatics

acropolis 

acrylic resin

chankah

chap

change

deface

defeat 

gang plow

gargle

hangman

heterodox

meteorology

merry-go-round

petty officer first class 

philosophy

snipe

thermistor

umiak

umpteen

videotape

vignette

whoopee

zoo geography

ziti

weiner

These words may not be particularly interesting to you, but it is interesting how the eye moves along the page. The eye works hand and hand with the brain constantly syphoning through words. The words with interest providing a blazon light around the ink that put it there. Surprise! Now you have 1 millionth of a second to determine if the word is of interest or your brain will move on to the next highlighted area of your life.