long time no blog!
or at least it feels that way. but then again i keep thinking that the thursday that was only about three days ago was actually two weeks ago, so there's that.
i have meant to be making something every day for my thesis but have fallen short of this goal. unless we count 'having a meltdown' as making something, which i don't. even if it led to a different kind of making the next day. some days get lost this way.
last week i started this project, which is a calendar. when i get stuck sometimes i dream up ideas for calendars. i don't know why it is my go-to format, especially since i have never actually followed through on designing or making any of them, but it may be in part because calendars have individual parts that are numbered [not ongoing], that speak on their own but also add up to a whole, that read mostly linearly [or are expected to]. these are good requirements for small, self-initiated projects.
so this calendar is a calendar that is also a book. or it is a companion to a book. or it is an enticement to read a book that includes significant portions or elements of the book. or here is an analogy, in honor of my younger brother having just finished some now-unrelated sats:
book trailer : book :: THIS PROJECT : also book.
the book in question is shane jones' light boxes, with which i am madly in love & have wanted to make something around since i read it. i threw something together last week but was not thrilled with it, so i reworked it a little tonight. when i was done i called sasha in to look at it & as we went through the pages he kept whispering 'jesus' like it was a good thing, so i figured maybe it should go up on the blog?
except it is a huge file. & also i am not quite sure it's done. but it partly looks like this:
of course some elements will need to be adjusted. the type is still not 100% because i have only seen it printed once, a few iterations ago. my printer at home can't go as big as this is [something like 11.5 x 16.5, or thereabouts]. but i'm excited about where this is going & what it is doing & what it means for some other Real Projects i have been working on too.
other thoughts & such may be forthcoming. there's been a lot percolating these days.
also a move to wordpress may be in the near future. blogspot feels a bit odd to me these days. but we'll see.
or at least it feels that way. but then again i keep thinking that the thursday that was only about three days ago was actually two weeks ago, so there's that.
i have meant to be making something every day for my thesis but have fallen short of this goal. unless we count 'having a meltdown' as making something, which i don't. even if it led to a different kind of making the next day. some days get lost this way.
last week i started this project, which is a calendar. when i get stuck sometimes i dream up ideas for calendars. i don't know why it is my go-to format, especially since i have never actually followed through on designing or making any of them, but it may be in part because calendars have individual parts that are numbered [not ongoing], that speak on their own but also add up to a whole, that read mostly linearly [or are expected to]. these are good requirements for small, self-initiated projects.
so this calendar is a calendar that is also a book. or it is a companion to a book. or it is an enticement to read a book that includes significant portions or elements of the book. or here is an analogy, in honor of my younger brother having just finished some now-unrelated sats:
book trailer : book :: THIS PROJECT : also book.
the book in question is shane jones' light boxes, with which i am madly in love & have wanted to make something around since i read it. i threw something together last week but was not thrilled with it, so i reworked it a little tonight. when i was done i called sasha in to look at it & as we went through the pages he kept whispering 'jesus' like it was a good thing, so i figured maybe it should go up on the blog?
except it is a huge file. & also i am not quite sure it's done. but it partly looks like this:
of course some elements will need to be adjusted. the type is still not 100% because i have only seen it printed once, a few iterations ago. my printer at home can't go as big as this is [something like 11.5 x 16.5, or thereabouts]. but i'm excited about where this is going & what it is doing & what it means for some other Real Projects i have been working on too.
other thoughts & such may be forthcoming. there's been a lot percolating these days.
also a move to wordpress may be in the near future. blogspot feels a bit odd to me these days. but we'll see.
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