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85 posts between September 2011 and May 2014

What I did this week (4 oct 2013)

  • Had an action-packed week in jewelry. Worked on weaving a fine silver chain and fabricating its clasp, polishing and finishing cast rings, squeezing things in the hydraulic press, and patinating all the things.
  • Attempted to concentrate on big nonprofit project, due next tuesday. Had trouble concentrating.
  • Asked for and received many tips on making delicious bloody marys.
  • Got free breakfast in class on wednesday morning. But who buys bagels without cream cheese?
  • Ate lunch with Amanda in the jewelry lab, by which I mean: Amanda and I met in the jewelry lab where she worked in Photoshop and I loudly filed metal and neither of us ate any food because eating is not allowed in the jewelry lab.
  • Watched avant-garde non-American 1960s films in History of Cinema.
  • Lots more time and occasional aggravation in the jewelry lab. While putting the finishing touches on my bronze/rose quartz ring, wore a hole straight through the bezel.
  • Had good talks and fun times with friends. Helped distress posters by sitting on them. Got kinda annoyed at Squarespace’s total world domination.
  • Went on a minor adventure with Julia and discovered that the Interior Design students are hoarding maracas.
  • Friday morning, met up with Theresa and Anna outside a nearby church to take some stealthy photos for my project (the one due tuesday). Narrowly avoided being yelled at by a bow-tied man in a pink oxford.
  • Finished up some work in the jewelry lab; ran into La-Neka; literally polished away one of my fingerprints (it hurt).
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What I did this week (27 sep 2013)

  • Spent time in Jewelry working on a fused chain made from fine silver. Melted a bunch of silver wire.
  • Had a pretty fun tuesday afternoon despite having a really bad head cold. Well, it started out fun. By 4pm I was feeling really terrible and left early so I could go home and sleep.
  • Wednesday morning in Branding and market development: a total nightmare. Frustration with curriculum and teacher. An ongoing source of aggravation.
  • Helped Carolyn with her business cards during my wednesday lunch break. It is easy to impress fashion majors with basic graphic design skills.
  • Turned in a short essay in History of Cinema (I wrote about D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation), then watched Hinchcock’s Rear Window. (Criminally fun for technically being class.)
  • Thursday morning: tried bezel-setting a big rose quartz in a bronze ring I’d cast; experienced lots of heartache trying to deal with the tough, annoying bronze and the easily-breakable quartz. Worked right through my lunch break.
  • Had Senior Ad on the quad, which was completely lovely until it got too hot in the sun, at which point several of us worked in the Crane Café, where we ran into Bob. He said hello to me and gave me and my friends (and Mr. Mohr) pieces of a chocolate bar; then he walked off into the metaphorical sunset. The man is a class act.
  • Concluded a blissful thursday afternoon with Portfolio class, which began with dancing and ended with another long everybody-gather-around-one-table crit.
  • Met up with my Branding classmates friday morning at CCAD’s MindMarket to present creative strategies to our client. We didn’t turf out; that’s all I’ll say about that.
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What I did this week (20 sep 2013)

  • Started the week with Jewelry; watched a demo on investing; mixed plaster. Celebrated the day by wearing fun pants.
  • Watched classmates pitch campaign strategies all afternoon in tuesday’s Senior Ad class. Mohr gave us six minutes each but everybody went overtime and we accomplished very little.
  • Had a nice lunch with Amanda wednesday, then went to History of Cinema and watched Bicycle Thieves, an emotionally-manipulative Italian film from 1948.
  • Had my first experience casting metal on thursday morning in Jewelry. We were forced to wear gross, heavy leather things, but ended up with some cool stuff.
  • Walked to El Arepazo for thursday lunch with friend/former OhioHealth boss/brand-new CCAD teacher Josh Bodman.
  • Sat through more presentations in Senior Ad, then finished thursday with a three-hour logo-roughs critique in Portfolio. Lots of standing up, trying not keep my legs from falling asleep, making faces at friends across the table, and post-rationalizing other people’s ideas. Also: yelling.
  • Worked in class friday morning with Jason and Alix. We’ve got a big presentation in a week’s time.
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What I did this week (13 sep 2013)

  • Started out the week with Jewelry; bought a Max Wax pen and continued working on wax ring models.
  • Had a very fun logo design crit in Portfolio, despite it being way too hot.
  • Wednesday morning: Jim Johnson Disorganized Insanity.
  • Watched the 1939 John Wayne movie Stagecoach in History of Cinema.
  • Had to stay late on wednesday night to hear visiting professionals talk about their portfolios. Got to hang out with my posse, but didn’t get home until 9:45pm. (blah.)
  • Spent all of thursday’s jewelry class figuring out how to sprue the wax rings I’d carved, then ate lunch with Marcia.
  • Used up most of thursday afternoon talking to Anna, Julia, and Theresa about their projects and trying to forget about my own. (It was a mostly-successful strategy!)
  • Friday morning: Jim Johnson Disorganized Insanity, Part 2. And then the week was finally over.
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What I did this week (6 sep 2013)

  • Turned in my first jewelry assignment and had a crit about it. This, plus a very drawn-out tour of the reorganized jewelry lab, took up virtually the whole class time.
  • Spent the entirety of our back-to-back 12:30–6:30pm Mohr classes actually in class. That’s a long time!
  • Had a very sweet, thoughtful portfolio review then spent the other two-plus hours of Portfolio talking to Anna, Jen, Julia, Haley, and Audrey about life. Is all of senior year going to be like this?
  • Had a dull wednesday morning in Branding, then crashed at the library to have lunch and do some work.
  • Watched Fritz Lang’s M in History of Cinema. It was great, albeit a literal pain in the butt to sit in the Canzani auditorium in the dark for so long.
  • Had a nice, laid-back thursday morning carving wax models of rings, then met my dear friend Chris for lunch at the Hills Market. A welcome diversion!
  • Enjoyed another full thursday afternoon with back-to-back Mohr, though it was hard to get any real work done. Spent most of my time chatting with friends and half-heatedly working on sketches.
  • Used the last two hours of Portfolio in the Canzani gallery listening to Vivien Goldman and Toby Mott talk about punk.
  • Had a dysfunctional friday morning Branding class; the teacher was gone pretty much the whole time and left loose-cannon Brian Spain as his deputy. We pretty much ran the class ourselves and brainstormed with giant sticky notes.
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