My name is Lindsey. I was originally required by my typography professor to create this but I feel that this is the perfect place for my adventures into the world of graphic design and photography
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I am so excited for my friend Carter about his play. It was a huge hit, so much so that people were breaking fire code and sitting in the isles to watch it. And there is good news for me too, I am finally done with my photography class and got very good reviews over the movie (for lack of a better word) I made. Now just to finish screenprinting and redo some of my graphic design work and I’ll be DONE.
Things I would be if I weren’t persuing a career in photography/graphic design
1. Food critic
2. Marine biologist
3. Whatever “job” Samantha Brown has
4. Director
5. Media Planning part of advertising
6. Crayola crayon color namer
7. Publicist for indie bands or movie stars
8. Pilot
9. Sommelier
10. Professor
So I took my sb-600 flash to Precision Camera in Austin about a month ago and had them fix the shoe for it since it wasn’t communicating with the camera. Then when I get it back it still doesn’t work, but this time it wont even test flash. So I took it back again while it was still in warranty and they say now the flash tube doesn’t work and that I’ll have to pay an additional 70 bucks to fix that (that’s knocking off thirty from the warranty). The tube was working fine before I took it in, which makes me wonder if it was broken sometime during its stay there at the shop. Basically: precision camera sucks.
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Guess what I did Saturday? As I was cutting the sheets of paper I’m going to use for my printmaking project down to size, I haphazardly laid my finger a little too far over the edge of the ruler and pulled my exacto knife right through it. Fortunately there was someone else in the lab willing to wrap up my incredibly blood finger and I didn’t get any blood on my expensive sheets of paper! Lindsey=0 Exacto knife=1
the final design for the playing card backs that I created. The letters in the background are the initials of everyone in the group: LG, AD, and JS. By the way, the guy in my group is a fucking idiot and I spent several hours today fixing all his mistakes. Ugh
for traditional photography
Its a good thing its almost thanksgiving. Rarely do I get homesick but lately I’ve found myself desperately wishing to be home, eating all my parents’ food and petting my cat. I haven’t been home since May, and all of the stress lately has just been eating away at me. I had a panic attack tonight after being in the darkroom for 9 1/2 hours and only getting two decent printed photos out of it. I haven’t had a panic attack in almost three years. I’ve realized to do my best work, I need a lot of down time. Time isn’t something I’ve had superfluous amounts of this semester and all my work has really been suffering, at least in photography, because of it. I have three massive projects due the week after Thanksgiving and I’m having to consider cutting the amount of time I spend with my family short just to work on them.
But I realize I do a lot of whining on this blog, so here’s some good news. My part of the project I’m doing in my typography class (the deck of cards) is getting good reviews from my teacher and its going to go to press (we really and truly are getting a REAL deck of cards made) this Tuesday.
I’m doing production photos for Carter’s play soon (when I find time away from bitching and moaning about everything else I’m doing). “Taken” opens December 3 at Texas State, so anyone in the surround Austin/San Antonio/San Marcos area should see it! I’m so proud of my friend being one of the only undergraduates to get a play produced this year, and not ONLY that but its also going to be a COMMON EXPERIENCE. Which means that all freshmen are supposed to see it. Its nice to see someone getting the credit that they deserve sometimes.
50 Dazzling Examples of Polar Panorama Photography
amazing collection that whispers ‘le petit prince’
Here’s a tip: when photographing people on 35mm film, always, always take more than one roll of film.
Things are starting to pick back up this week. I’ve got to develop at least ten photos in the darkroom by the end of the week and start on a screen print involving over 40 colors so it looks like I’ll be spending my nights and weekends in the following weeks at the art building. But tonight I’m going to the diwali festival as press and then my friend’s wine and cheese party is tonight. I’ve got two addicts to interview on Monday and hopefully another one soon after that if she finally stops being flaky.
Now to diwali and after I’ll have to go through over 2000 photos to edit.
Photos done for my traditional photography class.
So we have a really cool project in my typography class. She wants us to get into groups and make spotter cards (cards that the military gave its men to inform them of different things like enemies or types of planes while still in a playing card form) with typography information on them. We are completely responsible for the entire design. Really exciting! So I’ve been thinking of solutions to the back of the card, here are my thumbnails. All of them either include the initials of everyone in the group, or other random words.
Another typography project. These are all my solutions. We had to make at three compositions where first the letterform was the most prominent element, then the text, then the title most prominent. We could delete anything either.
My work is now hanging up at Jo on the Go off of University Dr. if you live any where around San Marcos/Austin come see! Also follow me on twitter: www.twitter.com/lgphotographics
