the good ole days...

Blackboard: $34.00
Copies, cuts, binding, begging at kinko's: $42.43
Razors, spraymount, blackboard cutter thingy: $54.00
Band aids: $3.50
Stock Photography I used: $5.00
Stock Photography I didnt use: $855.00
Material for my Project 6 (thank god it worked): $74.88

Not having to take Words and Images again: Fuckin Priceless.
(let's hope)

kisses!

blog o licious.

I feel like i finally am getting the hang of this layout stuff. My last revision on my project was a big success, and am pretty proud of how it came out. So now im trying to do revisions on a few of them, and yes, it's thursday, so it should be interesting. I had surgery on Monday so although i was able to get some stuff done, it was a little more exhausting than i thought. why couldnt i just have a normal semester?
So im not sure why it never occurred to me that others outside of the class may be reading this. Are there?

Ok, so....not so much.

Alright. My "take my own pics" idea did not work out so well. At least they liked the cover....
So, back to square one (ok, maybe 1.5) and I'm figure something out, i hope.
I have decided that i really suck at this. It's ok, and i love the support yall give me when i say "i really suck at this" but i know i really suck at this. Like steve told me on saturday, i have the instinct (i think) but my biggest problem is lack of training. I know how to write, i know how to use all the needed programs (not as well as dave, but, how can i mess with a master like that?), but i don't have any clue how to put it on the paper. I spend too much time fretting over what should be second nature, or at least some level of knowledge so i don't have the time or patience to work through the normal kind of issues that arise.
But im not one to give up so easily (alright, i did have that one episode during the semester, but didnt we all?). This summer im going to get some books, study magazines, and really study all the basics of layout and graphic design. I'm going to eat sleep and breath it. So when fall comes around i'll be better equipped to handle it. I just have to get through the next two weeks....

A PROCLAMATION

I have abandoned stock photography. I hate it. If i was really ambitious, i would provide my own stock photography site for others like me, but im not right now. So my final lil book will contain NO STOCK PHOTOS. ZIP. NADA. I took the pics myself. I'm still laying it all out(because, well, of course, it's Friday and im cool like that) but i think the back and front cover turned out well. We'll see what happens. If it does work, I am banning stock photos from my projects from here out. May even revise my other projects without them. Why didn't i think of this before? Oh yea, same reason my blog sucks, because i dont have a camera or scanner. cheers!

so i pulled it off...kind of.

The comp of my "drinking definition" worked well, it was the first project that i actually had it finished before the crack of dawn on Saturday. Hopefully the second version will come out well. It seemed like this last project was the hardest to come up with conceptually, everything i wanted to do ended up just to be a list. The idea came up at the 11th hour, of course, so i am working on the layout now. I may completely abandon that damn stock photography and take some pics..i have some images in mind. We'll see if i can pull it off. Only a few weeks left...boy, time flies...