So with the help of Sharon at Mediatemple (goddess!), website issues have been resolved as of 2am this morning. Thanks for your emails offering help! If you have MT, I heartily recommend using their Support ticket system. Yay Sharon!

I’ve always liked playing with colour via clippings. When I was cutting these little squares out, I suddenly remembered making a crazy rainbow collage on my parents’ dining room table for my Foundation entrance portfolio. I think I’ve always been interested in colour relationships, although I don’t consider myself particularly strong in that area.

I was interested to read Josef Albers say that learning color theory via colored paper is more useful given they are fixed and not infinitely adjustable, as paint is.

I had a student ask why someone would physically silkscreen something when the same effect could be achieved quicker, with a lot less mess, on the computer. A fair enough question. Maybe she’s too young yet to be jaded by the tyranny of Photoshop colour sliders.

More Encyclopedia Collages.

The Seven Year Itch

Has anything been rendered more irrelevant than an ENCYCLOPEDIA? I found one on the street today. It seemed very oddly curated, at least picture-wise. It contains what seemed like excessive amount of snakes, Mesopotamian tapestry designs, and bird species. Not so many, oh, WOMEN.

An Honest Day’s Work (Looming Doubts)

Today I also had coffee with Tracy White, of Traced.com. In addition to the stories, I love the interactivity of her webcomics. It gives the work a reason to exist specifically online. I guess Scott McCloud was  right about the whole comics-on-the-web thing after all. Smart guy.

Our Little Princess

In conclusion, we’ve seen how 1) people have always have the compulsion to organize information, even via (in retrospect) humorously cumbersome methods. The Internet’s main power seems to be its efficiency in organizing huge amounts of information, but in the meantime has become a medium itself, spawning 2) distinct and unique methods of self-expression. I still think, however, people covet the tangible, concrete, tactile. Most of us anyway. Which brings us to 3): Sam Weber is selling a print! Sam has never sold a print before and quantities are limited, so go, go, go if you want in.

I spent a lot of time this long weekend drawing a lot of one thing. This is not it.