Sept 14/10 - I am beginning at Week 2 to correspond with the outline (assuming we don't need an entry for our first week of school) - I considered keeping a traditional source book collecting physical objects and inspirations. Although, I've never had a blog before and I thought, since blogs are continuing to increase in popularity, that I should familiarize myself with how exactly one works...
My interest and experience in web and graphics design has greatly intrigued my to explore the many features of a blog. Especially getting to design it's layout!
Sept 15/10 - Last night I found a fish tank that someone had put out for the garbage, complete with functioning filter, light, and heater. I picked it up and brought it home. At the beginning of the summer I had been planning to purchase my very own pet turtle and even looked on craigslist for ads of people selling fish tanks. I knew that turtles weren't in season until the fall but wanted to be prepared. Over the summer I gradually lost interest and forgot about my desire to have a pet turtle. I find it enlightening that I choose to go for a long walk that night, and it almost seems like the tank found me. The timing of finding this tank and it being fully functioning is almost like the animal gods are agreeing with my desire to be a turtle owner and are supporting it by putting this readily able tank at my feet, 4 days before the turtles are in stock at the pet store.
Sept 16/10 - While in class listening to everyone's moment, the back and fourth discussions got me thinking about my own moment, and what I can make my moment into with the time based aspect of the assignment. I spontaneously developed the idea of sketching my moment in an low-animated cartoon that was solely in pencil sketches. I thought of a cartoon to emphasize the emotional expressions of the characters involved in my moment.
Sept 28/10 - Every year for Halloween I usually screw myself over by waiting to figure out my costume until it's too late to it put together. This year I had my costume picked near the beginning of the summer, giving me tons to time to look around and find what I need. I choose to be Pikachu and my boyfriend as Ash from the 90s TV show Pokemon. Yesterday, I went to Fabricland and was inspired by all the different types of cloth and accessories they sold. Particularly by the shaggy fur fabric they sold in which I imagined making my own fur suit. It is definitely a project I'd like to accomplish sometime in the future. For now, the simplest Pikachu costume is good enough for this year's Halloween!
