Digital Wonderland

I have been tossing around the idea of investing in a digital SLR for a little while now and its climbing the priority list. After taking a poll from SLR owners that I know a friend lent me her Nikon D40. It’s easy to say that I love the camera but I still need to make some comparisons before I pull out the wallet. There is also a little voice in my head telling me I don’t need to make such a hefty  purchase quite yet since I am not a purist and photoshop is my friend regardless of what kind of camera I use. I do admit carrying around what looks like a professional camera makes you consider your composition a little bit more before the snap and there really is no denying the photo quality compared to a meek point and shoot.

What really makes me laugh here though is that once I downloaded all my shots, I couldn’t resit the urge to make them look more like film quality by adding vignettes and holga-esque contrast/saturation to the photos. So the toss up here is digital camera to make my images film-like or a toy camera.

West Coast

I declared this song of the day and was puttering around in Illustrator which resulted in this piece. Sharing is caring. Oh, and buy this album it will cheer you up even if you are not sad. Yeah, think about that one for a bit.

Mission One Eyed Masquerade

This is a design I did for an event presented by  Level10. The logo was designed by my good friend by Curtis Elliott. That’s a wrap!

Butterfly Bloom

Spent some time last night experimenting with my new Veer images. Here is one sample of the results. G’night!

Polaroid D-LIGHT

Monday

Allow me to introduce you to Monday. He is a little fella who’s got the blues. He never gets enough sleep and he really sucks at goodbyes. Somehow, he still remains hopeful that there will be a time were he enjoys getting up in the morning and starting the week off right.

I designed this little guy yesterday to commemorate Monday but with it being Monday and all I never got around to posting it. So here, on Tuesday is Monday.

RVA Project no.10

I am behind on my projects!! Good thing there are no grades in this class huh? I really enjoyed this one involving crochet. Granny squares are so fun. I am almost tempted to attempt a blanket. Whoa, I just said that.

Bored.

Tonight, I took a break from making stuff. That’s right, no illustration, no craft projects (I am so behind), no productivity, zip. I think I was over compensating for my decision not to go do laundry. In other words, it was an all or none kind of evening and I went with none. Since I really am not ok with this (enter long explanation of overachiever complex here) and finding myself incredibly bored,  I am at least posting to this here blog.

After watching Royal Tenenbaums, scarfing down some fast food, abusing twitter, and playing with the cat I cruised through some very old photos. Given my shaky hands, there was a common theme of out of focus shots and some of them that I actually really like. So in the spirit of not doing anything, no retouching has been done to these. Enjoy!

Happy Banana

I don’t know, I don’t even eat bananas.

RVA Project no.9

I went with a mason style jar for this glass art project. Not sure what I am going to put in it yet but for now it can sit around a be cute.