First things first, tonight I saw Demetri Martin live. It was really funny, I was laughing nearly nonstop for an hour and a half and my face started to hurt.
I got to go up front and take photographs through a press pass wish Ross generously gave me. I had waited in line starting at 4 in the morning to get a ticket to get a place in line for a seat (ticket didn't guarantee a seat) and this way at least I got to go up front and take photos (though only for the first 5 minutes after which we were ushered out by the event staff) and I didn't have to wait in line for a seat. However, there was some bullshit with the planning and they originally told me there were no seats for photographers and that'd I'd have to leave after my 5 minutes were up. I told them that was kind of messed up because I had a ticket for the event and woulProxy-Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0 e waited for a seat had they told me 30 minutes earlier when I talked to them originally, so they let me sit in the back with the event staff which was cool, the performance was just as funny anywhere in the room.
Okay, now onto the past.
Sunday before last (the 1st) Ross and I went to the 81st Annual Austin Kite Festival. Getting there was a bitch but being there was really fun. Watching tons of kites fly is really relaxing.
Sadly, we couldn't get the 5$ kite I'd bought at Wal-Mart the night before to fly. During one attempt we got our string all tangled with some little boy's kite who's kite was flying just fine (we brought it down) and I felt super bad. After that we gave up and took to watching, which was the wiser choice anyway.
This pirate ship kite was tiiight.
This dog made the craziest noises. Instead of barking it was like he was doing some exotic bird call. At first people would be like omg vicious dog but then burst out laughing at how ridiculous it sounded. I found it hilarious :}
This poor girl had the same $5 kite we did and she couldn't get it up in the air either :{
Sunday was Austin's 81st annual kite festival, so we got to thinking how funny it'd be to see dapper young lads and lasses in the 20s flying kites. Well, Ross found a picture from the first kite festival:
Apparently the festival used to take place in "Lamar Park" which has been lost to the ages; no one knows where it was located.
I believe I also wanted to talk about the stupid NYC protest in which NYC students (and non students) occupied a school cafeteria to demand a number of things, first and foremost no discipline for their actions. Watching the video of their negotiations with the campus police just shows that they're lameasses who wanna be hippies in the 60s. I like when he goes through their bags to guess what might be confiscated and lists several macbooks, then makes jokes about the administration drinking "corporate water" and "not wanting clothes because they only wear suits" then he laughs at his own jokes.
It's important to note the cameraman/narrator of the video is not even an nYU student which explains why he doesn't want to show his NYU ID.
Also these protesters have a video of them piling tables against a door while "Time Warp" from Rocky Horror plays in the background which is just so tremendously lame I can't think f any other word for these people other than "douchebags".
I think the other thing I wanted to go over was Design talk.
This happened like a month ago, but anyway...We had these sketch-up projects in which we had to find a way to 'smooth space' between two boundaries. Mine was pretty simple, just a camcorder and a tv. The camera would record and the tv would play the footage from exactly 24 hours earlier. Riley asked the class if time was a boundary that could be smoothed. Some people argues yes and some said only with the past but not with the future. I'd have to agree with the both crowd though. When smoothing space with the past we can use images or video or text, but we cannot put the audience literally back in time to experience the event we're portraying. For smoothing space with the future we plan. We try to assemble our future by making appointments, to-do lists, and plans, so that we don't feel completely in the dark about what's to come. But still, we cannot transport to the future to experience the actual event, there's still uncertainty with planning. Soooo you can smooth space between both the past and the future but for both it's not a completely smooth transition. yay designphilosophy conversations! desosophy..philosign..
Also in the same class period Ayham showed this awesome movie-diagram which mapped the flights of the US over 24 hours.
Waaatch iiiit
It's cool. except for the part where it turns into moving blobs..that's pretty lame and doesn't communicate anything effectively imo, but then it goes back to be cool.
The flight pattern maps reminded me of the maps of Railroad tracks in the late 1800s we looked at in my history class. I like when my classes connect to each other..like during freshmen year when we talked about Tycho Brahe in my astronomy class, art history class, and czech culture class.
I guess not too much has changed in terms of population layout :p
Ok I might as well make this all one post...more recent design thangs :o
It seems like eeeveryone's rebranding these days. At first I wasn't really feeling the new Pepsi logo, but I must say, it's really growing on me. I thought their new commercial was fun and simple and they're new bottling for Pepsi Natural is gorgeous (weird adjective for a bottle right?)
So cleeean, I don't even like soda but this drink looks refreshing~
I also think I like the Jack in the Box rebrand, though I'm sure a lot of people won't. Oops! I spoiled the ending of the Jack is back commercial series of him in the hospital. The end is that the have a new logo.
The packaging makes it.
And I'll leave you with this. An artist in Britain made happy face clouds out of vegetable something or other and hydrogen and they floated around for 30 minutes before evaporating. The video is really cheery (I think) :)
http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/5553/happy-cloud-by-stuart-semple.html
all right I tink that's it. woo~ :}
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