Dueling Boxes Press logo

For letterpress, we are to design a logo for a Private Press name we create for ourselves. Fortunately I came up with one of those during the first letterpress class I took last summer. Of course, with my lack-luster computing skills and all the free time we have at MICA, I haven't touched the idea since (except for wishing I had a small logo to print on the backs of things for identification!) Well now I have a good reason to make something amazing, and the more I think about it, the more I like the name I've chosen.

For the initial branding, I'm going to print up some posters. Not only do I like printing posters, but it allows me to use the pretty new wood type, and it buys me another week to design (read draw) the image for my logo (layout, select type, ect.). I'm working on something that mimics the old boxing match announcement poster from the beginning to the the middle of the 20th Century. The layout I like best will look something like this:



I really like the opposing sides look spatially and the textual layout was about what I was thinking for how my text should be apportioned. Something like this:

Dueling Boxes Press
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We challenge you [box]
[box] to challenge us
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Letterpress, sculpture, whatever.
We can take it

Student Loan Crisis

On democracynow.org, they discussed the student loan crisis this morning. They said that most students will graduate with $20,000 in debt from 4 years, but I'm going to be honest here, my total is probably going to be twice that.

Rev. Jessie Jackson was on talking about how we, as students and post-students, should use our energy left over from the election to march and protest.

Their other speaker, Alan Collins, began this website: http://www.studentloanjustice.org/ You can get information there and give testimony of your own issues. There's also contact information for people who should know/listen.

I think the Obama campaign needs to make good on their promises for students, community service grants, arts and humanities grants, ect. They need to do it very soon.

Sean Penn at Academy Awards: “We’ve Got to Have Equal Rights for Everyone.”

Last night at the Oscars, Sean Penn won best actor for his role as gay rights pioneer Harvey Milk in the film titled Milk. This is part of Sean Penn’s acceptance speech:

Sean Penn: “For those who saw the signs of hatred as our cars drove in tonight, I think that it is a good time for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage to sit and reflect and anticipate their great shame and the shame in their grandchildren’s eyes if they continue that way of support. We’ve got to have equal rights for everyone.”

Finished Weaving

The front and the back of my weaving look very different from one another. The back gives a much more balanced warp to weft facing than the front, causing it to look a lot like a plaid. The patterning is different as well (not all weaves do this, which makes it even better).






This is the front. Because this weave structure is very weft-based, you get color stripes and not a lot of mixing vertically.







Honestly, I just want a plain white wall with GOOD lighting. I feel like this would make my life very easy. Maybe a white cube out of doors on a very sunny day? Lighting my work is the really the bane of my existence (if that's true, then I must have it fairly easy...).

The Sea Creature Show is On!!

Beth and I are (still tentatively) having a sea creature show off campus next September/October. You'll be informed as I am.

Weaving no.1

My weaving is an "M&O" variation called "Huck-a-Buck." It's not cut off my loom yet (Chrissy has'nt shown us what to do with them yet...). I'll have those once they're done.



This is the back of my weaving (there isn't a proper name for it as far as I know...)


This is the front of my loom.


Another image of my loom. Isn't it pretty?

Thinking quietly in the morning.

I stopped journaling when I got to college. I had realized at some point that everything I seemed to write was the same, over and over, because that is just what life is like in high school. I've since then come to miss the catharsis that comes with writing down what your thinking about and feeling. I'm still not sure what to do with the two other journals I've got sitting, taking up dead space in xanga and livejournal land(s). They're fine where they are for now, protected from prying eyes (like time capsules). I think they'll stay that way. As for this? I'll do as the other artists do and get work up for people to see. I like the idea of cultivating community by any means possible/necessary.