Graduation, DAAPworks, and things

So I graduated. Bachelors of Fine Arts from the University of Cincinnati, Magna Cum Laude, Distinguished Honors. I think my final GPA was like 3.76 or something. I can never remember numbers.

DAAPworks went well, considering. I was on the committee so I helped out with space allotment, organization, installation and de-installation. De-install was the most interesting, since we managed to break the floor in the Meyers gallery with a badly-designed scaffold mishap. The gallery director Aaron was really cool about it though. Which was good because I was technically in charge when in happened, yikes.

But the opening was crowded and hot, and a bunch of people I didn't expect to come came. Before the crowds descended my dad and I took pictures with his really nice full-frame camera. So here. (Disclaimer, I didn't know how to set the white balance on his camera, so it was on auto. Meh.)

Fun fact: one of Dan's sculpture's legs broke off during install. He was able to glue it back, thank goodness.

I love Marty's 'I Get Money' print. Kind of want one.

I traded a drawing for one of Alana's bowls. She won one of the Director's Choice Awards.

Recognize the ceramic tile thing on the wall? It's from the electron microscope tour we made in winter! The artist was inspired by our investigations of the butterfly wing. That piece won a Director's Choice Award.

HI DAD

Danielle's work had to do with public/ private space and voyeurism.

The wall o' books also won a Director's Choice Award.

This is my work, as modeled by my lovely friend Nina.

The idea was that people would browse the pages on the wall. I'm not sure how many actually did.

This is only one of the galleries, the Reed Gallery. I didn't get time to gank dad's pictures of the Meyers Gallery before he flew off for India, but I'm sure if you Google DAAPworks 2012, you'll be able to find the official website, along with plenty of this year's seniors' blog entries.

This summer I have a studio at DAAP, until August 13. I'm mostly going to be painting and drawing in there, though perhaps I can use it as a setting for my gif work (which might end up turning into video work for fotofocus, I'm still wrestling with it).

I watched The Secret Garden yesterday (after having read the book a couple days ago) and drew these (crappy cell phone pics, I'll scan the drawings later):

Oddly enough, this is one case where I feel the movie is actually better than the book it's based on. Mostly because Frances Hodgson Burnett was quite racist, and there are a ton of really outdated ideas about how children develop in there. Same with A Little Princess. Oh well.

That's all the updates I have for now. I'm thinking of actually doing something productive, like dishes. Or I could just fart around on the Internet some more.

MOAR THEEESIS

So I noticed that DAAP's Graphic Design and Digital Design programs have their own websites... (the Graphic Design link goes to my roommate, Liz Shelly's project).

So here's the final draft of my thesis paper. (Or as final as it can be right now--the FINAL final is due June 5 so I might tweak it before then. Also, you have to download it because google docs does not want files bigger than 25gigs D:< ...)

I have ideas and pictures and other things going on but right now I'm just trying to finish a paper on the notion of Japanese identity, so I'll just leave you with this:

The Denton Affair's main director guy Cosmo celebrated his 20th Rocky-versary this weekend. He's not in the picture, he was the photographer...

COMICS AND T-PINS

My new comic is available to read here. Hit "prev" to see the next page.

Also, I'm getting closer to a viable hanging method for my thesis. Jordan had a fantastic idea (seriously, I'm going to have to make him cookies if this works because I certainly never would have thought of it) to hang t-pins in a grid and then proceed to hang my drawings via binder clips, so that they can be taken down and rearranged easily. Plaza was out of t-pins when I went in on Monday but they said they would order some, they should be in by tomorrow. And I'm going to pick up some more colors and sizes of binder clips at Staples on Friday, after tutoring.

Music I am currently listening to:

THESIS, UPDATES, COMICS

IN THAT ORDER.

Hi. It's been a while. How have you been? I've been better myself, but at least I have my voice back. A nasty cold seems to have been making its rounds of the entire population of Cincinnati, it seems, and I am no exception.

So, first things first: THESIS. I just turned in my draft to my professors, and had my visual critique. I'm in the second round of the Dry Run show so I have a week to think about presentation and hanging the work... but I'll leave you with some images of my favorite pieces, and a link to the google doc of the draft if you feel inclined to read it.

UPDATES: I have been working on gifs in my photography class, and I think they're turning out pretty rad if I do say so myself. They're big, so I'll post one here (EDIT: I'm not sure why this one isn't animating but just go to my tumblr and look at them, guh).

Also, Cry-Baby and The Big Lebowski are coming up soon. Here's where you'll find more information on that.

COMICS: I've been working on the Order of the Golden Bear wordpress site, and while it's not quite up and running yet, I did put up all of Third Culture Kid. So go and read, and follow, and be on the lookout for more things! Also, Alison Bechdel will have a new book out soon and I've never been so excited.