assignment #11

While sitting where you are, draw your kitchen, don't go look at it yet. After you've drawn your kitchen from your seat, get up, go look at your kitchen, and draw it again, this time while you're looking at it. Now, sometime during the week, when you're at work or school, on the bus or in a waiting room, draw your kitchen a third time.

Post you're drawings here, I'd love to see them.

[final note: I'm unofficially continuing from where they left off]

Scruffs Hardware

After doing a little searching, I found another clothing commercial, though I don't know if it follows the same trend as the one's below [and its at least a year old]. Wait, is Scruff's Hardware a real company?

Charlotte Ronson

So I feel a little taken, in two ways, one because this is actually an advertisement. Yeah, I can't believe it! This person, Charlotte Ronson has a self titled clothing line. And with each new clothing line release, she also makes a video. This somewhere on the line of the Louis Vuitton Commercial. I'd say Charlotte Ronson's video is better though, because she does it without so many words, using the film medium on its own. Is this a new trend for such things?

Free! Trade Screening

A free screening of the film Trade at Travis Auditorium in Pasadena, from 7pm to 10pm (today). Hosted by the PGU Peace and Justice Concerns Committee. See a the trailer for Trade.

Visualizing and Abstraction

Now I didn't find these [I did, just not on my own]. It was first over at core77, then at notcot.org. It is one of the most fantastic videos I've seen in a while. Even more amazing is that its over thirty years old! I don't remember getting any of this when I was a kid in school. I did get something, that was more from my mom and her flash cards [I should go find those...]. As I recall, school just didn't encourage this enough. And by the time I was in high school it was pretty much left to the way side. Now I'm reminded of Sir Ken Robinson's speech. Now my mind is off and racing with ideas, I hope yours is too.

[Edit: Check out this great post at Presentation Zen on Sir Ken Robinson]

Marathon

I ran the Los Angeles Marathon this past weekend. It was fun, recorded a personal best at 3 hours and 52 minutes [ 40 minutes better than my previous time, I can't wait to see what training will do to that ]. I also carried my camera with me this time, here is a video, in hindsight, I wish I had recorded more footage like this.  It would be fun to splice it with scenes from Godzilla or Cloverfield.

iDoodle

As a person who carries his sketchbook with him everywhere, this is the iPhone Web App I've been waiting for. I'll review it once I've played with it for a week. Bookmark yours here.