a very busy buzzy bee

...that's me! :)

Let me quickly update you on my life since it has been a long while. I feel badly about this, but blogging has been the last thing on my mind lately.

I'll try to keep this organized by sections and topics.

INTERNSHIPS:

My internship search is progressing. I found this great program called the University of Dreams which I applied to last week? I think it was last week. It might have been the week before. Anyways, I was accepted into their program! The only catch is that I have to earn one of their full scholarships, which I applied for on Monday. Their program is so amazing. It's an 8 week program running from June 14-August 8 next summer...in Chicago! Their program provides housing through Loyola and helps you in so many ways to get a summer internships.
I actually just got off the phone with Kelly, who is my "Enrollment Advisor". I haven't officially enrolled in the program yet, because it requires a $500 deposit, which I don't have...the program as a whole costs $7000. That is a serious amount of money which again, I do not have since all my summer time is spent working at Oakland Hills (see first couple of posts...from July & August) to make money for school.
Anyways, they would help me get in as an intern to agencies in Chicago...it's funny. Killian & Co. was on their list. They were the branding agency that I had visited while I was in Chicago over fall break. They were awesome. I would love to work with them at their office. That would be fantastic. Anyways, I'll definitely be looking at other agencies as well, I'm going to broaden my horizons as soon as I can. This weekend would be a good time to start. :)
I also talked to Beth on the phone last night and she will be sending me a list of advertising agencies in Dallas that she knows are really solid agencies. So I will be contacting them about their internship programs as well. I would like to go down to Dallas. It would be really nice to be close to my grandparents, aunts, uncles & cousins. That would be great. So I'm looking into that as well.

I can't believe I'm thinking about summer already!

CLASSES

I am working on several awesome projects for a number of different classes. It's a little crazy just how many things I'm doing right now, but that's the life of a highly motivated art student!

For ADP, I'm working on three different projects. A group project, an individual research project and a project on my home. My group project will culminate in a green fair on December 7 from 12-3pm at the Matthaei Botanical Gardens in Ann Arbor. My three other group members and I are creating 12 booths based on four main themes: alternative energy sources, recycling, water conservation and buying locally. We have recruited and led a team with seven students in the School of Natural Resources and the Environment. They are helping us research and figure out what we are going to teach the children at our individual booths. Oh, the Green Fair is geared towards Ann Arbor elementary school children from grades 1-5, with a strong emphasis on 4&5th graders, since we are using the 4th grade state benchmarks as a starting place for our information.

My individual field research project is a part of this larger project. I have to go to a local organization and meet with someone and discuss alternative energy sources. I still have yet to do that, but I'm hoping to do that within the next week sometime.

My home project is going to be an interactive installation that is entirely 2D on the wall somewhere in the art school or in one of the student unions. I haven't figured out a location yet, but I am right now refining my design. It will be a sort of expanded timeline, with a jumble of icons and information. My current idea is that they will match through color coordination, yet the viewer will have to figure that out, since it will not be inherently obvious. The viewer is going to have to make many of the connections in this piece; thus, interactivity is necessary. I always like to do pieces about the viewing space. I think it is such an interesting part of things, to grab someone's attention, but demand that they come closer and get more involved in the piece because there is more information beyond the surface of things. So the icons will be large and the text will be a bit smaller. I have 2.5 weeks to do this piece. It is going to be quick. I'm a little worried since I'm still refining my design, but I am going to start it this weekend. :) I think I want to use printable vinyl which I can get for about $25 a roll, but I might need 2 rolls...I might just stick to paper and foam board. It has to look good, but I do not want it to look cheap.

For my CFC class, I am beginning to explore my stranger project a bit more. Initially I wanted to do an advertising campaign branching off of the ads I created for class a couple of weeks ago. The tagline on those was "Adopt A Grandparent". I might continue with that idea, but I think I can expand it more and delve deeper into the actual ideas within relationships between two people. The first round was quite basic; I'm looking to go much further with this set.

For my TMP class, I am creating a sound piece right now that will be finished on Tuesday. I am not sure at all where this one is going, but it is going to be a lot of work. I am glad that I have done sound editing for videos and music before. That will help me to finish this efficiently. Who knows? I hope I like it at the end. It should be good with the sound bites I selected.

For my Words and Images class I am going to start designing graphics that relate the different countries in the world crisis to each other. I wanted originally to create a website for this class, but I do not know if that will be the best use of all my information I have. For this project I am still not quite sure where I am going with it.

Portfolio:
The President of UM AAF, who is totally awesome and in my W&I class, gave me this awesome book on preparing your portfolio. It is now going to be like a Bible for me. Not THE BIBLE, of course, but this book is fantastic and is giving me a lot of really awesome ideas already! :)


The end. I'm crazy. Also I'm working on Saturday during the day at A&D doing tours for the kids who are getting their portfolios reviewed and answering their questions and such. Hopefully I can get some homework done too! I'll be there from 9-3/4ish...yay for money!


Right now, I'm going back "home" to my room. I have to get some work done before I call it a night.

I'm out.