Menu-ness

This is a mock-up of a menu I am creating for the lounge at my work. So far, I LIKE!

Creative blockage

So, for psych we're supposed to do this Creative Project in which we are to depict 3 emotions. We can do a picture or painting of some sort or a video or "other visual medium". I have no idea what to do. I wanted to do some sort of video, but make it really artsy and non-narrative so that it gives the IMPRESSION of the emotion. It doesn't show it. But I was like, "how do I do that?"

So then I thought to do Stop-Motion Animation, which is normally incredibly fun to do. But my camera is a pain the arse because it runs out of battery REALLY fast. And I still don't know what to do even for that. I guess I'll have to do a painting?

*Sigh* ..... I don't want to do a painting. Or a picture. I want it to MOVE. Film is what I DO and it is also what I LOVE.

Stupid creative blockage. To tell the truth, the creative well has been running dry for a while. Especially when it comes to writing. I've been writing the same script for the past 2 years. Not fun.

Anyway ...

I Wanna Be a Pop Star!

A bit of pop culture ranting here. I don't need to say anything: this video says it ALL.

Oh, that's nice.

A sticker I found on the Go Train shelter door at the York University Go Train stop. It's nice. I'm certain that this is a joke, but I would LOVE for it to be a real typo. But what I DO like about this sticker is that it's a play on words and makes you look twice at it, just to make sure that you read the correct thing. Brilliant idea.

Trapezoid-Head Cat

So, I'm sitting here, trying to think up ideas for this toy design project I have to do for DMA 179 and my mind is totally blank. Which is weird because it's night and that's usually when I do some of my better work. I flip through some of my older sketchbooks and I come across this picture I drew for this little painting of a cat with a trapezoid head I did for my uncle when - KABLAM! - I get a really cool idea for a kid's toy. But the way the trapezoid head cat came around is actually really funny.

My uncle was having a dream with this black cat with a trapezoid head following him around. Suddenly, it jumps on his shoulder! He tries to shake it off by throwing his body around. Instead, he manages to throw himself out of bed and across the room to the wall with the window. Of course, this woke him up and he had to tell everyone this story the next time we saw him, so for Christmas I painted him a picture of a cat with a trapezoid head.

So that design inspired me to make a line of Geo-Animals, including the cat with the trapezoid head - that you can interchange between the different animals to create your very own Freak Animal Farm.

When I'm closer to my scanner I'll scan in the picture of the trapezoid cat.

But for now, need to go work on a script. So if you'll excuse me, I must be off.