January 12th 2012
6 months have gone by, and already everything is more familiar. Already i am in my second semester choosing subjects, this time an online method. Illustration for communication today...hoping to start where i left last sem...right now, i just need a clear head to start off with. First post after the new year.
October 19th
The book looked fabulous, and W seemed happy even if i may brag. I cant believe i made this all by myself and that too, i was frikkin scared of Indesign. Anyway, i'm done, now to conquer the website. Dont know how i'm going to. Was back home at 3ish and crashed, i just had to. For some 4 hours i slept. Not done much today, tomorrows going to be a kill. Baptist, then website then two rendered illustrations! gAh!
October 17th
I had an AHA moment at 3:30 to be exact, ive been awake since 11 am, Sunday! Dyoode, this is the shit. Should i pull all nighters for more Aha moments? Or was it that truck load of ice cream? I should go to bed now. And, this is the end of my book. Was worth the effort, i think its decent, for my first time ever. I could get high on this life.
October 16th
Been working on the last spread of my book since last night, it isnt progressing because ive been too excited updating my blog and finally cracking Flickr, thanks to S'es blog, it kinda pumped me up to create my own space and with all the things ive ever done. I think i have been scared of being too "out there". And i think its about time i started to push myself. It's all about being seen, and people recognizing and remembering you right? and its not like ive not achieved anything, i have done a lot more than my peers. So yeah, here's to new beginnings. So N aunty came over, took me out for ice cream!! Corner House! Cake-a-mocha can lift my spirits. ! Ok dinner now, its meat, so im running ! :P
October 15th
So as things stand, Layout and Composition is over, our final submission was an experiment that we could choose and though it was meant to be fun, and trust me, it did start off like that....somewhere it got very confusing. I felt that experimenting in the field of design and then using such technicalities that you will find in science experiments, made it a little hard to relate to for me. That's also because i have these walls in my head regarding science, so even if you mention words like "observation, hypothesis" there's a big chance you will see me yawn. So anyway, my experiment was based on demystifying GRIDS !! Do you even know how much designers fear them, well maybe not designers, but aspiring ones?. It did haunt me, until a certain class exercise that turned it upside down and made it fun. So...i created grids using random day to day objects and made layouts and asked people what they thought these grids communicated. Although the responses were varied, i think this idea has potential, and if i get down to exploring it more...maybe it will lead to something fruitful. So having printed some 34 pages, i heaved a sigh of relief after i placed it on S's table. Next in line was Illustration For communication...our first class was fun...and at this point...i realized the power of positive thinking. I was hoping i would get to be on R's batch as K had told me he's good to work with. And funnily, i did get into his group. 20 illustrations in 2 hours (very quick sketches), on a word that everyone picked from chits. I got the hardest (id like to believe) - FAKE. Ugh, it was really hard, and i did use a lot of text so that was not encouraged. Somehow i managed 20. Then another bomb was dropped, another 10 in two hours, except this time you get a second word - SHAKE. So my words were Fake Shake. :) Played on the word Sheik, Phek (as in throw, in hindi)...not very successful, but as this is just the beginning, i wasnt hard on my self. So after critting each others work, we have to render two top favourite illustrations for Tuesday. Oh ! but wait....Tuesdays also the BIG submission for our Image and Text course. The 24 paged book i am doing on the top 11 songs of all time (based on RollingStone). I kind of like how its turning out, i am glad W shot down my first idea....ive kind of learnt that we shouldn't marry our ideas and think they're great...it was because i was relatively calm when he disapproved on my first idea for the book, that this came out. So im sort of content, i haven't done this kind of work before. I'm still not sure about my type and body text, but im going to put faith on my gut feeling this time and go ahead. But then, there is this black patch in the coming week, how do i finish the bloody website? I dont know why they included web design also, i really wasnt interested in it. And now we're being forced to make one. S is however being very helpful and i hope that i can see it through to the end. But the final good news is, im going home, in less than 7 days !! WOOOHOOOO!!!!
August ~ September
So...as you can see, K's course kept us busy, and thats when the ball started to roll. never had so much interesting work to do in a college course before, crit sessions, working till late at night, with alphabets flying in and out of dreams...kerning, leading, widows and orphans....typography was definitely a hit. Although i was a little slow, more often than not, would give opposite critique! so that didn't help much, but im learning now... final submission was a frenzy, running to Bel road to get fancy prints on fancy paper from Printo, quick dinner at Ice and Spice, cutting out the door tags with Xacto knives and visions of cutting them wrong kept haunting me ! Last class was emotional as we shared our experiences, K told me i need to believe in myself and not be so unsure. This is something i've heard from a lot of people...that i am unsure and it shows in my work. I am working on overcoming that. This wasn't brief exactly, but...i havent written for two whole months and A LOT has happened.
August 2nd 2011
After a brief disappearance...core course typography begins...K looks like fun, i hope she makes it fun too. Loved the exercise given, to come up with copy for a Do no disturb sign of a Science professor, i went with rhyme.
July 25th 2011
The day i have more money in my wallet, i have more food in my tummy. really need to stop eating so much! this canteen on the terrace thingy isn't helping either. sigh...but the upside is, basketball. played with some classmates...who ive never interacted with before. 30 minutes of walking and then ball...hot water bath...good dinner....band baaja bride...then i didn't sleep till past one. grr.
July 24th 2011
Breakfast at Adigas, shopping for Jockey 3/4ths...purple and black...funny how i always manage to find purple! no complaints. First time buying surf to wash clothes in, indulged in terrible pastry...atleast the cheesecake was terrible. (why can't anyone make good cheesecake?!!) loitering around, adding films and music to my collection, long auto ride listening to that Bend it like Beckham version of feeling hot hot hot ! LOTS of rain, cold winds, 250 rupees later - Pghome. ironing is fun, love the smell of moisture evaporating.My first walk in the park - for 20 minutes, with my fancy new Reeboks! i <3 it. still a bit bright and white ! Dinner rocks - chicken curry and aapam.
July 23rd 2011
My first bus journey, sharing my seat with two ladies chattering in Singaporean english la. On my way to S's place...what follows is repeat shows of Band Baaja Bride, Cheese burst pizza, lots of catching up...my first experience with S's driving skills and lack of knowledge about Blr roads...reach UB city at 10 frikking 30...gulp down beers at Shiro's, left over beer is poured into coke cups, the shutting down at 11 30 rule is very strictly followed. Followed by jamming with So's bf...his room had fairy lights...which reminds me. i need to go buy my own.
July 22nd 2011
Everyone i know is not around...so i find my desk in a dark room (assigned to me) and start writing down stanza's from my favourite poem by Oriah Mountain Dreamer. http://www.inspirationpeak.com/poetry/theinvitation.html
paint fish in the evening...for my softboard... very excited that each desk gets a softboard :)
July 21st 2011
Hot Aloo parathas, with mint chutney. walking back in the rain. watching a decent hindi film with a slow pace, oh and getting a new phone number..one that will take me years to remember.
July 20th 2011
Had lunch on the terrace, accompanied a friend to Kerala mess, lost our way...but that was okay. Shady place, but i guess the foods good...staying alone and figuring out things like an INTERNET CONNECTION, can be annoying. I'm glad A is there to figure it out this time.
July 17th 2011
After 23 years, im supposed to stay in a room that many people shared...eat food not cooked by my mother, talk and adjust with people because we live under one roof...and worry about keeping my things safe.
6 months have gone by, and already everything is more familiar. Already i am in my second semester choosing subjects, this time an online method. Illustration for communication today...hoping to start where i left last sem...right now, i just need a clear head to start off with. First post after the new year.
October 19th
The book looked fabulous, and W seemed happy even if i may brag. I cant believe i made this all by myself and that too, i was frikkin scared of Indesign. Anyway, i'm done, now to conquer the website. Dont know how i'm going to. Was back home at 3ish and crashed, i just had to. For some 4 hours i slept. Not done much today, tomorrows going to be a kill. Baptist, then website then two rendered illustrations! gAh!
October 17th
I had an AHA moment at 3:30 to be exact, ive been awake since 11 am, Sunday! Dyoode, this is the shit. Should i pull all nighters for more Aha moments? Or was it that truck load of ice cream? I should go to bed now. And, this is the end of my book. Was worth the effort, i think its decent, for my first time ever. I could get high on this life.
October 16th
Been working on the last spread of my book since last night, it isnt progressing because ive been too excited updating my blog and finally cracking Flickr, thanks to S'es blog, it kinda pumped me up to create my own space and with all the things ive ever done. I think i have been scared of being too "out there". And i think its about time i started to push myself. It's all about being seen, and people recognizing and remembering you right? and its not like ive not achieved anything, i have done a lot more than my peers. So yeah, here's to new beginnings. So N aunty came over, took me out for ice cream!! Corner House! Cake-a-mocha can lift my spirits. ! Ok dinner now, its meat, so im running ! :P
October 15th
So as things stand, Layout and Composition is over, our final submission was an experiment that we could choose and though it was meant to be fun, and trust me, it did start off like that....somewhere it got very confusing. I felt that experimenting in the field of design and then using such technicalities that you will find in science experiments, made it a little hard to relate to for me. That's also because i have these walls in my head regarding science, so even if you mention words like "observation, hypothesis" there's a big chance you will see me yawn. So anyway, my experiment was based on demystifying GRIDS !! Do you even know how much designers fear them, well maybe not designers, but aspiring ones?. It did haunt me, until a certain class exercise that turned it upside down and made it fun. So...i created grids using random day to day objects and made layouts and asked people what they thought these grids communicated. Although the responses were varied, i think this idea has potential, and if i get down to exploring it more...maybe it will lead to something fruitful. So having printed some 34 pages, i heaved a sigh of relief after i placed it on S's table. Next in line was Illustration For communication...our first class was fun...and at this point...i realized the power of positive thinking. I was hoping i would get to be on R's batch as K had told me he's good to work with. And funnily, i did get into his group. 20 illustrations in 2 hours (very quick sketches), on a word that everyone picked from chits. I got the hardest (id like to believe) - FAKE. Ugh, it was really hard, and i did use a lot of text so that was not encouraged. Somehow i managed 20. Then another bomb was dropped, another 10 in two hours, except this time you get a second word - SHAKE. So my words were Fake Shake. :) Played on the word Sheik, Phek (as in throw, in hindi)...not very successful, but as this is just the beginning, i wasnt hard on my self. So after critting each others work, we have to render two top favourite illustrations for Tuesday. Oh ! but wait....Tuesdays also the BIG submission for our Image and Text course. The 24 paged book i am doing on the top 11 songs of all time (based on RollingStone). I kind of like how its turning out, i am glad W shot down my first idea....ive kind of learnt that we shouldn't marry our ideas and think they're great...it was because i was relatively calm when he disapproved on my first idea for the book, that this came out. So im sort of content, i haven't done this kind of work before. I'm still not sure about my type and body text, but im going to put faith on my gut feeling this time and go ahead. But then, there is this black patch in the coming week, how do i finish the bloody website? I dont know why they included web design also, i really wasnt interested in it. And now we're being forced to make one. S is however being very helpful and i hope that i can see it through to the end. But the final good news is, im going home, in less than 7 days !! WOOOHOOOO!!!!
August ~ September
So...as you can see, K's course kept us busy, and thats when the ball started to roll. never had so much interesting work to do in a college course before, crit sessions, working till late at night, with alphabets flying in and out of dreams...kerning, leading, widows and orphans....typography was definitely a hit. Although i was a little slow, more often than not, would give opposite critique! so that didn't help much, but im learning now... final submission was a frenzy, running to Bel road to get fancy prints on fancy paper from Printo, quick dinner at Ice and Spice, cutting out the door tags with Xacto knives and visions of cutting them wrong kept haunting me ! Last class was emotional as we shared our experiences, K told me i need to believe in myself and not be so unsure. This is something i've heard from a lot of people...that i am unsure and it shows in my work. I am working on overcoming that. This wasn't brief exactly, but...i havent written for two whole months and A LOT has happened.
August 2nd 2011
After a brief disappearance...core course typography begins...K looks like fun, i hope she makes it fun too. Loved the exercise given, to come up with copy for a Do no disturb sign of a Science professor, i went with rhyme.
July 25th 2011
The day i have more money in my wallet, i have more food in my tummy. really need to stop eating so much! this canteen on the terrace thingy isn't helping either. sigh...but the upside is, basketball. played with some classmates...who ive never interacted with before. 30 minutes of walking and then ball...hot water bath...good dinner....band baaja bride...then i didn't sleep till past one. grr.
July 24th 2011
Breakfast at Adigas, shopping for Jockey 3/4ths...purple and black...funny how i always manage to find purple! no complaints. First time buying surf to wash clothes in, indulged in terrible pastry...atleast the cheesecake was terrible. (why can't anyone make good cheesecake?!!) loitering around, adding films and music to my collection, long auto ride listening to that Bend it like Beckham version of feeling hot hot hot ! LOTS of rain, cold winds, 250 rupees later - Pghome. ironing is fun, love the smell of moisture evaporating.My first walk in the park - for 20 minutes, with my fancy new Reeboks! i <3 it. still a bit bright and white ! Dinner rocks - chicken curry and aapam.
July 23rd 2011
My first bus journey, sharing my seat with two ladies chattering in Singaporean english la. On my way to S's place...what follows is repeat shows of Band Baaja Bride, Cheese burst pizza, lots of catching up...my first experience with S's driving skills and lack of knowledge about Blr roads...reach UB city at 10 frikking 30...gulp down beers at Shiro's, left over beer is poured into coke cups, the shutting down at 11 30 rule is very strictly followed. Followed by jamming with So's bf...his room had fairy lights...which reminds me. i need to go buy my own.
July 22nd 2011
Everyone i know is not around...so i find my desk in a dark room (assigned to me) and start writing down stanza's from my favourite poem by Oriah Mountain Dreamer. http://www.inspirationpeak.com/poetry/theinvitation.html
paint fish in the evening...for my softboard... very excited that each desk gets a softboard :)
July 21st 2011
Hot Aloo parathas, with mint chutney. walking back in the rain. watching a decent hindi film with a slow pace, oh and getting a new phone number..one that will take me years to remember.
July 20th 2011
Had lunch on the terrace, accompanied a friend to Kerala mess, lost our way...but that was okay. Shady place, but i guess the foods good...staying alone and figuring out things like an INTERNET CONNECTION, can be annoying. I'm glad A is there to figure it out this time.
July 19th 2011
People make decisions for us, and we have a problem, when we're given that power...we have EVEN bigger problems. Choosing courses and structuring my program seems like a nice idea from the outside. Sitting in front of 4 Km long timetables and credits circling in front of my face, is not.
July 18th 2011
Headache on the first day of college just adds to the misery, my roomy's curling her eyelashes and applying mascara. But when i get to college, i can imagine most of them go through the same rigor.
July 17th 2011
After 23 years, im supposed to stay in a room that many people shared...eat food not cooked by my mother, talk and adjust with people because we live under one roof...and worry about keeping my things safe.
