Call Me Amaesing A Niche of Tasks and Inspiration

Oh dear.

"The high-end coffee retailer is breaking a series of long form, full-page newspaper ads Sunday, designed to tell the brand's "story" while warning consumers about the dangers of trading down. It's all part of its effort to combat consumer perception about its prices and separate itself from McDonald's expected mass-market assault for its McCafe launch." - AdAge

How It Works:
A. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search: (http://www.flickr.com/).
B. Using ONLY the first page, pick an image.
C. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into Mosaic Maker: (http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/mosaic.php).
D. Change rows to 3 and columns to 3.

The Questions:
1. What is your first name? Diana
2. What is your favorite food? Spring Rolls
3. What is your favorite color? Mustard Yellow
4. Favorite drink? Long Island
5. Dream vacation? Dehli, India
6. Favorite hobby? Scrapbooking
7. What you want to be when you grow up? Art Director for Ad Agency
8. What do you love most in life? Moments of Inspiration
9. One word to describe you? Whoa

Every year, I make it a tradition to make Spring eggs for my staff and fill it with YUMMY CHOCOLATE. It's a long two-day endeavor filled with hot glue gun burns and tangled ribbon.

But here are the end results:

Assignment 8: Outdoor
(aka: Billboard)

Make a billboard for a travel destination. Everyone did something out of the country. "Experience this, or take the challenge, or sight see" that.

I went with Brookfield Zoo. My trusty loyal buddy who've I've known for such a long time.

Strategy?: connect mothers and their family to the zoo, and remind them of the fun facts that they learn at the park as an engaging and learning experience.

So me and my friends grew up together taking four years of visual arts in highschool. Since our art teacher was new when we were freshman, we all bonded very very very well.

Our art teacher, we called him Grice (or G-ride).

We painted murals for the Veterans Hospital
We painted snow plow murals, and also skipped school to attend the snow plow contest (which we are not allowed to talk about)
We did backdrops for the school TV studio.
We made art CDs and brought them to class, which Grice would often tell us to skip to the next song due to profanity.
We had Junk Yard Wars
We took a trip to NIU to take a life drawing class (which we had a 9-month old pregnant woman as our model)
We had pumpkin painting contests
We learned how to use Photoshop!
We tasted the famous Grice guacamole.
We made April Fools faculty photos and put them on display in the front of the school, which turned into a big commotion.

The best day was our highschool graduation. As our present, we were all invited to the wedding ceremony of him and his fiance, Anna. Of course, then, we had to make him gifts! What better things than to make homemade presents! So we made him coasters for his house from moasic pieces, and presented it along with a homemade card and a gift certificate.








Cheers to Grice.






Of course, we had to semi-raid the wedding reception and take lots of pictures with the photographer. hahaa

OK. That title was not really something I came up with. I just used it because half of my class used it as their tagline for our Lab Assignment, which was to use the Heinz KICK'RS Ketchup logo that they gave us and make a print ad.

Here's mine:We went around the classroom and each one had to vote for their favorite ad. I tied with another kid in class, which he also had pretty good art direction. I hope he's in my 452 next semester.

I can't stop obsessing. My inner musicals are crawling back into my skin. I've played Rent for 24 hours straight, followed by Wicked and Sweeney Todd.



I think we've found the place where we belong. Dr. Dillamond, it couldn't happen here in Oz.



Sad how I've fallen asleep to the movie several times. I've never seen it all the way through. But I love the music. I should see it.


The next time I'm in NYC, I'm heading straight to TKTS and getting myself some orchestra tickets for Gypsy!!




Also on my things to see: Spamalot. If the movie Life of Brian is funny enough, this would probably keep me on the edge of my seat.


mmmmmm . Sweeney Todd. Meatpies, anyone?


And the Gods heard her prayer.
Billy Porter is a Genius. ONTI is one of my favorites.


Les Mis.


Jersey Boys. Are you still in Chicago? You were last summer. It's all my co-workers talked about.




.. and much more. More Broadway ranting later.

I found the coolest thing today.
It's called Idee.

We extracted the colours from 10 million of the most “interesting” Creative Commons images on Flickr. Using our visual similarity technology you can navigate the collection by colour. Also available with Alamy Stock Photography.

So you just choose any colors from the palate on the right, and it'll look on flickr for the corresponding colors, the more colors you add, the more varied your pictures will be from the spectrum!!