Saturday, June 28, 2008

A Few Pictures

So.
Up at American Greetings, we've got an art gallery kinda space upstairs near the Creative Department. People who work at AG can display their art, and if they so choose, try and sell it and they get to keep any earnings because the gallery doesn't charge any kind of commission.
The current exhibit is work from someone in the American Greetings Interactive Department, or the department that maintains our e-card website. Its titled 'Overspray' and is basically street art/graffiti. I've taken pictures of most of the pieces, but their are a few that I didn't shoot. And here they are.

These three are acrylic and something else which I can't remember at the moment.
And they're all printed on pages out of some kind of book
that helps put the phrase at the top into context.


Phone book pages



Paper money



Workbook pages



These are all acrylic, and I believe that
all of them are done on wood.


Dig Dug!



These five are acrylic on vinyl.
What they are is 'Sushi Pack!' which is
a cartoon (which AG created and owns)
of a four crime-fighting sushi and their
side kick which is a wad of wasabi.



These next three are acrylic and
spray paint on canvas,and are definitely my favorites.
I think what makes the piece is what he stencilsor spatters
on the chip board which he hung behind the pieces.
I would sooo take the orange one off the wall
and run away with it.




These are pretty nifty.
He took a bunch of MetroCards from
the metro in New York City and
took a paint pen to them.




These six are acrylic on purse, I guess you can call it.
All of the things painted on these (knock-off, cuz who
in their right mind would paint on an actual
Coach/Louis Vouitton/Gucci/etc. purse?) purses
are all characters that AG either owns or has a license to use.
I can tell you for sure that AG owns Care Bears, Pretty Freakin' Scary,
Sushi Pack!, Strawberry Shortcake, and Mad Balls.






Lastly, here is my cubicle!
Apparently it is one of the bigger ones.


Sunday, June 15, 2008

Start of Week 4

Well.
Its the Sunday before week 4.
Everythings been goin pretty well.
I've been able to throw together some Hamburger Helper and I've been eating the leftovers for the last few nights. And I've got a bunch of Hot Pockets and such to last me a bit.
This past week I've finally been able to start working on some cards. They've all been what they call 'New Art,' basically new cards that haven't already been on the shelves. Its been fun actually getting to do work that will matter. I've had two of them come back from reviews for corrections, but they've all dealt with capitalizing a letter here and there, or putting a comma in somewhere. Another had to do with making the background on a picture of some puppies more pink than it already was. And I've also learned why cards are the way that they are sometimes. Like when it seems like a whole sheet of paper has been folded up and pasted on the inside of a card, it all has to do with perceived value. One of the cards I've had to do is like that. It was a z-fold (kind of like an accordion) but the first two pages are going ot be pasted together, so the front of the card will be thicker. So in the end, it will come out being like a horizontal single fold card. Then its got hot stamp on it too. Hot stamp is the shiny foil stuff. Crystaline is the glittery stuff, and flocking is the felt-ish kinda material.
On Friday night, Chris and I went out to the Executive Director of Creative Service for a poker night with a bunch of people from the Creative Department. Twas fun, but I did leave with $9 less than when I got there. But we got free pizza. It was great seeing some of the people I work with in a more laid back, casual setting.
Tomorrow we've been invited to a breakfast thingy with CEO for AG. Should be interesting.
In the course of writing this entry, I've seen Turkey beat The Czech Republic 3-2 and then USA scored in the first minute of their World Cup Qualifying game against Barbados.
And now I'm hungry.
More later.

Saturday, June 7, 2008

First Post of June

So its June.
And its a Saturday night.
My second week has been pretty good, even though I'm going to still be doing training with Craig on Monday. No matter how much I hate it, I know I'm learning all the ins and outs of Photoshop and Freehand, and everything I'll need to know to do my job later on.
This weekend so far has been pretty good. A few of the interns and I went out to the mall across the street and then to go see "You Don't Mess With the Zohan" on Friday night. I've been getting some pretty nifty stuff cuz it seems like every store we've been to at some point has been having some kind of sale, like 50% off something thats already 50% off its original price. So I ended up getting a $50 pair of pants at PacSun for $10. Pretty niiiicceee. The theater we went to go see "Zohan" at was pretty nifty. Its a Regal Cinemas theater, and it had two floors. There were 8 theaters on the first floor and then 8 on the second. It was about 20 mintues away, and the mall kinda place it was in was huge. Think the Streets at Southpoint, but more on a grid system and much bigger. We went back there this afternoon after dinner. We went to Brown Bag Burger which was voted "Best Burger Joint in North Eastern Ohio" and I definitely agree with that title. Quite the excellent burger. When we went to go see "Zohan" last night, there were little Emo kids running around everywhere. Marty hit the nail on the head when he said "It looks like a Fall Out Boy concert just let out."
Anywho.
My roomate is here now.
He seems like a pretty cool guy. Hes from Florida, has bachelors degree from the University of Florida in business, and got another bachelors degree in illustration from SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design) in Georgia. He'll be working with the illustration team at AG and hes going to be starting on Monday.
Not too sure what I'm going to be doing tomorrow, we've gotta go grocery shopping, cuz all we've got in the fridge is some bologna, half a gallon of milk, and a little bit of V8. And then I went and got Frankenberry and Boo Berry cereal from Marc's across the street. Marc's is this grocery store-ish kind of place. But. I can buy carpet, power tools, and floor tiling if I ever need to. For cheap.
We might go see some kind of concert round here later this summer maybe. We haven't figured it out yet.
Anywho.
Time to take my contacts out.