I've been pretty swamped over the last couple weeks since coming back from the Sex:Tech conference. Since then, I've been working on 2 commissions I got through the conference as well as my animation homework. One is for the Sex, Etc website that I mentioned previously. They launched their new blog, "Beyond the Birds and the Bees: Sex Ed for the Next Generation" on Valentine's Day and asked me to design the header image. I was trying to go for something that was a modern twist on the old theme of "birds and the bees" I decided to use the idea of Instant Messaging and emoticons to relate it to today's youth. I'm really happy how it came out and excited to see a piece of my work on a reputable site for once :)
My other commission was for the South Carolina Emergency Contraceptive Initiative and their 4 newspaper ads. They wanted me to design 4 different "morning afters," with 3 being the "best case scenarios" (breakfast in bed, both checking mail on their laptops, and sleeping in) and one being the "worst case scenario" (regretting not using protection and the chance of being pregnant). I'll be the first to admit that I'm not the best cartoonist, but I like how they came out, given the fact that I didn't have a lot of time to work on it. You can see the work starting on Valentine's Day in South Carolina newspapers (not sure which one).Here's a quick run through of things I'm excited about:
- Barack Obama's book: The Audacity of Hope is awesome and you should read it right now.
- Juno was an amazing film that showed that a girl can make adult decisions about havuing a child and the film has an great handmade aesthetic to it. The dialouge is intelligent, the soundtrack is awesome. Plus, the movie is hilarious!
- We went to see Girl Talk a couple weeks ago and got our minds blown. The way he combined a seemingly random collection of songs was incredible. First he would lay down a beat, or in some cases a snippit of a lyric. Then he would pile sample after sample of recognizable music until he created something entirely new and lots of fun to dance to!
- Valentine's Day was a lot of hard work this year trying to top last year's effort and having a tight schedule to work in. I ended up getting Lindsey 2 dozen tulips (her fav., plus roses are overdone). A heart box of chocolates, a handmade card, balloons, etc. and she loved it. :-D
