Week 9, re-cap

Great week. I'm back on the caffeine and it's working its magic. I really want to stay away from it, but I may have to wait till May. I can't concentrate as well without it, and I have no time to lose. Again, the week went flying by, and I'm left wondering how I could possibly be going into week 10. I'm kinda of freaking out. I present my fake final on the 6th, so I have a month left to get something together. This will be more of a feedback meeting, but I would like to have my book completed so I can get feedback on the final. On that note....

Book
Saturday was a successful book day for me. I re-sized it yet again, made the new mock up, tested out a new sewing technique that I made up based on Matt's feedback, and I love love love it so far! The book layout is getting there. Right now I'm working on finishing up the placement for each page. Then I need to make the system work better, and look more dynamic. I also STILL need to Photoshop parts of my work that I was not able to physically make. Things such as the logo on some baggies, words on my delivery carts and crates... and more. It would have cost me too much money to get these actually made, so thanks Photoshop. I also need to watercolor the sketches in again. I want them to be full bleed images of one side of the book, and now that I have a final size I can do that. So much to do.

Web
I spent the week re-doing the code that Mike taught me, so I can learn it for myself. Mike must be some sort of wizard, because it all made sense to me and I actually felt like I knew what I was doing. I finished what I wanted to do early, so I spent some time breaking the code and trying to fix it. I was able to fix most pieces, but not all. Still, much more that I would have thought I would understand at this point.

Life
I don't have one.

Food
I ate too much cheese again this week. I love fresh mozzarella and I can't control myself. I went to visit Wilson Farm again and bought the cheese there, and stocked up on veggies that actually smell like veggies. I love the way real peppers smell. I wish I had a car, so I could drive there every week. The grocery store sucks. Their peppers smell like plastic.

No thesis visuals. I need to finish part of my book mock up before I will show it, and the web is nothing fancy yet. I guess I will show part of what I am working on in my other class. I am working on a business plan for my freelance company. Below is the business card. I need to work out some more details, but I am using this for now. The name Monsterfoot came to me when I was being wacky at wacky hat weekend this year. (a weekend get-together with friends and we wear wacky hats... just as silly as it sounds). We had a pinata in the shape of a monster this year, and his foot got ripped off. At some point, some one put the foot in my pocket, and like a nerd I began doing homework in the middle of a party. I had been looking for a name that fits my work style, and the foot was perfect. "Monster" because my projects take over my life and become my monster. The foot because I love the research part of the design process... the "footwork" if you will. I still have the little pinata monsterfoot. I love it.

The pinata got a "wacky hat" too.