Scott Fife

In celebration of having turned in my catalog and also having been accepted officially into the Printmaking program, this morning I decided to take a breather from school work and spend some time searching the internet. Whit says I'm lucky that I'm an art major and can use that as an excuse, calling it research and I like to roll with that. Anywho, I was checking a couple blogs that my brother showed me and following some of their links when I came across this artist Scott Fife. He does these sculptural heads that are generally about 24 inches high and all he uses is archival cardboard, glue and screws. It's really amazing the level of detail he gets using the bare resources he does. If you want to check out more of his work you can do so here. The closest thing I've been able to find is this gallery's profile on him. I always love when people find these innovative ways to use materials, especially when they're somewhat uncommon materials to use as fine art.

Another thing I've discovered lately are Gestalten's design books. I was perusing the books at our library when I came across Illusive, a book on contemporary illustration. Come to find out the company that made the book, Gestalten, has a whole series of books that are beautifully designed and full of inspirational images. 4 or 5 of them quickly made their way onto my Amazon wishlist to sit until summertime when I make enough money to actually add them to my slowly growing family of resources to turn to when suffering from Artist's Block (I guess that would be the proper terminology).

The Whitest Boy Alive

The more I hear this band the more I like them. I've had one of their songs for a while now and just downloaded another last night, but I need to just get the CD because it's so good. I don't know if this is an official music video or not, but I do love Op Art and these little brain teasers.



Well, I'm finally done with my catalog. Done might not be the right word but at least it's turned in so I don't have to worry about it anymore. It does need a lot of refining but it's at least a good concept, I think. My whole idea was to bring a level of interactivity into the catalog. I wanted to keep things feeling very loose and casual so it would encourage the viewer to take part in the design of it to a certain degree. If I did something like this for real I would try to include a contest where you would send in your colored catalog and there would be prizes. Just like that coloring contest at Arctic Circle I won when I had the chicken pox. Anywho, I did all these coloring book page illustrations but I didn't incorporate the boards into them, instead just throwing the boards on top of the illustrations. It gave it a disjointed feel that I will have to address before it goes into my final portfolio. So, as a treat I'm throwing on the Connect-the-dots page I did.

BE KIND REWIND

Be Kind Rewind finally came out in Logan.

Anti-relaxing Spring Break

Well, it's been quite a spring break. Last night my hard drive crashed and left me with what little I've got backed up on my external hard drive from a couple months ago. Yeah, I haven't been really diligent about backing stuff up, that including the 4 songs I bought off iTunes yesterday. Anywho, I had hopes of at least getting some of the information off the old hard drive but it wasn't in the cards. So I've spent the night reinstalling what programs I've got and updating the files that I've got backed up. Sadly, my snowboard and the files for my catalog were not backed up so I'm back to square one with that. Luckily though I did this poster for a friend of mine and was able to send it off yesterday so that let me retrieve it today.


After having lost one laptop to theft and now one hard drive to Murphy's Law I'm really starting to look at updating my operating system to Leopard. That Time Machine feature really is the cherry on top.

Food Fight

SPRING BREAK!!

It's been a busy weekend. My sister-in-law is getting married this weekend and they had her bachelorette party and shower, and they went through the temple for the first time. I was finally able to play Rockband and quickly discovered that I'm not coordinated enough to play the drums. It's the foot pedal that kills me. Anywho, I've got this huge list of crap I've got to get done over the break and sadly I also have to go to work for a while. I just wanted to show you the shirt my brother got me at this show at Mode Boutique in Provo. I was pretty stoked about it.

Oh, and if you're interested in Illustration and Graphic Design, check out the book Illusive, which is huge and full of inspiration. I checked it out from our library but I'm trying to figure out how to raise enough money to purchase it.

Movie Poster

I really like this movie poster. The whole retro-style of it is great. Too bad the trailer doesn't look as good. On the subject of movies, I'm pretty upset that Be Kind Rewind hasn't come out up here yet.

Just found out that while in Switzerland we're going to have to share a room with another couple. Bummer. Not that that makes me regret having signed up to go in any way, I'll just have to invest in a pair of pajamas.

Not a whole lot to write. I'm kind of in the middle of a bunch of projects. I need to go talk to the printer about doing my catalog and see what their capabilities are. I'm thinking about doing one long panoramic illustration that will fold like an accordion, just to make it stand out a little bit more. I'm also doing a portrait of my good friend Matt, but I don't think I'm going to post anything on here until it's done.

Oh, the book for Jumper is A LOT better than the movie.