Time to Go
2011 | Apr 15 | 06:55
dancing | entertainment | friends | Germany
2011 | Apr 15 | 06:55
dancing | entertainment | friends | Germany
2011 | Apr 13 | 07:39
art | art history | Italy | museums | travel
On Sunday of the Florence trip, I walked in to town from the youth hostel and went to the Galleria dell’Accademia to see the David sculpture. The wait wasn’t as long as I had expected, but the museum was disappointingly devoid of the quantity of famous art in other museums. The plaster original of “Rape of the Sabines” was (more…)
2011 | Apr 9 | 23:44
art history | Italy | photography | travel
2011 | Apr 3 | 22:24
2011 | Mar 31 | 17:51
cats | Italy | photography | travel
2011 | Mar 30 | 22:41
art | art history | Italy | museums | photography | travel
2011 | Mar 22 | 17:13
art history | Italy | life | travel
My internship ended on Friday, and after a few days to relax and fritter away my time, I’m headed off to Florence as of tomorrow afternoon! Four and a half days of art history overload, visiting places like the Uffizi Gallery and the Palazzo Medici, which Professor Amy would have you believe is one of the most architectural-historically-important (more…)
2011 | Mar 17 | 12:55
design | green issues | work
Work recently has involved photoshopping a LOT of photos of people for our clients’ publications, but somewhere in there I did a project to create a little callout “Störer” thing for an office supply catalogue’s eco-friendly products. It was kind of fun to make lots of shiny buttons, although there was a certain amount of head (more…)
2011 | Mar 11 | 13:40
I had a quiet morning at work recently and spent a certain amount of it doing abstract desktop wallpapers in Illustrator based on assorted lyrics I like. These are completely vector-based in Adobe Illustrator – I’m finally figuring out vector gradients! (more…)
2011 | Mar 9 | 07:57
entertainment | Germany | life
Thursday opened the Karneval celebration proper in Cologne. Several of my coworkers took Thursday and Friday off, either to spend more time celebrating or to run away from the city-wide party. So things were really busy while we struggled to make up for the missing people, so it was pretty much all work and no play. Nonetheless, (more…)