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The Master

I like how grateful and humble Dustin is. His first thought is to say how he came up as a small fry who was given an opportunity to join the big guys. He acknolwledges that, yes he already had the passion, but was given the motivation and the means by the people he worked for. It’s nice to see. Dustin is also very optimistic and makes lemondade out of lemons. Being forced to choose to go on his own or be lost, he made something of himself.

Dustin is a team player, and made everyone’s life easier by thinking to take a simple picture of the magnolia instead of creating one from scratch. Dustin is right about making connections being important. Networking was the first thing I was told to do once I decide a career. For the There Will Be Blood poster, I think they took the best route by making a bunch of very different poster sketches, and that it isn’t surprising they came back to an original idea.

I have never seen The Master, but with how beautifully he describes the film, it makes me interested. I like the symbolism of water being about drowning/failing AND healing. I don’t particularly like the first poster though. His description of the teaser poster versus final is brilliant, comparing it to a wedding invite. I am glad to read he also hits a creative block!

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Non-Functional Item and Functional Item Project #1

        For my non-functional item, I have chosen to create heels for dogs. Heels are a challenge for women, who stand upright, to walk in without help. I speak from experience, here. I have spent time before a a fancy occassion practicing walking in heels. The last wedding I attended, I had to lean on my boyfriend to walk without falling on my face. Dogs may look adorable with accessories such as sweaters and snow booties, but those are comfortable for the dog.. most of the time. I have seen dogs walk like they had gum on the bottom of their paws with just the flat-based booties. Putting heels on a dog guarantees them feeling unhappy, unbalanced, and unsafe.

        For my functional item, I have created a dog tag that has a GPS tracker embedded inside. There is a chip already created that is embedded inside dogs themselves that contains the owner's contact information and address, but one cannot locate the dog. The chip only gives information to read once the dog has been found. The dog tag I created acts as a sort of low-jack for your pup. If they run off to play with their furry friends, or if some awful person steals them, you can track them down by using Google Maps so they are safe.

To The Point: Interview With Dave Perillo, aka Montygog

          I find the common misunderstanding that television stifles creativity to be very funny. Looking at an artist as talented as Dave Perillo, one can see that television can also be a source of great inspiration depending on the person; In my opinion, a true artist can find inspiration in anything. The shows and artists that Dave found his inspiration in have inspired so many other artists as well, in the form of other television shows, movies, Easter eggs, prints, songs, everything; The artists who created them no doubt found inspiration from other artists in some way shape or form. There is one Bugs Bunny short in particular that comes to mind; “What’s Opera, Doc?” which parodied Wagner’s 19^th century opera.

          I relate to Perillo, in that I had a hard time concentrating on the subject matter at hand in grade school. I would constantly get called out for doodling in the margins of my notebooks. I even drew caricatures of all of my fourth grade classmates. All I wanted to do all day every day for a number of years was sketch everything around me and give my creations to my grandmother, my fiercest supporter.

          I find it interesting that sketching has moved onto sketching then editing in the computer. I feel conflicted about it. There is something really special about that original hand-drawn piece. It’s like a children’s creation in kindergarten; It’s inspired by something, but it’s not perfect, and each piece is a little different, sentimental and unique. On the other hand, it’s near impossible to create the exact uniform shade of purple for those violets on the front porch by hand, and a computer makes it a thousand times easier to get that crisp line for the shadow on the hand of the grandfarher next door.

          With a computer, we can save our artwork in a cloud in case of fire or flood, etc. Lastly, connections are made by using sites such as Deviantart. If it wasn’t for someone discovering Perillo on Deviantart, I would not be reading this interview right now, nor would I be wishing I owned his Gotham Records piece, or Mario Bros. piece for his Squares 4 Squares exhibit at Gallery 1988. I’m also a huge Whovian, and I sincerely hope he gets picked up by BBC to do an official piece, preferably featuring the Tenth Doctor.

          I can only hope to one day be successful enough to work with companies like Disney and The Simpsons. I have officially found an artist to seek out at Comic Con. I’m going to work on making my own style. Like Perillo said, “a million Garfields” is “a scary though.”

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Neil Diffrient's Rethinking the Way We Sit Down

    I find this man to be very interesting, because he is so passionate about his endeavors that he makes them interesting as well. Airplanes have always been revered as incredible, something people never thought possible. Chairs are generally pretty immobile, simple staple items wherever you go, even on the go in planes themselves. People see them everywhere, and most of the time they just are not impressive. Neils Diffrient's passion for bringing the romance into every object, has translated into an excellent work ethic, and therefore functional, beautiful designs.
    Diffrient got me thinking about how really everything is very much connected. He once had his heart set on working in the field of aeronautics, and ended up designing chairs for land, air, and sea. As well as finding his path in life, he improved the connection between the human body and that which he sits on. The chair he displayed in is presentation was built with functional versatility, in a pleasing-to-the-eye package. It just goes to show that a good design is not just beautiful, but also sets a standard in it's field.

On a side note, I find it funny that an innovator such as himself has a last name that is so very close to literally being Different.