I have been moving and flying and experiencing the twin cities a lot lately, a lot of transitioning, and in the morning I am driving with my father to visit his parents. I love spending time with family, and having more time to have politically charged arguments for hours on end in a car never hurt a relationship, right? I am looking forward to it, then after Illinois we drive back and I head up to Ely, Minnesota for a visit. Then back to Tacoma via airplane, to start my job a couple days later.
Well I have to get up in less than seven hours and I want a snack, oral hygiene, then sleeping, so I got to post these now. I am not actually very happy with this poster (it is what scribbling on a computer looks like), and the desktop things don't line up perfectly, but I am learning and I figure if I waited for anything I was totally happy with, I would never post anything. The second two images are desktops. The middle image is the first tiling sort of thing I have tried to make with any level of complexity, and the last image is a picture of my desktop so you don't have to download it to see it in action. Once I get back to Tacoma and harness the power of the scanner Andrew gave me, expect a lot more ink and less digital: I have been getting sick of illustrator since I started trying to enter logo design contests online. And no, you will never see my submissions because I despise them. At least now I know I probably won't ever get a job doing this.
Peace,
Charlie
4 comments:
did you write the bit on culture? did you write that?
Yup, totally wrote the bit on culture (and, um, really didn't edit it that much, but so it goes).
yo, dense stuff man, reminds me of csoc readings a bit. When you write "we create" culture are you assuming that we create it freely? Is culture influenced solely by the free will of mankind or is there more at work such as humanity's evolutionary history pre-dating most contemporary notions of free will? I can't see how past evolutionary events far pre-dating the influence of humanity such as the development of internal fertilazation aren't moments that hugely influenzed elements of human culture development. You might call me "fatalistic" but that would be somewhat innacurate, I'm deterministic (that leaves space for randomness and maybe even some free-will these days).
Here is where I am likely a little under-exposed to serious theory on this sort of stuff, and I should probably leave it to you csoc majors. Of course we can't take total responsibility for everything cultural, but this poster I think is me trying to be a little more empowering and hopeful than I usually am. I am going for the hands-on, please-believe-in-yourself, democratic approach to what we experience; like instead of hating on so much of what's out there, try to counteract it and make something.
I think you're with me on the sentiment, but this is totally worth a conversation.
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