This is going to be a pretty incoherent mess of rambles, but I feel like typing since all I’ve been doing is reading tonight.
The past few months have been a highly racially centric period, which is kind of weird I guess. I just feel like various racial issues have been brought up a lot around me lately so I think about it a lot. It makes me wonder what other people are thinking about. How often do non-minorities think about issues of race? Aside from just like “man, there’s a lot of asian kids in front of odegaard” or something like that.
Even though I’ve been considered a sort of “exotic other” by some, how much am I too guilty of being enchanted by the idea of the exotic other? I am currently really into Latin America, although I suppose it’s the music & dancing that I am so enamoured with.
I am really into the 1920’s, there is just something strangely romanticized about that whole decade (and the beginigs of the feminist movement). Reading about vaudville and bohemians and bebop and all that makes me wish I was alive then, if not for the whole Great Depression thing soon afterwards (and the pervasive racial tensions of the time). I am awaiting a 1920’s comeback. Out with the 70’s and 80’s comeback crap, bring me flapper dresses and cloche hats.
I think about the FedEx logo a lot. Sometimes when walking to school or in the shower or while eating a sandwich. It’s really weird and almost annoying cause it makes me feel obsessive or something. I swear that ever since someone first told me about the arrow between the E and the x (in the counter) I have been thinking about the damn logo at least once a week, if not several times a week. Considering I first learned about that in my first design history class, I’ve spent a lot of unnecissary brain energy on thinking about the logo and how incredibly amazing I apparently think it is. It doesn’t help that I see FedEx trucks on a nearly weekly basis anyways so it’s always there. And people bring it up in design class ALL THE TIME. So apparently it’s a memorable logo. Good job, FedEx.
Sometimes I go a really long time without making things and I forget how much I like making things. I’ve cooked several meals in the past few days, actually started design stuff, and been drawing. I got a sweet light box from UW surplus over the weekend which means I can go over pencil drawings with markers super easy! And I’ve been drawing with a brush pen (as evident in the previous post) and realizing I really like it. So organic and blobbilicious.
Wow. it was really easy to ramble all that out of my head.. I should stop before I get too carried away… sleep.