Guilt Breaks

I spent all day today working on homework.

Mostly typography. Drawing, erasing, redrawing, inking.

I've been working really hard and doing well.

But non stop homework is exhausting. 

When I went next door to take a five minute break I felt immense guilt. 

More than ever before.

I believe me and my studious ways are changing.

CCS is changing me, and making me stronger.   In a way.

In a way it's also sucking my soul.

-Roz

ID

Two hours spent in the library today reading through ID magazine.

ID stands for International Design

It's a really great magazine, thick, and expensive.

It showcases designers and companies around the world and they are really big on the NEW and the NOW.

The magazine began in 1954, it has come a long way since then, but hasn't changed their purpose.

Even though I can't afford the things inside, I enjoy looking at them.

http://www.id-mag.com

Bleach.

John Ganis taught us how to bleach black and white photographs today.

It's pretty cool if you have the right image to do it on.

The end.

-Roz

Star gazing.

I was born and raised in northern Michigan in the country.

On any given night I could look up at the sky and see a sea of stars.

They have always been there, and as far as I was concerned, always would be.

The summer after 8th grade my parents, brother and I took a trip to Vegas and the Grand Canyon.

While on a slow rafting type trip down a major river with a tour guide and other travelers one middle to late aged woman asked the tour guide, "Is it true you can see the stars out at night here?"

It took a lot for my family to not laugh.

How absurd a thought.

Why wouldn't you be able to see the stars? My parents later explained to my brother and I that maybe she was from a big city where the lights and pollution block out the stars.

Today while on break from Digital Fundamentals I chatted with Kristy, a classmate. She grew up in Warren, lived in NYC for 10 years, and now is back in Detroit area studying at CCS.

When I told her I'm from Alpena, she had the same sort of reaction, "I heard you can see the stars up north."

I said yea, and realized that for 20 years I've been taking stars for granted. 

It's true, in the city the stars are faint and few.

Next time I return home, I'll be sure to take a nice long look at the stars.

-Roz

Gentlemen take their hats off.

In visual culture class today Dr. Hart made the point that men used to take off their hats in elevators.

I never heard this before. I understand that they did to say hello, especially to a woman, and when in a restaurant.

But in an elevator?

In the era when men wore hats and tipped them, they took them off in enclosed spaces.

Part of the reason was out of respect.

I'm not sure I understand it fully.

But I like it.

And wish men still wore hats.

And tipped them to say hello.

That's sexy.

-Roz

Networking

Today I met a new person.

We share music interests.

Next of kin

I never really understood what it meant.

But then I read in my dictionary

 

          Kin-blood relation, member of the family, sibling.