January 30, 2006
Feeding Time!
While in New York last semester I became friends with a painter named Brian Dulaney. His website seems to be down, but you can check out the gallery he shows at, it's called RARE. Even though we work in different mediums (I tend to be careful to not call myself a painter) we were excited by each others' work and found some common ground. Brian had the idea to collaborate, which unfortunately didn't come up until a few weeks before I had to go home to Grand Rapids. So we've decided to make use of snail mail. I sent him a few little things about a week or two ago (one pictured above). I can't wait to see what he does. Knowing him, the two eagle-head boys will probably become even more comically grotesque. He has a way with that.
In the meantime, I'm excited to be starting classes again at Calvin. I have advanced painting and an independent study. As with last semester I'll be tracking my progress and influences on this blog. It tends to function as a sort of digital sketchbook for me, since I've never been one to keep very interesting real sketchbooks.
It will no doubt be a busy semester. Apart from scrambling to get all my graduation requirements taken care of, I’ll have to prepare for the BFA show in May, and for my wedding, which will be in the beginning of June. We’re having our reception in a hundred-year-old barn, and while that may sound lame, it’s not, it’ll be really great. We checked it out for the second time last weekend. There are two goats that live in the basement. That’s right, goats.
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January 24, 2006
Sunday Journey
Last Sunday we (and by that I mean my fiancé and I) decided to go for a nice little drive. The idea of a Sunday drive doesn't seem as innocent (or affordable) as it once was, what with the world teetering on an oil crisis. Nevertheless, we do like to sojourn to the beach at least once a winter. Our drive was well timed with a great episode of This American Life and the beach in Saugatuck was beautiful. The highlight of the afternoon was a restaurant that earned my prestigious “Most Worth-the-Drive Restaurant on Michigan’s West Coast Award” for 2006. It’s called Journeyman Cafe and it’s located in Fennville. For a while they were only a coffee shop, but for about a year they’ve been serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner. They’re committed to using natural and organic ingredients, and they use a lot of local produce. It was reeeeally good. Check it out.
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January 19, 2006
'puters will fool ya
If you've been checking in on this site lately (and I hope you haven't) you may have noticed that it looked like poo. I've done enough print design to be rather picky about layout, but not enough web design to know an HTML tag from my ass. So while I am excited about this new blog, it has been a source of frustration. Good news: I've now got it to a simplfied version of how I want it to be. So while it is by no means done, I am no longer ashamed of it. Also, I'm encrouaged by this thread in the G-RAD DISCUSS! forums about sharing web design knowledge to all the G-RAD bloggers. As was suggested, I am in the process of making a mock-up of how I want the site to look using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. When I'm done I'll probably post it here. Wouldn't that be oddly pathetic? 'Follow this link to see how this site should REALLY look!'
In the mean time I was going to post a link to a video I made that's on Vimeo, but the unbelievably lame Dell I'm using at work right now freaks out every time the video tries to play. So I'll have to check later if it's just the computer or the file itself. Ugh.
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January 14, 2006
Construction
This site, as you can see, is still very much under construction. I'm not sure what I did to make both columns into one...
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Welcome
Hello everyone. My name is Kevin. This is my new G-RAD blog. I'm really excited about this blog and the G-RAD site in general. This isn't a new blog as much as it's a new location for my old blog of the same name, located here. I may move the archives of that site to this one, but before I do that I'm going to redesign this one. Check back soon.
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