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May. 11th, 2006 10:25 amYesterday, I started to re-vamp/ redesign the bulletin boards in the library. The odd thing about working on these boards is that I get this weird feeling that i'm back in the studio, making art, whenever I work on them. And the process is similar, in a way. I'm not restricted to keeping the boards stuffy and professional-looking. I just have to work in all the library information while designing the boards. They usually end up looking like a mural- if one were to make a mural out of non-archival colored construction paper, book jackets and flyers.
Anyways, we're hosting CALI this year, so the director wants everything to look spiffy. Which is why they leave the public bulletin boards to me. Note to fine art students: when you get a job that has nothing to do with art, stupid things like this end up using all that precious skill you gleaned from your four years of 'art studio madness'.
The bulletin board work is fun / not fun (for more reasons than I really want to get into here), and horribly depressing at times. But those are the breaks. So, while dismantling the board on the first floor (for the curious: it was an ocean scene, with a big yellow octopus waving book jackets around)I started noticing these faded afterimages of letters and words on the sections of unexposed colored construction paper.
Really neat to look at (at least, to me)- and now i'm wondering how hard it would be to reproduce that kind of thing and make a palimpsest out of it. Now I have a million little scribbled ideas and notes on scrap paper in the office. I have no idea what i'll use from those notes, or if i'll ever get around to using them, but it's those kinds of odd moments of realization that keep me from going totally crazy on the job.
Anywhoo, that's my babbling for the day. Also, this (taken from many other people) is neat, too:
Put Your Visitors on a Map!
Anyways, we're hosting CALI this year, so the director wants everything to look spiffy. Which is why they leave the public bulletin boards to me. Note to fine art students: when you get a job that has nothing to do with art, stupid things like this end up using all that precious skill you gleaned from your four years of 'art studio madness'.
The bulletin board work is fun / not fun (for more reasons than I really want to get into here), and horribly depressing at times. But those are the breaks. So, while dismantling the board on the first floor (for the curious: it was an ocean scene, with a big yellow octopus waving book jackets around)I started noticing these faded afterimages of letters and words on the sections of unexposed colored construction paper.
Really neat to look at (at least, to me)- and now i'm wondering how hard it would be to reproduce that kind of thing and make a palimpsest out of it. Now I have a million little scribbled ideas and notes on scrap paper in the office. I have no idea what i'll use from those notes, or if i'll ever get around to using them, but it's those kinds of odd moments of realization that keep me from going totally crazy on the job.
Anywhoo, that's my babbling for the day. Also, this (taken from many other people) is neat, too:
Put Your Visitors on a Map!