• You must read all my posts in the Instructor Announcements folder.
• You must look at the work of all the designers I list in the Instructor Announcements—all of them.
• When you post your work, you must tell me about your creative process. For example, mention which designers inspired your work, or not, and which ones you liked more then the others.
• Any additional research you do for each assignment helps and I would love to hear about it.
• It's important that you look at the work of your fellow students in order to proceed with your work in a unique way. I look for unique work based on solid research.
• I look for your work to push the boundaries, to be unusual.
• Always present your work in a neat and cl...

• ✔ Love Actually
• ✔ Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
• ✔ How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Dr Seuss Version)
• ✔ Christmas Vacation
• ✔ It's A Wonderful Life
• ✔ A Christmas Story
• White Christmas
• The Holiday
• ✔ Polar Express
• Frosty the Snowman
• Home Alone
• Elf
• The Santa Claus
• A Charlie Brown Christmas
• A Christmas Carol
• THe Muppets Christmas Carol
• Miracle on 34th Street
• The Night Before Christmas
• The Nightmare Before Christmas
• Die Hard

• Don't Stop Believin'
• Halo / Walkin' on Sunshine
• It's My Life / Confessions
• True Colors
• Rose's Turn
• Defying Gravity
• Poker Face
• Bad Romance
• Can't Always Get What You Want
• Somebody to Love
• You're Having My Baby
• Run Joey Run
• R-E-S-P-E-C-T
• Bust a Move
• Push It
• Dancin' With Myself
• Proud Mary
• Can't Fight This Feeling
• Gold Digger
• Take a Bow
• Bust Your Windows

• Raining On Sunday , Keith Urban
• Sunday Morning , No Doubt
• Manic Monday , The Bangles
• Tuesday's Gone , Lynyrd Skynyrd
• Friday, I'm In Love , The Cure
• Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting , Elton John

• Glenn Sorrentino
• Jessica Harllee
• Erin Nolan
• Kim Nguyen
• Xiaoyi Zhong
• Aimee Drysdale
• Courtney Myers
• John Michael Payne
• Tanicia Bethea
• Chris Harris
• Helen Li
• Sindy Huang
• Richard Miller
• Anna Condon
• Holly Honeycutt
• Carter Reed
• Ben MacDonald

• not being in that accident on 81 today (11/21)
• internet; telephones; tech support; helpful/polite people (11/22)
• cats; down comforters; home cooked meals (11/23)
• hot showers; washing machines, dryers, and dishwashers; vacuums (11/24)
• my friends and the fact that i can be 100% myself around them (11/25)
• my family and the constant support they give (11/26)
• music and FOOD!!! (11/27)
• those few people in your life that are there for you any hour of the day, no matter what (12/2)
• internet, definitely internet; instant messaging; laptops (12/8)

I'm taking a page out of Erin's book

• I'm best friends with my roommates
• The roommate I couldn't stand is gone
• I have a car
• I'm not on the world's most ridiculous and corrupted collegiate crew team ever
• I'm only 15 credits away form graduating
• I'm back to being an A/B student
• I'm surrounded by positive people
• I have a cat!
• (It's awkward to admit this but...) I'm on meds that actually work how they're supposed to

• Fall 2005: survived falling off my lofted bed, 6 ft down onto a tiled floor
• Fall 2006: survived being covered in turpentine all during Intro to Painting class
• Fall 2007 + Spring 2008: survived being covered in dust all during Ceramics classes
• Fall 2005 - present: witnessed all the many crew trips and other road trips

various songs I might listen to to help me fall asleep:

• Time to Pretend - MGMT
• Die Alone - Ingrid Michaelson
• Like a Rock - Bob Segar
• Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then) - The Decemberists
• Please Don't Let It Be - The Alternate Routes
• Strawberry Swing - Coldplay
• Flightless Bird, American Mouth - Iron & Wine
• Stand by Me - Ben E. King
• You'll Be In My Heart - Phil Collins
• Cowboy Take me Away - Dixie Chicks
• Say (All I Need) - OneRepublic
• I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing - Aerosmith
• Supposed To Be - Jack Johnson
• You Picked Me - A Fine Frenzy
• Make Me Over - Lifehouse
• Stop And Stare - OneRepublic

• i got a Mac and an iPod Mini BEFORE Apple was the shit
• i go to Virginia Tech
• i use facebook, flickr, blogger...and now listography
• i have side bangs
• i wear converse shoes and ballet flats

• the back commuter lot at Tech makes no sense. I could've designed it (and all other parking lots for that matter) better.
• the art department course list/descriptions/instructions/requirements
• roads in Northern Virginia
• the mixing bowl
• the sewing machine manual from the 60's
• the new facebook

• ✔ Delaware
• ✔ Pennsylvania
• ✔ New Jersey
• ✔ Georgia
• ✔ Connecticut
• ✔ Massachusetts
• ✔ Maryland
• ✔ South Carolina
• ✔ New Hampshire
• ✔ Virginia
• ✔ New York
• ✔ North Carolina
• ✔ Rhode Island
• ✔ Vermont
• ✔ Kentucky
• ✔ Tennessee
• ✔ Ohio
• ✔ Louisiana
• ✔ Indiana
• ✔ Mississippi
• ✔ Illinois

• kansas - dust in the wind
• jessie j ft b.o.b. - price tag
• alice in chains - main in the box
• rihanna - s&m

• All Bout Eve
• Roman Holiday
• Bringing Up baby
• Rear Window

• i have my own desk with next to a window
• my boss is rarely in her office so i can feel relaxed at work
• i'm helping out a small family business
• i'm in the architecture/remodeling/design business doing marketing and graphic deisgn... all in my top 5 occupations
• i'm learning about:
  • how a small business functions
  • how it stays alive, how it got started
  • how many things it juggles at once
  • how many people you need to accomplish everything
• i'm getting paid more than any other job i've had
• it's super close to home, i.e. less traffic/commute to deal with
• i don't have to be at work until 9:30, but most of the time i can get away with sh...

• A FALCON - dude had a real falcon chilling on the backseat headrest of his car
• QN STEFFF - that one's for Steph
• MAXIPAD - on a Nissan Maxima
• HEHWO - on a 9-11 plate
• VTERRA - on a maroon X-terra with a VT sticker
• PREGAMR - on a maroon Explorer with VT detailing
• TIE TYT - on a white Wrangler
• IXAMNIZ - an SUV in my office complex parking lot

• printer
• ink
• paper
• scanner
• itouch

• Citizen Kane
• ✔ Casablanca
• The Godfather
• ✔ Gone with the Wind
• Lawrence of Arabia
• ✔ The Wizard of Oz
• The Graduate
• On the Waterfront
• Schindler's List
• Singin' in the Rain
• ✔ It's a Wonderful Life
• Sunset Boulevard
• The Bridge on the River Kwai
• Some Like it Hot
• ✔ Star Wars
• All About Eve
• The African Queen
• Psycho
• Chinatown
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• The Grapes of Wrath

• Sweet Emotion , Aerosmith
• Sweet Pea , Amos Lee
• Sweet Child of Mine , Guns n Roses
• The Sweet Escape , Gwen Stefani
• Sweet Home Alabama , Lynyrd Skynyrd
• One Sweet Day , Mariah Carey feat. Boyz II Men
• Sweet Surrender , Sarah McLachlan
• My Sweet Song , Toby Lightman
• Sweetest Thing , U2
• Bittersweet Symphony , The Verve

• (summer '08) being attacked by a caterpillar and I couldn't decide whether or not to kill it. there was an imaginary crowd behind me, cheering at me and telling me what to do, like i was on the price is right or something. i had a tennis racket ready to smash the caterpillar, but ultimately decided no to kill it
• (summer '08) being attacked by a spider that could grow bigger and started hitting me with a stick. i decided not to kill it. then it tried to speak to me...and that's when i woke up cuz that's just too nutso for me
• (summer '08) being on stage in a sequined yellow dress, singing to a massive audience
• (summer '08) having a huge fight with my (now ex-) best friend and then, when trying to call another friend, being threatened by some lady who answered the phone in...

albums i can only listen to from beginning to end (as opposed to just individual tracks):

• third eye blind - third eye blind
• third eye blind - blue
• third eye blind - out of the vein
• john mayer - continuum
• oasis - definitely maybe
• weezer - blue album
• weezer - green album
• duffy - rockferry

(these too, depending on my mood:)

• across the universe soundtrack
• allison krauss - now that i've found you
• the beatles - abbey road
• billy joel - movin' out soundtrack
• dido - no angel
• dixie chicks - wide open spaces
• dixie chicks - fly
• green day - american idiot

• my old-school headphones
  • they are broken on both sides, but put back together with duct and masking tapes -- they have the best bass
• anything i ever made in school
  • i still have paintings from K - 12 under my bed at home
  • not to mention the multiple file cabinets packed full of documents
• art supplies
  • i hate buying new stuff so I hold on to even the smallest bits of things i could use again
• old makeup and jewelry

• She's Only Happy In The Sun , Ben Harper
• Here Comes the Sun , The Beatles
• Sun King , The Beatles
• Tequila Sunrise , The Eagles
• Hard Sun , Eddie Vedder
• Pocket Full of Sunshine , Natasha Bedingfield
• Soak Up the Sun , Sheryl Crow
• Black Hole Sun , Audioslave
• Shadow on the Sun , Audioslave
• The Red Summer Sun , Third Eye Blind
• Tattoo on the Sun , Third Eye Blind
• Blinded , Third Eye Blind
  • "When I see you, it's like I'm staring down the sun, and I'm blinded"
• Brighter Than Sunshine , Aqualung
• Ain't Going Down Til the Sun Comes Up , Garth Brookes

• Walt Disney
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Eleanor Roosevelt
• Dolly Parton
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• Tom Hanks
  • I'm laughing at myself, but I'm totally serious
• Steven Spielberg
• Tyra Banks

• polar bear
• golden retriever
• mountain goat
• bobcat
• wombat

• ✔ a's
• ✔ b's
• ✔ john mayer
• ✔ lady gaga
• ✔ pearl jam
• ✔ stealer's wheel
• ✔ franz ferdinand
• ✔ tom petty & the heartbreakers
• ✔ live
• ✔ rihanna
• ke$ha
• ✔ joan jett
• ✔ eve 6
• ✔ kansas
• ✔ stp
• beatles

• ✔ 21
• ✔ A Beautiful Mind
• ✔ American Gangster
• ✔ Apollo 13
• ✔ Armageddon
• Austin Powers: Man of Mystery
• Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
• Austin Powers in Goldmember
• ✔ Bad Boys
• ✔ Behind Enemy Lines
• ✔ Boondock Saints
• ✔ Boondock Saints II
• Bourne Identity
• Bourne Supremacy
• Bourne Ultimatum
• ✔ Braveheart
• Cider House Rules
• Coraline
• ✔ Couples Retreat
• Dead Poet Society
• ✔ The Departed

• i have to answer phones
• i get yelled at by angry customers for things i have nothing to do with
• my boss is genuinely dumb and only cares about money
• i have no idea wtf i'm doing half the time
• most of my co-workers hate working here
• my boss keeps screwing around with my hours
• i have to use my personal laptop, software and printer for most of what i do
• the phones are starting not to work
• we are grossly understaffed
• i sit in a cubicle in an office that's occupied only by me 40% of the time
• my job is marketing which shows practically no physical results
• my deadlines are completely unrealistic for the amount of work my boss gives me and in the quality they request in the time...

art: digital/studio

• the decemberists
• axel peemoeller
• don't like reading? read on...
• karl kwasny
• roy lichtenstein
• arts in healthcare
• jen stark
• pete goldlust
• creobic
• the dollar artist
• peter callesen
• the impossible art of li wei

photographers

• pete jackson
• lynn goldsmith
• e.j. peiker
• photos that changed the world
• wallpapers of the world

cool web designs

• Shake It , Metro Station
• Shake Your Tailfeather , Nelly
• Shake It Like A Salt Shaker , Ying Yang Twins
• Hey Ya , Outkast
  • "shake it like a Polaroid picture"
• Shake Your Money Maker , Ludacris
• Shake That , Eminem and Nate Dogg
• Disco Inferno , 50 Cent
  • "shake, shake, shake that ass girl"
• (Shake Shake Shake) Shake Yo Booty , KC & The Sunshine Band
• Shake Your Groove Thing , Peachers and Herb
• Shakermaker , Oasis

Rude people:

• when people talk over me, interrupt me, won't let me finish my sentence, etc.
• when people are walking on the wrong side of the sidewalk on campus when it's crowded and expect you to move
• people who are impatient
  • people who jiggle their legs during a boring class
• when someone in front of you in a lecture class is going through photo albums on Facebook the whole time
  • why come to class if you're not going to pay attention?
• when people burp

• professional list maker
• professional racecar driver
• author...preferably like JK Rowling
  • children's books!
• pilot
• first lady of the United States
• wedding planner
• translator for the government
• record producer
• costume designer
• start a family business

various songs I might listen to before going into something I'm really nervous about:

• Break On Through - The Doors
• Breakin' Up - Rilo Kiley
• Circle of Life - Elton John
• Don't Bring Me Down - Electric Light Orchestra
• Drive - Incubus
• Fortunate Son - CCR
• Good Day - Luce
• Handlebars - Flobots
• How Bad Do You Want It - Tim McGraw
• I Want To Break Free - Queen
• I'm Alive - Celine Dion
• Keeps Gettin' Better - Christina Aguilera
• Let It Rock - Kevin Rudolf feat. Lil Wayne
• Life is A Highway - Rascal Flatts
• Motivation - Sheryl Crow

• i make awesome road trip music playlists
• my handwriting is beautiful
• i'm fairly intuitive about people
• i'm good at teaching things to people
• i have the patience of a saint
• i have a high pain tolerance
• i think like my mother (consider both sides, diplomatic, sympathetic), but i act like my father (bold, impetuous, sincere)
• i have millions of things i want to say, but i have an extraordinarily strict filter on my mouth that only lets me say the important things
• i make breakfast foods and desserts like a champ

• i'd rather do projects than take tests or write papers
• i'm more myself (aka lively and free willed) between 9PM - 9AM
  • (i'm a night owl)
• i'd rather procrastinate
• i work better under pressure
• lunch and dinner are my LEAST favorite meals
• i think Thanksgiving dinner is a waste because it's only vegetables
• on friday night, i'd rather stay in with good friends than go out partying
• when pop fails me, i turn to country, not rap
• i like sitting at the front of the class (and a little to the right)
• i love staying up late, getting up early and taking a long nap during the day

• my entire wardrobe is from Kohl's (minus the GAP jeans)
• i go to Starbucks for the cookies, not the lattes
• my digital camera is not slim enough to fit in my pocket (but it's 10 megapixels, bitches!)
• i wear a t-shirt and jeans everyday, never do my makeup, and only do my hair 50% of the time
• i've only had cars from the 90's or earlier (no moped for this chica)
• my "big" sunglasses are from Wal-mart
• i don't stalk people on facebook in class on a 13" PC
• you wouldn't catch me dead wearing UGG boots with a skirt
• i recycle
• i like cats better than dogs (though i adore dogs as well)
• i want an iPhone but do not possess one