new portfolio

So, I finally bound my new portfolio last month. I got this book, Making Handmade Books by Alisa Golden, because I was scammed into a book club thing and had to buy something. (Overall, the book is a little too homemade-arts-and-crafts-time for me, but there were some good bindings.)

I opted for a hardcover sidebound book. Exciting!



Basically, you just wrap your book cloth around a big cover board and a side spine type board and then put end paper on the other side. I have this square/grid thing happening, so I was totally digging the paper I found.



I decided to carve out a square indentation on the front cover, which mimics the grid I used in the portfolio.



Let me tell you, sewing this thing was a bitch. First, I wasn't using hardcore enough thread and so it broke. Then, I actually broke a needle as I was passing it through the last hole for the last time. (Luckily, Steph is resourceful [and didn't storm around saying "everything is ruined" like some people would, don't want to name any names...] and we figured out a way to finish it.)









The end. Hopefully the $90-something I spent (damn you, Paper Source) on making it will pay off with a job...

woah

Star Wars storyboards

These drawings put any "storyboard" (and by storyboard, I mean quickly scribbled stick figures) I have ever worked on to shame. SHAME, I say.

new music

Finally started listening to Heartless Bastards today. I feel one of the best telltale signs of a musical artist I will really like is if I listen to their album all the way through and then decide to start it again.

Check.

In other news, I am employed at a vegan bakery. More to come.

beaver + selima 4eva

[Enter scene. I am walking down the street on the phone with my mom. She is talking about a game played at a baby shower.]

Mom: So every song had the word, "baby" in it and you had to guess it.
Me: Oh. Fun.
Mom: Like that song, "Baby, baby!" [song sort of to the tune of "Baby" by Justin Bieber]
Me: [laughing] Do you like that song, mom?
Mom: Sure. It's that beaver guy.
Me: [laughing way more] Wait, what? Who sings that song?
Mom: Beaver!
Me: Can you spell that for me?
Mom: Jenna, what? It's beaver. He and that Selima.
Me: [laughing too much to respond]
Mom: Is it Selima? Sarena? Which is it?
Me: [laughing] Yup, you got it.
Mom: Jenna...

neko, you cut to the core of me.

Magpie comes a calling,
drops a marble from the sky.
Tin roof sounds alarm
and wake up child.
"Let this be a warning," says the magpie to the morning,
"Don't let this fading summer pass you by.
Don't let this fading summer pass you by."