type IS art

Today has been a pretty boring one as opposed to last night. I saw Wall.e in the Majestic theater and despite the fact that there was a fire in the cinema Wall.e turned out to be an amazing movie. The animation was more than I thought humanly possible. Just go see it. My explanation doesn't even come close to what the experience was watching the movie.

Back to today... I got the August copy of PRINT in the mail and I discovered this sweet website that probably parallels Tetris, but for the graphic designer. Its called typeisart.com. Here are two of my creations. Honest Abe (above) and Wall.e.

Pottery camp creations 2008. Takoma Arts pottery, Washington DC.

This quote was taken from the Documentary titled Bird's Nest, shown at the AFI Silverdocs film festival in Silver Spring. The film followed the process that two Swiss architects followed to design and build a new stadium for the 2008 summer games in Beijing, called the Bird's Nest. The footage in the film was amazing. I loved the chill attitude of the architect duo and I want to maintain a certain attitude when I start my own projects as a graphic designer! (woot woot)

At the film festival I also saw a documentary about Philippe Petit, the first and last man to walk across the Twin Towers on a tight-rope. It was called Man On Wire and it was probably the best movie I have seen all year, thrilling, incredible, amazing... In addition to this MIND-BLOWING film I saw The Red Race (about Chinese competitive gymnasts who are in elementary school), Lost Holiday (about an artist couple who find an abandoned suitcase in Sweden and track down the Chinese businessman who had lost it), and Sync or Swim (following the 2004 Olympic synchronize swim team) at which I met one of the Olympians. Overall I have come to the conclusion that documentary films are more easily appreciated then mainstream movies. (period).