February 2010
1 post
August 2009
1 post
Claireification: Reincarnated, Again →
July 2009
9 posts
My new home →
I’ve been needing a comment-friendly blog for a while, so I finally solidified the switch.
“oh believe me claire you wouldnt be able to keep your standards spooning with me”
– Brittany Whited, My dear dear BYU-I bosom buddy.
PNCA Continuing Education →
Before I graduate BYU-Idaho I’m going to take a web designing class; but if it doesn’t suffice I think I will invest some dough into taking a couple of these courses. They’re a bit spendy, but the job market for graphic designers is essentially obsolete without knowledge in web design. They also have a course on Professional Practices for graphic designers, which introduces the...
The Many Adventures of Phil & Claire: Phil &...
It’s late… but I will add to this post soon. very very soon. Promise.
**SPOILER ALERT!** I am the most chronically non-photogenic person in Oregon The United States World. And I noticed from the pictures tha I have horrible posture; take my word for it. I’m not posting those.**
TA DA!
Here’s my Macbook Pro’s new home:
I got the idea of leaving the selvage for the flap from a girl who came into the craft warehouse last year; and incidentally she got the idea from an LDS girlscamp where she made the bag.
Anyway. Someday I’ll get really good about sewing and making things and actually do what I’m supposed to; like measure and cut strait, and iron and...
Voodoo Doughnut - The Magic is in the Hole!!! →
Dunkin’ Donut is for chumps.
June 2009
6 posts
i love creating aesthetics
“Creation brings deep satisfaction and fulfillment. We develop ourselves and others when we take unorganized matter into our hands and mold it into something of beauty”
—Dieter F. Uchtdorf, “Happiness, Your Heritage,” Ensign, Nov 2008
This is one of my favorite talks. I made a much needed sleve for my computer with fabric I bought over a year ago. Pictures...
up to dates updates
I can’t stand reading message boards dominated by teens;
there was a deer in my backyard today and I took pictures.
the dyer house is changing.. the fort has been dismanteled, we got dish, and we’re getting grass
my boyfriend bought a motorcycle
!!!!!!!!!!!!
im going to wash my car tomorrow with phil and then we’re going to see yacht and other lap pop lovely musicians in...
good
Again, I find myself in a good place. For the past couple days I’ve been mapping out the next day and the things I want to accomplish; there’s something gratifying about checking things off a list. Sure I haven’t met my ‘wake up before 8am’ goal; but I think I’ll get there soon. Maybe sooner if I can get to bed before 3am — there’s no reason...
Sherwood
Through a chain of fortunate events, (namely, I went to EFY in 2006 and met Jason Call, who is now a former member of the band Daphne Loves Derby, and we’ve kept in touch a little bit over the years, and know’s I’m an artsy fartsy graphic design major) I’ve been enlisted to work on t-shirt designs for the Californian band, Sherwood.
Over the past week under little...
a good place
I’m sitting here at the Gov Cup in Salem with my computer, sketchbook, wacom tablet, no makeup and in total productive mode. I love this. I can’t seem to be productive at my own home.. too many distractions, too many things to clean, but here.. it’s nice. Lynda.com tutorial videos and redoing some old work.
These past couple months have been really frustrating, needing to get an...
May 2009
4 posts
in Bb 2.0 - a collaborative music/spoken word... →
awesome. awesome. awesome. awesome.
Thanks Monica for showing me this.
yeah
i have only been reposting blog entries and not doing anything original.
My current quest is to spend my time wisely… not happening so much.
T-Shirts from The Orphan Collection →
lukedyer:
I like this concept from http://www.commonthreadz.org
What a brilliant ephing idea. I need to bidget one of these in.
To do: Create.
I just started a Blick Art Materials Wish List.
Elizabeth House Graduated from BYU-Idaho, and I didn’t know her (her sister lived above me in the Winter — can that family get less talented please?!) but I’ve encountered her a couple times, and stalk her blog and I am just astounded at how much she accomplishes.. and I yearn to do the same.
I so easily let things bombard me;...
April 2009
5 posts
Looking for a job? Be helpful.
bijan:
There is no doubt that we are in a tough market. Lots of people have lost their job and many others are facing the risk & reality of losing their job. That sucks on so many levels.
Like many VCs, I am getting a ton of resumes and inbound interest for a variety of our portfolio companies that are hiring right now. I am doing my best to read them all.
The best way to stand out is to...
one
big fatty-fat-phat blog after finals. after i move home on saturday. after i spend sunday with phil. after i create things for myself for a bit.
i am overwhelmed with all the things i’d rather be doing than falling asleep to a book called “Art in Theory 1920-2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas”
I blame the provoction of sleep due to the wide margin of body copy and bad choice...
The Civic Project →
This is pretty ingenious.
Plus, I love my Honda [Accord] over 306,000 miles and it runs GREAT!
“The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a...”
– John F. Kennedy (via rulesformyunbornson) (via lukedyer)
Here's to Cascade Union Highhhhh School
A) That’s the only part of our fight song I remember
B) Shooting plot investigated at Turner school
Columbine-style attack allegedly planned by four junior high students
Kids will be kids. Kids now have learned through their predecsessors at Joesburro, Columbine, Thurston.. etc. That they can retaliate with violence and guns.
I think what disturbs me most are some of the comments...
March 2009
8 posts
(claire
This week is the pits. Night no. 2 of staying up [very nearly] all night.
Good news though, I’m loved and am in love. Yeahhh.. it’s a good feeling. It makes this sucky week seem not quite as sucky as it probably is.
BittBox →
hearts all around for free things.
okay. yeah… when you buy things they’re much better quality, ie, fonts.. but give me a break. free brushes and textures. yes please.
being BOLD
I know all of my avid blog readers are antsy about my cynical blog, but that’s going to wait just a bit. Right now, something more serious, a topic that keeps resurfacing. And I want to claire-ify something to everyone who knows me.
So I’m reading the Visiting Teaching message for this month, and it’s about Upholding, Nourishing and Protecting the Family. Probably, and obviously...
Brittany's Totally Sweet Art Blog: Obama-rama →
This is my awesome bosom-buddy friend Brittany. I took intro to illustration with her last fall and she’s really really really (really really) talented. And HILARIOUS.
coming soon
An overly opinionated blog about things that get under my skin. Something that has been happening successfully and at record-breaking rates since I am mega stressed.
sneak peek:
stupid questions
business majors
business majors and the 3rd floor of the McKay library
supposed “moral guys” who are womanizers
mindless BYU-Idaho Republicans who are still bitter that a black man is in...
Simply Swank →
If I work at Craft Warehouse again I’m going to get this. Most Likely at least. I definitly want a soldering iron. Why? Who knows right now, but I’m sure it will come in handy.
February 2009
6 posts
The Photographic Dictionary →
I like this photography. Raw (mostly, with the exception of a few alterations done in a way to emphasize the photo, not change it). Rexburg is riddled with engagement announcement photoshopped crap. I’m not a photographer, so maybe I shouldnt be talking. But I feel it’s an illustrator’s job to alter imagery to make a point, and a photographer’s job to simply capture it....
Levitation Discovered: Hoverboards Coming Soon →
YESSSSS!
Design is Good →
Who started this rumor that artists can’t earn a living? Sure if you’re just copying faries and anime, you’re not going to get very far; but when you create something that uses a childhood comfort to cancel out a necessary childhood dread, well then.. well then i dunno, but it’s genius.
I aint got no
My license is offically supended as of the 2nd, and I don’t get it back until March 6th or something.
Kids, listen up, speeding doesn’t pay. Especially if you get caught and ticketed four times in a year.
In my defence, I have not totaled a car, and have only been in 2 minor fender benders. therefore I have reason to believe that even though I drive over the speed limit, I am a...
I caress it daily.
I bought a new macbook pro.
I realized that once school is over, it’s going to be such a pain to my bank account to keep updated on technology. Im pretty sure my model is origially $2,000, but I bought it, and apple care, for a little less; so I saved a good $500. Then I got the CS4 design suite; $339, originally $1700.
ugh.. how do people do it?
Anyway. Im going to get an hour of sleep...
January 2009
9 posts
Fred's Home →
love love love.
flip through the catalog.
WatchI keep watching this from my brother’s blog, and laughing hysterically. Makenzie Dyer + Zac Efron = <3
oh doi
Monica posted pictures of our room. Here’s my half:
butt cold.
It’s 5 degrees outside right now. Granted, it’s 3am in Rexburg, but there were rumors that it was it was -21 degrees this morning, and the high today (or yesterday, technically) was 11 degrees. When I was home I debated whether or not Oregon cold was colder than Rexburg, Idaho cold… but it’s not. It’s definitly, definitly not.
In other news, I was swindled by a fast...
I told you I would
blog this anecdote:
Last night Phil missed his exit to get back to his apartment in Covallis by 25 minutes because he likes talking to me so much. He didn’t realize he missed it until he was just about to Eugene. That’s silly. But what can I say.. Im pretty freaking intriguing.
(oh, I should mention that this is him just pretending to be a total tool who pops his collar.)
THEY RULE →
We looked at this interactive information website in my information design class. Go on… go play on the boards of major companies with your government ties.
Accurasee →
This is my head drawing teacher, Brother Thorkelson, and this is the product he devised. Don’t feel bashful about watching the video and laughing when he drops his product.
It is time
I am back in school.
I drove out at the beginning of January. It was suprisingly pretty clear through the Gorge and over the pass, some snow drifts which made visibility near nill, but that was it. However I got just south of Pocatello around 10pm and I started hearing this helicopter noise. I ignored it for a bit, but as it persisted I slowed down and noticed that the noise got quieter I knew...
December 2008
9 posts
Cameron Moll, LLC — Letterpress Poster, 16"x24" →
This was in HOW magazine; and my sister Lauren looked up the artist. Im passing along the link.
mmmm.. Type…