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Va,  Josep Brangulí

Theme: Graphic Excess & Insecure Messages
yeah... i did it to emphasize the perspective...these are like sections,

• everything good should work like a sectional perspective yah?
• if it doesn't it sucks, i don't know if i should do the others as triangles or just figure them out intuitively.
  • • did you get my email?
  • • • omg I posted to the blog, the end times
    • 49 minutes ago AGREED

      • graphic is just what i hate, the over emphasis of positive-negative, figure-ground, subject-object
      • over stylized fonts, and forced hierarchies
      • insecure messages, desperate for attention
      • you can see the insecurity of the designer, "if i don't put enough, you won't look"
      • "should i right-align?"
        
        
        coat a city in that and you have the contemporary condition

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What happens when I describe my favorite BCN restaurant, Oviso, to a stranger

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things are ending...

metáfora's end-of-term exhibition promo video.
gonna. be. hot. Continue

ten diez deu

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creeps.

on any given day you can find me with the industrial scanner 

rather than actually working on a project.

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Onlooking.

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I'm so slack here.

All I do is sit in cafes and try to draw people before they leave. These were from yesterday, with 10 colors. My favorite subject is people asleep on the train.


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found this while looking at bcn photos for lauren...

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in vitro

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deep end, off the.

in process of making wallpaper out of sketchbook pages.

[i don't think my school has yet seen such an acid-esque intervention]

my finger hurts. craving samosas. deadline tuesday. madrid tonight.

final documents  to come - -

ya lo sabéisss.

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These gals got class.

Collage "class" in the Born. Women only, and we spoke English to communicate. 2 Canadians, 2 Americans, 1 South African, 1 German, 1 Norwegian, 1 Irishwoman, 1 Spaniard, 1 Frenchwomen, 1 Brit, and 1 Ukrainian. Glue, paper, gesso, paper, laughter, and more paper.

Afterward: coffee, chocolate brownies, and a 2-hour chat.

"What are you doing after this?"

Yeah, I could live in Barcelona forever.


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not completely unrelated.

ok. if this doesn't  stimulate  the blog a bit..

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If Target can play Christmas music before Thanksgiving, then we can post videos about spring before Christmas

Here's a cute little stop-motion video that my host mom in Barcelona made for her jewelry website:
http://www.egg-design.com/nadala.mov
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bon nadal a tots!

spreading bcn christmas cheer digitally. off to the desert tomorrow, shall be skyping from there!

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galactic mystery solvers

new hit single:

zSHARE - Uno.mp3

alisa, florida-zuelan songstress: lead vocals

casey, yours truly: crucial harmonies

nicole, swedish diva: guitar

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tough post to follow...

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but i shall try

some fotos from my first group show. 

whiter shade of pale

gallery Untitledbcn

c/ topazi 14

great opening night! nibbles, booze, music, good vibes. it's such a foreign feeling to have people (strangers) observing your work... which is hanging on a wall... lit. surreal. a highlight was an old catalan man literally with his nose on the piece.

the piece documented 10 days of movement throughout the city. subtractive method on matboard+iodine+acrylic. basically one big experiment. detailed fotos to come! 

closing night party with performance pieces this saturday. 

qué ilusión!

galería

yarn from hair

jovial

"felt route"

obligatory "creeping"

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around the world in ninety days.

as most of you know my au pair experience was quite the bust. so much that after one week of work it could be qualified as my dirtiest job. some would say, i turned lemons into lemonade and decided to take advantage of being in europe (much to my wallet's dismay) and traveled. traveling mostly consisted of bumming off of a few european contacts (thanks casey!) while visiting and revisiting several european cities. i met a lot of crazies, both good and bad. i started a list of everywhere i went and the people i met. all good things must come to an end and as of november 4th i have been stateside. i popped into dc and nyc to visit a few people and postpone home for an additional week and a half. now i am back in good ole sc. it's not terrible, yet. however, i find myself faced with the inevitable what next and it is now time to retackle the portfolio. life suggestions welcome.

here's a little itinterary of the past 3 months (yes i'm counting airports where i had layovers):

greenville

charlotte

new york

stockholm

hannover

hildesheim

haffkrug

lubeck

hildesheim

hannover

mallorca

bilbao

bakio

bilbao

san sebastian

montellano

bilbao

barcelona

paris

dublin

barcelona

london

barcelona

dublin

boston

dc

new york

dc

baltimore

dc

greenville

i'm hoping to make some sort of project or something slightly tangible from this experience. hopefully more to come soon-ish.

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news ps - news.

vale.  so every semester at metáfora, there is an exhibition that the school co-organizes with a gallery in the city. this term, the show is titled "reduce the unnecessary" and it will be held in gràcia in a small gallery called UntitledBCN. there are only 10 slots, so everyone submitted proposals to one of our profs...hungarian diva who normally tain't havin' it...to see who gets in. i got in! so the show, i think, opens 21 noviembre. i will definitely keep everyone updated with the piece, press release, etc...  i am still working on the concept/prelim drama. i want to create a large-scale map of my past month in terms of seemingly insignificant experiences in different parts of the city. i guess i concocted the idea when kells and i randomly saw an old man riding nude on a bike in the middle of my quasi family-oriented neighbo(u)rhood. i want these instances (and there be many) to be very small and beautifully illustrated on a large-scale "map". time will tell how this map chooses to represent itself. meanwhile, i'm playing with my walking/train routes this past week. i'm using the red line the most...is that weird? anyone? Continue