after a long evening, lasting until five am, we went to bed with no electricity.
(summer in the city is hot.)
the sun wakes us up, and our adventure continues. losing electricity in the summer reminded me of free grocery store ice cream, and board games in the basement. those memories were quickly erased when i realized how much work needed to be done. thankfully our group’s ideas greatly progressed the evening before, and we would use the rest of the day was meeting with radio arte’s silvia and refining our concepts. disillusioned by the brown out (no computers?! oh, no!), our team decided to sketch before taking a trip over to pilsen, where radio arte is located. being inside their studio inspired and reaffirmed why we were doing what we were doing. radio arte is condensed with passionate people working together making something beautiful. we work for a couple of hours making mocks of the studio space and discussing the aspects of the concept that would be highly considered for the final execution.
following lunch, antonio, rachel, and i drove over to coloprhonics (printing, vinyl studio) where we met peter. peter runs colorphonics, and he is printing the vinyl graphics that would be applied to the windows of radio arte’s studio. he showed us the large format printers and vinyl cutters and taught us the pros and cons of using mesh and solid vinyl.
leaving colorphonics thankful and with invaluable information, we drove back to pilsen to regroup with the others and inform them about what we’ve learned. rick valicenti greeted us and helped us progress in our concept. we were re so grateful to rick for taking out the time to help us explore new and different angles of the project. with new ideas to consider, we continued to work on designing the studio space until five, where we would present our concepts to four members of the radio arte team. over all, the presentation went really well, and we got positive feedback as well as constructive criticism that would help us move on to the final design.
with the initial presentation with radio arte behind us, we were on to our next location: someoddpilot. there we met chris. he gave us an extensive and energetic presentation on album covers, from the very good, to the very awful (a.k.a. bangles best of album) after which he presented our next assignment. we were instructed to use the things we learned during his presentation and make an album cover for the pop trio hey champ.
we left someoddpilot feeling inspired, motivated, and hungry (we skipped dinner to make it in time to meet chris). dawn cooked some amazing pesto, pea, and pasta concoction that would leave no one fully satiated.
it’s one o’clock and there’s still many things to get accomplished before anyone can lay down on our beds of air.
that pesto pasta was awesome. some odd pilot was awesome. you are awesome.