SAINTS WIN (oh, and a little bit of Digital Arts stuff)

So, first off:

WHO DAT.

It's now been two weeks since the Saints won SUPER BOWL 44! HECK YES. As a result, New Orleans basically shut down until after Mardi Gras. The Saints parade (although I did not attend - I watched from my warm dorm room doing homework while everyone else froze their butts off downtown) had 850,000 attendees - that's DOUBLE the population of the entire city crammed into downtown New Orleans. Insane.
While I normally would be all about standing on the side of a road, jumping up and down, screaming, and having a bountiful supply of shiny things given to you (and who isn't a fan of that?), I flew back home during Mardi Gras this year and spent some time with my family and friends back in good old Wheaton, Illinois. Since my family got a puppy right before winter break ended, I needed to bond with it. Haha.

Additionally, if you recall the wager I had with my parentals and the outcome of the Super Bowl, it's safe to assume I collected on that wager when I got home. Lou Malnati's deep dish pizza. Om nom nom.

Now, onto what I've been up to for this semester!

I'm currently taking Digital Arts II this semester, which is basically a class about web design and interactivity. So far, we've had two projects - one was a website documenting some sort of collection, and the other was an interactive Flash animation inspired by the concept of infinity.
Tough stuff, a lot of computer mumbo jumbo that I'm still not sure I completely get, but I managed to come up with some projects I'm pretty proud about!

Project #1 - I was inspired by information design and graphs to create a page documenting the different way people wished me Happy Birthday on my last birthday. Definitely inspired by clean typography (most specifically Helvetica)

Project #2 - I was inspired by the concept of reincarnation and the idea that "the eyes are the window to the soul" to create a gallery documenting the lives and deaths of 9 individuals (both fictional and real) to show that everyone's life is significant in some way or another. This one turned out to be kind of morbid/depressing compared to what I normally do, but I do like the illustrations!

Okay, artsy-mumbo-jumbo over. Take a look! Click here to see the projects so far!