Thursday, June 11, 2009

Weekend to do:

retrieve more paper(xxx)

pick up library books(xxx)

Aldi's!!(xxx)

Patten dress for Selena(xxx)

Test bodice of sundress, work on pattern(xxx)

finish scarves(xxx)

whoohoo! completed to-do!

Sunday, June 7, 2009

when I can't sleep I make lists in my head...and then they go on the internet!

Things to Accomplish This Week:

Complete sloper grading (x)

retrieve crinoline(xxx)

paper and oaktag(xxx)

Pattern dress for Selena(xx)

Mod research

Thesis research

Photograph & post:
Draping I coat and dress
Tailoring jacket
Draping II final
there will be actual pictures on here this week!
I'm posting this in the hope that it will motivate me to actually do so...

Friday, June 5, 2009

woohoo, weekend to-do list

Interning:
Grade @ torso, bodice and sleeve slopers to size 10 (x)

School:
Brainstorm repeat patterns

Independent:
finish sketches & send measurement requests (xxx)
test bodice
photograph stuff, flickr that shit

Other stuff:
clean bathroom(xxx)
clean floors(xxx)
Grocery shopping/Trader Joe's(xxx)
Laundry(xxx)

wish me luck!

Monday, June 1, 2009

Senior Thesis

I've barely scratched the surface of research for my Senior Thesis and everything keeps expanding rather than crystallizing. I guess there's still plenty of time, but it seems so crazy. I'm supposed to fit everything I want to communicate into 3/4 ensembles? I'm definitely feeling like it's more important to showcase the extend of my patterning ability rather than focus on my own viewpoint, since my aesthetic is pretty minimal...

I tossed around the idea of focusing on all the years that Bonnie & Clyde where alive, but I've decided to just concentrate on 1931-34, the years they were active as robbers and car thieves but even that is just feeling unwieldy. I may need to just stick with American designers, or maybe even just focus on their own wardrobes. But I don't want to focus on them as much as to try to strive for what they were striving for, as best as I can figure. What makes a person do what they did? That's what I want to capture.

I think I'm doing anything to avoid working on my Mod article. I used to feel so confidant in my writing but the last year or so it's just been impossible. There's such a disconnect between what I feel and what I write down. The skeleton is there but the real...life behind it...it just doesn't come through.