All better

Hey everybody!

You will be glad to know that I am all better now! yay! This is my last week of school before spring break. I am hustling to pull my industrial design project together for our final design presentation this Friday. I'm designing an athletic high school and college backpack. This is a unique ID project because I have been working on it since the first week of January and after spring break I will move on from designing the bag to actually MAKING the bag. Usually in ID we dont make fully working prototypes of the products we design. Typically we will make a 3D computer model or a blue foam model of the product to show the shape but we dont make functioning models. So I have had to practice sewing and research fabrics so that I will be able to make a quality book bag by May 1st. but before I get to making it I need to finish DESIGNING it... Wish me luck!

Alternative Service Break

This year I am going to New Orleans to work with Habitat for Humanity in rebuilding houses for the victims of hurricane Katrina who are STILL living in trailers or are homeless. Besides the service part of my trip, I am also really excited to experience the unique culture of New Orleans. I'll be sure to post pictures while I'm there and when I come back.

Julie esta muy enferma...

Last week I woke up Monday morning with a bad stomach ache and ended up being sick all week with one of the worst stomach aches I'd ever had. (if you've ever been to a foreign country and drank the water or ate food you weren't supposed to and got really sick for a week, THATS what it felt like for me last week)

Anyways, so I was all better Saturday and Sunday and was preparing myself mentally to work my ass off and catch up on all the school work I couldn't do while I was lying in my bed moaning in pain for a week... n then I start to feel a lil scratchiness in my throat Sunday night and through Monday... "prolly just a cold," I thought to myself...

Until Tuesday afternoon while I'm in my computer class (which is always a warm classroom because of all the computers) and I started getting chills (fever)... My mom told me I might have the flu and to get  rapid tested at the health center but by the time I got there the lab was closed. So I came back wednesday afternoon, not really feeling horrible or at least not feeling like I had the flu, and to my surprise miss doctor lady tells me "yup, you got it"... I was like "waaa?? huh?? you jokin right?" she was a friendly doctor lady so I thought that she might just be pulling my leg... "nope you've got the flu"....

"FRICK!!.... ugh... no!... sigh.... WHY!? why me?" I have the WORST luck. I told doctor lady how I was sick all last week too and that this week was supposed to be my catch up week. so she gave me a lovely cocktail of flu and poor Julie drugs and sent me on my way...

The irony of it all is that this was the first year in my whole life that I forgot to get my flu shot....

But because of all my meds, I am actually doing a lot better than I thought I would be. but I'm still super behind in my classes. I have 1 unfinished sculpture, 1 unfinished abstract painting, I'm behind in my shampoo bottle designs, and I am 2 weeks behind on my backpack design for studio. And on top of that I wanted to try and apply for a Nike internship on the 27th and my portfolio isnt ready yet. And I leave for New Orleans in less than 2 weeks and I'm not ready for that either...

....sigh....why me?....

Stupid Cupid... Custom Valentines Day Converses

Gangsta baby cupid converse shoes for the talented Jocelyn Ellis's performance at the ArtLifeStyle: Love show on Vday

Drawings done by Daniel Harris

http://www.DanDraws.com

http://www.jocelynellis.net

My Dreams...

My dreams are more interesting than my day to day life...
I don mean my dreams n aspirations, I mean my dreams at night....

India.Arie - Chocolate High (feat. Musiq Soulchild)

NC State Womens Basketball game vs Boston College


Showin my support for the wolfpack ladies!



Tryin to get that perfect action shot...
New uniforms in honor of Coach Yow. Pink and Red.
BC wore pink shoe laces and head bands in honor.

Kay Yow Super NC State Shirt

Kay Yow, NC State women's basketball coach, passed away last Saturday of breast cancer. She had been fighting breast cancer for about 20 years and was a inspirational figure for women everywhere. To be honest, I really hate wearing pink but in honor of her passing I have changed my ways and plan to make a line of pink Super NC State shirts.
Please honor Coach Yow and her legacy by supporting the women's basketball team as much as possible this season.
Also, please support the annual Hoops for Hope event, Feb 15th at 3:30pm at Reynolds Coliseum.

Kay Yow, you will be missed...

If you would like to order a shirt please e-mail at
JPAirbrush@gmail.com

Sculpture Class: 1st project

for my first project we had to "reinterpret" a famous sculptors work. I was assigned to redo Constantin Brancusi's "Adam and Eve" which is carved out of wood. I decided to recreate it with wire and just capture the contour lines of the form. I left the two blocks solid to contrast the wire frames because they are important in Brancusi's sculptures.

Still life painting: Session 2, 3 and 4

Sorry I meant to put these up as I went along but I was pretty busy this week.

Session 3















Session 4

Items in painting: Track jersey, track shoe, bracelet from Ghana, necklace a little girl gave me in DR, rubber orphanage outreach bracelet, fossil watch my brother gave me for my 14th b-day and a jewelery gift box I got from Toni's wedding.

So far I've spent 22 hours on this piece but I'm still not done yet. I probably have 1 or 2 more sessions till I'll be happy with it but this is how I presented it for critique.














My first painting class critique!

Still life painting. Session 1
Proff told us to start light...
Soon to be my next masterpiece?... hmm... might be....

Video Share!!

Jay-Z - Brooklyn Go Hard (ft Santagold)

I thought this video was hot not jus cause I love doin portraits. making out faces with weird objects isn't anything new but I like how they made the process of building the face go with the music and changed views in the verse. Simple. but very good. I like...

first week of classes SPR 09

Random updates....

The last time I ran was April 12th 08. Since then I went into lazy/depressed mode. I ran a little bit over the summer. and then fall semester I had a good routine going of running at least 1 mile every day...but then it got cold outside...and I HATE running in the gym so that kinda stopped. But I'm tryin to get back on it again.
I started lifting at the athletic facility last Friday for the first time in 8 months...omgness I was hurtin the next 2 days... I'll probably start up runnin again when it gets a lil warmer.
I'm still having trouble motivating my self to work out. Every time I work out I feel great and I'm always really glad I took the time to work out. but I'm so used to having to go to practice every day its hard to make myself do it when I dont have to and I dont have anything to train for. It's kind of depressing actually... but I'm determined to get back into a work out routine and disiplined again. Like my dad says "baby steps!"


I picked up a minor in art and design just in case I decide to be an artist when I graduate. So I'm taking my first two art and design (fine arts) classes this semester! Painting and Sculpture... I'm most excited bout the painting class but I have really good professors for both classes. I'll be sure to put up pictures of my work as I go along... YAY!!!


So apparently Travis McCoy from Gym Class Heroes is now signed to Nappy Boy... which is pretty cool. I was already really excited a few months ago when I heard that GCH and T-Pain were going on tour with Lil-Wayne. It was the perfect combination! and then like 2 stops before they came to NC T-Pain announces that Travis is gonna be part of Nappy Boy... and I wanted to go soooooo bad. but I was tryin to be responsible and save up my monies to pay my ridiculous utility bills.... Grrrr... oh well. next time... I'm excited to see what they concoct together....

Korry Richards is my hero

Today...sigh...one of my best friends, could call him a brother in fact, Korry Richards, left me.....
cue water works... ;.-( jk, big girls dont cry. lol
No but really, I felt it necessary to blog about my homie Korry and his recent blessings...

Korry is a senior in Industrial Design who was supposed to finish this semester and graduate in May '09 but his lil over achieving self got a job a KidsII 0utside of Atlanta before he even graduated! so he was like bump school! well not really he's gonna take distance Ed so he will still graduate in May but he will be working and living outside of ATL instead of staying in Raleigh with me and the other homies :-(

Korry has always wanted to design toys since he got into the ID program at state and he has always been an inspiration to me since I met him. This man is determined, positive, creative, works HARD, and has his life together. Very professional career wise but acts a dang FOOL when you chill with him, class clown all the way.

Anywaysssssssss, I love my boy Korry and I'm gonna miss him but he promised me he would start a blog so we can read about what he's doing.

I'm proud of you Korry! You know I got yo back for life

www.krdzn.com

whose world is this? (the world is yours!)
its mine, its mine, its mine...

Donatello my pet Turtle

"I'm runnin this, and I can jump the hurdles. I feel like I am racing a bunch of little turtles..."

Well my turtle's not so little any more. He's out grown his note card...his shell is about 4 inches long now. It seems like his head and arm are still as big as they were when he was a baby tho. He was so cute when he had that itty bitty shell and that big head. lol

Bigger turtles need bigger tanks...u can get a sense for the scale by his lil step cave thing which is in both pictures.

New Years Eve

Me and Sofia before we went out new years eve.
Sofia saw this dress at Bebe and was like "oh yay I'm excited! I wanna wear a dress tonight too, you should get this dress and we will both go out in sexy dresses tonight!" and so I was like yay ok cool. and so I bought the dress and LOOK WHAT SHE DID!! she wore jeans and a long sleave shirt cause she said it was "too cold"....ugh....

Backpacks

Bags for 2 A&T Sigmas Deregaryl Nightcrawler Covington and Sentel TheFlash Allen (my boo! lol)
this bag is for my friend, former teammate, Antonio Sales.

Custom Christmas gifts

Here's some of the work I did for customers for Christmas....portrait I did last week of my friend Kevin's sister and her new husband. (by the way Kevin is the one setting up my website, Thanks Kevy!!!)

ApronDora kicks 2.0DJ Drevaughn logo and graffiti (DJ's in Chapel Hill at the Library, Player's and PT's Grill)Spongebob chasing jelly fishing! My favorite shoe of the week. Too bad the shoes were really bad fakes...but arent the jelly fish so cute?!

Semester/Winter Break

So not only did I have a ridiculous amount of work to do at the end of this semester for studio but I also had the opportunity of a life time to paint a shirt for one of my favorite artists.... But thats not all....On top of that, Thursday I wake up after taking one of my "I am a failure at life" naps till 4pm in the afternoon to find out that the ceiling above my bed is LEAKING AGAIN. and that the reason I was feeling to cold durring my nap was not only because my house has zero insulation and costs a fortune to heat but half of my bed was wet from rain water that was leaking through the roof of my nearly condemed slum house and then through the second story flooring... Needless to say I was extremely stressed and PISSED. I had slept through half the day before my project was due AND I had to call my land lady from hell and hope that she wouldnt ignore my calls for 3 days like she did last time my ceiling was leaking... which luckly, she didnt and I got the problem fixed the next morning. Though "fixed" is a relative term since the roofers said that the roof is "unfixable" and that it needed to be replaced years ago...
But the moral of the story is that I had a horrible week but I made it through, am stronger for it and God rewarded me emensly as you will read about in my previous posts....

*HARD WORK PAYS OFF. and good things come to those who wait ;-) *

Now I'm off to R&R at Northgate Mall in Durham to airbrush for the x-mass holiday!