A week off?

It seems sort of strange to have a week off during a mere 5-week internship, but when you are just working with one person and they go out of town that's what happens. To me. 

What also happens is that since it's just you and him when a client is all right with screen printing 2 posters you get yours printed too. So I spent a bit of my week off tightening that up and working on a sticker design for my friend's band, A+ Gold Star. 

 I couldn't seem to stay away from DC even while I was off. Jake and I visited the Museum of Natural History and saw a piano/violin duo and string quartet from the NSO preform at the Kennedy Center. (They have a free show every single night at 6 on The Millennium Stage).  The pianist was a swaying, bobbing balloon. In the most dignified way possible.

The pen tool - it's really not so bad

Also, I'm learning how to work faster. I did a poster from start to finish on Friday for a conference in Baltimore: The City from Below.  Oliver works really quickly. Decisively, might be more accurate. 

There are hundreds of port-a-potties lining the national mall. I usually get off work pretty early - 3 or 3:30, so on Wednesday I decided to take advantage of the $10 I had already paid to get into the city to enjoy some of it's free offerings and stopped by the National Botanical Gardens. It was such a respite from the 11 degree day. 

 

That first one is called a pink powder puff. It looks an awful lot like the flowers from my favorite tree - the mimosa. 

After seeing all those Bobby's Potties I'm pretty glad I can stay home on Tuesday, but I did get the chance to go to Baltimore yesterday to see Obama. Rad. 

Interning with Oliver Munday in DC: Week One

So I'm interning this winter in DC with Oliver Munday. This is the street his house/studio is on. I stole the picture from google maps new street view feature so I could be an internet creeper rather than a real-life creeper taking pictures of his doorstep.  I guess goggle is driving all over the country with a 360 camera.  I found my house on it too. Weird:

Since I'm just working with one guy there isn't enough work for me to come up to the studio everyday. Last week I was just in Tuesday and Thursday. On Tuesday we went over some of the specifics of the internship, talked about projects we would be working on, etc. Then there was a little glitch in getting the internet hooked up. Oliver had just moved into a new place in DC the week before. Two hours on the phone with verizon and no success later we had lunch down the street and called it a day. 

On Thursday, I brought in some sketches for a t-shirt Oliver is working on for a group called Yeah Class. (Thanks to Katie for an envelope that came in the mail that day reminding me of how funny big mouths are!)

We put them through photoshop and made up a presentation for the client of the shirt choices. Then we talked about logo ideas for a charity and spreads for a book on Stanley Kubric. I'm pretty excited about the Kubric thing. So far it seems like I'm going to be involved in  all the fun parts of the process and not just boring intern-y stuff.