Biola University prospective undergrad site*

Biola University prospective undergrad site*
Originally uploaded by raondo

Wow. Beuatiful design - integration of hand-drawn illustrations of birds, water, beaches and people enjoying life - combined with a great CSS grid layout. Exciting, unique, personal, creative, expressive, imagination-making, fun, hi-tech, story-book, professional - college experience.
*(A site for my design inspiration collection. Not my work.)
www.biola.edu/undergrad/

spinnin'

spinnin'
Originally uploaded by _kate_

I really liked this photo this morning - green, childlike joy, playful boy with his dad(?), laughter ... I don't feel quite like this right now, but I yearn for the day when I can be more playful, joyful, full of life & laughter. I'm working towards that ...

a sandcastle on campus / guerrilla art

I was walking home for working out yesterday when I saw this big mound of sand just sitting there beside the sidewalk. I thought "wouldn't it be fun to make a sandcastle?" "I haven't done that in forever." I thought about it for awhile & what people would think of me, but then I just went for it – right in the middle of the University of Texas at Austin campus at 25th & Whitis. The sand was there because they're doing a little construction at the Communications building. They're a dumpster & some fence on the road beside this big pile of sand ... it was really fun.

It took me a few hours to build the castle (a half-castle really - the rest of the sand pile is still raw & natural). I know that it will probably be destroyed soon - either by the construction crew using the sand or some random person going in and squashing it. It'll be neat to see how long it stands there. I made a little flag out of a scrap of paper I found on a poster kiosk. I thought yellow would be good color with some green tacks - to represent joy & playfulness ... bringing that playfulness to a campus that can be pretty serious & adult-like. That's where all the beauty-full artwork comes from - in the architecture, in design, in film, in writing, etc. ... when folks are being playful and experimenting with their medium/environment ... looking at something in new ways with fascination, curiosity and a little creativity.

Maybe I can bring that to the UT campus, if not a few smiles as people walk to class & work.
:)