Category: Direction

The Tools of the Oppressor

The first big tool-building achievement was probably the weekly scheduling guide. The spreadsheet started off as a single grid that would tally up staff hours in different areas as they were assigned, for comparison against the attendance-based payroll targets that drove weekly scheduling. By the time I was done,...

Polesrm 341: I Hate Illinois Nazis.

There’s been bunches of writing lately, I kinda wanted a little break from that. Decided to pull this from its place later in line to break up the pace here. This was the last semester, and I was really just looking for classes that would fit around the remaining...

Painting the Town Red

In theory I should have a Woodbury category, if I’m going to do PCC and CSUCI on their own. But that just complicates distinctions between writing and other work. Besides, I never finished that program anyway. Graphic Design at the time was as much Aldus as it was Adobe....

Abstractions

     The assignment was to use black paper shapes on a white board to convey, for lack of a better term, art. Feeling, impression, narrative, conflict, something internal to us and conveyed by construction paper. I wanted no part of it. I wanted to overcome technical and creative...

Cat Scratch Fever

The last assignment of the previous module was an extra credit piece- use Excel to build a ‘binary calculator’ that would convert 8-char binary to numeric values. Mine could have been more polished if i’d had more time on it, but as it was it was still spectacular for...