Rasta the dog

We went to spend Christmas at the cabin, and although it didn't snow on Christmas day, it snowed on the 26th, which is alright with me. These are pictures of my parent's dog Rasta who loves to catch snow. The pictures were taken at a 1/750" or 1/1000" exposure.

Water Cycle Poster

Here is something I am working on for the Geography Dept. at Chico State. It's for their display case in the foyer of Butte Hall. They wanted the theme to be water. I still have to do one more poster, and I am waiting for feedback on this one... but I like it so far.

Mark Herrera for City Council campaign poster

I entered a poster design contest for Mark Herrera's campaign for City Council. It is a poster contest being judged completely on Facebook. The poster with the most "likes" wins the contest, and also the designer gets an award. The poster contest meant to reach young voters and the CSU Chico student population. My design was meant to imitate the whole hipster/vintage trend. It originally after a few edits looked somewhat like a carnival poster, which I scaled down and changed the colors.

Here is what I submitted:

Here is the Facebook Poster Contest Link to my design.
Here is his campaign website.

Earrings

I've been making more earrings lately. There are about 4 from this summer and the rest are all ones I made today.

Long exposure night lights

Here are a few pictures from the second half of the photoshoot. We used an LED light and a 15" exposure to create the effect. The only other lights came from the front porch or street lights. I took about 40 of these pictures, but I will just put up my favorites.

Creepy mascot pictures

This is the first part of a photoshoot I did with Jenn, Holly, Craig, and Nate. This first few pictures of Jenn in a moose suit in her front yard. The exposures were for 15". I edited the pictures and burned in the corners in Photoshop.

Graphic Design work

Here are some of the items I made for the Geography and Planning Department at CSU Chico.

An old version of the promotional poster that I liked but wasn't selected...

Random summer pics

A few summer photos I took and edited.

Logo designs...

I collaborated with my friend DJ Whitlock to create his logo. I drew the logo with pen.

And here is the logo I made for work at the non-profit program Smoke-Free North State:

We had gone through 8 versions which we field tested... unfortunately the one I designed with clouds did not make the cut because of its resemblance to smoke. The top monochromatic logo is for printing on promotional items and the other one is for printing on flyers.

Delfin

And in memory of the beloved Delfin. Your life was short but we all miss you. You were the spunkiest, weirdest, funniest running cat I have ever known.

finally...

It has been a loooong time since I have posted anything. I guess that the dust has finally settled from my once chaotic life, that consisted of school/graduating/work/internship/craziness. This summer I developed a slight addiction to buying old turn of the century portraits... which in turn spawned a frame buying frenzy, but now everything is in check.

Here are my latest:
Skeletor Lady- Micron pens, oil, and acrylic

Which I think inspired my latest work in progress:

This is my attempt at a digital pinhole camera... which I literally made the lens out of an empty can of beans (Taco Bell flavored) and tin foil... which I poked through with a toothpick. The exposure was about 1 min. long... taken at my parent's cabin.

And... gratuitous pictures of my cat:

The progression of Ms. Mulva