patrons of the arts

Sometimes I wish I had a patron. The artists equivalent of a sugar daddy. Live in their villa and make stuff all day long. I think Starbucks is the new patron of the arts. Even if you work part time you get benefits, you make amazing contacts and caffeine is definitely a staple in most artist diets.

I love the crafters site Etsy because it makes it easy for you to be a patron too. Artists at all levels can sell their crafts online. I like how democratic it is, no discrimination on who can sell what. It takes away the elitist mentality and price tags so you can merely find what suits your tastes.

I just bought this little woodblock print from a guy in Singapore, and it only cost me $6 including shipping.


I love monsters.

today

beautiful. I road my bike to the bay and went kayaking with cousin mary and aunt Cathy. I also bought "The Dangerous Book for Boys" for my friends having a baby boy. It's filled with things boys must know like building tree houses, all about dinosaurs, and tying knots.

Kehinde Wiley

With all this talk about textile designs I've been submerged in lately I'm really loving the paintings by Kehinde Wiley. I love urban juxtaposed with the traditional prints.

purple berets

Life at home has been great after I unpacked and organized all my crap. I went over to my grandfather's (he's the coolest) to eat burgers the other night and got talked into staying to watch some home movies. Christmas '93 was a particularly scary year. I had on this purple LL Bean coat and a purple beret that I wore the entire video. Words of advice to all parents out there DO NOT LET CHUBBY KIDS WEAR BERETS.

I'm kind of enjoying internetless life, and making the trip to the local coffee shop to exploit their free wireless. I'm making my first trip to the beach with some cool kids later today, and carolyn's moving in on Saturday. I have yet to start my job at starbucks and am interviewing at Antrhopologie on Wednesday. I think I may be in over my head.

words you might not know

I love things that you need to break in order to enjoy like bubble wrap, or this book by will hudson where you have to tear the perforated edges to expose a word that you might not know, and thereby devalue the book.



I took my last final in History of Rock on Tuesday, the senior show is hung and I'm almost out of here and back home.

Visual Thesaurus

Who knew American Apparel advertised on thesaurus.com?

Incomplete manifesto

Bruce Mau is basically the man. I love the way he embraces large corporations as ways to institute big change rather than just whining about them. His incomplete manifesto is incredibly reassuring.

Some advice
18. Stay up late. Strange things happen when you’ve gone too far, been up too long, worked too hard, and you're separated from the rest of the world.

Size Matters

As a designer you are only as legit as the size of your printer. This is incredibly sad considering the only printer I have is the standard 8.5 x 11 canon that comes free with your mac, and it's been out of ink for the past 4 months.

One day I will be this cool.

Until then I'm off to Kinkos.

Welcome to my world

Just enter through the tree trunk.
New Portfolio Site

Sukie

I saw this super sweet address book yesterday and couldn't pass it up. The stationary designer Sukie just came out with a more affordable line for Chronicle books.

Insomnia

My sleep schedule's all out of whack so it's 4:16am and all I can do is look at david shrigley drawings.

I need feedback

How would you fee if this was my homepage? And the URL was www.thisishaleysworld.com?

Lists

When you feel really unproductive just make a list.

Life to do list
\work on a dude ranch
\hike in the grand canyon
\see machu picchu/rainforest
\capture a glacier on film
\go tuna fishing
\see the northern lights
\learn sign language
\learn to weld
\have a garden
\test drive a way to expensive car
\throw a tea party
\climb a mountain
\skydive

Princess Tina

I'm really in love with this site from this great australian clothing company.

Thoughts on Graduation

We get one story, you and I, and one story alone. God has established the elements, the setting, and the climax and the resolution. It would be a crime not to venture out, wouldn't it? It might be time for you to go. It might be time to change, to shine out.

I want to repeat one word for you: Leave.

Roll the word around on your tongue for a bit. It is a beautiful word, isn't it?

So strong and forceful, the way you have always wanted to be. And you will not be alone. You have never been alone. Don't worry. Everything will still be here when you get back. It is you who will have changed.
-Donald Miller

10 years from now

I came upon this blog and had a weird glimpse of myself in 10 years. I think I'd be down.

Design Mom

If you want to see my art show

Here's the schedule for the Senior art show.
It's in Recitation Hall on the UD campus. Let me know if you need more info.



BFA Senior Exhibition Schedule:

Thursday 5/24 10am - 4pm
Visual Communications Preview Exhibition in Recitation Hall

Friday 5/25 3pm - 5pm
Visual Communications Awards Presentation in Recitation Hall

Friday 5/25 5pm - 8pm
UD/ART BFA Senior Exhibition Opening Celebration
Studio Arts Building, Taylor Hall, Recitation Hall

Saturday 5/26 10am - 4pm
UD/ART BFA Senior Exhibition Open all day
Studio Arts Building, Taylor Hall, Recitation Hall

Midwest is Best

I recently found this fantastic illustrator through the Newstoday website. I was in a particularly outgoing mood so I decided to call him and tell him how cool he was and ended up asking him to coffee next saturday in Brooklyn. He said yes. This will most certainly be an adventure.

this is one of my favorites

Untitled Magazine

Settlers of Catan

So I have this amazing roommate Donna from South Jersey. Picture Donna from South Jersey walking into our local gaming store...you know they sell magic cards and dungeons and dragons paraphernalia. So she walks in looking very cute and South Jersey with a sweater tied around her neck and her vera bradley purse, and gets a very strange look from the employees that resemble the creators of the lord of the rings movies, or people you would find at a star trek convention. They ask with a puzzled look if they can help her with anything and she replies, "yes, I'm looking for the settlers of catan expansion kit". This is one of the many reasons why I love my roommate. She can dress like a sorority girl and flash her junior park ranger badges from every major civil war battlefield. Can tell you about the latest ludacris album and in the same sentence talk about the history of the Soviet Union. What will I do without her?


Donna and her friends playing Settlers.

My favorite things

•Toad hunting with the little renfrew girls in the creek behind their house.
•Reading Good Magazine while sitting on the deck of Brew Haha.
•Ultimate Frisbee followed by BBQs
• Rosie Thomas

Tonight I'm like a paper doll
Cut from the page I once lived on
And I will not say a thing
I'll just keep smiling
-Rosie Thomas

ANTHROPOLOGIE!!!!

So I talked to Amy and my seahorse print sold to Anthropologie! They're going to make it into a raincoat.

booya!

Which way to go.

Debating over what I should do this summer. I think I'll follow Yogi Bera's advice:
"When you get to the fork in the road, take it."

Oh happy day

My favorite musician showed up unexpectedly after the worst day of life at a concert I attended. Hooray for surprises.

photo compliments of Joel.

Planet Earth

I am completely awed every time I watch Discoveries Planet Earth. It amazes me that all of this stuff goes on without us even thinking about it. I really liked the fish from africa who's kids live in it's mouth. I couldn't find a photo of that so I'm posting the red bellied piranah instead. I don't think they house their offspring in their jaws though.


I also really want to see some otters in the Grand Canyon. Anyone down for a hiking trip?

I wish

I've been inspired by this site lately. Fashion from Helsinki Finland, so me and some fun fashionable friends are going to do a sweet photo shoot inspired by finnish fashion.

The shoot is going to really be about these people who don't buy anything for a year except for soap and whatnot. Even their food is all bought locally. You are allowed to buy previosly worn clothes from thrift stores...just nothing that is a first generation consumer product. It's all about not feeding our wasteful culture and making do with what we already have. Read more about Buy Nothing Year.

This is me trying on the clothes we bought at salvation army today for our high fashion anti waste photo shoot.

YouTube

Thailand bans Youtube.

Haley Suspended Smith

I went to Video Americain today to rent a movie for documentary movie night since blockbuster didn't have the movie I wanted. Video Americain is our local film buff movie rental palace which I frequented my freshman year, but stopped going to for some unknown reason. That reason became overwhelmingly clear when I approached the counter and gave my name only to find out that my account had been suspended with $85 in late charges for Baraka, Waking Life, and Dr. Strangelove. My jaw dropped and my stomach felt absolutely nauseous. They had already taken my new contact info so there was no way out. He deferred my dr. strangelove payment until the next time I came back. It was a sad sad day, so everyone must come to documentary movie night tomorrow to make this purchase worthwhile. See you there!

Here's the scan of my receipt.

funky upholstry

Words can not express how happy the anthropologie furniture collection makes me.

First Print Sold!

So I'm finally legit as a textile designer! One of my leaf prints sold to Jerry Seinfeld's ex girlfriends clothing line Shoshanna.

I also purchased a Moonblood shirt with the money I made.

Simplify

Ernest Hemingway once said his best work was a story he wrote in just six words: 'For sale: baby shoes, never worn.'

Let's keep it brief.

The Little things

Though I can't afford an expensive car or a massage there are little indulgences that make me ridiculously happy.

These include:

•starbucks Black iced tea
•soap fairy face treat soap
•shopping at trader joes
•rainbow flip flops
•American Apparel t-shirts
•Burts Bees chapstick
•Eating at Homegrown
•aasics running shoes

What's a little thing that makes you happy?

Life Update

I went to Kentucky for Spring Break and worked with the organization Christian Outreach to Appalachian People or COAP. Forty of us drove down and lived in cabins in the mountains, rehabbed old and built new houses. We painted, roofed, constructed, put up siding, and moved around a lot of dirt for the people of Harlan Kentucky, a poor coal mining town on the border of VA. It was nice to not get cell phone reception and be away from my computer. Not to mention hiking up mountains, playing ultimate frisbee by a huge lake listening to God in the quiet and learning a lot about a new way of life. It was beautiful. I love getting away with amazing people and serving together.


New Coal Mining friends Beau and Steve

painting

Art in the Age

Loving the new shirts from Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction based out of philly.

What $1.25 buys you

I totally jacked Luke's new Vermont style. I saw these pants in k-mart and they were priced at $1.25. They looked ridiculously similar to a pair that Luke wears and I've commented on. It was perfect.


The wet spot on my right leg is from climbing on Molly's roof trying to get in since she forgot her keys last night. It was quite the evening.

Now I'm off to Kentucky for spring break to build houses for habitat and Jesus.

Shoes

Shoes I made last semester in screen printing.

Thanks

Thank you to everyone who made this such a sweet birthday of thoughtful presents, fabulous discussions, and bizarro board games. I like being 22.

When I grow up

Today I want to be a carpenter. I'm over all this computer stuff.

What to do?

Sharyn, Greg and I were having a very serious discussion tonight in the studio. We're nearing graduation and the whole world is open to us, so we decided that this world is not enough and that since the new space station is done we're moving there.

Designers in SPACE!

BABY!

Today was Paige's baby shower. She's the first of my friends to be pregnant, and is one of the coolest sweetest people I know. I went to the Vans store and decided the coolest kid ever needs to cutest shoes of life.
These:

Biracial Eggs

I decided today that I needed to make a statement by integrating my eggs...break down the color lines. I made a biracial omelet and it was delicious.

In Love

I'm in love with these handmade note cards from oldschool children's books. Check out art school girl.

Cow tipping is so old school

Lets go smart car tipping.

???

I turned on the TV today and synchronised figure skating was on.



That is why I should not watch TV.

where I want to live

I could totally live in one of these .

or here

Thanks Danielle for the sites.

Food

Tonight I decided it would be a great idea to make my own fried rice. I ended up using every pan in the kitchen, making a mess, and ended up after slaving away, ending with some pretty decent fried rice. Then I realized how silly this all was considering how cheap it is to buy fried rice from my local #1 Chinese. I also made a wierd connection between my design and the way I cook. I like to improvise, everythings a little messy and it usually ends up pretty good.

Other news
My new favorite show is Man vs Wild where this hot British guy gets dropped off into the middle of the wilderness by plane with only a flint stone and a nalgene and has to show you how to survive. I like it when he eats bugs and makes rafts. He's my hero.

super hero

If you get bored try creating your own super hero.
Check it
Here's Mine

Life is 90% maintenance

I was standing in the bathroom plucking my eyebrows, one of my least favorite things to do, when the words of my mom resounded in my head. Life is 90% maintenance. So annoying. My car won't start and is sitting in my driveway, I'm watching the style network finding out what new makeup and clothes I'm supposed to be adding to my wardrobe, and figuring out where my next rent check is coming from. Our we really mean business website is requiring more and more work, I have class projects piling up, and I need to trek to the review (school newspaper) to collect and redo ads for this week. I'm ready for that 10% payoff.

commuting

Commuting in the snow feels kind of like driving through space at warp speed.

Hip Nuns

I love this article about this nun, Sister Corita, from the 60's who made some pretty hip posters.

Ready mades

Make your desk look AWESOME!

Obama '08

Feel the Illinoise

My new years resolution

After three weeks of my new years resolution to get organized I successfully lost my day planner.
I am a mess.

My first week of interning at PrintFresh is over, and it's been pretty cool so far. It is kind of hard being the new girl and everyone is artsy to the max. It's funny because the aesthetic of the prints they design are super sophisticated and beautiful with mostly flowers and fun geometric patterns. I however have the awesome task of designing kids prints, so I draw monkeys and lions on the computer all day. It's phenomonal. I think Amy, the art director, has sooo much to teach me. She knows so much about craft and had taken knitting classes and knows about things like french lace. Things I'm clueless about. I really need to just take advantage and pick her brain.

Here is what I did this week:

another post

You can tell when I'm at school and have no classes...the blogs just keep coming. But I was looking through the latest issue of dwell and saw this kid in the new paul frank ads and got a glimpse of my future. I could only hope that my kid could be this cool, maybe a little happier though.

I'm also kind of in love with these Brian Biedul paintings right now.

So take read the entries while you can because my internship begins tomorrow. My lunch is made and outfit picked out, and my checklist for leaving is written. Who knows what the day will bring.

Type

Iranian type is pretty

yep

Tonight I made homeade corndogs for my friends, changed my ringtone to the "Haley Song" and danced with some splendid people in Trolley Square. This was a very good day.

It kind of felt like this:

I got it

I got the internship at PrintFresh, and am totally fired up to come to work everyday right outside old city and make pretty fabric designs. Though I will miss Abby not going to asheville.

Donna and I celebrated with some fantastic chocolate cake, and I'm pumped to spend an entire month with her.

I bailed on Snowboarding because it is about 60 degrees outside and slush does not sound like fun.

Find your power song

I have an interview for an internship tomorrow in Philly with a textile designer. I have no hopes or expectations, but I am totally nervous about showing her my work. It's such a vulnerable position to be put in, to show someone the product of nearly 4 years of your life, and things you really think are cool and care about...and then for the possibility of someone to reject that is somewhat gut wrenching.

But not to fear because I found the solution while waiting for my tires to be changed at walmart for three hours today (shoot me in the face). I picked up a "real simple" magazine and read this sweet article by one of their life coaches. It said that in situations such as these you must have a power song. The woman who wrote the article preferred one by Barbara Steissand and sung it aloud while marching to a publishing interview. She insists that it builds the confidence needed to make an impression.

I searched long and hard and I'm pretty sure mine's that freaking De'sree song "You Gotta Be".

Wish me luck navigating Philly, finding Schwartz and Craig, and that I don't break my neck snow boarding with the rest of the cool kids.

wedding invites

Maarten asked me a few months ago to design his wedding invitations. I was totally flattered and sort of scared. I decided to use it as an excuse to learn how to use the letterpress. With Melissa's help they turned out great. Here are some pics from the process.

the press

set type


all done

It was a marathon of printing yesterday, but now they just need to be cut. It's kind of cool to handle all of the lead type and get ink all over you. You get such an appreciation of letters by setting them individually and looking for little quirks and damaged type. You have to pay serious attention. I have no idea how people set entire books on these things. I will never look at my keyboard the same way again.

I'm going to Asheville

This January I will be chillin in the mountains of Asheville North Carolina, land of hippies, amazing thai food, and my best friend Abby Sadler. I will be spending my days working at a letterpress studio. That means using a printing press and carving woodblocks to make some beautiful artwork.

+

= an incredible january

I've been e-mailing with this awesome guy Lance from the letterpress place and he concluded his last e-mail with these words:
Well, if you end up in Asheville, drop a line and
we'll either put you to work or hand you a beer,
probably both.
Best luck,
Lance

I think this is going to be a beautiful friendship.

opposites attract

Carolyn, Donna and I were talking about how ridiculously different we are to be such good friends. We made our own little profiles which I promised to post online. You can tell our exam week has been ridiculously slow, so here's to procrastination.

Carolyn
Most requested movie: Harry Potter
Future career: guidance counsler
Is: clean
"Type":short redheads
Wants:4 kids
Music: anything but country
Food: she's the Baker....icecream
Sport: cheerleader
Escape: procrastinating, gift giving
Accessory: ribbons
What catches her attention in guys: humor, dancing
Dream store: J-Crew
Happy place: snowboarding, watching the stars
Board game: guess who
Her husband: wears cologne and a suit everyday
Wants: Someone who likes her, makes her laugh and listens
Scent: mom- clinique happy, soft- vanilla, date- pink
Wants to Live: Colorado
House: modest but homey
Show: Oprah
Downfall show: 20/20
Dream car: BMW Z3


Donna
Most requested movie: Pride & Prejudice
Future career: History and English teacher
Is: excessively clean/OCD
"Type": hairy testosterone-y "lumber jacks"
Wants:2 maybe 3
Music: classic rock & dirty rap
Food: frozen vegetables and anything involving buffalo sauce and bleu cheese
Sport: basketball & softball
Escape: scrapbooking
Accessory: stilettos
What catches her attention in guys: facial hair and great hands
Dream store: Banana Republic, Neiman Marcus
Happy place: beach and historical spots
Board game: settlers & Risk
Her husband: teaches and travels with me during the summer
Wants: considerate realist
Scent: Miracle by Lancome
Wants to Live: DE or NJ
House: big old restored historical house
Show: Grey's
Downfall show: Flavor of Love
Dream car: anything Jeep


Haley
Most requested movie: Fight Club
Future career: Artist-designer
Is: contained mess
"Type": dirty artsy boys
Wants: a ton of foster kids
Music: indie folk, socially concious rap
Food: cheese and eggs
Sport: swimming, lax, alt sports longboarding-surfing
Escape: sleep and biking
Accessory: wierd jewelry, old t-shirts
What catches her attention in guys: emo glasses
Dream store: Anthropologie and Marc Jacobs
Happy place: coffee shops, outside, local desserted places (jetty)
Board game: scrabble
Her husband: architect
Wants: grounded idealist
Scent: not vanilla
Wants to Live: beach or mountains
House: big farm house
Show: Oprah
Downfall show: Flavor of Love
Dream car: old and cool- oldschool woody wagon, comet

the potato incident

Me and Wally trying to catch claire's mashed potatos.

I made up a new phrase today

I was thinking today in the shower, where most good thinking goes on. I was thinking about all the talk I've heard lately about idealism about dating the oak tree or the romantic and about saving the world. I came up with this cool new phrase that will be a part of your vocabulary in a year.

The grounded idealist...perfect right? It's the person that wants to save the world, but knows that changing the world doesn't come with grand gestures, but rather small revolutions. Deniene told me the key to life was finding something you love and doing it, and finding people to love and invest in. I told her she was crushing my dreams, but she's right. Grounded idealist it is.

nice little animation

I tried so hard to fail

I failed my independent study today, well I tried to fail in it. 4 studio arts classes are kind of overwhelming, so I wrote my professor a letter of accpetance of my grade so that he didn't have to feel so bad failing the student who he awarded the Craig Cutler award to last year (don't you love irony?). Here's a copy of the letter:

Dear Bill,

I have always thrived on positive reinforcement, gold stars, and those cute little check marks you receive on exams. I have worn them as badges of validation my entire life.

This semester I took on too much. I thought I could do everything. I had the best intentions of being awesome. My photos this semester have sucked because I didn’t take the time to make them good, and the contact sheets void of creativity were just too stifling. I gave up. I thought I could throw something together, but half assessed is not what we are taught to do here.

I have never failed a class before. Actually it used to terrify me. Through this independent study I have learned that failure is an opportunity to do something ballsy, and unexpected. Something like this. This grade reflects more things learned than most of the As I have received. It is hard to own failure, to accept that you did not even come close to doing good enough. Now I’ve never been more excited to earn a grade. I’ll probably hang it on the refridgerator once I get it.

Bill you love giving As and you love giving Fs. I proudly accept my failing grade for this semester.

Haley


To this he replied that he would not let me off that easily and that I must make up the class over wintersession. I have failed at failing.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
-The Great Gatsby

Venting

Some things that pretty much just suck
-being sick during finals week
-expensive parking tickets
-still not having an internship
-looking at your bank statement while getting money to pay the parking ticket
-when the alarm on your phone is set to vibrate and it doesn't wake you up
-when you miss half of a review session for a final you have because your alarm doesn't go off
-running out of printer ink when you really need it
-the way your back feels after screen printing until all hours of the morning

It's always darkest before the dawn? I'm expecting some daylight any day now.

In other Haley news I picked up the latest issue of Hobo. It is a beautiful magazine! Amazing photographs, poetic writing and published on 100% recycled paper.
Check it

SPANDEX

Donna and I were wondering what this whole spandex craze on campus is about. You've seen those sorority girls rocking it. We decided we'd give it a go, and it my friends is amazing.

Video Blogs

Check this sweet video pieced together from YouTube blogs.

just a thought

“Gross National Product measures neither the health of our children, the quality of their education, nor the joy of their play. It measures neither the beauty of our poetry, nor the strength of our marriages. It is indifferent to the decency of our factories and the safety of our streets alike. It measures neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our wit nor our courage, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country. It measures everything in short, except that which makes life worth living. It can tell us everything about our country, except those things that make us proud to be a part of it.”
-bobby kennedy

impatient

Sitting here wondering, waiting, and thinking that I overshot my internship. I applied to 2 amazing places that are Exactly spot on where I want to learn. One's in Toronto and one's in Italy. I'm kind of more afraid of what happens if I get the internship...about having to go somewhere way out of my comfort zone. Wondering if I should have played it safe and questioning why Ashley talked me out of the place in Philly where I wanted to go. I've been thinking a lot about the fear of success. I think way too much attention is given to failure. I'm freaked out about being important, and about really getting out of sussex county. I think I'm made for big stuff, but every now and then I need a pep talk. I pray that one of these places is where God wants me to be.

"knowing is better than wondering, waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beat the hell out of never trying" thanks Meredith Grey

Keytars and Naan

Last night Joel convinced Claire and I to go and see the band mute math in Philly. They had the lost in the 80's instrument the keytar, which was awesome. It was a highly entertaining show. The drummer was a beast and I had never really seen a fretless electric bass. My favorite part of the evenening was heading to Old City to catch the beginning of the first friday art shows and getting Joel to speak about form and concepts with Claire and I the art majors. They're my new favorite adventure kids.