Audrey M. Roy

September 15, 2009

An ultimatum for myself to get my book done

I can't bring myself to finish revising my book. It's 95% done, but
the remaining 5% is expanding infinitely. I can't stop making changes
to everything. When I'm not doing that, I'm procrastinating on social
networks.

I've decided to give myself a video ultimatum to force myself to
finish by October 8:

October 8 is the day that my JetBlue all-you-can-jet pass expires.
Being on planes a lot has helped a lot, since I tend to pull out my
book instead of my laptop on flights. So I'm making that day my
deadline.

Filed under // graphic art graphic design illustration Orange Pulp oranges projects Python Python Imaging Library ReportLab videos writing

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September 10, 2009

How my design & art projects influence each other

This morning I finished the website for Fuzzy Rainbow. In case it changes drastically in the future, here's a screenshot of the current state.

Leaving the pink header background at the top to contrast with the blue was an afterthought I had this morning. I left it because it reminded me of a long-buried memory of how I used to think blue and pink together were the best colors. I was five years old, and I always paired them. The blue had to be a very particular shade of deep sky blue, while the pink was a softened hot pink.

After uploading the website, I stopped thinking visually for awhile. I had to run around and deal with offline work for several hours. Paperwork, phone calls, and almost 200 miles of driving, ugh. I was not thinking about rainbows at all.

Then, toward the evening, I found an old painting under my desk and pulled it out to work on it. Notice how it ended up looking pretty similar to the website. I also painted another painting, which uses the same colors.

Filed under // acrylic painting colors Fuzzy Rainbow graphic design painting Processing.js rainbows

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April 6, 2009

All the graphic art for img.gr, done at #swsf09

I was at Startup Weekend for the past couple of days, a 48-hour
hackathon held at Microsoft's San Francisco office. It was tons of
fun.

My 7-person team created a twitter app called img.gr. It's
photo-tagging for Twitter. You can draw boxes around people like in
Facebook, and you tag them with @(name), and then the photo posting
gets tweeted.

The site isn't up & running yet (sorry!), but the demo worked great
and we should have it up as soon as we get our domain name purchase
troubles worked out.

I was the graphic artist! Check out what I drew. I also made some
logos & icons for other teams, which I'll post soon.