"Shortly after Southwest started using the "Just Plane Smart" motto, Stevens Aviation, who had been using "Plane Smart" for their motto, threatened a trademark lawsuit.

"Instead of a lawsuit, the CEOs for both companies staged an arm wrestling match. Held at the now demolished Dallas Sportatorium (the famed wrestling facility) and set for two out of three rounds, the loser of each round was to pay $5,000 to the charity of their choice, with the winner gaining the use of the trademarked phrase. A promotional video was created showing the CEOs "training" for the bout (with CEO Herb Kelleher being helped up during a sit up where a cigarette and glass of whiskey was waiting) and distributed among the employees and as a video press release along with the video of the match itself. Herb Kelleher lost the match for Southwest, with Stevens Aviation winning the rights to the phrase. Kurt Herwald, CEO of Stevens Aviation, immediately granted the use of "Just Plane Smart" to Southwest Airlines. The net result was both companies having use of the trademark, $15,000 going to charity and a healthy dose of goodwill publicity for both companies."

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yegenia workshop

music: gaelic storm's nancy whiskey. its practically st patricks day.

im glad i got my model done. not totally done, but its at 85-90% done- theres still work to do. excited for the character/costume design part. i can definately do character designs by the end of the week. greatest moment of stac: KT and Yugenia talking to each other ^_^.

during the hour of finishing models, andrew said something pretty interesting that hasn't left my head- Doug asked where his chair went, and Andrew started this elaborate story about how the chair walked away to go frolic with other chairs through the meadows and so on. i love that- personification, then extending the metaphor until forever.

i dont know whats happening with the picture. because i still need to make decisions on what the question is asking, to give myself limits, because i have at least 4 ideas running through my head on different ways a photo can go. i dont need to rack my brain trying to find out what you meant, i need to find out what i want to mean and how i can efficiently show people what i want to say. 'speech through art'.

if two bells ring in the tower of bray

ding dong your true love will say

ding dong two bells today in the Tower of Bray ding dong

-Stephan Sondheim song from Sweeney Todd

photoshop is definately something i would like to learn before college. from simple picture touchups (it can't make up for bad photography, and having photoshop is not an excuse for bad photography). there are usually cheap student packages for software, with hope that the student will grow up and pay a lot for a better version.

the photo project for friday is going to be interesting. i want to see how far i can push photoshop, but i still need to go back to the initial question: "What could have happened?". if i had given up speech, its extreme. if i had gone the technical, order-driven path. that would be 

harold and maude. MAude. the whole movie is goddess-worship. harold is surrounded by women- maude, his mother, the girls around him. and his suicide attempts aren't for death as much as for the hope of rebirth. i need to see that movie again for a full affect.

now, there is recognition of myth. but the next step, and the most important, is being able to use the information. perhaps (but i never said this) the "majorly big project that everyone will worry about" can be brought back, butwith less pressure and more application of story/myth.

oooh perhaps i should read Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos again.

new reeds

there's no peace of mind like knowing that i have working reeds. especially for a show like Into the Woods, when i'm at each end of my range. there are actual notes in the book that i physically cannot play on my bassoon. thankfully, the clarinet and flute has the same note, so taking it down an octave doesn't hurt anyone.

i've been looking through my music book, and the show has songs in most major key signatures, except Cb and C# (which are just another way of thinking in B and Db anyways).

Improv: things that just don't quite fit when done to the Imperial March.

I'm finding that there are more art-related places that have 'mythical structure'- a term i made up (although there is definately a normal term) for places/buildings that sort of represent death/the womb for the cycle. Example: movie theaters. You walk through a small door into a large, dark room, where you are transformed by a story, and then leave (rebirth). Some of the ideas of these structures go back to ampitheaters in Greece.

it's all skepticism.

Art is an honest mess.

back to school

back to school. i had to adjust to large crowds- it's so hard to focus when everyone around you is so interesting to look at, a thousand scenes. but you have to get to where you need to be fast. it's nice to know that i can focus when i need to. but i started missing the faces from last year's seniors in the crowd.

run lola run for me has become a test of keeping track of colors. red and green are the most promenant, and someone mentioned that there was also yellow, which would make the movie like a street-light.

red: ambulence, lola's hair, the bedroom scenes, the bicyclist's shirt, the bricks under the traintracks

green: the money bags (parts 2 and 3), lola's pants (therefore legs), the lines representing the guard's heartbeats in part 3

red is stop. red is also for blood and birth, a foreboding omen. the bicyclist was temptation, in a way. tempting lola with an easier way to do things, for sacrificed time.

Sagittarius is the hunter, Sagittarius as an ascendant refers to birth time. Time and the Hunter.

it's all misty and nice outside.

weeks at home remind me of why i want to be in school. weeks at school remind me why i want to be at home.

im up to 'Jezebel'. Who's seen jezebel she was born to be the woman that i love, hold like a breeze half as tight as both our eyes closed.

most interesting entries of the woman'sbookofmythsandsecrets: the inquisition, elements (complete with explanations of card suits), horses, ghonsticism (which ive heard about from history channel), jack and jill, hair, and cinderella.

i havent watched so much jeopardy and star trek TNG in one week since before high school.

backwards

note that the photos are backwards here. the bottom one is first, then second, and the smily-face one is third.

photos. there are quite a few.

The original idea, smiling behind drawn lips. too shaky and my posters are in the background.

The lighting on the second one actually worked better, but a little too contrasting. sharper image, though.

The third is better, but the posters are in the background again. I gave up with the lips- they never were quite the way they should have been- and tried the simplest human face. It does give a very different message than the other ones, and im thinking it works better. There's still no environment, originally these were going to be shot torso up in front of a brick wall with the smilyface painted/chalked on it. i should really rethink this project just to be able to find out exactly what i want to get across.

photography is still a great mystery.

photos not here yet

took a lot of photos but i still have to sort them. but before that, they have to be able to get into the computer first. so im hoping the computer will read the memory chip tomorrow (it read it once today for about 10 seconds). if not, itll be a long process involving 2 computers and a flash drive between them.

2 day sum-up and quick workshop

workshop: im surprised how fearless we went at the foam-core - i thought last year's experience might have scarred people. im happy to work with a knife and the socializing was good. I have an inability to make straight lines with ruler or exact-o-knife, or to make right angles with anything. unfortunately, by the time pit was over the setpainting was also over. i try.

possible part-time job next year and over the summer at A Gathering of Artists (down the block from my house), where I would be taking Hea's place. Amazing opportunity. I need to thanks Ganes more.

antony and the johnsons- firstly i was introduced to transgender issues through the glory of Neil Gaiman's Sandman, which seems to have normal people characters. and I actually like antony's voice, and the feel of the songs. I can't concentrate on lyrics the first listen. But i like the guests. interesting distinction that im consistently reminded of: 'i like something' is a different phrase from 'its good music'. not relating to antony's music, its just that this has been a source of social discourse lately.

Photo 101 in 1 hour

I should have taken notes or something because I dont remember any of the terminology, just the different final products. I definately want to work with photoshop on my photo, and have something in black and white.

German Expressionist Self Portraits. So much fun.

Project

The project is what I worked on during Midterm week- the conversations in paint II project with the people. Just on a larger scale with more sheets of characters. actually, 9 sheets- the single person in the middle, with 8 sheets of people (80 people) around the single person.

In Spring- because I'll be able to walk to school to work with Ganes in the morning.

23-33

23. When confronted with superior intelligence/talent, how do you respond?

I wanna learn from them. Although, sometimes superior talent comes with superior arrogance. But I've found that the most successful artists are pretty nice (like Arnin, the contrabassoonist of the NY Philharmonic). But it would be hard to work in the shadow of someone like that.

24. When faced with stupidity/hostility/craziness or indifference with others how do you respond?

I seriously hate indifference. If someone is emotionally hurt, you don't call them a prick and laugh about it. But there's a difference between stupidity and hostility- one is just not knowing, ignorance, and basing conclusions only on what you know, while hostility is meant to be malicious. Sometimes, when someone will ask a heckling question about something just to get me angry, all I have to do is answer them calmly and honestly. Pure honesty without bashfulness is the best way to deal with people trying to get to you. They leave you alone because it's not interesting.

25. When faced with impending success or threat of failure, how do you respond?

The threat of failure is a big one, especially is nothing is learned from the time spent. There's also disappointing other people, and yourself, with failure. Impending success... it feels good to know that something good with come from a process. But you can't be totally sure that everything's going to turn out perfect- there are always ways things can get screwed up. There's a proverb about eggs and chicks here.

26. What at work, do you love the process or the result?

The process, because that's where you make mistakes and really understand the work. The process of work is like the story of it- it makes things interesting to know the story, and it's usually more interesting than the result anyway.

27. At what moments do you feel your reach exceeding your grasps?

Like, having goals too far away? When I have a project with a large goal, I feel like it's somewhat unobtainable until I break it down into short-term goals. There lies the left brain.

28. What is your ideal creative activity?

A mixture of playing and drawing. Actually, right now the my ideal creative activity would be designing more kinds of people for that art project. Just stretching my brain, working off stereotypes and social groups and body language, and trying to figure out how to color it all.

29. What is your greatest fear?

I tried putting this into iambic pentameter, then found out that a soft syllable goes first. I'm scared of wasted time, not being able to speak up for myself, someone finding my journal. At most though, I think I'm scared of disappointment the most. Disappointment from other people, and disappointment to myself, because its a broken promise.

30. What is the likelihood of either of the answers to the two previous questions happening?

Well umm a bit more than I would want for the second question and I hope to work on the project of the first answer during the spring after the musicals.

31. Which of your answers would you like to change?

Will revise after looking at this again.

32. What is your idea of mastery?

Mastery is when the only way you can learn is by teaching yourself and learning new things that come up. Like, finding new things about your art that you never could have learned from a book or teacher.

33. What is your greatest dream?

This used to be 'colonize Mars'. Now, it's more like 'things in my life working out generally to the way I plan them'. I plan to study animation in college, and I plan to work my ass off with that learning. What would be the best thing would working on something and being known for something. Just a small level of fame and a good job to live comfortable.

college

http://www.calarts.edu/filmvideo/programs/characteranimation

Questions

QUESTIONS:

1. What was your first creative moment in memory?

I watercolored 'I love you you love me to' (with backwards y's) and painted an apple tree under it and little birds made of Vs above it. I think it was the summer before kindergarten.

2. Anyone there to witness/appreciate it?

I showed it to my Mom after, or she found it. I think I knew that I painted too many above-ground roots for the tree and it didn't look right, but it was still my first painting and my first sentence, so I was proud.

3. What's the best idea you ever had?

I started picking random books off the fantasy, scifi and teen sections of the library a few years ago. Also, if/when I have Barnes&Noble gift cards, I'l find whatever book I mean to buy and make up the difference with a $5 novel. I've found a few good books that way, like a collection of HP Lovecraft.

4. What made it great in your mind?

It was spontaneous, and it exposed me to a lot of books I never would have read otherwise. Also, it became a matter of discipline to finish or even get down to reading a book I knew nothing about.

5. What is the dummest idea you ever had?

Not taking a drawing and painting class until this year of high school.

6. What made it stupid?

The decision was based on bad experiences in middle school with kids hoping for peer approval by degrading their own art and then exclaiming to the world how amazing someone else's work is. I usually ended up being that 'someone else', and I didn't like the attention. I guess that's sort of the reason why I don't respond much if a kid compliments my work. I don't take it at face value and sorta feel like they're telling me it's good for me to feel better about it. I like my work, so I work on it. I wouldn't work on it if I didn't like it.

7. Can you connect the dots that led you to this idea?

See the above rant.

8. What is your creative ambition?

Vocabulary in drawing. Being able to put different shapes together in new ways and developing my style more so that it has more room to dabble in other styles. I don't draw disney character eyes, but I want to make sure that I can use them in my style and make sure they still fit with the look.

9. What are the obstacles to this ambition?

There's probably a lot of tracing and copying involved, and it'll take a lot of time to not only understand the style, but to gradually add in elements. There's me in the way- going back to familiar facial features in designs, condemning the erratic of proportions of a cartoonist. 

10. What are the vital steps to achieving this ambition?

Books books reading reading museums and draw draw copy and draw

11. How do you begin your day?

I wake up in an incubator of quilts and I want to remember that dream from last night and what did it mean? but I have to shut off the radio and get ready for school and eat and get out in time for carpooling.

12. What are your habits? What patterns do you repeat?

Tea with lunch. A small eccentricity that no one notices anymore. I guess I always make lunch in the morning, usually the same thing. And a cup of hot chocolate in the morning. And drawing during classes, especially history. That's not a very good habit, technically, but it gives me a short slot of time to get a lot done.

13. Describe your first successful creative act.

I made a dance to American Pie when I was seven or eight. I performed it at a talent show hosted by the cousins for the aunts, uncles, great aunts/uncles, and older cousins. My aunt started laughing when she recognized that I was playing the long version of the song. It was very discouraging.

14. Describe your second successful creative act.

I drew my Dad's Volkswagon beetle and my dad driving in my grandparents' basement. I was about ten. I brought it upstairs to show the adults. I wasn't very happy when they laughed- it wasn't supposed to be funny.

15. Compare them.

Both took place while trying to find something to do with cousins in my grandparents' basement. And both times people didn't take me seriously and treated me... well, like a kid they sent to the basement to amuse herself. Now these are successful because I still remember the satisfaction of doing something great, and because adults laughing didn't really bother me as much as it could have.

16. What are your attitudes towards: money, power, praise, rivals, work, play

Money is necessary to get along, but should be saved and used sparingly. Should be physical, not digital.

Power is founded on trust, fairness, and consistency. Praise is the best thing from the right people. Otherwise, what's the point if you don't learn anything from it?

Rivals. I guess I do have rivals... don't I... I've never think that way. 'Rivals' means that someone is trying to best you, get something you don't have. It's malicious. I never think about 'rivals'.

Work is hyperfocusing. Good work is sincerely finishing an idea. And the discipline not to procrostinate.

Play is making the ideas, and making work interesting by adding more variables into it. Wait- what if I do that? If something is added?

17. Which artists do you admire most?

Paul Kidby, Walt Disney (artist as a storyteller), Tealin (http://twirlynoodle.livejournal.com/), Escher, Scott McCloud, Craig Thompson (the relationship between words and pictures), Bill Tytla (animated Night on Bald Mountain (Fantasia), Snow White 9:20-9:38 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rllx1i1zEfg&feature=related), Baby Mine (Dumbo))

18. Why are they your role models?

They've all taught me something about drawing, and more importantly, gave me somewhere to go with drawing. And it's also a relationship between drawing and another medium- acting, words, story, structure.

19. What do you and your role models have in common?

I guess there's a level of curiosity. How far can this be stretched? Is it done? Will it ever be done? Did I achieve what I wanted and can it be done better?

20. Does anyone in your life regularly inspire you?

I had this teacher at Saturday rec. I took his cartooning class for about 5 years straight before middle school, and learned a lot of my drawing basics from him. I still have a pencil drawing of Nightcrawler he did before he left. He was always awkward, never glorifying his work or his comic book art. And he made the class into a 10-week crash course in drawing. Shading, proportions, horizon line. I'm not in contact with him now, but I wish I were.

21. Who is your muse?

Life? TIME. more abstract ideas. Passion in the work. Not a person, not Calliope.

22. Define muse.

Someone or something that allows you to have the time and patience to complete an idea to a final product.

Yugenia (spelling?) workshop

Yugenia workshop- hoping to learn more european set design. a lot of the photographs weren't just "bushes on wheels" (Music Man actually has a tree on wheels). And the materials were more fabric that foamcore and recycled crapwood. there was a lot of puppets and puppetry, which reminds me once again that America doesn't like puppetry except in Tim Burton movies and Rennaisance fairs.

i'm glad that she likes my work but I sorta wish I could do more. like, having a few days to consider what the story means rather than going to a literal translation for the set. and the "we're going to make models after the design" definately startled me. But it's good that she told us that after many of us designed the sets, otherwise I know that my design would have been different.

i would love to work on the set but i have pit on wednesdays.

number 1.

the questions are on the way, i just need to make sure this works first. Hopefully there will be more pictures than writing, but still fulfilling the function.