I was sitting in my kitchen thinking about all the things that I love. Not people, but specifically places, items, and feelings. Things I’ve consumed or heard; maybe once, maybe a million times. …

I haven’t been doing a lot of writing at all lately, which I actually think is more or less alright. I write so often to relieve myself of these huge all encompassing feelings, and maybe since I haven’t written anything in a while it means that I haven’t been feeling…

Being in a room loud enough, full of enough people that I can sit in silence and watch. Being in a room with no one. Quiet enough and empty enough that I can sit in silence and watch. One full day going by without anyone asking me for anything. Actually…

i wake up at the bottom of a hill every morning. each day i climb up with snakes on my ankles gnawing at what’s left of flesh and bone. i reach the base of a bell tower at noon and the top at dusk. i climb into the chamber housing the bell. i place my hands in-between the sound bow on both sides of the clapper, trying to hold it still. but still it rings. and it doesn’t just ring, it roars.

American popular culture has always terrorized Black people in ways that are both blatant and inconspicuous since the beginning of not only mainstream media, but the legalized freedom of Black bodies themselves. This started with public lynchings during the middle of the eighteenth century, which occurred predominantly in the south…

My entire life has been defined by the word access. Access is make or break. Access is the key to the entire universe, but also the thing that can shut you out from everything completely. Access determines the lives we live and how comfortable we get to be. Access can…

For my UI project I am creating the interface for a mobile app version of my website http://www.pb-resources.com/ Its not fully complete yet as I am trying to decide if I want any other pages/ designs/ features.

In class we continued preparing for our UI projects that are coming up. Leah showed us some of the websites visual artists use to share work online, and the importance of those tools. We then spent the rest of class working through a tutorial of Figma, the application we will be using to build out our UI designs. We learned a lot of technical aspects to the program like applying grids, working with constraints, and manipulating shapes. I definitely had trouble working with the masking groups for creating images, but eventually I got the hang of it.

In class I presented my physical product, and my peers thought it represented my brand identity well. The color scheme stood out for a few people; they really liked how I chose to pair the hot pink with the white. Apparently it gave ‘power puff girl vibes’ which I think means I successfully communicated my brand identity. They also thought the little icons were a nice touch in addition to my logo, which was good to hear as I was unsure if it made my design too busy or chaotic. Leah suggested that I could play around more with the mouse wire, which I think is a cool idea I hadn’t thought about much. A different iteration of this could definitely play with having the wire move down the sleeve instead of being as short as it is now.