haha, thanks guys. I'm just happy my snowboard didn't fall. It's only hanging by some 25lb fishing line and the first few tries had failed.
Upsetting at some points were that all the lights and my computer would randomly burn out. All of my shit had like 8 spot lights and the computer to power plus then the spot lights of some near-by people and some of the caterer's stuff. All of those plugged into like 2 power strips that were then plugged into a single outlet then strung to another outlet. That very first outlet also had a vending machine plugged in it as well. After the first 2 times my (and a few other peoples') power burnt out, we realized that the problem was the vending machine plugged in the wall. Every time the machine's compressor switched on to cool the products, it would suck a hardcore amount of power in an instant sapping all the useable power from our displays. It was pissing me off the first time since it was totally unexpected and I was freaking out since the doors were about to open like 5 minutes from that moment, but then it did it again in the middle of the show with hundreds of people on that floor. I laughed it off though and just told people to expect pyrotechnics at any moment.
Overall the show was a huge success. Most all the graphic designers had made some crazy things this year. My friend Zack had a company that was all punk based apparel named Buzzbomb. He basically made the store. His entire display was the longest of all of ours. Him and I had the most things in our projects, mine was contained in a sweet area by the caterers. His was stretched along the wall. He had some pedistals that he screwed some pipes into and hung all his 45 t-shirts on and 20 pairs of shorts. He made custom recyclable bags (like the kind you can get at grocery stores now) that you get when you buy anything off him. He gives you a bag, throws in a custom pack of matches, a clothes patch, a small pack of button pins that contain 2 pins featuring his project and a self promo logo pin neatly wrapped, then anything you bought goes in there so you have something to carry it in. He also sold about 20 cassette tapes of some new shit from his band. He's in a fucking badass punk band and the cassettes are 45 minutes long on each side. I didn't get one only because I don't own a cassette player
. He also was selling posters. He literally screen printed everything. He had 4 different shirt designs. I bought 2 shirts and a poster off him. His shit was my favorite this year. He made a killing off the people too. It was awesome though, since all the students had to be there an hour early to set up and make sure shit was cool. So before the doors even opened, he sold half the product at his show via the other students. He just wrote SOLD on the custom tags to keep track but kept the shirt and things there at the show until afterwards so that it looked presentable. Of course he was taking things down when people at the show wanted to buy something.
I'll up some other photos of some of the other students' stuff. My camera was mad retarded tonight and decided to not auto focus 80% of the time so the photos will suck but you'll get the point.
Also, they had food on each floor (4 floors). We got kind of gipped since we had nothing but veggie platters. The first floor had the most fucking epic cheese cake I've ever had and I could (at this point) consider myself a 'cheese cake connoisseur", haha. Second floor had cheese platters, hummus and pita bread. Third floor was my floor with the veggies. The Fourth floor blasted your face off with meat ball sub smell as soon as you walked in. I heard the subs were fucking delicious but I didn't eat any. I had too much cheese cake :| . Our Fifth floor was closed overall. We have a "ground floor" which is still basically our first floor, but the "ground floor" is basically a giant open area called the Atrium which is in the front doors and to the left of the building, but the main attraction is that the rest of our first floor is a decent gallery space which displayed 1 of every senior's favorite/best work. That's the senior gallery show which is going to be up for a few weeks, the senior show and celebration which was tonight was only for 3 hours. 1 semester's worth of hard fucking work for 3 hours, but it was cool since I got a few job offers.
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