Bjork / Hyperballad [Brodsky Quartet version]
Blake Jones / Astronauts in Trouble
Bon Iver / Towers
Peggy Sue / Long Division Blues
Pokey LaFarge & The South City Three / So Long Honeybee, Goodbye
The Piney Gir Roadshow / Great Grey Belly
Imelda May / Johnny Got a Boom Boom
Chris Thile & Michael Daves / Mississippi Waltz
Cat Power / Lord, Help the Poor & Needy
The Moor / Warm Winter
Lex Land / StupidFace
Asa / Be My Man
Black Lips / Dumpster Dive
OFF! / Blast
It’ll Grow Back / Gonzo
Fay Wrays / Painting Dollar Bills
Avett Brothers / Tear Down the House
Reid May / Life of a Son
Arrington de Dionyso / Kedalaman Air
Hunters & Collectors / Throw Your Arms Around Me
David Byrne / Tree (Today is an Important Occasion)
Grace Jones / I’m Crying (Mother’s Tears)
MC Frontalot / Front the Least
Luke Temple / In the Open
Gillian Welch / Silver Dagger
SebastiAn feat. Mayer Hawthorne / Love in Motion
Del the Funky Homosapien / Calculate
Velella Velella / Black Stripe
Cut Copy / Need You Now
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks / Tigers
Fleet Foxes / Helplessness Blues
The Funk Ark / Katipo (The Spider)
Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears / Booty City
Sleigh Bells / Riot Rhythm
Achievement House / Summer Spirit
Aphex Twin / Xtal
Grandaddy / Hewlett’s Daughter
Rademacher / They are Always Into That
The Ettes / The Pendulum
Foster the People / Pumped Up Kicks
Unknown Mortal Orchestra / Ffunny Ffrends
Man Man / Bangkok Necktie
Only Living Boy / Hide Nothing
Tom Morello the Nightwatchman / World Wide Rebel Songs
Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside / Cage
Crystal Castles / Doe Deer
The Mountain Goats / The Autopsy Garland
Month September 2011
Assignment: holiday web icons
For our second assignment in my GRC 41 class, the instructor asked us to develop a set of “holiday web icons” using the shape tools and lines tools in Adobe Illustrator CS4. The tools used included: square, rounded rectangle, ellipse, polygon, star, flare, line, arch, spiral, rectangular grid, and polar grid. We had to make 55 icons total, on one 8.5 by 11 inch artboard. He asked us to start with the basic main tool shape and then add elements, gradients, colors, line strokes, shadows, etc. We could focus on any one holiday or season. I chose summertime.
I have used Illustrator very little in the past, so the program is basically completely new to me. These icons are pretty simple due to my limited Illustrator skills. But also, web icons are meant to be simple, because they appear very small on a website within text. I do hope to revise this assignment for the final portfolio. But for about 10 hours of work and some light reading in my Illustrator quickstart guide, I’m pretty happy with it.
Jefferson Beavers 