The keyboard says ceru
Super Mario World, big screen
The alternate realities of writing and fiction.
The UConn Design Kids.
2005. Chinatown, NYC. Pijunz.
Frutiger is one of my favorite fonts.
2006. CTL. Fridge door decoration.
Fencing. Myself.
Shoyru. Neopets. Former Obsession.
2004. The train away from here.
A different kind of fencing.
Me and an old camera.
USA Cross-country Roadtrip Pants.
Fark Photoshop Contests. Ear not included.
Crux Guild, PangYa!
Intaglio class, Spring 2008.
1986. My second birthday.
Washington DC metro map.
Monitor decorations. Including Jeff the Cow.
Indigo. 5GB. MP3 player.
My farmy neighbor.
The wrist I sold on eBay.
My Rotary exchange student blazer jacket.
Waterbury Campus. My husky drawing on the whiteboard.
Dani. Roadtrip. Art museums.
Jake. My baby.
Lying on the couch.
Statistics class notes.
Tati. My big sister. Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
The house computer.
Tractor chain.
2002. Mineirao. Cruzeiro vs. Atletico PR.
1989. Disney World.
My eye. The good eye.
The Vanessa Carlton hat that made me "the hat girl".
At my college graduation.
My girl scout vest.
Steph's red wagon.
Renata signs my flag before I leave BH.
Karina and Paula.
Stamps to send letters by snail mail.
Magnet board in the art building.
Jessie sent me origami stars.
Exchange student group at the Azul Banana, Toledo, Brazil.
Car mirror on one trip or another.
Word/Shop.
Art kids in the Computer Lab.
A card sent to me before I went to Brazil.
Diana's nametag from the Brazil Northeast trip.
My old library card.
Me with Rusty, the dog we had when I was a kid.
Some of the folks from the WebDev Lab.
My awesome little kid playhouse.
Hello, yes. This is the rotary phone operator...
One of the many bowling trophies.
Yeah, you're dead to me now.
Back in the day I was a 1337 Pokemon TCG player.
My first nintendo gameboy.
Order & Progress. The Brazilian flag.
The Design Area
As part of an independent study I took in Advanced Web Design, I created a site called The Design Area. Using a lot of mashed up php code from different places, including the Joomla Content Management System, the site was intended to be a community site used by UConn design students. Each student would have their own login name and password, profile, blog, and ability to upload their own portfolio onto the site.
The layout of the site consisted of pictures of each of the students in the design program. Each student was assigned a letter of the alphabet, and they were to create a dingbat for that letter (which we called a "thingbat"). The rules for the thingbats were that it was supposed to represent the student in some way, and must be comprised of the shapes from the word "DESIGN" written in the Jigsaw typeface. The pieces could be rotated, but not scaled, and each piece had to be used, with no overlapping. I also created a flash interface where this could be done, all of the pieces able to be dragged and rotated.
All of the students then created shirts, with the letter on the back and the thingbat on the front. Everyone was photographed from the front and the back. The site then had php code that would create a pangram (sentence that uses every letter of the alphabet at least once), and use the students' images to create the sentence. Hovering over the letter would alternate to the front view of the student's face and thingbat, and clicking would bring you to their profile.
