Shits changing

When I first got into art all I could think about was drawing, printing, stenciling, collaging, and mixed media kinda stuff. Nothing had to do with computers or using any of these Adobe programs I've been learning at USF. I thought (and still think) that if I were to do anything in design it would never be web or super crazy computer graphic design.
Leaving high school I had no idea what I wanted or was I ever thinking about where the future was going with the field I want to study in college. All I knew is I wanted to create, so I decided to test this Design program out at USF. It has taken me so far and dragged me out of the small view of art that I was open to before and let me get my hands on some real technical stuff. 
It still makes me sad that the art that I was so drawn to my whole life, print, is dying and surmising to the enormous path of the digital world. But I am adapting swimmingly by crossing boundaries I never thought I would by building websites. Using my Photoshop and drawing skills to make my websites unique and different then the average build website. All in all, in the end for me I want to be able to get up and back down in every different kinda of media I can weather its on the web or with a stick of lead in my hand.

Signs

When I see signs for stores I always take note to the display and structure of the sign. Big chain stores or buildings will have the same big bright neon sign that lights up at nights. But the stores that are one of a kind, the smaller less known personal shops will have a hand painted sign. It shows the flaws and the develops a character that sign tries to portray. For whatever reason that is something I acknowledge and like when I'm walking into a store. The sign is supposed to be the first thing you see down the street before entering a store and its got to present a certain aura to attract visitors.

Robots

After reading "Why the Future Doesn't Need Us" I know why I don't like using fancy complex machines like computers. If man kind really does go to the length this article talks about, which is a stretch but also a strong possibility, and I see it in my life I will have no more hope. I cannot live a life like that, I believe that the world started and built naturally and it thrived. Then humans came and created mass quantities of unnatural things that has made the earth suffer and robbed it of it natural resources that balance it out. Thinking this makes me sad, that our planet had a microscopic chance to create a perfect atmosphere near a star with sufficient heat to power a natural living growing planet with life, and we messed it up. I know and I feel that humans are getting very wrapped up in technology and there is only a bigger demand for more.
I think things can quickly get out of hand, and the quote that I like best from that article was when he references a grand mother that never used antibiotics unless she absolutely had to. This is something I try to implement in my life with things that I don't think are 'natural' in essence, limit the use of unnecessary things.

no matter how much

No matter how much I try I can't use the computer as much as other people do. I'm not immediately drawn to the instant gratification the internet has to provide, or posting my thoughts about things in blogs. When I'm typing on this screen for anyone to see I feel odd, I like the security of scribbling my thoughts down in a blank pocket book that follows only me everywhere. That isn't because I'm shy I simply like to share my story with people who want to talk about it not read it in cliff note form on a web page. This is a big reason why I feel like the internet has no purpose and so I find little use for it.

However, now many of my classes are requiring me to have better internet skills by using blogs and sites to get loads of inspiration from for graphical work. Also by paying close attention to the actual layout of websites so I can create intriguing and interactive websites. So I feel like I'm crawling out of a vague cave and trying my best to immerse myself in the internet world. I'm trying to use design blogs and sites as tools of inspiration and look at their tools of navigation and see what works for the site and things that could be fixed. So if anyone ever does read this stuff post a comment of websites you like to look at so I can find more stuff I like.