*You are fired*

The last week has been hell. I have been stressed out with school. On top of that, I have been feeling guilty for stressing out with school, while my Mom is at home with bigger worries. She is not doing very well. She has been sleeping a lot more and not eating. My father called New York and told the doctor what was going on. His response was, "Well, what do you want me to do about it"? WTF? Are you kidding me? This doctor has treated my father like crap since day one. My father called today and told me all this and I was shocked! He and Stacy(my sis) went to see a new Doctor in Maryland and was very pleased with what the doctor had to say. The doctor is even COMING TO THE HOUSE on thursday! Can you believe that?? Even better, the P's will no longer have to travel back and forth to NYC.

I am going home this weekend to spend some QT with my mom. This whole thing breaks my heart. She has been 'superwomen' her whole life. Finally, her and my father were doing what ever they wanted without having to worry about us.
It just sucks! Sorry, I had to release some of this.

*Graphic Author[ity]*

Who has the authority to call themselves an author? Who has the authority to be the one to determine if one is or is not an author? As graphic designers could we consider ourselves to be the author of our work?As designers can we claim to be the author of a particular style?

If you look back to the mid to late 90’s and examine the works of the current deconstrucivst David Carson, you can easily identify his style. The first thing that comes to mind is Carson's approach to publication design. If you were to look thru a 100 Raygun or Surfer Magazines it would not be difficult to identify which ones were touched by his graphic flair.

It was common in Carson's work to have line lengths stretch across an entire spread, he would cross out words, turn bodies of text upside down and even went as far to tear apart beautiful photography. One could argue that Carson was indeed the the Author of this ‘style’. While others say, “But, I am the one who wrote the article.” Which brings yet another question to the table. In order to consider David Carson an author, would he have had to actually written the text he so carefully layed out?

In my opinion, the poster designer is the only true author. No, I am not taking about movie posters or posters advertising a new weight loss pill. I am referring to the propaganda poster designer. This type of designer uses his/her skills to voice their thoughts of the world we our living in today. They are informing us of a situation close to their heart, while writing their own copy, creating their own images and most of all - using their own thoughts. I think this is the reason for the sudden influx of poster designers signing their posters. Which was common on most design, pre stock images and illustrations.

My most rewarding class, was a poster design class. Where we were the true authors of our posters. We were forced to write our copy and create our images. When we finished our posters it truly contained all of our emotions.

*just more random thoughts*