This is probably the nerdiest rant I've ever gone on

[ferrumaeternum]

I spent an hour and a half in the printing lab last night trying to get my project to print red instead of hot pink. The same thing happened last time, and I figured by making it more of an orange-red, it would print red, but no. Even the graphic design major that was working there couldn’t help, and I know what the problem is. It’s those fucking Epson printers. I went through two of them when I was in middle and high school because my dad insisted on wasting a bunch of money on that brand. And yes, they always tended to print in magenta, especially when the ink was low. My $80 HP even prints higher quality images than the expensive ones in the lab! Not only am I pissed off about wasting time and having my projects not print out correctly, but money is being wasted on this shitty equipment. The whole sever is beyond slow, which is surprising when all the computers in there are Macs. It takes minutes just to open up a program, let alone edit anything in Photoshop. Part of it might be because the monitors are screwed up in the printing lab as well. In the classroom and on my Mac, the images appear the same, but the colors are all wonky on the ones I need to actually print my project out with. Once again, I wasn’t the only one in the class who had this problem, yet the instructor still blames us and includes it as criticism during the critique. This is just another reason why I’m glad I changed my concentration from Graphic Design to Painting and Drawing. Hopefully there won’t be much more of this bullshit in the future. Although I’m excited that our next project will be to create a Russian constructivism-influenced poster, I’m going to have to come up with a way not to use red. Of all things, she has to choose a movement centered around that color.



Since my professor really wanted us to do something specific and for an organization, I decided to make my own Guerrilla Girls poster.

I suppose it’s alright that it printed pink because it’s about women’s rights and a lot of their actual posters use vibrant colors, but at the same time, the point is to get rid of gender stereotypes and the association with the color pink is a huge one.

I was kind of annoyed that two girls in the class said it was stupid (while I was standing behind them nonetheless) when their projects were complete Banksy rip-offs. As women, they should care that they’re still not treated equally in this country, but then again, I should know better by now not to take the opinion of insecure hipsters who don’t bathe to heart.

Now I have to make another public art project for the lecture portion of the class in the next week and a half, without using photography or digital tools to create it. However, this time I actually have to put it up in Milwaukee, take pictures, and leave it there. This could definitely get interesting.