those crazy norwegian kids.

it's that time of year again.

my 2007 top ten albums:

10. "i'm only a man" -emery


9. "neon bible" -the arcade fire


8. "chase this light" -jimmy eat world


7. "rodrigo y gabriela" -rodrigo y gabriela


6. "sounds of salvation" -cassino


5. "resolution" -hidden in plain view


4. "the alchemy index vols. I & II fire & water" -thrice


3. "cartel" -cartel


2. "everything starts where it ends" -lovedrug


1. "cities" -anberlin

all engines go.

i updated my portfolio website. check it out at http://stuwww.tcu.edu/krzamzow i'm going to research web hosting so hopefully soon i can have a dotcom address, because i don't know how long tcu will keep my stuff on their server.

DeLorean not included.

All I want for Christmas is a flux capacitor.

a vail of hope and a vail of pain.

the arcade fire "neon bible" interactive site.

find the objects that look most alike.

the big event.

tcu graphic design senior show
december 3, 7pm

eye candy.

a new look for my faithful few readers.

copycats.

i was at blockbuster last night with sarah and i came across a new release movie called "transmorphers." i don't know anything about the plot, but the reason i noticed it was because the cover looked strikingly similar to the new "transformers" cover, which it was right next to on the shelf.

although it's a little darker, the "transmorphers" cover mimics the blue-orange-white-orange-black gradient found on the "transformers" cover. it also reminded me of an interesting article i read this summer called "dark and fleshy: the color of top grossing movies."

just thought i'd share my recent observations.

business as usual.

well, i now find myself in the last half of my last semester as a college student. i know, it's hard to believe. but just like any other semester, the last two months are stock full of projects, not to mention prep for the senior show. but it'll all turn out well.

yeah, this post isn't much. my primary purpose is to let my few readers now that i'm currently in the process of creating the website for the tcu graphic design senior show. more to come on that in the next week or so. until then, ciao.

ps, my secondary purpose for this post is that i write a blog entry on my wii. come by some time and we can play mario soccer.

it's here! it's here!

after 30 days and 4 phone calls to campustech.com, i finally received the newest creative suite in the mail.



right now i'm uploading it on my ibook while i watch blue planet on animal planet in my living room. what a good day.

believe.

on the subject of well-made commercials, i found this 90 second commercial for halo 3. they created a giant diorama of a battle scene and then filmed it. it's pretty intense how much detail went into it. i also enjoy the use of shallow depth of field to focus on one point and blur the rest, giving it a better sense of a single moment. after i watched it, i found a behind the scenes video, however, it's told from the point of view whereas the battle had already taken place and they're making the diorama as a commemorative in a museum. that in itself is pretty creative.

leave nothing.

i'm not a big nike guy at all, but i really like this new commercial they have for this nfl season. the continuity through the different scenes as shawne merriman and steven jackson progress down the field is pretty amazing, even when their uniforms change. and the ending is just plain hardcore.

fixed!

it's been a long time coming.

i finally get to take my car in to have it fixed!
i'll once again be able to use my driver's side door!
i don't have to pay a dime!
hooray!

but on the downside, i'll be car-less for a while.

labor-less weekend.

the at&t guy came in friday morning, so we now have cable and internet through at&t u-verse. it's a pretty cool deal. we got two cable boxes, one of them with dv-r capabilites in which we can record up to four shows at once. we can also set up the box through the internet to record shows by signing into our account. and if we missed a show, we can find out if someone we know that has u-verse caught it and they can send it from their box to ours. but here's the kicker that had us sold: free installation. unfortunately our cable outlet in the living room is pretty old and needs to be rewired, but our landlord doesn't want to spend the money to get it fixed. that makes our cable and internet cut out sometimes and it's especially annoying when it goes out in the middle of a show.

anyway, it's labor day weekend and i've done a bunch of nothing. friday i worked at the pool for a few afternoon hours then came home and played with the u-verse for the rest of the evening then turned in early, as seems to be the trend with my sleeping habits lately.
saturday was a bit more exciting because college football was back! i worked for time and a half at the pool, came home and ate some grilled ribs, went to the tcu-baylor game, and then to the roustabouts show at the aardvark. after that everyone came back to our house since we're right around the corner from the aardvark. i just sat on the couch and waited for them all to get bored and leave because i was ready to sleep.
sunday involved nothing beyond getting milkshakes from sonic, watching the discovery channel, the science channel, and a fantasy football draft.
however today, it's probably nose to the grindstone time. what mostly needs to get done is a need to pick up the house from saturday. and i really should work on my graphics projects, but we'll see if that happens.

capless

someone stole the end caps that go on the air valves on my bike tires and it really pisses me off that people are that willing to be jackasses.

offline.

my house is still currently without internet. dave and i signed up for at&t u-verse and the installation guy should be coming on the morning of the 31st. once we're connected, hopefully i'll be posting more regularly. until then, i have a link that i hope will suffice. i found it on the espn website following the rangers trouncing of the orioles last wednesday (the final score was 30-3 if you hadn't heard.) the article is a list of the 100 greatest beatdowns in history. read through it, it's pretty entertaining.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=schoenfield/070823
items of note: #10, #20, #27, #44, #58, #62, #65, #74, #82, #90.

king of the keytar.

Create Your Own PaloozaHead - Visit Lollapalooza.com

props to johnny and lindsey.

$20,000 in my hand.

dallas cowboys 1992 super bowl ring.


i was giddy like a little girl.

re-vamp.

i decided to give my blog a new look to it. maybe it'll inspire me to write more (even though i've done a fairly decent job recently.)

great balls of fire.

i was on my way to work at range this morning when I heard a loud explosions and felt my car shake. apparently a natural gas plant exploded. i was right there when it happened and it scared the piss out of me.



holy crap!

f u, reliant.

i'm trying to set up electricity for my new house through reliant, and i keep getting this screen:


i'm even trying to be a good person and sign up for wind energy only. but it's all only frustrating.

sigh.

really i will.

i know, i know. it's been awhile since i've posted. i'll get to it, i promise. i have a whole list of topics to talk about. i may even give my blog a new look as inspiration to write more.

until then, go to simpsonizeme.com and turn yourself into a simpsons character. i did myself earlier today.

stomp out loud.

if stomp were to ever come to the dfw area, i'd definitely go see them.

panoramic.

a guy at work showed me this video yesterday. there's an autistic artist named stephen wiltshire that will draw an almost perfect panorama of a city after flying over it in a helicopter once. it's pretty nuts.


Autistic Man Draws Near-Perfect Panorama of Rome

i also dug a little deeper and found a video on his tokyo panorama too.


Autistic man draws Tokyo from memory

check out the full panoramas. they're pretty spectacular.

move out.

packing sucks.

good news

i finally got an internship for the summer.
i'll be working for a design firm called range.

here's their website:
www.rangeus.com

and here's what my daily commute will look like:

gross.

new site

new folio site!
check it!



ps: matt and i ended up not participating in the insomnia photo contest because we came to the realization that we don't have a lot of spare time. in hind sight, it was a good decision because my work load has let me only get six hours of sleep since monday at 7am. sorry to disappoint you if you were really looking forward to seeing a photo.

insomnia

the assignment is to shoot a photo that best represents the word “GROWTH.”

submission soon to follow.

summer internships

so i've been interviewing around for internships and here's where i've hit so far:
warren douglas
range
2c design

also, my uncle scott called me the other day and said "he knows a guy" and is trying to get me to internship up in milwaukee. there are plenty of pros and cons with this situation. the pluses are that the guy told scott they'll pay me 12-15 dollars an hour, and while i'm there i'd be living with either scott and meg or my grandparents which means free lodging and food. on the flipside, the place he wants me to intern at turns out to actually be a printing press called burton & mayer inc. i haven't actually talked to the guy yet, but on first impression from their website and the type of company they are, i don't think it's what i'm looking for. also, what would i do with myself for three months during those times when i'm not at work besides go to summerfest and a lot of brewers games? what are your thoughts?

and if there are any other places i should check out for an internship, please, let me know.

the tale of the island party shirt.

island party is an annual outreach event put on by my fraternity, brothers under christ, and is going to be held on april 21. i am currently the t-shirt design chair and i run a committee of five guys. so naturally with a big event like island party, we need soemthing to sell to the masses. this being my last semester to design t-shirts for byx, i decided to do this design solo without the rest of the committee. after sketching out many concepts, i came up with this sketch and presented it to the officers on april 1st to make sure it's kosher to put on a shirt.


they freakin loved it and said go for it. it's a rendering of jesus to look like one of those hula things you put on your dashboard. and it fits perfectly for an event like island party. it's a fun event and the shirt needs to reflect that, as well as showing that contrary to stereotypes, christians don't have a "no fun allowed" attitude on life. so the officers told me to go ahead and finish it and get it to the guy that usually prints our shirts asap. so i did so. i came up with a final front and back image and sent it to joey on the morning of the 10th. these are the finished designs:



ok, awesome. i'm done.

not quite. on wednesday night on my way back from a texas rangers loss at the ballpark, i get a call from the officers. they tell me they don't want to use the front design for the island party shirts anymore because it is a negative portrayal of jesus. really? a flowered hawaiian shirt and a ukelele create a negative image? i don't really see it. well they go on to explain that a few people have gone to them and said it's not the way jesus should be illustrated because it's not going get people to want to seek a personal relationship with him. the term marijuana was also brought up in describing the picture.

first off, it's completely unprofessional and ridiculous that they okayed the design and then changed their mind a week and a half later and after the design was already sent in. i work for free and spent a good twelve to fourteen hours on the project. doing what they did is no way to treat someone who's working pro bono. if they had any second thoughts about the design, they should have killed it back in the draft stages, not after the design is completely finished, and certainly not after it's been sent to the printer who's running a business.

second, there is no way the image i created generates a negative portrayal of jesus. it's a cartoon based illustration with a ukelele and a huge smile. how does that create negative thoughts in anyone? and just because he has long hair and a beard, that doesn't mean he's a doobie-smoking hipster. google search images of jesus and all of them show a long haired and bearded man.

i sat there and thought about it for a bit and i sketched out an image of what seems to be really portrayed in my original design:


they both look awfully alike, don't they?

anyway, they had cancelled all the orders from joey, which he had already started printing. so now byx is out of an amount of money equal to 200 t-shirts. they then called me thursday morning and said they want to keep the back design but want me to come up with a new front one by friday. i told them no, they need to find someone else to make the shirts and that they may not use my back design. and that was that. later that day they sent out a mass email to all the byx members with the new shirt designs:



yeah, that shirt's going to make a lot of people seek a personal relationship with jesus. as my roommate dave specha described it "that new shirt ranks about a 1.5 on the one through ten scale of good shirt designs" and he's a pre-med major and knows not much about design.

utterly ridiculous.

the calm.

peace out, hombres!

as i walk through the valley.

spring break is 11 days away.
unfortunately i have to go through hell to get to it.


-publication design editorial spread
-corporate identity sketchbook
-art history critical synopsis
-publication design sketchbook
-corporate identity letterhead package
-art history midterm
-screenprint #2
-screenprint #3
-publication design magazine cover
-portfolio for dsvc conference
-rec center design
-byx intramural tshirt design

v-day.

happy valentine's day.

the art of versions.

i was browsing the apple homepage this morning and found an article in which two guys named neal ashby and matthew curry designed the cd packaging for a band called the thievery corporation influenced by the black and white line drawings of the beatles' revolver album.


they built a site dedicated to the art of the new cd package for the thievery corporation's new cd versions. it's pretty amazing what they did. check it.

cold turkey.

i found an article today that stated most women prefer new clothes over sex. the average woman would be willing to give up sex for 15 months for a new wardrobe. i wasn't aware that those two subjects could be comparable. are women really that intense about clothes, or did they randomly poll the wrong 1000 women? granted i'm no expert on either subject, but the poll results just seemed a little odd to me. i kinda feel like asking the girls i know what they think about it, but that might not be any of my business.

a followup to yesterday's post.

voila.

slacker to the max.

it's only post number four on this new blog thing and i'm already sucking at keeping up with it.

this past weekend i went to the senior conference that tcu put on. the goal of it was to help the graduating seniors figure out what to do in that transition between college and "the real world." it was informative, but geez i'm not looking forward to it. i would much rather stay oblivious to the world in college.

in other news, my room is a mess and desperately needs to be cleaned.

welcome back.

unfortunately, today is back to school day. we'll have to see how the classes will turn out.

a poem.

to fort worth i go,
through rain sleet and snow.
the going will be slow,
but it'll be good to be back.

revolution.

good day to you.

i've decided to start up a blogger page. the internet is the information highway, you know, so it only makes sense to put this on here. it will a) keep my friends updated with me and things that i find are neat, b) keep people who view my portfolio site updated with me and things that i find are neat, and c) keep random people i don't know updated with me and things that i find are neat. so you guys better hold me to updating this thing.

i'm also kinda new to blogger, so i need to work on getting my page to look the way i want it. i also need to figure out how to get my friends to find me on here.

well, here's to new beginnings.