Must be the changing of the seasons.

Just generally sad, I don't know what it is, maybe its the changing of the seasons, maybe it's that people are building stronger relationships with the people around them, me not included, but I feel it's partially my fault that and I exclude myself from a lot of things, I feel like Im left stranded. I know it's no ones intent, I have a hard enough time telling people how I feel which makes it hard for me to express that I feel I may slightly be being pushed away. I don't know.

I have no real motivation most days to leave the house, I always say I am going to do something, but I never do and a lot of times I try to think of things to do, but nothing ever comes to mind. People seem to always be too preoccupied with their jobs and with school, and the ones who aren't and would be available just seem to want to drink and party, and most of you who know me know that I do not participate in such actions.

I recently found someone who doesn't drink or party and who is similar to me in a lot of ways the more we speak, and even though she stood me up for lunch one day by oversleeping for quite a few hours haha, I like hanging out with this person, we cooked food earlier this week, even though we're both terrible cooks and I probably made the driest vegan mac and cheese you'd ever eat andshe attempted to make vegan pumpkin spice cookies which ended up being a cake (which was still amazing i might add) and the original plan was to make food and watch the film 'Brick' but we ended up just talking for the whole night, about various different things it was a lot of fun. I hope we get more chances to hang out, but with her work/school schedule it seems like it may be tough.

I really don't mean to sound super depressed and I don't necessarily feel depressed, I just wish I was better at making connections with people. I can't wait for February though, punx house! Mick, Rachel, Cole, Tyeesha, and Myself, finding a house, and living in it.. I am so excited for this.. I wish it could happen tomorrow. I think it may pull me out of this temporary setback.

Other Designs I've Done

If you are going to Comment on any specific design, I have numbered them, so you can say which number you are referring to, instead of trying to describe which design you're talking about.

Enjoy!

1.

Design Contest Entry.

The abstract symbols above are supposed to somewhat create a C and a D and you can tell that was the intent if you look at it close enough.

2.

Design Contest Entry

This was for a radio station if you couldn't figure that out, I like this one a lot, I like the colors and I like the seagulls head in the S.

3.

Yeah, I ripped off the new NASA logo concept a little. So sue me.. no wait.. don't

(this also hasn't been used anywhere, just done for fun)

4.

Blah, I don't really want to talk about this one.. 

5.

The wooden shoe bookstore. I volunteer at this book store, and I am working on a website for them, which you can see in an earlier post I posted last week if you are interested in seeing it's progress.

6.

My Personal Brand

The V in my last name comes up to create the popped collar for the detective woodcock. The character is a woodcock which is a bird. The reason it is a woodcock, and why I go by woodcock is because it is my family name on my mothers side, and my great grandfather was named Sidney Woodcock and he lived to be 104, and I use it to pay tribute to him and the rest of the family. Plus it's a silly name.. and I'm a silly dude.

7.

Yeah, I realize there is too much going on in this one.. But I like it because of all the different images that are going on in it. The train, the sky, the skyline, the road, and of course the key. This business doesn't really exist, it was just to build my portfolio.

8.

Another project to build my portfolio.

Some people just see the knives in the logo, and some people just see the Z, if you look closely.. I am sure you can see both.

9.

Made this for my uncle. I guess he is creating a software called Avocado Ware. I am aware of the awkwardness between the O and the C, thats because I had to do a makeshift fix, since I originally spelled it with a typo of AVACADO, if he ever plans on using this logo, I will make it look cleaner.

10.

Probably one of my favorite logo's that I have done. It was for a community space in Charleston SC when I lived there called Outer Space (which you probably could have guessed)

11.

Meh.

12.

Meh

13.

Illustrator illustration of Sidney Crosby and the Igloo (RIP)

Done while I was still in college.. Probably towards the beginning of my education.

14.

Also done towards the beginning of my education.

This is just a statement that TV Brainwashes you.

The Next designs are done before I went to college and are all done in MS Paint.

Enjoy:

15.

Done in MSpaint before I knew about the wonders of Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop and before my Graphic Design schooling.

16.

Logo done for my old band, also done in MS Paint.

I think they look good.. for being MS paint.

17.

hahahahaha oh boy. (MS Paint)

18.

Old band logo.. apparently we were Pogo Punx

19.

LOLOLOL inappropriate 

Follow Up on Sassi Logo

Logo Design for S.A.S.S.I.

This is a Logo I did for a group that my aunt belongs to. 

Life Outside of the Radical Community

I've been in Harrisburg, PA this last week working with a friend. Anyways, while I was there the mans house we were at was also having some work done, and had other companies hired to do so. While they were joking around with each other they kept saying "thats gay" and "faggot" and things like that, and it brings me back to the realization that people outside of the radical community still speak this way.

I spent a little bit of time today with my nephew who is about 4 years old, and what really put me over the edge and the main reason why I am writing this entry is when I heard him say "thats gay" about something. This is what society is putting in the heads of our children. 

I haven't really been around it really that much since high school, it's nice to be in a circle of people and community that is completely isolated from this kind of terminology and inside our radical communities it seems as if we've made a lot of progress dealing with said issues, but it's all just an illusion since we don't interact with people outside of our radical communities that often and it is still a huge issue in our society today. Which is why when we in the radical community, or even anyone outside the radical community are around it need to confront it and create resistance in our communities that can oppose that culture and bash back.

I was talking to Mick about this earlier through a text and I'll quote something that he said that I really agree with

"people need to be taught how to take care of each other"

people are not good to each other.

The Wooden Shoe's Website Progress

I volunteer at the Wooden Shoe Bookstore in Philadelphia, and I've been working on designing a new website for the collective, that is easier to navigate through than the current website. I still have a ways to go, but I did however post it on a free website host so the other collective members could see my progress and make comments and suggestions that they feel fit.

Here is the CURRENT website.
www.woodenshoebooks.com

Here is the one in progress.
woodenshoebooks.freewebsitehosting.com

The text in the body of the pages are just fillers and they WILL be changed, it's just there acting as a filler to see how the website works.