-| Week No. 11 |-

-| Critique |-

My work continues on my mushroom piece. The consensus was that my first draft was too plain and that the pulled quote was too pschadelic. I didn't even think of that until Jen said something, and I guess it does make sense. I thought that with the pulled quote it would work visually. I love it when words and images play off each other and create a stronger meaning. So I'm messing around with hues of browns for my page to give it an earthy feel. I'm also tweaking the main shitake art so that it's more mushroomy.

-| React |-

I'm still trying to finalize my interview with anyone at Hispanic magazine. It turns out that they run three publications out of their office and all three were on final deadline as of last week. I think I was told that the final deadline would be today, so hopefully someone can talk to me soon. What I've read so far is interesting. I hope to get an angle that's unique from all the others. I think that Page 1 Media runs three different magazines by some of the same people. I'd like to know how that works and if some of their people have to double up on publications.

-| You Can't Miss

There's nothing really big on the blog this week, but the big news this week is that the SSND competition is here this week and so is my blogger! Mark Friesen runs my blog and he's one of the guest judges. There will be plenty of opportunities to mingle and I would suggest doing so. It's a fun time, really. First off, there's a dinner Wednesday night at 6:30 in LHH over pizza discussing the future of newspapers. Then on Thursday, anyone can sit in and watch them judge the categories. The first half of the morning will be dedicated to non-daily papers and the second half of the day will be for daily papers. This will be interesting. I helped sift through all the entries and some of them are REALLY good. Some of them REALLY suck. (Seriously, it's amazing that they think it's their "best" work. . . but then not everyone can have a Jan Colbert and a Joy Mayer around to help them out. But then, actually, ANYONE should be able to tell that when you go crosseyed looking at a page, THAT'S BAD!) OK, whoa, just got a little mean and bitchy, but you might see what I mean if you go! TUCKER FORUM THIS THURSDAY