The Journal:
“It’s a Long Way to Tipperary” is a journal meant to cover my path of college as I go through school and work to achieve a BFA in Visual Communications. To those of us who speak normally, that’s graphic design.
What I am confident will happen, though, is that this journal will be hijacked for all of my other projects and ideas. So rather than saying this is “my graphic design journal” or anything like that, I’m going to have this for anything remotely art related that I do while in school. This includes doodles on my notes, things I do for fun, and icons I make for use around the interwebs.
The Title:
Here’s what I do when I need to come up with titles for my journals: I browse my icon collection and gank things from there. My main journal is called “Oh My, Plotholes” based upon an icon from the series Tsubasa, which says “oh my, a plothole”. So for this one, I used the same tactic, and came across an icon I made from the cult TV show Mystery Science Theater 3000. It was from The Movie, in a scene in the beginning where Crow is tunneling through the basement of the Satellite of Love in order to get back to Earth. Wacky hijinks ensue.
Crow, however, is singing an old British marching song while doing his work:
It’s a long way to Tipperary
To the sweetest girl I know!
Goodbye to Noah Berry
Hello Harold Lloyd~!
(His lyrics modify the last two lines.)
And thusly, the title of this blog came to be.
The Person:
Call me Kat.
I go to sea a simple sail – wait, that’s not right.
Very simple: I’m an eighteen-year-old college freshman at Northern Illinois University, wherein I’m majoring in Visual Communication. I’ve also been hired to be a peer adviser in the art building, meaning I’ve got some inside info on the school. “Inside info” meaning I know dates and what majors are. Very exciting.
The Banner:
(As of 9/30/09): A character of mine, Cameron, based off of Cambot from Mystery Science Theater 3000. Sketched in openCanvas, color added in Photoshop.
