Chaos

I’m absolutely awful at time management, so with all of my end of the year projects due for school my life has been like a crazy whirlwind. It doesn’t help that I can’t stop doing the fun things too (pictures in Salt Lake coming later). My teacher actually had to make me to slow down when I was reading today because I’d gotten too used to going too fast and no one could follow.

But I just turned in my biggest project, for history of creativity (the class I talked about before), so I thought I would share it with you. We could do any creative project involving the material from the class, so I thought it would be fun to make a magazine since I liked it so much when I did it last year. Plus, it’s a project you can do while watching tv. A lot of tv. And movies. It’s definitely not my best work, but it’s still kind of fun. To see my ideal magazine that I spent a lot more time perfecting, go here. This one is supposed to be a magazine as if it were from the Byzantine time period. And it’s a “special party issue” with ideas of how to throw parties with themes of the time periods that came before it. Hopefully my professor thinks this is a creative idea…

(You can click on the pages to make them bigger)

I’ve been going to sleep past 3 a.m. for the past few days, so I just can’t wait at all to get in my bed tonight and stay there…

September Issue

I know it's over halfway through the month, but I just realized I never shared the last of my stories that got published in Where Washington for my internship. So here they are. There's one of a behind the scene tour of America's Most Wanted in the Crime and Punishment Museum, and one on farmers' markets in the district.

In case you're super interested (i.e. you're my mom), you can see the full PDFs of the magazine at wheretraveler.com/washington-dc

Show 'n Tell

I just finished up my portfolio for Washington Seminar this week, the last of the last assignments, and it occurred to me that I never got around to showing what I actually did at my internship. So just in case anyone was wondering, here are some clips.

I also created an online portfolio for my communications class for those of you looking to kill time: njcrofts.weebly.com. It’s still a work in progress, but I decided it was functional enough to turn in. Creating this portfolio was also much more fun than the poli sci project.

My first article for my internship at Where Magazine, a travel magazine, was on an art exhibit at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. It was a really interesting.

And I’m too lazy to narrate the rest. These were in the summer/fall Baltimore magazine.

I also got some photos printed (I took the little one of the dragon boats right above this too)

If you want to check some more stuff out go to wheretraveler.com

I’ll have some more articles in the September Washington magazine. And potentially pictures in the Baltimore Guestbook.

Well, that’s it. All done now!

My Magazine

I finished my final project for my publication design class and I'm pretty excited about it. We had to create 6 pages of our own magazine from scratch. We started with a blank page and had to come up with our own concepts and find all of the art and everything, so it took a lot of time but I'm really happy with the result, and I hope you like it too. You can even click them to make them bigger if you want.

A fun note, the pictures on page five (of the girls in dresses) were taken by my friend Olivia from high school. She goes to NYU now and has her own company called Olivia Renee Photography. You should check out her Web site or her blog because she is cool.