Web site launch

Posted on February 2, 2010
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Hello all, my new portfolio Web site is up at www.chelseydelaney.com.

It is not compatible with Internet Explorer, so please use a different browser to view (download Firefox).

Been applying for internships like crazy… Let’s see what happens.

Kitty

Posted on January 24, 2010
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This is purely a dummy post in order to instill faithful readership again. (I promise to post more)

Back to school and stuff.

Posted on January 12, 2010
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Started school on Monday. So far I am feeling better about this semester, which makes sense since I guess every school experience starts vague and ends becoming more tailored to your own personal goals.

Wrote an Examiner blog today about The Oatmeal, which has become probably my favorite Internet visit as of late.

Also started my publishing internship today with CMU Press. Got to go to the CMU book warehouse and pack books and send to various authors–And the press owner let me keep a copy of each of the books (that’s five new books of poetry <holla!> ).

ALMOST finished with my Web site. Textual sneak peak? It’s simple horizontal scroll with an urban theme, a simple yellow-white-black color palette, and JQuery. I’ll show its knickers in the coming week…

Final interactive graphic

Posted on December 11, 2009
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This graphic uses two external data files and three external AS3 files… Turns out I’m a cutesy-illustrator. Sorry ’bout that. Swear I will learn to toughen up on screen…
Also click on it to do it/interact– I re-sized it earlier to fit into the post and it looked dumb.

Look mom, I’m a programmer.

Final Poster

Posted on December 9, 2009
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Our last project of the semester consisted of diagramming a basic breakdown of a piece of media. My instructor assigned me benfry.com.

I’ll be concise, as I just spent hours finishing my process book and thus describing in length what I am about to describe in laziness.

There are five main web pages linked from the navigation bar. Each page is represented in a column of its code. The site has one CSS file; this file is the yellow text spanning across the center connecting and relating to all the site’s code. The bottom bar labels each section of code (each page). The thin blue lines represent the amount of internal links within the site and the site’s “passageways.” “benfry.com” is in transparent overlay because the idea was based off of the “Magic Eye” posters.

Another day, another project and presentation tomorrow… + really cold weather.

On Loss

Posted on December 3, 2009
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An actual serious post.

I lost a friend recently.

I knew him through an ex-boyfriend whom I dated for three years during high school. For those three years I primarily spent time with him (the boyfriend), my few friends, and his few friends. Our groups were united and later coincidences happened with friendships. It’s very clear to me, if I could diagram the people then who mattered, who mattered. I could label their complementary contribution to the misery we all had due to geographic suffocation.

I go home to Corpus Christi and I tell my friends I will write a book about it someday. I remember when I was young they told us “Corpus Christi” was the only city named that in the entire world. I could have guessed that, and guessed that, and guessed that.

If you believe that people are most affected by their own selves, then this is the place that can exemplify your belief. I have never witnessed, in my life, the self-awareness that occurs there compared with any other place. It’s a self-awareness that becomes dangerous. I was on the verge and I knew and know many who have been, and who have crossed.

In high school I had a driving force to escape. Everyone wanted to escape. People said they were going to “move to” usually Austin or San Antonio (the only two acceptable cities in Texas) once they figured things out.

And once they say this, the hourglass is flipped. It’s only so long before we all lose our minds. It’s only so long before the 1,000th beer run is committed at the end of Saratoga Street and we need to buy something at the mall and our friends are taking pills again and those guys are having a party. It’s social poverty.

When an integral part of that experience died, I worried that it all might die.

I spoke with my ex-boyfriend after the funeral. He said, “Our friends are drinking themselves into the ground.”

And then I sit and I worry about my final project for graduate school in Pittsburgh, PA.

I’m still so self-aware, but I don’t know if it even matters anymore. This coincides with my desire to move back after grad school. To feel it again… To know what’s important… To acknowledge and to genuinely react.

I want to understand why Rob is gone.

End of Semester: A Photo Story

Posted on December 3, 2009
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In grad design seminar, we spent the semester talking about the different approaches to human-centered interaction. These four approaches are diagrammed within a cross shape, and last week we were asked to write a paper in which we apply said approaches to practical design situations.

In order to better my assignment, I grabbed a large sheet of paper (from a paper roll) and diagrammed all of my notes onto an interaction cross.

This is that piece of paper’s story post-final assignment.


R.I.P. Rob Vera.

Posted on November 30, 2009
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“Puffzilla”

Posted on November 25, 2009
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Spring

Posted on November 16, 2009
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Comedy
Students will examine the principles of comedy and their consistency from ancient times to the present day, then apply them to the writing of an original play or screenplay.

Editing and Publishing
In this course students will work closely with the editors of Carnegie Mellon University Press to learn many of the facets of producing books. These range from business management and marketing to the elements of editing, book design, and production.

Messages and Means: Topics in Communication Design
In this seminar, we will examine communication design from multiple perspectives, including rhetoric, information design, cognitive psychology, philosophy, and design theory. We will read and discuss the significant works that have influenced modern communication design, paying close attention to their impact on today’s communication practitioners as well as outstanding opportunities for further research. In addition, we will explore these ideas through small case studies from a variety of contexts–from data visualization to advertising, to product brochures, to public relations to political campaigns.

The rest is required.

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