It runs in the family

First and foremost I will apologize for my lack of blogging updates. Really, there hasn’t been too much difference in excitement at RELEVANT for the past week or so. Except all last week and the beginning of this week another intern and I worked on a collage for a wall in the lunch area. We took the photographs of Jeremy Cowart from the book “A Hope in the Dark” and wall papered them to the wall in an elaborate grid. All the photographs were from his experience in Africa and has primarily to do with bringing social justice to the African continent. It was a multi step process involving enlarging pictures, exacto cutting, planning, aligning, gridding, and using creative judgement in placing the array of photos everywhere. I would love to say that it was an easy project that was all fun and games. Most of the time it was a great experience because I had a partner, but both my partner and I sliced our fingers at least once with the exacto (of course different blades….sick!) She had done it twice before I just carelessly cut my thumb. In the end, it came out beautifully and I wish I had a camera to take pictures, but the head designer Jeremy took pictures throughout the entire ordeal, so they will be coming soon!

On top of that arduous project I was working on, it has been pretty slow here at Relevant. We have had two “celebrity” visits in the past week or so. Bradley Hathaway, the singing poet that does an awesome poem entitled “manly man”, came through. And then earlier in the week a couple from engaged and underage, the MTV Reality show, came in. Now, the mtv reality people weren’t visiting to be interviewed, apparently the guy worked for Relevant and “To Write Love On Her Arms“. It was more awkward because the RELEVANT staff were like, ” So If none of you guys have noticed, we have a couple of celebrities on our hands..you might recognize them from Engaged and Underage..” Then the comedian in me quipped in and asked what life was like now that the MTV’s cameras are gone? They thought it was funny, I hope. In the end there hasn’t been as many celebs as I wouldve hoped rushing through Orlando. Most of the celebrity interviews are done over the phone.

In other news, last night I visited my great Aunt Francis, my maternal grandfather’s sister. This would be the grandpa I had never met so it was sort of awkward because she knew me and had one picture of me from when I was like 5. Of course, me the one has yet to lose the baby face, she was like “You look just like your picture.” Also following a string of, “Oh good heavens…Oh My’s…and Well I’ll be” (in that sweet old woman voice) she asked what I was doing. Then she jumps up to gather some old newspaper clippings about my mom. Sure enough, my mom was an award winning artist. Well I guess it runs in the family.