Typing Micaela

Nordstrom and Converse

2011-01-26T15:24:00.000-08:00

The lovely Maria Filar passed this along to me. I took the photos :) It is rare for me to actually see where my work goes most of the time. Turn arounds here are super quick and the work keeps on coming.

I work at Converse now....

2011-01-19T15:33:00.000-08:00

And this is my new friend Sam here, he is an archivist!

Other blog is updated!

http://nolongersemesters.blogspot.com/

Piggy

2010-04-06T21:36:00.000-07:00

Matt and I made a cake for my best friend Allison... she is going to be a pig farmer and that was our inspiration. I did the making of things and Matt made the magic happen.

Kirchoff Sisters

2010-02-28T12:04:00.000-08:00

Kirchoff Sisters... I feel like they are going to be a great art duo someday. Hopefully I will get to witness it. We went to the D.I.A. to catch a baby piano performance, my favorite part was our seats. We enjoyed the benches made of deep cushions and marble. I felt like we were in a tree house for a club meeting.

Return of the lil guy!

2010-02-18T20:46:00.000-08:00

I've been taking my lil guy camera around with me and it has been lots of fun :)

Ryan came home for the weekend to be interviewed and to see me! We visited his grandpa in the hospital, ate a delicious lunch and visited his pop's car shop. It is always nice when Ryan comes back into town.

Valentines Day was the best with my boo <3 We had dinner at Bastone in Royal Oak and even got the same booth as last year. It is such a great place for us since it has food we can both enjoy. We were off of our fit schedule for the night and enjoyed the joy of beer tasting and potato eating. The cinema and an exchange of epic presents still makes me smile.

Tuesday after work I headed over to Matt's house to photograph some of his lil figures to trade online. We had the best studio in his bathroom and this is the photo I loved best because it looks like they are all having a dance off.

My mom treated me to dinner and a knitting class. According to Panera she is WANITA haha. Knitting came easily to me... but as you can see I wasn't counting my stitches and got a fan look to my first sample.

Mis Caras (My Faces)

2009-12-29T17:45:00.000-08:00

My professor Kyohei Abe asked that I send him my video self-portrait from 2007. I tried to upload it a while ago and failed somehow. Well here it is freshly uploaded.

Monkey Bear

2009-12-16T23:26:00.000-08:00

Matt had his 25th birthday this past November <3 Well love drove me to decorate my first cake with TRUE piping (pug pups were the latter)... all I could think of were monkeys and bears when it came to Matt. The baking and trying to make four layers as smooth as possible took all night, as for the actual piping I had an hour to work with. Overall it took forever, was almost gone in a few minutes and absolutely worthwhile.

pug pups

2009-12-16T23:10:00.000-08:00

My pal Maria Filar and I made pug pup cupcakes for her boyfriend Danny's SURPRISE birthday party. mmm mmm mmmmmmmmmmmm!

Nastassia+Josh "Green Eggs and Ham Baby Shower"

2009-12-16T23:00:00.000-08:00

HALLWAY SHOW #4

2009-12-14T23:18:00.000-08:00

GEORGE COSTANZA

Hallway Show #3

2009-12-07T01:49:00.000-08:00

I need to keep up with the hallway show. Here is my Steve Buscemi, I picked up a mechanical pencil, pink paper and scratched away to my liking.

BAD ROMANCE

2009-11-11T21:31:00.000-08:00

This is my piece for the Hallway Show, it is based on the video BAD ROMANCE from LADY GAGA... you won't understand until you see it.

Why I love to teach... for notes like these!

2009-11-05T23:51:00.000-08:00

Cranbrook Summer Studio 2009

I should be an art director...

2009-11-04T20:30:00.000-08:00

For my 23rd birthday my boyfriend made me this cake. I told him I wanted everything that I loved that he happens to hate. I told him my ultimate dream would be a vampire wearing cowboy boots in the act of eating sushi. This was his interpretation, a vampire coming out of a cowboy boot surrounded by sushi. The sushi was the best part because you could just pop them in your mouth like the regular delicious stuff. And by the way this was Matt's first official cake as the self proclaimed "Cake King".

MADE IN

2009-11-04T00:46:00.000-08:00

I have some ideas for such tags as these. Definitely a project in the works... I'm not used to showing step by step or progress of any kinda. Hopefully I can show more than the finished product with this project.

Illustration whore

2009-11-04T00:42:00.001-08:00

I am a whore for my Illustrators.... I was invited to contribute to a weekly blog based around the tradition of creating illustrations of a chosen person every week for the Illustration hall at my alum C.C.S..... I enjoy their company and giant talents... they enjoy my hilarious and rapid interpretations. Here is my take on the given subject DANNY DEVITO... check out the blog to see real talent of my beloved Illustration family.

http://hallwayshow.blogspot.com/

Infrared Babies... Circa 2004

2009-11-04T00:20:00.000-08:00

Well I have been trying to somehow organize my work back in the day when prints were the only files to look through. These are from the year 2004 when I was taking a continuing education class through C.C.S. before I started my first semester there. This was also my first time using infrared film, does anyone even use it anymore? Well I had a blast with it and had my first work in a show from this roll, also my first publication in a book from this roll; one lucky roll. These are the unseen images from it and of a friend who has to be spoken about. Her name was Madison and she was (and I am sure still is) a compulsive liar. Her tales included all in one week being informed of throat cancer, signing a modeling contract for Apple Bottom Jeans and having the cancer "pulled" through her throat so that she wouldn't have an scars for her new modeling job. Yes at that point we knew the jig was up... but it did amaze me how she convinced herself of her own reality and although a liar.. usually a giving and fun person.

Hmmmm

2009-09-14T00:46:00.000-07:00

My other blog

http://nolongersemesters.blogspot.com/

to be posted on at least once a day.

gabeamanda

2009-07-28T21:33:00.001-07:00

My boyfriend has a very good friend Gabe and he has an Amanda. Always together they make gabeamanda. On this rare day I captured Amanda without Gabe, (even though he was only about 10 feet away) and I can't believe I captured it! Jokes jokes... Amanda is great, she brought out sparklers and we had some fun!

Nerds

2009-07-28T21:18:00.000-07:00

What is the common thread in these photos... the intense amount of NERD provided by the presence of MAGIC THE GATHERING.

I admit... I enjoy it.

Milla's birthday party!

2009-07-28T20:43:00.000-07:00

Oh summer birthdays

BIG MAN JAPAN MONSTER SLUGFEST

2009-07-15T14:52:00.000-07:00

Matt took me to the BIG MAN JAPAN MONSTER SLUGFEST at the Detroit Film Theatre at the Detroit Institute of Arts. It was sooooo much fun. During the day Matt and I had to search for Japanese toys to battle at the theatre before the movie. We had to figure out with could withstand an earthquake of sorts. With air guns on a rumble plate we each pushed our monsters toward each other and killed the weak. After battling small children and middle-aged men... I won!!!!! Free tickets to the DFT for the rest of the yearrr... so happy! I will scan in my new movie pass and winners button later... because it is worth seeing.

SENIOR SELECT

2009-05-10T07:24:00.000-07:00

I was selected as "Senior Select" for the Photography department, yay!

So basically:

I show at the center gallery with all of the other senior selects, and in my department, I get some cash, and I get to walk onto the stage twice at graduation, fun! Hopefully the school buys some of my work because that would be nice. I am very happy to be representing my department :)

He are some layouts of my receipt pieces.

I had a pile of receipts, and as my friend Ryan read them aloud so many memories came out and I realized that someone could really get the surface of my life when finding these little pieces of paper. I left a documented trail of my life with every purchase. These images that I have created are just the surface memory, I plan on doing more elaborate actual memories with each receipt, as a response and continuation.

Getting ready for my senior exhibition

2009-04-20T21:31:00.000-07:00

Nike News!

2009-03-29T22:29:00.000-07:00

Congratulations Individual Key winners: Jason Rau, Mike Pruit, Micaela
Ruiz and Brooke Houghton. Each of you will receive a $500 scholarship
award. The Team Winners from U of D, Randall Puzzitiello, Thomas
O'connor, Ashley Payne, Michael Prewitt and Brook Houghton will each
receive a $200 gift card from Nike.com or nikeid.com. Select work from
the Key winners will be on display at the Boll YMCA during the final 4
NCAA playoffs in Detroit. Nike also has plans to display this work at
the Nike Global Headquarters in Beaverton, OR. Please contact me anytime
to discuss the details of your awards.

I found out on Friday.

James Jean

2009-01-19T20:41:00.001-08:00

This is the main reason Matthew and I went to New York. This show was so inspirational, and just in time before our last semester.

Central Park

2009-01-19T15:17:00.000-08:00

Winter weekend in New York.

Rest of Maine, Rest in Maine

2008-12-05T01:46:00.000-08:00

Now that I have my first edit done, I will go through and pick the best of the best for the final Maine book which is for one of my portfolios for my senior thesis. The portfolio will consist of series of T.T.V. images compiled into small books.

It is 5 a.m. and I just finished about 98% of my printing for the huge Nike presentation next Friday. That other 2% are prints that don't have dimensions yet.

I love C.C.S.

Mis Caras (My Faces)

2008-11-10T21:42:00.000-08:00

So I made this in my fine art concepts class in the spring of 2007.

P.S.A.

2008-11-07T17:30:00.000-08:00

Finally public service announcements are catching up with the times, mental health and not just physical.

Noah Book

2008-11-01T14:52:00.000-07:00

These are a series from my Chicago trip this week of my good friend Noah Waldeck. I am going to make a little book of him for when he is old and grey and missing that great jacket.

He is a wonderful artist also.

http://noahwaldeck.com/

Shoes

2008-11-01T13:50:00.000-07:00

Jillian Pulford
Matt Byle
Michael Burdick (also designed flyer for the show)
Wesley Eggebrecht
Andy Gabrysiak
Alyssa Cieslak

These are a few artists that I really enjoyed, great show!

Dinosaur Vampire

2008-11-01T13:05:00.001-07:00

My night backwards

I love my American Culture

Cake Show

2008-10-19T23:04:00.000-07:00

I finally had my cake show!

The opening was on Thursday October 2nd at the U245 Gallery at my school The College for Creative Studies.

Thanks to everyone who came out... and thanks to Matty C. for taking these for me.

Artist Statement

The memory can be an upsetting landscape full of experiences that never seem to go away and some that never want to stay. Through collage I can finally choose what to relive and consume over again in my mind. When placing my collages on cakes I am more interested in how the viewer interacts with my art both emotionally and physically. I invite the viewer to both celebrate with me and put away the past at their choosing by taking a slice.

Hunting In A Herd

My dream came true when I turned 22.

I used to be so tired, but I could never fall asleep.

Abulita & Abigail; the first and last, the A & Z in my memory.

Michigan Mountain Past Times

Maine in the summer

2008-10-15T21:56:00.001-07:00

Maine will take me a while to upload but here are a few. Ryan and I went the week before school and came back just in time for our first class. We met at an art camp when I was 17 and he was 16.

Scary Apples

2008-10-14T23:07:00.000-07:00

Making photos semi scary is always fun. OKAY turning snap shots into creepsville is more like it.

Shopping WIth Friends

2008-10-14T22:50:00.000-07:00

Eastern Market is a great place... with friends!

I need to get over T.T.V. but it is great fun and I can't help myself.

Sura Arts Academy

2008-09-13T22:15:00.000-07:00

This is an article on the after school program I teach with Ashlee. We start up a new semester this Tuesday. If you have the chance to check out the exhibition I hope you do, the rest of the museum is pretty amazing also.

Today was the opening. Ashlee and I spoke a little bit, everyone clapped and it felt like I was with my family.

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008809120405

Nike

2008-09-13T20:17:00.000-07:00

These are research images for the sponsored Nike project that I'm doing this semester. We were invited to the University of Detroit Mercy where I experimented with T.T.V. The crowd and my design team really like the effect for basketball so it is at least one technique that we will be using which makes me happy.

Photos from my Maine trip will be up soon!

First T.T.V. fun

2008-08-26T23:10:00.000-07:00

I will miss being so close to Erica.

I will miss my room.

Everyone loves befores and afters.

2008-08-19T22:21:00.000-07:00

It was 5 bucks and came with glitter

Dead Polaroids

2008-08-18T12:42:00.000-07:00

Mid-Summer

remembering how to be a me.

Dinner in Ann Arbor with the Schwiezers

2008-08-17T14:22:00.000-07:00

I remember having the worst of pains in my mind.

Early Summer.

Across the street

2008-06-12T10:11:00.000-07:00

Being home lately has been... interesting. For instance last night a car went crazy and its horn just wouldn't shut off. I felt like this was an episode of the Twilight Zone. You know the old ones where neighborhoods go crazy when something simple is not explained. The police showed up immediately with flashlights and just pointed to the car for a while. Once the streets were quiet again, I longed for Mid-town Detroit.

Final Presentation. colors off

2008-05-04T16:04:00.000-07:00

Today

2008-04-21T21:57:00.000-07:00

Come down to the photo department for some cider, donuts and ART. This is the class that I've been teaching this semester along with Ashlee Rezin.

Photography Potluck

2008-04-21T21:29:00.000-07:00

Leyland DeVito and I collaborated. I talked about an idea last night and Lee made it come alive this morning. COME TO THE POTLUCK..WITH FOOD AND ART!

Urban Bean Co. in Downtown Detroit

2008-04-06T22:20:00.000-07:00

I have a photo shoot today at 8 p.m. here, these are the location scouting photos.

You should all hang out with me here, it is pretty much awesome.

Cadence Weapon

2008-04-06T21:45:00.000-07:00

I saw this duo at the Pike Room located in the Crofoot LOCATED in Pontiac.

hip hop

Chicago Photo Trip

2008-04-01T20:06:00.000-07:00

I recently put these up on the photo department community wall. Recently as in today.

Stars+ Pash and Martin Royle

2008-04-01T19:18:00.000-07:00

I photographed this show for Detour-mag.com

http://detour-mag.com/assets/2008/04/01/live-show-stars/ Here are more photos and better photos than what they posted.

P.S I thought the openers had great energy

Pash

Martin Royle

Stars

Ecological-Friendly Cleaning Posters

2008-04-01T18:24:00.000-07:00