January 2012
1 post
“sometimes success is not the victory itself; but the discovery that you can, in...”
– minor_acclaim
September 2011
1 post
WatchI was shopping at the flag ship Macy’s today, and I realized there were dramatic parallels to modern politics. In my shopping experience, spanning 9 floors and 2 buildings across approximately 4 square city blocks, there are thousands of options and endless variety of clothes, shoes, and price ranges upon which to make value judgements.
Now value judgments are subjective things....
July 2011
1 post
danger
when you open yourself up, you open yourself up to ridicule.
when you step out, you’re not stepping out on to concrete, you’re stepping out onto a limb. and not a sturdy one at that.
taking chances is not easy, i’d like to say it was fun, but it does not always tend to be so.
i find little alternative. if you stay inside, you definitely won’t get a sunburn, but...
June 2011
1 post
My Business card SUX!! Check it out!
Think quick! I was between identities and I didn’t have a business card ready to hand out at this great networking event I was about to be off to in mere hours! What to do, what to do!?
My solution: Customize. Make it fit. Make it one-off. Make it memorable.
Normally customization means more time and high production value. At the time, I had just moved to New York and I had acquired a...
March 2011
1 post
“Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of...”
– (via themonicabird)
February 2011
1 post
“I like to pretend the wind can feel me as much as I can feel the wind”
November 2010
1 post
not spelled "f-e-a-r-d-o-m"
»This is a forward of a forward and the following response.
NONE of this is mine, i wanted to repost because I, as my friend put it
—felt the need to respond to because of its fear mongering… I felt it was too important to just leave it with the people in the email list—
» First the Letter:
“This American Airlines pilot ‘hit the nail’ right on the...
April 2010
7 posts
words & phrases 04082010
a minimalist, a nihilist, and ever so gently… fatalistic.
the truth... in only four words | gapingvoid - in... →
Amazon.com: When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm... →
a kick in the pants and a slap on the head.
we don't share anymore.
In reading about the latest wonder widget, the writer reminisces about comic book swamping and how all the fun of comic books was sharing, seeing what other kids had found, and setting their own definitions about what they were worth.
This article found a radio piece, filed deep under the clutter of the desktop of my mind, about how we experience music. By “we” I mean “the kids...
now this in interactivity! →
the creative process →
Short Film: DemiUrge Emesis
Danny Elfman narrates a film by Voltaire and accompanied by Rasputina - an amazing cast of talent.
moving
if anyone asked (which no one has) if i missed the places i used to live, i would say no. No more than i miss the breath once it has gone out of me. No more than i anticipate tomorrow, knowing that the only realness… is now. I loved Seattle, with her rain and her high minded ideals. I loved Helena, my cradle. But nothing binds me to them, nothing keeps me in those places that were home once...
Music Preference? pt1
It’s supposed to be a one or two word answer. Genre, Artist, Era… all appropriate categories of description. I don’t think anyone really has only one answer, but when asked it is usually a skimming over the top of preference. The answers to which may be as vague and as random as.. “Oh, anything by Danny Elfman”, or “the first 4 Pink Floyd albums.” These...
March 2010
4 posts
oh for art's sake!
i was thinking about the very subject when i found this article on Curved White. I went into design because i love art as expression, but i love design as a high-minded concept of combining utility, intent and elegant form to convey ideas to more than one capitalist philistine at a time. forgive me if this sounds communist, but imho design - marketing, branding - is [useful] art for the masses. a...
words & phrases -01
Reality: the ultimate killjoy.
She had a thousand pieces in her; he was only interested in the most obvious ones.
I can sometimes feel the rain.
February 2010
4 posts
si je reve ce soir...
… permitte-moi reves de plien courage et forte pour ma couer le besoin dan ces jours de difficultés et des troubles.
3 tags
novelty
There is nothing new under the sun.
i’m not so worried about being completely original as i am about being genuine. There are lots of solutions and some are nearer to grasp than others. Genuine means you reach as far back and as deep down as you can to find an answer that you think - carefully considered with all your intelligence, talent and skill - is best; it does not matter then,...
January 2010
5 posts
The time is nigh! Destiny is at hand! Day 1
Last day in my apartment. Home for 3 years, my first place of my own, this was my life in Seattle and my first bid for real independence. I’m not sure I was always truly independant, but i gave it a good whack anyway.
The movers are coming between 12 and 2. The window on my life is brief and oddly specific! Visual metaphor: like a sparrow trapped in a house, i’ll find it and fly out...
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you have to image the snarl in the voice, just...
“Ya think you can do this!?
“…”
“Yeah?
“…”
“Ya scared?
“…”
“Yeah?
“…”
“Well you better figure it out because ain’t nobody gonna care what you do with your life, they’re running around taking care of their own! So what are you gonna do!? Pull the fucking trigger or put the gun...
just for the record...
“Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit…”
“There is no one who loves pain itself, who seeks after it and wants to have it, simply because it is pain…”
Reusable Cover Art →
How green is our valley.