Banner Solutions – How to sell string.
Mar/100
While waiting in line at Fed Ex Office the other day i noticed a display titled “Banner Hanging Solutions.” I realized i had some posters at home I needed to hang up on the walls and wanted to see if they had something i could use. Granted i was really tired and out of it but STRING? It’s just string? Nothing to attach the string to, just a roll of string. I was kind of shocked, now i’m not entirely sure i should have been but I’m still a bit skeptical.
Hit the jump for a side view of the string.
the K/J challege
Feb/101
A co-worker and I have been trying to be more creative outside of work and our current ambition is to take one roll of film a week. I think we both are realizing how statisfing it is to take a bunch of photos but how hard it also is to keep up with the challenge (i suppose that might be why it’s called a challenge though). We are both using what seem to be, and i mean this with no offense, ancient camera and i am disappointed to say i have no idea what the setting really do and nothing is to clearly labeled. It makes me feel like i’ve been babied with my slim point and shoot digital camera i’ve been using for years.
These are some of my favorites so far. We haven’t decided weather to allow photoshopping into the competition right now so that makes me cringe a bit but it will probably help me learn more.
Hit the jump for the rest.
Life is Life
Feb/100
About 6 months ago two of my best friends left for 2 weeks for Vacation. While they were gone i had a key to their apartment and was going to check on their cat jiji, i kept joking with them that somehow i’d prank their apartment while they were gone but couldn’t figure out a great idea, so i decided to kind of steal one from a friend. We have a running joke with life is life, an epic music video and song and i used a photo of myself standing in an epic pose and put the lyrics “life is life” in the background. My original plan was to print one of these and just hide it somewhere in their apartment, but when i was printing through target online, i realized i got 10 free prints for signing up. That changed my prank to hiding 10 of the same photo of myself around their apartment. When i picked up the prints on the day my friends were returning, i realized it would be a lot funnier if i did a set of three, each with me holding the previous photo in it.
Hit the jump for the 2 other images and 1 that didn’t make the set but i thought was pretty epic none the less.
30 seconds and 1 dollar.
Feb/101
30 Seconds to Mars new album This is War (i think you are suppose to italicize titles) has around 2000 different covers. They had fans submit photos online and picked the best for their covers and then randomly released them across the world so it’s pretty much impossible to find a specific one. Searching for the best cover at best by I narrowed down the 6 or 7 covers down to two that i found worked the best. One was a cute girl and the other a guy that i felt fit the composition and seemed designed the best. I then realized that one of the two was a dollar more, it made my decision easier of which i wanted to get, but it did intrigue me which was the real price, the lower or higher. I flipped to the next cd and it was the lower price and i didn’t think much of it until i made a joke to my friend that the men are cheaper then the woman. Thinking i was being serious he checked out the other albums and actually discovered that in fact all the women albums were 1 dollar more expensive. Nice going best buy.
Hit the jump if you want to see a better photo of the album cover i bought.
Epic Guitar Photo
Nov/090
So a couple weeks back, kind of on a spur of the moment, but mostly been trying to get one for a while, i stopped by guitar center and picked up this sweet black les paul and of course had to get an amp, stand, and cable too. I’ve been playing it 4 times a week at least since, it’s pretty fun just to mess around, i’m getting better at chords but still need to tackle learning an entire song, usually i’ll learn part, my ADD kicks in and i move on to trying ot learn another song. Maybe i’ll just combine them all into one epic easy to play song, oh and yeah, that’s my epic painting in the background.
Halloween Costume
Nov/090
So my original goal was to make a sick Halloween costume, and yeah i didn’t make one, BUT a friend was up to the challenge and made me a costume of my favorite character of all time which for probably most of you out there is Squall from final fantasy 8 [that was one long sentence, sorry English teachers].
Sadly i didn’t have my replica of squall’s gunblade with me and my parents were too afraid i was going to get killed or arrested or what not if i had it out here, even though i had no intention of bringing it to a party.
Anyway, i consider this a huge success and will be wearing it again in July when i attend ComicCon with the rest of the DYG(Dashing Young Gentlemen).
Status on getting contacts
Sep/090
Apparently poking yourself in the eye over and over doesn’t guarantee you’ll be able to actually put in contacts. I had my first training appointment on Saturday, and 0 contacts went into my eyes, or at least staid in my eyes. I have an amazing reflex to blink like crazy when something gets close to my eye and with all the solution i had on my hand and just general tearing up from holding my eye open my grip on my eyelashes couldn’t kept slipping. I went back today, actually managed to get it in for a split second only to have it fall right out because i didn’t realized it was in my eye and rubbed it out on accident. But i did managed to jab my eye several times only to have my eyelash deflect it away when only half was in. I got back again on Friday, let’s hope third time’s the charm.
Also on a side note, right after the appointment to get my contacts on saturday, i went and got a haircut and apparently if your barber doesn’t understand english you should be extremely specific on what you mean by hair over the ears because i thought it was clear i wanted it to hang over my ears and she thought it was cut over my ears. Needless to say it is now possibly the shortest it’s ever been.
Why contacts.
Sep/094
As a good friend at work explained by a simple drawing, this is what i look like with and without glasses. As you can see my hair gets longer, i grow chest hair and everything sparkles.
Current Projects
Sep/093
- Make a sick halloween costume
- Sketch and draw more
- Post more
- Learn a language
- Get contacts
- Practice the real guitar
- Become a better designer
- Make time to hang out with old non-work friends
- Get contacts
- Get a doctor
- Decorate the apartment
- Continue working on Pollo hombre
Back to basics
Sep/090
One of the goals i’ve recently set this year is to draw more and get back into traditional arts and work my way up to painting on canvas. This mostly came about because i was too damn cheap to buy decorations for my apartment but wanted to put stuff on the wall and figured hey, i’ll just make something myself. This may be a terrible idea though but i’ll give it a shot. I figure i’ll start small and bought a sketch book, when i fill it up i’ll move onto the next media. Here’s my favorite sketch so far.
