Realized I haven’t posted in awhile, and while there aren’t that many actual followers, it’s nice to show I still use the site time and again. I’ve been extremely busy with not only a couple of freelance projects and trying to have a life, but I’ve been looking for a new full-time job. I have a couple of prospects going down this week and I’m pretty excited. When all that dust settles, I’ll then be looking into relocating to brooklyn, which is an even bigger prospect. So don’t expect too many posts between now and then.
I’ve also realized, during my interview time, that I need to revamp my website (again, haha). The portfolio section needs major updating. Similarly, I don’t post to my blog as much anymore, so that needs to be secondary, and have my portfolio up front. Then a separate link to my blog. As well, I’ve been feverishly getting into photography. I’ve been way lazy updating Flickr, and currently I’m torn between using my Flickr account and having a photo-blog. I feel that Flickr images are too small, and I’m also too lazy to write the proper tags for EVERY image. I’m leaning towards photoblog… (I’m not even that good yet haha)
So ya, just that quick update. Stay tuned for a new site come September? I’ll shoot for there. I should be at a new job and living in a new place. I should also have a new site with an updated portfolio, then links to my personal blog, photo-blog, and possibly new city-blog-thing? I don’t know, but I’m pretty excited for new things this 2009.
So I stumbled across something cool on my computer. About 2 years ago during design class I started futzing about with a scanner, and childishly scanning my face at ridiculous DPIs. And then messing around with the result in Photoshop. One thing led to another and soon I had a ton of friends in class taking their scans and printing posters of them. It was probably my first design ‘collection’…if you’d like to call it that.
Anyway I ran into those files while spring cleaning my harddrive and wanted to show you guys. Here’s my two favorite, but click the small one to see them all.
April’s a big month for me. And by big I mean relaxing and awesome and filled with beaches. Tomorrow I’m leaving on a roadtrip down to Miami with a few friends for their Spring Break. Someone lives down there so we got a place to stay, and roadtrips are almost always fun. I’ve never been to Miami and just want to see if women really do rollarblade down the boardwalks in bikinis. I’m curious if the stereotypes are true, ya know?
UPDATE: Back from Miami! If you want to see the pictures see my flickr. First real adventure with a DSLR and I think they came out really cool (some of em). Barbados is next week =)
Then on April 20th I’m flying down to Barbados to stay at the Crystal Cove Resort. That’s the trip I won from a Holiday Raffle! Should be a nice relaxing week after a (hopefully) hectic/fun week in Miami. And its All-Inclusive, so I don’t have to leave the resort!
Expect many pictures from my travels, and few updates. Especially to my twitter, which I will be neglecting. I don’t set-up twitter via my phone…I don’t like having the phone out while I’m with others.
Notice anything different? For those that have been here before, welcome back! For newcomers, completely ignore this post! But anyway, yah I finally decided on a design that I enjoy and feel represents me pretty well. It’s also a pretty blue, isn’t it? I’m more familiar and comfortable with Wordpress now and was able to finally get a proper portfolio page together.
I’m way past due on some obvious updates. I’ve created The Heavy Edition, as well as a few portfolio sites. Look for quick posts on those soon. On top of those and my usual updates, I want to start writing tutorials. Of course, they will be at what I’m good at: front-end design/development. They’ll be some ‘from photoshop to css’ tutorials, css tips and tricks, ‘how to write semantic html and css markup,’ … etc etc. The world could always use more, considering I’m often asked how to do these anyway.
So this sites not completely finished, so to close I’ll leave a short checklist:
- Finish Portfolio page
- Add form to Contact page
- Start writing some Tutorial posts
- Take more photos and post to Flickr more
This weekend I played D&D for the second time, except this time was a lot more fun. My friend Elvis and his gang play pretty much once a week, and I tried playing a few months ago but had no idea what I was doing. Plus I created an awful character (a monk). This time though I pretty much killed it. I was a Gnome Wizard (Evoker) named Delorean. I won’t go into too much more because it’s really a game you have to experience with other people who are really into it. No, we don’t dress up. But I did burn alive at least 6 guys with 3rd lvl Fireball spells, then proceeded to fall down a shaft and have my brain sucked out by a Mind Flayer. A testament to don’t knock it before you try it.
PS - I still hate WoW
What’s going on in my life at this time? Tons!
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Wow. I had a pretty eventful weekend. It started with my friend’s fiancé’s 26th birthday party. This group of friends love their theme parties and this time it was “Rock N Roll Fantasy Camp.” I bought an afro to be Jimi Hendrix, but didn’t feel like finishing the costume, and I looked exactly like Andrew Stockdale of late Wolfmother with the wig, so I went as him. Nobody knew who I was but no matter…I still kicked ass. Fun night, a pic or two will be on Flickr soon.
Warriors…Come out to play-ay
Saturday I went to the Brooklyn Academy of Music and Arts’ BAM Takeover Festival. The event went really late with tons of films and music performances and djs, but considering the length of each activity we only got in 3 things….but they were definitely the best things at Takeover. We started with Leeroy Greene and Sho’nuff in The Last Dragon (who’s the master!), danced along to The Budos Band (Tower of Power funk), and ended the night with a showing of The Warriors. Win, win, win.
Rising Sun!
And Sunday night I went to the JapaNoodle Fever Tour 2008, featuring the best in Japanese punk rock. Unfortunately this ran a lot later than I had thought it would on a Sunday and I had to miss the last act, Peelander-Z, but we did get to see TsuShiMaMiRe, Zazen Boys, and Quaff.
TsuShiMaMiRe were these 3 insane chicks that rocked out. Bass player was crazy, but also freaked on the frets. They also did the Powerpuff Girls theme song for Japan. Zazen Boys were like Hella meeting Ben Harper with awful lyrics, but I appreciated their musical talents and speed. Quaff pretty much tore up the scene and brought back 80’s hair metal. Crazy solos, covers, dresses, hair, flutes…They killed it. I would see 2 hours of just them. Its unfortunate that I need to rely on Japan to satiate my punk rock tastes when it pretty much originated here or Britain, but, we do what we must.
Well, that makes up for last week’s laying around all weekend…
