Friday, March 21, 2008

[Dave Eggers signed my most favorite book! but photobooth flipped it...]

L // Margot & the Nuclear So & So's / Beirut / Imogen Heap

R// Roger Sessions (something about writing music) / East of Eden 

T// The lone wolf persona / Where is my 8 am Friday quiet / Utility isn't everything / People are like planets (design and life) / Love in the Time of Cholera / When I thought I was getting tired of school, I am not / I would be nothing without my tea


Youtube "triops" and get the one with a few more dollars theme. I'm hatching those babies in studio.

Thursday, March 20, 2008

[I made this in 3dStudio Max! with a tutorial, of course, but the orange is all me...]

Listening to:
Margot & the Nuclear So & So's
the Decembrists
Broken Social Scene

Reading:
John Dewey's "The Art of Experience"

Thinking about:
Dave Eggers' lecture, 826 Valencia and What is the What: I want to do that...
Apathy isn't that pervasive, just ignorance in terms of scale
Loyalty is dead, someone please kill cold intellectualism instead
Restlessness
Learning to keep calm and carry on
The intricacies of poetry

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

tuesday

Listening to:
Beirut
Broken Social Scene
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

Reading:
East of Eden
John Dewey

Thinking about:
Putting more focus on situation and environment
Everything is human centered design...it's just a matter of it's good or bad
Just keep swimming
Predetermined-ness
What makes a person really admirable

Monday, March 17, 2008

today

[This is a mailer/experiment thing I was toying with...]


Listening to:
Kings of Convenience
Broken Social Scene

Reading:
East of Eden (still)
John Dewey

Thinking about:
stress stress stress 
power of being a designer (and obligation to do good)
actually having a kid with "danger" as his/her middle name
the wild west + westerns
dropping the "communication" off of "communication designer"
the smell of tablesaw burnt wood
keeping a dream diary would be good

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

spatula


Listening to:
   The Go Find

Reading:
   East of Eden
   Print Magazine
   Design blogs

Thinking about:
   Parallax! and astronomy
   In another life I would have gone ID instead of CD
   Living in Brooklyn or getting student housing
   If I had 2 months just free I'd finish my book
   Is it better learning to think or make for this summer
   How many more words I can learn and use before turning into 'that guy'
   Bringing my A-game tomorrow (!)
   Beauty has a lot of ideas behind it

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

the lowdown

Listening to
Vampire Weekend
Beirut
Sufjan Stevens
Imogen Heap 

Reading: 
East of Eden by Steinbeck

Thinking about: 
Contributing to society
Tesla
Life as narrative rather than problem solving
Buying a new pair of boots
Lying on the grass doing nothing (soon)
Internships
Layers as a method of creating hierarchy and interest
  Din is the new Helvetica?