[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.

[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

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

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

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

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?