July 2010
1 post
A New Low, Unifinished Building Has FB Page
Yesterday I went to the Santa Monica Pier for something they call the Twilight Dance Series. Every Thursday from 7 - 10 p.m. one can jam to free live music from international artists and local bands alike. Pretty awesome (and famous and largest longest-running free concert series in the country and you can read about it here - http://www.santamonicapier.org - if you want to know more. But that’s...
June 2010
2 posts
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Whenever I get annoyed I remind myself that soon I’ll get paid to stare out the window.
“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for...”
May 2010
3 posts
Kickstarter - Send an Aspiring Photojournalist to... →
You go, James!!!
QR Codes, Advertising's Crop Circles
I was brushing my teeth this morning, thinking about my portfolio - what to leave in for now, what to set on fire and throw off a cliff - and found myself revisiting an old idea that I hope to work on in the near future. An idea that involves QR codes. Yes, QR codes - the same things that everyone (some people?) poops out a few garbage ideas for and flushes because they are QR codes. This is...
April 2010
4 posts
simple description of my day:
(pointless.)
Road rage explained and textified: This is why I...
Miami drivers have their phones to their ear and their heads up their ass, but they are not the only reason it genuinely sucks to drive around here. Sometimes it has nothing to do with the drivers themselves, but the incredibly high degree of absolutely-mindbogglingly-WOW-YOU’RE-STUPID-stupidity that the people who are merely walking actually possess. This is not a new sentiment by any means,...
regression! glorious regression to happy timez.
I’ve fallen out of like with work (again) and have taken to old pastimes.
I started with this, a visual free write:
This piece, made using a technique I’ve dubbed Gluing Random Shit Together, includes acrylic paint, rhinestones, origami paper, old greeting cards, and magazine clippings.
Check them goggles.
Going back to only the fondest middle school memories:
and:
...
get up, get up, get out of bed
Vacation is over, but I’m not going to cry about it. My laziness this break between quarters could be described as DISGUSTING, so the next first day in a life of first days could not come at a better time.
Internship at Iris starts tomorrow, and while this 305 might be back in the 305, I’m doing it in an entirely new way - bilingual. I guess I’m doing it two ways. I like it both...
March 2010
3 posts
I'm the prodigal son, but not.
The end of the quarter came faster than an eighth-grader watching Keeping Up With The Kardashians just to maybe catch a glimpse of that famous ass.
I heard recently that she (Kim), when asked in an interview why she didn’t have any tattoos, replied, “Would you put a bumper sticker on a Maserati?”
Bitch.
I mean she’s hot. Anyway.
Got home Thursday the 18th sans...
i'm a believer
I’m not the most spiritual person. Okay I’m not spiritual at all. But the end of last week proved to me, once and for all, that karma is a as real as Glenn Beck is a sack of douches. This is what happened: Our original intention was to hit up the Crocodile Lounge because with every beer purchased one receives a ticket for a free personal pizza. After skipping it because it was too crowded and...
it's whatever.
I am broke, in the red, fucked like everyone else. But do I really have it that bad? No. I know that. But it still sucks. That said, I’m going to be spending the next few months (along with the rest of my life) on a concerted effort to pay more than the minimum balance on my credit card. If I put away $2 (the price of a cup of coffee without which I do not function properly) everyday I’d have...
February 2010
13 posts
I'm miss I make sense, how about you?
nbdy cn abbrvt by smply rmvng vwls. jst dsnt wrk. ?? rght?
before march 18th, he's going to get me
I try to imagine him as something else, something sweeter, but here he is, waiting every morning, the giraffe that’s about to punch me.
well there's bad news and there's bad news. Which...
soggy, SOGGY feet from walking in black mush trying to pass as snow + I got this information:
If it had really come in a fortune cookie I might not have taken it so horribly. Maybe the school should do this for rejects like me. Anyway, this e-mail was a GREAT exercise in reading something horrible and not reacting to it since you are in a tiny room with 7 other people.
Needless to say I...
so what if I'm judging books a little
Rush hour commuting here is way better than at home because you get to people watch, like I did yesterday. For example, on this ride I was sitting in front of: Wanna be rapper guy acting out what any snoop/tupac/biggie video shoulda/coulda looked like if he was starring in it next to weird-attractive nerd guy flashing his French novel being all, “I read in foreign languages,” who brushed puffy...
Recently I realized
no time for vermin
Proverbial shit has hit the proverbial fan, and stuff is due. Consequently I don’t have time to count rats in the subway, but the last I remember it was up to #13.
Besides homework, on Friday night I was introduced to some LEGIT live jazz, no surprise that it is in Harlem, at St. Nick’s Pub http://www.stnicksjazzpub.net/, just some 1.5 blocks from the apartment.
History is just...
Is that a banana in your pocket or a shitload of...
For the past week I’ve noticed my bag digging into my shoulder way more than usual.
Turns out I had almost $13 in change in the front pocket.
And I’ve been telling bums I can’t help them.
I’m going to hell.
*alternate title: sometimes you’re too rich to give a fuck.
January 2010
26 posts
greatest conversation with a stranger
Upon reaching stairs leading down into station:
man: “There’s a train comin’. You feel that breeze?”
me: “Yeah.”
man: “That means there’s a train comin’ and we need to be on that.”
We waited for 5 minutes for the train.
and just because, today I felt:
apparently, I'm a visual learner
ahh, week 3. no sleep and shittier than normal eating habits have finally caught up with me, tapped me lovingly on the shoulder and said, “sup?”
Sup? Nothing anymore now that I’m so pumped full of nyquil and zyrtec that I basically float dreamily through my day.
That said, this is how I feel:
Made it to the MoMA and took part in my favorite activity: standing amongst a large...
people come and people go
and some go before you get to say bye. xxx
today i felt
like this:
and #rat count has officially been upped to 11. 5 to 11 in just a few days. It took almost a full week to see three. #6 was brave, running on the platform. #7, 8, 9 were normal track dwellers, and I think that #11 could possibly have been #10 if #10 was that freaking fast. I really think it was two individuals.
So it may or may not actually be 11.
the seinfeld restaurant only takes ca$h
if you ever find yourself here:
make sure you bring cash with you. Still 68% in tourist mode, I had some paper with me. Usually, however, this is not the case. But seeing as how my debit card is gone, I have no choice. Which upsets me because now my expenditures aren’t rounded off and put in my savings.
Come Monday I successfully got my green tea from the almost-corner-store with the...
and another one
# rats seen: 4
make that 5. yesterday, I saw #5.
how now slow-ass digestive tract?
everyone knows it takes the ol’ intestines some days to get used to a new bathroom situation.
at home, I could make up an excuse to leave, “Uhh, I need to go buy a new battery for my SunPass.”
here is a different story.
what I want to know is, how do I avoid pooping at “work”?
I’ve febreezed the facilities twice and that is two times too many for a newb like...
use your words, nini
#rats seen: 3* #days here: 8 #days feels like: 27 no one inform my momz that i’m saying this, but I finally understand the lack of motivation on the part of people everywhere to do whatever closely resembles doing much more of anything after a long day of work, i.e., shit. Jen kindly reminded me, “Yeah, that’s why it’s called the rat race.” Thx, Jen. This ain’t no joke, I’ll tell you what.
I do...
Miami Unorganized School
Digitas didn’t happen, waited in lobby for an hour.
Hopefully the amazing lack of organization at this place won’t lead any of us to this:
post script
morsels and the week in mobile photos to come.
shortly.