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- Illustrator: Renowned RISD alum and illustrator David Wiesner lectured last night in the RISD auditorium. His work, boundless imagination, and prolific career impressed me so much that right afterwards I went straight to RISD works and purchased his latest children's book, Flotsam. And..it was signed, he has a beautiful signature too!
- Photographer: Jill Greenberg. And right as I was purchasing Flotsam, I noticed Jill Greenberg's latest book, Monkey Portraits. Very funny collection. I remember when she became famous for her series on crying babies that made many parents infuriated when they found out she made their baby models cry.
- Green Movement: I am glad that movements and efforts to reduce global warming and give back to nature is finally in full swing. Thank you Al Gore (with An Inconvenient Truth). His book, Assault on Reason, is high on my list. Derek Smith gave a compelling speech at RISD a couple weeks back about how graphic designers have a huge power to help the green movement. " (an amazing speaker by the way, which brings back to my last entry) gave a compelling speech at Derek's message is one of essential value to designers and he will be discussing issues such as paper selection, printer selection and the impact of our daily design decisions on an individual, studio, and corporate level," but unfortunately they are not doing much at all about it. He advocates Meridian Printing, Monadnock Paper, Symbio Design and Iolabs Printing.
- Photography: Uploaded a new series from my Thanksgiving trip to Costa Rica in my photography page. Had an amazing time and definately will be going back there. It was great to get away for a week and come back refreshed.
- Advertising/Design: Uploaded a new design package for Bonnaroo: from logo to posters to a welcome backpack that could be given to all the attendees since the tickets were around 200 bucks! I went this summer 2007, it was my first time and it was one of the craziest experiences of my life! It's a great way to listen to new music, meet all sorts of people, and get away from life for 4 fun and insane days in the middle of nowhere.
- Travel: Never take US Airways! My flight to San Jose was delayed for an hour, and my flight back was not only delayed for 1.5 hours, but the gate was double booked! And you also have to pay at least 5 dollars for food (when I flew 5 years ago, you never had to pay). Joy flew Delta and she got some pretty decent food.
- Book: I love vacations and backpacking because you get to read books you have been pushing aside during the year. Finished Mary Roach's Stiff. Cover design by FWIS. Like the simple solution: beautiful photo with dark and somber color palette and a bold and graphic title tag on toe. The book was well-written, funny, a page-turner, and deserves all the hype it has been receiving. If you are a CSI and Bodyworks fan, you will enjoy this book~
- Book 2: Now working on Seth Godin's Small is the New Big. Good read. Joy did not like how all his titles were Yoda-Speak, like Godin thought he was Yoda..a little too egotistical? You pick up on a lot of inspirational and positive insights on self progress. People need a wakeup call: today is the day and age where anyone with our abundant amount of accessible resources....can be spectacular (if you use initiative, drive, of course).
- Book 3: Also reading Jon Steel's The Perfect Pitch. Also another great read for marketers, advertisers, and businesses. Books 2 and 3 both advocate:
- You need to know how to relax. You make better work when you take care of yourself and your health. Take a vacation and do not feel guilty about it. You find inspiration and motivation when you are not stressed out! Now I go to bed at 1 am at the latest, get around 7-8 hours of sleep, I try to work out daily, avoid desserts...etc.
- It's about the story. As Godin says, "Good marketers tell a story." The boring powerpoints and pretty visuals do not win the client, it is a profound, authentic, and moving story that can move the consumers on an emotional and personal level.
- Music: I love trance and electronic. I progressed from listening to everything from classical, alternative, rock, hip hop, and rap to only playing trance tracks and sometimes indie rock. Trance/House strips music down it the pure essence and beat. New Yorkers: go to Madeevent for concerts, and I want to go to next year's Ultrafest in Miami!
- Movie: A couple weeks ago, Jess and I tried to see No Country for Old Men, but the tickets were all sold out. We ended up watching Bella, and loved it. Powerful yet subtle story that speaks against abortion, very New York, and good acting.
- Introduction: Welcome to my blog! This will be my blog of all news, updates for my website, recommendations, and random thoughts.
- Summer 07: Cleaned out posts from the summer where I had one of the most amazing summer experiences: I was a Art Director/Creative intern at Momentum Worldwide's Atlanta office. I gratefully thank MAIP, the Multicultural Advertising Intern Program, that helped put me there and gave me a new and positive direction in the advertising industry. If you are a minority and interested in advertising, I highly recommend this program to network, build on your portfolio, and have a great time!
- Internship: Got the official yes to an internship with Momentum Worldwide in New York City starting Jan. Very excited! Will be permanently in NYC starting Jan! :) Also looked at Project. Inc, No11, and MTV.
- Thanksgiving: Joy and I will be in Costa Rica for Thanksgiving from Nov 17 - Nov 26! Happy Thanksgiving! Going to Monteverde, Arenal Volcano, and perhaps Manuel Antonio.
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