Photography add!

• Career: Now looking for a full time or freelance creative position: Design / Photography / Creative Asisstance / Art Direction / Marketing // Anything of this sort in Manhattan!! :)
  
• Photography / Travels : Spent Xmas in Asia: Hong Kong > Shanghai > HangZhou > South Japan...and added a new page to my photography section
  

Sam Wiley, Jonathan Lawrence, Catalina Estrada

• Packaging/Branding/Illustration: Sam Wiley: Saw his packaging design for Mocking Bird Beer and reminded me of my student packaging work for Sapporo Beer: love the simple yellow and black color palette.

• Graphic Design: Jonathan Lawrence. Organic, and very stylish.

• Design/Show/Art: Pancho Tolchinsky and Catalina Estrada has a show Oct 29th at Galeria Ras in Barcelona. Wish I could go! Catalina's work never appealed to me until now- her work is stronger and works well superimposed over photographs.

Kirsch, Doubilet, APAK...

• Packaging/Branding: Jesse Kirsch

• Photographer: David Doubilet

• Photographer: James Wojcik: currently sitting in his photography studio, he is shooting the new line of Revlon 2009 products. Amazing work and studio!

• Video: Fascinating Mimicking Octopus..omg
• Illustration: APAK Studio: so cute!

Tenticles, Retro

• Awesome book art!
• Chemical Tenticles - [wow video]
• Cool retro style applied to modern designs - [vintage]
• Portraits... in a very cool way - [gallery]
• Stefan Sagmeister: Things I have learned in my life so far

DUMBO, Crouser, Wiener

• Festivities/NYC/Art :: Planning on checking out the
  
• Dave LaChapelle exhibit
• FIT Gothic Fashion exhibit
• Andres Serrano exhibit
  

• Festivities/NYC/Art :: "The Dumbo Arts Center (DAC) is pleased to present the D.U.M.B.O. ART UNDER THE BRIDGE FESTIVAL,™ sponsored by Current. For the 12th year running, the entire neighborhood of Dumbo, Brooklyn, will become a multi-sensory art arena, FREE and open to all."

• Photography :: Micheal Crouser

• Jewelry/ID :: Erica Wiener Jewelry

• Advertising/Spot ::Axe: Squares

Interesting Stuff!

Interesting Stuff!

In the 1400's a law was set forth in England that a man was allowed to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb. Hence we have 'the rule of thumb'

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Many years ago in Scotland , a new game was invented. It was ruled 'Gentlemen Only...Ladies Forbidden'...and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.

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Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the U.S. Treasury.

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Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.

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Coca-Cola was originally green.

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It is impossible to lick your elbow.

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Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

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The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.

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The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.

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Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:



Spades - King David

Hearts V Charlemagne

Clubs -Alexander, the Great
Diamonds - Julius Caesar

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111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

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If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

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Q. Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most popular boat name requested?

A. Obsession

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Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter 'A'?

A. One thousand

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Q. What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers all have in common?

A. All were invented by women.

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Q. What is the only food that doesn't spoil?

A. Honey
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In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes.

When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase......... 'goodnight, sleep tight.'

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It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month, which we know today as the honeymoon.
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In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts... So in old England , when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them 'Mind your pints and quarts, and settle down.'

It's where we get the phrase 'mind your P's and Q's'
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Many years ago in England , pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim, or handle, of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some service. 'Wet your whistle' is the phrase inspired by this practice.

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September! Time Flies

• Personal/Photo: Added new page to my photo section!

• Personal/Art Direction: Added new stuff to art direction section!
• Interior Design/Branding: Jetblues new restaurant terminals!
• Strange/Nature: The Most Alien-Looking Place on Earth.
• Museum/Exhibit: Ice Sculptures
  
• Poster Design/Illustration: Jason Munn
• Design/Funny: Made in USA shirt in Chinese.
• Package Design:Student Spotlight: Tabula Rossa
• Contemporary Art: Tim Fraser Brown: Pantone Painting

• Awesome Urban Furniture - [designs]
• Art Deco Space Travel Posters - [retro-future]
• Wicked Drawing on a Kitchen Floor - [wow art]
• This street drummer is something else - [wow video]

More stuff!

• Rich People Rooftops in NYC - [cool pics]
• Ice Sculptures of Melting Men by Nele Azevedo
• 5 Unusually Inventive Kitchen Furniture Concepts: Part Five in an Eight-Part Unusual Furniture Series
• After the hurricane: street tubing - [fun video]
• Russian Micro-Miniature Art - [cool art]
• Largest and smelliest flowers - [wow nature]
• Beards... the weirdest in the world - [funny pics]
• International Photography Contest Desktop Wallpaper

Photos

• Photography: Updated new stuff to my photo site!

Random random random..

• Rich People Rooftops in NYC - [cool pics]
• The most bizarre flower set you'll ever see - [flickr set]
• Sublime & Sensual Smoke Art - [cool pics]
• Slow Motion Lightning Video - [cool video]
• Styrofoam Dome Homes - [architecture] [Japan]
• Most fascinating waterfall effects - [design] [video]
• Chess players, frozen in time - [cool video]
• Amazing mirror made out of wood blocks - [design]
• Sand with very weird properties - [cool video]
• Insane Mountain Bike Ride Downhill - [wow video]
• Pangolin is officially the coolest animal - [wow video]
• Traffic from Space Videos Blow Our Minds, Pants, and Socks- [wow video]

Beijing Olympics

• 2008 Olympics Opening Ceremony

Updates!

• Design: Updated work to my design page.
• Photography: Updated work to my photo page.

AT&T, BBDO

• Advertising:AT&T International Roaming Hand Art Advertisements :BBDO Atlanta made an awesome print campaign for AT&T

Illustrator Roadshow, White Night

• Graphic Design/Flyer: White Night: New flyer designs for DNA Nightlife!

• Installation: Joshua Allen: Artist Joshua Allen Harris Turns Garbage Bags Into World's Greatest Balloon Animals.
• Illustration/Show/Design: Went to the Icon 5 Illustration Roadshow! Had a blast, free snacks, wine, chocolate, contacts, and other assorted goodies. Also won 2 free tickets to MOMA- Love ADC! Some illustrators who caught my eye:
  
• Lisel Ashlock
• Corey Sandelius
• Mike Tofanelli
• Jaime Zollars
• Virginie Egger
• Cathy Gendron
• John Hendrix
• Zaara
• Linda Zacks
  

Wordle, Electric Light Shoe

• Girl does parkour & urban acrobatics - [wow video]
• Awesome tornado photo - [weather]
• Beautiful & Original Product Design - [design]
• Coffee tables can be fantastic - [design]
• Graphic Design/Illustration: Wordle: Beautiful word clouds

• Advertising/ID: Electric Light Shoe by Freedom of Creation, and you can see it being made via this video
  

DNA, BMW, Pinkberry

• Design/Trends/Industrial D/Architecture/Books/Digital Eye Candy: FFFFound and Cool Hunter: absolutely love these two sights, I can spend hours on them for constant inspiration.
  
• Print: Fresh Squeezed: new flyer for DNA Nightlife:

• ID/Auto: BMW GINA:

• Graphic Design/Branding: Ferroconcrete: did the branding and identity system for PinkBerry- they did an amazing job.
  

• Illustrator: Stella Im Hultberg:
  

Freestyle Dance Performance (Korea:PREPIX)

Design Adds, LEGO, Micheal Iny

• Design: Update: Just added a bunch of stuff to the Design page of my website. Have a TON of photography that also needs to be added!
  

• Shipping Container Architecture - [design]
• Jewelry made from cast octopus tentacles - [weird art]
• Collection of great flash animations - [web]
• Graffiti raised to a new level - [large picture, scroll right]
• 15 Unfortunately Placed Ads
• LEGO Harpsichord (and it plays!) - [geek art]
• Packaging/Graphic Designer/FIT: Micheal Iny

• Science/Design/ID: Phonofone II: "Art that functions. This cast ceramic grammaphone by Tristan Zimmerman for Science+Sons works without external power or batteries. Just plug in the earbuds from your iPod or MP3player. Exploiting horn acoustics, sound is amplified by resonating via the horn up to 55 decibels (roughly the max volume of laptop speakers). The treble buzzing is instantly and profoundly transformed into a warm, rich and resonant sound. Patent Pending. As Canadian inventor Tristan asks, why-fi?"

• Packaging/Design: Mor Cherry Blossom Soap Bar

• Design/ID: Bambu vases by laura de santillana:

• Architecture: Intelligent Egg

• Photography: JULIAN MEIJER AGENCY

Scott Hansen, Retro Design...

• Movies I cannot wait to see:
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008): Loved all the originals, and Harrison Ford is the man!
• The Dark Knight
• Harry Potter
• Iron Man (should either be really bad and well-publicized, or really good)
  
• Movie Update:
  
• Harold and Kumar: Escape from Guantanamo Bay: A-: I could not stop laughing.
• The Mist: C-: One of those movies with horrible, low budget special effects, where I was thinking, "How the hell did I sit through two hours of crap?"
• Into the Wild: A This movie was incredible, and based on a TRUE story!
  
• Hi-tech bicycle storage tower in Japan - [wow tech]
• Miniature Models of Moscow, more - [urbanism]
• Awesome: Sand Tornado - [wow video]
• More incredible LEGO creations - [geek art]
• The Tasty Art of Chocolate & Candy- [cool pictures and wow videos]
• Graphic Designer: Raster Boy: His strongest work are in flyers, print, and web design.

• Graphic Designer/Musician: Scott Hansen: "I'm 30 years old and live in San Francisco. I split my time creating visual work as ISO50 and making music as Tycho." I love both his music and work. He also has his own blog.
  

Transforming Owls, Eric Skillman...

• Very strange "transforming" owls - [wow video]
• Siberian Aurora Borealis - [nature]
• World's Most Exotic Pets - [animals]
• Luminous Photos:"Visions of Earth"--Spectrum of Nature - [nature]
• Art On Tokyo’s Construction Fences- [cool art]
• Bionic eyes implanted in blind patients- [technnology, medicine]
• Designer/Art Director: Eric Skillman: "After graduating from NYU's Gallatin School for Indivdualized Study, I got my start in graphic design working for Stewart Cauley at Pollen Design, and for the last 6 years I've served as Staff Designer/ Associate Art Director (and on occasion, interim Art Director) for the Criterion Collection, where I've had the opportunity to work with and learn from many award-winning designers and illustrators. I live in Brooklyn."

Office Interior, BUTT WORM...

• 10 Annoyingly Brilliant Office Interiors - [design]
• Pig-butt Worm - [nature]
• Gardner Dragon Illusion - [cool video]
• 5 Proven Strategies to Simplify Your Life- [positive tips]
• Japanese "Bento" lunches decorated as album covers- [design]
• How to fix the internet (according to South Park)- [funny video]
• Discovery Channel The world is just awesome commercial - [sweet video]
• An Exhibit People May Be Dying to Get Into? - [bizzare contemporary art]
• Super Sexy Bikini Pants Combine Low-cut Jeans with a String Bikini - [weird fashion]
• Beef iPod Cover - [weird product design]
• World's First Eyeball Tattoo - Ouch! - [wtf??!!?]

Great Wall, and more randomness

• Fantastic Panorama from the Great Wall of China - [travel]
• Cool Chair Cushions- [cool product design]
• X-Ray "Everyday Objects" Art, artist - [gallery]
• World Record Bike Jump Attempt - [wow video]
• John Kanzius : Cure Cancer Through Radiowaves!- [wow video]+++
• Fantastic Desert Getaway - [architecture]
• Incredible Starry Night Sky - [wow image]
• Polaroids/Photography- Elizabeth Esoule- I love polaroids, and I love the perspective, rich colors, and delicacy of her work.

Solar, with lyrics

Amazing video perfectly synchronized with the music..enjoy!

Murakami, Mueck, Indoctrine U

• Art/Manga/Contemporary: Takashi Murakami: Forgot to mention that I saw the new exhibit of Japanese artist Takashi Murakami at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. That was a fabulous sunny day and I got to see a beautiful part of Brooklyn. Definately a show worth seeing. And I was really upset when I missed the Ron Mueck exhibit. Ron Mueck is one of my favorite sculptors of all time.

• John Harwood, of The New York Times and CNBC, talks to presidential candidate Senator John McCain about the economy.
• Social Issues/Politics/Education: Indoctrinate U: Watched a free screening of Indoctrinate U at Director's Guild of America Theater: The film was funny, accurate, and very revealing about the way many universities are run today. Should be shown in major theatres nationwide.
  
• Here is a brief synopsis: "Speech codes. Censorship. Sensitivity training. Political conformity and rehabilitation. Intolerance. Hostility to religion. Violations of freedom of speech and conscience. Kangaroo courts. We usually associate such things with the repressive regimes of North Korea, China, Cuba, and the former Soviet Union. But instead, this assault on free thought is taking place all over America--right now--on our nation's campuses. Award-winning filmmaker Evan Coyne Maloney's new documentary film, Indoctrinate U, reveals the ugly truths about academia that you won't see in their glossy admissions brochures."

PSYOP, Justin Maller

• Time-Lapse Video of San Francisco Fog - [cool video]
• Extreme Off-Road: Vertical Hill Climb - [car video]
• Insane Ballooning Stunt - [wow video]
• Digital Artist/Graphic Design/Illustration: Justin Maller: "is a freelance graphic artist based in Melbourne." Saw his stuff in the recent issue of Computer Arts|UK- completely floored me.
  

• Animation/Motion Graphics/Advertising: PSYOP: one of my favorite animation houses. Their work is spectacular and beautiful.

• Adidas Spot
• Guinness Dot Spots

Random Videos and Links

• Super-crowded Trains in Japan - [wow video]
• Bizarre History of Common Sayings - [fascinating]
• Incredible Buildings Made of Ice - [weird]
• The World's Highest Bungee Jump - [wow video]
• Personal Robots Group - [wow video]
• What Leonardo Da Vinco Really Looked Like- [wow video]
• Virtual face follows your cursor.- [creepy site]
• www.ffffound.com - [cool eye candy]
• Cool Wine Label -[packaging]
• Regenerative Medicine Cellular Matrix Dust grows back FINGER - [amazing video]
• Bjork in 3-D: The 'Wanderlust' Video - [interesting video]
• The new video from Bjork, "Wanderlust." - [wow video]

Lanima, Basejumping, Southpark, Small House

• Music/Promotion/PR: Lanima: Got a small promoting gig with Pacha, a club that usually holds some of my favorite DJs like Armin and Above and Beyond. I wanted to be as creative as I could with it and still be as clean, concise, simple, and as user friendly as the medium could be. I designed the logo/avatar= I wanted the logo to represent my state of mind when listening to progressive house and trance= pretty much in my own little world! L'anima is Italian for the soul, heart. I want to come out with Lanima keychains, cell phone graphics, and wristbands!

• Video/Extreme Sports: Base Jumping: WOw I really want to do this! (If I ever get the guts to..)
• Video/Viral/Social Commentary: Southpark Kills 10 Youtube memes for Good. Hilarious.
• Video/Architecture: Small House Seems Large. Leave it to the Japanese to maximize living space. :) So efficient.