:: My Geeky Throne
I’m ecstatic to announce that I’ve just purchased a sexy Herman Miller Embody for my new place. For those who don’t understand why this is quite possibly the most awesomest news ever, allow me to enlighten you.
More after the jump.
:: This weekend
I was lucky enough to attend a showing of ‘Objectified‘ (with internet’s own Wesley Yendrys of Kanye University City fame) when it was playing at Cinéma du Parc this past Friday. While Gary Hustwit touted it as somewhat of a sequel to ‘Helvetica’, I’d say that calling it a companion piece would probably be more precise: it is a great documentary in its own right and compliments ‘Helvetica’ beautifully but the two don’t have that much in common, truth be told.
(rest of the ‘review’ and trailer after the jump)
:: I have a (most modest) dream!
You’ve probably noticed how inconsistent I’ve been with keeping my blog and portfolio up-to-date like it was last year. If you’ve been following my blog since back then: a) thank you and b) you probably remember me constantly trying to re-skin everything time and time again because I could never find one that made me 100% happy. Apparently I’m very nit-picky. Who knew?
Logically, the next step was for me to set out and make my own… Which I did. Things were even going pretty well until I hit a wall once it came time to program the damn thing, and everything kind of went into limbo from that point on. I just couldn’t find someone to do it for me, nor did I have the time to truly learn how to on my own.
Now, over a year later, I’ve finally found someone to code it for me! Rocío Alvarado was presented to me via Élyse Viotto – a very talented graphic design from my class btw – and she seems to have the programming chops to solve my problems. I’m supposed to meet her on Friday to get the ball rolling and it’s got me pretty excited.
While nothing mind-bogglingly innovative, the revamp of my site will likely include:
- Better integration between my blog and portfolio
- Easier access to my social networks (Facebook, Twitter, TUMBLR, Digg, Youtube, ect.)
- A clearer navigational menu
- Easier to read text
- A wider area for the blog posts as well as the implementation of tags
- A new direction. Once everything is done I’ll convert my blog into something a little more design oriented while maintaining some of the personal stuff… Kind of à la iso50
- And much, much more! (I’m totally lying, that’s pretty much it)
I’ll continue to post here now and then, but once the new site is up, I’m swiping everything and starting fresh. I can’t wait 
:: I honestly have no clue
Don’t ask me how I stumbled onto this website. Just be grateful that I’m sharing it with you.
…
Seriously, stop it.
Six Feet Under
Yes I know, I know; 2001 just called and they want their review back but no one likes a smartass (*ahem*) so stop whining.
My ‘Six Feet Under’ binge finally came to an end yesterday night. Although I haven’t had time to digest it all just quite yet, I’m pretty sure there’s a comfy spot awaiting this series in my top 3 television shows of all time. What I love so much about this show is how incredibly sincere and well-thought it was regardless of the subject matter that it was dealing with: homosexuals, death, religion, women, the elderly, the mentally handicapped, etc. The writers never shied away from showing us the darker sides of life and tackling social taboos, but they somehow managed to do so without lapsing into nihilism or clichés or becoming overly-preachy which, in American television, is fucking incredible.
I didn’t even realize how attached I had become to the characters until the last 5 minutes of the series finale where tears just started streaming down my cheeks. I have never seen a more fitting – and ultimately more satisfying – conclusion to a story than that of ‘Six Feet Under’.
:: He’ll kick you in the shins… He’s a shin kicker.
I don’t know how this happened but my childhood obsession with Power Rangers has recently resurfaced in a big way. I’ve even ordered the DVD releases of the two movies, caught up on the last two seasons and now “secretly” harbor the delusion dream of one day writing an Oscar-worthy script for a Power Rangers movie set in a post-apocalyptic world. Anybody out there want to help me with this?
:: More guys like TED
Not that TED talks are ever bad but PTF showed me this one the other day, and it blew my pants clean off.
Feature: Benjamin Zander at TED
Keeping informed
While it’s not something that I tend to do personally, I’ve always been fascinated with information mapping within the realm of graphic design, and I found a nice little link that I’d like to share with you guys. They’re not all winners but some of them are clever.
feature: 50 Great Examples of Infographics
via: Veerle’s blog
Ambitions and stuff
In other news that you don’t care about, I just came back from a trip to NYC for the F5 festival and – as with OFFF NY last year – it reignited by passion for design; something which Concordia relentlessly tries to pluck away from me bit by painful bit every semester. I wonder why it is that so far, I’ve only had one (awesome) teacher realize the shortcomings of the program and try to address them? I find it very hard to get engaged in class where I don’t learn anything (meaningful) and this in turn causes me to produce perfunctory work. I guess my rapport with school just isn’t what it used to be (I was raised Asian after all).
Anyhoot, to come back to my personal projects: by the end of this summer I’d like to have learned more about After Effects and compositing as well as 3D modeling and particle programming and will try – that’s AOL keyword: ‘try’ – to recreate a segment from Psyop’s (much too) beautiful spot for MTVHD. I’ve already taken a few steps towards that goal by following a couple of tutorials on AE and Blender. Hopefully this will also help enrich the contents that I’m designing for my job as well.
In the words of a much greater man than I: “let the great experiment begin!”