April 2010
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Tips to Pulling an All Nighter (written at 2am)
Anyone who knows me personally knows how many hours I put in at the office. More often than not, most of my weeks include an all nighter or two, sometimes up to 4 in a row. So I often get asked “How do you do it? How can you work so many hours and keep productive?” Here are a few tips I’ve picked up over the last few years.
Motivation: You really have to be passionate and...
March 2010
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“The function of Freedom is to Free Someone Else”
– Toni Morrison
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Beautiful Losers
Such a great documentary… check out the website or watch it on netflix.
“yikes…. about to get my hair cut real short…it’ll be so much...”
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February 2010
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Recent work. 2010 Campaign Booklet for LiNK
So given the opportunity, I went crazy with some colors on a booklet we recently sent to our Chapters here at LiNK. Brights 80’s colors are back in, not sure for how long but I started developing this style last summer into my personal work and finally have integrated some of it into LiNK’s work. A big challenge for us is making sure that Chapters hold onto these books and don’t...
December 2009
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TheHundred Campaign
2010 will be a big year for Liberty in North Korea! With a goal of raising $250,000 next year to help rescue 100 refugees out of underground southeast Asia, LiNK has begun the holiday season with a goal to raise the first $50,000. Accompanied with a staged release of videos, I designed and coded the TheHundred holiday campaign website to provide a landing page for our marketing efforts. Please...
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Your Postcard is in the Mail
After spending the last 6 years of my creative life behind a computer, I’m looking for the little inspirations and opportunities, big and small, to just create by hand. I started a postcard writing bond with a handful of friends and have now begun creating hand made and mixed technique postcards. Here are some hand colored b&w photo collage postcards I sent out this week.
Are you...
November 2009
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new rule!
no more traveling without my holga and dSLR. Seriously I’ll wear the same clothes the whole trip, no more excuses to not pack my camera gear :)
October 2009
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This is the sound that my MacBook is making right...
In my hands I hold freedom
In my hands I hold two things…. In the left is a soldier’s hat, slightly faded, olive green, and with a red band around the top. In the right is a pair of soldier’s boots, uncomfortable, simply made of hard rubber, and appears to fit someone the size of a small teenage boy. Now some may struggle with finding any emotions while looking, wearing, or holding such items. To me they...
September 2009
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2009 LiNK Benefit Gala Program
Here is another booklet that was created all in a nights work… :)
One of the challenges we faced with the program was the cost of printing on a short run of 250 items. To solve this issue, we ripped out the color on the interior pages but left them still intriguing enough to stay attractive. In accomplishing this we were able to slice the printing cost in half.
WatchI’m proud to say that I took part in the LiNK 2009 Benefit Gala a few weeks ago. It turned out to be an inspiring event, not only for myself, but for all the guests that attended. We used the Livestream.com platform for the webcast of the evening and it turned out very professional and clean. Take a look at the replay of the night!
“In Los Angeles, all of the stars are walking the streets instead of hiding in...”
simple communication
The simple side of me really wants to turn off my phone and get one of these instead. Pretty simple and cheap.
“Peek is a simple gadget that allows you to send and receive email and text messages while you’re on-the-go. For as little as $15 a month you’ll never miss another email again.”
August 2009
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Low Resource Booklet
A little booklet we just got printed up here at work for promoting Chapter Enrollment. Can’t wait till I have more photos to design with next year :)
July 2009
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“eat, sleep and adventure.”
Pittsburgh VS LA
Moving here from Pittsburgh at the beginning of the year has been quite a change when it comes to biking. Pittsburgh, a place with tons of bike trails around the entire city, fun terrain and a community where it’s very common to see people biking to work seems to not extend out to LA. Here are some things I’ve noticed while riding my fixie or bmx bike out in LA/Torrance Area.
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Sometimes I forget how good The Beta Band is: →
Watch“Immerse yourself in the energetic, innovative and potentially illegal world of mash-up media with RiP: A remix manifesto. Let web activist Brett Gaylor and musician Greg Gillis, better known as Girl Talk, serve as your digital tour guides on a probing investigation into how culture builds upon culture in the information age.”
Just bought RiP: A remix manifesto from B-Side. Pretty...
“There is always a little bit of a story in history.”
June 2009
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What makes you drop a dollar into a donation jar...
” dunno…marketing message…that’s why I do it” “i would have to say the marketing message, cool presentations and easiness don’t really sway me. it’s the story/cause behind it all” “Message or ease. Images of suffering have become too ubiquitous to make me think a $1 donation will change the world.” “for me it depends on the...
May 2009
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Watch*I feel the need to post this because of the recent actions by North Korea. I hope it’ll give a little more background about the people living in North Korea and what they are faced with when they try to defect. Not everyone in North Korea is bad, most are raised from birth to hate Americans and after they escape North Korea’s rule they express how silly it was that they hated.
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“my artwork is doubling as a meal tonight”
– myself, after cooking some wheat paste
“hummmmmmmmmmmm”
– fluorescent lights