In Los Angeles, all of the stars are walking the streets instead of hiding in the sky.
Posted September 5, 2009 at 10:37pm
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.”
Posted September 5, 2009 at 9:20pm
Guitar winner today! Mariana congrats.
Haha amazing! He’s representing the LiNK DMZ Shirt!!!!! Legit!
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 :)
Posted August 30, 2009 at 1:48am
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.
- If you are on a bmx bike at night, the cops profile you and are going to stop you and play 20 questions.
- If you don’t have a have a blinker on the back and a front light, the cops are going to stop you so they can play 20 questions and then not do anything but say they stopped you because you didn’t have lights on
- Most downhill grades result in a stop signs 2 or 3 times down them
- Bike lanes do not mean anything to motor vehicilists, well else then something to swerve into
- At any intersection with a bike lane, you might as well be in the traffic lane because traffic that is turning right into your lane is going to use the bike lane a buffer to see
- Not very many bike racks
- Last but not least, it’s darn near impossible/impractical to get around the entire city of LA on a bike without snagging a bus
Posted July 28, 2009 at 10:40pm
The Birth of Kim Jong Il - Fact or Fiction?
How far will leaders go to lie to their people? If you do any research on the North Korea regime, you will learn that they’ll go pretty far. I created this propaganda artwork to give a different perspective to his birth.
Watch the video below to see Good Magazine’s comparison between the facts and myths of his birth.
Posted July 27, 2009 at 3:35pm
“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 good documentary with some great video work. Really launches into a gray area that our country and people morally struggle with, “Is the borrowing of data and other digital elements stealing?”. I won’t voice my opinion on the subject but I will say that music, art, or anything creative is commonly unoriginal. With the masses of people producing art and music in a culture’s lifetime, not often can somenoe say “I’m the only one who had this idea”. This aligns with my belief that in creative work, “some snowflakes are the same”, even if the idea wasn’t influenced by someone else, it just happens that minds think the same.
Posted July 25, 2009 at 3:16pm
What makes you drop a dollar into a donation jar when buying something?
” 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 cause…but i would say the the message”
“I respond to humor. If I saw a donation jar that said; “please help the starving children in Africa.” I would be far less apt to respond than if that same jar said something like; “Family kidnapped by ninja’s. Taking donations for karate lessons.” I think most people are desensitized to the horror in the world due to being perpetually bombarded by the media and are for more likely to respond to a sign that brightens their day a little by making them laugh.”
“message and the emotional bound to that message…imagery supports the message and really really helps”
“i think it’s a combination of all three, but for me, mostly the imagery…like, if i see a cute dog, i’ll probably donate”
“pictures of puppies, robots or ninjas usually does the trick. Something out of the ordinary.
“I would say imagery first
“hmm…dollar…I do it with change….but just because its there”
“because it’s easy”
“because its easy….i think the less work people have to do the more they will give”
“lol, um all…you have to notice it, you have to believe its actually going to leave the jar, whitty megssage helps the grab”
“well all 3 i suppose…it has to be easy first…and then I guess it’s less about the actual image and more about whether I understand the message quickly from the combination of imagery and text”
“usually don’t donate to a company unless I know the background of where the $$ are going….so I usually don’t donate to a at the register type of place….there are just so many organizations, who are non profit, but waste the money”
“hot cashier”
Posted June 6, 2009 at 9:55pm
