Ohhh Pittsburgh
Posted November 25, 2009 at 11:10am
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 :)
Posted November 25, 2009 at 11:09am
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This is the sound that my MacBook is making right now :(
Posted October 26, 2009 at 2:20pm
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 represent years of suffering, a firm suppressive grip on a beautiful culture, and reason to keep pressing on.
It wasn’t till we presented these items to a refugee that I gained a new perspective of them. To a refugee named Shin, a man who spent his entire life in a North Korean prison camp, these items represented both a sense of fear and wonder. Having been born, raised, starved, tortured and emotionally deprived in a concentration camp, for a reason he’ll never know why, these items were something that were so far out of reach.
When he picked up the hat he said he felt a sense of fear, holding an item that he had never been so close to and only feared from afar, he put the hat on and wore it around the office impersonating a soldier. After picking up the boots, Shin explained that he was forced to make them while he lived inside a barbed wire and fortified world.
It wasn’t till Shin sat these items down and walked away from them that I realized the lack of freedom they represented and the simple freedoms we all have. Having once feared them and been forced to create them, Shin now had the littlest freedom to simply just walk away….. to leave them behind and not have to fear them anymore…..and to this account, I hope LiNK can continue to press forward and bring these freedoms to the refugees we find.
For these simple freedoms can make life worth living for…
Learn more about Shin here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms4NIB6xroc
So so so so so excited! You can listen to a stream of the soundtrack here!
Posted October 2, 2009 at 8:40pm
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.
Posted September 24, 2009 at 1:25am
I’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 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
